http://jdogg05.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:50:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en O’Brien employs different strategies for dealing with the very difficult subject. Discuss O’Brien’s technique from at least three different vignettes. As always pair text with commentary.                One instance where O’Brien shows a strategy for dealing with death is when Curt Lemon is killed.  The soldiers each have a different way of dealing ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/04/09/march-24%e2%80%a6-4000-casualties/ Comrades: Yet another word we use without understanding the etymological significance. Tim has comrades; Henry has comrades. Check out this definition and etymology at Dictionary.com and compare that with Henry’s relationship to his comrades in the first fifteen chapters and O’Brien’s interrelationship of characters (especially in “Friends and Enemies”). Pay ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/comrades/ Both novels attack the idea of traditional heroism. “On the Rainy River” and chapters 5-8 of RBC explore the idea of the traditional hero. How do our main characters stack up against the traditional norms? What is your definition of courage and heroism? What other experiences or literary works have ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/04/01/courage-vs-cowardice/ “Spin” explores the idea of controlling reality and memory through story. Write a blog entry explaining how this is explored in this chapter. Be sure to explain concepts using detail and commentary. One of the wonders of communication is how our reality and perception can be controlled by the messenger.  In ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/31/literary-spin-the-things-they-carried/ The Things They Carried  List and explain 5 tangible things and five intangible things the soldiers from you stories carry.   Tangible Things All the soldiers in the story The Things They Carried, carried steel helmets.  “By necessity, and because it was SOP, they all carried steel helmets that weighed 5 pounds including the ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/27/the-things-they-carried-assignment-1/ Song  1.  What is the occasion of the poem?  What literary device does the poet employ?  Describe what you know of the speaker, the listener, and the "she" referred to in the poem. The occasion of the poem is the speaker who is a man is courting a shy young woman.  The ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/19/11/ 1.  Describe the subtle changes in setting and analyze how these shifts reveal Eve's fall from grace. The subtle changes in setting lead to Eve's eventual fall by starting off with her innocence and than eventually leading to her disgrace-which ends up being a trap by Satan.  At first Eve is alone ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/19/lesson-29/ 1.  Describe the form and structure of the poem.  What is the occasion of the poem?  What two reasons does the speaker give for refusing to promise a committed love?  What compromise does she suggest at the end? The poem consists of three stanzas with eight lines in each of them.  ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/lesson-28/ 1.  What imagery does Shapiro use in the first three lines to evoke sound and sight?  How do these images become increasingly significant in the context of the entire poem? The imagery Shapiro uses is the image of an ambulance charging down the road with it's sirens on.  He says "soft ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/12/lesson-35/ 1. Describe the form called rime royal: meter, rhyme scheme, stanza form. The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. The stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, ... http://jdogg05.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/lesson-34/