Due January 2nd

Please read (and maybe watch) Hamlet by Shakespeare, paying careful attention to plot and character.

Reading week of 12/11

On Monday, we will be writing an in-class prose essay. Here are two high scoring essays on prose topics.

The Other Paris (Carol and Howard)
Belinda

For Tuesday/Wednesday, we will be discussing the Smithsonian article that is available here. Please make sure you read to the end; the adds make it a hassle to know when the article is done.

For Thursday/Friday, we will be discussing the play Oedipus (red book 896-936). Please make notes of moments when Oedipus displays behaviors or attitudes that reveal his pride.

Reading due Tuesday/Thurs or Wed/Fri

Due Tues/Wed: Please read "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (362-366). A side by side English/Spanish verison of "Very Old Man" (en espanol) is available here. if you'd like to look at the story in the original.

Due Thurs/Fri: Please read "Metamorphosis" in your red book (191-221). This story is LONG so please pace yourself with your reading.

Please read this story for Monday

We will focus on the readers's involvement and reaction to the story, so pay careful attention to how the story affects the reader, what if forces the reader to consider, what questions it poses, and what realizations it generates. Remember this is a longer text, so you should begin your reading early and plan for a total of an hour or more reading time.

Due Thursday/Friday

Please read the short story "Good Country People" (349-362) with a focus on humor (and existentialism).

Due Tuesday/Wednesday

Please read "Araby" (65-69) focusing on character inferences and Joyce's unique style.

Please print and bring this passage to class.

Due Monday 11/27

Here are you Happy Thanksgiving Break Assignments:

Please read the story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Have fun doing a Freudian analysis of this one.

Then, please complete the "prose prospectus" assignment as explained and modeled below. You will need to complete a prospectus for TWO of the passages (not all four).

The prospectus frame is explained here.

The Middlemarch passage that I use in my example is available here, if you'd like to read it to help you understand my example.

Belinda
Johnny
The Street
Mayor

Due Thursday/Friday

Please read and think about the "Yellow Wallpaper"

Also, please bring a print copy of your college essay.

For Monday

Please use the time over the weekend to work on your narrative/reflection essay and prepare for your in class essay on Monday. A practice essay and samples are available below.

Practice poem essay
Samples

Due 11/9-11/10 and beyound

For next class, please read "Living like weasels" (starts on 1568)and "Once more to the lake" (starts of 1605). These are two strong examples of narrative writing.

Among other stylistic techniques, please pay careful attention to the authors' use of syntax. Even more fancy syntax terms are available here.


You will be writing a personal narrative essay applying some of the stylistic techniques and reflection illustrated in the two essays that we are reading. If you have already written this type of essay for college or a scholarship, just submit that one. If you have not already written this essay, this assignment gives you a good excuse to do so.

Your college college admissions/scholarship/personal essay is due on the 17th. This document gives you some ideas for what you want to accomplish.

Kahoot?

I am posting the link below to our kahoot. I think you will need to copy and paste it into your browser to make it work. I think.

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/767890f9-a464-4bfa-8d65-ad6e0e95b4dd

Due Monday and THE BEAST!

You will have a third poetry outline due this Monday, 10/30. If we all demonstrate growth on our "how" step, this will be our last outline (for a while, at least).

The objective part of your poetry test is set for November 6 (B) and November 7 (A). The essay component may or may not happen on that day depending on when I get your first in-class essays graded and back to you. It is likely that your 2nd in class essay will end up being on the 13th, for that reason. Please begin your study of ALL of the poetry terms we have learned using your book, slide shows, your notes, and your placemat as resources.

Due Tuesday, 10/23 or Wednesday 10/24 and other stuff

Optional but a really good idea

On Monday, you will have your first assessed in class essay. Please review your terms "placemat", your notes, and your first essay and feedback to get in the zone for writing this essay. Remember, to really improve, you need to have specific goals that you are trying to work on each time you write. If you don't, then you'll just end up doing the same thing over and over and over...If you'd like to practice writing another 40 minute essay, I've posted a poem and prompt below. I have also (reluctantly) posted sample student essays, but please realize that the highest score may be difficult to understand out of context.

