Honors 10-08-2013

Ah...The Fairy Tale Allegory Analysis is coming in tomorrow.  Hope you looked at that rubric on yesterday's post to be sure you have what you need to succeed.  Once that is in, we can start thinking about the Animal-Farm-Ripped-From-The-Headlines-Allegory-Assignment.  Shane Hullinger has already turned his in.  I asked him to make a couple tweaks.  If I have it tomorrow, I'll show you his strong example in class.

We'll tidy up our T-charts tomorrow in class.  I also want to spend some time with your one and ones. What are you thinking?  What are you getting out of the text?  What questions do you have?  there are some pretty dramatic events that take place in chapter 7.  Lots to talk about and analyze there.

Be thinking about this idea:

Make a claim about power and then use the text to support it.

I have a poem called "The Stalin Epigram" we will look at soon. Actually, take a peak at it here.  What do you think?  Try to picture Napoleon as you read it.

The Stalin Epigram

by Osip Mandelstam
translated by W. S. Merwin 

Our lives no longer feel ground under them.
At ten paces you can’t hear our words.

But whenever there’s a snatch of talk
it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer,

the ten thick worms his fingers,
his words like measures of weight,

the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip,
the glitter of his boot-rims.

Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses
he toys with the tributes of half-men.

One whistles, another meows, a third snivels.
He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom.

He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes,
One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.

He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.
He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.

Lots more as well.  I'll keep you in suspense.

See you soon.