Macbeth

Reese the journal that you sent--is great--.  You do need to work on punctuation for clarity's sake.

Work Assignment for 9th November 2010

Reese,
Try this site for a quiz on Frankenstein.  Pick 10 of the 15 questions to answer--or answer them all if you know the answers.  That would give you a PLUS grade.
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz140766101f518.html

You can submit the answers to me--or see if you can Submit them to the site (for free)--to get your score.

NOW
Onward and Upward.  Next assignment.

READ the first 16 chapters of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.   Be ready to discuss this reading on Tuesday the 16th.

The book starts off with this

(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
SCENE: The Mississippi
TIME: Forty to fifty years ago--  (Reese this would be mid 1800's for us)

NOTICE:
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted, person attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER    OF THE AUTHOR
Per G.G.., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.

EXPLANATORY

In this book, a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last.  The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
The Author.


REESE
This book is Satire as well as Humor--
The narrator is a 12 year old boy who tells us what he believes to be true and yet we know that it isn't.  He describes what he sees in great detail often thinking the things are grandiose while we realize that they are common place.

Have fun with the book--memorize the first paragraph. 

Frankenstein

You are to be able to take a quiz on Frankenstein (the exerpt from your text book) on Tuesday.  I enjoyed our conversation today. 

I believe you would make a good English professor.  Consider that as a major in college.  You have all the qualities of a good English literature teacher. 

You love to read.  You are good at making critical insights into literature.

Reese illustrates

 Ozymandias - Antique Land

Kublah Khan - Pleasure Dome

Poetry lessons

Reese,
We are going to start with Marianne Moore's  POETRY.

Go to this page site:

http://www.slate.com/id/2221785/

and you will not only see the poem, but you can listen to it read--by the once Poet Laureaute of the United States, Robert Pinsky.

After you read it--tell me what  you get out of it--and then we will discuss it.

What is a "literalist" of the imagination?   And what does it mean to have "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"?

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD Final Exam

Reese

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD Final Exam

1. Joshua Slocum was born
1. in Fairhaven, Maine
2. within view of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia
3. within view of the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco
4. in the West Indies

2. Slocum was born
1. In 1895
2. In 1989
3. In  1844
4. In  1909

3. Slocum     

1. is buried in Nova Scotia
2. is buried in San Francisco
3. was captured by pirates
4. was lost at sea

4. Slocum
1. Was the first man to run away to sea at age 14
2. Was the second man to sail around the world
3. Was the first man to sail alone around the world.
4. Was not famous during his life time.

5. Slocum
1. Earned his 2^nd Mate papers at age 18
2. Was never officially an officer aboard a ship
3. Was the only man to sail with his family for 14 years
4. Was not an American citizen

6. Slocum
1. Bought The Spray from a childhood friend
2.  Bought The Spray from the first man to sail alone around the world.
3. Was given The Spray because it had sunk at the dock.
4. Was given an old hull of an oyster boat named The Spray.

7. While at sea on his long voyage
1. Slocum used his old chronometer to navigate
2. Used an old tin clock for a method of navigation called Dead Reckoning
3. Had only an electric clock
4. Used his father’s old wrist watch to navigate   

8. Slocum’s voyage
1. Lasted 2 years and covered 23,000 miles
2. Lasted over 3 years and covered 46,000 miles
3. Had to be cancelled, because The Spray was not seaworthy.
4. Lasted 10 years and covered 460,000 miles.

9. Slocum met the Captain of The Pinta
1. Because Slocum had too much to drink and was hallucinating
2. Because the Captain tried to hijack The Spray
3. Because Slocum became very ill from eating rotten eggs
4. Because Slocum had eaten white cheese and plums and became very ill

10. The longest that Slocum sailed without touching the helm of The Spray
1. Was 20 miles in a bad storm
2. Was 150 miles on a wind less day
3. Was 2000 miles west across the Pacific

    

In 300 words, describe Slocum’s voyage around Cape Horn.

Joshua’s amazing trip around Cape Horn was the most interesting out of all the others.   On Slocum’s way through Cape Horn, he saw many sardines beginning eaten by Cavalla fish.  The cavalla fish did an amazing job of showing how the cavalla fish ate the sardines.  First, the cavalla fish would circle around the mass of sardines and eat the ones of the outside.  They did it so dexterously that it was hard to count how many sardines were eaten at a time.

