Clocks, Computers and Why we Play God - Article
Homework: Read the article provided to you in class called "Clocks, Computers and Why We Play God" by Jay Bookman.
Answer the questions on the following sheet (*note: you may open this document and type your answers right in the space provided if you wish).
Helpful link: ttp://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet07.html
Answer the questions on the following sheet (*note: you may open this document and type your answers right in the space provided if you wish).
Helpful link: ttp://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet07.html
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How to do citations in your graphic comic
For a review of how to properly integrate quotations into your graphic comic please click on the document link below.
Remember, your mark for this assignment is based primarily on your ability to integrate quotations smoothly, seamlessly and properly every single time.
This is a skill which you will use in all the essays you will ever write (regardless of what you want to study in University or College).
If you have any questions please see me in class. You need to cite all of your quotations and make sure you have a Work Cited page at the end of your comic.
Remember, your mark for this assignment is based primarily on your ability to integrate quotations smoothly, seamlessly and properly every single time.
This is a skill which you will use in all the essays you will ever write (regardless of what you want to study in University or College).
If you have any questions please see me in class. You need to cite all of your quotations and make sure you have a Work Cited page at the end of your comic.
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The Doppelganger
The literary tradition of dark doubles or shadow-selves spans the ages, including
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, and Prometheus Unbound,
by Percy Shelley, husband to Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Perhaps the most
recognizable is the example of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde.
There is a song called Obsession, from the Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde, which illustrates the duality of the doppelganger. An excerpt of the lyrics appears below. See the full set of lyrics here: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jekyllandhyde/obsession.htm
JEKYLL:
What streak of madness lies inside me?
What is the truth my fears conceal?
What evil force makes Edward Hyde of me?
What darker side of me does he reveal?
What is this strange obsession
That’s tearing me apart?
Some strange, deranged expression
Of what’s in my heart?
Am I the man that I appear to be?
Or am I someone I don’t know?
Is there some monster drawing near me to me?
Becoming clear to see?
Will what I fear to be
Be so?
TASK:
Next, create a double-columned chart (or two lists if it's easier in the comment box), with significant lyrics on one side, and the doppelganger’s characterization as revealed by the lyrics on the other. The goal is to come up with a list of specific characteristics which define someone or something as a doppelganger.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, and Prometheus Unbound,
by Percy Shelley, husband to Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Perhaps the most
recognizable is the example of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde.
There is a song called Obsession, from the Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde, which illustrates the duality of the doppelganger. An excerpt of the lyrics appears below. See the full set of lyrics here: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jekyllandhyde/obsession.htm
JEKYLL:
What streak of madness lies inside me?
What is the truth my fears conceal?
What evil force makes Edward Hyde of me?
What darker side of me does he reveal?
What is this strange obsession
That’s tearing me apart?
Some strange, deranged expression
Of what’s in my heart?
Am I the man that I appear to be?
Or am I someone I don’t know?
Is there some monster drawing near me to me?
Becoming clear to see?
Will what I fear to be
Be so?
TASK:
Next, create a double-columned chart (or two lists if it's easier in the comment box), with significant lyrics on one side, and the doppelganger’s characterization as revealed by the lyrics on the other. The goal is to come up with a list of specific characteristics which define someone or something as a doppelganger.
The Modern Prometheus
In Frankenstein, originally subtitled The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley's characters directly or indirectly allude to several other classic and Romantic works. "Promethean Ambition" is the trait said to be exemplified by both literary and real characters who strive beyond their mortal limitations, often to dangerous or tragic ends.
Read The Myth of Prometheus in the following link and answer the questions below in the "comments" section: http://web.archive.org/web/20071018065319/www.geocities.com/Athens/6969/myth.htm
Questions:
1. What knowledge was forbidden to man by Zeus? Why?
2. What might have motivated Prometheus to defy Zeus?
3. What was Promethus's punishment? What does it symbolize?
Read The Myth of Prometheus in the following link and answer the questions below in the "comments" section: http://web.archive.org/web/20071018065319/www.geocities.com/Athens/6969/myth.htm
Questions:
1. What knowledge was forbidden to man by Zeus? Why?
2. What might have motivated Prometheus to defy Zeus?
3. What was Promethus's punishment? What does it symbolize?
Political Cartoons
Below are two political cartoons on genetic engineering.
The first one shows President Obama blowing the dust off a science book the day after releasing the moratorium on embryonic stem cell research.
The second illustrates a couple "making a baby" by mixing chemicals in a test tube.
Click on the cartoon to see a larger version of it. Examine each cartoon and then answer the questions below by posting in the "comments" section of this website.
The first one shows President Obama blowing the dust off a science book the day after releasing the moratorium on embryonic stem cell research.
The second illustrates a couple "making a baby" by mixing chemicals in a test tube.
Click on the cartoon to see a larger version of it. Examine each cartoon and then answer the questions below by posting in the "comments" section of this website.
