Final writing-"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

In many countries, having a relationship with a child is illegal. Talking about it is also some kind of a taboo subject. In Vladimir Nabokov’s book, “Lolita”, the main character, Humbert Humbert falls deeply in love with a twelve years old nymphet (a nymphet is a girl between the age of nine and fourteen), Dolores Haze, which he calls Lolita. You may think that the main theme of the book is an adult abusing an innocent child but I think that it is also about "a minor having impaired the moral of an adult"(p150). In many parts of the story you can see that Dolores Haze takes advantage of the situation to get what she wants. At the beginning, Dolores is enjoying their affair, after a while, she is dealing with Humbert Humbert to get more money and to get other special permissions.

First, when she starts to have a relationship with Humbert Humbert, she doesn’t know what she’s getting involved in. She uses to like it. How could a grown man who is, by the way, deeply in love with this girl, resist her? The main character is already mentally deranged, even if he knows that in the society he is living now, it’s unacceptable to have an affair with a child.Dolores is not helping her case and it is clearly said in the book when she said : "Fact I’ve been revoltingly unfaithful to you(… )Well, you haven’t kissed me yet, have you?"(p.112). Dolores is provocative. She thinks it is a game and she is enjoying it. I am not saying that Humbert Humbert’s behaviour is right, but Dolores opened the door for that kind of situation.

Plus, in the second part of the story, Dolores is dealing with Humbert Humbert to get more money. She is using her stepfather’s feelings for her to make him comply with all her wishes, for example, when Humbert Humbert writes: “she proved to be a cruel negotiator whenever it was in her power to deny me certain life wrecking, strange, slow paradisal philtres without which I could not live more than a few days in a row, and which, because of the very nature of love’s languor, I could not obtain by force.”(p184) She knows how to take advantage of her “old man” and she knows how passionate his feelings for her are. Also, at the end of the story, after she has escaped from her stepfather’s claws, she only writes him a letter to ask him money. She doesn’t really care about him; all she cares about is getting enough funds to pay her debts and to move away to Alaska.

Furthermore, Dolores finds a way to get special permissions in exchange of some favours. Humbert Humbert is talking about it in his journal when he says: “I had just retracted some silly promise she had forced me to make in a moment of blind impatient passion”.( p169)I think this proves how Dolores Haze is manipulating her stepfather to subject to all her desires. She is already getting a lot of presents and various stuffs like clothes or accessories from Humbert Humbert and she is still taking advantage of the situation.

When all’s said and done, I think that the novel “Lolita” is not only tackling the subject of an adult abusing a minor, but it also talks about a young girl taking advantage of an adult who’s deeply in love with her. I don’t want you reader to believe that I think Humbert Humbert’s behaviour is correct and that child molesting is normal. Neither have I wanted you to think that I don’t see Humbert Humbert as a pedophile, but, you may understand that I just wanted to show you that, in this particular case, the so-called “innocent child” is not as innocent as many people will think.

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NABOKOV, Vladimir, Lolita, New York, Vintage International Edition, 1995, 317p.

8 out of 10

- I read the entire book (for that we should all get a 10/10 ;-p )
- I think I spoke loud enough so that everybody could hear me.
- I don't think I made that much mistake in my pronounciation.

Introducing a literary essay

1- Biographical information
Poe; -Raised in a difficult environment
- Suffered from alcoholism

2- Quotation:
-"To be or not to be. That is the question."

3- Definition:
- Insanity is doing the same thing all the time and expecting different results.

4- Element of fiction
-Irony

5- Life experiences

6- Very brief plot summary

7- Philosophical concept
- Everyone seeks happiness,etc.

8- Historical background
- Civil War lasted for five years and saw 500 000 deaths...


Read the opening lines of student essays. Write the number of the suggestion that fits best.

___5__ Human emotions are complex and sometimes inexplicable, as are our behaviours. It is hard to understand why people often try to impose themselves on others, taking others` freedom, as the main the husband does in this story.

____7__ It is in human nature to seek freedom. And we have no control over the fact that we are born to be free. That is what the author realizes in this story.

____1__ The author was a young widow. And so she was able to understand the many emotions of a woman who learns that her husband has died unexpectedly.

