DRAMA: Read Scene 10 and 11 pg 2353-2363 for Tuesday

Drama/Speech: REMINDER Scene 6-8 (pg. 2335-2348 due Tuesday)

Vocabulary Unit 2: #1-10 due Tuesday, August 27th. #11-20 due Thursday, August 29th.

#1-10
accost
animadversion
avid
brackish
celerity
devious
gambit
halcyon
histrionic
incendiary

#11-20
maelstrom
myopic
overt
pejorative
propriety
sacrilege
summarily
suppliant
talisman
undulate

Journal 4: Candide by Voltaire

Read Chapter 26-30 pages 236-246. In a 1/2 page journal answer ONE of the TWO following prompts. Additionally, find two sentences with appropriate pronoun use/agreement and write the 2 sentences at the END of your journal.  Underline the subject and the pronoun.  

Prompt 1:

At the end of the novel, Martin says, “Let us set to work and stop proving things, for that is the only way of rendering life bearable” (p. 246), echoing the Turkish farmer who says, “our work keeps at bay the three great evils: boredom, vice, and necessity” (p. 245). Do you think Voltaire is endorsing this view? Why would doing physical work be preferable to the life of a philosopher?  Provide 2 quotes from the story to support your answer. 

OR

Prompt 2:

Near the end of the book, while Pangloss was “being hanged, and dissected, and beaten, and made to row in a galley,” he still holds firm to his original views that this is the best of all possible worlds. “I am a philosopher after all. It would not do for me to recant” (p. 242). What are the dangers in holding beliefs that are impermeable to reality, that do not alter according to actual experience? Provide 2 quotes from the story to support your answer. 

DRAMA: Read Scene 5 of A Streetcar Named Desire

Candide by Voltaire

Read Chapter 23-25 pages 229-236.

No journal :) Short quiz on Wednesday.

Journal 3: Candide by Voltaire

Read Chapter 19-22 pages 216-229.  Use at least 3 quotes to support your answer.

HW: .  Martin tells Candide that Paris is “a chaos, a throng in which everyone pursues pleasure and almost no one finds it”. In what ways is this statement also true of nearly all the people we encounter in the novel? To what degree is it true of human beings generally? What are the consequences of this pursuit of pleasure? Martin believes that man is equally miserable wherever he lives and that even in cities which are free from the ravages of war, “men are more devoured by envy, cares and anxiety than all the tribulations visited upon a citadel under siege. Private griefs are crueler even than public miseries” (p. 56). Is Martin’s view more accurate than Pangloss’s, or does it simply represent the other extreme? Would you agree that “private griefs are crueler even than public miseries”?

DRAMA/SPEECH : Read Scene 2, 3, and 4 of A Streetcar Named Desire

Quiz on Tuesday!

Read Candide Chapter 14-18, pages 205-216 for Friday, August 16th

Quiz on Friday.

Journal 2: Candide by Voltaire

INCLUDE AT LEAST 3 QUOTES IN YOUR JOURNAL!
Read until page 205 (the end of Chapter 13).

Choose one of the following:

How does Voltaire use satire to critique or subtly harass political, religious, and social authority? 

OR

The old woman tells Candide: “Imagine my situation, the daughter of a pope, only fifteen years old, who in the space of three months had been exposed to poverty and slavery, had been raped almost daily, had seen her mother torn to pieces, had endured war and famine, and was now dying of the plague in Algiers”. What does this passage, and others like it, suggest about the reality of women’s lives during the Age of Reason? Elaborate upon the Age of Reason.  Does Voltaire seem content that ALL is governed by the notion of reason?

1 page due Wednesday. 

DRAMA/SPEECH : Read Scene 1 of A Streetcar Named Desire

Underline/highlight three quotes by Stanley and three quotes by Blanche that reveal their character.

Journal 1: Candide by Voltaire

INCLUDE AT LEAST 3 QUOTES IN YOUR JOURNAL!

Read until page 196 (the end of Chapter 7).

How does Voltaire use satire to critique or subtly harass political, religious, and social authority? 

1 page due Monday. 

Vocabulary Format

Aberration (noun):  synonym: deviation
                                antonym: conformity
                          definition:(1) a defect of focus such as a blurred image
                                          (2) a deviation from what is normal
sentence: The scientist looked at the aberration in the laboratory's test results after conducting the experiment.




List the word.  (Part of Speech):  Synonym:
                                                   Antonym:
                                                   Definition: (1) (2)
Sentence:

Vocabulary Unit 1 #1-10 Due Thursday, August 8th. #11-20 Due Tuesday, August 13th.

# 1-10 Acquisitive arrogate banal belabor carping coherent congeal

emulate encomium eschew

# 11-20 germane insatiable Intransigent  invidious largesse reconnaissance substantiate taciturn temporize    tenable