Due Monday and Tuesday

On Monday, you'll be writing your last open ended essay on Wuthering Heights. Please come prepared with character names, plot references, quotations, and MOWAAW so that you can demonstrate these on your essay.

For Tuesday, you'll need to have completed your Chapter 1 reading for Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and completed the "scavenger hunt" assignment below. Under each column, write down plot references or quotations that would allow you to support the topic at the top of the column. This and other resources are below.

Portrait Text (in case you forgot a book)
Chapter 1 notes
Scavenger Hunt

Spring Break Responsibilities

Make sure you finish your reading of Wuthering Heights and continue to trace your focus topics. Below you will find a document that will guide you through the last part of Wuthering Heights. You do not need to write your responses to the questions to be turned in, but you should consider entering your responses in your reading/discussion notes. I do expect that when I ask questions inclass regarding these topics, that you have a thorough response prepared.

Wuthering Heights Questions

Wuthering Heights Reading for Thursday, topics, and text

Please read chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights for Thursday. Depending on your month of birth, you will be gathering quotations/plot references for the following focus topics. Be prepared to present evidence and discuss the importance of your topic.

January, February, March: Moments of violence, wildness, loss of control
April, May, June: Animals and their significance
July, August, September: Pressures/expectations/influence of society and "proper" behavior
October, November, December: Symbolic environments

If you absolutely hate your topic, you can switch with someone, but make sure that they are willing to do your original topic so we'll be certain to have enough people covering all topics.

The text for Wuthering Heights is available online here, just in case you forgot to pick up a book.

Drama Test Study Guide

Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, 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, blank verse, prose

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

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

Practice Quotation ID's below:

1. Almost everyone who goes bad in early in life has a mother who’s a chronic liar.

2. My, my, what lovely lacework on your dress!
The workmanship’s miraculous, no less.
I’ve not seen anything to equal it.

3. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

4. Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I’ll
Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say.

5. Tomorrow I’m going home—I mean, home where I came from. It’ll be easier up there to find something to do.

6. It’s hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort,
And he who gives his daughter to a man she hates
Must answer for her sins at Heaven’s gates.

7. If he doesn’t buckle down, he’ll flunk math!

8. Set your mind at rest.
If it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you
That you will find no man whose craft gives knowledge
Of the unknowable.

9. If only we two shipwrecked people could reach across to each other.

10. There’s a vast difference, so it seems to me,
Between true piety and hypocrisy:
How do you fail to see it, may I ask?
Is not a face quite different from a mask?

11. Thus I associate myself with the oracle
And take the side of the murdered king.

12. …I oughta be makin’ my future. That’s when I come running home. And now, I get here, and I don’t know what to do with myself.

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