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6/4/2009

I hope you have enjoyed the class even half as much as I have enjoyed teaching you. Both of my Honors 2 classes have been great. Ithink your writing has improved considerable, and the projects were excellent with keen insihts and meticulous attention to detail. Thanks for a great year. I hope to see you next year in AP Lanuage--or in Lang senior year. It would be lovely to have you in Literaure and Culture which will deal with music, art, and literature from 1900 to today.

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Exam Info

exam has 5 short essays and 150 objective questions

possible essays:

characteristics of each period

motif in a work

Elie as dynamic character

unusual title and its significance

alleory and examples

Faustian pattern and how it was used by Irving and/or Hawthorne

poetic genres and examples

theme of a selected work

Night, The Crucible, To Kill a Mockingbird are all on it

writers and their works from each period are included

vocabulary book questions are in the objective section--I don't tell you the words in advance.

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June Info

Emerson and Thoreau rewrites due Mon June8

extra credit due June 8

all make up work ust be done by June 12

Read To Kill a Mockingbird by June 10

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5/29/2009

Poetry projects etc

Poetry projects now due Wed, June 3 and you must havefinished reading To Kill a Mockingbird by the 9th. I put as much on front page of site as it will hold, so stuff is here now and quite limited.

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5/7/2009

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

The Soloist is a great book by former Philadephia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez. He and Mr. Nathaniel Ayers are the subject of many recent interviews, some are linked in my weblinks section. Go to the movie site and you can hear Nathaniel Ayrers play. It is a story that deals with the complexity of mental illness and homelessness, while dealing with themes of friendship and the redemptive power of music. I am excited that this book has been chosen for our One Book, One Film, One School program.

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Emerson and Thoreau and Assignments here for now

We are doing Emerson in class.

Voc 19-20 quiz on 5/8

Voc 21quiz on 5/15

Night read by 5/13

Thoreau read by Monday, 5/11, pages 230-241.

Night project in lieu of test is tentatively due on 5/26 (see handouts)

Poetry projects are due tentatively on 6/1

Week of 5/18 (or sooner) Emerson and Thoreau test

6/1 have To Kill a Mockingbird read

The Soloist is the summer reading book.

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5/6/2009

Term List for test on 5/7/09

Synecdoche Elegy Ode Symbol Metaphor Simile Anastrophe Apostrophe Personification onomatopoeia Allusion Alliteration Parity Psalm Sonnet Concite Foot Meter Rhythm Blank Verse Trotic Tetrameter Iambic Pentameter Carpe diem Parallelism Ballad

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4/30/2009

Fireside poets and Bryant

The following poets will be on the test: Bryant Longfellow Holmes Poems: "Thanatopsis" "To a Waterfowl" "Nature" "A Psalm of Life" "The Arrow and the Song" "The Children's Hour" "The Chambered Nautilus" "The Ballad of the Oysterman" "Old Ironsides"

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4/22/2009

Romantic Review --short stories and poem

Authors on test that we read:

Cooper

Hawthorne

Poe

Irving

Main literary terms:

Faustian pattern

allegory

symbol

foreshadowing

irony

foils

prose tale

climax

resolution

denouement

stock characters

metaphor

allusion

simile

theme

folk tale

literal vs figurative

ambiguity

What's on the test:

Objective questions about the work and the period. Know the authors. Essay question on the use of allegory in several works--how the allegory develops the themes of the stories

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3/25/2009

Review for the Revolutionary Test

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