Still in progress, but homework section is complete

TODAY IN CLASS
Overview of 2nd semester reading:

• (George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (hand-out, hopefully on Tuesday) 
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-- IHS bookroom (pick-up Wednesday) or you may purchase a paperback to make tracking key ideas easier (among other things)  
• Shakespeare's Hamlet--school copies possible, but your own copy is much preferred.  Get the Folger's edition  Needed by Feb. 10.
• Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment--absolutely by March 1 (I know, not a school day, and we'll still be in Hamlet--but you will want the lead time)
• Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon--have this in hand no later than March 31.

(No, you will not be done with English class after the AP exam in early May.  But I am not going to distract the present with our post-May 8th future.)

You will need to bring Perrine extensively but not always; I will do my best to keep you posted.

For now, know that you do NOT need it until Thursday of this week.

Also today--We took a post-HoD look at Kipling's "A White Man's Burden," including the questions on the hand-out.  Part of your homework for tomorrow concerns one of the responses  to Kipling's poem.


FOR TOMORROW
1) Write complete, well-supported responses to questions 1-3 concerning H.T. Johnson's "The Black Man's Burden."  You may type or hand-write in ink on loose-leaf paper.  Remember the standard heading, single-spaced:
Name
Period
Date
Assignment descriptor

2) Read over the required material below and write the requested transcription on the same page as your poetry responses.

The IPA:  George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion 
If you have time and are interested, you should start here.This is the main article on the IPA article which provides information about the history, uses, basic phonology, and the conventions of phonetic vs. phonemic transcription.  It also provides transcription for languages throughout the world, meaning that many of the symbols/transcriptions here are for sounds that do not even occur in English.  But in order to see the scope of the IPA, just scroll through this briefly:
Main IPA Article (World-wide)

If you're not interested in the overview, start here.  Locate information/columns pertaining to varieties of British English or the English used by countries originally colonized by Britain.  That would include us, of course--find the abbreviation used for the phonemics of American speech.
IPA Chart of English Dialects

Now switch to this page, which I think will be even easier for you to use.
Simpler English Chart

NOW, on the same sheet of paper on which you answered the poetry questions, write two things in the IPA Your transcription will be at the phonemic level only, not phonetic:  that means you will enclose what you write in forward slashes:   /   /

1) Your name (no, not the words  "your name"--your actual first and last name)
2) EITHER the first part of the Pledge of Allegiance (through "the United States of America")
OR the first sentence of the information about H.T. Johnson on your hand-out.