Kate Tierney’s Language Arts Classes

In Macbeth, it is the suggestion of the promise of power that plants the possibility of betrayal, murder and paranoia in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s minds. After their crimes have been committed, Macbeth’s soul becomes corrupt, or he goes insane, or he is haunted by conscience (depending upon your interpretation), and following his corruption is that of Lady Macbeth.

 Write an essay in which you reflect on the themes of corruption and redemption; include the power of suggestability in terms of self-definition and so-called “points of no return.”

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Due Dates:

Topic and rationale: Friday, March 21

Rough draft: Tuesday, April 1

Final draft: Friday, April 4

Download and print the next essay prompt here: descriptive-essay-prompt.doc

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I’m not sure if this will work, but I’m going to try to upload the audio for Macbeth, Act One. If this does work, then you can expect to see more of this kind of support. If not, you can expect to see more failed attempts like this one.02-macbeth-act-1.mp3

If you right-click the link and choose “save as,” the download is faster. The track is almost 30 minutes long.

-Ms. Tierney

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14-20-summaries.doc

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Sophomore Project Night will be held on January 30, 2008 from 4:00 -5:30 in the cafeteria. Sophomores will show off their career boards and talk about their projects. There will be food, and attendance (for sophomores) is required.

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9-13-reading-guide.doc

Edited: This link should work for the Bks. 9-13 reading guide for “The Odyssey.” If  you have any problems downloading and/or printing, please e-mail me at

 tierney_k@4j.lane.edu

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English 9:

 Print the reading guide for Bks. 5-8 of The Odyssey here:5-8-reading-guide.doc

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English 9: Print your packet.

people-and-places-tracking-packet.doc

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English 9:

We’re reading Romeo & Juliet, and it is my hope to finish reading the play aloud in class. I assigned a project: r-j-project-options.doc

The project will be due next Friday.

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Finally, we have a full week of full classes.

English 9: You’ll take the final test over Night this week, and we’ll watch Life is Beautiful. This movie is rated PG-13 for Holocaust-related themes. If you are a parent, and you would like an alternate assignment for your child, please print the anti-permission slip linked to this page stating that you do not want your child to see this film and have your child turn this in to me. There will be an alternate assignment.

The writing focus this week is the Imaginative Narrative, which will be due at the beginning of next week. We only have two more weeks (including this one) of the term.

English 10:

You have final presentations of your projects for A Separate Peace on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday, you’ll have a test over parts of the sentence (subjects, predicates and complements) and sentence style (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex). The test is open-note.

We’ll also watch a film this week, and you will begin your imaginitive narrative.

anti-permission.doc

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