1.  Let It Be Forgotten -

2.  What do you want to be forgotten?  Think about why.

 Fun TS questions.

1. A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sydney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar. What would you do?

2. A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?

3. If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

4. What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

5. Which side of a cat contains the most hair?

6. The 60th and 62nd British Prime Ministers of the UK had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How do you account for this?

7. How many birthdays does a typical woman have? Why can't a man living in Canterbury be buried west of the River Stour?

8. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

9. If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what colour are the driver's eyes? 
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11. A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

11. A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and falls. He is not wearing a safety harness and nothing slows his fall, yet he suffered no injuries. Explain.

12. The Zorganian Republic has some very strange customs. Couples only wish to have female children as only females can inherit the family's wealth, so if they have a male child they keep having more children until they have a girl. If they have a girl, they stop having children. What is the ratio of girls to boys in Zorgania?

13. John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

14. You are running in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

15. In the same race, if you overtake the last person, then you are in what position?

16. Using just ONE straight cut, how can you cut a rectangular cake into two equal parts when a rectangular piece has already been removed from it?

17. A man and his son were in a car crash. The father was killed and the son was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The examining doctor exclaims: "But, this is my son!".
    How can this be?

18. You have to choose between three rooms.
    The first is full of raging fires
    The second is full of tigers that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
    The third is full of assassins with loaded machine guns.
    Which room should you choose?
19. Name three consecutive days in English without using the words Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday

21. What's unusual about this paragraph? Just how quickly you can find out what is so funny about it. It looks fairly ordinary and plain that you might think nothing is wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly curious though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you could just find out. 
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      A businessman had just turned off the lights in the store when a man appeared and demanded money. The owner opened a cash register. The contents of the cash register were scooped up and the man sped away. A member of the police force was notified promptly.
    
               
    T  F  ?  1.                  A man appeared after the owner had turned off his store lights.
    T  F  ?  2.                  The robber was a man.
    T  F  ?  3.                  The man who appeared did not demand money.
    T  F  ?  4.                  The man who opened the cash register was the owner.
    T  F  ?  5.                  The store-owner scooped up the contents of the cash register and ran away.
    T  F  ?  6.                  Someone opened a cash register.
    T  F  ?  7.                  After the man, who demanded the money, scooped up the contents of the cash register, he ran away.
    T  F  ?  8.                  While the cash register contained money, the story does not state how much.
    T  F  ?  9.                  The robber demanded money of the owner.
    T  F  ?  10.              The robber opened the cash register.
    T  F  ?  11.              After the store lights were turned off a man appeared.
    T  F  ?  12.              The robber did not take the money with him.
    T  F  ?  13.              The robber did not demand money of the owner.
    T  F  ?  14.              The owner opened a cash register.
    T  F  ?  15.              The age of the store-owner was not revealed in the story.
    T  F  ?  16.              Taking the contents of the cash register with him, the man ran out of the store.
    T  F  ?  17.              The story concerns a series of events in which only three persons are referred to: the owner of the store, a man who demanded money. and a member of the police force.
    T  F  ?  18.              The following events were included in the story: someone demanded money. a cash register was opened, its contents were scooped up, and a man dashed out of the store.

Thinking Skills, Cont.

1.  List of Proverbs, quick.

2.  Pick one.

3.  Explain why it means what it means.

4.  Going over the last poem.

4.5.  List of thinking skills.

5.  A new poem to think about and start to discuss in class, for HW.

New Poem-

'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'

By Gerard Manley Hopkins
 

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,

More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief

Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing —

Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-

ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'

    O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap

May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small

Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,

Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all

Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. 

What's the theme and why?

Thinking Skills/Reading Skills

1.  For our Journal-,

Pair with a partner, read the poem, then annotate the poem, then explain what the theme of the poem is using evidence from the poem to make your case.

2.  Annotation and Reading.

2.5.  Practice poem?

Fame is a bee. (1788)

By Emily Dickinson

Fame is a bee.

It has a song—

It has a sting—

Ah, too, it has a wing.

3.  Thinking Skills List-  Define for HW

4.  Poem Work-  A new poem, annotated, plus what we did in the journal for HW.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)

By Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

Welcome-

1.  Welcome and basic intro stuff including a brief discussion/overview/syllabus.

2.  Diagnostic-  See Below.

3. Outside Reading Assignments-

You'll read 3 books this semester from the following list.  If you don't see any you like, suggest one and we'll discuss it.  I'm telling you now so you can get started.  Books are available most anywhere, except for the college book store.  Use Amazon or Bookman's.

We'll have craft essays/theme essays about these book and we'll discuss them more later.

Cherry Orchard    Tartuffe   Uncle Tom's Cabin   Illiad   Iliad: Poem of Force

  

Real Women Have Curves   Zoot Suit    1984

Memoirs of a Geisha   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Invisible Man   Pride and Prejudice   Slaughter House 5    To Kill A Mockingbird

In Cold Blood   Huck Finn    Moby Dick   Geography 3   Life Studies   Ariel

Crying of Lot 49   All The King's Men    Red Badge of Courage

Catcher in the Rye   Of Mice and Men      Great Gatsby       Old Man and the Sea

Things Fall Apart    Lord of the Flies    Catch 22        Things They Carried

Lolita        Bless me Ultima          The Sun also Rises

The Bell Jar  100 Years of Solitude    20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Ceremony        Lamara Villa             The Alchemist

Life of Pi          The Kite Runner         A Wild Sheep Chase      1000 Splendid Suns

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas            On The Road     Howl

Captain Corelli's Mandolin          The Stranger         Monkey

Also, feel free to suggest a book you are interested in and we'll discuss it.

Diagnostic Writing:

 Please read the following poem and interpret it.  This means you'll discuss the theme and tell us why you believe the poem means what it means.

Design

Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963

 

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

In this poem, Frost seems to be challenging conventional belief. 

In at least three paragraphs, explain what questions Frost asks and answers and how that leads 

readers to an understanding of the theme of the poem. 

Provide textual evidence to support your answer. Turn it in when you're done!