Othello Act V, scenes i-ii

Othello Act IV, scenes ii-iii

Textbook: Emily Dickinson pages 404

"Because I could not stop for Death"

"I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died"

"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant"

Othello: Act IV scene I

Textbook: Read and know pages 966-980

John Hersey: Hiroshima pgs. 982-995

Portfolio: Reading Log due

Othello: Terms to Define: Know when they are used in the play

1. rhyming couplets
2. Illusion
3. Allusion
4. Epitaph
5. Enigma
6. Hyperbole
7. Tragic flaw
8. Pathetic fallacy
9. Understatement
10. Irony (all forms)
11. Extended metaphor
12. Rhetorical question
13. Internal rhyme
14. Parallel construction
15. Heroic couplet
16. Assonance
17. Alliteration

Othello Act III, scene iv

Othello Act III, scenes i-iii

In class: poetry response "My Father's Garden" (you will need to pick up the poem from me when finished with AP exams)

Othello Act II, scene iii

Read: Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night" pg. 882 and "The Gift Outright". Answer questions #1-5 on page 885. Understand the concept of the Terza Rima is relation to "Acquainted with the Night"

Othello Act II, scenes i-ii

Compete TPS-FASTT Poetry analysis worksheet for Robert Frost's "Birches" and "Out, Out--"

Othello Act 1, scene iii

Answer all questions for Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" and "Birches"

Othello: Act I scenes I and II due

Due: Textbook Carl Sandburg pages 866-871. Review Literary analysis and author bio. Read "Chicago" and "Grass" and answer questions #1-5 on page 871. See me if you need help:)

Read and review: Elements of short stories page 796. Read model from "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett pg. 797.

Read literary analysis and Hemingway bio on page 799. Read "In Another Country" pages 800-807. Know the answers to the questions on both pages.

Read Themes Across Time: Tim O'Brien introduces "Ambush" pages 808-809. Read the short story pages 810-813. Know the answers to the questions.

Textbook: E.E. Cummings pages 778-782. Read background and author' bio and both poems. Answer questions #3-6 on page 782 for "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

Due: Katherine Anne Porter "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" pgs. 832-844 answer #1-7 using text support, complete sentences.

Due: James Thurber "the Night the Ghost Got In" pgs. 858-864 answer #1-5 in complete sentences with text analysis.

Research Paper: first two pages due (MLA format, heading, introduction, underlined thesis, parenthetical documentation)

Your homework is to read chapters 1 and 2 of the Great Gatsby and answer identifying facts questions (there are four for each chapter).

Due: Research paper 30 or more notecards: concrete detail and commentary (include sample Xerox copies from which notes have been taken.

Complete: Close and Critical Reading Analysis "The Dying Girl No One Helped"

Textbook: The essay, pages 1374-1381. Read Defining Essays and Model "American Slang"  by H.L. Mencken

Read "Onomatopoeia" by William Safire pages 1376-1381. Answer Literary Analysis #1-3 on page 1381.

Read "Coyote and Acme" by Ian Frazier pages 1384-1390. Answer Literary Analysis questions #1-7 on page 1390.

Literary device due

Textbook: Read Walden by Henry David Thoreau pages 374-387. Create a double entry journal analyzing seven passages.

Due: Textbook page 321 and pages 360-365.