Friday,, September 27 Writing: pride in "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

Coming up: vocabulary This Land Was Our Land; quiz on Tuesday, October 1 (handout 9/24..another copy below)
In class: Review of yesterday's grammar assigment. 
My Last Duchess organizer on text to support a thematic developmentment. (class handout/ copy below) Make sure you have completed the six items required on the organizer, in order to write your paragraph on Monday. The organizer will be collected on Monday, whilst the paragraph will be shared on line.

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Name__________________________-Irregular Verbs - Exercise  Thursday, September 25

Directions: Open up a word document and create an MLA heading with the title Grammar Practice 1.

REWRITE each sentence, correcting the form of the verb in parenthesis. You may add auxiliary verbs.  This is due at the close of class.  Share 2006630   Graded class assignment.

1.     Yesterday Joan (feel) quite ill.  (felt)

2. Have you (make) any money from your business yet?  (made)

3. After he finished the plumbing job, Bob (leave) his tools at the site. (left)

4. The house was (build) near a lake.  (built)

5. Jack studied for twelve years and finally (become) a doctor. (became)

6. The witness (swear) that she had not seen the burglar. (swore)

7. We (eat) lunch at the restaurant and then went home. (ate)

8. After climbing for hours, the hiker (fall) into the ravine. (fell)

9. Two expensive pieces of jewelry were (steal) from the store. (stolen)

10. Will they be (give) away free sample? (giving)

 Directions: Choose the correct pronoun for each sentence below. Read the entire sentence before making your choice.

11. Five of (we  us  ourselves ) took a cab to the play.  (us)

12. Are you and (they  them  themselves ) attending the meeting. (they)

13. No one is more concerned about the matter than (she  her  herself ) . (she)

14. (Who  Whom ) can I go out with tonight? (Whom)

15. Margaret and (I  me  myself ) hope to be roommates.  (I)

16. The committee told Smith and (they  them  themselves ) to write a new resolution.

17. Is he the one for (who  whom ) the note is intended.  (whom)

18. We discovered that it was (they  them  themselves ) who started the fire. (they)

19. Everyone asked Joan and (he  him  himself ) to speak at the convention. (him)

20. A person as young as (she  her  herself ) should not be given too much responsibility. (she)

  What happens when one has too much pride?

 One becomes arrogant; that is

1. having or revealing an exaggerated sense 
2. of one's own importance or abilities.

   
   

   
   

   
   

    SYNONYMS: 
3.                     haughty
4.                     conceited
5.                     hubristic
6.                     self-important
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What is hubris? Hubris is the excessive pride that leads to one's downfall. In the Bible, that is what Satan did to end up in Hell.

What exactly was Satan's crime?

The idea of hubris is much older and comes from Greek mythology.  It is a tragic flaw within a character that causes his or her downfall. 

What happened to King Oedipus? How was he guilty of hubris, and how did it lead to his downfall?
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NAME_______________________________My Last Duchess by Robert Browning   

Direction:  In the left-hand column you have the text for My Last Duchess. On the right hand side you have a place for your notes.  1) First decide whether you want to find evidence that proves the Duke is guilty of either hubris (overweening pride) or jealousy. 2) As you read through the poem, underline the text in the left hand column that supports your choice. This may be individual words or short phrases. In the right hand column, explain why this supports either the Duke’s hubris or his jealousy. You must have 6 textual examples to support your claim/ thesis statement.  You will employ this information in you short essay. This organizer will be graded.

*Remember that hubris is overweening pride. Both hubris and jealousy may be expressed through power and control. 

Text

How the Duke demonstrates hubris (overweening pride) or jealousy

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,    Looking as if she were alive.  I call    That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands    Worked busily a day, and there she stands.    Will't please you sit and look at her? I said 5    "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read    Strangers like you that pictured countenance,    The depth and passion of its earnest glance,    But to myself they turned (since none puts by    the curtain I have drawn for you, but I)    10                       And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,    How such a glance came there; so, not the first    Are you to turn and ask thus.  Sir, 'twas not    Her husband's presence only, called that spot    Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps 15    Fra Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps    Over my lady's wrist too much," or "Paint    Must never hope to reproduce the faint    Half-flush that dies along her throat"; such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough20                    For calling up that spot of joy. She had    A heart—how shall I say—too soon made glad,    Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er    She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.    Sir, 'twas all one! My favour at her breast, 25    The dropping of the daylight in the West,    The bough of cherries some officious fool    Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule    She rode with round the terrace—all and each    Would draw from her alike the approving speech,                                                      30    Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked    Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked    My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name    With anybody's gift.  Who'd stoop to blame    This sort of trifling?  Even had you skill   35    In speech (which I have not) to make your will    Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this    Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,    Or there exceed the mark"—and if she let    Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set    40                       Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,    E'en that would be some stooping; and I choose    Never to stoop.  Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,    Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without    Much the same smile?  This grew; I gave commands;                                                  45    Then all smiles stopped together.  There she stands    As if alive.  Will't please you rise?  We'll meet    The company below, then.  I repeat,    The Count your master's known munificence    Is ample warrant that no just pretence        50                   Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;    Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed    At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go    Together down, sir.  Notice Neptune, though,    Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,   55    Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Vocabulary This Land Was Our Land      quiz on Tuesday, October 1

1.     monotonous (adjective)- dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

2.    subsidiary  (noun)- less important than but related or supplementary to something.

             "many    environmentalists argue that the cause of animal rights is subsidiary to that of               protecting the environment"

3.     coercive (adjective) relating to using force or threats

4.     antebellum (adjective) occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.

5.       to intimidate (verb)- to frighten or overawe someone to get them to do something

6.     crucible (noun)- a situation of severe trial, or in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new.

"their relationship was forged in the crucible of war"

7.       extortion (noun)- the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

                                     taking advantage of

8.       exploitation (noun)- taking advantage of someone to benefit from their work

9.       to perplex (verb)-to cause someone to feel completely confused

10.   acquisition (noun)- the learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality OR acquiring something in a museum.