__8____ In the story, the author presents the role and the feeling of women in the nineteenth century. As the author suggests, women at the time had very few rights.

___2___ ‘Free! Body and soul free!’ Every human being is born free, according to the author.

___3___ What is freedom? According to The American Heritage Dictionary Dictionary, freedom is ‘the capacity to exercise choice.’ In this story, the author presents the main character as a woman without freedom, one who could not make her own choices in life.

__6____ The story by the author shows us the unexpected reaction of the main character after she loses her husband. She grieves at first, then surprisingly becomes cheerful at the thought of her husband being around no longer.

___4___ Spring is the time of year when nature becomes vivid again after long months of cold, gray, sad weather. In this story, the spring scene offers a parallel to a personal situation.

LEL4

Total score 70%

Antonym: 50%
Synonym: 90%

LEL3

Reading comprehension: 75%
Inference: 73%
Main idea: 80%
Specific fact or detail: 75%

Total score: 75%

Sentence paterns- Using figurative language

Simile: "A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words like or as."

Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.
Its about as easy as striking a macth on a mirror.
Beating the Boston Bruins is about as easy as climbing Mt. Everest.

Metaphor: "A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is not announced by like or as. "

Example: The road was a ribbon of moonlight.

Type 1 A=B : The sky is a blue tapestry.
Type 2 A) verbs : The young goalie skyrocketed to fame but now he's crashed
B) Nouns: In playing the Bruins the Habs are hitting a stone wall.
C) Adjectives: Koivu used to have cat-like moves.
Kovalev used to have a tiger-like attitude.

Analogy: "The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find." (Extended metaphor or simile)

Example: The Grande Bibliotheque might hold the key to your future; it unlocks many doors to knowledge.

The humain brain resembles a computer; it always bug when you need it the most.

Allusion: "A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion"

Example: His achilles heal was his lack of personality.
The firing of Carbonneau opened up a Pandora's box of problems for Gainey.
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore". (means you're lost)
"She played Barbie to his Ken."

Personification: "A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea. It is a comparison which the author uses to show something in an entirely new light, to communicate a certain feeling or attitude towards it and to control the way a reader perceives it."

Example: A brave handsome brute fell with a creaking rending cry--the author is giving a tree
human qualities.
"Dogs say cats love too much."
"Sunflowers nodded yes in the afternoon sun."
" The canadian Rockies vaulted into the sky."

Hyperbole/ Understatement: "An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point."

Example: She’s said so on several million occasions
There where millions of people at his party last week.

(Understatement: "This device is used to understate the obvious. On a day of extreme weather, like it is really really hot, one might say, "Is it warm enough for you?" or on a very very cold day one might say, "Balmy out isn't it?". It's the opposite of Hyperbole)

Hills like white elephants- Bonk's interpretation

The story reveals the rhetorical and psychological manipulation in the way the man relates to the woman. The story revolves around the couple discussing an operation, wich seems to be an abortion.

Paragraph 1: The man consistently tries to convice her to get aborted. He says: "It's a simple operation."

Paragraph 2: The woman, Jig, is not sure what to do, but she seems to accept his proposal. For example, he says: " we'll be fine..."

Book report vs Literary essay

• Using Thesis statement+Topic sentence

Three components:

1- What; claim about the text ( interpretation)

2- How; the literary elements ( figures of speech, symbolism, themes)

3- Why; the significance of your claim answers the question: so what?

Bad thesis statements:

1- This poem shows the narrator comparing his love to a summer's day. (plot summary)

2- The poem presents the power of love to conquer death. (too universal)

3- The poem shows how narratives can last while nature cannot. (too general)

4- The poem proves that the pen is mightier than the sword. (cliché)

5- The structure, character and dialogue in the poem show us how humans search for knowledge. (list)

Good thesis statements

1- Despite its emphasis on love and physical beauty, the poem reveals the ways in which humans can triumph over the vagaries of nature. (qualities: specific, arguable, provides a structure for your arguments, goes beyond "so what?")

