Lit Terms 1 (Semester 2)

Staying easy in Week 1. Most of these are words you at least vaguely know. Remember, become very familiar not only with the definition, but with examples of these. :)

Motif
Parallel Structure
Allusion
Conceit
Parable
Free Verse
Diction
Romance (not of the Friday night/Valentine's Day variety)
Couplet
Connotation

HAPPY SHORT WEEK!!!

You know I love Shakespeare. :) And so I can't wait for us to read Macbeth. AND WE GET TO START NOW!!!! Looking forward to some great discussion and a night together to watch the PBS version! Also, lit terms this week! Remember!

Monday, 1/20
OFF!!! Enjoy and relax.

Tuesday, 1/21
Macbeth Act I

Wednesday, 1/22
Act I

Thursday, 1/23
1-Flashcards
2-TT

Friday, 1/24
Lit Terms Quiz
Macbeth Act II

FREE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOOK!!!!! Not just for the Love Month book but for ANY great classic you could use on the AP test!!! It's a link with TONS of free ebook classic works on it! CHECK IT OUT!

The Gateway to Your Heart's Greatest Desires

AP Works Frequently Used on the Test

As you pick books for the "Love Month" assignment AND later in the semester, you might be curious to know which works tend to appear on the Question 3 part of the test. Here is a link that will take you to a complete list, including frequency.

AP Works

Sonnet Annotation Activity

Step 1: Pick a sonnet. It does not have to be written by Shakespeare (or Petrarch), but it DOES need to fit the sonnet form and be a well-written poem. The websites below will help you come up with one. Do NOT take too long to find one, but DO select a sonnet that you like and understand.

Shakespearean

Other sonnets (click on the poet's name and it will take you to that page, then you can click on sonnets written by that poet)

Step 2: Annotate the sonnet using the comments feature of the word processing program. First, copy and paste the sonnet into the document (including title and poet). Next, break it apart (the longer version of what you will do during the AP test on the poetry question), making notes and analysis. The websites below will help in this process. I am hoping we all know how to use the comments feature because I couldn't find a website with a tutorial for whatever generic version of word processing is on these machines...

Annotation Guides

Mr. Prestney, whom you probably wish was your teacher...

A wiki with a great example of what an annotated poem LOOKS like...

If that link doesn't work from school, here is another link.

Week of January 13

Breathe in, breathe out! Remember your new habits of mind and body that you are going to incorporate this semester! 5 21-day cycles, starting this week...

Monday, 1/13
Computer lab to annotate a sonnet

Tuesday, 1/14
Intro to Unit 3
Homework: Read Sir Gawaine and Le Morte from the book

Wednesday, 1/15
Sir Gawaine, Le Morte

Thursday, 1/16
1-TT
2- MC Practice

Friday, 1/17
Intro seminar to Macbeth

AP "Love" Month Book List

*For Whom the Bell Tolls~Ernest Hemingway

*Jane Eyre~Charlotte Bronte

*Pride and Prejudice~Jane Austen Ashlee

Wuthering Heights~Emily Bronte

The English Patient~Michael Ondaatje Taylor*

Atonement~Ian McEwen Megan*

Never Let Me Go~Kazura Ishiguro Logan and Nick

Antony and Cleopatra~William Shakespeare

A Farewell to Arms~Ernest Hemingway

A Midsummer Night’s Dream~William Shakespeare

Emma~Jane Austen Chauncey and Abby

Sense and Sensibility~Jane Austen

A Thousand Spendid Suns~Khaled Hosseini

*Nectar in a Sieve~Kamala Markandava Samantha

*Ethan Fromme~Edith Wharton

*The Age of Innocence~Edith Wharton

Les Miserables~Victor Hugo Forrest

Water for Elephants~Sara Gruen Mikaela

Doctor Zhivago~Boris Pasternak Leigh

The Postmistress~Sarah Blake Meredith

Wicked~Gregory Maguire Hannah

*A Thousand Acres~Jane Smiley

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Love Walked In~Marisa de los Santos

*Cold Mountain~Charles Frazier

Memoirs of a Geisha~Arthur Golden Kelsey

The Time Traveler’s Wife~Audrey Niffenegger

Love in the Time of Cholera~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cider House Rules~John Irving

*Anna Karenina~Leo Tolstoy

Train to Pakistan~Khushwant Singh

*Things Fall Apart~Chinua Achebe

*The Mermaid Chair~Sue Monk Kidd

*The Fountainhead~Ayn Rand

Cutting for Stone~Abraham Verghese

King Lear~William Shakespeare

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Tyler*

The Book Thief~Markus Zusak Nora

The Awakening~Kate Chopin Lorne
The Scarlet Letter~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Passage to India~E.M.Forster Harrison

Villette ~Charlotte Bronte Charlotte

The Little Prince Matthew

Great Expectations- Dickens Oksana

On the Road Mark

The Tempest Aimee

The Great Gatsby Brandon*

Farenheit 451 Parker*

When the Emporer was Divine Nanea*