If you’ve gotten this far, you’re on the right track!  Just select the Class of 2010: Welcome to AP English Lit Page and follow the path from there!

Your team must design a webquest for Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  Each webquest must follow the design pattern found on http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ and must have three processes:  1) Literary, 2) Historical, and 3)Your Choice.  Vary the evaluations (products) so that not all of them require writing.  Have fun!  Be creative!  Make your quest attractive and interesting. 

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .”

                                            –from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Introduction

While Jane Eyre was published in 1847, the author Charlotte Bronte introduced readers to an endearing young heroine who embodies all of the stages of the hero’s journey that are typically more closely associated with male protagonists rather than female.  In spite of her lonely and isolated childhood at both Gateshead Hall and Lowood School, Jane Eyre becomes a young woman who is assertive, intelligent, and kind, and who in the end saves a brooding gentleman from the despair of his own arrogance and sorrow.

The Task

As you proceed through the following webquest, you will become familiar with some of the important elements often associated with a study of the novel, Jane Eyre.  Read carefully through the steps included in the process of this quest, but essentially I have gathered material for you to peruse in the following areas of Victorian England and of the setting associated with Charlotte Bronte.

• The Victorian Age
• Bronte Country
• The Byronic Hero

The Process

Navigate through each of the following sites to paint a clearer image of the life and literature of Victorian England.

Step One– From the following website, choose an article from each of the following categories:

• Social Issues
• Political Issues
• Religion
• Science
• Gender Matters

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/bronteov.html

Assignment:  After gathering ideas and information from the site, write and answer two questions per article for each of the three levels of questioning.

Step Two– Part A.  Listen to the radio broadcast (about 7 minutes) discussing a travelers imaginings as she tours Bronte Country. 

http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/features/1999/19990109/literary-heaven.shtml

 Step Two–Part B.  Browse through the information provided on Wikipedia about Yorkshire.  Read, in particular, the sections focused on culture, landscape, and cuisine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire

 Assignment:  Pretend you have from breakfast through suppertime to enjoy the area of Yorkshire, her history, her food, and her countryside.  Create a brochure or flyer entitled  “Walking Tour: A Day in Bronte Country” that describes how you might spend your day. 

Step Three–Read the article on the website below.  http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/CHARACTE.htm

Assignment:  Take notes in bullet form regarding the specific characteristics of the Byronic Hero. 

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.                       

–Henry David Thoreau

Join your classmates as we continue to build and strengthen our vocabularies.  Let’s work together to be better prepared for the vocabulary quizzes and tests.

Choose the PoeticLicense  link in the sidebar for more information.

Excavations at Sutton Hoo

What did archaeologists find buried at Sutton Hoo?

Online Tour of Sutton Hoo

Welcome to 2nd Quarter English 12 with LBWeygandt!  Creating and maintaining  a student blog will be a major part of your work this quarter.  Your blog site will be a place for you to host  book club meetings, and to design and add to your writing portfolio.  I am looking forward to helping you design and develop this site.

Beginning 2nd Quarter each student will be participating in a small group Lit Study reflecting the current national interest in Book Clubs like Oprah’s. I will host the first Book club over Beowulf, inviting students to join me for virtual hors d’oevres and guiding them in an online discussion about the epic saga. After each class has partipated in the Book Club I have modeled, the students will break up into small groups to host our second Book Club meeting on the novel Neverwhere, a novel by Neil Gaimen. The small groups will practice the process of inviting, hosting, developing discussion questions, etc. that have been modeled in the Beowulf Book Club. After this series of meetings have been held, I will allow students to develop Book Clubs based on shared reading interests.

Don’t forget to sign-up for GoodReads! We’ll be posting our book reviews on this site, so you need to get familiar with how it works. You might check out this short video to get some additional info about what it’s for and how the sight designer envisions readers using it. Plus, he looks to be well under thirty and on his way to his first or second million.

Audrey has figured out the wierd science of posting on Bluestocking–not commenting, but posting!  Brava!!!!!