The Week in English: Week 8

English 3: Test Study Guide:

Pay attention to:
"The Cask of Amontillado"
-irony
-theme
"The Masque of the Red Death"
-allegory
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
-the nature of language
-imagery
-characterization
-foreshadowing
Whitman
Leaves of Grass Preface
-America's characterization
"Song of Myself"
-form (i.e. what makes free verse "free"?)
-language (who is Whitman emulating?)
"I Hear America Singing"
-who is America? Why are they singing?
"An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge"
-p.o.v.
"Chickamauga"
-imagery
-allegory
-tone/sardonic humor

-prepare to discuss a poem you have never before seen

English IV:

10/12: Journals; Shakespearean sonnet study; Vocabulary Assignment
Homework: Read Macbeth Act I; complete Vocabulary Assignment; Graduation Project Final Draft Due 10/16
10/13: Journals; Vocabulary Check and Review; Continue Macbeth assignment
HW: Continue Work on Final Draft
10/14: Journals; finish Macbeth assignment; work on Graduation Project draft
HW: Continue Work on Final Draft
10/15: Journals Due; Unit Test III
HW: Finish Final Draft
10/16: Turn in Final Draft; Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Introduction to Macbeth; Macbeth Study Guide I