Jan 31

DOL

--keiko and myself has to order these items 2 dozen pizzas 3 cases of juice and i suppose enough place mats for everyone attending the festival

Class Activities:

--be sure to be able to define all of the following terms:

Understatement / Hyperbole / Local Color / Dialect / Verbal Irony, Situational Irony, Dramatic Irony / Predict

--begin reading Twain on p. 684
--read until the letter 'B' on p. 687
--do activities 'A' and 'B' in the margins of the text

Jan 29 and 30

29 no school snow
30 no school snow

Jan 28

DOL

--marcus said i should lay down for awhile before i participate in the track meet otherwise ill not be in top shape

Class Activities:

--review of Regionalism
--introduction of new terms
--see Mr. Schappert for handout of activities
--to prepare for the classwork, look up and define the following Literary Terms:

--Understatement
--Overstatement / Hyperbole
--Local Color
--Dialect
--Irony
--Predict

--define terms and find an example of each in magazines, books, websites, or any print media with which you are familiar.

--see Mr. Schappert to make arrangements to view video clip and further class activities

Jan 27

      

DOL

   --shawn said that neither of the singers were professionally trained but there rendition of maria was stunning                                                                            

 

--Students review skills from mid-term exam
--see Mr. Schappert for handout and copy of test booklet

Jan 20 through 24

20  MLK Day
21  Snow
22  Snow
23  Snow
24  Snow

Jan 17

DOL

--neither my friend or his sister have the time to address these here envelopes maybe someone else can help

Class Activities:

--read pages 656 and 657
--write down all bold faced terms in notebook
--create a paragraph of creative writing describing a setting in Dorchester County that would could work for a possible story
--answer the questions in your notebook:

What differences would you expect to find between a Regional writer from the West and one from the East?

What differences would you find from an Urban writer, and one from a Rural area?
How can reading the work of writers from various regions benefit a person?

Jan 16

DOL

--dad announced last night that my sister and me had did a lot to help mom he than raises our allowances

Class Activities:

--today students will be introduced to some Regionalism. 
--see Mr. Schappert for the packet of literature. 
--There is an activity guide that accompanies the literature
--in preparation for the activity:  read pages 656 and 657 in the text book

Jan 15

Film Comparison of "Owl Creek Bridge" short story to text. 

--see Mr. Schappert to make arrangements to view the film and get the work

Jan 14

DOL

--the new flexible lunch time has had a positive affect in aiding the students return to classes on time

Class Activities:

--review terms:  point of view, Realism, and Flashback and how they relate to the story "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
--finish reading "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
--in notebook:  #6 on p. 615

Jan 13

mid term exam day.

Jan 10

continued review for mid term exam on monday 1/13

see 1/9 post for the review sheet.  Study the activities and notes on the review sheet

class activities:

--mini lesson on text annotation of mid term exam literature
--mini lesson on figurative language

--note:  no class activities will introduce any new material; today we will only review skills on the review sheet.  Please refer to the 1/9 post where all the skills and notes are posted

Jan 9

DOL

--adriana please sit those books of shakespeares plays on this here stand well be using them later in class

Class Activities:

--we will pause our reading of "Owl Creek Bridge" to begin reviewing for the mid-term exam. 
--the exam is monday January 13
--today we will receive our review sheet (listed below)
--we will also receive the literature that will appear on the exam (see Mr. Schappert for copies)
--with the literature, we will begin reading it and annotating
--review notes on annotating texts

11^th Grade Midterm Review Sheet

Stanza- One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines

Paraphrasing- writing what an author says in your own words

Irregular Capitalization- when words are capitalized in a poem where they wouldn’t normally be (words that are not proper nouns or at the beginning of a sentence).  The purpose of this is to draw attention to those words to emphasize them.

Rhythm- The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables 

Read the following poem and answer the questions below:

The Soul Selects her own Society  by: Emily Dickinson

The Soul selects her own Society-

Then- shuts the Door-

To her diving Majority-

Present no more-

Unmoved-she notes the Chariots- pausing-

At her low Gate-

Unmoved- an Emperor be kneeling

Upon her Mat-

I’ve known her- from an ample nation-

Choose One-

Then- close the Valves of her attention-

Like Stone-

 

1)      How many stanzas are in this poem?

 

2)      How many lines are in each stanza?

 

3)      Paraphrase stanza #1.

 

4)      Which words are irregularly capitalized in stanza #2?

 

5)      Why do you think Dickinson capitalized those words in stanza #2?

 

6)      How do the pauses in this poem affect the rhythm of it?

