Lit Terms 4A

Pun
Figurative Language
Allegory
Style
Tragedy
Point of View
Persuasion
Simile

Week of 11/11

I don't know how you felt, other than the ones of you I have asked, but I thoroughly enjoyed the full seminar we had on Friday! I think it just peps things up a little more and provides more energy when we are all together as a full class. :)

This week we are going to finish Frankenstein and move on into satire for Unit 2. I LOVED the discussion today, by the way.

Monday, 11/11
HAMLET REVISED ESSAY DUE
Finish the seminar in small groups
Frankenstein FUN

Tuesday, 11/12
Frank Silent Discussion
Writing assigned

Wednesday, 11/13
Sub
Frank I am the Test Master

Thursday, 11/14
Group 1- TT
Group 2- Bring an annotated copy of "The Scarlet Ibis" for AP activity

Friday, 11/15
Satire
JOURNALS DUE

Week of November 4

Unit 2 starts..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................NOW!

Monday, 11/4
Intro to Unit 2

Tuesday, 11/5
Short Class
Show Hamlet Projects

Wednesday, 11/6
Frank as Gothic novel

Thursday, 11/7
1-Short story prac
2- Ther Thur
All- Ham revised essay due

Friday, 11/8
Frankenstein Seminar

Incredible Debate -- Too Many Kids go to College

Debate I told you about is found here.

Week of 10/28

Guess what?!?!?! Unit 1 is actually finally almost over! :) Seriously, I know it's been a long one and I just wanted you to know that I have had a wonderful nine weeks with you thus far. You are smart, fun, NON-WHINY people and that goes a long way. :)  

Monday, 10/28
Literary Graffiti
Hamlet years article for h/w

Tuesday, 10/29
Hamlet essay due
Peer read essay
Hamlet discussion
Articles for h/w

Wednesday, 10/30
Rhetorical Precis

Thursday, 10/31
1- TT
2- MC Practice

Friday, 11/1
Test over Unit 1
Hamlet Project due

Lit Terms 3A

Flashback
Theme
Narrative
Fable
Symbol
Dialect
Plot
Vernacular
Personification
Soliloquy

Week of 10/21

I may have missed writing this last week. Sorry... Well, at some point, some day, we are finishing Hamlet. :) Hopefully soon.

Monday, 10/21
Hamlet Act IV explained
Lit Terms 3A

Tuesday, 10/22
Hamlet Act IV/V

Wednesday, 10/23
Hamlet Catchup

Thursday, 10/24
1-Hamlet MC (Group 2 needs to turn them in this day, Group 1 will work on it)
2- TT

Friday, 10/25
Hamlet Passage Q
Hamlet Open Essay Q for H/w
Lit Terms 3A quiz

Week of 9/30

I know we are basically on track (give or take a day) with Hamlet, but I feel like we are taking sooooo long to get into it! That's the (one) downside I see to a skinny. Also... LAST WEEK BEFORE FALL BREAK!!! :) (Sad part being that we are one fourth of the way finished with our time together.) :(

Monday, 9/30
Lit Terms Quiz left from Friday
Hamlet Act I

Tuesday, 10/1
Hamlet Act II

Wednesday, 10/2
Hamlet Act II

Thursday, 10/3
1-TT
2- MC

Friday, 10/4
Hamlet II or III

Lit Terms Quiz 2A

More easy words!

Epithet
Epic
Anecdote
Argument
Mood
Exposition
Rhetoric
Stream of Consciousness
Flat Character
Parody

Week of 9/23

HAMLET! HAMLET! HAMLET! :) I can't wait to read this play with you.

Monday, 9/23
Intro to Hamlet
Lit Terms 2A
Assign Frank
Hamlet/Sh notes

Tuesday, 9/24
Hamlet Act I

Wednesday, 9/25
Ham Act I

Thursday, 9/26
1- Flashcard comp
2- TT

Friday, 9.27
Lit Terms 2A Quiz
Hamlet Act I

Week of 9/13

ALCHEMIST WEEK!!!!!!!!! You know how excited I am.

