Extra Credit is available every marking period. It is worth 3% of a marking period grade if done well and correctly. You may only do one project or essay per marking period and may not repeat it throughout the year. Extra Credit is due the Friday BEFORE the end of each marking period. NO Exceptions!
Pick an essay and write an essay from any previous AP English and Literature Test that we have not covered in class.
Write an essay for the Ayn Rand Institute. Make sure to give me a copy. https://www.aynrand.org/students/essay-contests
Do the extra credit assignments on www.noredink.com. Create a log-in with your name and join class terrific eagle 86 .
Create a word list with all your literary terms on www.studystack.com or Kahoot. See me first.
Create a sonnet with at least five figurative language techniques with them marked. Also, the theme needs to be on love, beauty or things that endure with time. (only worth 10 points)
Create a jeopardy game at www.jeopardylabs.com with your literary terms. See me first.
Pick a group of fifty literature terms and give an example with citation for each word. Please separate the terms into groups such as drama, short story, or poetry. See me first.
Read a Shakespeare play that you have not previously read or will read in this class and pass a test on the play with an 80% or fill out the Major Works Data Sheet below.
Create a Prezi Presentation of a TPCASTT of one of the following poems. Be sure to add some background of the author and of the literary period.
Aubade
Snake by Taormina, 1923
After Blenheim by Robert Southey
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Berry Picking by Irving Layton
Gascoine's Goodnight by George Gascoigne
The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham
A Litany by Sir Philip Sidney
The Pulley by George Herbert
The Naked and the Nude by Robert Graves
Read a book from the following list and pass a test with an 80% or fill out the Major Works Data Sheet below.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Siddartha
Heart of Darkness
Death of a Salesman
Write a two page report with a bibliography of at least 3 resources (No plagiarism) on one of the following poets:
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
E. A. Housman
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
John Keats
William Blake
E. E. Cummings
Henry Wadsworth
Ralph Waldo Emerson