Monday, June 1 power point "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Learning standards:
 I can develop the topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic. (writing)

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.

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.

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).

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.

I can analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

I can analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

ex·is·ten·tial·ism:  a chiefly 20th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad

Existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes the isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent world in regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.

On Tuesday, 8th period English will be held in room 236, Mr. Wilson's room.

"Prufrock" vocabulary quiz tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2    (class handout last Tuesday...see blog, if you lost your copy.)

In class: Today is our second read through of T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock," which will be through a power point, so that you will have strong visuals. Consider the following devices that are associated with modernism. As we read through the poem again, add to your notes from yesterday.

1. implied, rather than overtly stated themes.

2. fragments (think of a puzzle with pieces missing; consider the world after World War I).

3. omitting of expositions (background information about events, settings, characters that help the reader make sense of the novel, short story or, in this case, the poem).

4. omitting transitions (think of a dream, where anything and everything may be juxtaposed without any seeming logic- stream of consciousness. This should be familiar from "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."

5. omitting a resolution (so how does the story play out? who knows? You figure it out for yourself.

6. lack of explanations ( why did this happen? Again, you figure it out; draw your own conclusions.)

7. sense of uncertainty, paralysis and ANGST.

In class: power point of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."