Tuesday, 12/3/13: Midsummer, etc.

* Open
  • Thou canst compell no more then she entreat
    Thy threats have no more strenght then her week prayers.
    Helen I love thee by my life I do
    I sware by that which I will lose for thee
    To prove him false that says I love thee not.


* Rubric: Bottom to the Top
  • Essay Scoring (go to the College Board if you need more information)
    • Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
      Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present. 

      Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

      Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

      Example #1

      My oppion on this topic are oposing memories and favoring them. People do succed with repeating their memories. They might have horrible memories but also succeed because they don't repeat the past. I also think memories should not rule the present. If you let the past overcome the preset you won't get any where. This is why memories should be guidelines, not rules. If you repeat the past it won't come out as well as it did because the world has changed. See the past will never change with the world, but the world will change to overcome the past. So in conclusion don't forget the past or live in it, and the past is only guidelines.

      Example #2

      I think it is wrong to believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, that they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. Everything you did and saw in the past helps you to move on. Every single happy moment, every mistake you make is getting a part of you. Your actions become habits which creates your personality and helps you to make your own experience. Therefore memories help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present. Everything we do has to do with our experiences in the past, the way we get along with people or treat them, the way we turn out to be an adult. If you don't live with making your own decisions, mistakes, and your experience with people and the world or school you won't have any examples to compare or to handle any coming situations in the future. If you get everything told you by someone, you will always wait for other people to make decisions for you and won't have your own point of view. For succeed you have to know what you want, to find that out, you have to have been through some difficult situations in the PAST.
       
  • Takes notes on the following: Which is the 2? Why is it better than the 1?
* Midsummer
  • Video
  • Guide
  • Reading (Act III)
* Continue reading working on your Midsummer guide

HW:
  • Schwager's classes: Acts I--II in Midsummer (10 questions per act); outside reading

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