Active Reading

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Formal Writing

Name _______________________________________ Mod _____

What is Mainland’s honor code, and what does it mean to me?

Mainland’s Honor Code appears here: http://www.mainlandregional.net/school%20information/honor%20code.html

You also have a copy of the Honor Code in your student handbook.

Specifically, you should consider:

The Honor Code of Mainland Regional High School addresses cheating, plagiarizing, lying, stealing, vandalism, and forgery.

Cheating encompasses, but is not limited to, the following: Willful giving or receiving of an unauthorized, unfair, dishonest, or unscrupulous advantage in school work over other students.

Attempted Cheating includes:  unauthorized use of study aids, notes, books, data, or other information

An example of Plagiarizing includes: Having a parent or another person/student write an essay or do a project, which is then submitted as one’s own work

Unless explicitly stated, assume that all of these are individual assignments, meaning that the work that you hand in should be your own, original work.

Step 1: Getting Started

Go to www.turnitin.com.

You will see this at the top of the page.

Click on "Create a user profile" by the log in icon.

Step 2: Creating your profile

Create a user profile (step 1): Select "student"

Create a user profile (step 2): Class ID# (see below)

Write your class ID here: ________________________________________

Password: english (case sensitive)

Create a user profile (step 2): enter your email address

Create a user profile (step 4): choose a password

Create a user profile (step 5): Enter your name, US, and New Jersey

Create a user profile (step 6): agree

Step 3: Logging in

To login, enter your email address and password. Click submit to open your student homepage.

Step 4

Your class now appears on your homepage. Click on the name of the class to "enter" your class and access your class portfolio.

Step 5

You have now opened your class portfolio. Your portfolio shows the assignments your instructor has created. To submit a paper to an assignment, click the submit button next to an assignment.

Step 6

The paper submission page will open. Enter a title for your paper. To select a paper for submission, click on the "browse" button and locate the paper on your computer. Papers can be submitted in MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, HTML, and plain text formats. Once you have completed the form, click on the "submit" button.

If you do not have one of these programs, go to

1)"File" 2)"Save as" 3) "Rich Text Format"

Step 7

On the following page, look over all the information to double-check that it is correct. If everything is okay, click the "yes, submit" button.

	Step 8
After you confirm your submission, a digital receipt will be shown. This receipt will also be sent to you by email. To return to your portfolio and view your submission, click the portfolio button.

"Rice and Rose Bowl Blues"
by Diane Mei Lin Mark

I remember the day
Mama called me in from
the football game with brothers
and neighbor boys
in our front yard

said it was time
I learned to
wash rice for dinner

glancing out the window
I watched a pass interception
setting the other team up
on our 20

Pour some water
into the pot,
she said pleasantly,
turning on the tap

Rub the rice
between your hands,
pour out the clouds,
fill it again
(I secretly traced
an end run through
the grains in
between pourings)

with the rice
settled into a simmer
I started out the door
but was called back

the next day
Roland from across the street
sneeringly said he heard
I couldn't play football
anymore

I laughed loudly,
asking him
where
he'd heard
such a thing

Literary Term Review: Theme

Theme is the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. A theme may be stated or, more often, implied.

Theme differs from the subject (or topic) of a literary work. The subject is the topic on which an author has chosen to write. The theme, however, makes some statement about or expresses some opinion on that topic. For example, the subject of a story might be war while the theme of the story might be that war is futile.

Look at the following poem for further explanation of theme.

“About Crows” by John Ciardi

The old crow is getting slow.

The young crow is not.

Of what the young crow does not know,

The old crow knows a lot.

At knowing things the old crow

Is still the young crow's master.

What does the slow old crow not know?

How to go faster.

The young crow flies above, below,

And rings around the slow old crow.

What does the fast young crow not know?

Where to go.

BAD STATEMENT OF THEME: Youth vs. Experience

RATIONALE: This is the subject of the poem not the theme. To ascertain theme, ask, “What is the speaker trying to say about youth and experience? “

BAD STATEMENT OF THEME: Although the young crow can fly much faster than the old crow, the young crow does not know in which direction to go.

RATIONALE: This is just a literal summary (plot) of the poem.

BAD STATEMENT OF THEME: Don’t expend too much energy without having a destination in mind.

RATIONALE: This presents a moral: it tells the reader how to act. It is not the theme because the poem does not tell the reader how to behave or act.

GOOD STATEMENT OF THEME: Youthful enthusiasm is often a poor substitute for the wisdom of experience.

“Girls Can We Educate We Dads?”

Paraphrase: what is being said in each stanza?

James Berry

Listn the male chauvinist in mi dad -

a girl walkin night street mus be bad.

He dohn sey, the world’s a free place

for a girl to keep her unmolested space.

Instead he sey - a girl is a girl.

He sey a girl walkin swingin hips about

call boys to look and shout.

