Poetry

• Setting-geographical/ temporal
• Subject/ theme/ thesis
• Genre( lyric/ sonnets/ ballad/ ode/ epic)
• Voice/ personna
• Distance from poem( historical/ cultural)
• Diction/ use of words/ irony /imagery/ pun ("form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect")/figures of speech (simile, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, consonance, personification, hyperbole)/ symbolism
• Structure/ rhyme

Novel report

"Lolita" (500 words)

1- Tell what happened/plot(storyline)

2- Describe your favorite part

3- Write a letter to the author

4- Tell how you would react if you were a character

5- Choose several (2-3) "quotes" from characters and say why they're meaningful.

6- Why the book is awesome or not

7- Suggest a different ending or continue the story

LEL#2

Print out the passage and circle those letters you think should be capitalized, and then check yourself against the Answer passage on the next screen.

when I first saw the black hills on january 2, 1995, i was shocked by their beauty. we had just spent new year's day in sioux falls, south dakota, and had headed west toward our home in denver, colorado. as we traveled along interstate 90, i could see the black hills rising slightly in the distance. after driving through the badlands and stopping at wall drug in wall, south dakota, the evergreen-covered hills broke the barren monotony of the landscape. my oldest daughter said, "dad, look! there's some-thing that's not all white." we saw mount rushmore and custer state park, the home of the largest herd of buffalo in north america. we also drove the treacherous spearfish canyon road. fortunately, our jeep cherokee had no trouble with the ice and snow on the winding road. we were unable to see needles national park because the needles highway was snowed shut. winter may not be the best time to see these sights, but we enjoyed them nonetheless.

How Much Do You Know? — Answer When I first saw the Black Hills on January 2, 1995, I was shocked by their beauty. We had just spent New Year's Day in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and had headed west toward our home in Denver, Colorado. As we traveled along Interstate 90, I could see the Black Hills rising slightly in the distance. After driving through the Badlands and stopping at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota, the evergreen-covered hills broke the barren monotony of the landscape. My oldest daughter said, "Dad, look! There's something that's not all white." We saw Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, the home of the largest herd of buffalo in North America. We also drove the treacherous Spearfish Canyon Road. Fortunately, our Jeep Cherokee had no trouble with the ice and snow on the winding road. We were unable to see Needles National Park because the Needles Highway was snowed shut. Winter may not be the best time to see these sights, but we enjoyed them nonetheless.

LEL #1

I think the test could've been a little bit shorter so I wouldn't get bored. The sentences seemed almost the same to me so that's why I have problem with my sentence structure. But it was quite interresting. Sentence structure: 65% Combine ideas through clauses and phrases: 70% Correctly use transitions: 80% Revise for tone: 80% Use correct, varried and precise sentence structure: 53% Use precise word choice: 60% Total score for multiple-choice questions: 65%

Sentence pattern 2

IC+ Colon (:) + explanation (Statement: explanation)

Ex: Bernard Shaw told a writer " There are three things I disliked about your story: they are
the beginning, middle and end."

Ex2: There is one key rule in my life: always be well-dressed at work.

Ex3: Darwin's The origin of the species stated a harsh truth: only the fittest survive.

Movie reviews

1-"...Schlink’s brooding narrative never falters, and Daldry’s visual rendering strongly compliments Schlink’s conceptual foundation."

2-"Young Michael’s tender yet unflinching approach to Hanna bridges possibly the most difficult credibility gap in the story, and Kross makes a fine match for Winslet in their many scenes together."

3-"The finest acting skills cannot overcome the reality that Kate Winslet, who was 32 during filming, does not look like an old woman, even under caked-on wrinkles."

4-"Never shrinking from its characters’ failings, the film offers an unflinching view into grey areas of morality: Is it ever acceptable to forgive a horrific crime committed by a lover?"
(http://www.pajiba.com/the-reader-review.htm)

I-"The Reader seeks to humanise the Nazi, but in doing so can't help but devalue the horror of the crimes of National Socialism."