"Lolita"- Describe your favorite part

When I started to read Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", I wondered how come this book was considered as a classic. After the fifteenth first pages, I had to force myself not to throw that book away or to burn it. When I chose to describe my favourite part of the story, I never thought it would be so hard even tough I knew the book was about a thirty-something years old man molesting his twelve years old stepdaughter. I did find a part in the story that could be considered my favourite. It is when the main character describes how he is going to kill his wife. I know it may sound a little bit sadistic but I really liked the way Humbert Humbert, the main character, planned every single detail of his attempted murder.

The way it is describe is not quite interesting. Some descriptions of Dolores are written better than this, but the way the main character explain every circumstances is simple and realistic. For example, when Humbert Humbert thinks: “The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder, and here was the subtle point: the man of law and the man of water were just near enough not to observe a crime. They were near enough to hear a distracted bather thrashing about and bellowing for somebody to come and help him save his drowning wife; and they were too far to distinguish (if they happened to look too soon) that the anything but distracted swimmer was finishing to tread his wife underfoot.” I like how simple he explains every detail, especially the one about the two other men near him and his wife and also, how determinate he is. A normal person would’ve probably thought that the murder would’ve been impossible near the men but not Humbert Humbert.

A couple of lines later he speaks directly to us, the readers, when he says: “Simple, was it not? But what d’ye know, folks- I just could not make myself do it!” It’s interesting that the main character directly speaks to the reader through his journal. Even if I find this character disgusting and repugnant, by those kinds of thoughts expressed in his personal notes, I realize that he’s still just a human person. I can’t say that he is normal and I don’t feel any sympathy for this awful man but every time I read this kind of sentences, it just reminds me how weird the human being is. He really wanted to kill his wife to be closer to his stepdaughter Dolores but couldn’t do it. I just don’t understand how a man who can’t kill someone can molest and confine a twelve years old little girl and kill her childhood. What I think is worst is that the main character is aware that what he’s doing is bad but he is selfish and he only thinks about his own pleasure.

Tryst-Vocabulary

-Cad: A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.

-Wooing: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship

-Fleecing: To defraud of money or property; swindle.

-Seamstress: A woman who sews, especially one who makes her living by sewing.

-Spinster: an elderly unmarried woman

-Milliner: One that makes, trims, designs, or sells hats.

-Brooch: A relatively large decorative pin or clasp.

-Gawping: look with amazement; look stupidly

-Blandishments: the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery

-Handkerchief: A small square of cloth used especially for wiping the nose or mouth.

Mid-term writing test

1-What is Louise Mallard’s opinion of marriage? Indicate the paragraph that suggests it?


She thinks that marriage is just a way to impose your private will on someone else. (paragraphe number twelve)







2-Why does Louise Mallard suddenly stop crying? Indicate the place in the text?



She stops crying because she suddenly realize that she'll be free; she will now start to live for herself instead of others. (paragraphe number 12)





3-How does she feel about her future as a widow? Cite the line in the text, using just the first few words, then a series of dots …?



"There would be no one to live for during those coming years..."

"Free! Body and soul free!"





7-Explain how Louise can feel joy and sadness at the same time?



She's sad because she just learned that her husband died in a train accident but she's also happy because she's going to enjoy all the little things of life on her own. She feels joy because she's now a free person.

Irony of "The story of an hour"

You might think that a story about a wife who loses her husband is sad but not in every cases. In “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin, the use of irony in the text just gives the story a funny way of looking at death. Louise, the main character, is a young woman with a heart disease who just learned that her husband died in a train accident. She’s sad at the beginning but she then realize that she’s free of everything. What sound a little ironic to me are the descriptions of what Louise was looking at when she was sitting in her chair: “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.” The woman is sad and instead of seeing sad things, life goes on around her. It introduces very well how the main character changes her mind after a few minutes. She stops thinking about her husband and she thinks about her.

Another part in the story were I think the author is ironic is when she describes Louise’s perception of marriage which is really close to the definition of Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s dictionary: “The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.” Louise’s opinion of marriage is quite the same when she realizes that: “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” All of a sudden she starts thinking about living her life on her own. She entered her room alone and sad but she came out of it with “a feverish triumph in her eyes”.

