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.