3/13/20

Reminders:
Lit 7 - Due Tuesday, 3/17 - "Where Was God?" essay .
Tuesday, 3/24 - Drama vocab test on costuming - flash-pot.
Lit 8 - Tuesday, 3/24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.
Lit 6 - Tuesday, 3/31 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and  "Myth."

3/12/20

Reminder: All students must log in to my google classroom. Students were given the class code and were told to put it in their agendas.
Lit 7 -  Due Tuesday, 3/17 - Essay (3 paragraphs) titled "Where Was God?" Students should discuss why they think God did not seem to answer the prayers of the Jews during the Holocaust. We did discuss this assignment in class.

3/9/20

Literature 6 - Tuesday, 3/31, 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.

3/6/20

Literature 8 - Tuesday, March 24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.
Literature 7 - Tuesday, March 24, drama vocab test on costuming -- flash-pot.

3/3/20

Lit 8 - Tuesday, March 24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm:

Poetry Vocabulary

Connotation: Emotional impact attached to words beyond their literal meaning.

Paraphrase: Putting something into your own words. In poetry, you lose the musical quality and rhyme

Prose: The ordinary form of written language. Everyday speech.

*Personification: Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.

Narrative poem: A poem that tells a story in poetic form. Contains plot, setting, characters, etc. Relies on rhythm and rhyme. Organized in stanzas.

Stanzas: Groups of lines that form units in a poem.

 Ballad: A Narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story. Intended to be sung or recited. Has strong rhythms and rhymes.

*Juxtaposition: The placing of two images or ideas side by side allowing the reader to make the comparison. Not a direct comparison.

Rhythm: A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem. Usually contributes to meaning.

Lit 7 - Tuesday, March 24 - Drama vocab test on 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.

3/2/20

Lit 7 - Tuesday, 3/3 - Journal check.