- Personal Response: What are you most looking forward to this year?
- Limetown Response: What do you think happened to Mia?
- Quotation Response (Marilyn Monroe): Connections /questions after the first 2 weeks in school.
- Personal Fulfillment
- “Seeing the Light” – Describe a situation in which you, or someone you know, was liberated from “darkness”.
- Use Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” as an allusion. Write your own version of the story from examples of “caves” in your life.
- How does “The Good Wife’s Guide” compare to the expectations of a wife’s role today?
- What is your escape(s) in life?
- Caves response: Consider the parallels to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in the film Pleasantville. Who are the first to be dragged out of the cave? Is there only one cave?
- Essay Prompt Response – What does this prompt mean to you? How does it look in real life? Real-life examples?
- Pick a word and write in any style/genre: idyllic – purity – bliss – innocence – nostalgia
- Define all words. Pick a word and write in any style/genre: reality – trust – realization – awakening – sophistication – awareness
- When have you pre-judged someone because you didn’t know them? Or, when have you been pre-judged before someone got to know you?
- Flannery O’Connor: defines epiphany as “a moment of grace.” Respond with your thoughts about this in relation to “Cathedral”
- Essential Questions: Choose the ONE you think best connects to “Cathedral” and explain how the topic is explored in the story.
- Choice of A: Response to Raymond Carver quote OR B: Response to Visual.
- “Half a Day” quote response.
- Write about a time when someone wanted you to do something you didn’t want to do. Explain how you felt before, during, and after it.
- Macbeth – choose a quotation or significant idea and respond to it.
- Macbeth – choose a quotation or significant idea (different from yesterday) and respond.
- Macbeth – choose a quotation or significant idea (different from yesterday) and respond.
- Quote response: “Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my deep and dark desires”
- Macbeth quote response.
- Macbeth quote response. What is sleep to you?