Poem and prompt
Sample essays


Required

Your actually assignment for Tuesday/Wednesday is to complete the poetry translation activity. If you'd like to print it out and write on this to turn in, you may. Otherwise, you can complete all of the exercises on your own piece of paper.

Translation activity

Due 10/19

Please read the "Approaching a Poem" section from 506-510 in your book. After your reading, please find a poem that you'd like to practice this thought process on. Read your poem and in your head, perform the same device by device analysis as your book. Then, find a partner. Engage them in a conversation where you explain everything there is to know about your poem. Then, if your partner is in our class, return the favor and listen to them talk about their poem. This conversation should be conducted using out loud words in person, on the phone, via Skype. Your partner does not have to be in our class. You may converse with a parent, sibling, friends, and if you have no other options, your pet or yourself in the mirror. Just do your analysis out loud.



Paper feedback slide show.

Due 10/16

Below you will find the links to the poetry time period slide show and the poetry practice assignment. Please type your responses in a new document that you will upload to Turnitin. For your 3 analytical units, please put extra attention into your "how" stage. This is an area that we will be targeting for growth.

Poetry time period slides
Practice Poems an assignment info

Due Tuesday, 9/10

Please log in to Turnitin and see your feedback on your first poem outline. If I did not leave you feedback, it means that I don't have any concerns and you should keep doing what you're doing.

In general, our interpretations are AWESOME! Please keep this up! Our charts on occasion are a bit skimpy, so you should make an effort to look at more devices, or find more quotations to support the devices you're already addressing. I may have scared you away from doing a diction analysis. We don't want to just look at diction, but every poem should look at diction, so make sure that your chart has a diction section. Also, make sure you are doing one of the three types of diction analysis discussed in your notes; you should not have full sentences as your diction quotations.

Your homework is to choose another poem from the red book and make another chart, interp, and organization statement. So pretty much the same assignment, with my feedback in mind, but this time for a different poem of your choosing.

This will be due on Tuesday, 9/10, even for B-day people.

Due Thurs/Fri and Beyond!

Slides from class:

Essay info
Poem outline assignment (due Thurs/Fri)






Here is the prompt for your take home poetry essay. I may make a few changes to it, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible so you can think about it.

Homework due Monday 9/25

Monday reading due: Voice/Speaker/Tone (427-436)
Tuesday reading due: Symbolism (457-464)

Syntax slides are available here.

Due Thursday/Friday 9/21/22

Please review your notes and resources on interpretations. We will have an interpretation assessment for the first part of class.

Please complete your reading on syntax (465-472)

Slide shows from class are available here:

Diction
Imagery
Analytical Units

Homework Due Monday and Tuesday (Wednesday)

Due Monday:

Please complete the Interpretation practice sheet for "Storm Warnings" and "Collection Day" and bring completed to class on Monday. This should be available in the previous post as the "document to bring to class but don't do anything with it."


Due Tuesday (Wednesday):

Read the sections in your book on Imagery (444-451) and Diction (436-444). Make sure that you are reading and thinking about the devices in each poem as well as how they help to develop a complex interpretation.

Due 9/14 (A) 9/15 (B)

You have three responsibilities for next class. They are:

Please print and bring this document, but do not do anything with it other then bring it to class.

Secondly please read this 4 page document, The Happy Synergy of Interpretation and Analysis

Lastly, please read your book's section on figurative language (451-457). As you do your reading, make sure to read the poems that are in that section (believe it or not some people skip them) and practice developing complex interpretation ideas for them in your head. There should be a lot of thinking involved.

Due 9/12(A) or 9/13 (B)

Please read and complete the poetry "Mad Libs" assignment available here.

