by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
The Strength of Our Spirit
By Cynthia Mercati
May 12 & 13 - 7:00PM
Recommended Donation: $1
AFJH Small Theatre
Announcements and Reminders:
If you have handed in your March Book Project, and have not picked it up from the bottom wire basket, please do that now.
Friday, May 20 is the last day to hand in late work, revised work, and extra credit.
If you have an F, see me.
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Targets for Today:
I can compare a fictional account with a nonfiction account of a time, place, or character.
Reading: Literature Standard 9 Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
I can read, understand, and enjoy poetry and prose through recognizing SOLILOQUY AND SONNET.
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Reading: Literature Standard 5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
form -- Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. - See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/form#sthash.UnZ15YzY.dpuf
structure
soliloquy
sonnet
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Complete the Apostrophe Quiz, then do your
Independent Reading: You will receive your points for reading an historical fiction book. Be in your seat reading by the time the bell rings.
Work on your book of the month project. It is due next week.
Explanation for the quiz answers: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp 2. Poetry -- More on poetry Review and New: Poetry terms, parts, and types.
Figuratively Speaking Poster
By May 18/19 – for English class
Bring a photo of yourself DOING SOMETHING.
In class you will create a poster about that photo including
(Change your assignment to ONE each of the following:)
-1 simile
-1 metaphor
-1 hyperbole
-1 personification
-1 onomotopia
-1 allusion
extra credit for alliteration (at least three repetitions of the sound)
Last time:
A1: Irony, then on! Irony vs. Coincidence
B5: Needs to look at the poem in two languages.
B6: Needs to look at the poem in two languages and look at irony. Did only sequence on text structure.
B7: Took notes through metaphor. Went quickly through text structures.
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Sonnets: 14 lines -- 10 syllables per line -- standard rhyme scheme -- Shakespearean sonnet ends with a couplet.
Two Dogs Sonnet
__________________________________________ What would you do if you saw this on a test? What are you seeing here?
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If You Were Absent:
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