Project Samples

Here's a few samples that you can look at for tomorrow's hero project:

Lindsay Lohan

Watchmen

Sample Sentences Unit 4

Vocabulary Unit 4 Sample Sentences

1.        My mom just surmised that I ate the cookies out of the cookie jar without seeing me take it.  (Natashia Cooper)

2.       The marauding of the bear stopped when he found food.  (Sam Corso)

3.       Oedipus defiled his own mother and it’s disgusting.  (Cameron Garcia)

4.       For an artist, their hearth is the studio; whether it’s long hours recording, painting or dancing, it feels like a second home.  (Cece Holeschak)

5.       Although the bus took the brunt of the impact, there were still passengers who were injured severely in the accident.  (Alex Ho)

6.       You could tell they lived a life of piety when they prayed each night before dinner.  (Melissa Zou)

7.       His complexion was swarthy, almost the same shade as his dark hair.  (Etimbuk Ukpe)

8.       The police are struggling to contain the onslaught of riots and protesting going on in Ferguson.  (Brooke Szarzynski)

9.       In the Hunger Games, Katniss sang a dirge to Rue as she is slowly dying.  (Kaitlyn Scardino)

10.   The sanctimonious attitude of some celebrities is not attractive to the public audience.  (Jessica Bixha)

**Study for the quiz tomorrow!

Vocabulary Words: Oedipus

1. kindred
2. dirge
3. gouge
4. blasphemy
5. onslaught
6. brunt
7. hearth
8. defile
9. marauding
10. sanctimonious
11. surmise
12. swarthy
13.  begot
14. vagabond

Email me your essays here:

Please email me your essays: Times New Roman, Double-spaced, 12-point font by Saturday at 11:59PM.

Email an attachment(and put in the body of email)to: emailmrsrock@gmail.com

Thanks, and have a fabulous Turkey Day: )

Oh Oedipus, You So Tragic!

Your assignment: Find a parallel tragic hero in modern history, literature, movies, television,etc.

Complete a full, written sketch of your modern tragic hero. Follow Aristotle's definition. You will have a chart(which we will get on Monday) that very nicely illustrates these qualities. Use the chart!!!

Yeah, you can probably Google this. You can find millions of professor-given examples online. But c'mon, this isn't so hard. Utilize your interests to get this done. Me, I love celebrity gossip, so I'm likely to pick some sad starlet. Or Steve Jobs. Maybe.

Is anyone off-limits? Of course. Actual tragic heroes, from literature? Off-limits. And what constitutes modern, you may ask? For me, it should be a figure that existed or was created anywhere from 1900 to the present. That's a pretty big window.

This can't be emailed to me because I'd like it to be pretty. I'd like a picture of your hero, surrounded by their Aristotlian, (is that a word?) tragic qualities. You should be as specific as possible. If every hero needs a flaw, for example, you should name that flaw. Maybe even give an example of it in action. If I was doing Steve Jobs(ahem...this another no-no for you guys), then I may say his flaw was his ego. That ego was deadly, in fact, because it led to him believing he could cure his cancer without modern medicine, which, in turn, killed him. Tragic stuff.

Here's my pathetic example...here

I only completed one of the six characteristics, but I hope you get the point. Contact me at any point before the due date(January 2nd!) if you have a question.

Rock out.

Some Essay Resources

Tomorrow, your rough draft is due.

On the side, I have posted citationmachine.net and the handy-dandy powerpoint-ish thing you saw today.

Here is a sample MLA paper, complete with works cited:

MLA Paper

Tomorrow, we will peer edit and talk conclusions and MLA format.

Research Day 2, Question 6

Follow these links to some very popular sites and stories.  Tell me if they're credible or not, and explain why.

1. Kanye

2. Facebook

3. Vick

4. Dogs

5. Ebola

6. Speak 1

7. Speak 2