Due 11/30

Prose Prospectus Assignment:

You will need to choose 3 of the 4 passages you were given and complete a prose prospectus for each. The "frame" for the prose prospectus is printed below. The example of the analytical unit is available here.

Title and Author of Passage:

Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc

New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.

Answer to the prompt (as specific as possible) to serve as a thesis:

Proposed Outline of Essay Organization:

Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just appropriate literary words that you could use in your essay.

Insights/Inferences/Interesting stuff/Speculations that address the prompt:

Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.

One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences. See example above

College Admissions/Scholarship Essay:

Make sure you have submitted your college admissions essay assignment by 12/3. Please include the prompt at the top of the passage.

Catch-up:

If you have fallen behind, this upcoming week is a great time to get caught up. So far in this unit we have read:

"Living Like Weasels"
"Once more to the Lake"
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber"
"A Rose for Emily"

Due Tuesday

Make sure to have read the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper". An online copy is available here if you forgot to take your book home.

Your O'Brian assignment is also due.

Due Tuesday

For the Patrick O'Brian prose passage, please perform the following steps:

1. Read and mark the passage
2. Write 5 inferences about character on the back of the passage
3. Hand write a 40 minute essay answering the prompt at the top of the sheet. Make sure to use sufficient quotations to support your ideas. You can determine how best to structure your essay.

This assignment will be graded on completion.

Due Tuesday, 11/10

The AP Language document that we looked at in class today is available here.

Reading due:

"Living Like Weasels"
"Once more to the Lake"

Please note that the two essays above are primarily narrative, but still make use of many of the stylistic devices discussed in your AP Language packet. Please try to identify some and their effects as you do your reading.

The Beast Cometh...

Your poetry exam, affectionately nicknamed the Beast, is on Tuesday, November 3rd. Please use this weekend to study your terms on the poetry placemat and in in your notes. Your test will consist of the fill in the blank questions followed by an in-class essay. Sample questions are available below:

_______________ The representation of sense experiences through language.


_______________ A metrical line containing five feet


_______________ The repetition at close interval of the vowel sounds of accented syllable or important words.

_________________ A period of English literature producing poems that often presented an argument and elaborate comparisons.

_______________ The poet’s choice of words in a poem





Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?


____________________
(Time period of poem above?)

Contemporary Prospectus Revision

I am modifying the assignment for the contemporary prospectus on "The Century Quilt". Please feel free to read the poem and mark the text, but wait until receiving information in class on Wednesday before progressing any farther.

Due Thursday, and Monday

We will be completing three more poetry prospectuses through Turnitin with the only difference being that you will need to choose your poems from specified time periods, and submit them separately. The first of these will be due on Thursday, and the second due on Monday. Below you will find information outlining these expectations. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the section of your book containing poems from this time period.

Step 1: Review your comments on prospectus set 1 on Turnitin. I made comments so that you will be able to apply them to your next prospectuses.

Due Thursday 10/22: Renaissance prospectus (583-606)

Due Monday 10/26: Romantic prospectus (617-652)

Due Thursday 10/29: Contemporary prospectus (to be determined)

FYI: Your poetry exam is set for November 3rd! There really IS an end to the poetry unit!