Schwager's Grades are Posted
I will probably be changing the address of this blog for next year to make it easier to type in and such(likely to longbowsong.blogspot.com...but we will see). The longbow reference is from Tales of the Longbow by G.K. Chesterton. I have in mind to start a literary society: The Longbow Literary League.
Enjoy,
Mr. S
The Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge of Allegiance
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
History
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
History
The American's Creed
The American's Creed
"I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
"I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies."History of the American's Creed
The Apostles' Creed
Book of Common Prayer
- I believe in God the Father Almighty,
- Maker of heaven and earth:
- And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
- Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
- Born of the Virgin Mary,
- Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
- Was crucified, dead, and buried:
- He descended into hell;
- The third day he rose again from the dead;
- He ascended into heaven,
- And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
- From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
- I believe in the Holy Ghost;
- The holy Catholick Church;
- The Communion of Saints;
- The Forgiveness of sins;
- The Resurrection of the body,
- And the Life everlasting.
- Amen.
Pledge to the Christian Flag
Pledge to the Christian Flag
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag, and to the Saviour, for whose kingdom it stands. One Saviour, crucified, risen and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."
History of the Pledge
Wikipedia
You will recite this at your graduation!
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag, and to the Saviour, for whose kingdom it stands. One Saviour, crucified, risen and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."
History of the Pledge
Wikipedia
You will recite this at your graduation!
Final Day of English II
* Pray: 1 John 4-5: "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
* Please return any books you've borrowed.
* Any questions?
* Final Exam
* When done, if time permits, please answer these questions on a sheet of paper:
1. What went well in my course? What was good? What are my strengths?
2. What didn't go well in my course? What didn't work? What are my weaknesses?
3. Books to change? Explain.
4. How about the blog? iPads? Focus?
5. What does MVCS need to do to improve?
* Check Focus. All my scores for you are in.
All the best,
Mr. Schwager and Mr. Reno
* Please return any books you've borrowed.
* Any questions?
* Final Exam
* When done, if time permits, please answer these questions on a sheet of paper:
1. What went well in my course? What was good? What are my strengths?
2. What didn't go well in my course? What didn't work? What are my weaknesses?
3. Books to change? Explain.
4. How about the blog? iPads? Focus?
5. What does MVCS need to do to improve?
* Check Focus. All my scores for you are in.
All the best,
Mr. Schwager and Mr. Reno
Monday, 5/21/12: Review
* Pray
* Return Papers
* Review for the final exam
HW: Review for the final exam
* Return Papers
* Review for the final exam
HW: Review for the final exam
The End of the Line: Finals (Week 41)
* The Final Exam
1. What will the final exam cover?
A: Cry, the Beloved Country, Punctuation and MLA, and Literary Elements.
2. What will the format be?
A: 90 minutes. You will write an in class essay on Cry, the Beloved Country. You will have any combination of short answer, true/false, matching, and multiple choice questions concerning punctuation, MLA, and literary elements.
3. How many questions will there be for each?
A: No more than 50. Most questions concern punctuation and elements.
4. Which punctuators do I need to review?
A: All of them that we covered: commas, semicolons, and colons.
5. Which elements do I need to review?
A: All elements we took notes on; most come from Cry...a few will come from Perrine's Poetry:
Symbol
Imagery
Theme
Setting
Motif
Repetition
Epithet
Plot (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)
Protagonist
Main character
Minor character
Character (dynamic, static, round, flat)
Point of View (first person, third person, limited third person, omniscient)
Reference and Allusion
Vignette
Epiphany
Realistic
Poetic Passage
Speaker (who is not always the same persona as the author)
6. How should I study for each section?
A: For Cry, you should review our notes and reread sections you didn't understand or didn't read carefully. For elements, you should review those same notes, focusing on the elements. For punctuation, you should review your punctuation notes and exercises--reread Bedford (see the link down on the right side of the blog you have been using) where your notes are unclear or incomplete.
7. What if I was absent for any notes?
A: Go through the blog posts. Every chapter has at least one note associated with it. Borrow a friend's who takes good notes, and fill yours in.
8. How much of my grade is the final exam worth?
A: 20% (10% for the essay and 10% for the M.C. test).
1. What will the final exam cover?
A: Cry, the Beloved Country, Punctuation and MLA, and Literary Elements.