Finally, the way Louise’s sister and Richards are treating her is pretty ironic too considering that if Richard didn’t told Louise her husband had died, she wouldn’t have died neither. It’s also interesting that the author specified “he had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram…” And then, surprise! The husband appears like a “Jack-In-The-Box” at the end of the story. The reactions of all the characters at the end are funny as well. The husband just opened the door like if nothing had happens, without knowing anything about what was going on. Richards gets in Louise’s view to hide her husband behind is back even though it didn’t work very well. Josephine screamed and the wife died of a heart disease.

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Poetry

• Setting-geographical/ temporal
• Subject/ theme/ thesis
• Genre( lyric/ sonnets/ ballad/ ode/ epic)
• Voice/ personna
• Distance from poem( historical/ cultural)
• Diction/ use of words/ irony /imagery/ pun ("form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect")/figures of speech (simile, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, consonance, personification, hyperbole)/ symbolism
• Structure/ rhyme

Novel report

"Lolita" (500 words)

1- Tell what happened/plot(storyline)

2- Describe your favorite part

3- Write a letter to the author

4- Tell how you would react if you were a character

5- Choose several (2-3) "quotes" from characters and say why they're meaningful.

6- Why the book is awesome or not

7- Suggest a different ending or continue the story

LEL#2

Print out the passage and circle those letters you think should be capitalized, and then check yourself against the Answer passage on the next screen.

when I first saw the black hills on january 2, 1995, i was shocked by their beauty. we had just spent new year's day in sioux falls, south dakota, and had headed west toward our home in denver, colorado. as we traveled along interstate 90, i could see the black hills rising slightly in the distance. after driving through the badlands and stopping at wall drug in wall, south dakota, the evergreen-covered hills broke the barren monotony of the landscape. my oldest daughter said, "dad, look! there's some-thing that's not all white." we saw mount rushmore and custer state park, the home of the largest herd of buffalo in north america. we also drove the treacherous spearfish canyon road. fortunately, our jeep cherokee had no trouble with the ice and snow on the winding road. we were unable to see needles national park because the needles highway was snowed shut. winter may not be the best time to see these sights, but we enjoyed them nonetheless.

How Much Do You Know? — Answer When I first saw the Black Hills on January 2, 1995, I was shocked by their beauty. We had just spent New Year's Day in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and had headed west toward our home in Denver, Colorado. As we traveled along Interstate 90, I could see the Black Hills rising slightly in the distance. After driving through the Badlands and stopping at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota, the evergreen-covered hills broke the barren monotony of the landscape. My oldest daughter said, "Dad, look! There's something that's not all white." We saw Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, the home of the largest herd of buffalo in North America. We also drove the treacherous Spearfish Canyon Road. Fortunately, our Jeep Cherokee had no trouble with the ice and snow on the winding road. We were unable to see Needles National Park because the Needles Highway was snowed shut. Winter may not be the best time to see these sights, but we enjoyed them nonetheless.

LEL #1

I think the test could've been a little bit shorter so I wouldn't get bored. The sentences seemed almost the same to me so that's why I have problem with my sentence structure. But it was quite interresting. Sentence structure: 65% Combine ideas through clauses and phrases: 70% Correctly use transitions: 80% Revise for tone: 80% Use correct, varried and precise sentence structure: 53% Use precise word choice: 60% Total score for multiple-choice questions: 65%

Sentence pattern 2

IC+ Colon (:) + explanation (Statement: explanation)

Ex: Bernard Shaw told a writer " There are three things I disliked about your story: they are
the beginning, middle and end."

Ex2: There is one key rule in my life: always be well-dressed at work.

Ex3: Darwin's The origin of the species stated a harsh truth: only the fittest survive.

Movie reviews

1-"...Schlink’s brooding narrative never falters, and Daldry’s visual rendering strongly compliments Schlink’s conceptual foundation."

2-"Young Michael’s tender yet unflinching approach to Hanna bridges possibly the most difficult credibility gap in the story, and Kross makes a fine match for Winslet in their many scenes together."

3-"The finest acting skills cannot overcome the reality that Kate Winslet, who was 32 during filming, does not look like an old woman, even under caked-on wrinkles."

