May 16 - 20

May 16
Second Semester Reflection
Update your infograph from first semester (or create a new one entirely) to correspond with a reflection of the semester.  You may also create a résumé.  Post your work to your blog with the subject line "Second Semester Reflection"

May 17
Skype meeting at 8pm

Orwell

"Why I Write" 

May 18

J.R.R. Tolkien 
Research Tolkien and select at least one focus from his life or works that you want to share.  Create a Canva (album cover, graphic, invitation, etc.) that reflects that focus. Embed it to your blog with the subject line "Tolkien"  

May 19
Feedback Survey

May 20

Hanalani Writes

Resources

The Tolkien Professor

Tolkien Reads a Poem in Elvish

LOTR Project
How Was The Lord of the Rings Influenced by World War One?

C.S. Lewis Reviews The Hobbit, 1937
Why C.S. Lewis Was Wrong on Marriage (and J.R.R. Tolkien Was Right)
Orwell Diaries
The Orwell Prize

May 9 - 13

May 9
Lord of the Flies, 11-12

May 10
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
"William Golding - Nobel Prize Winner" (read biography and play "Lord of the Flies Game"); embed a screen shot of your game score with the subject line "Golding Reading"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to William Golding "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today" 

May 11
Create a paper slide video response (1-3minutes) to your reading of Lord of the Flies. Please include an explanation and example of a literary aspect from the book and your personal opinion. Feel free to add other content you found significant. Embed the response in your blog with the subject line "Lord of the Flies"

May 12

Lewis
Find two books written by Lewis (other than The Screwtape Letters or other books of his that you've read before) that you think you'd be interested in reading. Post them to your blog with an explanation of why you'd consider reading them and a corresponding review or summary. Include images of the books and use the subject line "Lewis Books"

May 13

Hanalani Writes

Resources

Narnia.com
Assignment Discovery - Lord of the Flies

May 2 - 6

May 2

Lord of the Flies, 1-2

For the duration of the novel, you'll be using your Twitter account again to evidence your reading. For each chapter, label your "tweet" and post a compelling thought or question. If you need more than one post for a given chapter, be sure to label it well. Proper mechanics still apply, but citations are unnecessary after an initial reference 

May 3
Skype meeting at 8pm
Lord of the Flies, 3-5

May 4

Lord of the Flies, 6-8

May 5
Lord of the Flies, 9-10

May 6
Hanalani Writes

April 25 - 29

April 25
 "A Haunted House" 
Please post an audio or textual response (I'll be looking for evidence of your reading, an insightful observation, and an opinion) to the short story. Use the title "A Haunted House by Woolf" and include a link to the story

 


April 26
Skype meeting at 8pm
Mansfield
"Feuille D' Album"

April 27
"The Doll's House" and "Miss Brill"
After reading both stories, create a Haiku Deck presentation on one of them.  Include a brief analysis of the story and your reaction to the author's ideas (do not include a summary). Use the title "A Doll's House by Mansfield" or "Miss Brill by Mansfield"

April 28

Graves and MacNeice
"Coronation Address"
"Symptoms of Love"
"Truisms"

Using the words from "Symptoms of Love," create a song using one of the following tools: Incredibox, Wolfram Tones, Beatlab, Soundation, or Ujam. Sing or recite it with your music playing and indicate the most significant aspect you want your audience to understand.  Post it to your blog with the subject line "Symptoms of Love Song" 

Bonus Opportunity
Post a tweet for both "Coronation Address" and "Truisms"  that cover the main theme of each

April 29
Hanalani Writes

Resources

Katherine Mansfield House

Katherine Mansfield Society

Robert Graves

Louis MacNeice

April 18 - 22

April 18

Joyce

"Araby"

Create a "60second Book Review" about "Araby" similar to the style found at 60second Book Review. Embed your video with the subject line "Joyce Recap"

April 19
Skype meeting 8pm
"Eveline"

April 20
Lawrence 
"How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
"The Rocking Horse Winner" 
Create a multimedia presentation that answers two of the following and embed it to your blog with the title "Lawrence and the Rocking Horse" 

1. What do you think about gambling? Why?
2. Why do people live beyond their means?  Why did this particular family?  List a couple of modern day connections.
3. What are your thoughts on "love turned to dust"? Why?
4. How do you think Paul got all the right answers? Please support your ideas.
5. What does the story say about luck? What do you think it is?

