Happy Spring Break Reading!

Your minimum reading requirement of Wuthering Heights over Spring Break will be through Chapter 20. Of course, please feel free to read more than this to get ahead of the game.


Continue to pay attention to the conflict of society vs. instinct, parallel characters, femininity vs. masculinity, DOGS, and your focus topics that you selected from the slideshow.


Happy reading!

Homework due 3/18 and 3/19-20

Due Monday

We will be doing a study of four 19th century prose passages to get us ready for Victorian Era passages. 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. OR, you can copy the passages into a new Google Doc, do your annotations in a different color, and then invite me into your document. Whatever works best for you, your printer, and your parents asking you why the printer always needs ink.

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. You will need to write down one turn-in-able insight about your passage. (Take me through your claim(s),the quotation(s) that support this, and, why this is interesting.

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

A-H: Passage 1
I-M: Passage 2
N-R: Passage 3
S-Z: Passage 4

Due Tuesday or Wednesday

Please read through this introduction slideshow on Wuthering Heights.

Then, read chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights.

This text is free domain, so if you don't remember to pick up a paper copy, it is available for free on the internet.

Weekend Reading and Drama Test Information

A-Day: Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for Tuesday.


B-Day: Act I of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for Monday.

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for Wednesday.



Drama Test Information:

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:

100 Questions (Multiple Choice! Can you believe it?)

 23 True/False Questions
 5 event timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification
 Author Identification
 Character 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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