4-"Never shrinking from its characters’ failings, the film offers an unflinching view into grey areas of morality: Is it ever acceptable to forgive a horrific crime committed by a lover?"
(http://www.pajiba.com/the-reader-review.htm)

I-"The Reader seeks to humanise the Nazi, but in doing so can't help but devalue the horror of the crimes of National Socialism."

II-"...it's difficult to know since her past is only ever filtered through the eyes of others and never through Hanna herself."

III-" It's to the film's detriment that so much time is dedicated to this late period of the story."

IV-"Winslet's fierce, intensely felt performance is obliterated by an unsuccessful make-up job that fails to age her and instead just makes her look weird and flaky."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5423614.ece

1. What questions.

What are you reviewing? The reader
What is it about?
What is the plot or storyline? A law student re-encounters his ex-lover in a trial he assists.
What is the theme?
What is the director's purpose?
What genre or classification does it fit? Drama
What is the tone? What is the point of view? What is the mood.

2. Who questions.

Who wrote, directed, or acted it? What else have they done? David Hare wrote the screenplay, Bernhard Schlink wrote the book wich the movie is based on and Stephen Daldry directed it.

Who are the main characters in the story? Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz.
Who is the intended audience?
Who has said what about this?
Why?

3. Where and when questions.

When does the action take place? After world war II
Where does the action take place? In Germany

Sentence pattern#1

Sentence: Complete idea/ subject+verb, IC= independant clause

Clause(part of a sentence): Incomplete(idea), subject+verb+object, DC= dependant clause

Phrase: Preposition (in, or, at,etc.), no verb, participle; present (...ing)or past (...ed)

Ex: CSL has 3200 students in different programs, wich are interesting.
Subject verb object prepositional phrase clause

IC semicolon IC

EX: CSL has 3200 students; many are smart and talented.

"It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it. "

Run-on mistake : CSL has 3200 students, many are smart and talented.

EX2) Stockton's most famous story is "The lady or the tiger;" it's about a young man being judge for his illicit affair with a princess.

Ex3) Frank Stockton wrote many short stories; he filled 23 volumes.

1-A) IC+ semicolon+ conjunctive adverb+ comma+ IC

Ex: Frank Stockton started as a wood engraver; however, he became a famous writer.

1-B) IC+ comma+ coordinating conjunction(For,And,Not,B,O,Y,So)+ IC

Ex:The story as no ending, so the reader is left wondering what happened.

"He was not conscious of an effort, but a sharp pain in his wrist apprised him that he was trying to free his hands."

Thesis statement (#6)

- A thesis statement is an argumentative assertion about a topic.
- Is specific enough to be proven(has evidences to support it).
- Is usually close to the end of an introduction.
- It can be expressed in several sentences or, when the text is long, in an entire paragraph.

-Clear, avoids vague language
-Avoid "I"
-Reflects what the text is about (main idea)
-Connects all the subelements of text
-Makes a "claim"
-Passes the "so what" test-Provacative
-Directs the structure of the argument
-Introduces an essay
-Determines the type of paper you write
-Uses literary elements
-Makes use of a quotation

P1: Intro
P2: -Topic sentence
P3: -Topic sentence
P4: -Topic sentence+refers to the thesis statement

The lady or the tiger

The author: Frank Stockton

A) He was born in april 1834.

B) His most popular fable is "The lady or the tiger".

C)He won a short story contest while he was in high school.

D) He had one leg shorter than the other.

E) He wrote in a journal that was edited by Poe.

Write three questions related to different literary elements done on feb.03.

1) Where did the king sat during the trial?

2) Who was dating the princess?

3) Is selfishness one of the main themes?


Vocabulary:

-untrammeled:
-epithalamic : "a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom"
-Thus : "because of this or that"
-aesthetic : "pleasing in appearance"
-thronged : "to crowd into/upon"
-glance :to take a quick look at something
-gnashed: to strike or grind together
-rapturous: an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion
-kindled :
-shriek:

Possible thesis statement:

-The story revolves around two dilemmas.The first conflict is the external one between the young man and the the two doors. The second conflict is internal involving the princess' feelings: jealousy or love.

Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge

The author: A) He was born in Meigs County, Ohio in 1842

B) He married Mary Hellen on december 25th 1871

C) He was a soldier.

