English Lit

Sonnet presentations are due tomorrow.

English 10

Test tomorrow!  We completed the review sheets today, and did a review Kahoot.  If you missed class, get the notes from a friend.

English Lit

On Friday, we finished discussing "Whoso List to Hunt" and looked briefly at the write up on p.149 on the poet.  Then, we read the two poems on page 162 and had a debate about the character with whom we sympathized the most. For homework, students are to read 6 Shakespearean sonnets on pp. 166-169 and do a Q and Q on each for Tuesday.  

On Monday, students reading Into the Wild and Fifth Business with do fishbowls on their novels.  The class will discuss the Shakespearean sonnets on Tuesday and Wednesday.  On Thursday and Friday of next week, we'll watch the movie Elizabeth with Cate Blanchet.

I will assign some readings from the textbook next week, and I'll post them to this blog.

The next Independent Novel Assignment due dates are as follows:

Books 3 & 4:  April 5 fishbowl (essay due Ap. 9)  --  Cat's Eye & Jane Eyre 

Book 5: April 11 fishbowl (essay due Ap. 15)  --  Brave New World

English 10

On Monday and Tuesday, we'll review for  the short story unit test on Wednesday.  On Thursday, you will get a sight story you've never seen before, and I'll ask you questions on it.  On Friday, you will present your short story projects.

This weekend, review your short story terms from the handout I gave you.   Also, fill in your review sheets for "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, "The Inheritor" by Frank Roberts, and "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield.  On Monday, you'll complete sheets for "The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, and "The Metaphor" by Budge Wilson.

Here is the format for Wednesday's test:

• 10 fill in the blank questions (bolded words on terms handout)—10 marks
• 5 short answer questions on literary theory (bolded words & how they relate to stories we've read) – 20 marks
• 10 short answer questions on specific stories –20 marks
• 1 paragraph question (you’ll have 4 options from which to choose) – 10 marks

English 10

Your in-class essays will happen tomorrow.  Bring a book or quiet work to complete if you finish before the end of the period.
For Friday, be sure to complete the sheet on "The Wife's Story" and the handout on irony.

English Lit

Today, we watched a video on the Renaissance.  You can access it if you click HERE.
Then, we read "Whoso List to Hunt"(p.150).  Students have to write a question and quote on the poem.  As well, they need to find a literary device.

Beowulf/Chaucer projects are due tomorrow, AND the fishbowl has been rescheduled for Monday.

English Lit

Tonight, read pages 128 to the top of 138 in the textbook.  Write your top 10 points to remember from this section.

English 10

There will be an in-class essay on Thursday.  Make sure you fill out your planning sheet tonight and bring your questions to class tomorrow if you have any.

English 10

In preparation for the in-class composition on Thursday, choose a character (Charlotte, Charlotte's mother, or Miss Hancock) about whom to write.  Then, choose three character traits from the brainstormed lists we completed in class and find a supporting quote (with page number) from the textbook.  You will need your three traits and three quotes for the planning sheet I'll give you tomorrow.

Periods  2 and 3:
Miss Hancock

• caring/kindhearted/compassionate
• appreciative/cheerful
• brave 
• sensitive
• wholesome
• expressive
• energetic/(over) enthusiastic/overzealous
• eccentric (polychromatic)/ostentatious

Charlotte's mother

• calculating/cold
• critical/judgmental/close-minded/snobbish
• conforming (monochromatic)
• callous/cold/uncaring/cruel
• efficient
• organized
• perfectionistic

Charlotte

• sensitive/thoughtful
• intelligent/observant
• creative
• shy/timid/quiet
• appreciative
• weak

English Lit

On Friday, we answered 3 questions on "Bonny Barbara Allan" (they're on my blog from Thursday).  Find the answers on page 105 on the blurb on English and Scottish ballads. We also listened to Dolly Parton's and Joan Baez's versions of the song.

Then, we read the Medieval romance, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Be sure to read page 89. Then, do a question and quote on the romance for Monday.

I also gave a run down of what will be on the test on Tuesday: 

• 5 vocab words 
• 5 quotes from "The Prologue" 
• 10 multiple choice questions (Chaucer, Bonny Barbara, Gawain) 
• 4 short answer questions (5 marks each). 
• 1 longer answer (10 marks) 

Also go over the most important aspects of Beowulf as one question will ask you about it in relation to the other works.

Here again is the list of vocabulary words from this unit:

stave (verb) 

burnished (adj) 

boorish (adj) 

sundry (adj) 

counterfeit (adj) 

engender (v) 

cloisters (n) 

screed (n) 

tormented (v/adj) 

palfrey (n) 

sovereign (n/adj) 

zest (n) 

accrue (v) 

wrought (as in wrought-iron -- adj) 

benign (adj)  

pestilence (n)

arrears (n)

prevarication (n) 

penitent (n)

absolution (n)

guile (n)

English 10

Finish the handout on the symbolism of the birthday cake for Monday.