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Your first lit log is due on July 15.

If you are reading one big book, then this will represent the halfway point. If you are reading a regular sized book, then this topic is for the whole book. If you are reading 2 plays, then use this topic for both plays.

In his essay "Walking," Henry David Thoreau offers the following assessment of literature: "In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Iliad, in all scriptures and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us."

From the works you have studied, choose a novel or play that you may initially have thought was conventional and tame but that you now value for its "uncivilized and wild thinking." Write an essay in which you explain what constitutes its "uncivilized free and wild thinking" and how that thinking is central to the value of the work as a whole. Support your ideas with specific references to the work. Don't use Thoreau's whole quote in your introduction, just the "uncivilized free and wild thinking."

English 11

The first summer lit log is due on July 15.

The quote for the lit log is "There is no living in love without suffering" by Thomas A. Kemis.

.Use specific references from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you. In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references to appropriate literary elements.

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The essay should be at least 5 paragraphs. Follow the outline below in developing your paragraphs:

1. Paragraph 1 - Define the whole critical lens (the quote) as it applies to your novel. State whether you agree or disagree with the critical lens. Give the title (underlined) and the author.
2. Paragraph 2 - Describe a character who exemplifies this quote. Using specific examples from the book, explain how this applies to the critical lens.
3. Paragraph 3 - Describe another character who is suffering in love. Explain how these apply to the critical lens.
4. Paragraph 4 - Describe a third character who relates to this quote and how it applies .
5. Give concluding remarks about how these three examples show the author's purpose for writing the novel.

Humanities

The topic for July 15 is human obstacles on the way to success.
1. Paragraph 1 - State the title and author. Describe some of the characters who tried to block Michelangelo's success.
2. Paragraph 2 - Describe one character and how an attempt was made to prevent Michelangel'os goals. What was Michelangelo's reaction and how did he solve the problem.
3. Paragraph 3 - Describe another character's interference. What were the results of the attempt?
4. Paragraph 4 - Describe another character's jealousy or dislike for Michelangelo and the attempt to stop his success. What became of this obstacle?
5. Paragraph 5 - Describe your reactions to the people who put obstacles in Michelangelo's way and how he overcame these obstacles.

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