Monday, 9/16
Alchemist quote response
Finish discussion

Tuesday, 9/17
Alchemist work
Symbols

Wednesday, 9/18
Symbols work

Thursday, 9/19
1- Therapeutic Thursday
2- MC Test

Friday, 9/20
College App final draft due
Journals due
AP Writing activity

Week of 9/9

Welcome to crazy town! This week's schedule is a little off but we will persevere. :) Just so you know, September holds two of my FAVORITE works this year! (If I were being honest, I would say that ALL of them are my favorite.)

Monday, 9/9
College Day
Bring The Alchemist or something else to read

Tuesday, 9/10
Peer Read College App Essay
Allusions

Wednesday, 9/11
The Alchemist
Discussion

Thursday, 9/12
1-MC Prac
2-TT

Friday, 9/13
Alchemist

Week of 9/3

IT'S SEPTEMBER ALREADY!!! :) Here we go!

Monday, 9/2
HAVE FUN!

Tuesday, 9/3
Lit Terms 1A Quiz
Assign College App essay
Finish AP essays

Wednesday, 9/4
Group AP Grading

Thursday, 9/5
1-TT
2- MC Grading

Friday, 9/6
Group AP Grading

First Lines

I had mentioned my own obsession with first lines to each group when you did your (separate) Therapeutic Thursdays over first lines. As I said to Group 2, it's really fascinating to go back and read a first line once you have completed the book to sort of see if the author delivered on his or her promise/negotiation with you, as well as to see if the first line wove through the rest of the book. I just went through my shelves here in my classroom and looked at my favorites to see how the lines measure up to the books. I have to say, I was really interested and thrilled to read them. Here are just a few of my favorites from my shelves here at school:

"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."
~Jeanette Walls, Half-Broke Horses

"Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have."
~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."
~Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it through my head until it got easy."
~Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a dumpster."
~Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle

"Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl. Everyone would see me coming. Maybe I would visit with you for the weekend and then suddenly, because I am fickle like that, I would visit with the man from the corner shop instead-- but you would not be sad because you would be eating a cinnamon bun, or drinking a cold Coca-Cola from the can, and you would never think of me again. We would be happy, like lovers who met on holiday and forgot each other's names."
~Chris Cleave, Little Bee

"First the colors.
      Then the humans.
      That's usually how I try to see things.
      Or at least, how I try.
                         ****Here is a small fact*****
                         You are going to die."
~Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

I will also tell you, in looking through my favorites, two that had disappointing first lines yet were incredible books. I was surprised to find that the first lines of The Things They Carried and Reading Lolita in Tehran were not at all examples of the beautiful writing that can be found in the rest of the book. The first line of Heart of Darkness (a book I LOVE, but not necessarily for the succinctness of the writing) was also a bummer.

What books are your favorites? Does the first line deliver? Use the comments session to INTERACT WITH ME. :)

Lit Terms 1A- Quiz Friday, 8/30

Easy, easy, easy... This week's (and really the whole semester's) terms are so easy. Remember the format of the quiz for Friday is that you will be quizzed over ONE of these (randomly) and you won't know which one until you get the quiz. You will need to be able to define and answer an application questions.

Form
Tone
Imagery
Essay
Onomatopoeia
Static Character
Metaphor
Rhythm
Cliche
Ambiguity (in literature)

Week of 8/26

People. I am LOVING my time with you. For seriously. You are smart, you are willing to discuss, you are sweet and fun and honestly, some of you are nerdy too and I LOVE that. :) It's been a good three weeks. This upcoming week is a little different because we are focusing on AP practice, but we will get through it and might even learn a few things and then next week will be back to (sort of) normal. :)

Monday, 8/26
Prologue memorization due
Say, Mean, Satire during memorization
Stretch your Brain
Lit Terms 1A online

Tuesday, 8/27
Poetry Practice

Wednesday, 8/28
Prose Practice

Thursday, 8/29
1- MC Prac
2-TT

Friday, 8/30
Open Essay Prac
Lit Terms 1A Quiz

Week of 8/19

Pretty good first couple of weeks! I enjoyed our discussion on Friday (and especially our Therapeutic Thursday) and I know that more of you will start participating in discussion as we progress into our year together (right? right?). :)

