English 10

MILES_Course Expectations 18-19

Quarter 4 Reading: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Purchase by 3/22

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanical), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

Link to book:

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html

Quarter 3 Gothic Literature Lecture Notes:

Quarter 3 will focus on Gothic Literature. These notes will aid in class discussion/ writing/ and projects that will be assigned throughout the quarter.

Introduction to Gothic Literature

Southern Gothic

Link to book PDF:

http://bisteachers.cratercomets.com/sinks_jeremy/literature/a_long_way_gone/aLongWayGoneMemoirsBoySoldier.pdf

Quarter 2 Reading: A Long way Gone: Memoirs of a Soldier Boy by Ishmael Beah Purchse by 10/29

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.

In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.

This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

"My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.

'Why did you leave Sierra Leone?'

'Because there is a war.'

'You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?'

'Yes, all the time.'

'Cool.'

I smile a little.

'You should tell us about it sometime.'

'Yes, sometime.'"

Quarter 1 Reading: Night by Elie Wiesel Purchase by 9/10

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

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English 10 Rhetorical Devices:

A rhetorical device is a figure of speech that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. Though there are hundreds of figures of speech, here we'll focus on just 25 of the most common figures.

Rhetorical devices are often associated with literature, poetry, and formal essays. But the fact is, whether we're conscious of it or not, we use figures of speech every day in our own writing and conversations.

For example, common expressions such as "falling in love," "racking our brains," "hitting a sales target," and "climbing the ladder of success" are all metaphors--the most pervasive figure of all. Likewise, we rely on similes when making explicit comparisons ("light as a feather") and hyperbole to emphasize a point ("I'm starving!").

Using original rhetorical devices in our writing is a way to convey meanings in fresh, unexpected ways. Figures can help our readers understand and stay interested in what we have to say.

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