Review Sheet Information

6th period, be patient: we'll talk about this on Wednesday. Remember to use your notes and your brains and not take from online sources.

Information is available below.

Each review sheet must address the following:

Title of Work
Author
Approximate Time Period
Main Characters: Names and Relationships
Brief Plot Summary
Handy Plot References
A Meaning of the Work as a Whole
Relevant Literary Techniques
If I write on this work, I will be sure to mention(what analytical mic drops are you hoping to include)...
Quintessential Quote(s) [Easy to memorize, sure to impress]



A Condensed Example (Yours will be more detailed; mine is quite poor, but I want to at least give you a sense of the different categories.)

Title: Metamorphosis Author:
Franz Kafka Time: Early Modern
Characters: Gregor-Salesman and Bug
Grete: Sister and aspiring musician
Mr. Samsa, Mrs. Samsa, Charwoman, Lodgers

Plot Summary: No time or space— but self explanatory. Can be done as bullet points.(Do not plagiarize!)

Handy Plot References: Rocking to get out of bed, desire to go to work, never miss a day, arrival of boss, attempt to communicate, picture with girl, saving furniture, apple attack, walking on walls, lodgers, sister playing violin, sight failing and not seeing the hospital...

Meaning of Work as a Whole: The essential alienation of mankind from a world that seems to value only the material contributions he can make.

Literary Techniques: Narrative voice, symbolism,

I will be sure to mention: Symbolism: picture frame, apple, music, bug. Lack of explanation for transformation, Gregor’s desire to keep working.

Quotations: “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams…” “Was he an animal…”

Practice Essays due 4/30 or 5/1

Please complete the two passage analysis essays as if you were writing them for the AP test. That means in pen, handwritten, and back-to-back (preferred) 40 minutes each (80 minutes total)

Prior to doing so, you should review:

Previous poetry or prose essays
Poetry Place mat
Poetry class notes
Poetry slide shows
Prose class notes
Prose prospectus assignment (from the fall and Victorian)

In your essays, focus on:

Poetry:

Complex interp elements
Variety of devices
Insights and speculations


Prose:

Complex response to prompt question
Lots of short quotations
Insights and speculations

Reading due Monday

Please read through chapter 7 of Things Fall Apart.

Homework due 4/11 or 4/12

Please complete this assignment on the back of the paper that we started outlining the "attempts to shield loved ones prompt"

Prompt 1:

Choose an implausible or strikingly unrealistic incident or character in a work of fiction or drama of recognized literary merit. Write an essay that explains how the incident or character is related to the more realistic of plausible elements in the rest of the work. Avoid plot summary.

I have chosen to write this essay on the "ghost child Catherine" that Lockwood encounters at the beginning of the novel. Please complete the assignment based on this.

STEP 0: Number off what the prompt is asking you to do.

Plot references:

Brainstorm a list of all other relevant plot references that you think would fit in this essay.

Analytical Ideas:

Brainstorm a list of all INTERESTING (see slideshow in previous post) things that you could say about this topic.

Connection:

Use a connecting phrase to connect these ideas to a MOWAAW statement.

Prompt 2:

Ironically, sometimes the circumstances surrounding a character’s death yield important insight into how these characters lived their lives. Select such a death and analyze how the death of this character reveals important insights and helps to develop the meaning of the work as a whole.

I have chosen to write on the death of Catherine. Please complete the assignment based on this.

Repeat the same process as above.

Open Ended Writing Lesson Resources

Here are some resources from our open ended writing lesson.

Before and after body paragraph revision for analysis and connecting to prompt and MOWAAW
Effective use of plot references example
Standard vs. Flair introduction (both are okay)
Wuthering Heights practice prompts and numbering the prompt

Reading due Thursday/Friday

Please read through chapter 26 of Wuthering Heights.