4/30/18

Lit 8 reminder: Vocab test tomorrow, 5/1, on alliteration - stereotype.

4/26/18

Lit 8 - Due Monday, 4/30 - Proofreading page 145, top and bottom.
Lit 7 - Due Friday, 4/27 - Proofreading p. 89, top and bottom.
Lit 6 - Due Tuesday, 5/1 - Proofreading , page 49, top and bottom.

4/25/18

Lit 7 - Thursday, 5/10, drama vocab test. Soliloquy - euphemism.

Soliloquy: A speech in which a character talks to himself or the audience and reveals what he is thinking. Longer than an aside.

Scrim: A light, semi-transparent curtain.

Protagonist: Main character of a story, can be one person or a group of people.

Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces. Can be internal or external.

Parody: A humorous mimicking of a serious piece of literature.

Flashback: A literary device where an event from the past is inserted into the present. Seems as if it is happening in present time. Shows how the present is influenced by the past.

Foreshadowing: A device where the author gives clues that hint at later events in the story. Makes surprise endings more believable.

Euphemism: A nice way of saying something that is not usually nice (fat = big bones).

4/24/18

Lit 7 - Due Wednesday, 4/25 - Proofreading page 87, top and bottom.
Lit 6 - Due Wednesday, 4/25 - Proofreading, page 47, top and bottom
Lit 6 - Tuesday, May 8 - Vocab test - Folktale and fable.

Folktales:

·        Communicates values/ideals.

·        Composed orally.

·        Passed by word of mouth.

·        Anonymous.

·        Has heroes, amazing feats of strength or daring.

·        Solves problems.

·        Uses repetition to make easy to remember.

·        To be authentic, must have at least two versions

Fable:

·        Teaches lessons at end of story.

·        Short.

·        Underdeveloped characters, situations, conflicts.

·        Animals act like humans.

·        Points out our human failings/weaknesses.

4/23/18

Lit 8 - Due Tuesday, 4/24 - Proofreading page 135, top and bottom.
Lit 7 - Tuesday, 4/24 - vocab test: costuming - flash pot. Test on The Ugly Duckling. Students should review the notes on the play.
Lit 6 - Tuesday, 4/24 - Vocab test on legend and myth.

4/20/18

English 8 - Monday, 4/23 - Test on Subject/verb agreement.
Thursday, 4/26 - Verb unit test.
Lit 8 - Tuesday, 5/1, vocab test. Alliteration - stereotype.
Lit 7 - Tuesday, 4/24 - vocab test. Costuming - flash pot. Test on The Ugly Duckling. Students should study their notes.
Lit 6 - Tuesday, 4/24 vocab test on legend and myth.

4/18/18

Lit 8 - reminder that the crafted poem is due tomorrow. It must be typed. Vocab test is May 1 - alliteration - stereotype.
Lit 6 reminder Vocab test 4/24 on legend and myth.
Lit 7 reminder - Vocab test 4/24 - costuming - flash pot.

4/17/18

Lit 8 - Due Thursday, 4/19 - Crafted poem. Students should take one of their journal poems and craft it to make it a better poem. It must be typed and in black ink. I am looking for a rhyme scheme and that the students use the poetic devices we have been working on. They should not just be writing sentences that rhyme, but true lines of poetry. The crafted poems will be turned in with their journals containing the original poem.

4/11/18

Lit 8 - Thursday, 4/12 - journal check. Students should have 9 entries.

4/10/18

English 7 - Thursday, 4/12, test on tense and voice.
Lit 7 - Tuesday, 4/24, drama vocab test - costuming - flash pot.

Costuming: The way the characters are dressed. Can be used to create mood, illusion, and set the piece in a particular time.

Plot: What happens in the story, may not be sequential. Has to hold the audience’s attention, visually interesting.

Theme: A universal truth about people – the things they do, the way they are, that can be applied to your life. Not a dippy moral.

Infer: A reasonable conclusion one can draw from facts or evidence given.

Aside: A character speaks directly to the audience. Through asides, characters in a play reveal directly to the audience their thoughts or other characters’ thoughts. Usually delivered in confidence pretending that other characters cannot hear.

Nota Bene, N.B.: Note well. Used to call attention to something important.

Flash-pot: A device that creates a burst of fire and smoke that creates a magical effect.

4/9/18

Literature 6 - Tuesday, 4/24 - Myth vocab test on "legend" and "Myth."

Myth Vocabulary

Legend:

·        Traditional story about the past

·        based on real people/events

·        passed down by word of mouth.

·        Details increasingly exaggerated.

·        Have fantastic details, larger than life characters, amazing feats.

·        Reveals culture's attitudes/values.

Myth: 

·        Stories about gods and heroes.

·        Deals with right/wrong.

·        Explains world in human terms.

·        Explains natural occurrences.

Literature 8 - Tuesday, May 1, Poetry vocab test - alliteration - stereotype.

*Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound in two or more words in a phrase. Picked to enhance meaning.

*Onomatopoeia: The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. (Buzz, Whir)

* Symbol: Any person, place, or thing that has meaning in itself and also stands for or represents something else. (Flag – nation, Dove – peace.

*Parallel structure: The repetition of a grammatical structure. ( Example on pg. 556 & 565)

Lyric poetry: Poetry that expresses the poet’s thoughts and feelings. Creates a mood through vivid images, descriptive words, and the musical quality of the lines.

*Sensory language: Language that appeals to the senses.

Free verse: Poetry with irregular rhythms and varied line lengths. Free of traditional forms of poetry. Similar to regular speech.

Concrete poetry: Poetry in which the shape of the poem on the page resembles the subject of the poem.

Stereotype: an oversimplified mental picture or judgment.