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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: August 2008
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Sentence Composing # 2- Unscrambling Sentences to Imitate. The unscrambling of sentence parts helps you to see how those parts connected within the model sentence. As a result, you will glimpse the mind an author composing a sentence so you can go through a similar process when you compose sentences. 1 Model: Dumpster diving is outdoor work, often surprisingly pleasant. Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving". B is recreational activity. A was a skittering gecko.
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: Blake/Wordsworth/Coleridge/Romanticism Blog-Due March 19
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Thursday, March 19, 2009. Blake/Wordsworth/Coleridge/Romanticism Blog-Due March 19. 1 Do you agree with the view of Romanticsm that you should go with your emotions instead reason ultimately when making decisions? 2 What do you think William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" represent about human condition/psche? 3 Do you agree with Wordsworth that we're too focused on "getting and spending" in society? 2 Yes they represent innocence and experience. 3 Yes I agree. 4 Recently, I have ...
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: Pride and Prejudice Blog- Due March 10th
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Monday, March 9, 2009. Pride and Prejudice Blog- Due March 10th. 1 What character has the pride and which character has the predjudice? 2 What are examples of gender inequity in the movie? How does this gender inequity impact the decisions of some characters? 3 What are examples of social class playing a role in how characters interact? 4 Based of the movie, what were some of the expected norms/behavior women were expect for conform to? Is it satirical in nature at all? 3) The richer ...
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: October 2008
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Sentence Composing # 6- Opening Adverb- Practice 2,3, and 4. An adverb at the beginning of a sentence. A comma follows an opening adverb. All adverbs give information an action. Adverbs that tell how. An action happened(quickly, slowly, rapidly) always end in ly. Other adverbs tell when. An action happened (now, then, yesterday), or where. An action happened (Overhead, nearby, underneath). We poked fun at him, often in his presence. I found a taxi for her.
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: February 2009
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Gulliver's Travels- Movie Post- Due February 25th. Choose one the world's that Gulliver visits; What social issue(s)/human fault is Swift commenting on through Gulliver's visit to this world? What details from this world bring it out? Is the movie subtle or blatant in how they reveal this? How does the medium of film help to bring out the satire more than just the book could by itself? Did the movie make you think or did you think it was a poor adaptation?
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: March 2009
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Romanticism Values Synthesis Blog-Due March 25th. In order to hone your skills of identifying themes and creating a central argument via writing, do the following prompt:. 1 Choose one of the values of romanticism we discussed: emotion over reason, nature over human-made, impermanence of humanity, the individual over the collective, valuing rural life. writing sparked by individual emotion instead of borrowing from other genres or overthinking writing. 3 Do ...
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: Gulliver's Travels- Movie Post- Due February 25th
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Gulliver's Travels- Movie Post- Due February 25th. Choose one the world's that Gulliver visits; What social issue(s)/human fault is Swift commenting on through Gulliver's visit to this world? What details from this world bring it out? Is the movie subtle or blatant in how they reveal this? How does the medium of film help to bring out the satire more than just the book could by itself? Did the movie make you think or did you think it was a poor adaptation?
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: January 2009
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Marlowe and Raleigh both write in the genre of pastoral poems dealing with the beauty of the agrarian lifestyle. Marlowe takes a positive idealistic view while Raleigh's response is more cynical. You live in a rural community area. What do you think about living here? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? Do you plan to live in a rural area once you've established a career? Why or why not? Feel free to respond to each other in constructive manner.
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: Blake and Burns ?'s- Due March 17th
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Monday, March 16, 2009. S- Due March 17th. Robert Burns and William Blake? 1 Robert Burns is known as the national poet of Scotland; how does Burns incorporate/. Honor is Scottish heritage in the poems “Auld Lang Syne•” and “John Anderson My. 2 What idea concept is being praised/honored in “Auld Lang Syne”? How is this same. Theme extended in “John Anderson, My Jo”? How do these values reflect the values. How do they contrast with the values of the Age of Reason? Read “About the.
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Mr. Mohr's Brit Lit: Romanticism Questions- Due March 11th
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Mr Mohr's Brit Lit. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Romanticism Questions- Due March 11th. 1 When did the Romantic Era begin and end? Overall, how does the book describe the movement? How does it contrast to the Enlightenment/Age of Reason? 2 What were the major political developments/changes that occured during the Romantic Era? 3 The introduction describe three pre-Romantic poets; how did these poets bridge the gap between Neoclassicism and Romanticism? 4 What publication really began the Romantic Era? 3 They...