 

 

Directions: Use context clues and your knowledge of the base words or prefixes to determine the meaning of the following words:

 

                When asked about what she viewed as important in a friendship, Sara said that fidelity was very important because she wanted friends who would stick by her.   She told of a time when a friendship didn’t work out because her friend would talk behind her back.  Apparently there were foreboding signs all along, like her friend would be really interested in all of the bad things that were happening to Sara, but none of the good.  Her friend would also only do things with Sara if Sara made all of the arrangements.  Sara decided that it was important to have a friend that would collaborate with her so they would have an equal say in what plans they were going to make.  The next time Sara met someone, she clarified her expectations so that her new friend would understand the kind of friendship she would like to have.

 

1)      The root “fid” means “faith.”  Use this knowledge and the context clues above to write the best meaning of the word fidelity.  Underline the context clues in the paragraph that helped you determine this.   

_____________________________________

 

2)      The root “fore” means “in front of.”  Use this knowledge and the context clues above to write the best meaning of the word foreboding.  Underline the context clues in the paragraph that helped you determine this.   

_____________________________________ 

3)      The root “clar” means “clear.”  Use this knowledge and the context clues above to write the best meaning of the word clarity.  Underline the context clues in the paragraph that helped you determine this.  

_____________________________________ 

4)      The root “col” means “together” or “jointly.”  Use this knowledge and the context clues above to write the best meaning of the word collaborate.  Underline the context clues in the paragraph that helped you determine this.   

_____________________________________

 

Imagery:  descriptive words and phrases writers use to re-create sensory experiences for readers.  By appealing to the five senses, imagery helps a reader imagine what the character’s experiences being described are like. 

 

Identify some Imagery from the following passage by Washington Irving in “The Devil and Tom Walker” 

“They lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air of starvation.  A few straggling savin trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it, no smoke ever curled from its chimney. . . A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field, where a thin carpet of moss. . . tantalized and balked his hunger.”

 

Mood:  the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.  Writer’s mostly use Figurative Language and Imagery to create Mood.

 

Note the Mood that Irving creates for the reader in “Devil and Tom Walker”

 

“The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks.  It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveler into a gulf of black, smothering mud”

 

Tone:  a writer’s attitude toward a subject.  Unlike Mood, which refers to the emotional response of the reader, Tone reflects the feelings of the writer.   

Note the Tone toward the raven in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in the examples below: 

“This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling / By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore”

--there is an amused tone, with words like beguiling and smiling

 

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting / “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

--there is an enraged tone here as the raven is driving the speaker to madness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figurative Language:  language that communicates beyond the literal meaning of words, attempting to make unfamiliar ideas easier to understand.  Figurative language uses most commonly the literary tools of:  Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole

 

 

Examples

Personification:  “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson p. 548.  She uses personification in lines 1 and 2.  “Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me”  --here, death is personified as a person that she could not stop for but that stopped for her. 

 

Simile:  “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” by Emily Dickinson p. 553.  Simile appears in the line 3: “Was like the Stillness in the Air” –here she use simile to compare the sounds of the room and the buzz of the fly. 

 

Metaphor:  from Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Upon the Burning of Our House” on p. 118. 

            “Thou hast an house on high erect, / Framed by that mighty Architect”

--Bradstreet is saying that she has a house in heaven (on high erect) made by God (framed by that mighty Architect. 

 

Hyperbole:  From “Upon the Burning of Our House,” Bradstreet uses Hyperbole with the lines:

            “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold / Or all the riches that the East doth hold.” 

--Bradstreet is emphasizing her love for her husband, which she values more than all the riches in all the hidden tombs of the world

 

 

Paradox: a statement that seems to contradict itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth

 

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau uses Paradox:

“I am not as wise as the day I was born.”  --this suggests that living in society with all its rules and regulations erases a child’s natural wisdom and spiritual awareness

 

From “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau again uses Paradox;

“That government is best which governs least”  --this suggests that the government which stays out of its citizens’ personal affairs is the strongest

 

 

 

 

Jan 7

DOL

--none of these seats are further than 22 feet the ticket seller remarked from the stage so youll have a good view

Class Activities: 

--Realism
--Point of View
--Flashback

--begin reading "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" on p. 604.  Read all of part I ending on p. 607.
--do A, B, and C in the margins in your notebooks

Jan 6

DOL

--Even though there parents objected captain wong took she and her friend on a helicopter ride over the grand canyon

Class Activities:

--continue reading Douglass's Narrative
--begin on p. 565 at the letter "E" and finish the Narrative
--do reading activities "F" through "H" in the margins
--in addition, see Mr. Schappert for a hand-out that students worked on in class as well

Jan 2

DOL

--plant them japanese iris bulbs next to the daffodils pam if you want a attractive display next Spring

Class Activities:

--read p. 558 about Frederick Douglass
--read p. 559 about elements of style used in Frederick Douglass's Narrative
--begin reading the Narrative on p. 560 and stop at the letter "E" on p. 564
--in the margins do the activities for letters "A" through "E" in notebooks