Homework due 9/7 (A), 9/8 (B)

Homework:

Write an analysis of the following poem. I know this probably seems impossible to you, which is okay because this is a pretest and worth completion points!

In your analysis, you may wish to consider such things as structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery. DO NOT CONSULT ONLINE RESOURCES!

This assignment is graded on completion, so please don't worry and just show me what you can do. This entire assignment (thinking and writing) should take 40 minutes. Set a timer, and stop where you are when that time has elapsed, even if it is in the middle of a sentence. I really just want to see what you can do in 40 minutes.

Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all*, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

* heal-all: a flower that is normally blue

Robert Frost

Welcome New Seniors!

Hello, new seniors! I'm hoping that you already have been enjoying your summer break and have begun to fill it with awesome reading! As you've noted, there's no organized reading program for AP Lit, but the key is to read, read, and read! Aim for reading 7-8 hours a week (that's only one hour a day, or one day reading binge, depending on your style). Also aim for reading at least something in a genre you're less familiar with. If you normally read mostly young adult stuff, challenge yourself with one of the "classics". If you're mainly a sci-fi/fantasy reader, try something in the non-fiction range, etc. You not only want to read to broaden your perspectives, but to build up reading stamina, because you will be asked to read extended works as part of class next year.

Speaking of class next year, I'll post the novels/plays that we are likely to work with below, in case you want to buy them and/or read them in advance. However, we won't be working with them until second semester, so you are still expected to reread them along with the class. If you're like me, it isn't until the second time through a book that you're able to really appreciate the complexity of stuff to analyze.

I will periodically be checking my work email if you have any questions.

Plays/Novels

Hamlet
Tartuffe
A Doll's House
Death of a Salesman
A Raisin in the Sun
Rosentcrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Wuthering Heights
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Things Fall Apart

Reading due Thursday

Please read TFA through chapter 19 (through part 2).

Reading due Tuesday 5/30

Please read Things Fall Apart through chapter 13 for Tuesday.

If you were absent in class on Thursday, please answer these questions to turn in for points.

Chapters 1-8 Questions

What are some key character details about Okonkwo in the first few chapters? How do the details given about his past affect his character? In what way is he complex?

What role do women play in the novel? What inferences can be make about their role in society?

What understanding of the religion of the Ibo people does the reader develop in chapters 1-8? What inferences can be made about the role religion plays in the society of the Ibo people?

What foil character relationships are established in the novel so far? Why are they important? What purpose do they play?

What are some key character details about Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye? What is the importance of these details in developing the relationship with Okonkwo?

The people’s reaction to the arrival of the locusts in chapter seven is a memorable and illuminating section of your reading. View this through two different lenses: a western lens and an African lens. From a western perspective, what associations exist with the arrival of locusts? What is the western perspective on the eating of locusts? From an African perspective, what associations exist and what is their perspective on their consumption? What does this help to reveal about cultural mores? (mores: essential customs or conventions of a community)

The death of Ikemefuna is one of the most significant plot elements of chapters 1-8. What is the importance of this event in developing Okonkwo’s character and contributing to the larger themes and conflicts of the novel?

You’re familiar with the concept of hubris from your study of Greek tragedy. To what extent do you feel that Okonkwo demonstrate hubris in chapters 1-8?

Group Book Project, Day 1

For those of you who were absent on Thursday, your group book project assignments for today are available in this powerpoint. Please adapt them as best you can, even though you may not have a group to discuss with.

Homework over the weekend is to continue to read your group book as decided on by your group.

Final Essay Assignment

Please pace yourself on the final essay assignment. Details available here.

OPTIONAL Citizen Kane Character Analysis essay.

If you are in the market for "completion" style points to enhance your grade, you may complete the following character analysis essay on Citizen Kane to be submitted through Turnitin. If you do not complete this essay, it will not hurt your grade, but it will obviously not help your grade.

This will be due by Friday (not a typo) May 19th at 3:00 pm.

