3/30/21

  Reminder: 

Literature 8- Tuesday, 4/20 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.

3/27/21

 Reminder: 

Literature 8- Tuesday, 4/20 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.

3/25/21

 Literature 8- Tuesday, 4/20 - 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.

3/24/21

  Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

3/23/21

  Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

Lit 7 - Wednesday, 3/24 - Journal check.

3/22/21

  Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

Lit 8 - Tuesday, 3/23 - Journal check.

Lit 6 - Tuesday, 3/23 - Journal check.

3/18/21

 Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

3/17/21

 Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

3/12/21

Reminders:

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - Drama vocab test. Costuming - flash-pot.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on "Legend" and "Myth."

3/11/21

 Lit 7 - Thursday, 3/25 - 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.

Lit 6 - Thursday, 3/25 - Myth vocab test on the words "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.

3/8/21

 Literature 7 - Due Tuesday, 3/9 - Proofreading pages 77 and 79.

3/3/21

 Literature 8 - Due Monday, 3/8 - Proofreading pages 121 and 123.

Literature 7 - Due Tuesday, 3/9 - Proofreading pages 77 and 79.

Literature 6 - Due Monday, 3/8 - Proofreading pages 21 and 23.