Lit Terms 2

These are a little harder! Sorry I'm a few days late getting them up!

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

Hamlet Memorization

Ok, people! Here are your memorization options for Hamlet. REMEMBER: You have to do a memorization and a project over the course of Hamlet and Macbeth. THIS MEANS: If you do memorization over Hamlet, you will do a creative project over Macbeth. If you choose to wait for the memorization for Macbeth, you need to do a creative project over Hamlet. Got it? This won't be due until October 17, so you have lots of time, but... GET BUSY. :) 

Have a fabulous fall break!!! 

Option 1

Act I, scene ii, lines 129-158

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d

His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, 

Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Fie on’t! ah fie! ‘tis an unweeded garden,

That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature

Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:

So excellent a king; that was, to this,

Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!

Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on: and yet within a month--

Let me not think on’t-- Frailty, thy name is woman!--

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With which she followed my poor father’s body,

Like Niobe, all tears:-- why she, even she--

O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,

Would have mourn’d longer-- married with my uncle,

My father’s brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules: within a month:

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

She married. O, most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to most incestuous sheets!

It is not nor it cannot come to good:

But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.

 Option 2

Act II, scene ii

Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?

Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?

Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ th’ throat,

As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?

Ha!

Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be

But I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall

To make oppression bitter, or ere this

I should have fatted all the region kites

With this slave’s offal: bloody, bawdy villain!

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

O, vengeance!

Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave

That I, the son of a dear father murdere’d,

Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,

Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,

And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,

A stallion!

Fie upon ‘t! foh! About, my brains! Hum, I have heard

That guilty creatures sitting at a play

Have by the very cunning of the scene

Been struck so to the soul that presently

They have proclaim’d their malefactions;

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

With most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players 

Play something like the murder of my father

Before mine uncle: I’ll observe his looks:

I’ll tent him to the quick: if ‘a do blench,

I know my course. The spirit that I have seen 

May be the devil: and the devil hath power

T’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps 

Out of my weakness and my melancholy,

As he is very portent with such spirits,

Abuses me to damn me: I’ll have grounds

More relative than this: the play’s the thing

Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

Option 3

Act III, scene i

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer 

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;

For who would be the whips and scorns of time,

Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,

The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns 

That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover’d country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action-- Soft you now!

The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins rememb’red.

 Option 4

Act III, scene ii

‘Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,

And do such bitter business as the day 

Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.

O heart, lose not they nature; let not ever

The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:

Let me be cruel, not unnatural:

I will speak daggers to her, but use none;

My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;

How in my words somever she be shent,

To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;

And now I’ll do’t. And so ‘a goes to heaven;

And so I am reveng’d. That would be scann’d:

A villain kills my father; and for that,

I, his sole son, do his same villain send

To heaven.

Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge.

‘A took my father grossly, full of bread;

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;

And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?

But in our circumstance and course of thought,

“Tis heavy with him: and am I then reveng’d,

To take him in the purging of his soul,

When he is fit and season’d for his passage?

No!

Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:

When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,

Or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed;

At game, a-swearing, or about some act

That has no relish of salvation in’t;

Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,

And that his soul may be as damn’d and black

As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:

This physic but prolongs they sickly days.

 Option 5

Act IV, scene iv

How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and god-like reason

To fust in us unus’d. Now, whether it be 

Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on th’ event,

A thought which, quarter’d, hath but one part wisdom

And ever three parts coward, I do not know

Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do”;

Sith I have cause and will and strength and means 

To do ‘t. Examples gross as earth exhort me:

Witness this army of such mass and charge

Led by a delicate and tender prince,

Whose spirit with divine ambition puff’d

Makes mouths at the invisible event,

Exposing what is mortal and unsure

To all that fortune, death and danger dare,

Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

When honor’s at the stake. How stand I then,

That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,

Excitements of my reason and my blood,

And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see

The imminent death of twenty thousand men,

That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,

Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot

Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,

Which is not tomb enough and continent

To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, 

My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Week of 9/10

Monday, 9/10
Alchemist discussion
Alchemist quotes assigned, due Wed

Tuesday, 9/11
Cleaned up rough draft due
Alchemist discussion

Wednesday, 9/12
Alchemist symbols
Assign Frank
Quotes due

Thursday, 9/13
Therapeutic Thursday

Friday, 9/14
Intro to Hamlet
Hamlet/Shakespeare notes
Hamlet Act I

Week of 9/3

Monday, 9/3
No School

Tuesday, 9/4
Group AP Grading

Wednesday, 9/5
Group Multiple Choice

Thursday, 9/6
AP MC Prac

Friday, 9/7
Peer Read College App Essay

Week of August 20

Monday, 8/20
Discuss Wife of Bath's Tale
Lit Terms 1 up

Tuesday, 8/21
Open question over Canterbury Tales

Wednesday, 8/22
Prologue Memorization due
Say/Mean/Satire

Thursday, 8/23
Self-Assessment due
AP Practice- MC Test

Friday, 8/24
Lit Terms Quiz
Poetry practice

Lit Terms 1

 CONFESSION: I am reversing the order of the lit terms from the past few years. Normally we start with the VERY EASY ones and then work up to the hard ones. The problem with that (and something that previous groups agreed with me was a problem) is that you don't have much time to practice and use the harder terms. Ideally, you would learn them upfront and then you will recognize them when they show up on the practice tests. Well guess what??? We have a clean slate and we can DO IDEAL! :) But. Some of these are hard, and there are even more challenging ones in the future. Sorry.

Naturalism (as a literary era/genre)
Modernism (as a literary era/genre)
Epigraph
Antihero
Juxtaposition
Periodic sentence
Apposition
Tricolon
Antithesis
Causal relationship

AP Resources

Below are some awesome AP resources for those scholars who want to go above and beyond...


Frequency of Titles on Question 

Great AP Blog with witty study tips

Free Response Study Aids

Great List of Lit Terms

AP Lit Terms Flash Cards

AP Question 3 Prompts

Canterbury Tales Link

Canterbury Tales prologue audio.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GihrWuysnrc
 Just listen to the 1:02 mark.

Remember, this is due for recitation August 28. :)

Week of August 13

Monday, 8/13
C-T Notes
Classics
Intro to Unit 1
TT Sign up

Tuesday, 8/14
C-T Part 1 discussion
Part 2 for homework

Wednesday, 8/15
Part 1 discussion
"Pardoner's Tale"
Assign Self-Assessment

Thursday, 8/16
TT

Friday, 8/17
PT discussion
WOB homework

Week of April 9

Monday, 4/9
Grendel MC

Tuesday, 4/10
Poetry

Wednesday, 4/11
Short Story

Thursday, 4/12
AP Test Practice

Friday, 4/13
AP Test Practice
Journals Due
Assign Everyman

Monster Project

This is due FRIDAY, April 6!!! 

Option A, Personal Narrative/Creative:

Think of “monsters” in your own life, specifically, the lives of those close to you, or society in general. By “monster”, we mean situations that are of our own making that have gotten out of control and taken over our lives. Addictions, time management, getting in with a group of people with negative influence, anxiety, depression, not taking school seriously in 9th and 10th grade and having to fight the next two years to bring up a GPA, one mistake that had negative and far-reaching ramifications, unplanned pregnancy, affairs, etc.

Write an index card about the monster and its power, then visually illustrate OR write a page in which you fully describe this monster and its power.

Option B, Research:

Look up a monster from another culture. Write a page in which you explain the origins of the monster, its description, its powers, and any other pertinent details about it.

Option C, Contemporary Connections:

Find a news article, past or present, about monstrous behavior as reported by the media. Print out a copy of the article and write a page summary of it, including your opinion of the behavior and its monstrosity.

Option D, Creative:

Create your own monster and monster story. The monster should have a background, name, and history or developmental tale that explains its existence. You have some options here... I want the details of the monster on an index card, then I will need some sort of sensory representation of the monster. This is where the various creative energies of this group will come into play. You could do a video for your monster. You could create it on a canvas. You could create a soundtrack of music for your monster or a tv episode based around your monster. You are welcome to perform a monologue AS your monster or write a story with your monster as the main character or write a song from the monster's perspective or a video game about your monster or a half-poster board cartoon starring your monster. 

Whatever you want to do, this entire project is WIDE OPEN to you. Dazzle me, people. Dazzle me with your monster-making, you young Frankensteins. 

