Assignments for the Week of January 23-27

Assignments for January 23-27

Monday, January 23                Literature: Cast the play.

Grammar:  Diagram sentences using participial and gerund phrases. (Check your email.)

Tuesday, January 24                Literature:  Choose a character for your audition. Find a scene to use for your audition and learn it well enough to perform it.

Grammar:  Diagram sentences using infinitive phrases. (Check your email.)

RCG: Read “A Touch of Class” by Paul Fussell

http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/resources/essays6.html.

Wednesday, January 25           Grammar:  Diagram sentences with infinitive phrases

RCG:  Re-read “A Touch of Class” and answer the following questions:

1.  Describe the “official myth of classlessness” that

Fussell attributes to America?

2.  In a Harris poll, 76% of the respondents said they wanted ___________ most.

3.  Which class does Fussell say has the most anxiety about their social ranking?

4.  In what area does the author believe “class envy” is most obvious?

5.  In what ways do the different classes refer to death?

6.  Fussell says that we find class rankings virtually everywhere.  Name four examples the author gives of class hierarchies in the United States?

7. Explain how the social class rankings inferred by various musical instruments.

8.  What is it about America in particular that inspires class ambition?

9.  Who is Paul Fussell?  What are his credentials for writing this article?

10.  Do you agree that the idea of a classless society a “utopian illusion?”  Do you believe humans are inherently classist or are we capable of creating a more egalitarian society?

Thursday, January 26              Literature:  Auditions for play.

                                               Grammar:  Diagram sentences with infinitive phrases.

Friday, January 27                   Literature:  Review of Shakespeare movie

Grammar:  Diagram sentences with participial, gerund and infinitive phrases.