Homework

Read and Analyze

Read 2-3 of the excerpts under the tag "passages". Use online study guides and Wikipedia links to gain understanding.

Test

Review your last practice test creating true statements. 

Vocabulary

Finish the  Barron's glossary

Homework Due April 25, 2012

Read and Analyze

Read enough of the following excerpts to grasp the style of the following works. Use the study guides and Wikipedia links to gain understanding.

The Yellow Wallpaper excerpt study guide wiki

Sound and the Fury excerpt study guide wiki

Walden excerpt study guide wiki

Civil Disobedience excerpt study guide wiki

The Waste Land excerpt study guide wiki

Walt Whitman wiki

When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd

Beat! Beat! Drums!

O Captain! My Captain!

Test

Prepare for the quarter final. Focusing on the 'Must Know' vocabulary and literary works we have been discussing in class. Link to list

Vocabulary

Review T's and U's in Barron's glossary

homework Due April 18, 2012

Read and Analyze

Using this Literary Analysis Guide use the 'How to analyze a text?' to analyze the following essays. Read 3.

Professions for Women

Self-Reliance

Shooting an Elephant

My Escape from Slavery

Old English Poetry

English Renaissance of Art

Labour and Luxury

Taming the Bicycle

Also determine if the essay is (any one essay may also be more than one)

Personal

Formal

Descriptive

Narrative

Expository

Didactic

Character Sketch

Biographical

Philosophical

Critical

Is the essay humorous, graceful, rambling, conventional or unconventional, stiff or free etc.

Test

Retake REA test III

Take test at your 'peak'

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

Vocabulary

Review R's and S's in Barron's glossary

Review for Quiz

Review the terms and authors we discussed in class over the last four weeks.

Exam Description

Exam Description

Vocabulary and Terms aid

AP Vocabulary and Terms

Poetry Resources

Literary Terms

Spark Chart

Drama Terms

Fiction Terms

Poetic Terms

Poetry passages to Analyze

The Road Not Taken

Huswifery

The Author to Her Book

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 11

Because I could not stop for Death

Canterbury Tales

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Hamlet

Do Not Go Gentle

Wasteland

On His Blindness

Dover Beach

Practice Tests

SAT Reading Comprehension- There are 14 'practice tests' on this site

AP Quizzes - 8 short quizzes

CLEP practice questions

CLEP literature Exam

CLEP Practice Test

AP Exam

Prose Passages to Analyze

Prose Passages to Analyze

Money by Martin Amis

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fizgerald

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Big Sea by Langston Hughes

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Doings of Gotham by Edgar Allan Poe

Here is New York by EB White

The Yellow Wallpaper

Self-Reliance

Tale of Two Cities

Macbeth

Essay Misc

Self-Reliance

Sinner's in the hands of an angry God

Study Sheet

Study Sheet

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Analogy

Anthropomorphism

Assonance

Bathos

Beowulf

Great Gatsby

Colloquial

Couplet

Emerson

Emily Dickenson

Epic

Hamlet

Harlem Renaissance

Hyperbole

Irony

Jane Austen

Jonathan Edwards

Mark Twain

Metaphor

Meter

Middle English

Mythological works

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Paradox

Parody

Personification

Repetition

Prufrock

Puritans

The Oven Bird

Tone

Yellow Wallpaper

Sarcasm

Simile

Sound and the Fury

Stanza

The Wast Land

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

Will be updated

homework Due April 11, 2012

Read and Analyze

Re-read Barron's chapter 5 Fiction and Drama making sure you understand how to respond to the different types of questions.

Complete the

Mini-workout on plot

Mini-workout on setting

Mini-workout on character

Mini workout on narrative voice

Mini-workout on structure

Mini-workout on storytelling

Mini-workout on figurative language

Mini-workout on theme

Choose one of the following novels or plays to do this exercise with

Hamlet

Wuthering Heights

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Death of a Salesman

Emma

Frankenstein

Importance of Being Earnest

Jane Eyre

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

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for analysis here here here

The Oven Bird for analysis here here and here

Extra Credit:

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

Test

Take REA test III

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

Vocabulary

Review P's and Q's in Barron's glossary

Review for Quiz

Review the terms and authors we discussed in class over the last three weeks.