Monday, 8/19
Discuss Prologue, Part 2
"Pardoner's Tale" for H/W

Tuesday, 8/20
Discussion "Pardoner's Tale"
"Wife of Bath's Tale" for H/W

Wednesday, 8/21
WOB Discussion

Thursday, 8/22
1- TT- Meredith and Chauncey
2-MC Prac

Friday, 8/23
Timed Open Question over Character

Prologue Link

I am giving you some class time to read (in the hopes that we get our new books SOON), but in case you didn't get finished in class, below is a link to the prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Read down to
"The Cook" by Friday. We will discuss that first part in class on Friday. We will discuss "The Cook" through the end on Monday.

Prologue can be found here.

In addition, lines 1-18 on the left-hand column are the part you will memorize in Middle English. A link to the audio is below. Memorization is due 8/26.

ME Prologue Memorization

Welcome in, CLASS OF 2014!!!

You are really here... beginning of your senior year. And I have to tell you, I am so glad that you have chosen to spend part of it in AP English with ME! I hope the year brings knowledge and companionship and insight and critical thinking and communication and all things good. :) 

Here is our schedule for our first full week:

Monday, 8/12

Classics Discussion

Self-Assessment

Tuesday, 8/13

Intro to Search for Identity

Wednesday, 8/14

C-T Notes

Read Part 1 of Prologue

Thursday, 8/15

Therapeutic Thurs (I model it)

Friday, 8/16

Discussion over Part 1 of Prologue

Read part 2

Journals due

You've Got This. You're Fine.

I realized at some point this year that these are the two phrases I say most often. I'm not sure what it says about this generation, but I think it says that you are somewhat unsure at times and in need of encouragement and prodding... or maybe it's not your generation, but just your age. Either way, we have come to the end of a year of writing, reading (OH.SO.MUCH.READING), discussion (even more of that than reading, in fact), eating (Therapeutic Thursdays for the win!), questioning, and growing. It's the growing that keeps me coming back for more. You have grown as writers, conversationalists, readers, annotators, and yes, even teachers. I have loved watching some of you man a Therapeutic Thursday like you had an education degree in your back pocket. Best of all, though, you've grown as people. You came in very differently than you are leaving... some of you were excited, some dreading it, some really nervous about a first honors English class... but you are all leaving as accomplished scholars. So, exactly a week after your final projects were submitted and grades were completed, almost a week after that AP test we are all hoping for good results from, and almost a week after you walked across the stage in that cap and gown, I say to you:

You've got this. You're fine.

Life holds a lot in store for you all and college is going to be a whole lot more of the same push and pull and stress and joy that high school was. But you are going to succeed no matter where you end up or what you do. From UT to TN Tech to a military base to Cleveland State to Lee to Vanderbilt or GA Tech to full-time work to all of the places in between... You've got this. You're fine. And I am so glad I got to be along for part of the ride.

Even at the End, They Shine...

Final projects in AP were to come up with a thesis statement that can be threaded through at least three of the works from this semester, then write a two page paper and do a visual project on that thesis. They. Were. Awesome. 

As long as there has been life, there has been pursuit. Plants strive to survive, animals fight for dominance, but sentient life is more complicated.

~Erin

Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Macbeth

If it can change you, it will change you.

~David C

Heart of Darkness, Macbeth, Frankenstein

Society, or the lack thereof, has an impact on the individual whether it shapes, influences, or changes him.

~Carolyn

Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, Grendel

The process of self-discovery is a long and complicated journey that everyone must go through.

~Kaedee

Hamlet, Grendel, The Alchemist

Fate, the preordained set of events occurring throughout human life and history, is an important idea.

~Kelsey

The Alchemist, Frankenstein, Macbeth

Relationships with others are the driving force behind one's actions whatever the intent of those actions may be; some positive, some negative, some pure ignorance and curiosity, but all actions determined by the presence of others impacting them.

~Melissa

The Alchemist, Macbeth, Grendel

A journey is not only a distance or a destination; the point is what you want to experience and how you choose to travel.

