Tue, Oct 26, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Literary Analysis: Compare Grendel and The Seafarer to learn more about their meaning.
• Analyze by looking at small parts, common elements of stories such as plot, characters, setting, theme, & tone.
• Make a T chart to compare facts for the 2 works. Use literary terms to analyze a small part: plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Write facts for each part and for each work.
Hand in your chart and handout of the 2 works.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in essays. As I collect them, read pp338-9 in textbook for quiz. Also read Shakespeare’s sonnets #s 29, 30, 71, 73, 116, 130 on the next pages.
• Take a quiz on sonnet form.
• Check MC Practice #1
• HW: Recitations due tomorrow or Mon
• HW: Read pp364-369: Bait, Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, and Meditation 17. Either answer all the Analyzing the Poem questions, or take a quiz on the 4 works tomorrow.
HW: Take notes (always Cornell) on the “Big Four” rules #s14-17 p18-?