Write a character analysis paper focusing on Charles Foster Kane. Again, it will be in formal voice, 2 pages, double-spaced, but no structure requirements. Consider discussing Kane's influences, motivations, desires, fears, relationships with others, etc. Do your best to use some quotations or near quotations from the movie.

Due Monday

For those of you gone from class today, we stopped right before Kane goes on a picnic to the Everglades with Susan. (Some guy starts singing, "It can't be love...") Please don't finish the film.

Your assignment is below:

Please write a 2 page minimum (typed, double-spaced) reflection paper on the use of a minimum of 3 film techniques in Citizen Kane. Please describe the specific technique and analyze its effect and how its use contributes to the meaning of the film. There are no structural requirements for the paper, but the paper should be written in formal voice.


This will be uploaded to Turnitin and due Monday morning by 7:30.

Portrait Chapter 5 reading

Option 1: Read all of chapter 5. This is obviously the best option.
Option 2: Form a group of no more than three people. Divide chapter 5 in even sections. Read and take notes on your section, writing down important character info and important quotations. Bring to class.

Chapter 5 notes are available here.

Review Sheet Assignments
due May 2nd

You must create a complete review sheet for each of the plays and novels we have studied in class this year. Your assignment should be typed an submitted through Turnitin, unless otherwise arranged with me.

NOTE: THIS INFORMATION CANNOT BE LIFTED FROM THE INTERNET!! YOU WILL RECEIVE A SCORE OF ZERO IF THIS HAPPENS. IT ALSO CANNOT BE MASS PRODUCED AND SUBMITTED AS A GROUP.

Oedipus
Hamlet
Tartuffe
A Doll’s House
Death of a Salesman
Raisin in the Sun
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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...
 Quintessential Quote(s) [Easy to memorize, sure to impress]

A Condensed Example (Yours will be more detailed)

 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 space— but self explanatory. Can be done as bullets.(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, borders, sister playing violin…
 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…”

Chapter 4 due Monday

There are no journal questions for chapter 4, but lines notes are available here.

Please please please get caught up with your reading.

Finishing Chapter 2 and Portrait Chapter 3 reading

We are not going to journal on Portrait chapter three, but lines notes are available here.

Now, I would love for you to read all of chapter three; it's obviously integral to the text or it wouldn't be there in its entirety. However, if you are stressed and or pressed for time, you may condense it in the following manner:

Read from beginning to "When the agony of shame had passed from him" (123).

Skim the next several pages and find one description of hell that you find compelling.

Then begin reading again at "He went up to his room again after dinner" (142) which is just after the -O my God, -O my God recitation in italics, and read to the end of the chapter.

Chapter 2 Notes and Journal

Only two journal entries this time. Notes and topics available here.

Portrait Reading and Chapter 1 Assignment

The plan for reading Portrait is as follows:

Due Monday, 4/10: Chapter 1 and Chapter 1 Journal
Due Tuesday, 4/11: Chapter 2 part one reading due (end at "Stephen was once again seated)
Finish Chapter 1 discussion
Due Thursday, 4/13: Chapter 2 part 2 reading due
Chapter 3 reading due (we'll talk about skim reading part of chapter 3)
Due Monday, 4-17: Chapter 4 Reading
Due Tuesday,4/18: Finish Chapter 4 discussion
Wuthering Heights Open Ended Essay
Due Thursday, 4/20: Chapter 5 reading due. (we may approach chapter 5 as a jigsaw)


The Chapter One Notes and Journal Assignment is available here.

Practice 40 minute essay

Please write a 40 minute timed essay on this prompt.

The introduction activity from before spring break is available here.

Spring Break Reading

Please finish your reading of Wuthering Heights over break.

People absent on Thursday will also need to outline one of the following prompts on WH over break. Additionally, you will need to ask about the introduction activity when you return.

Prompts to choose from:


In retrospect, the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces some of the major themes of the work. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama or the first chapter of a novel in which you explain how it functions in this way.