2. What will the format be?
A: 90 minutes. You will write an in class essay on Cry, the Beloved Country. You will have any combination of short answer, true/false, matching, and multiple choice questions concerning punctuation, MLA, and literary elements.
3. How many questions will there be for each?
A: No more than 50. Most questions concern punctuation and elements.
4. Which punctuators do I need to review?
A: All of them that we covered: commas, semicolons, and colons.
5. Which elements do I need to review?
A: All elements we took notes on; most come from Cry...a few will come from Perrine's Poetry:
Symbol
Imagery
Theme
Setting
Motif
Repetition
Epithet
Plot (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)
Protagonist
Main character
Minor character
Character (dynamic, static, round, flat)
Point of View (first person, third person, limited third person, omniscient)
Reference and Allusion
Vignette
Epiphany
Realistic
Poetic Passage
Speaker (who is not always the same persona as the author)
6. How should I study for each section?
A: For Cry, you should review our notes and reread sections you didn't understand or didn't read carefully. For elements, you should review those same notes, focusing on the elements. For punctuation, you should review your punctuation notes and exercises--reread Bedford (see the link down on the right side of the blog you have been using) where your notes are unclear or incomplete.
7. What if I was absent for any notes?
A: Go through the blog posts. Every chapter has at least one note associated with it. Borrow a friend's who takes good notes, and fill yours in.
8. How much of my grade is the final exam worth?
A: 20% (10% for the essay and 10% for the M.C. test).
Thursday, 5/17
* Pray
* Read Cry...
* Study your grammar notes
HW: Read and study (perhaps...a not-so-popped quiz in your future)
* Read Cry...
* Study your grammar notes
HW: Read and study (perhaps...a not-so-popped quiz in your future)
Wednesday, 5/16
* Pray
* Finish Video
* Review your novel
HW: Be prepared for a short quiz on punctuation and Cry on Thurs/Fri.
* Finish Video
* Review your novel
HW: Be prepared for a short quiz on punctuation and Cry on Thurs/Fri.
Tuesday, 5/15/12: Grammar, etc.
* Pray
* Correct Grammar
* Continue Video (Schwager)
* Discuss novel (Reno)
HW: Review novel
* Correct Grammar
* Continue Video (Schwager)
* Discuss novel (Reno)
HW: Review novel
Monday 5/14/12
* Pray
* CWP and MLA: Watch Mr. Reno's Awesome Video if your Paper is Returned for MLA formating issues
* Submit your CWP to Focus: Q4 CWP (turnitin.com) Assignment
*Grammar Sheets
* Video
HW: Finish the Colon Sheets (Schwager)
* CWP and MLA: Watch Mr. Reno's Awesome Video if your Paper is Returned for MLA formating issues
* Submit your CWP to Focus: Q4 CWP (turnitin.com) Assignment
*Grammar Sheets
* Video
HW: Finish the Colon Sheets (Schwager)
Rogation Days: "To Ask"
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| Rogation Days: "To Ask"; in England, this was a traditional time to ask God for mercy on their lives and crops and such (Mon.-Wed.). Priests would walk the parish and pray for blessing over all within. For Mother's day, each of us chose something for mom, and we planted it. My contributions were cut flowers indoors and an eastern cultivar red bud tree for the front...she loves the red bud. |
Block Day, Week 39: Cry...
* Pray
* Note: iPad Network problems. The wifi is fine. The problem was this, you can't just turn off the wifi and then turn it back on, you have to "forget" the mustang wireless in your settings. Then join it again.
Why? Actually, it's because the wireless is so good, it gets a weak signal from that class on the other side of campus...just enough to make your life miserable. So you have to make it forget that part of the network and join that part that's closer to the room you're now in. Make sense? Go forth and conquer!
* Collect CWP
-Schwager's class; if you typed your assignment, you have until next Friday to turn it into turnitin.com on Focus. I wasn't thinking clearly when I thought we didn't need to do it (AP brain addling).
* Cry, review
* Movie time!
HW: None
* Note: iPad Network problems. The wifi is fine. The problem was this, you can't just turn off the wifi and then turn it back on, you have to "forget" the mustang wireless in your settings. Then join it again.
Why? Actually, it's because the wireless is so good, it gets a weak signal from that class on the other side of campus...just enough to make your life miserable. So you have to make it forget that part of the network and join that part that's closer to the room you're now in. Make sense? Go forth and conquer!
