Wed.

1.  Reading and chatting:  The Necklace--

Monday

Journal-     


We've read two short stories, but I think we need to read at least 12.


Here's the beginning of a list.

Sleepy Hollow
Cask of Amontillado
The Lottery
The Necklace
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Big Two-Hearted River
Walter Mitty
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Cathedral
TC BOYLE-
Things they carried.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Domestic manners of Americans (for fun)   




Here's what we'll do with the list.



HW-  Reading and Reading. 

Short story Wed.

1.  Sleepy Hollow? 


2.  Journal-   What is the hardest part of your essay that is due on Friday?


3.  Short Story Devices and Purposes-  Notes--  Setting/ indirect/direct


4.  HW-  reading, this next.

5.  HW-  POETRY essay due on Friday.

Friday

We decided that we'd pick our own topics and poems for the poetry essay.

Also, we read a short story and assigned essay HW for Wednesday and

THIS READING

for Monday.

WEDNESDAY--

We wanted a happy poem.  Fine.  

HERE, take it.


Explain why this poem is happy!!!  USE ACTUAL QUOTES FROM THE POEM!

Please remember the construction... : The poem actually is saying.... what this can mean metaphorically is...

Friday...

Please read Daddy by Sylvia Plath... Look up definitions!

Wed

1.   Journal-   What’s something that interests you in the world?  Why does it?

Future Journal-  Do you remember a vivid dream you had while in REM sleep?  What did you dream? Explain.

2.  Questions and Plans—Me first

? = What “deep symbols” persist in myth X, Y, and Z, and what do they imply about our lives?

Define- 

Explain- myths.

Show that different myths share the same symbols.

Explain what they mean about our lives and why I believe they mean that.

3.  Plan your question…. Share with a friend, Share with us?

4.  Draft due on Wed-  MLA Format.  Works Cited.

5.  Next--  Excerpts from… Epics--

Wedneday

We read "They Shut Me Up in Prose" and are attempting to close read it. 


Please finish that PP for HW.


Also, if you don't mind, please read this poem, here.

Friday

1.  Journal--- 

Using these 10 words, write a poem.

The poem must be 10 lines with 10 syllables in each line,

And these words have to appear in the poem:

Mesquite, Cloud, Blackberry, Mother, Pierce, Vice, Rent, Needle, Thorn, Lace.

10 min.

2.    (WHAT)

When a Grandpa says “Don’t judge a book by its cover” he means that….

(WHY IT MEANS WHAT IT MEANS)

This means this because….

Grass is always greener on the other side.

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

Don’t carry all your eggs in one basket.

1. Journal-  Design theme

2.  Working on Design.

3.  Design theme discussion-  how to understand a poem.

4.  HW-  Reading poems below.

1.  Nothing Gold can Stay-- wait for it.  Starts with, Nothing Gold can Stay....


2,  Fame is a bee.


3.  Let it be forgotten.


4.  On my first son.


5.  How do I love thee?

First Real Day

1.   Journal--  What are the literary terms/devices for?  Why do we need them?

Satire-    The Onion, sarcasm, something that seems true but is really false, used to make fun of what is true.

Theme- The message.
Plot-  Sequence of events.
Conflict- A problem.
Internal Conflict-  Man v Self
External Conflict- Man v something outside.
Character- The main subject of the story (plus others)
Characterization- 
Direct-   The author tells you what the character is like
Indirect - reader infers what the character is like.
Setting- time and place
Metaphor- comparison b/t two things.
Simile-       ''                ''            ''            ''   with like or as.
Protagonist-  Main character-
Antagonist-   Villain.
Forshadowing-  Inferring what comes next.
Story Arc-  exposition, Rising action, climax, falling action
First Person-  I, us, we
Third person- He, she, them, his, they,
Second person-reader is part of the story, author uses you.
Symbolism- object/idea represents something else- US flag.
Rhyme-  agreement of sounds.
Stereotype-a generalization about person based on groups.
Tone-  The author's attitude
Mood-  The reader's feelings
Irony-  Opposite of what's expected.

Dramatic-  Reader knows, character doesn't.

Situation-  Difference between the expected and what happens

Verbal-  Speaker says one thing but means the opposite.

Personification- human traits to non human things.
Onomatopoeia-  Word that stands for a sound: pow.
Pun- a play on words-- one word two meanings.

euphemism- a common way of saying something that means something else.

Diction- the word choice of the author.
Cliche- common, repeated phrase.
Alliteration- Repeating sounds.
Imagery-  Sensory input to the reader- images, sounds, etc.
Paradox- A contradictory statement.
Dialogue-  Characters speaking.
hyperbole-  Over exaggeration.
Fig. Lang-  any language that isn't literal.
Narrator- speaker of the story.
Connotation-  What a word means in use.
Denotation-  Dictionary definition.
Assonance- repeating vowel sounds.
Consonance- Repeating consonant sounds.
Slant Rhyme- almost rhyme
End stopped- punctuation at the end of a line.
Foot-  stressed or unstressed syllables.
meter- pattern of stresses.
rhythm-  the flow.
end rhyme-  rhymes at the end of line.
internal rhyme- rhymes in the middle
Enjambment- line doesn't stop at the end, continues to the next line.

Line- a line is a unit of measurement into which a poem or play is divided.

Stanza-  A group of lines

Couplets-  two line group
Tercets-    three line group
Quatrains- 4 line group.
Sonnet-  A set type of poem with 14 lines. 


HW-  Identify 10 literary devices in this poem