MIDTERM GRADES English 15 (4:30-6:00)

MIDTERM GRADES English 15 (10:30-12:00)

MIDTERM GRADES English 17 (7:30-9:00)

Extra Credit Project

For your extra credit project, you need to make a review of a Philippine or foreign movie that has garnered critical acclaim or recognition from a film body.

Enlgish 15 and 17 Students

You are no longer allowed to enter the CAS office, so please leave your CDs with the CAS secretary. Also, do not forget to inform me through text or email that the secretary has received your project.

Final Exam Coverage

English 17 Class 7:30-9:00

Please study the following:

• Notes on Western Drama
• Notes on Asian Drama
• Your assigned play.

English 15 Classes 10:30-12:00 and 4:30-6:00

Please study Notes on What is Philippine Drama? and your assigned play.

Exam Coverage for My English 15 Class 3:00-4:30

Literature and Society

1. In a point of fact he is really a decadent aesthete who stubbornly confuses literature with painting and refuses to place words in the employ of man and civilization.
2. Daily exposed to the headlines of the newspapers, his Olympian superiority or indifference yields slowly to persistent hammering of the facts of his own experience and of contemporary history. 
3. He is no longer a florist, scissors in hand gathering lovely blossom; he has become a tiller of the soil, spade in hand, digging into the roots of things and planting seeds.
4. Having traveled the weary road from the Ivory Tower to jail, he had learned that the only true basis of lasting beauty in literature is—power.
5. For a sensitive spirit is easily prone to cynicism and misanthropy unless it is reinforced by the steel of undeviating principle.
6. This universal fear of insecurity, chaos, and war . . . This fear has driven them into fashioning a comfortable philosophy of escape through repulsive realities of the contemporary scene.
7. The highest form of art is that which springs from the wells of man’s deepest urges and longings—his love of his own kind and his longing to be free.
8. For deliberate isolation from the rest of the world and complete indifference to the fortunes of mankind on the part of the artists can only mean one thing: that he is incapable of profound thought and deep feeling and is therefore, to that extent, incapable also of great art.
9. But the development of man’s emotional, intellectual and spiritual qualities is impossible save his heart, mind and soul are enriched by fruitful contact with others.
10. Propaganda is written with the definite object of influencing people to believe or to do something.

English 17 Play Download Links

The Proposal
The Post Office
The Bear

English 17 Exam

Your exam has two parts. The first requires you to identify the writer, title, rhetorical figure, and imagery of lines lifted from the poems we have tackled in class. The second requires you to scan (scansion) and analyze a poem.

No new set of notes will be posted.

English 15 Exam Coverage

You will have a written exam on Philippine Poetry on Thursday, February 16, 2011. The exam will have two parts: identification, and poem analysis.

Please study Notes on Philippine Poetry.

For Team Goku

Ars Poetica    
by Archibald MacLeish

Assignment: English 17 (7:30-9:00)

Instructions: Prepare an oral report of your assigned poem. Your report should include the following:

1. A powerpoint presentation
2. A brief introduction of the poet, please limit it to five sentences
3. An analysis of the poem which includes the discussion of the rhetorical figures and imagery
4. Point out any interesting characteristics in the poem that may contribute to the reader's experience 

Optional:

• Discuss the dominant meter and rhyming scheme, if possible
• Prepare handouts for your classmates

*The reports will be included in your next exam.

Assignment: English 17 (7:30-9:00)

Scan and identify the rhyming schemes of the following excerpts. You will present your work on Tuesday, January 24, 2011. In your report, you need to give a backgrounder on the poet and the poem. The group must also need to present a visual aid of the scanned excerpt. Please make sure that your visual aid’s text is large enough to be read by everyone in the classroom.

Enlgish 11: Notes DL

Please download the notes for the last two topics.

Notes on Reported Speech

Notes on Conjunctions

English Plus Classes (11:00-2:00, 2:00-5:00)

Your second group activity will be available tomorrow.

Sorry, guys . . . it seems I won't have the time to upload the second group activity. So just answer the questions that are on page 157. Again, this is a group activity.

Please use short bond paper, and you can have a handwritten output or a printout. And before I forget, prepare to share your answers on Saturday.

English 11 Midterm Grades

English 11 midterm grades are not yet available.

GRADES

*Sorry for the delay. I am having some issues with my department that needed my attention.

*If your ID number is not in the list that means you were not listed in ARIS. Please contact your department, and leave a message for me regarding on what I need to do.

*If you do not have a grade that means you got a failing mark. Please leave your contact details (email ad) as soon as possible.

Monday Exam Coverage

Click on the following links:

The Art Museum

Artists Against Commercialism

The Sand mandala

Centre Georges Pompidou

Extra-Credit Project

The deadline of submission will be on the second of April. However, the matrix for the point deduction has been changed. To be fair of course...

*the new values are one picture=1, music=5 (3-5 minute recording), and videos=10 (for every 15 minutes of video).

*100 media= .1 deduction from your final grade, 200 media=.2 deduction from final grade, 300 media=.3 deduction....so on and so forth...

*dance, opera, or live musical performance can be included.

*for more information...

Good News for the Graduating Students

THE DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION Of EXTRA-CREDIT PROJECTS HAS BEEN MOVED TO MONDAY!