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TERM JOURNAL ENTRIES
English 10 Honors
ENTRY 4.1: MARCH 28 (A) & MARCH 29 (B)
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“Out, Out” by Robert Frost
Poetry Analysis
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of
wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and
rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside them in her apron
To tell them 'Supper'. At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap—
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
Journal Handout: “Out, Out” by Robert Frost
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.
As he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all-Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart-He saw all spoiled. 'Don't let him cut my hand off
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!'
So. But the hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then -- the watcher at his pulse took fright.
No one believed. They listened at his heart.
Little -- less -- nothing! -- and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
1. What is the plot of the poem?
2. The poem begins with personification (giving human qualities to
non human entities). What is the personification at the beginning
of the poem?
3. Cite two additional examples from the poem and explain
what is being personified.
4. What does the poet mean by the phrase “No more to build on
there”?
5. Describe, in your own words, the boy’s reaction to the accident.
6. Define the word “ether”.
7. What does the family do now that the boy is dead?
8. The title of the poem is an allusion to a speech made by
Macbeth:
“Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5
• Paraphrase Macbeth’s speech. What is talking about? Be
specific.
• It is no coincidence that Frost alludes to Macbeth’s speech in his
poem. What connections can you make between Macbeth’s
words and the situation in the poem? Refer to both texts and pull
examples to support your references.
ENTRY 4.2: MARCH 30 (A) & MARCH 31 (B)
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Macbeth Soliloquy Rhetorical Analysis
Journal Handout: Macbeth Soliloquies
Using the notes on the Rhetorical Triangle analyze a soliloquy of your choice from Macbeth. Be sure to focus on the
following questions as you analyze the soliloquy:
1. What is the exigence? (purpose, need to share)
2. Who is the speaker?
3. How does the speaker affect his or her message? (pathos)
4.
5.
6.
7.
Who is the audience?
What are his/her current beliefs?
What is the subject of the text?
How is the character delivering the message?
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Use the handout or the website No Fear Shakespeare http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/ to read the original text and the translation.
Act 1 Scene 5 Page 2-3
Act 1 Scene 7 Act 2
Scene 1 Page 2-3
Act 5 Scene 5 Page 2
ENTRY 4.3: APRIL 10 (A) & APRIL 11 (B)
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Journal Handout: Background Articles
1. Read the four background articles on The Count of
Monte Cristo (novel, author, setting, Napoleon)
2. Take notes on what you read.
2. You will take a short quiz on the reading in your journal
(you can use your notes)
ENTRY 4.3: APRIL 10 (A) & APRIL 11 (B)
BACKGROUND QUIZ
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
YOU MAY USE YOUR NOTES.
What was the relationship like between Alexandre
Dumas and his father?
How did he feel about Napoleon Bonaparte?
a. What is serialization and b. how does it relate to the
novel The Count of Monte Cristo?
How does Napoleon Bonaparte become a major
character in the novel?
What was Alexandre Dumas often accused of in his
writing?
ENTRY 4.4: APRIL 12 (A) & APRIL 13 (B)
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Write: WordWright Challenge
ENTRY 4.5: APRIL 12/13, 2017
A WRITER HAS REWRITTEN POP SONGS INTO SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS. SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT THE SONG TITLE!
1. ___
A.
“All-Star” Smash Mouth
2. ___
B.
“Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen
3. ___
C.
“Hello” Adele
4. ___
D.
“I Love It” Icona Pop, Charli XCX
5. ___
E.
“I’ll Be There for You” (Friends Theme Song)
6. ___
F.
“Party in the USA” Miley Cyrus
7. ___
G. “Single Ladies” Beyonce
8. ___
H.
“Teenage Dream” Katy Perry
• Couplet: Two rhyming lines
9. ___
I.
“Viva La Vida” Coldplay
10. ___
J.
“We are Never Ever Getting Back
Together” Taylor Swift
• Rhyming Pattern: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
11. ___
K.
“We Are the Champions” Queen
12. ___
L.
“What do you Mean?” Justin Bieber
Handout: Pop Song Sonnets
Sonnet Poetic Form
Shakespearean Sonnet
• 14 lines in iambic pentameter, 10
syllables per line
• Three quatrains: a quatrain is a stanza
of 4 lines
Rembrandts
ENTRY 4.5: APRIL 12/13, 2017
A WRITER HAS REWRITTEN POP SONGS INTO SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS. SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT THE SONG TITLE!
1. B
A.
“All-Star” Smash Mouth
2. F
B.
“Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen
3. G
C.
“Hello” Adele
4. D
D.
“I Love It” Icona Pop, Charli XCX
5. J
E.
“I’ll Be There for You” (Friends Theme Song)
6. E
F.
“Party in the USA” Miley Cyrus
7. I
G. “Single Ladies” Beyonce
8. K
H.
“Teenage Dream” Katy Perry
• Couplet: Two rhyming lines
9. C
I.
“Viva La Vida” Coldplay
10. A
J.
“We are Never Ever Getting Back
Together” Taylor Swift
• Rhyming Pattern: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
11. H
K.