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.

“You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” —Sonsyrea Tate
Sonsyrea Tate’s statement suggests that “home” may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind. It
may have positive or negative associations, but in either case, it may have a considerable influence on an individual. Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the reasons for its continuing influence. Explain how the character’s idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.


Many plays and novels use contrasting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. Choose a novel or play that contrasts two such places. Write an essay explaining how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work.


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 that you have studied in school, choose a novel, play, or epic poem that you may initially have thought was conventional and tame but that you now value for its "uncivilized free 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 you choose.


In literary works, cruelty often functions as a crucial motivation or a major soical or political factor. Select a novel, play, or epic poem in which acts of cruelty are important to the theme. Then write a well-developed essay analyzing how cruelty functions in the work as a whole and what the cruelty reveals about the perpetrator and/or victim.





Outline guide:

1. Number off the Prompt
2. Brainstorm Plot References that you would use in the discussion of your prompt (the more the merrier)
3. Write some interesting insights, ironies, parallels, etc. into your prompt topic or plot references.
4. Write a causal connection statement between your prompt topic and the MOWAAW. For this activity you can write the word MOWAAW or speculate on a WH MOWAAW.

Due Thursday

Please read Wuthering Heights through Chapter 20 for Thursday.

WH Focus Topics

Choose a focus topic (or more than one if you are inclined) and gather as many plot references for your focus topic as you can while you are doing your reading. Although you are not responsible for other focus topics, feel free to take note of other topics if you are so inclined. Once you have written down a plot reference, take a moment to engage in the analysis cycle about it: What is interesting, inferential, ironic, etc. about this reference? How is it helping to develop thematic or MOWAAW ideas? Jot these ideas down along with your plot references.

Focus Topics:

Animals (dogs!)
Interior setting descriptions
Exterior setting descriptions
Physical violence
Emotional violence
Explicit or implied social expectations
Female gender role expectations
Male gender role expectations
Defiance of social or gender expectations
Physical character descriptions
Character parallels
Character foils
Irony: dramatic or situational
Object symbolism
Self harm

Weekend Homework and Wuthering Heights

For Monday we will be doing a study of four 19th century prose passages to get us ready for Wuthering Heights. Please print this packet that you will use for marking the text. I'm sorry that it is so long! If you need to conserve paper, please change to a smaller font before printing. If you can't print, please read the passages online and do the assignment as best you can on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Read all passages and mark the text writing down insights into character, inferences, identifying quotations, or anything that would help you develop a complex response to the prompt.

2. Re-read the passage that you are to become an expert on. (Listed by alpha below). Expect that you will be asked to make a comment about your focus passage in class, so make sure you have extra fancy insights for this one.

3. Be prepared to turn your all 4 marked texts in for points.

Period 2:

Ad-El: Passage 1
Fa-Ki: Passage 2
Le-Og: Passage 3
Pe-Zh: Passage 4

Period 3:

Ar-He: Passage 1
Ji-Ma: Passage 2
No-Se: Passage 3
Sh-Wo: Passage 4

Wuthering Heights:

We will be discussion chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights on Tuesday. Please feel free to get started on you reading over the weekend. If you do not have a copy of the text, an online version is available here. (and is probably free or cheap through iBooks or Kindle)

Drama Test Study Guide

Not the best study guide ever, but something to get you started with.

Weekend Practice

So, I had 15 juniors with research paper questions in my room yesterday during 4th period prep and after school. Nice try, seniors! Here's your weekend practice activity!

Raisin in the Sun Discussions

Raisin in the Sun discussions

Weekend work

Your first assessed in class open ended essay is this Tuesday. Please make sure you have reviewed your notes on character names, plot references, MOWAAW, and open ended writing feedback. You will not know in advance which of our plays you'll be writing on, so you'll need to prepared for all of them.

We will be discussing the entirety of "A Raisin in the Sun" on Thursday, so please have all of the play read by then.