~Molly

The Alchemist, Frankenstein, Grendel

There is always a choice between good and evil.

~Alicia

Frankenstein, Grendel, Macbeth

In every lifetime, there comes a time when he or she feels utterly alone.

~Anna

The Alchemist, Frankenstein, Grendel

Trying to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing everything it can to make you somebody you aren't is to fight the hardest battle you will ever fight.

~Jessica

Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Macbeth, and Grendel

We all have a desire to be accepted, and this is portrayed in the hearts of these monstrosities.

~Karrah

Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Grendel

To find out what you have, you must discover what you don't need.

~Olivia

The Alchemist, Frankenstein

We change through our literature.

~Victoria

The Alchemist, Memoirs of a Geisha, Macbeth

Books are a lot more like blankets than anyone seems to notice. They have a funny way of comforting you when you are looking for comfort, or simply when you are cold and in desperate need of warmth. ... The books I've read this year have warmed me when the heat wasn't working-- and they've pulled the covers from me when I needed a sobering night of winter air or rainy draught. 

There is not central thread. Every blanket is made of many threads. All threads are alike because they are all threads-- they make up all blankets and all books. But the threads do not step at the edge of the page or the corner of the bed; they go deep inside of me, and I may wind them and sew them as I please. What I pull from each, what I discover about myself in each, is the theme. What is life? Life is a bunch of threads.

~Derek

Heart of Darkness, Anthem, and Frankenstein

 Society is so powerful that it's able to shape, change, and mold a person.

~Alexis

The Alchemist, Frankenstein

The literary view of evil has reacted to empirical discoveries and changes in popular perception by shifting the origin of a character's evil from his own nature to his social context. 

~Grant

Beowulf, Macbeth, Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, and Grendel

Forced isolation creates a greater appreciation for community and companionship.

~Jesse

Grendel, Frankenstein, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Death can provide a background for other themes and ideas within a literary work.

~Jesus

Frankenstein, Hamlet, Grendel

Humans should not quickly judge or conform to the general consensus, but instead be open to ideas and opinions, flaws and disappointments.

~Katlin

The Alchemist, Hamlet, Macbeth

People are ultimately, irreparably, bound to be shaped, for better or worse, by the expectations and actions bestowed upon them by their peers.

~Eduardo

Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, Atonement

It is beyond their common state where ultimate truths are revealed and their responses ultimately determine their lives with the choices they make.

~Leslie

The Alchemist, Heart of Darkness, Grendel, and Frankenstein

We are shaped by our creators, our monsters, and the society into which we are born.

~Tiffany

Frankenstein, Grendel, and The Kite Runner

Who we are reflects back at ourselves through our literature.

~Walker

The Alchemist, Grendel, and Frankenstein

Motivation comes from various sources such as the pressures of society, the effects of isolation, the gain of fame and power, and the desire to help people in need.

~Justin

A Passage to India, Frankenstein, Macbeth

Lit Terms 6

Keep pushing!

Naturalism
Modernism
Epigraph
Antihero
Juxtaposition
Periodic sentence
Apposition
Tricolon
Antithesis
Causal relationship

AP Updates/Reminders

I have decided against a take-home test for this particular unit. Instead, we will take it immediately upon our return from spring break. It will cover everything in this unit, but just looking back at your notes should be sufficient. In addition, I need you to read Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" over break. Both are in the reddish book or are easily accessible online. These will be covered by the test as well. Finally, make certain that you have Grendel finished by the Wed after break. We may not get to it immediately, but you need to be ready. Have a wonderful rest of this week and restful and fun Spring Break! The time is going to fly by once we return. I miss you already! Please be safe over the break. Love you guys!!!

Week of 3/11

Had to a little reshuffling for the prior-arranged absences this week, so your original calendar is a little off. Sorry about that....

Monday, 3/11
HOD work DUE!
Get Lit Terms from the other post
Watch DPS

Tuesday, 3/12
Watch DPS

Wednesday, 3/13
Cavalier poetry

Thursday, 3/14
1- AP Prac
2- Ther Thurs

Friday, 3/15
Finish DPS

Lit Terms 5

Getting close now....

