Congrats! Your last English assignment for this year!

Synthesis Essay Assignment

Below is the outline. You can use the paper one I give you OR this one.

1. Visual Journal
2. Poet and Didn’t Know It contest
3. Choice of analyzing two poems OR writing your own (see the board)
4. Study for test tomorrow

1. Go over “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
2. Break
3. Independent reading: How does the author express their identity? You can answer in a paragraph OR you can sketch the answer through visuals in your visual journal.
4. Catch up (if there is anything for you to do.
5. Test on Thursday.
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1. Poetry Quiz
2. No Red Ink
3. Review Hemingway

Break

Reminder of quizlet quiz on Monday.

• Go over “The Sick Rose”.

Up in Michigan – due Monday

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1. Reminder: Poetic Devices Quiz (know the term and the definition) will be on Monday
2. THAMO’s Sentences
3. Metonymy and Synecdoche Review : Metonoymy and Synedoche worksheet
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5. Review Yellow Wallpaper
6. Break
7. The Sick Rose
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For homework: Book Bento (Wednesday)  Yellow Wallpaper (Thursday) No Red Ink (Friday)

No Red Ink: THAMO’s usage

Speed Devices– A review of all the terms and identification of certain devices.

No Red Ink- there is more practice on how to use THAMO at the beginning of a sentence and in the middle. Please do this on your own time before the 19th.

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Here are some other sources to read if you are interested in the Gothic genre.

Gothic Literary Genre

British Library (video)

Lit Critics (video)

https://www.nfb.ca/film/how-to-be-at-home/  How are you feeling during this extended lock down?

Combining Sentences- lesson on the board

Reminder about Poetry terms- quiz on Monday (we will go over them in more detail this Wednesday or Thursday)

Work on Book Bento. Due Wednesday at midnight. This is the last day to work on it in class. Here is the rubric:

Work on Book Bento for the weekend. It will be due on Wednesday but there will be no time to work on it Tuesday or Wednesday.

Poetry and Short Story Terms- these terms need to be understood and memorized by Friday, Jan. 15th when there will be a quiz. The quiz will be the test version of this Quizlet so really just memorization. We will practice these terms as we look at poetry in the coming weeks.

Quizlet for Poetic Devices

Here are the terms in doc form: poetry_terminology_12