Thu Mar 4, 2010
Pd 2
1. Hand in Reading Record Cards for Jane Eyre
2. Get review sheet for Qtr 3 exam Monday (attached to bottom of blog)
3. Presentation topics are intended for you and your listeners to consider new ideas about the novel.
Presentations require students to do the following:
1] Immediately before presenting, students hand in their 1-2 minute speech (Sentences, paragraphs, etc) written legibly, preferably printed, on paper.
2] Leader or alternate will begin presentation by reading the group's discussion topic.
3] Each group member will explain his/her part of the question to the class.
4] After presenting, students hand in their index card with notes (no sentences).
Groups will present when called whether all are present or not. Absent members will present later.
Pd 4
1. AR rdg and log
2. Check answers to Reading Analysis of Jane Eyre passage
Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Take test on Acts 3 and 4
3. Get back Act 2 and go over answers
4. Show me your outline and complete rough draft of >600 words.
Tues: Take Act 5 test, check, and go over Acts 3, 4, 5 answers as time permits
Wed: Paper due and Qtr 3 Exam
Period 2 Exam review:
Literary Work, Element, Period, or Technique
1] Know Authors
2] Pay attention to the introduction in bold print before each work
• Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock
p532 last ¶ description of mock epic.
Definition of mock epic on p 1266
•Satire definition p1270
• Romantic Pd pp600-604: Political and Economic Changes:
p600 ¶ "Another. . . .England."
p604 last 4 ¶s The Term Romantic: Know its 3 useful meanings.
• Know the typical elements of a medieval Romance:
-an all-good hero,
-an evil enemy,
-a quest,
-a test of the hero,
-supernatural elements,
-good vs. evil
p146 Critical Response. Do the works of the writers of the Romantic period fit any of these elements?
• Article:"Blake's Poems"
William Blake's The Tyger pp620-621 Know first 2 lines from memory
William Blake's 2 Chimney Sweeper poems pp 623 & 625;
Critical Resp: Know the difference in the two poems based on Innocence and Experience.
Be able to relate them to Wordsworth's ideas in Tintern Abbey.
• William Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey pp 633-637.
Know
-the role of nature in the poem,
-the changes in the poet since first visit, &
-the main idea of the poem.
• William Wordsworth's 3 Lucy poems, pp638-640,
Critical Response: Know one image from each poem and two themes of the group.
• p 646: Know the meaning of a "meditative poem"
• George Gordon (his real name), Lord Byron's Don Juan
p684 Know the kind of poem, the tone, what is being satirized, and what traits, if any, fit the Romantic period.
• John Keats's Bright Star: p 710 Know what the speaker tells the star;
p 711 When I Have Fears: Be able to summarize Keats's feelings when he wrote this sonnet
• Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
