Agenda 5/13-5/17

Class	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
English IV 1st Period	Assign “Snake” and “I called the Devil and He Came.”	“Snake” and “I called the Devil and He Came” due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.	Work time for “The False Gems.”	“The False Gems” due.
8th English 2nd Period	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 7.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 7 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 8.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 8 due.
8th English 3rd Period	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 7.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 7 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 8.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 8 due.
English II 4th Period	Quotation Marks To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 17&19 and Juror Assignment due.	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 20-22 and Vocabulary 17-23.	Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.	Quotation Marks To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 20-22 due.	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 23-25 and Vocabulary 17-23.
English III 5th Period	Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.	Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 and Compare/Contrast Essay	Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.	Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 due.	Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 6 and Compare/Contrast Essay
English III 7th Period	To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 17-19 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 due.		To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 20-22 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 6 due.		Independent Reading. Reading log 16 due.

 

I Called the Devil and He Came Text

I Called the Devil and He Came
by Heinrich Heine
I called the devil and he came;
And then I saw, with a wondering gaze,
He was not hideous, he was not lame,
But a genial man with charming ways.
A man in the very flush of his prime;
Experienced, suave, and in touch with his time.
As a diplomat, his talent is great,
And he speaks wisely of Church and the State,
True, he is pale; but it's little wonder,
For Sanskrit and Hegel he's staggering under.
His favorite poet is still Fouque;
As critic he finds that the work is a bother,
So Hecate now, his beloved grandmother,
Has taken the task and enjoys it, they say.
My legal studies called forth his laudation;
He too, in his youth, found them quaint recreation.
He said that my friendship could never be
Too dear for him, and bowed to me,
And asked had we not met some place -
Perhaps the ambassador's? And with that sentence
I looked more closely at his face,
And recognized an old acquaintance.

Snake Text

 Snake

BY D. H. LAWRENCE

A snake came to my water-trough

On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,

To drink there.

 

In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob tree

I came down the steps with my pitcher

And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough

            before me.

 

He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom

And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over

            the edge of the stone trough

And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,

And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,

He sipped with his straight mouth,

Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,

Silently.

 

Someone was before me at my water-trough,

And I, like a second-comer, waiting.

 

He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,

And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,

And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused

             a moment,

And stooped and drank a little more,

Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels

            of the earth

On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.

 

The voice of my education said to me

He must be killed,

For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold

            are venomous.

 

And voices in me said, If you were a man

You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.

 

But must I confess how I liked him,

How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink

            at my water-trough

And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,

Into the burning bowels of this earth?

 

Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him?

Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him?

Was it humility, to feel so honoured?

I felt so honoured.

 

And yet those voices:

If you were not afraid, you would kill him!

 

And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,

But even so, honoured still more

That he should seek my hospitality

From out the dark door of the secret earth.

 

He drank enough

And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken,

And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,

Seeming to lick his lips,

And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,

And slowly turned his head,

And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream,

Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round

And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.

 

And as he put his head into that dreadful hole,

And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders,

            and entered farther,

A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into

            that horrid black hole,

Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly drawing

            himself after,

Overcame me now his back was turned.

 

I looked round, I put down my pitcher,

I picked up a clumsy log

And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.

 

I think it did not hit him,

But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed

            in an undignified haste,

Writhed like lightning, and was gone

Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,

At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.

 

And immediately I regretted it.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!

I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.

 

And I thought of the albatross,

And I wished he would come back, my snake.

 

For he seemed to me again like a king,

Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,

Now due to be crowned again.

 

And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords

Of life.

And I have something to expiate:

A pettiness.

A Rose for Emily Text

 RoseforEmily.pdf (wcjc.edu)

Love and Bread Text

 Married, by August Strindberg (gutenberg.org)

The False Gems Text

 Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (montclair.edu)

Agenda 5/6-5/10

Class	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
English IV 1st Period	Work time for “The Bamboo Trick” and Historical Biography	“The Bamboo Trick” due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Fate and Freewill Half Test	Historical Biography due.
8th English 2nd Period	Quotation Marks Quiz Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 WebQuest due	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 5 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 6.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 6 due.
8th English 3rd Period	Quotation Marks Quiz Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 5 WebQuest due	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 5 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Capitalization Work time for The Outsiders Chapter 6.	Capitalization The Outsiders Chapter 6 due.
English II 4th Period	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 15&16 and Vocabulary 12-16.	Quotation Marks To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 15&16 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Quotation Marks Vocabulary 12-16 due. Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 17&19 and Juror Assignment.	Quotation Marks Work time for To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 17&19 and Juror Assignment.
English III 5th Period	Process Analysis due	Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 due.	Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.	Introduce Compare/Contrast Essay Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 4	Work time for Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 and Compare/Contrast Essay
English III 7th Period	To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15&16 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.		To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15&16 due. Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 due.		Independent Reading. Reading log 15 due.