Exam Essay Writing:
Friday (May 31st) one period
Monday Two periods
Tuesday one period
Poetic Devices
https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/poetry-dictionary-for-kids/
In the Heat of the Night Chapter Questions (link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxb4Jb5B0pk&t=1510s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGV1WxFkos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAp7Ib4Ycg&t=41s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFlVU6dTq8w
Term 2 Assignments:
Of Mice and Men novel study
Of Mice and Men questions (up to chapter 4)
Spelling words (up to letter E)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/19/there-are-nine-different-types-of-humour-which-one-are-you_a_23036626/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIhnVCwxrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAp7Ib4Ycg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtttXC9tFPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpd-7KsbIhM
Short Story Reading Unit
Lamb to the Slaughter Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjuE_41taY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Er0sCdcZ3E&t=577s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEN0EscKTmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPqnc7Fwkw
Activities
1) Read the story
2) Story Summary: who, what, where, when, why?
3) Briefly outline the plot.
4) Provide a list of "all" the characters.
5) Who's the main character? Provide a character profile for the main character outlining their character traits.
(NAME, AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, BIRTH DATE, HAIR, EYES, BIRTHPLACE, OTHER FACIAL FEATURES, OTHER APPEARANCE DETAILS, DRESS (Style, colors), DESCRIPTION OF HOME, DOMINANT CHARACTER TRAIT, SECONDARY CHARACTER TRAIT, BEST FRIEND, OTHER FRIENDS, ENEMIES, FAMILY, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND, TALENTS, AND HOBBIES)
6) Who's the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?
https://supereasystorytelling.com/definitions/definition-antagonist.html
https://supereasystorytelling.com/definitions/protagonist-definition-examples.html
7) What's the conflict? Write about the conflict resolution (Climax).
8) Did the conclusion sum up all loose ends? Why or why not?
Short Story Writing Unit
A short story is a “short” piece of fiction with strong elements of character, setting, and plot. Short stories may take many different forms ranging from folktales to mysteries. This assignment is designed to challenge your creativity by directly concentrating on the specific elements of a short story.
Introduction:
While introducing the main character, write five introductions that provide a hint to the setting, plot, and conflict. This section will be written in the form of a short story and should be between four to six sentences in length. Three of the introductions should be written in third person.
Conflict and Climax
Describe and create a conflict and conflict resolution (climax) for five stories.
Outline the protagonist, antagonist, and the struggle between the two people or things in the short story. Describe the conflict resolution (climax).
Example: The Hunger Games
Conflict · Katniss must endure numerous deadly ordeals, navigate complex personal relationships, and learn to control how others perceive her in order to survive the Hunger Games.
Climax · Having outlasted the other tributes, Katniss and Peeta threaten suicide rather than fight one another after a rule change turns them from allies into adversaries. (SparkNotes LLC)
Include a story title for each.
Movie Reviews
Unbreakable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltbFr8M-n5E&t=6447s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2kkmUdnwo
Capitalization Rules
https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/capitalization_rules.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSu_QTX8JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDXdMmLZGxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdqJIUzBNQ&list=RDPfdqJIUzBNQ#t=2
Cheat Sheet of 20 Common Poetic Devices
Figurative writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally but used to create Language: vivid expressions
Imagery: a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
Simile: a figure of speech in which “like” or “as” is used to make a comparison of two basically unlike ideas
Metaphor: a figure of speech which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
Extended Metaphor: differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons are made and the metaphor sustains the comparison for several lines of the entire poem
Personification: a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Hyperbole: an exaggeration
Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants
Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds
Dialect: form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, place, event, and literary work
Symbolism: literary device where something stands for or represents something else
Repetition: the use, more than once, of any element of language – a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence
Meter: the rhythmical pattern of a poem that is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line
Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the end of words
Internal Rhyme: occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line
Rhyme Scheme: the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem that is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme
Stanza: is a formal division of lines in a poem, considered a unit. Stanzas are sometimes named according to the number of lines found in them: couplet-2, tercet-3; quatrain-4; cinquain-5 etc.)