WELCOME STUDENTS!

This is a place for us to discuss openly and honestly the literature we are reading. Here we are all just communicating our thoughts on what we are reading. There are no right and wrong answers. However, you are expected to be polite, mature, and on topic.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

KPU Class of 2009




Only the few, the brave, the proud, the determined can be accepted to KPU "Where Excellence is a Way of Life". Don't forget that, KPU scholars. I am very proud of you.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

HAPPY HOLIDAYS


I read somewhere once that "Christmas is the time of year when people come to act as they should have all year." I don't know if you celebrate any specific tradition or belief this time of year, but, hopefully, you have been a little kinder, a little more patient, and a litte more understanding to someone lately. As the new year approaches and you become busy with all you have to do, stop and remember the magic of this season. Be the kind of person you should be and can be. Love to all of you. KP

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The End of an Era

Well, my fine young scholars, this is end of our in class journey. The blog spot is now closed for all fall semester posting. I really hope that some piece of literature touched you, that some piece of literature inspired you to see others in a different light, that some piece of literature made you want to keep reading. I hope to see you every other Wednesday afternoon or around campus next semester. Remember he who doesn't read as no advantage over he who can't read.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Glass Menagerie


Families are often more than just those who survive. To what extent and in what ways is the Wingfield family "haunted" and controlled by the absent Mr.Wingfield?

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE


Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is filled with symbols. Which symbol in the play did you find most reflective of a character or theme? Comment on its symbolism and what you saw through its use.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Research Proposal

Double space everything and use one inch margins. Make sure that you indent second line of sources. This blog-spot does't allow me to keep perfect margins. But, you should get the idea.

Suzy Q. Student
AP English IV—Palombo
First Block
8 December 2008

Literary Research Paper Proposal

Work: The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Research question: Is Hester Prynne a feminist?
I. Hester’s unique personality
A. View of marriage
B. View of woman’s purpose and place in society
II. Hester in Puritan society
A. Views of society’s rules
B. Methods of parenting
C. Hester’s role in society
III. Hester as social rebel
A. Independence from community
B. Refusal to confess and repent
C. Modern apostle and thinker

Thesis: Through her actions and philosophy, Hester Prynne, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s heroine in
The Scarlet Letter, reveals herself as a 16th century feminist.

References:
Bonida, Gerald. “The Women of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Exploring Early Females Stereotypes.” Southern Literary Review. Vol. 24. Fall 1987: 123-138.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Penguin Books, 1999.
Kingston, Nancy, ed. “Sewing-up Hester Prynne.” Nathaniel Hawthorne: Studies in Early American Literature. New York: Dennis Press, 1986.
Tomas, Geneva. “The Farthingale Uplifted: Where Hester Prynne Led Women.” English Journal of Letters. Vol. 37. December 2005: 67-73.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

THE NEVERENDING STORY


John Steinbeck once said: "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. … There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” What in your group novel supports this ascertation? Explain. Who/what is the evil in the novel? Is the evil defeated or victorious? Explain.