Focus: Synthesizing larger ideas about Wuthering Heights
Please take a laptop today.
1. Group warm-up: Read and react to Charlotte's original Preface to Wuthering Heights
2. Individually: Think through Wuthering Heights as you continue with your Big Question Blog post.
Two reminders:
a. Please include specific moments and quotations from the novel in your discussion.
b. Remember that your entry does not need to be a thesis-driven, five paragraph essay (unless that's what you prefer). Feel free to wander a bit, ask questions, and engage your own, unique voice and style.
3. Final Socratic Seminar: Chapter XXX through the ending of Wuthering Heights. Bring your completed Venn diagrams.
4. If time allows, read and leave comments on each other's posts. They are all linked to the right side of our class blog.
HW:
1. Finish your blog entry if you did not do so in class.
2. If you have a school copy of WH, please bring it to class tomorrow to turn in.
3. Start reading your independent reading book if you have not done so.
4. Bring the handout on tone words that I gave out a couple of weeks ago; you will be able to use it on tomorrow's timed writing.
NOTE: The essay on your independent reading book is due October 16, which means that you'll want to finish reading your book by about October 7, which means that you have about two weeks to read.
Is Nelly a good servant?
ReplyDeleteShes never totally loyal or totally disloyal.
“Joseph of the Grange”
Seems nice and sweet on the outside but darker on the inside
Because shes narrator our view of her is misleading
Manipulative
Betrays trust, but her intentions are always good
Significance of details of Heathcliff’s death
Happy because he is reunited with Catherine's ghost, explains the smile, connects to the first ghost story
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Symbolism of being buried next to Catherine
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Since Catherine loved both Edgar and Heathcliff it is fitting
Did Cathy really love Edgar, or was it just lust?
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She like the reputation he had because it made her better
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Truly in love with Heathcliff but convinces herself she loves Edgar
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Makes more sense because of the times
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More negative effects from marrying Heathcliff
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Could still keep Heathcliff close, manipulating Linton
Did Heathcliff’s openness towards Catherine hurt himself?
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Started seeking out conflict with gambling after he returned
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Being desperate for Catherine made him vulnerable
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The two characters fed off each other and each decision is made with the other in mind
What is Brontes main theme?
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Be careful with infatuation with people
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More idealistic
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Bronte didn’t have love life
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Where did her inspiration come from?
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Raw creativity
Battle between good and evil
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When Heathcliff was yelling at young Catherine
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When Heathcliff became most beastly
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Young Cathy reminds him he is human
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Good wins
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Death and dark makes way for life and renewal
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Everyone is happy at end of the book
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Neutral Ending
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There is compromise
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Heathcliff dies and everyone moves on
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Darkness wins
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Because Heathcliff and Catherine are together in the end
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Smirk when Heathcliff dies, he got what he wanted
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Heathcliff brings out the dark in everyone even though they wanted to follow the light inside them
Wrapup ?’s
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Take Away from book
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people are not what they seem
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People don’t know what they want
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Good wins in the end
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Hope exists even in presence of evil
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Importance of perspective (Heathcliff’s effect on characters)
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Nurturing is what forms a person
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Good will always trump evil
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We create our own evil
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People aren’t totally evil or purely good
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There is a deeper level to everything
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Wanting heart doesn’t listen to reason
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Don't know what you have until it is gones
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Equal potential to be good or bad
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Selfish evil vs. Selfish Love
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More to evil and life than meets the eye
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People can start good but can easily become evil
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Follow your heart and not your head