Week 18: Midterm Review

Final Exam Review: Homework for 1/12-1/15

Tuesday 1/12—Read over review sheet/tips and start reviewing texts.

Wednesday 1/13—Preparation for the Quotation Analysis (please see your period’s discussion site for your specific assignment)

Please do this assignment on the class conference site. As the header of your message, write the title of the work to which you're assigned.

Step One: Write down the major characters and what makes these characters distinctive and interesting. What motivates them?

Step Two: Write down the major themes of your work.

The Odyssey:

Short stories: (note: those doing short stories ALSO get a poem)

Poems:

Thursday 1/14–On the class conference site, post an interesting passage from the work you were assigned yesterday. The passage must be 6-9 sentences long and include the name of the text and the page number. Then after your passage, write a paragraph-long analysis, explaining what and how the passage contributes to our knowledge of the work. Discuss an important idea or theme the passage raises, or a revealing trait of one of the work's major characters. Make sure to have a topic sentence and embed quotations from the passage into your paragraph.

Friday 1/15—t.b.a.