Week of April 2

Monday
NO SCHOOL

Tuesday
Grendel Monster Day

Wednesday
Grendel

Thursday
Grendel

Friday
Grendel

AP Test Prep

AP Test Prep

I want you to spend at least two hours over break or the week after break on AP Test Prep. I have linked several sites on the blog that you can go for practice tests, tips, etc. Once you have logged the two hours, you need to leave a comment on the blog. Below are several options for your AP Test Prep time. Don't forget to comment on this blog post once you have logged your 2 hours! (It won't show your comment right away. I have to approve comments before they show up on here.)

Varsity Tutors
This site does not require you to set up an account to use, but if you do, it keeps track of your scores and such.  It includes diagnostic tests, practice tests, flashcards, etc. It also offers explanation as to why certain answers are correct and incorrect on the practice tests. You could spend quite a bit of time on this site!
http://www.varsitytutors.com/ap_literature-practice-tests

AP Practice Exams
This site is a compilation of various sources and resources you can use for both practice AND test-taking tips.
http://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-english-literature

5 Steps to a 5- McGraw-Hill
This one also offers explanations.
http://www.mhpracticeplus.com/apExams.php

High School Test Prep
More practice tests
http://www.highschooltestprep.com/ap/english-literature/

Week of March 19

Monday, 3/19
Finish poetry reading
Discuss Beowulf Part 1
Homework: Read part 2

Tuesday, 3/20
Service Day

Wednesday, 3/21
Discuss 2
Assign Exeter Book

Thursday, 3/22
Passage Focus

Friday, 3/23
Discuss Exeter Book

Week of March 12

Monday, 3/12
Watch DPS
Give Grendel

Tuesday, 3/13
Watch DPS

Wednesday, 3/14
Watch DPS
Take Home Test

Thursday, 3/15
Poetry

Friday, 3/16
A-S Notes
Read Beowulf, Section 1
Journals due

Week of March 5

Monday, March 5
HOD Part 1 Discussion
Read Part 2

Tuesday, March 6
Part 2 Discussion
Read Part 3

Wednesday, 3/7
Part 3 Discussion

Thursday, 3/8
HOD Work

Friday, 3.9
HOD

AP Lit

Y'all, I am so sorry. I don't know what to do other than what I am going to have to do. I have jury duty again on Friday. I don't want to spread HOD out over two weeks (Wed- Fri of next week, I have to leave things you can do on your own because I won't be here). So I am going to have to completely rearrange the calendar and move Heart of Darkness to two weeks from now. You'll need to refresh yourselves on the notes and Part 1 before the day we do Part 2. I. HATE. IT. But I can't afford to lose time and I have to be there for HOD. SO. Here's the new plan:

Friday, 2/23-- Sub
John Donne-- assignment in the homework tab of OneNote

Monday, 2/26
Cavalier Poetry

Tuesday, 2/27
Passionate Shepherd

Wednesday, 2/28-- Sub
Poetry

Thursday, March 1--Sub
AP Practice Test

Friday, March 2-- Sub
AP Practice Test

Monday, March 5
HOD Part 1 Discussion
Read Part 2

Tuesday, March 6
Part 2 Discussion
Read Part 3

Wednesday, 3/7
Part 3 Discussion

Thursday, 3/8
HOD Work

Friday, 3.9
HOD

Macbeth Word Tracing Essay

You have been tracing your word throughout the entire play. For this assignment, you will need to turn in your word tracing notes (a list of the places the word was mentioned) as well as the essay.  For your essay question, you are to frame a thesis in which you discuss the progression of the play through the lens of or perspective of your key word. In other words, how does “blood” shape the play? How does the use of “night “ change over the context of the play? How does the meaning of “sleep” change depending on who is using it? (Those are all just ideas. This is all completely on you and it is very likely that no two essays will look at all the same.) Come up with a valid thesis, then write a solid essay in which you back that thesis using textual evidence. DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PLOT. I’m so excited to read these! This is due FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK.

Independent Love Month Book

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 Wednesday, 2/21

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

Week of February 12

Monday, 2/12
Act V

Tuesday, 2/13
Macbeth Writing
Macbeth Recitation/Project due

Wednesday, 2/14
Outside Reading Projects due
Outside Reading activities

Thursday, 2/15
Mac MC
MC Focus

Friday, 2/16
Word Tracing Essay
Journals due