If you haven't wandered by the blogs recently. you've mised out on some thoughtful ideas.
- SizzLorr! explores the nature of Nekhlyudov's complex effort to reform his life.
- Dayna finds herself despairing in the face of Nekhlyudov's continuing failures.
- Mgilbert thinks that Nekhlyudov's generosity is a facade.
- Lhartely explores the idea of morality and its impact on our judgment of Nekhlyudov and ourselves.
- MCButler thinks that Nek. is acting out of selfishness.
- BrittanyJean wonders about the answer for land reform, given the failure of communism.
These (and other) posts have been quite impressive; keep it up!
I'm not much of a photographer, but it turns out that Montana is a lovely state in the fall.
If any of you are intereted, this link has the letters between Tolstoy and Gandhi, written in 1909-1910, near the end of Tolstoy's life and the beginning of Gandhi's work in South Africa. From Tolstoy to Gandhi:
The longer I live-especially now when I clearly feel the approach of
death-the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than
anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely,
what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really
simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by
sophistries. Love, or in other words the striving of men's souls
towards unity and the submissive behaviour to one another that results
therefrom, represents the highest and indeed the only law of life, as
every man knows and feels in the depths of his heart…
The morally ambiguous character essay comments are making their way on to the site. You can check for them here. There should be two files for each of you…one that is in Word format, one that is in PDF. The Word one is marginally more useful. If you click on a comment, it should highlight the specific error that I am pointing out.
Not all of them are posted yet, but will be by 4:00 p.m.
Please let me know how this sytem works for you.
Update: I am finishing these. I forgot a meeting after school. those of you who are missing essays can expect them within the hour.
Reminder: The revision of this essay is due Monday in class, after the break. The past-present essay is due Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
We have a couple of thougtful posts about Resurrection worth looking at in the blogs.
Dayna explores impact of the novel's tone on the reader's perception of Nekhlyudov.
Amy looks at Nekhlyudov and the role of womyn .
Your Week in AP Major Assignments
- Week of 23 April 2012: DOOM, Literary Terms Quiz
- Week of 16 April 2012: DOOM, Literary Terms Quiz
- Week of 09 April 2012: Deep breath before Doom, Literary Terms Quiz 5
- Week of 02 April 2012: One of the 2004 AP Essays (Sunday 1 p.m.), Literary Terms Quiz 4
- Week of 26 March 2012: SPRING BREAK
- Week of 19 March 2012: Trumbo Revision, Literary Terms Quiz 2 (Friday)
- Week of 12 March 2012: Trumbo Prose Analysis (Question 2, due Sunday at 1), Literary Terms Quiz 1 (friday)
- Week of 05 March 2012: The Crossing Prose Analysis (Monday in class)
- Week of 27 February 2012: Revision of 2/20 essay (Thursday) and Two Literary Devices (Monday in class)
- Week of 20 February 2012: Bukowski/Neruda comparison or Lee poetry analysis (Sunday at 5 p.m.)
- Week of 13 February 2012: No new essays
- Week of 06 February 2012: Hamlet Essay (due Sunday), Vocab Unit 15
- Week of 30 January 2012: Hamlet Poetry Analysis (due Sunday), Optional Revision of Oliver (due Wednesday)
- Week of 23 January 2012: Mary Oliver Poetry Explication, Vocab Unit 14
