12/10/20

 Reminder:

Wednesday, 12/16, lit 8 and lit 6 have vocab tests.

12/9/20

 Lit 8 - Thursday, 12/10 - Journal check. Students should have the following entries:

10/13 - Best Present

10.19 - Change the World

10/22 - Country

10.27 Anger

11/2 - Tell?

11/9 - Real me?

11/12 - Values

11/30 - Help

12/7 - Eve

Reminders - Wednesday, 12/16 - 6th and 8th grade vocab tests.

12/8/20

 Wednesday, 12/16 - vocab tests for 6th and 8th grades. Please make sure to make arrangements with me to take the test early if you will not be in school on the 16th.

6th - humorous commentary - anecdote

8th - Irony - caricature.

12/7/2020

 Lit 7 - Tuesday, 12/8 - Journal check. Students should have 5 entries - 

10/13 - secrets

10/16 - Fly/Land

10/23 - Survive?

11/3 - Inner-strength

11/17 - Poem - 16 lines, rhyming "Lost in the woods"\

Reminder Lit 8 and 6 - Wednesday, 12.16 - vocab tests

Lit 6  - humorous commentary - anecdote

Lit 8 - Irony - caricature

12/4/20

 Lit 7 - Tuesday, 12/8 - Journal check. Students should have 5 entries:

10/3 Secrets

10/16 Fly/Land

10/23 Survive?

11/3 Inner-strength

11/17 Poem -16 lines, rhyming, about being lost in the woods.

12/3/20

 Reminders:

Wednesday, 12/16 - vocab tests

Literature 6 - humorous commentary - anecdote

Literature 8 - Irony - caricature.

12/2/20

Please note: If you are going to be leaving early for Christmas break, please make arrangements with me to take the short story vocab test before you leave for the break. Thank you for your cooperation. God bless. 

Literature 8 - Wednesday, 12/19 - Short story vocab test on Irony - caricature:

Irony: Figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. Lighter than sarcasm.

Dramatic Irony: A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience or reader knows to be true.

Irony of situation: An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the character or the reader.

Allusion: Reference in a work of literature to person, place, or thing in another work such as literature, music, history, painting, or mythology. Adds meaning to the story.

Willing suspension of disbelief: Reader voluntarily agrees to set aside what he knows to be true and accept what is presented as reality in the story.

Alliteration: Repetition of an initial consonant sound in two or more words of a phrase. Consonant is picked to enhance meaning. (Huge, hooting, howling, hissing, horrible, bellow)

Point of view: The way an author chooses to see and tell a story.

First-person narrative: A character tells the story referring to himself as "I" and presenting only what he knows about events.

Inference: Reasonable conclusion one can draw from facts or evidence given.

Caricature: The distortion or exaggeration of the peculiarities in a character’s personality. Often for humorous effect.