Research Check-In

Now that you have read some books and have taken extensive notes, let me know how your thesis is coming together.  Has your angle changed?  Do you have a sense of what you would like to argue.  Tell me about how you arrived at your idea and explain why your idea is interesting and meaningful to you.

King Lear Final Discussions

For this post, please refer to another student's comments on King Lear from our discussion, and respond to, extend, polite criticize, amplify, connect with or complicate what they had to say.  This post will be due on Monday, April 13.

King Lear Blog Post Acts I - III

For this blog post, choose three or more quotations from acts I-III which deal with a developing motif or idea within the play.  You can find some of the best lines in the packet of quotations provided to you in class.

In your post, discuss how Shakespeare is developing, playing with, extending or clarifying an essential concept or idea across the quotations you have chosen.  Try close reading: what words are essential to the line(s) and how are they arranged?  Principally, you want to communicate what you think is a central conflict or problematic idea within the play by looking at the language. 

King Lear Act I Passage Analysis

Please post your analysis in the comment box below, using the following guidelines:

Choose a particular monologue or passage of dialogue to analyze. (1) In your analysis demonstrate an understanding of the passage's meaning within its context. (2) Also, identify and discuss the significance of (at least two) motifs within the passage. What does the use of the motifs reveal, particularly about characters, conflicts, and themes? (3) Finally, discuss the relationship between how the motifs are presented in the passage and how the motifs are presented elsewhere in the play. Post your response below. At the beginning of your post include your name, name the motifs, and quote the passages (include act.scene.line).

Heart of Darkness Part Two

Hi Everyone: Now that we are 2/3 of the way through Heart of Darkness, please write a blog post with comments about the novel so far.  You can extend a thought that you have shared in class or respond to a classmate's ideas from an in-class discussion period.  Try to refer to specific scenes and details from the text.  Thank you, Mr. Telles.

Literary Terms for the Midterm Exam.

Midyear Exam Literary Terms

Midyear Exam Literary Vocabulary

Sonnets & Poetry (21)

English (Shakespearean) Sonnet, Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet, Iambic Pentameter, Meter, Iamb, Rhyme Scheme, Volta, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Stanza, Octet, Sestet, Quatrain, Couplet, Enjambment, End rhyme, Full rhyme, Near/Off/Half/Slant Rhyme, Sonnet Sequence/Sonnet Cycle/Corona/Crown of Sonnets, Blank Verse

Other Types of Poems (5)

free verse, villanelle, sestina, terza rima, ballads

Other Poetic Techniques (3)

anaphora, epistrophe, inversion

Figurative Language (16)

figurative language, simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, apostrophe, conceit, hyperbole, pun, double entendre, rhetorical question (=erotema), oxymoron, paradox, synesthesia, denotation, connotation

Irony (4)

irony, verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony

Narration (5)

narration, first person narration, third person limited narration, third person omniscient narration, stream of consciousness

Writing Style (9)

style, voice, diction, syntax, tone, mood, dialect, colloquialism, vernacular

Character (13)

characterization, direct characterization, indirect characterization, dynamic character, static character, round character, flat character, foil, protagonist, antagonist, tragic hero, antihero

Plot & Events (10)

Plot, exposition, inciting action, rising action, climax, denouement (resolution), flashback, foreshadowing, internal conflict, external conflict,

Other Literary Terms from First Semester (4)

motif, symbol, epigraph, epiphany

Helpful Links for Question 3 Advice.

Please check out the following links for advice on how to approach Question 3 prompts on the AP exam:

From an AP reader's perspective:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/17306.html

A link to a list of former Question 3 prompts, so that you know what will be hitting you:

http://www2.westminster.net/faculty/drummond/APQ3.htm

Some sample essays with AP reader responses:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapcentral.collegeboard.com%2Fapc%2Fmembers%2Frepository%2Fap06_englishlit_formB_samples_q3.pdf&ei=aE5OVMjyLoyZyASE5YKQCA&usg=AFQjCNH4C5iqGPL8aIrSoQXcp_iEpJfJPQ&sig2=wYnCanZ2no9Vul8fkUi8ZQ&bvm=bv.77880786,d.aWw

Once you have looked through these resources and have a sense of what the Question 3 will be like, spend some time skimming through Jane Eyre, rereading important passages, and noting quotations or passages that you think are particularly significant.