Due: Monday, October 24
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Weekend Reading Assignment
Due: Monday, October 24
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Test One Study Guide
Know the following literary terms/concepts:
Plot , conflict (internal and external), exposition, setting, inciting incident, in medias res, Freytag’s Pyramid, rising action, climax, falling action, suspense, plot complication, resolution, foreshadowing, static characters, dynamic characters, characterization (direct and indirect), protagonist, antagonist, round character, flat character, stock characters, stereotype, cliche, inference, point-of-view, perspective, first-person point-of-view, unreliable narration, narrative voice, viewpoint characters, third-person objective, alternating person point-of-view, multiple parallel point-of-view, omniscient narration, third-person limited, archetypes (archetypal characters, situations, and criticism), Carl Jung, collective unconscious, epistolary novels
Know the following works:
W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw” (complication, suspense, foreshadowing)
Julio Cortazar, “Axolotl” (perspective and narration)
Edgar Allan Poe, “Masque of the Red Death” (narrative problems)
Irvin Kershner, The Empire Strikes Back (archetypes)
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (archetypes)
James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (plot and conflict)
Friday, September 23, 2011
Weekend Reading Assignment
Due: Monday, September 26, 2011.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Weekend Reading Assignment
Read the following article: "How the Google Generation Thinks Differently"
Due: Monday, September 19
Due: Monday, September 19
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Socratic Seminar Worksheet (in case you were not in class Friday afternoon)
Title:
Author:
Thesis:
Author:
Thesis:
Evidence Used:
Points that I agreed with (why?):
Points that I disagreed with (why?):
Clarifying questions for the author:
Is the logic sound?
Evidence to refute the article:
Summarize reaction:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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