Literature 6 - Introduction speech questions/ answers and speech outline are due Monday, 4/3.
Please check the 3/30/2023 blog for the vocab definitions for 6, 7, and 8.
Literature 8 - Monday, 4/24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.
Literature 7 - Tuesday, 4/25 - Drama vocab test on costuming - flashpot.
Literature 6 - Monday, 4/24 - Vocab test on the bullets for the words "Legend" and "Myth."
Literature 6 - Introduction speech questions/ answers and speech outline are due Monday, 4/3.
Please scroll down for the vocab words for 6, 7, and 8.
Literature 8 - Monday, 4/24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.
Literature 7 - Tuesday, 4/25 - Drama vocab test on costuming - flashpot.
Literature 6 - Monday, 4/24 - Vocab test on the bullets for the words "Legend" and "Myth."
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.
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.
6th grade vocab:
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 6 - Due Thursday. 3/30 - Outline for Introduction speech, and questions and answers from interview.
English 8 - Thursday, 3/23/2023 - Verb unit test. Folders are due at time of test.
English 7 students should be reviewing the verb unit. The test will be next week. I haven't set the exact date yet.
Literature 7 - Wednesday, 3/15 - Journal check. Students should have 6 entries:
1/19 - Chains?
2/7 - Diary entry #1
2/28 - Diary entry #2
3/2 - Where was God?
3/7 - Diary entry #3
3/14 - Diary entry #4
*** 7th grade lit students are to ask a parent/parents if they are expected to wait until they are engaged to kiss someone. This is in connection with something we are reading in the play based on Anne Frank's diary.
Literature 8 - Monday, 3/13 - We will begin presenting our introduction speeches. Although I will be pulling names out of a hat, everyone should be prepared to present by Monday.
Literature 6 - Wednesday, 3/8 - Journal check. Students should have 11 entries. I went over the entries today in class.