“We Are the Champions” Queen
12. L
L.
“What do you Mean?” Justin Bieber
Sonnet Poetic Form
Shakespearean Sonnet
• 14 lines in iambic pentameter, 10
syllables per line
• Three quatrains: a quatrain is a stanza
of 4 lines
Rembrandts
ENTRY 4.6: APRIL 28/MAY 1
The Count of Monte Cristo
Quiz #3 Discussion Questions ch 22-28 (Pages 162-221)
Group 6 Chapter 25:
Group 1 Chapter 22:
Group 7 What did MC do to the horses before he returned them to
Explain why Maximilien tries to do a good deed each year on
September 5.
Group 2 Chapter 23:
What is the significance of the painting of Mercedes? What did the
Count of Morcerf dislike about the painting? (175) Explain Mercedes
reaction when she is “introduced” to the Count of Monte Cristo.
Group 3 Chapter 24:
What happened in Bertuccio’s tale on June 3, 1829? (190)
Group 4 Explain the connection of Bertuccio and Caderousse, and
Explain the reason for Baron Danglars’ visit to MC.
Madame Danglars? (two things-possibly)
Group 8 Chapter 26
Villefort visits Monte Cristo and is slighted many times. Explain why the
Count has so much power. Where did he get it? (213) [Providence is
God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny.]
Group 9 Chapter 27:
At the end of ch 26, MC says “Now that my heart is full of poison, let’s
go seek the antidote. What is the antidote for his poison? How did he
acquire said “antidote?”
Bertuccio and Villefort.
Group 10 Chapter 28:
Group 5 Explain how Bertuccio received employment with the Count of
What unfamiliar emotion does MC experience in the garden of the
Herbauts? (218) What does Julie recognize in MC?
Monte Cristo. (196) Benedetto means “blessed.” Why does Assunta feel
her life is blessed by this baby?
ENTRY 4.7: MAY 2/MAY 3
Write 5 Questions for The Count of Monte Cristo.
Discuss your questions and answers with a partner in your group.
Choose multiple questions to
answer—pick questions you don’t
know the answer to!
ENTRY 4.8: MAY 4/MAY 5
Chap. 29
1. Whom does MC meet at the
Villeforts?
2. What subject do MC and Mme. De
Villefort discuss?
3. What is the outcome of their
discussion?
Cavalcanti?
4. Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti has a
letter of introduction signed by whom?
5. Are the two really related?
Chap. 32
1. Where does this chapter take
place?
2. Who is secretly waiting for whom?
3. Why is the meeting delayed?
4. How does Valentine let Maximilien
know why she is delayed?
5. What do the two girls talk about?
6. What would Eugenie really like to
do?
7. Why does Mme. De Villefort want
Valentine to enter a convent instead of
getting married?
Chap. 30
1. Who calls on MC?
2. Who objects to the forthcoming
marriage of Albert and Eugenie
Danglars?
3. Why is Albert going to marry her?
4. Why do MC and Albert plan that
the Morcerfs will be out of town for
the dinner party MC is
planning?
5. Whom does MC say he is expecting
a visit from the next day?
Chap. 33
1. Who is Nortier’s servant who has
Chap. 31
been with him for more than 25 years?
1. Who sends Cavalcanti to MC?
2. What is Nortier’s physical condition?
2. What is the cause of Cavalcanti’s
3. How does he communicate?
unhappiness?
4. With whom can he communicate?
3. What surprise does MC have for
5. Who is Nortier’s favorite?
6. Why is Nortier agitated when M.
and Mme. De Villefort tell him that
Valentine is to marry
Franz?
7. What does Valentine ask of her
grandfather?
8. Why does Nortier send for a
notary?
Chap. 34
1. Why does MC stop at the
Villeforts’?
2. How does Villefort react when he
learns the address of MC’s house in
Auteuil?
3. How does Danglars lose 500,000
francs?
4. Did Don Carlos really escape and
return to Spain?
5. How much did Danglars lose?
6. Who is responsible for the false
story?
SLIDE 1 OF 2 ENTRY 4.9: MAY
Chap. 35
1. What did MC have done to his
house in Auteuil?
2. Who are MC’s dinner guests?
3. What does Andrea hope to find in
Paris?
4. Whom does Bertuccio recognize?
5. How does MC make Villefort and
Mme. Danglars uncomfortable?
Chap. 36
1. Who surprises Andrea?
2. How does Caderousse blackmail
Andrea?
Chap. 37
1. How does M. Danglars react to
Lucien Debray this evening?
2. How much does Danglars know
about his wife’s activities?
3. Why is he angry this evening?
Chap. 38
8/MAY 9
1. What impression does MC give to
Danglars about Cavalcanti?
2. How does the Count de Morcerf
enter into the conversation?
3. How does Danglars react to this
information?
Chap. 39
1. What does Villefort tell Mme.
Danglars when she visits him the next
morning?
2. What does Villefort propose to do?
Chap. 40
1. What does MC tell Albert when the
latter visits him?