April 21
Woolf
"Three Pictures"
After reading the introduction and Woolf's Last Note to Her Husband, please write a letter of hope (addressed to Virginia) in your blog and use the subject line "Response of Hope"

April 22

Hanalani Writes

Resources
DH Lawrence
Virgina Woolf Society of Great Britain

April 11 - 15

April 11

Dickens
Read the summary of any two of the following Dickens' novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, or Bleak House.  Create summaries for each in the same style as Book-A-Minute and use the subject line "Two of Dickens' Novels."  Please also include a link to Book-A-Minute in your post and briefly explain the connection between the website and your work

Bonus Opportunity
Play "Survive Dickens' London" and earn a score of at least 700.  Email me a screen shot of your score, health percentage, and shillings by 11pm, using the subject line "I Survived Dickens' London"

April 12
Modern Introduction

April 13

National Library of Ireland

Create a recording of your virtual tour of the National Library of Ireland. Feel free to comment aloud as your browse.  Embed it in your blog with the subject line "Yeats Tour"

April 14

Yeats

"Adam's Curse"

Tweet a general truth found in "Adam's Curse" and one application of that truth to your life 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

April 15
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Dickens on Biography.com

Charles Dickens Page
Celebrating the 200th Birthday of Dickens
A Reading of A Christmas Carol
Dickens World

Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book

April 4 - 8

April 4

Thompson
Read one of the following articles and write a reactive post to the material.  Use the subject line "Addictions."  

"I Was Addicted to Video Games, Pt. 1"

"I Was Addicted to Video Games, Pt. 2"

"6 Discoveries That Helped Me Overcome Addiction"

April 5-6

ASPIRE Testing

April 7

Kipling
"The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
"IF"
Write your own "IF" poem mimicking the structure and post it to your blog with the subject line "A Poem Inspired by Kipling"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

April 8

Hanalani Writes

Resources
Rudyard Kipling Biography

March 28 - April 1

March 28

Carroll

"The White Queen's Riddle"

Email me the correct answer to "The White Queen's Riddle" (five clues are given) and list one of two "ironic, unexpected twists" in "The Walrus and the Carpenter." Please use the subject line "Answer to the White Queen's Riddle"

March 29

Skype meeting at 8pm
Hardy
"The Three Strangers"

Bonus Opportunity

Summarize "The Three Strangers" into an original aphorism and create a "beautiful typography art picture" of it using QuotesCover. Post it to your blog with the subject line "Hardy" 
Give examples of foreshadowing and irony from "The Three Strangers." Post using the subject line "Foreshadowing and Irony in The Three Strangers"

March 30

Hopkins

"Pied Beauty"
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty" is best read aloud due to the unique diction and meter. Record yourself reading the poem aloud and embed it in your blog with the subject line "Hopkins." Please also include one example of alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, or rhythm from "God's Grandeur" in text format in the post

March 31

Housman
"When I Was One and Twenty"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
"Eight O'Clock"
"They Say My Verse Is Sad"
Create a storyboard for one of the Housman poems in your textbook and post it (depending on how you create it, you may have to scan it in as an image or upload it as a PDF) to your blog with the subject line "Housman." Please also include a copy of the original poem in your post

April 1
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Understanding Alice

Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures Under Ground Manuscript
Alice in Wonderland Audiobook
Eating and Drinking in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
'You Ain't Ruined': How Thomas Hardy Took On Victorian-Era Purity Culture
What Is a Storyboard? 

March 21 - 25

March 21-25

Spring Break

March 14 - 18

March 14

Robert Browning

"My Last Duchess" 
Listen to the audio version of the poem and draw a portrait of the woman being described. Embed your masterpiece to your blog with the subject line "My Last Duchess" and include a brief explanation of your artwork

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!''
Rabbi Ben Ezra

March 15
Skype meeting at 8pm
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Style, Subject and Reception
Sonnet 43

Bonus Opportunity
Mimic E. Browning's use of similes in writing a free-verse poem sharing your love to someone or something. You must include 5 or more similes in this poem. You may copy the style of Browning, or you may use your own. Post to your blog with the subject line "Love Similes"

March 16

Arnold

"Dover Beach"

Create and embed your audioBoom (works best with Firefox) using the subject line "Arnold audioBoom."  Listen to the player below for specific instructions

‘Matthew Arnold’ on audioBoom

March 17

Rossetti

"Uphill"

"Have I Not Striven"

Use PowToon as the storytelling medium to share a time where you personally went through a trial or difficulty. Include the verses that God used to encourage you through that time (or in hindsight). Post your "story" to your blog with the subject line "Have I Not Striven"

March 18

Hanalani Writes

Resources

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman Question

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Social and Political Issues

Christina Rossetti: Religious Poetry

March 7 - 11

March 7

Carlyle

"The Hero as Divinity" and "The Hero as a Poet" (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
Create an ideal hero using a web tool of your choice (i.e. HeroMachine) and embed the image on your blog. Include a description of the hero as well as an appropriate quotation from the reading (you may have to explain the connection between your quotation and created hero). Use the subject line "Carlyle Hero"

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward."  

