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Language and Literature <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><IMG height=227 alt="" src="http://teacherweb.com/CT/JonathanLawHighSchool/MrKelly/literature.jpg" width=157 border=0></DIV> <DIV> <H1><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier New"><SPAN style="COLOR: #025e2a">Language and Literature</SPAN><BR> </SPAN></SPAN></H1> </DIV> <H3>Final Exam</H3> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>Book of Choice</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" align=left><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">-<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN>Flowers for Algernon</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" align=left><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">-<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN>Lord of the Flies</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in" align=left><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">-<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN>Lovely Bones</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>Hamlet</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>My Last Duchess</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>Miller’s Tale short essay</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left>Simon Birch essay</P> <P align=left> </P> <H3> MP-4 <BR> </H3> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>6/16 - Writer's Workshop due</DIV> <DIV>6/8 - All projects due (unless informed otherwise for certain individuals)</DIV> <DIV> - Second Twitter sheets due</DIV> </DIV> <DIV>5/21 - Trading cards due</DIV> <DIV>5/19 - Twitter worksheet due</DIV> <DIV>5/4 - Hamlet projects due - 10% off per day late</DIV> <DIV>4/22 - Begin match.com work for Hamlet </DIV> <DIV> - Hand in major events/essential questions worksheet for R&G<BR> </DIV> <DIV>4/21 - Choose a character from Hamlet and identify the significance of the "Murder of Ganzago" for that character --Character, what they hope to transpire from the play, what ultimately will result from the play for him/her<BR> </DIV> <DIV>4/20 - Hamlet time/location/action -- place characters from Hamlet there and have them act accordingly based on their personalities<BR> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">Mandatory Writer's Workshop Topics</SPAN></SPAN> <BR> </DIV> <DIV align=center> </DIV> <DIV align=left>1. What are you best at? Better than anything else that you do.</DIV> <DIV align=left>2. What is your favorite memory prior to highschool?</DIV> <DIV align=left>3. What is your biggest dream or aspiration in the near or distant future? What must you do to accomplish this goal?</DIV> <DIV align=left>4. Creative story and cover</DIV> <DIV align=left> </DIV> <H3 align=center>MP-3 </H3> <DIV>4/7 - Pick a character from Hamlet</DIV> <DIV> - Why is the play important to this character?</DIV> <DIV> - What will be revealed to this character?</DIV> <DIV> - What will they do with this new information?</DIV> <DIV>3/31 - Page 26 read<BR> </DIV> <DIV>3/25 - Begin reading <U>Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead</U></DIV> <DIV> 3/24 - Completed packets handed in</DIV> <DIV> - Homework: Choose one of the characters analyzed and pick which trait out of those described best describes your overall character. Answer specifically on the packet's backside.</DIV> <DIV>3/20 - Page 9 of workshop written</DIV> <DIV> - Last chance to hand in make-ups for late assignments/re-dos</DIV> <DIV>3/19 - Second analysis pages due </DIV> <DIV> 1. How did ______ change from start to finish?</DIV> <DIV> 2. Was it good/bad, right/wrong what happened to _______? Why?</DIV> <DIV> 3. Did _______ die (Horatio live) as a good or a bad person?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3/13 - (1) Analysis pages due</DIV> <DIV> 1. What is _____________'s motivation? What is _____________ being motivated toward?<BR> </DIV> <DIV> 2. What does __________ want more than anything?<BR> </DIV> <DIV> 3. What is likely to happen to _______? (Use text evidence to back up theory)<BR> </DIV> <DIV> -(1) Hamlet quiz</DIV> <DIV> -Page 8 of workshop should be written</DIV> <DIV>3/11 - (6) Hamlet quiz <BR> - (6) Analysis pages due</DIV> <DIV>3/6 - Page 7 of workshop should be written<BR> </DIV> <DIV>2/27 - Gates revisions due</DIV> <DIV>2/24 - Tijuana article introduction and conclusion due<BR> </DIV> <DIV>2/13 - Complete Gates response <BR> </DIV> <DIV>2/6 - Hand in Katrina/Miller's Tale completed paragraphs </DIV> <DIV>1/16 - mid-term prep</DIV> <DIV>1/14 - extra credit due</DIV> <DIV>1/13 - In class reading </DIV> <DIV> 1/12 - Read up to page 6<BR> </DIV> <DIV>1/7 - What is your opinion of the knight? </DIV> <DIV>1/6 - Self Embedding worksheets due</DIV> <DIV> - Begin The Wife of Bath's Tale <BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1/5 - Sonnet projects due</DIV> <BR> <DIV align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: red"> Mandatory Writer's Workshop Topics</SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV>1. Song lyrics story (with lyrics)</DIV> <DIV>2. What is the meaning of the painting, "Son of Man" </DIV> <DIV>3. Agree/disagree with quote, "society must be cleansed of elements which represent its own death." </DIV> <DIV>4. Choose a book/movie/video game/etc. and write a new and different ending than the original </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>9/11/08<BR> 1. Voluptuous – adj - given to or spent in enjoyment of luxury, pleasure, or sensual gratifications<BR> 2. Piquant – adj - agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; attractive<BR> 3. Wanton – adj - without regard for what is right, just, humane<BR> 4. Corpulent – adj – stout, fat<BR> 5. Perverse – adj – Persistent in what is wrong<BR> 6. Contagion – N - the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact<BR> 7. Sagacious – adj - shrewd, keen in practical matters<BR> 8. Bereft – adj – deprived of; made unhappy through a loss<BR> 9. Verbatim – adj/avd – word for word, exactly as written or spoken<BR> 10. Reiterate – V – to say again, repeat<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> 9/18/08<BR> 11. Augment – V – to make larger, increase<BR> 12. Stolid – adj – not easily moved mentally or emotionally<BR> 13. Unkempt – adj – not combed, untidy<BR> 14. Warily – adv – cautiously, with great care<BR> 15. Opulent – adj – wealthy, luxurious<BR> 16. Guise – n – an external appearance, cover, mask<BR> 17. Fortitude – n– courage in facing difficulties<BR> 18. Gape – v – to stare with open mouth<BR> 19. Pliable – adj – easily bent, flexible; easily influenced<BR> 20. Ambidextrous – adj – able to use both hands equally well<BR> <DIV><BR> </DIV> 10/10<BR> 1. Auspicious – adj - favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate<BR> 2. Audacity – n - boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety<BR> 3. Aurora – n - a radiant emission from the upper atmosphere in the form of luminous bands<BR> 4. Austere – adj - severe in manner or appearance, strict<BR> 5. Autonomy – n - independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions, self governing<BR> 6. Clandestine – adj - characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, deception<BR> 7. Eclipse – n - the obscuration of the light of the moon or sun by the position of the moon, sun, and earth<BR> 8. Monocle – n - an eyeglass for one eye<BR> 9. Palindrome – n - a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.<BR> <DIV>10. Canorous – adj - melodious; musical. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV align=center></DIV> <DIV align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Poetry Vocabulary</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. Simile - Comparison of two unlike things using like or as<BR> </DIV> <DIV>2. Metaphor - Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as<BR> </DIV> <DIV>3. Mood - The atmosphere or feeling of a situation <BR> </DIV> <DIV>4. Tone - The pitch of a voice which leads to the mood of a situation<BR> </DIV> <DIV>5. Imagery - visually descriptive language that heavily details something using any of the senses so that the reader is able to see, taste, smell, feel, smell, or hear that object in question<BR> </DIV> <DIV>6. Allusion - indirect reference<BR> </DIV> <DIV>7. Repetition - A word, phrase, or idea that is repeated to reach a specified effect<BR> </DIV> <DIV>8. Personification - Giving an inanimate object human traits </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red">Mid-term</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Keep in mind that if you have lost copies of stories or poems, if you google the author and title you can find them very easily.<BR> <BR> Short Stories<BR> - Story of an Hour<BR> - Popular Mechanics<BR> - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge<BR> <BR> Poetry<BR> - Sonnets<BR> - Ozymandias<BR> - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening<BR> - The Train<BR> - Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers<BR> - Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh Grade Viking Warrior<BR> - Jabberwocky<BR> - Digging<BR> <BR> Perks of Being a Wallflower<BR> <BR> Vocabulary<BR> - Poetry terms<BR> - 30 vocab words<BR> <BR> Essay<BR> - 4+ paragraphs<BR> - Full sentences<BR> - Developed thesis<BR> - Relevant examples taken from text Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? 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