Questions:
1. What is the cartoonist's point of view about his subject matter?
2. What is your opinion about the subject matter introduced by the cartoon?
3. Can you find another cartoon that is similar to these ones online? Perhaps related to Frankenstein?
1. What is the cartoonist's point of view about his subject matter?
2. What is your opinion about the subject matter introduced by the cartoon?
3. Can you find another cartoon that is similar to these ones online? Perhaps related to Frankenstein?
Paradise Lost - The Creature's Book Club
In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer is expelled from Heaven and Adam from Eden when they challenge their creator. Read the excerpts from Book I involving Adam’s creation and Lucifer’s expulsion, and answer the following questions:
Original text:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/
Easier to understand summary:
http://www.shmoop.com/paradise-lost/summary.html
1. What is the relationship between God and Adam? Between God and Lucifer?
2. How and why does this relationship change?
3. What does Milton suggest about the duty of a parent/creator to his creation in these excerpts?
Original text:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/
Easier to understand summary:
http://www.shmoop.com/paradise-lost/summary.html
1. What is the relationship between God and Adam? Between God and Lucifer?
2. How and why does this relationship change?
3. What does Milton suggest about the duty of a parent/creator to his creation in these excerpts?
Frame Narrative - Online Homework Question
The popular film The Princess Bride is an example of a frame story, just like Frankenstein. In the outter frame, the grandfather visits his grandson and begins to tell him a bedtime story. The inner frame is the story itself, of the Princess Bride.
Answer the following questions in the "comment" section below:
1. Why did the screen writer choose to utilize the frame story?
2. What methods does the screen writer use to transition between the frame and the story?
3. Provide another example of a frame story you have encountered, either in literature or film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPboi7FjrwQ
Answer the following questions in the "comment" section below:
1. Why did the screen writer choose to utilize the frame story?
2. What methods does the screen writer use to transition between the frame and the story?
3. Provide another example of a frame story you have encountered, either in literature or film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPboi7FjrwQ
Phi - The Golden Ratio
For more detailed information on the Golden Ratio discussed in class you can visit these websites:
http://www.intmath.com/numbers/math-of-beauty.php
http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm
http://www.goldennumber.net/face.htm
http://www.intmath.com/numbers/math-of-beauty.php
http://www.beautyanalysis.com/index2_mba.htm
http://www.goldennumber.net/face.htm
Frankenstein Quiz
That's right! On Monday morning you'll write a quiz on chapters 1-11.
If you've done all your reading and been present for, and engaged in, group discussions you should do a great job.
Make sure you get your beauty sleep!
If you've done all your reading and been present for, and engaged in, group discussions you should do a great job.
Make sure you get your beauty sleep!
Frankenstein - Audiobook
If you are an auditory learner and you'd like to listen along while you read, simply go on to youtube and choose the narrator you like the best!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frankenstein+audio+book
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frankenstein+audio+book
Enjoy!
Creature of Perfection
Don't forget your play dough tomorrow!
Bring whatever colours you want for your group to create the perfect specimen.
I will have some materials available in class, but feel free to bring some creative crafty material too, if you want. Come ready to flex your creative muscle and get your hands dirty.
Below are the first results of our "Creature of Perfection" project. Keep 'em coming, I await your emails! *I added some images from previous courses for you to take a look at as well.
*Also, please have your individual paragraphs ready to hand in tomorrow morning.
Bring whatever colours you want for your group to create the perfect specimen.
I will have some materials available in class, but feel free to bring some creative crafty material too, if you want. Come ready to flex your creative muscle and get your hands dirty.
Below are the first results of our "Creature of Perfection" project. Keep 'em coming, I await your emails! *I added some images from previous courses for you to take a look at as well.
*Also, please have your individual paragraphs ready to hand in tomorrow morning.
Frankenstein Begins....
Our Frankenstein unit officially starts on Tuesday. We will be discussing the overall structure of the narrative and what makes it unique. We'll also be learning a bit about Mary Shelley's biography and the legend of how the story came to be written in the first place.
Everyone should have their book now. Please take a look at the letters which start the novel (before chapter 1) this weekend. They are dense and a little difficult to understand at first, but I want you to give it a shot before we read and discuss them on Tuesday.
Chapter Talks will start on Thursday. Please check below for the sign up sheet (you'll meet in your groups and select your dates on Tuesday). You will need to sign up for THREE different chapters over the course of the unit. Please check the list of dates and plan ahead so that you don't schedule yourself on a date when you have another project or test for a different class.
Here are some websites that might help you
out as you begin the novel study:
1. Since Frankenstein is part of the public domain (not held under copyright anymore), it is available in it's entirety online for FREE. If you want to read it on your computer, or read it on your Smartphone on the bus ride to school, you can! Navigate the chapters by using the "Table of Contents" in the top right corner, or the links at the bottom of each page.
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/title.html (use the 1831 edition)
2. Frankenstein Chapter Summaries with Commentary and Analysis. This one has some editorializing and is quite funny. But you'll need to actually read the text to get the jokes.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/homework-help-literature/36265-frankenstein-chapter-summaries/
3. Class Wiki. This is a British class' wiki page with summaries and themes for several of the chapters. It has some good basic information, but is by no means exhaustive.
http://mtnbrookseniors06.stclaircountyschools.wikispaces.net/Chapters+1-3+%2817-35%29
4. And of course, Sparknotes (there's a video Sparknote for this one too):
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/
Everyone should have their book now. Please take a look at the letters which start the novel (before chapter 1) this weekend. They are dense and a little difficult to understand at first, but I want you to give it a shot before we read and discuss them on Tuesday.
