Work for the week of Oct. 24th - Juniors

Period 2,7 – Benito Cereno

Due Monday Oct 24^th, 2011

Read the first 50 pages of Benito Cereno

Please create 20 post-its in your book on the answer's corresponding page.

Focus upon the following topics:

- Please find an example of foreshadowing through setting.

-What is off or odd about this “strange” ship at the outset of our story?

-Trace examples of discomfort.

-What is our narrator’s tone?

-How does Melville present race in this story?

-Describe the Spanish captain and his assistant.

-What has happened to the San Dominick?

-What type of narrator is presented in this story (1st?  2nd?  3rd?)

Due Tuesday Oct 25th, 2011 –

Please read page 50-75

Please create 10 post-its in your book on the answer's corresponding page.

Focus upon the following topics:

-Find examples of interactions between white and black characters

-Find examples of scenes that show color, particularly white, black, and gray

Due Wednesday Oct 26th, 2011

Finish "Benito Cereno"

Is this text pro-slavery or anti-slavery?

Due Thursday Oct 20th, 2011 –

Finish reading -Read “Race, Class and Herman Melville” PDF -  pages 54(59) – 68 (96)

How does this critical essay perceive the story of Benito Cereno?  Please focus upon the political overtones of this discussion and create 5 post-its that make reference to the passages select by the author of this essay.

Due Friday October 20th, 2011 –

Read the first 15 pages of Billy Budd

Be prepared to discuss this text in direct comparison with our previous texts.

Period 10 – Bartleby the Scrivner

Due Monday Oct 24th, 2011 –

Finish Bartleby

Please create 20 post-its in your book on the answer's corresponding page.

10 quotes that refer to Bartleby as a ghost or pallid or not human or insane

5 quotes showing how the lawyer's utter fascination with Bartleby

5 quotes showing how the lawyer treats his workers.

Due Tuesday Oct 25th, 2011 –

Read “Race, Class and Herman Melville” PDF available online -  pages 31 (36) – 50 (55)

How does this critical essay perceive the story of Bartleby?  Please focus upon the political overtones of this discussion and create 5 post-its that make reference to the passages select by the author of this essay.

Due Wednesday Oct 26th, 2011 -

Please research 3 of the following 5 pacifists.  Write a five-sentence description of each in your own words, showing how this figure was a pacifist.   Bring this in to class.  Consider the following question: Is Bartleby a pacifist?

-Thich Quang Duc

- The play Lysistrata

-Jan Rose Kasmir

-Tank Man

-Mahatma Gandhi

Due Thursday Oct 27^th, 2011

Read the first five pages of Billy Budd.  Please devise three predictions of this text based upon our knowledge of the previous two stories.  Begin to consider your essay topic, which will be assigned next week.

Due Friday Oct. 28^th, 2011

Read the first fifteen pages of Billy Budd

Be prepared to discuss this text in direct comparison with our previous texts.