Yeats is one of my all-time favorite poets, and his poems discuss a range of different topics from Greek myth to Irish history to fairy lore to his feelings about the world. Which poem did you like the most, and why? Which one didn’t make sense to you? How does the form of the poems […]
How did your research and first draft writing go? What went well, and what do you think you want to change for your final draft? Brainstorm revisions and talk about the research process in the comments.
Watch the video and look at the slides on Blackboard about the 20thcentury. Use the comments here to discuss what you know about the 20thcentury and the works that were written during this time. What did you learn from the powerpoint, and how does it line up with things you know or have learned before?
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a drama and a satire of Victorian society. Post here about the funniest lines from the play, the parts you liked or found confusing, or anything you may know about Oscar Wilde. (Did you recognize the pun in the title? Why is he talking about “earnestness” in […]
“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide” was such an interesting story by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the more fictional story of a personality disorder. Of course when an individual has a personality disorder they don’t morph into a different person. However, the science involved in this story is what made it […]
This was a very different reading then I am used to, but I did enjoy it quite a lot. I love mysteries and scary stories. In a way this reading everyone can relate to. Everyone has an good and evil side to them. Dr. Jekyll is the good side of his alter ego and Mr.Hyde […]
Since we started on the Jekyll & Hyde story this week, I find it how timely it is considering that just a few weeks ago now during my time at Texas UIL competition for Theatre production/performance, I watched another school put on the play of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Prior to the play and […]
As I was reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I couldn’t help but notice that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are portrayed as polar opposites. I know this was intentional because if they weren’t polar opposites there would be no story. In the text, Dr. Jekyll is depicted as a kind, […]
“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ” was published in 1886, and written by Robert Louis Stevenson. In just the beginning of the story it begins to get quite dark. The mood is set to be gloomy and that very well suits the story when you compare how Stevenson came up with […]
I enjoy any story that involves murder and mystery. At the beginning, both Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield dismiss the allegations of something bad happening in the neighborhood, but after seeing a change in Dr. Jekyll’s will they start to have doubts. They later discover more secrets and put the pieces together until they find […]
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