Chapter Talks will start on Thursday. Please check below for the sign up sheet (you'll meet in your groups and select your dates on Tuesday). You will need to sign up for THREE different chapters over the course of the unit. Please check the list of dates and plan ahead so that you don't schedule yourself on a date when you have another project or test for a different class.
Here are some websites that might help you
out as you begin the novel study:
1. Since Frankenstein is part of the public domain (not held under copyright anymore), it is available in it's entirety online for FREE. If you want to read it on your computer, or read it on your Smartphone on the bus ride to school, you can! Navigate the chapters by using the "Table of Contents" in the top right corner, or the links at the bottom of each page.
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/title.html (use the 1831 edition)
2. Frankenstein Chapter Summaries with Commentary and Analysis. This one has some editorializing and is quite funny. But you'll need to actually read the text to get the jokes.
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/homework-help-literature/36265-frankenstein-chapter-summaries/
3. Class Wiki. This is a British class' wiki page with summaries and themes for several of the chapters. It has some good basic information, but is by no means exhaustive.
http://mtnbrookseniors06.stclaircountyschools.wikispaces.net/Chapters+1-3+%2817-35%29
4. And of course, Sparknotes (there's a video Sparknote for this one too):
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/
The Odyssey - Homework
If you need a little help reviewing the scenes from our class act of The Odyssey to answer your homework questions (on the green sheet), you can consult pages 21-26 of the Unit Guide (you don't have a photocopy of this so you'll need to read it online).
Another option is to check out these Sparknote video summaries. They are a little long-ish, but they explain the entire journey very well. Happy homework!
P.S. Did you know the Coen Brothers' film Oh Brother Where Art Thou? is a modern re-telling of the Odyssey? True story.
Another option is to check out these Sparknote video summaries. They are a little long-ish, but they explain the entire journey very well. Happy homework!
P.S. Did you know the Coen Brothers' film Oh Brother Where Art Thou? is a modern re-telling of the Odyssey? True story.
Homework
Reminder:
Your questions for the first "Emergence of Poetry" package, which covers the Epic of Gilgamesh, are due (typed or hand written) on Monday. Look at pages 6-17 in the .pdf file under the "assignments & handouts" tab if you forgot your copy at school.
Your questions for the second section "The Homeric Period" are due next Thursday, February 14th (yep, homework due on Valentines' Day). Remember you can access the full text of the tableaux scenes under the "Assignments and Handouts" tab.
Please note the mark value for each question. Please do not write many paragraphs if the question is only worth a mark or two. Take the mark allocation into consideration when composing your answers. Do what is required, using enough detail to answer the question, but remember "brevity is the soul of wit."
Your questions for the first "Emergence of Poetry" package, which covers the Epic of Gilgamesh, are due (typed or hand written) on Monday. Look at pages 6-17 in the .pdf file under the "assignments & handouts" tab if you forgot your copy at school.
Your questions for the second section "The Homeric Period" are due next Thursday, February 14th (yep, homework due on Valentines' Day). Remember you can access the full text of the tableaux scenes under the "Assignments and Handouts" tab.
Please note the mark value for each question. Please do not write many paragraphs if the question is only worth a mark or two. Take the mark allocation into consideration when composing your answers. Do what is required, using enough detail to answer the question, but remember "brevity is the soul of wit."
TDSB Director's Plagiarism Scandal
Here's some links to the recent articles detailing the plagiarism scandal involving the Director of Education of the TDSB, Chris Spence.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/publisher-to-investigate-troubling-plagiarism-allegations-against-former-tdsb-director-chris-spence/
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/01/10/tdsbs_chris_spence_resigns_amid_growing_plagiarism_scandal.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/publisher-to-investigate-troubling-plagiarism-allegations-against-former-tdsb-director-chris-spence/
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/01/10/tdsbs_chris_spence_resigns_amid_growing_plagiarism_scandal.html
Welcome to Grade 11 University English
Welcome parents and students to Grade 11 University English at Nottawasaga Pines. Our first unit of study this semester will be the classic sci-fi novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
As the unit progresses students will be using this online space to respond to writing prompts including videos, news articles, think-about questions, short stories, advertisements, and a variety of other texts.
Assignment sheets and homework information will be available under the tabs across the top of this website.
If you have any questions about your son or daughter's progress please feel free to contact me at the school by phone or by email. My contact information is listed on the course outline and below for your convenience:
Mrs. McKever-Walsh
705-424-5030 ext. 57606
[email protected]
As the unit progresses students will be using this online space to respond to writing prompts including videos, news articles, think-about questions, short stories, advertisements, and a variety of other texts.
Assignment sheets and homework information will be available under the tabs across the top of this website.
If you have any questions about your son or daughter's progress please feel free to contact me at the school by phone or by email. My contact information is listed on the course outline and below for your convenience:
Mrs. McKever-Walsh
705-424-5030 ext. 57606
[email protected]