REVISED SEPT-OCT SYLLABUS!

HORROR LITERATURE E BLOCK OCTOBER 2013

 

Mon., Sept. 23           Hand in and discuss college essays

Horror and HUBRIS
            “Sea Perils and Defeat”- Quiz
           

Tues., Sept. 24          The story of Babel
                                    Beowulf – Grendel

                                    Diction and passive voice

Punctuation Review
                                   

Wed., Sept. 25           Punctuation Quiz

MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Thurs., Sept. 26        College essay idea 2 written down and submitted

Beowulf – Grendel’s Mom and the Dragon

                                    MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Mon., Sept. 30           College Essay 2 due

ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC – Powerpoint

                                     “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe

                                   

Tues., Oct. 1              “A Tell-Tale Heart”

WRITING UNIT II: The analytical essay

The difference between observation and idea

Wed., Oct. 2               Back to school night!

 “The Pit and the Pendulum”

                                    Developing the Thesis

Thurs., Oct. 3                        “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Mon., Oct. 7               “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

                                    Body Paragraphs, Transitional Topic Sentences

Tues., Oct. 8              Intro and concluding paragraphs

“The Monkey’s Paw”

Wed., Oct. 9               Setting up quotations

                                    Hand out Frankenstein

Factoids: Who was Mary Shelley?

Thurs., Oc. 10                        Factoid presentation

                                    Frank, chapters 1 – 4

                                   

Mon., Oct. 14             No school

Tues., Oct. 15                        Hand out Frank Vocab List 1. Go over usage.

                                    Frankenstein 5 - 7

                                   

Wed., Oct. 16             8 – 13

                                   

Thurs., Oct. 17          14 – 16

                                    Frank Vocab quiz 1

                                    Hand out Frank Vocab list 2

Mon., Oct. 21             17 – 19

Tues., Oct. 22                        Frankenstein, 20 – 21

                                    Vocab Quiz 2

Wed., Oct. 23             Discuss end of novel

“Frankenstein” the movie

Thurs., Oct. 24          Finish “Frankenstein” movie.

                                    Hand out Frankenstein essay assignment

Mon., Oct. 28            Outline for Frankenstein  essay due

                                    Frankenstein movie review due

 

Tues., Oct. 29                        One-on-one for Frank essays

Wed., Oct. 30             Outside reading presentations

Thurs., Oct. 31          Outside reading presentations

                                    

100 Best Horror Books Link

http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/jonesnewman.html

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MONSTERS!

Choose a monster that has been around for awhile. Then, become as expert as you can on the history of this monster as he/she appears, possibly in slightly altered guise, in mythology, literature, film, and other entertainment media.

Create a 3-minute powerpoint (or similar) presentation in which you educate us on this monster. Some questions you should address in your presentation:

·               who is this monster?

·               What does he/she look like?

·               What is this monster notorious for?

·               Where does this monster first appear?

·               Where else does it appear?

·               Is this monster “alive” today?

·               What are this monster’s monstrous traits?

·               Who generally battles this monster?

·               Does the monster have a weakness? What is it?

·               What does this monster represent in terms of the anxieties of each milieu in which it appears? (ancient greek civilization, Victorian era Europe, 21^st century America, etc.

·               Does what the monster represents change or evolve? From what to what?

·               Is there a side to the monster that is pleasurable or alluring?

·               Might the monster elicit our envy for some reason?

Why is this monster scary? Is there something primitive and unchanging—something “unive