WH Reading Due Friday, 2/2

Please read chapters 1-4 of Wuthering Heights. (Note for all reading assignments that this means that you are done after you have finished reading chapter 4.)

Here is brief background information to help guide your reading:

Wuthering Heights is told non-linearly, which means that it will make extensive use of flashbacks. The story is first narrated in the first person by a wealthy man named Lockwood, who is renting a house, Thrushcross Grange, from a man named Heathcliff, who also owns and lives at a house called Wuthering Heights (hereafter WH). We meet two younger people living at WH when Lockwood makes a journey there, who are children of people who have died. During your reading you should be able to figure out who they are related to. After a second visit to WH, Lockwood falls ill and must spend time convalescing, at which point he asks his housekeeper, Ellen (also called Nelly or Mrs. Dean--they are all the same person) about the people currently living at WH since she used to work as a servant there. Nelly then begins a flashback towards the beginning of chapter 4 with her as the first person narrator which tells us the back story that resulted in odd set of circumstances that Lockwood witnesses at WH.

As you do your reading, make analytical note of:

-The use of symbolic environments—descriptions of houses and the outdoors
- Issues of class—manners, clothing, speak, appearance,
- Character identity—sense of self, characterization, etc.

Drama Test (Objective) Study Guide

Drama Test Study Guide


Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Authors of all of the plays
 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles

 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

 20 True/False Questions
 5 event timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification

Due Tuesday, 2/14

Read Act I of Death of a Salesman.

If you know you will have a lot of other homework on Tuesday and Wednesday night, you may want to read a bit farther, since the rest of the play will most likely be due on Thursday.

Due Friday, 2/10

Write an open ended essay on the following prompt topic. You may choose to limit your time to only 40 minutes; however, you may also type this assignment if you do not prefer to write it by hand.

You essay must be based on A Doll House.

Prompt:

In a literary work, a minor character, often known as a foil, possesses traits that emphasize, by contrast or comparison, the distinctive characteristics and qualities of the main character. For example, the ideas or behavior of a minor character might be used to highlight the weaknesses or strengths of the main character. Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil for the main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.

Due Monday and Tuesday

Reading due Monday: Act V of Tartuffe (finish the play)

Reading due Tuesday: Act I of A Doll House

Reading due Thursday: Acts II and III of A Doll House (finish the play)

Due 2/2

Please read Acts II and III of Tartuffe. We will probably not quite make it through a discussion of all of Act III, so if you don't quite finish, no worries.