- He wrote a famous book called "The devil's dictionnary"

Write three questions related to different litterary elements done on feb.03.

1) How many people were on the bridge with Peyton Fahrquhar?

2) Where does the story takes place?

3) Wich war is mentionned in the text?


"The devil's dictionary "

Christian :
One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Love:
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage :
The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Cat :
A soft indestructible automaton provided by Nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

The Tell-Tale Heart

A) Author:

-He was born in 1809, in Boston.
-His parents died before he was three years old.
-Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen years old cousin.
-He started to drink alcohol more often after his wife died in 1847.

B) Plot:

The story of the Tell-Tale Heart his about a man, the narrator, who's obsessed by an old man's white eye. He is so obsess that he decides to kill the old man. For seven nights he watched the old man sleeping but the "evil eye" was closed. The night after, the old man wakes up in the middle of the night asking "Who's there?". The other man in the room waited patiently for the old man to lie down in the bed but it didn't happened. He then open a little crevice in his lantern and sees the evil eye. He jumps on the old man an kills him.

After the murder, he puts the body under the floor and clean up everything. At four o'clock in the morning, three police officers knocked on the door. The murderer invites the officers to take a cup of tea in the old man's room. But he kept hearing the beating of the old man's heart and its driving him crazy so he confess everything.

C) Analysis:

1-Setting(place and time of the story): in the house of an old man where the narrator lives, in the 1840's in The US.
2-Characters: An unnamed narrator who proclaimes that he's sane.
The old man with an evil eye.
The neigbourgh
The three policemen
3-Themes(reader interpretation): I) A human being has a perverse,wicked side - another self -
that can provoke him to doing evil things without an
apparent motive.

II) Fear of discovery can bring about discovery.

III) The evil within is worse than the evil without.


4-Point of view : First person narrative.
5-Sentence style : "Obect there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the man..." - Sentences are like the beating of a heart.
6-Figures of speech
-Anaphora (repetition): I heard things in Heaven
I heard things in Hell
-Personification (gives human features to objects or animals): Death becomes a person.
-Simile (comparison using the word "like"): "A single ray of light like the thread of a spider."
-Alliteration (repetition of sounds)
-Irony: "I was never kinder to the old man during the week before I killed him."

Paint and dog

Painting I did of my dog and the picture I inspired myself of.

Wiki Treasure Hunt

Wiki Treasure Hunt

What is the Learning Express Library? At the Grande bibliothèque
Where is Mr. B's office? C-150
What percentage of the course is writing and speaking worth? 50% writing and 50% speaking
How many students are registered in the class? 35
What are Mr. B's office hours? Tue. 13h30-14h30 and Wed. 13h00-17h00
What is the 48 hour rule? it's the time you have to motivate an abscence to an evaluation
What is the first assignment? Read the little Red riding hood
How many references are made to "thesis statement"? Six
How many threads are found in the discussion forum? 75
Do you have to go to the Grande Bibiliotheque to register? No you can do it online.
What is the blog URL of the last student on the class list? http://follspantyhoses.blogspot.com
How many pages on the site refer to "grammar"? 3
How many items are listed in the Student Contract? Ten.
What are the summative writing assignments? Graded tests.
How many items are there in the "Writing Correction Code"? 25

Vanessa Arthur's profile

You might think you know someone just because you've spent the last three months in class with her talking about the weather or about the last history test but if you never asked yourself what are this person's goals, what are this person's achievements, what's her interests and what are her skills, you might be surprise of the answers just like I was when I "interviewed" Vanessa Arthur.

She, just like anyone else, has a few goals. One of them is to be accepted in the SENS option at the St-Laurent's college. She also wants to travel to South America to help people in need and help to built schools. She wants to finish college with good marks and Vanessa would like to have a good political career.

What's so surprising about the things she achieved is that she learned english by herself. She did have english class in high school just like any other students from Montreal (they force you to read a text about a black cat and they ask you questions like ­"What was the cat's color?".And they call that learning english...) and now she's in a high english level class.

Vanessa likes politics and geography. She also listens to rock and pop music all the time.
Her social network is her family and friends, from high school and college.

Because of her geography class she's abble to locate and to name the capitals of all of the contries in the world.