1. Work on the third set of AP Language multiple choice questions. (The one that begins "With Imagination in the popular sense...") This will be due on Tuesday, April 24.
2. Work on the assignment pasted below. It will be due on Monday, April 30.
Directions:
Over the next two weeks you
will read a narrative (options are listed below*) in which depictions of Gloucester
-- or parts of Gloucester
-- play a significant role.
While you read you will maintain a double-entry journal, which will be collected on Monday, April 30.
Read the directions carefully.
On the left side of your journal you will record quotations from throughout the book -- at least ten.
Select quotations in which some aspect of Gloucester -- people in or from Gloucester, places in Gloucester, the history of Gloucester, etc. -- is depicted or in which a direct statement about Gloucester is offered. Choose passages that seem significant in presenting a particular perspective on Gloucester and set of perceptions about Gloucester. (Note: If your book has sections that do not deal with Gloucester you may select up to five quotations that are not directly related to Gloucester people, places, history, etc. These quotations should still be significant in some way to the book as a whole.) Also, make sure you choose passages from the beginning, middle, and end of the book. You will write down each quotation and the page on which you found it.
On the right side of your journal you will respond to the quotation.
Make inferences. What does the depiction of Gloucester suggest? How is it significant? What does it seem to mean?
While you read you will maintain a double-entry journal, which will be collected on Monday, April 30.
Read the directions carefully.
On the left side of your journal you will record quotations from throughout the book -- at least ten.
Select quotations in which some aspect of Gloucester -- people in or from Gloucester, places in Gloucester, the history of Gloucester, etc. -- is depicted or in which a direct statement about Gloucester is offered. Choose passages that seem significant in presenting a particular perspective on Gloucester and set of perceptions about Gloucester. (Note: If your book has sections that do not deal with Gloucester you may select up to five quotations that are not directly related to Gloucester people, places, history, etc. These quotations should still be significant in some way to the book as a whole.) Also, make sure you choose passages from the beginning, middle, and end of the book. You will write down each quotation and the page on which you found it.
On the right side of your journal you will respond to the quotation.
Make inferences. What does the depiction of Gloucester suggest? How is it significant? What does it seem to mean?
Respond to how the way the
book is written contributes to its meaning, especially its depiction of Gloucester. Think about
narrative voice, characterization, imagery, selection of detail, conflict,
theme, etc. Think about the connection between the quotation and the book as a
whole.
Respond personally. Do you agree or disagree with the depiction? Are you skeptical? Are you surprised? Do you have a personal or family connection to the way Gloucester is depicted in the quotation? (Show me that you are reading with your head and your heart.)
To help generate responses remember the essential questions:
How do writers depict Gloucester? How are the differing depictions significant? What's at stake in differing projections of the polis? (How is Gloucester used by the writer? What does the writer suggest about Gloucester? Does Gloucester seem to represent something -- an ideal, an alternative, a warning, a trap, a set of values -- in the book? Does Gloucester’s identity seem static (staying the same) or fluid (always changing)?
* Some Gloucester-Related Narratives
All of these works can be found at Sawyer Free Library. Many can be found in the GHS library.
All of these works can be found at Sawyer Free Library. Many can be found in the GHS library.
FICTION
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
Out
of Gloucester by James B. Connolly
The
Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant (three copies in the GHS library)
Broken Trip
by Peter Anastas
Decline of Fishes by Peter Anastas (two copies in the library)
Prologos, Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide,
or Gloucestermas by Jonathan Bayliss
The Siege of Salt Cove by Anthony Weller (in library)
NONFICTION
The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger (four copies in the library)
Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New
England Ghost Town by Elyssa East
The
Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky (seven copies in the library)
The
Finest Kind: the Fishermen of Gloucester by Kim Bartlett (copies in the
library)
Cape
Ann, Cape America by Herbert Kenny (copies in the library)
Hammers
on Stone (quarrying) and A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara
Erkkila
Voices
(an ethnographic study of Fiesta
in the 1970s) by Richard M. Swiderski
When Gloucester
Was Gloucester (a series of oral histories about Gloucester in the mid
and
early twentieth century) edited by Peter Anastas and Peter Parsons
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw (copies in the library)
Gone Boy
by Gregory Gibson (one copy in the library)
At the Cut by Peter
Anastas
The
Lone Voyager (about Howard Blackburn) by Joseph Garland (twenty-four
copies in
the
library)
The
Fish and the Falcon (about Gloucester's
involvement in the War (formerly called
Guns
Off Gloucester) by Joseph Garland
(two copies in the library)
History
of Gloucester by John Babson
(copies in the library)
Pringle
(copies in the library)
DRAMA
New
England Blue: 6 Plays of Working-Class Life by Israel Horowitz (in GHS
library)
There are other books in
which depictions of Gloucester
plays a significant role. If you’d like to read something not on this list ask
me or send me an email. I’ll let you know if the book is appropriate for the
assignment.
Postscript
Here a couple collections
of poetry you could read to fulfill the assignment’s expectations.
POETRY
The Maximus Poems by
Charles Olson (in GHS library)
Know Fish by Vincent Ferrini (in GHS
library)
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