Our next work will be Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Please work on acquiring your own copy to use.

Reminder and Make up assignment

Remember to have Act I of a Doll's House read by tomorrow, 2/7. You will need to have the remainder of the play read by Thursday 2/9.

If you were gone today, you will need to complete the "Absent Character" open ended practice assignment below. Please time 25 minutes and write as far as you can in that time. This must be made up and turned in by Friday, 2/10.

Prompt:

Most literary works emphasize the actions and development of characters who are present during the majority of the literary work. Sometimes, however, it is the characters who are absent who nevertheless are a major influence on the work as a whole. Select a literary work where a character is rarely seen (or not seen at all) and write an essay in which you identify the absent character and explain his/her significance to the story. Do not merely summarize plot.

(Use the play Tartuffe to respond to this question)

Thinking process:

Identify a character who is ‘absent or rarely seen’. [the prompt topic]

Identify the significance of the story [a meaning of the work as a whole].

Connective thinking: For what reason(s) is this character being absent important to the meaning of the work as a whole?

Note: Often with Open Ended Essays, the answer to “for what reasons” will become your POA. Your POA will rarely be literary devices.

Open ended cycle:
• Plot reference
• Interesting stuff
• MOWAAW

Reading Due Tuesday

Please read Act I of Ibsen's A Doll House, located in your book immediately after Tartuffe.

A copy is available here, if your book is unavailable.

Reading this week

Please read the background information and Act I of Tartuffe for Tuesday. (1059-1071) Please look for instances of humor and irony.

For Thursday:

Please have the play finished. More information to come regarding focus topics.

Updates and notes

Please make sure you are prepared for your presentation tomorrow. Remember to invite me to your Google slides so that I can have them ready to go when you present.

The drama notes that you need for a few of your terms are available here. Please review them and come prepared with questions on them on Monday.

Shakespearean passage analysis writing strategies are available here.

Semester 1 Final Information

Your final will consist of a fill in the blank objective test and an essay on a Shakespearean passage. More specifics are below.


Semester 1 Review Sheet: Objective Component--fill in the blank
90 Questions

Note: Topics in bold are emphasized more on the test

 Poetry Terms
 Poetry Time Periods (basic characteristics of; no identifying quotations)
 Names of Poets of major poems studied in this course (Think papers and discussions)
 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Dionysus, unities of drama rheseis, stichomythia, hubris, hamartia, perepeteia, epiphany, catharsis
 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o monologue, soliloquy, aside, foil, irony, blank verse, prose.
 Literary Criticism
o New Criticism
o Psychoanalytic Criticism
 Freud’s theories of development
 Short Story Titles
o Quotation Identification: Identify the title
 Short Story Authors
 Short Story and Drama Characters
o Quotation Identification: Identify the speaker
 Short Story Terms
o Point of View, (1st, 3rd lim, 3rd omnisc.) Direct/Indirect Characterization, Internal/External Conflict, foreshadowing
 Existentialism
o Basic Principles and important Writers of…
 Sentence Structures
o periodic, cumulative, etc. (not the fancy ones like anaphora, etc)



Semester 1 Reading List

Poetry


Living Like Weasels
Once More to the Lake

Yellow Wallpaper
Young Goodman Brown
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Rose for Emily
Metamorphosis
Good Country People
Araby
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Oedipus
Hamlet

Practice Essay and Presentation Information

For Monday, you will need to do a 40 minute essay on the passage available here. Please write the essay in ink and by hand and simulate a testing environment as much as possible.

Your presentation requirements is available here. Remember your presentations will be on Thursday the 19th.

Marking the text due Thursday 1/5

Please read carefully and mark the text of this passage from Hamlet. If you get inspired, you may want to practice writing a thesis statement and/or some body paragraphs for more practice, but only marking the text is required to earn points.

If you have not yet finished reading your "other Shakespeare" please also use your time to get this done. Information about your presentation will be given during class on Thursday.