Tuesday 4/25/17 Agenda

Take out last night's homework assignment titled: Prufrock's Character Quotes.  

In preparation for our class discussion please answer the following questions (1-4) on the bottom of your assignment, on the back or on a separate piece of paper stapled to the original HW assignment.

Describe the typical nature of a love song to your elbow partner.  Share out ideas with the whole class. This idea can be “woven in” to our discussion today – 

Question 1=What kind of “love song” could we expect from a character such as Prufrock who seems fussy, older, upper class, careful, and punctilious?

A Brief Note About Whole-Class Discussion

The role of the teacher in class discussion is primarily to keep students focused on
the words. In discussion, students are required  to explain what element or elements within the words led them to their conclusion. Three questions are absolutely essential to ask students during discussion – and to encourage students to ask of themselves and each other.

WHY? 
(Choose one of these as Question 2)
•Why do you think so?
•Why does your line/your word/your evidence prove your point?
•Why did the author use this particular word and not another, similar word?

WHERE? 
(Choose one of these as Question 3)
•Where in the story/play/poem did you find your
information?
•Can you literally put your finger on the place in the text that proves your point?

WHAT? 
(Choose one of these as Question 4)
•What do you mean when you say "____"?
•What does this quote you chose mean? Can you
rephrase it in your own words?
•What else could the author have said here?
•What "work" is this word doing that a similar one would not do?

The goal of the teacher in a class discussion like this is not to lead the students to a predetermined
insight, but to communicate the crucial idea that although there may not be one “right answer,” there are better and worse ones – and the better ones are better because they are supported by the words of the author.

Turn in your HW from last night with the 4 questions that I added from our discussion activity today.

HW=
1. Reread the following passage and answer the following questions that are due tomorrow at the beginning of the period. Title your paper: 

Abandon All Hope

S`io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocchè giammai di questo fondo
Non tornò vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

If I thought my answer were given
to a person who would return unto the
world, this flame would cease to flicker.
But since no one has ever returned alive
from this abyss, if what I have heard is the truth, 
then without fear of dishonor I answer you.

-- Dante, The Divine Comedy, Inferno

1.  Define an epigraph in your own words.

2. Why would an author like T. S. Eliot use an epigraph written in Italian at the beginning of his poem? Explain why in your own words.

3. What Canto in Dante's Inferno is this quote from?

4. Read your LC text and be prepared to present your LC Group Analysis on May 19, 2017.