Lord Chesterfield, British statesman

March 8
Skype meeting at 8:00pm

Newman

From The Tamworth Reading Room

Bonus Opportunity
Create an online survey and compile the results for the following question: what "...must be made the element and principle of all education"? Please post your survey and the results (include at least ten participants and consider adding a personal summative piece to tie it all together) using the subject line "Newman Survey" 

March 9
Tennyson Introduction

"Crossing the Bar"

"Kapiolani"

"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Use Tagxedo or TagCrowd to symbolize one of Tennyson's poems.  Embed it to your blog with the poem's title as the subject line

March 10
Third Quarter ePortfolio; make changes based on previous suggestions, clean up Twitter and blog posts, and add SpeakPipe. Please send me an email with a marked rubric that shows the points you believe you deserve for each category and the total amount of points you have given your work. Additionally, include the reasons why you have designated the category points that you have (the comments may be textual or audio)

Bonus Opportunity
Create an audio post in which you share what you've learned this quarter and post it to your blog with the subject line "Third Quarter Reflection"

March 11

Hanalani Writes

Resources

Tennyson's Rise and Fall

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Making Poetry from War

Jane Eyre

February 29 - March 4

February 29
Jane Eyre, 35-38
Jane Eyre Analytical Writing 

March 1
Skype meeting at 8pm
Charlotte Brontë
11 Lessons that Jane Eyre Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman about How to Live Well

Bonus Opportunity
Write your own article on 5 lessons that Jane Eyre taught you about living well and post it to your blog with the subject line "Living Well According to Jane Eyre."  Submit your writing piece for publication and email me confirmation of submission by 11pm

March 2
Jane Eyre Analytical Writing 

March 3
Victorian Introduction

March 4

Hanalani Writes

Resources
Jane's Inheritance

Fairytale and Realism in Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre and the 19th Century Woman
The Figure of Bertha Mason
The British Library: Jane Eyre Videos

February 22 - 26

February 22
Jane Eyre, 23-25
Jane Eyre Analytical Writing 

February 23
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
Jane Eyre, 26-28
tinyurl.com/janeeyresongs 

 

February 24
Jane Eyre, 29-31
Jane Eyre Analytical Writing 

February 25
Jane Eyre, 32-34
Jane Eyre Analytical Writing 

February 26
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Jane's Inheritance

Fairytale and Realism in Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre and the 19th Century Woman
The Figure of Bertha Mason
The British Library: Jane Eyre Videos

February 15 - 19

February 15
Presidents' Day Holiday

February 16
Skype meeting at 8:00pm
Jane Eyre, 13-16

Bonus Opportunity
Sketch or paint Jane's three paintings from chapter 13.  Post their images to your blog with the subject line "Jane Eyre's Three Paintings" by 11pm

February 17
Jane Eyre, 17-19

February 18
Jane Eyre, 20-22

Bonus Opportunity
Jane Eyre Vocabulary

February 19
Hanalani Writes

Resources
The Brontë Society

February 8 - 12

February 8

Jane Eyre, 1-3

For most of the novel, you'll be using your Twitter account to evidence your reading. For each chapter until February 18, label your tweet (i.e. #JE1) and post a compelling thought or question. If you need more than one post for a given chapter, be sure to label it well. Proper mechanics still apply, but citations are unnecessary after an initial reference 

Bonus Opportunity

Once a week (due Thursdays by 11:00pm) for the duration of the novel, you'll be able to select up to five questions from the Jane Eyre Doc to answer in a blog post. Title the blog post "Bonus Questions" with the corresponding chapters and include the questions with your answers 

February 9

Skype meeting at 8pm
Jane Eyre, 4-6

February 10
Jane Eyre, 7-9



February 11

Jane Eyre, 10-12

February 12
Hanalani Writes

Resources
Jane Eyre Text
The True Story of the Lowood Institution

Freedom Ideas

February 1 - 5

February 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Ozymandias"
"England in 1819"
Create a Dragontape or video compilation (you may use a tool of your own) that describes a piece of Shelley's work or an aspect of his life (e.g. "The Bad Boy" and Lord Byron).  Post your creation to your blog using the subject line "Percy Bysshe Shelley" 

February 2
Skype meeting at 8pm

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein SparkNotes (read "Context," "Plot Overview," "Character List," "Analysis of Major Characters," "Themes, Motifs & Symbols," "Summary & Analysis," and "Important Quotations Explained")

"The beginning is always today" M. Shelley

February 3

Keats

"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Respond to "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" in kind by writing a song or poem. Be faithful to Keats' poem but unique in the approach (I need to see the connection between his poem and yours - feel free to explain it to me if you don't think I'm going to be able to see it easily). The song may be recited, but both the song or poem must be in audio format with a musical background (i.e. "Amazed"). Video format is not required, but I would like to see the lyrics. Please post your song or poem to your blog with the subject line "Keats' Song"

February 4

Austen

"What Would Jane Do?"