Lyric poem
Inversion (in grammar and comp)
Oxymoron
Puritanism
Epanalepsis
Anthropomorphism
Syntactic Permutation
Epistrophe
Antimetabole
Transcendentalism

Samples for the LOVE Month Assessment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpHj__259aQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTLdrHNei3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfCe4ubG9UM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWMie44xr-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALDrCjeXxQ

Week of 3/4

I really appreciate the attention you gave Heart of Darkness and the way you did NOT constantly interject negative opinions. You all are truly the best.

Monday, 3/4
HOD final discussion and written assignment
Mac work DUE

Tuesday, 3/5
Independent Reading assessment

Wednesday, 3/6
Independent Reading presentation

Thursday, 3/7
Therapeutic Thursday

Friday, 3/8
Metaphysical writing (Donne)

Lit Terms 4

More, more, more! We are getting good.

Syntactic fluency
Regionalism
Chiasmus
Anaphora
Plain style (in writing)
Unity (in the grammatical sense)
Rationalism
Aphorism
Synecdoche
Didactic

Week of 2.25

Monday, 2/25
Finish Part 1 discussion, discuss Part 2
Part 3 for homework

Tuesday, 2/26
Discuss Part 3

Wednesday, 2/27
Catch up HOD

Thursday, 2/28
1- short story
2-TT

Friday, 3/1
Lit Terms 4 Quiz
HOD work

Have I been good to you? Want to reciprocate?

I want to say, to the perhaps two of you who check this blog, that I am kind of dreading this week and next because I think it has become fashionable and legendary to hate Heart of Darkness. I don't know who started it many years ago, but I do know that everyone thinks it's the "in thing" to hate it. I would like, VERY MUCH, for you to open your minds and ignore your biases against it and give it a fair shot. It is a dense book, but very short. There are complex themes, but big ideas that generate great discussion. It is dark (hence the title), but chock full of imagery. JUST GIVE IT A TRY. OK?

Week of 2/19

The most important piece of this week is to REMEMBER YOUR DUE DATES!!!

Mac Recitation/Creative Project-- Tuesday
Mac Digital Project-- Wednesday
Mac AP Work-- Friday

This week we will leave Macbeth in our wake as our riverboat steams through the Congo. And I hope you will happily come along.

Tuesday, 2/19
Mac Recitation/Project due

Wednesday, 2/20
Intro to HOD
Read Part 1 for homework
MAC DIGITAL DUE

Thursday, 2/21
1- TT
2- Short stories

Friday, 2/22
HOD Part 1 discussion
Read Part 2 for h/w
MAC AP WORK DUE

To make you smile...

Lit Terms 3

More of a mix this week! Exciting stuff!

Anastrophe
Metonymy
Realism
Hypotactic
Litotes
Syllepsis
Polysyndeton
Apostrophe
Elegy
Paradox

Week of 2/11

Yall have been just wonderful (as always) with Macbeth. See what I meant when I said it was way easier than Hamlet??? This week we will wrap it up and do what has become one of my very favorite assignments. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

Monday, 2/11
Mac Act V
Writing and MC if there is time

Tuesday, 2/12
Our Digital Selves lesson

Wednesday, 2/13
Our Digital Selves lesson

Thursday, 2/14
THERAPEUTIC THUR AND VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Friday, 2/15
Lit Terms 3 quiz (post up)
Our Digital Selves
JOURNALS DUE

Week of February 4

Let me first wax poetic and tell you how happy it makes my heart (#seewhatIdidthere?) (that hashtag was for you, Grant) for you all to so enthusiastically sign up for books for our Love Month assignment. You are HONESTLY just the best people. You never almost never complain about work and you are up to any task. I just love spending part of my day with you. :)

Monday, 2/4
Mac Act IV

Tuesday, 2/5
Mac Act IV

Wednesday, 2/6
Mac Act V

Thursday, 2/7
1- TT
2- Grade last MC (BRING IT COMPLETED)
Mac work

Friday, 2/8
Mac Act V

Week of 1/28

Time-- SLOW DOWN! January is nearly spent. (Doesn't that sound Shakespearean to you?) Anyway, we are now TWO days behind, but again... did I mention pajama days??? I'll take them. :) We'll get it all done.