* Collect CWP
-Schwager's class; if you typed your assignment, you have until next Friday to turn it into turnitin.com on Focus. I wasn't thinking clearly when I thought we didn't need to do it (AP brain addling).
* Cry, review
* Movie time!
HW: None
Wednesday, 5/9: Cry...
* Pray
* Review Book III
- Ch. 30: Allusion: Kumalo sets out "on the narrow path that leads into the setting sun, into the valley" (255). See Matt. 7:13-14. Kumalo will now need to face his congregation with the conclusion of this hard matter for him. Theme: Forgiveness: the congregation welcomes him and receives him as he publicly asks God for mercy for his family members. Theme: Faith: "I believe" (261).
- Ch. 31: Theme: Native Poverty in the Country; Displacement of the tribe (chief). The children are dying. No grass means no livestock; no livestock means no milk; no milk means that the children will die.
- Ch. 32: Theme: Repentance (Absalom prepares for death); Theme: Native Poverty in the Country (church scene) (278-279); Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (milk arrives)
- Ch. 33: Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (a new church will be built; Jarvis behind these things)
- Ch. 34: Death and darkness. No mercy for Absalom. James Jarvis' wife dies. Theme: Forgiveness (the Bishop expected the congregation to ask Stephen Kumalo to leave, but they are happy to have him still as their pastor; the Bishop is surprised 297). Symbolic reference: "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, these things will I do unto you, and not forsake you" (Isaiah 40 ff).
- Ch. 35: Theme: Rebirth, resurrection: "There is a new thing happening here....There is hope here" (301).
- Ch. 36: Motif: "God put His hands on you" (Msimangu's epithet is now employed by Stephen Kumalo to describe James Jarvis' generous heart, pg. 308). Theme: Some things are God's secret, "But his mind would contain it no longer. It was not for man's knowing. He put it from his mind, for it was secret" (309). Allusion: "My son, my son, my son" (pg. 310; see II Sam. 18:33). Symbolically and allusively dense conclusion. Read the last two paragraphs of the novel: what do you find? Discuss.
* Work on your CWP
HW: Finish your CWP
* Review Book III
- Ch. 30: Allusion: Kumalo sets out "on the narrow path that leads into the setting sun, into the valley" (255). See Matt. 7:13-14. Kumalo will now need to face his congregation with the conclusion of this hard matter for him. Theme: Forgiveness: the congregation welcomes him and receives him as he publicly asks God for mercy for his family members. Theme: Faith: "I believe" (261).
- Ch. 31: Theme: Native Poverty in the Country; Displacement of the tribe (chief). The children are dying. No grass means no livestock; no livestock means no milk; no milk means that the children will die.
- Ch. 32: Theme: Repentance (Absalom prepares for death); Theme: Native Poverty in the Country (church scene) (278-279); Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (milk arrives)
- Ch. 33: Theme: Growing unity, love, and respect between black and white people (a new church will be built; Jarvis behind these things)
- Ch. 34: Death and darkness. No mercy for Absalom. James Jarvis' wife dies. Theme: Forgiveness (the Bishop expected the congregation to ask Stephen Kumalo to leave, but they are happy to have him still as their pastor; the Bishop is surprised 297). Symbolic reference: "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, these things will I do unto you, and not forsake you" (Isaiah 40 ff).
- Ch. 35: Theme: Rebirth, resurrection: "There is a new thing happening here....There is hope here" (301).
- Ch. 36: Motif: "God put His hands on you" (Msimangu's epithet is now employed by Stephen Kumalo to describe James Jarvis' generous heart, pg. 308). Theme: Some things are God's secret, "But his mind would contain it no longer. It was not for man's knowing. He put it from his mind, for it was secret" (309). Allusion: "My son, my son, my son" (pg. 310; see II Sam. 18:33). Symbolically and allusively dense conclusion. Read the last two paragraphs of the novel: what do you find? Discuss.
* Work on your CWP
HW: Finish your CWP
Block Day, Week 38: CWP
* Pray
* Grammar: The Colon.
- Read and take notes on section 35a-d
- Do ex. 35-1
* Review Cry
* CWP
* Begin video if time permits and students are far enough along on the CWP.
HW: Work on your CWP
* Grammar: The Colon.
- Read and take notes on section 35a-d
- Do ex. 35-1
* Review Cry
* CWP
* Begin video if time permits and students are far enough along on the CWP.
HW: Work on your CWP
Global Cooling? Warming? Lying?
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
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