Do some research on Austen's works. Create a list of her novels and corresponding "moral instructions." Post it to your blog with the subject line "Austen's Didacticism"

February 5

Hanalani Writes

Resources

An Introduction to "Ozymandias"
The Bully Project
Stand Up to Bullying - TED Talks
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
Digital Manuscripts of Frankenstein from the Shelley-Godwin Archive
Frankenstein; Or The Modern Prometheus
"An Introduction to 'Ode on a Grecian Urn': Time, Morality and Beauty"
The British Library Playlist on Jane Austen
"The Economics of Jane Austen"
Courtship, Love and Marriage in Jane Austen's Novels
Jane Austen
The Republic of Pemberley
Jane Austen Society of North America

January 25 - 29

January 25

Lamb
"Old China"

Email me a Vocaroo or VoiceGem that comments on the theme and structure of "Old China"

January 26

Skype meeting at 8pm

Byron
"On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
"She Walks in Beauty"

Bonus Opportunity
Write a four stanza "romantic" poem using the same rhyme scheme used in Byron's poems. Post it to your blog using the subject line "Byron Poem" and explain how it is "romantic" in one of the following ways:

1. Individual over group perceptions
2. Imagination and feeling over reason
3. The natural over the artificial

"Truth is stranger than fiction" (Canto 14)

January 27-29
Spiritual Emphasis Week

Resources
Lord Byron, 19th-Century Bad Boy

January 18 - 22

January 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 19
Skype meeting at 8pm
Blake

Bonus Opportunity
Create a video response (2-4 minutes) to one of the ideas listed below. Please embed or link it to your blog with the subject line "Blake Video Response"

"The Lamb" and "The Tyger" - Dualism of good and evil
"The Tyger" - What deity would fashion such a creature?
"The Clod and the Pebble" - Selfishness
"London" - Tyranny, Religion, Family, Freedom, Civil Authority, or Monogamy
"The Garden of Love" - Repression
"Proverbs" - Humanism

"Pure Imagination" - How does this song relate to Blake and/or his writings?

"To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour."

January 20
Wordsworth

"Expostulation and Reply"
"The Tables Turned"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
"The World Is Too Much with Us"

Create a piece of art with an original picture and a photo editor of choice.  Title it "Common Things in an Uncommon Light" and post it to your blog by 11pm.  Please make sure that the creation truly is something common in an uncommon light (e.g.  I took the picture of a jellyfish and played with the effects to show something common with a different perspective).  Include a brief explanation (please include the photo editor you used as well as what you thought about Wordsworth), and use the subject line "Common Things in an Uncommon Light" 

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: 
Little we see in Nature that is ours; 
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!....

January 21

Coleridge (author introduction and reading selection introduction)

SparkNotes' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Write a short story that conveys one of the ideas listed below.  Don't sweat the conventions in this piece as I'm primarily interested in your storyline (consider it a rough draft).  Post it on your blog and make your subject line (the story's title) based on your selection:

1. "Its immediate end is pleasure (the story entertains) but its ultimate end is truth" (Horton, 535)
2. Imagination trumps reason ["Coleridge's criticism is romantic in exalting the imagination over the reason, 'organic' over 'mechanic' form (the unity of a living thing over that of geometric design), and bold contrast within a work rather than bland harmony.] (Horton, 534)
3. The uncommon appears believable
4. Circular, solitary journeys
5. The Christian journey of sin, punishment, repentance, forgiveness, and restoration

January 22

Hanalani Writes

Resources

William Blake
An Introduction to "The Tyger"

An Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Playfic

January 11 - 15

January 11
Goldsmith
Compare Goldsmith's work to your life. Create a copy of the suggested outline and fill it in with your comparisons. Share the document with me and use the subject line "Goldsmith Comparison"

January 12
Skype meeting at 8pm
Cowper

"The Castaway"

Bonus Opportunities

Browse through "Mental Illness" and select one to explain using Storify. Be concise and discreet, include two related resource links, and use proper MLA format. Please also include a biographical link on Cowper and embed your Storify collection on your blog with the subject line "Cowper and Mental Illness"

Read or listen to John Piper's "Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint - Reflections on the Life of William Cowper." Email me your reaction by 11pm

January 13
Burns

"To a Louse: On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church"

"A Red, Red Rose"

"John Anderson, My Jo"
Write a love poem modeled after one of Burns' works. Post the original Burns' poem and your own using the title "Modeling Burns" by 11pm

January 14

Romantic Introduction

January 15
Hanalani Writes

Resources

NAMI Hawaii

NIHM
Robert Burns: A Career in Verse

Into the Wild - New York Times Movie Review

The Story of Stuff