Chap. 41
1. What does M. Villefort do after his
wife and daughter go to the ball?
2. Who comes to see him and why?
3. What is Mme. De Saint-Meran’s
wish?
CHOOSE 3 TO ANSWER
4. What does Maximilien propose?
5. What will Maximilien do if she
marries Franz?
6. Does Valentine change her mind?
7. When Valentine does not appear
for their rendezvous, what does
Maximilien do?
8. Whom does he overhear talking in
the garden and about what?
9. What does Maximilien do?
10. What is the only way Maximilien
can get out of the house?
11. What do Valentine and Maximilien
tell Noirtier?
12. After Valentine leaves, what does
Noirtier tell Maximilien?
SLIDE 2 OF 2 ENTRY 4.9: MAY 8/MAY 9
Chap. 42
1. What does M. de Villefort propose
to Franz immediately after the burial?
2. What news does the notary bring?
3. Why does Noirtier ask to see
Franz?
4. Whom does Noirtier reveal as the
man who killed Franz’s father?
Chap. 43
1. What is Franz’s reaction to Noirtier’s
confession?
2. How does Noirtier change his will
again?
3. What is the purpose of the visit of
the Count de Morcerf to Baron
Danglars?
4. What is Danglars decision?
Chap. 44
1. Why does Noirtier send for
Maximilien?
2. What happens to Barrois suddenly?
3. Who does the doctor think killed the
three victims?
Chap. 45
1. Who has left a letter for Andrea
instructing him to come to see him the
next morning?
2. What does Caderousse want?
3. What is Caderousses’s plan?
4. What else does Caderousse get
from Andrea?
Chap. 46
1. How does MC learn of the
impending robbery?
2. What does MC do instead of going
to the police?
3 Does MC really think someone wants
to rob him?
4. How does MC disguise himself after
he recognizes Caderousse?
CHOOSE 3 TO ANSWER
5. Who liberated Caderousse from
prison?
6. Who does Caderousse think
Benedetto is?
7. What does Caderousse do when
Abbe Busoni tells him he is going to
turn Caderousse and
Benedetto in to the police?
8. What does Abbe Busoni demand of
Caderousse?
9. What happens to Caderousse after
Abbe Busoni lets him leave?
10. Who comes to his aid?
11. What does Caderousse do before
he dies?
12. What does Abbe Busoni reveal to
him just before he dies which causes
him to repent?
ENTRY 4.10: MAY 10/MAY 11
Choose one of the following BIG PICTURE questions and respond in ½ a page:
1. The idea of metamorphosis or change is one that reoccurs throughout “The Count of
Monte Cristo.” How do the actions of Dantes cause changes for the characters of
Benedetto and Noirtier? Do these characters change for the better or worse in the
novel? Why?
2. Many readers find the use of honesty in novel to be problematic. When he
becomes the Count, Dantes uses varying levels of honesty with several characters.
Review the events surrounding Dantes’ encounters with Danglars, Mercédês,
Benedetto, and Caderousse. Is Dantes honest with any of these characters? Should
he be honest with them? Why or why not?
3. Fidelity, or being faithful to those you love, becomes the center of several events
in “The Count of Monte Cristo.” Compare or contrast the actions of the Count and
Villefort; do they view fidelity in the same way? How do their actions toward
characters like Maximilien support or contradict this view of fidelity?
ENTRY 4.11: MAY 12/MAY 15
Respond to the following BIG PICTURE question in ½ a page:
One aspect of “The Count of Monte Cristo” that is often criticized
by readers is the amount of coincidences that occur in the novel.
Others state that the coincidences that bring Dantes into his
imprisonment and other events are a result of providence or fate.
Is the Count subject to fate or does he make his own? How do the
exchanges between the Count, Villefort, and Danglars prove or
disprove this idea of providence affecting the lives of the
characters?
ENTRY 4.12: MAY 12/MAY 15
The Count is a master of manipulation. Although he does not force
his enemies to commit crimes, he helps to reveal these crimes.
Basically he opens the closet doors to reveal all of the skeletons.
For Caderousse, Danglars, Villefort, and Fernand draw two doors.
In the left door, list the “skeletons” or crimes that each character
commits. In the right door, explain how the Count opens this door
or sets up each character for his fall.
Turn in your journal!
ENTRY 4.13: MAY 18/MAY 19
Directions: Below is a list of characteristics of a comic book story. For each characteristic, determine whether
the Count of the novel has any similarities. If it does, explain how the Count is similar. If it does not, explain
how the count is different:
1. The society is threatened by a powerful menace and only the hero can stop the threat.
2. The story beings in medias res (in the midst of things—for example, Medea)
3. The motive for the villain’s attack is hidden.
4. The hero is not usually personally involved with the villain.
5. The superhero begins an investigation of the villain, but not necessarily his motives.
6. The confrontation between villain and hero is primarily physical.
7. The superhero’s victory is achieved through mental not physical superiority.
8. The final phase of the plot is the restoration of order; society returns to normal.
9. The hero is someone with who the reader can easily identify.
10. The superhero is human with a secret identity