Category: All Quiet On The Western Front - Hill's English Unleashed.life

Chapter 9-the End

2/26/2019

From now on we are silent reading our chapters.
One chapter a day beginning in class.
If you need to finish, finish for homework.
Audible times would be: Chapter 9- 46 min., Chapter 10- 53 min., Chapter 11- 32 min., and Chapter 12- 5 min.

During class we will discuss the book, watch Robin Hood, and listen to/read connecting materials.
Work on your packet. :)

"Good Guys: The Deep Dark Open Secret"

Komunyakaa- "Facing It"

Komunyakaa- "You and I are Disappearing"

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

I highly recommend watching Les Miserables. It is at Pantages in May-ish!
$8.99 on Amazon for purchase right now. ;)
"Empty Chairs and Empty Tables"

There's a grief that can't be spoken,
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables,
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution,
Here it was they lit the flame,
Here they sang about tomorrow and tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner,
They could see a world reborn,
And they rose with voices ringing,
And I can hear them now
The very words that they have sung
Became their last communion
On this lonely barricade, at dawn.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
That I live and you are gone
There's a grief that can't be spoken,
And there's a pain goes on and on
Phantom faces at the window,
Phantom shadows on the floor,
Empty chairs at empty tables where my friends will meet no more.
Oh my friends, my friends don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friend will sing no more.
Songwriters: Alain Albert Boublil / Claude Michel Schonberg / Herbert Kretzmer
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

Story and Symbol

2/13/2019

Period 1
Finish Chapter 6.
Silent reading 20+ min. Finish for homework.
Symbols to think about -
Bread, Wine, 3's, Garden.
The churchyard is an extra clue.
What religious allusions might these be?
What are these men facing?

Period 3
Read Chapter 7.
Listen 137-164. Finish for homework.
Symbols to think about again-
Bread, Wine, Nakedness.
Is there communion here?
Is there love? Is there peace?

Audio Chapter 7

The Twilight Zone - A Stop at Willoughby

After reading, watch the Twilight Zone's - A Stop at Willoughby.
Fill out your handout and turn it in by the end of class. You may work with a partner. Thank you.

Handout- AQW and Willoughby

The Devil is in the ...

2/7/2019

But the earlier phrase is actually "God is in the detail." While the "devil is in the details" means that there is often a mysterious unknown, "God is in the detail' means that we should look into things thoroughly. Both are appropriate here. Today we start note cards for symbols, characters, issues, events...the choice is yours. Whatever you choose, the details reveal both the heaven and hell that Remarque needs you to see.

A Rough Outline is just that: a rough list of ideas that you think you might want to write about. As you research you will cross things out, add, and re-order your list, but researching without an idea of what your goals are, not only takes twice as long, but results in a paper that sounds like you do not know what you are doing.

Since you are researching from an outline, every card should be thoughtful and have a place. A rough outline with cards IS a rough draft of a paper.

I will be checking rough outline, typed outline, tally marks and cards. Bring cards to class so that we can start together as a class and you can work with your partner.

Allusions, Influences, and Connections

1/25/2019

All Quiet on the Western Front- Movie

T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Eliot's poem about this post WW1 "Waste Land" of humanity broken after the war.

The real story behind One by Metallica

author of the long narrative poems
In Parenthesis and The Anathemata

“Faced with the disintegration brought about by the First World War, David Jones sought to recover roots, not just for an individual, but for a whole people,” declares Atholl C. C. Murray in Critical Quarterly.

"The macabre story of an infantryman who steps on a landmine and wakes to gradually discover he has lost everything – his arms and legs, his five senses – except his mind, which is now cast adrift, trapped in its own grim and impossible reality, One was both nightmare writ large and musically transcendent journey, a thrash metal Tommy in miniature. The protagonist’s descent into living hell, wordlessly begging for death – capable of being seen both as existential metaphor for the human condition and the solipsism of the rock star life – its frantic climax also served up a state of inarticulate teenage angst like no other rock song before or since.

Partially based on the 1939 Dalton Trumbo novel, Johnny Got His Gun, One had started as a song James Hetfield had dreamt up, based on the notion of “just being a brain and nothing else,” before Cliff Burnstein suggested he read Trumbo’s book. The story of Joe Bonham, a good-looking, all-American boy encouraged to fight in World War I by his patriotic father, Bonham loses his legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose to a German shell." --The Real Story Behind One from Metallica

All Quiet on the Western Front

1/16/2019

We move from the great love, heroism, friendship, and government of Tristan and Isolde to one of the most realistic and frightening books on war. Quite the opposite of Tristan and Isolde, it forces the reader to look into the faces of the dying and contemplate the point of war itself. Class time: Great Books movie and study guide. Homework: complete any questions from the video (re-watch if necessary) and read and annotate the two short articles in the packet pages 4 and 5.

The end of All Quiet and Medieval Lit.

3/16/2016

All Quiet annotations and test: 3/22-23
Medieval notes and test: 3/24-25
Green packet and Hero notes

We begin our silent reading book: Anthem Friday/Monday. Bring books to class.
No homework assigned over spring break. :)

Characters and Symbols

This week's focus :)

2/29/2016

#1 All Quiet on the Western Front- you have been doing a great job comparing All Quiet to the other texts- King Arthur, Tristan, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, but this week we just want to focus on our main text and make some good progress.

#2 Notebooks- we don't do what we do to be good sophomores. We do what we do so that we can be independent readers and writers. It is time to reflect on our year, make plans for the end of the year, and keep the most important notes that we need for the years to come. :)

Begin to type notes and organize notebook: 1st notebook check- 3/3-4.

Sample Table of Contents

All Quiet on the Western Front

1/14/2016

We move from the great love, heroism, friendship, and government of Tristan and Isolde to one of the most realistic and frightening books on war. Quite the opposite of Tristan and Isolde, it forces the reader to look into the faces of the dying and contemplate the point of war itself. Class time: Great Books movie and study guide, Chapter 1 work cited, notes, reading and annotations. Homework: review, revise, complete any classwork. Study Literary Terms and type essay.