English 12 2008 Final Project
Over the last four weeks of school you will independently read Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and complete a final paper for the class. The paper will count as the final grade for the fourth quarter and a final exam grade worth a full marking period.
Essay Question:
What is [...]
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Read Chapter 10 for tomorrow, and in a paragraph describe Siddhartha’s problem with his son using the comment feature below.
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In Chapter 8, Siddhartha says to himself, “Things are going downhill with you!” What are the possible meanings of this statement. Is he talking only of himself? Please use the comment feature to complete this homework.
Also, please read Chapter 9, The Ferryman.
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In the blog a buddhist perspective, the blogger makes the following distinction between detachment and non-attachment:
Question: I was talking to a friend and she told me “she tried” Buddhism but the following was her reason for not pursuing it further: “I don’t think that it is a good thing to detach from the body and [...]
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Since I will be out over the next three days, and many of you will be with me, I am assigning Chapters Seven and Eight for Monday.
Today’s Question (please answer in one paragraph via the comment feature):
The opening sentence of Chapter Seven is, “For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world [...]
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Please read the first 3.5 pages of Chapter 6 for tomorrow. Don’t forget to have your essays on Walt Whitman’s poem and Chapter 4 for tomorrow.
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For tomorrow, please finish reading Chapter 5. Chapter 4 notes from the class discussion can be found in the PDF format here. Remember that you have an essay due Friday.
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Please read the first three pages of Chapter 5 for tomorrow.
Today we will review Chapter Four, The Awakening, and read and discuss Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. For Friday, please prepare a one to two page essay which compares Chapter 4 with the poem. Some questions to ponder:
Do Whitman and Hesse share common goals?
How does [...]
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Please read Chapter 4 The Awakening for tomorrow and submit a two paragraph summary of the chapter using the comment feature below of type it and submit in class tomorrow.
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Please read pages 4-6 in Chapter 2 for tomorrow. We finished with the question asked about the Siddhartha line in Little Buddha about “learning involves change.”
