1. I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.2. I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.3) I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). 4) I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings' 5) I can analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
In class: Prufrock vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, June 2, handed out Monday; another copy below.
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" and responses. Due at the close of class.
Name_______________________
Background material:
Objective: to explore the duality of
literal and metaphorical fences by analyzing Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and
write a resolution to the following paradox presented within the poem: “Something
there is that doesn’t love a wall” and “Good fences make good neighbors.”
MENDING WALL
Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn't
love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Name_______________________________
“Mending Wall” responses. Write in complete sentences, incorporating
text. (Incomplete sentences, no text? NO CREDIT) (10 points each)
- What is the setting for this poem?______________________________________________________________________________
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- Why does the wall in the poem need to be fixed?
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- Who are
the two men?
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- What do they do in the poem?
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- What remarks do they exchange?
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(50 points) In a well-written paragraph explain the paradox
of the these statements: “Something
there is that doesn’t love a wall” or “Good neighbors make good fences”? How
can both of these seemingly opposite statements be true? (minimum of 150 words.) Please use standard language conventions.
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Prufrock vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday, June 2
1. epigraph (noun)- a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
2. infamy –(noun)- the state of being known for some bad quality or deed
3. to etherize (verb)- to anesthetize a person or animal with ether (put them to sleep)
4. insidious (adjective)- treacherous, crafty
5. Michelangelo (noun)-Renaissance artist Sistine Chapel / Vatican
6. muzzle (noun and verb)- the projecting part of the face, including the nose and mouth, of an animal such as a dog or horse. To muzzle- to cover up the nose or mouth, so as the animal cannot make a noise.
7. to formulate (verb)- to create or devise methodically (a strategy or a proposal).
8. synecdoche-(noun)- a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
9. eternal footman-(noun)- death
10. Lazarus –(noun) - a brother of Mary and Martha whom Jesus raised from the dead.
11. deferential- (adjective)- respectful, humble, obsequious
12. misogynist- (noun / adjective)- a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women.
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