Arthurian Legends

The Natural references two legends from the Holy Grail. One is The Legend of the Waste Land and the other is the Legend of the Fisher King. Both stories are symbolic and represent themes that we will examine in the novel. Please examine these two websites and answer the following questions.

(http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/logres.htm)
(http://ftp.ccccd.edu/andrade/britlit/eliot/waste1.html)

1. What is the quest for the Holy Grail? What were people in search of?

2. What is the Legend of the Waste Land? Explain the Vegetative Cycle.

3. What is the Legend of the Fisher King?

Rules of the Game

Many of the descriptions in "Rules of the Game" capture the flavor of life in San Francisco's Chinatown. Write a description of an area of place in your life that has a particular flavor or atmosphere. You might describe the main street of your hometown, the neighborhood in which you live, or the grounds of Eaglebrook. Include details that will give your reader a vivid picture of the setting and a sense of its atmosphere.

HW 9-21

Answer Meaning Questions for "In Another Country" and also choose 1 of the questions from the Discussion and Composition section to answer fully.

Tuesday Sept. 18, 2007

Homework- Page 27 - Meaning question #1 parts A and B. Find examples from the story, "The Quiet Man"

Homework Due: Tuesday September 18, 2007

Read Page 1 - 26 in The Short Stories Book, Introduction AND the Quiet Man.

Define the following terms: conflict, plot, tone, setting, character, theme, foreshadowing, flashbacks, symbols, methods of characterization and point of view. Make note of each of the side notes in the story, highlighting each defined term.

Underline each word in the text that you do not know. Define the term in the side of the text. You will have an open book vocabulary quiz, so if you define all of the words you don't know, you'll get an A.