Homework Due April 4, 2012

Read and Analyze

Re-read Barron's chapter 4 making sure you understand how to respond to the different types of questions.

Complete the 10 step of how to read a poem on the following bring your steps to class.

The Author to Her Book

O Captain! My Captain!

Ode to a Nightingale

Extra Credit:

Find examples of Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Symbolism, Personification, Synecdoche, Allusion, Allegory, Oxymoron, Paradox, Understatement, or Hyperbole. Note these as step 11 and identify clearly. One point each.

Test

Take Barron's Diagnosis test

Email me with the score before class with 10 things you had problems with. MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS.

Vocabulary

Review N's and O's in Barron's glossary

Review for Quiz

Review the terms and authors we discussed in class.

Homework Due March 28, 2012

Read and Analyze

Re-read Barron's chapters 1 and 2 making sure you understand how to respond to the different types of questions.

Test

Take REA II

Email me with the score before class with 10 things you had problems with. MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS.

Vocabulary

Review L's and M's in Barron's glossary

Review for Quiz

Review the terms and authors we discussed in class.

Here is a great resource for the term that caused confusion Anthropomorphism

homework Due March 21, 2012

Homework for the week.

Vocabulary review

• Review all of the "J's and K's " in the Barron's glossary

Test

Take Barron's practice test 2

Email me before class with score and 10 things you need to work on or didn't understand.

homework Due March 7, 2012

Read and Analyze

Read Unit 9 in English Literature- The Twentieth Century pg 479-501

• Write a literature paragraph from readings.
• Answer Questions

Vocabulary

Review H's and I's in Barron's glossary

Come to class with REA