Week of February 29

First of all, what are you going to do with your bonus day in 2016??? Make Monday count! :)

Monday, 2/29
Cavaliers

Tuesday, 3/1
DPS

Wednesday, 3/2
DPS

Thursday, 3/3
DPS

Friday, 3/4
Journals due
Passionate Shepherd Poetry

Lit Terms 3

More of a mix this week! Exciting stuff!

Anastrophe
Metonymy
Realism
Hypotactic
Litotes
Syllepsis
Polysyndeton
Apostrophe
Elegy
Paradox

Week of February 15

I am really excited about how well you all did on that practice multiple choice test. I think that if we continue to focus and work hard, we are going to be happy with our results this year.

Monday, 2/15
NO SCHOOL! Rest! Have fun!

Tuesday, 2/16
Outside Reading Palindromic Writing Activity Due
Outside Reading Love Month Creative Project Due
Intro to Heart of Darkness
Part 1 for homework
Lit Terms 3

Wednesday, 2/17
Discussion over HOD part 1
HOD Part 2 for homework

Thursday, 2/18
TT

Friday, 2/19
Part 2 discussion
Part 3 for homework
Lit Terms Quiz
Mac Essay Due

Independent Love Month Book Assessment

Part 1
Your reading quiz is to answer the question (edits mine) below, which was the AP open question in 2011. You should circle the "illuminating moment" in your answer and then underline the evidence that explains how it opens into the meaning of the work as a whole. Underline twice where you explain the meaning of the work as a whole. If you merely give plot summary, it's an automatic zero.

In The Writing of Fiction (1925), novelist Edith Wharton states the following:
At every stage in the progress of his tale the novelist must rely on what may be called the illuminating incident to reveal and emphasize the inner meaning of each situation. Illuminating incidents are the magic casements of fic- tion, its vistas on infinity.
Choose a novel or play that you have studied and write a well-organized essay paragraph in which you describe an “illuminating” episode or moment and explain how it functions as a “casement,” a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary. 

Part 2
Palindromic writing- Due Tuesday, 2/16

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

Link to the Mac Articles

Insane Root article about the nature of evil

Shakespeare and the uses of power article

Week of February 8

Monday, 2/8
Discussion over Macbeth critical piece
Poetry

Tuesday, 2/9
AP Practice
Mac Project/Memorization due

Wednesday, 2/10
AP Practice test
Mac Packet due

Thursday, 2/11
1-MC Prac
2-TT

Friday, 2/12
Outside Reading Activity
Journals due

Interesting Article

I referenced this really interesting article in class in regard to interests in sociology, psychology, political science, etc.. If you want to check it out, the link is below.

*This was referenced with the second group, not the first.

Article

Lit Terms 2

These 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 February 1

I have enjoyed Macbeth with you just as much as I KNEW I would. :) Thank you. We are finishing it out this week!

Monday, 2/1
Lit Terms 2
Mac Act IV

Tuesday, 2/2
Macbeth Act V

Wednesday, 2/3
Macbeth Act V

Thursday, 2/4
Ther Thur

Friday, 2/5
Macbeth Writing
Thesis and MC
Lit Terms Quiz 2

Weekend: Our Digital Selves Assignment on Blog
Due- Monday, 2/22