Monday, 1/28
Finish Mac I
Hopefully start Mac II

Tuesday, 1/29
Mac II

Wednesday, 1/30
Mac II

Thursday, 1/31
1- AP Test prac
2- TT

Friday, 2/1
Mac III
Lit terms quiz 2

The lit terms are published to the post right before this one!

Lit Terms 2

These are for a quiz on Friday, Feb. 1. I just thought you might want them early to have two weeks to study them since they are a bit harder than the first ones. I'm mixing grammar/multiple choice type terms with true literary terms AND literary time periods for this week. You're welcome. Also, meet the irony brothers.

Asyndeton
Confessional poetry
Irony
Dramatic irony
Situational irony
Verbal irony
Impressionism
Surrealism
Telegraphic sentence
Hyperbole

Week of January 21

Although being off schedule makes me nuts, being off schedule for a pajama day at home makes it a little better. ;)  It's time for ...............................

MACBETH!!!!

I know yall say I am excited about everything (and I AM!!!), but seriously... Macbeth is awesome.

Anyway, this week's schedule is:

Monday, 1/21
OFF

Tuesday, 1/22
Lit Terms quiz leftover from Friday off
PROJECTS DUE!
Mac Act I

Wednesday, 1/23
Mac Act I

Thursday, 1/24
1-TT
2-AP Test Practice

Friday, 1/25
Mac Act II

5 Virtues

First of all, for you non-twits, this is what I just tweeted:
Dear AP: I loved every moment of today. I am so glad we weren't home for flooding. You guys are awesome! #5virtueblogpostisup

But for real... though I do love a good day at home, today's class was just perfect. Discussion was awesome over Sir Gawain, your questions were relevant and insightful, you took us beyond the text... I LOVED IT ALL!!! So, thank you.

I had mentioned that I had wanted you to list your 5 Virtues that either govern your life or that you would like to have govern your life. Please feel free to answer this question in the comments section since we didn't get time to do it in class.

I will list my 5 below. I had a difficult time narrowing mine down to 5, but here they are.

Faith
Order
Intention
Relationship
Goodness

Week of 1.14

Well, I messed up first thing this week, so today and tomorrow are a little off. (Well, technically I messed up at the end of last week...) I am so excited to do Macbeth with you guys!!! I really think you are going to love it and get so much out of it. In fact, I love all of this Unit 3.

Monday, 1/14
Sir Gawaine/Le Morte (IN CLASS) :(
Brief intro to Unit 3

Tuesday, 1/15
Talk about Gawaine, Le Morte

Wednesday, 1/16
Macbeth Intro Seminar

Thursday, 1/17
1- Archetypes
2- TT

Friday, 1/18
Macbeth Act I
Lit Terms Quiz-- WHAT??? Yes. I am starting a new cram-for-the-AP-test-probably-what-we-should-have-done-all-year lit terms quiz each week or every other week. It is replacing the vocabulary that I tossed this year. You will get ten lit terms each week (or every other week). You need to both memorize the definition AND be able to either provide or recognize examples. This week's words are easy AND located on the blog post immediately below this one. :)

Something NEW! 1/14 Lit Terms

I'm going easy in Week 1. Most of these are words you at least vaguely know. 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

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...

English 228 with a great example of what an annotated poem LOOKS like...

Round Two... The End... Last Hill of the High School Roller Coaster...

We're back, and we're better than ever!!! :) I am truly happy that I get to spend one last semester with you. It was so nice yesterday, in the midst of a day of the unknown, to get to relax during 2nd period with people I already know I love. Haha! Anyway, like I told you yesterday, this next unit is a pretty easy one and I expect you to really get to relax and have fun with Macbeth.

Tuesday, 1/8
Sonnet Partner work
MC for H/W

Wednesday, 1/9
Computer lab activity (annotate a sonnet)

Thursday, 1/10
1-TT
2-Archetypes

Friday, 1/11
Sonnet AP question practice
JOURNALS DUE