We will be doing this with some of the Othello speeches….so get ready….

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/theater/hamlet-student-instagram-videos.html?_r=0

Dostoyevsky and the Unibomber - Atlantic Article

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.htm

Dostoyevsky's Unabomber

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/02/24/1997_02_24_114_TNY_CARDS_000378325?printable=true¤tPage=all

Sonia

Sonia

Luzhin

Dounia

Razumikin

Dounia

Marmeladov

Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov

Internal Conflicts in Characters - Character Study on "split personalities" in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

AP English Literature Homework for Feb 7th 2014

We will be watching the rest of the movie on Dostoyevsky in class today. We will also be reading the article about Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" that I have linked to this blog in class. Please be sure that you have read the article and watched the movie. I will send you the password to use for the movie in a separate e-mail. We will have questions from both the article and the movie on our reading "quest" when you come into class on Monday. Remember to have PART 3 read by Monday for a 25 point "quest" on Crime and Punishment.

Please read this article in class on Friday - February 7

http://categorymistake.com/philosophyandpopculture/node/25

A Prayer for Owen Meany vocabulary list

LIST ONE diminutive uncannily morose affliction vespers beseeching pageant petulant raiment vestibule deleterious genuflect exasperation aloof euphemistically LIST TWO uncouth taunting peevish reprimand adjudicate gape rapaciousness averted tentative vicinity compelled voracious relegated assuage immolation LIST THREE frugal wary poignant rebuked postulate tandem provincial condescend impediment hapless scrutinized seraphim outlandish firmament errant

New vocabulary list

Set one: abate, baleful, baseless, bedecked, blighted, blunder, boon, breadth, calamity, capricious, contempt, crave, defile, desolate, despondency. Set two: discern, enmity, enthrall inch, entreaty, esteem, exalt, extradite, foremost, forsake, fret, grievous, impetuous, implacable, impudent, infamous. Set three: innumerable, insolence, muse, obstinate, perfidious, plausible, precipice, prostration, recluse, refuge, reproach, resolute, revere, revile, rhetoric. Set four: soughing, palsy, rememory, quarry, waspish, paterollers, riven, flay, coffle, dote, unshriven, perfunctory, privy, incontinence, croup.

POETIC VOICES - CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOU ON NOVEMBER 11TH...

POETRY ASSIGNMENT: READ THE FOLLOWING ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE POETRY. CREATE A POEM OF YOUR OWN - WITHOUT ANY VOCABULARY OR SUBJECT LIMITATIONS FROM ME. IT IS WORTH TWO QUIZ GRADES. IT MUST BE MEMORIZED AND PERFORMED IN FRONT OF THE CLASS ON NOVEMBER 11TH. ENJOY! Attempts at a Definition of Poetry by Famous Poets "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Poetry Quote by Robert Frost American Poet (1874-1963) "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Poetry Quote by Robert Frost American Poet (1874-1963) "A poem should not mean but be." Poetry Quote by Archibald MacLeish American Poet (1892-1982) "The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both." Poetry Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet (1803-1882) "Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." Poetry Quote by Sigmund Freud Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Poetry Quote by Sigmund Freud "Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." Poetry Quote by Paul Engle (1908-1991) University of Iowa "To have great poets there must be great audiences too." Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman American Poet (1819-1892) "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." Poetry Quotes by Charles Simic American Poet born in 1938 "One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves." Poetry Quote by W. H. Auden English and American Poet (1907-1973) "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Poetry Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet (1792-1822) "Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject." Poetry Quotes by John Keats English Poet (1795-1821) "Poetry ... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Poetry Quote by John Keats English Poet (1795-1821) "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." Poetry Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet (1772-1834). "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." Poetry Quote by Robert Graves English Poet (1895-1985) "A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweler, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more." Poetry Quote by Horace Walpole English Poet (1717-1797) "God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations." Poetry Quote by Robert Browning Famous English Poet (1812-1889) "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." Poetry Quote by Paul Valery French Poet (1871-1945) "He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life." Poetry Quote by George Sand Female French writer who used the pseudonym George Sand (1804-1876) "Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." Poetry Quote by Alfred de Musset French Romantic Poet (1810-1857) "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." Poetry Quote by Plato "Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." Poetry Quote by Aristotle "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

One Boy Told Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJ3FP8aDjY