Due Wednesday and Beyond!

Due Wednesday: Chapter 4 of Portrait. Notes available here.

Review Sheet Assignment: (Due the day of the AP test)

Review Sheet Assignments
You must create a complete review sheet for each of the plays and novels we have studied in class this year.

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…”

Due Monday

Please read the first half of chapter 1 of Portrait. Notes on the text that might help you understand your reading are available here. Additionally if you forgot to acquire a copy, there is a free etext through project Gutenberg available here.

Due Friday

1. Please read the introduction to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. My apologies on behalf of the print people if you got a crazy copy. Please hunt for pages 7-18 and read them; I think you have them all, even if they are out of order.

2. I changed the "on-time" submission time for the WH research essay from Friday at 11:59 am to 11:59 pm. We decided that if you want to be cool and work on a Wuthering Heights assignment as your Friday night activity, then that should be encouraged.

3. Your first reading assignment from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be due on Monday. Please make sure you have a copy to use by checking one out from our library, buying one, or using an ecopy. This is our last reading before the AP test, so get off to a good start by not falling behind.

Assignments over Spring Break!

Step 1: Finish reading Wuthering Heights. Your reading is due the Monday after break.

Step 2:

You will be reading a critical essay of your choice from an academic source and writing an essay analyzing that essay and Wuthering Heights. I recommend using JSTOR for your research, although some of you may have a book with critical essays in it. Your essay will be 2-3 pages (doubled spaced, and MLA) with the first half presenting a summary of the critical essay using quotations from it as evidence of its premise. The second half of the essay is your evaluation of the validity of the essay's claims using quotations from WH to support your opinion. Please note that the second half of the essay must be written in formal voice, so no "I think that..." allowed. This is a time for you to learn from and model the critical voices that you have read.

You MUST include a works cited page and this essay will be submitted online through Turnitin and graded on comletion/requirements. Please do not submit an essay shorter than 2 pages.

This essay is due April 3rd.

Due Wednesday 3/18

Your ivory colored progress sheet needs to be completed and turned in on Wednesday.

We will most likely only have time to discuss what we have already read in WH on Wednesday, so no additional reading is due today. You will need to have the book finished for the Monday after Spring Break.

Oh, and REGISTER AND PAY FOR YOUR AP TEST!

Due Monday and then Due Tuesday

Due Monday: Please print, read, and mark up the text available here. Approach the passage with the following prompt in mind:

Prompt:

The following excerpt is taken from the Victorian novel Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope. In it, Lucy Robarts converses with the mother of the man whose offer of marriage she has refused. Read the passage carefully and analyze what the characterization of the two women reveals about social expectations of the time.

Due Tuesday:

Chapter's 1-8 of Wuthering Heights. If you forgot to acquire a text, it should be a free download for Kindle and iBooks and a link to the text is available here.

Drama Test and Essay Practice Info

Drama Test Study Guide

Choose ONE of the prompts below and write a 40 minute open ended essay on it that will be handed in for completion points on Monday. If possible, try to write using one of our plays that you have not written an essay on yet.

A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.


Form B. Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.