Literary Elements Networking Event RESCHEDULED to TUESDAY JANUARY 15!!

 TASK:Pretend your a literary elements and you are attending a networking event

1.   Who are you?

2.   What do you do for a living? (definition)

3.   Who do you hang out with?(similar elements)

4.   Where can we find you (examples of text or books)

5.    Create a business card providing an example of your services (specific example)

1.Verse- Emily C 2.Protagonist-Kaitlin 3.Antagonist-Miriam  4.Allusion-Dallas 5.Irony -Ruben 6.Foreshadow-Tenzing

7.Setting  Maria D 8.Characterization- Juan 9.Point of view- Floridon 10.Theme- Alexis 11.Tone- Ana

12.Imagery- Lori 13.Mood- Alyssa   14.Alliteration-Crystal   15.Assonance-Fabian 16. Symbolism-Catherine    17.Personification- Christy

18.Hyperbole-Andi 19.Plot- Ivanna   20. Types of Conflic-Marguerite 21.Foil -Omar 22. Allegory-Daniel   23.Rhyme scheme- Dannelys

Mastering the Controlling Idea- HW for friday Jan 11

What to do to Master the Controlling idea (question 26)

 TASK: Write a well-developed short response in which you use ideas from both a Christmas Carol and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas to establish a controlling idea about knowledge. Develop your controlling idea using specific examples and details from each work.

SAMPLE FORMAT

•      Introduction of the topic sentence and controlling idea (1-2 sentences)

•      Development of the controlling idea (1-2 sentences)

•      Examples from the 1^st passage that support your controlling idea and how they prove your point (2-3 sentences

•      Examples from the 2^nd passage that support your controlling idea and a description of how they prove your point (2-3 sentences)

•      A conclusive statement that reiterates your controlling idea (1 sentence)

Critical Lens Quote Interpretation Practice

TASK: Write introduction paragraph for each of the critical lens quotes below. Do not forget to INTERPRET QUOTE (respecting the integrity and complexity of each), AGREE OR DISAGREE, and APPLY TWO WORKS that prove your thesis.

DUE TUESDAY JANUARY 8: 1-9

DUE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9: 9-18

1.   "In literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers."

2.   "Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through."

3.   "When writers write from a place of insight and real caring about the truth, they have the ability to throw the lights on for the reader."

Anne Lamott (adapted)

4.   "A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and woman."

Thomas Hardy

5.   "It is not what an author says, but what he or she whispers , that is important."

Logan Pearsall Smith (adapted)

6.   "It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams, for the purpose of improvement."

John Steinbeck (adapted)

7.   "What lasts is what is written.   We look to literature to find the essence of an age."

Peter Brodie (adapted)

8.   "All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil."

9.   "Good people...are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

William Saroyan

10.   "All literature shows us the power of emotion.   It is emotion, not reason, that motivates characters in literature."

Paraphrased from an interview with Duff Brennan

11.   "All literature is protest.   You can't name a single literary work that isn't protest."  

Richard Wright (adapted)

12.   "The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience."

J.F. Clarke (adapted)

13.   "We do not read novels for improvement or instruction."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.   "In a dark time, the eye begins to see..."

Theodore Roethke

15.   "A person is a person through other persons..."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

16.   "Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting:   the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous."

Frank Norris

17.   "If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it?   A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

Frank Kafka

18.   "The right good book* is always a book* of travel; it is about a life's journey."

Regents Prep- Critical Lens

Due Thursday January 3

Using large index cards (or half sheets of  8 ½ X 11 paper), write about  8 texts ( short stories or full texts) you can possibly use for critical lens.

For each text:

Title and Author

·     list the main characters

·     setting,

·     theme

·     2  literary elements you could use for analysis

Brief plot summary (4-5 sentences)

you can do plot summary on the back of paper

In the Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, how is education related to freedom?

TASK: Use this following template to help you outline each of the chapters. We will be discussing a few in depth.

PLEASE!! IF YOU DO USE SPARK NOTES OR THE INTERNET TO GUIDE YOUR READING, IT IS NOT MEANT TO REPLACE YOUR READING. READ FIRST IF YOU MUST, BUT ALSO READ CHAPTER. YOU CANNOT REPLACE THE WAY DOUGLAS USES LANGUAGE TO EXPLORE HIS EXPERIENCE AS A SLAVE WITH THE LANGUAGE USED IN A CHAPTER SUMMARY ON THE INTERNET.

Chapter Summary (use the following when appropriate):

1) Who: (Major Character[s])

______________________________________________________

2) What (Plot):

_______________________________________________________

3) When (Time Frame):

______________________________________________________

4) Where (Setting):

_______________________________________________________

5) Theme [s]):

_______________________________________________________

6) Summarize Chapter:

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

7.Discuss the following:

Author’s purpose: _________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

8.Vocabulary: Write five vocabulary (unknown) words from the chapter,

and use a dictionary and thesaurus to define the words.

Dramatic Irony in A Christmas Carol

Dramatic irony involves the reader (or audience) knowing something about what's happening in the plot, about which the character(s) have no knowledge. Dramatic irony works to engage the reader, as one is drawn into what is happening. The audience may sympathize with the character, who does not know the true situation. Or, the reader may see the character as blind or ignorant The clues may be rather obvious, but the character may be unwilling to recognize the truth.

 GROUP TASK: While discussing today, find examples in the text in which Dickens clearly shows us Scrooge is unaware that the dead man is in fact, himself.

POST EXAMPLES AS COMMENTS ON BLOG. NO REPEATS! 1-2 EXAMPLES PER GROUP!

Simplified Literature Circle Agreements

1. Email meeting summary by 8pm of the meeting day to lindsayerrigo@gmail.com
2. Have a back up in case of emergency. Contact back up by 6 pm.
3. If you are going to be absent, email group and Mrs. E by 9 am your work.
4. Group members will receive individual grades for each meeting. Just specify who did which part in summary. If not labeled, group members will receive group grade.

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