He dohn sey, if a girl have style

she wahn to sey, look

I okay from top to foot.

Instead he sey - a girl is a girl.

Listn the male chauvinist in mi dad -

a girl too laughy-laughy look too glad-glad

jus like a girl too looky-looky roun

will get a pretty satan at her side.

He dohn sey - a girl full of go

dohn wahn stifle talent comin on show.

Instead he sey - a girl is a girl.

• What is the theme of this poem?

• What would be a reason for Berry to write this poem in vernacular? What dialect do you think he is trying to express?

• How does the use of vernacular help to reinforce the theme?

• How would the poem change if there were a shift in point of view (the father speaking)?

“old age sticks” 



 
  
  
   
    
    
    Rewrite the poem using standard grammar and sentence structure. 
    
    
   
  
   
 


 e. e. cummings
 
 old age sticks
 up Keep
 Off
 signs)&
 
 youth yanks them
 down(old
 age
 cries No
 
 
 Tres)&(pas)
 youth laughs
 (sing
 old age
 
 scolds Forbid
 den Stop
 Must
 n't Don't
 
 
 &)youth goes
 right on
 gr
 owing old

1. Why might he separate words like gr-owing and forbid-den and tres-pas-sing?

2. Why does he stop the title (and first line) after "sticks" rather than after "signs"?

3. What is ironic about the last line/stanza?

4. What is the theme of this poem?

“I Think I Should Have Loved You”
by : Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently,
And given in earnest words I flung in jest;
And lifted honest eyes for you to see,
And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;
And all my pretty follies flung aside
That won you to me, and beneath your gaze,
Naked of reticence and shorn of pride,
Spread like a chart my little wicked ways.
I, that had been to you, had you remained,
But one more waking from a recurrent dream,
Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained,
And walk your memory's halls, austere, supreme,
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew
Who would have loved you in a day or two.

“Delight in Disorder”

by: Robert Herrick

A sweet disorder in the dress

Kindles in clothes a wantonness[1];

A lawn[2] about the shoulders thrown

Into a fine distraction;

An erring lace, which here and there

Enthrals the crimson stomacher[3];

A cuff neglectful, and thereby

Ribbands to flow confusedly;

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat;

A careless shoe-string, in whose tie

I see a wild civility:

Do more bewitch me, than when art

Is too precise in every part.

“Meet Virginia”

by: Train

She doesn't own a dress, hair is always a mess
You catch her stealin', she won't confess,
she's beautiful.
Smokes a pack a day
Wait, that's me, but anyway,
She doesn't care a thing about that, hey,
She thinks I'm beautiful
Meet Virginia.

Chorus:
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
I don't really wanna be the Queen

Her daddy wrestles alligators,
Mama works on carburetors
Her brother is a fine mediator for the President
Well here she is again on the phone
Just like me hates to be alone
We just like to sit at home, and rip on the President
Meet Virginia.

Repeat Chorus

She only drinks coffee at Midnight, when the moment is not right,
her timing is quite unusual
you see her confidence is tragic, but her intuition magic
and the shape of her body – unusual
Meet Virginia I can't wait to
Meet Virginia, yea

Both Robert Herrick’s poem “Delight in Disorder” and Train’s song “Meet Virginia” deal with the same theme.

· State the theme, citing lines from both the poem and the song. Explain how they support that interpretation of theme.

• Why might such a theme have withstood the test of time?

• Topic Sentence: Robert Herrick’s poem “Delight in Disorder” and Train’s song “Meet Virginia” demonstrate that universal themes withstand the test of time.

• State Theme: Both the song and the poem express the idea that people are attracted to the imperfections in others.

• Herrick writes, “……………………..”

• <explain how “Q” expresses theme>

• In “Meet Virginia,” it says, “……………….”

• <explain how “Q” proves theme>

• Transition: Clearly then, both writers address the same theme even though the poem and the song were written hundreds of years apart.

• This theme has withstood the test of time because………..

· <explain / example >

· Closing Sentence

Use this outline to help you write your paragraph!
“Amoretti LXXV”

Edmund Spenser

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Both Edmund Spenser’s poem “Amoretti LXXV” and Shakespeare’s “Sonnet XVIII” serve the same purpose: to eternalize a woman through their poetry.

· What comparison do both make through the beginning of their sonnets in order to make this effort at immortalizing seem impressive? Be sure to cite lines from each sonnet as support.

· If you were the subject of these poems, would you be impressed? Explain.

Topic Sentence: Both Edmund Spenser’s poem “Amoretti LXXV” and Shakespeare’s “Sonnet XVIII” attempt to eternalize a woman through their poetry.

First Question: Both poems compare the women to things in nature, which do not last.

Quote: Spenser writes, “_________________________________________________________________

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<explain “Q” >: This quote _______________________________________________________________

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