Monday/ Tuesday September 30/ October 1 "My Last Duchess" argumentative paragraph
Learning Targets:
11-12W1c: I can use precise language, content-specific vocabulary and literary techniques to
express the appropriate complexity of the topic.
11-12W1d: I can use appropriate and varied transitions, as well as varied syntax, to make
critical connections, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas
and concepts.
11-12W1e: I can provide a concluding statement or section that explains the significance of
the argument presented.
11-12W1f: I can maintain a style and tone appropriate to the writing task.
vocabulary quiz: Tuesday, October 1 This Land Was Our Land class handout last Wednesday, another copy below
In class: writing paragraph on Robert Browning's My Last Duchess. NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE VOCABULARY QUIZ, THE PARAGRAPH MUST BE SHARED WITH ME BY MIDNIGHT: 2006630
After 12, this writing grade is worth only 50 points.
Those of you who receive extra time, have until Wednesday at 5pm to share your paragraph.
1. You are using the graphic organizer that we worked on in class last Friday.
2. You should have completed this organizer.
3. It must contain a minimum of six textual examples that support your argument that the Duke's behavior was motivated by his either jealousy or hubris.
4. These examples are underlined or highlighted in the left hand column.
5. In the right hand column you must explain WHY the text supports your argument for either the duke being jealous or full of hubris.
6. The graphic organizer must be completed prior to writing the paragraph.
7. Now you may begin your paragraph
8. Using your chomebooks, create a document with an MLA heading. Your title is either Jealousy in My Last Duchess OR Hubris in My Last Duchess Please note that My Last Duchess is italisized!
9. In a MIMIMUM of 150 words answer the following question, weaving in your evidence:
How does the Duke's (hubris or jealousy) in Robert Browning's My Last Duchess impact his message to the emissary, who is there to negociate a new marriage? SHARE 2006630
Note: the graphic organizer will be collected as a class participation grade
the essay is due at the close of class tomorrow, with the exception of those who receive extended time. The essay is a writing grade.
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
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How the Duke demonstrates hubris (overweening pride) or jealousy
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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!
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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.