Nasty weather was another amazing thing that happened to Joshua around Cape Horn.  On his way around Cape Horn ran into a nasty lightning storm and was able to navigate out of it.  The lightning was strong and the weather howled like crazy.  Slocum knew that the area he was in was a bad place to be because he had heard that many boats had gone down in the area.  He wanted to take the risk any was because it was better than savages and pirates.  As he was doing this he remembered he had heard of a ship named the Alert was struck by lightning and was sunk but the crew was lucky and was saved that day.  He met the crew after the storm he was in at the island that the crew was put on by the rescuers.  The island is called Pernambuco.  Later on in his voyage Slocums companion was a sword fish.  The fish swam a while with him until Slocum pulled out his harpoon and the fish disappeared under the water.  It was an amazing creator with a tall black fin.  Later on Slocum made his voyage for the coast of Brazil.  This was how Slocum spent his amazing voyage around Cape Horn.  He saw lots of fish and new people.                  

 In 300 words, tell how Slocum’s voyage compares to that of the modern day Laura Dekker’s voyage.

After reading Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World and following Laura Dekker’s blog I found out that both voyages have the same but different things in common.  It is amazing how two things can be alike and unalike at the same time.  Slocum and Laura both have the same wanderlust as each other.  Both wanted to sail at a young age and both wanted to sail around the world.  An amazing thing is that Slocum not being that wealthy was given a broken down Sloop that he rebuilt almost completely by himself while Laura having bought a Jeanneau Ginfizz ketch being from a rich family and redid some things on it.  Slocum and Laura both had to plan their trips out around the world thought.  They both are using almost the same routes as each other to sail around the world.  However, both started from different places from each other.  Slocum started at Boston and Laura started in England.  Both used instruments of navigation but at the same time, they both used different tips of navigation.  Laura being in the 21 century is using technology to help find her way.  Slocum being of a much early time period used his head and a few sailor instruments.  Laura has people watching her every move while Slocum was all alone in the big blue sea.  The names of the boats are different from each other.  Laura’s boat is the Guppy while Slocum’s was the Spray.  Slocum sailed alone around the world at a much older age than Laura 14.  Laura uses a blog as a diary or a log to keep track of what she is doing.  Slocum wrote in a journal about his voyage.  I was glad to be able to compare these two amazing people. 

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD Final Exam

Test for Reese on SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD

1. Joshua Slocum was born
1. in Fairhaven, Maine
2. within view of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia
3. within view of the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco
4. in the West Indies

2. Slocum was born
1. In 1895
2. In 1989
3. In  1844
4. In  1909

3. Slocum     

1. is buried in Nova Scotia
2. is buried in San Francisco
3. was captured by pirates
4. was lost at sea

4. Slocum
1. Was the first man to run away to sea at age 14
2. Was the second man to sail around the world
3. Was the first man to sail alone around the world.
4. Was not famous during his life time.

5. Slocum
1. Earned his 2^nd Mate papers at age 18
2. Was never officially an officer aboard a ship
3. Was the only man to sail with his family for 14 years
4. Was not an American citizen

6. Slocum
1. Bought The Spray from a childhood friend
2.  Bought The Spray from the first man to sail alone around the world.
3. Was given The Spray because it had sunk at the dock.
4. Was given an old hull of an oyster boat named The Spray.

7. While at sea on his long voyage
1. Slocum used his old chronometer to navigate
2. Used an old tin clock for a method of navigation called Dead Reckoning
3. Had only an electric clock
4. Used his father’s old wrist watch to navigate   

8. Slocum’s voyage
1. Lasted 2 years and covered 23,000 miles
2. Lasted over 3 years and covered 46,000 miles
3. Had to be cancelled, because The Spray was not seaworthy.
4. Lasted 10 years and covered 460,000 miles.

9. Slocum met the Captain of The Pinta
1. Because Slocum had too much to drink and was hallucinating
2. Because the Captain tried to hijack The Spray
3. Because Slocum became very ill from eating rotten eggs
4. Because Slocum had eaten white cheese and plums and became very ill

10. The longest that Slocum sailed without touching the helm of The Spray
1. Was 20 miles in a bad storm
2. Was 150 miles on a wind less day
3. Was 2000 miles west across the Pacific