II-"...it's difficult to know since her past is only ever filtered through the eyes of others and never through Hanna herself."

III-" It's to the film's detriment that so much time is dedicated to this late period of the story."

IV-"Winslet's fierce, intensely felt performance is obliterated by an unsuccessful make-up job that fails to age her and instead just makes her look weird and flaky."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5423614.ece

1. What questions.

What are you reviewing? The reader
What is it about?
What is the plot or storyline? A law student re-encounters his ex-lover in a trial he assists.
What is the theme?
What is the director's purpose?
What genre or classification does it fit? Drama
What is the tone? What is the point of view? What is the mood.

2. Who questions.

Who wrote, directed, or acted it? What else have they done? David Hare wrote the screenplay, Bernhard Schlink wrote the book wich the movie is based on and Stephen Daldry directed it.

Who are the main characters in the story? Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz.
Who is the intended audience?
Who has said what about this?
Why?

3. Where and when questions.

When does the action take place? After world war II
Where does the action take place? In Germany

Sentence pattern#1

Sentence: Complete idea/ subject+verb, IC= independant clause

Clause(part of a sentence): Incomplete(idea), subject+verb+object, DC= dependant clause

Phrase: Preposition (in, or, at,etc.), no verb, participle; present (...ing)or past (...ed)

Ex: CSL has 3200 students in different programs, wich are interesting.
Subject verb object prepositional phrase clause

IC semicolon IC

EX: CSL has 3200 students; many are smart and talented.

"It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it. "

Run-on mistake : CSL has 3200 students, many are smart and talented.

EX2) Stockton's most famous story is "The lady or the tiger;" it's about a young man being judge for his illicit affair with a princess.

Ex3) Frank Stockton wrote many short stories; he filled 23 volumes.

1-A) IC+ semicolon+ conjunctive adverb+ comma+ IC

Ex: Frank Stockton started as a wood engraver; however, he became a famous writer.

1-B) IC+ comma+ coordinating conjunction(For,And,Not,B,O,Y,So)+ IC

Ex:The story as no ending, so the reader is left wondering what happened.

"He was not conscious of an effort, but a sharp pain in his wrist apprised him that he was trying to free his hands."

Thesis statement (#6)

- A thesis statement is an argumentative assertion about a topic.
- Is specific enough to be proven(has evidences to support it).
- Is usually close to the end of an introduction.
- It can be expressed in several sentences or, when the text is long, in an entire paragraph.

-Clear, avoids vague language
-Avoid "I"
-Reflects what the text is about (main idea)
-Connects all the subelements of text
-Makes a "claim"
-Passes the "so what" test-Provacative
-Directs the structure of the argument
-Introduces an essay
-Determines the type of paper you write
-Uses literary elements
-Makes use of a quotation

P1: Intro
P2: -Topic sentence
P3: -Topic sentence
P4: -Topic sentence+refers to the thesis statement

The lady or the tiger

The author: Frank Stockton

A) He was born in april 1834.

B) His most popular fable is "The lady or the tiger".

C)He won a short story contest while he was in high school.

D) He had one leg shorter than the other.

E) He wrote in a journal that was edited by Poe.

Write three questions related to different literary elements done on feb.03.

1) Where did the king sat during the trial?

2) Who was dating the princess?

3) Is selfishness one of the main themes?


Vocabulary:

-untrammeled:
-epithalamic : "a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom"
-Thus : "because of this or that"
-aesthetic : "pleasing in appearance"
-thronged : "to crowd into/upon"
-glance :to take a quick look at something
-gnashed: to strike or grind together
-rapturous: an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion
-kindled :
-shriek:

Possible thesis statement:

-The story revolves around two dilemmas.The first conflict is the external one between the young man and the the two doors. The second conflict is internal involving the princess' feelings: jealousy or love.

Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge

The author: A) He was born in Meigs County, Ohio in 1842

B) He married Mary Hellen on december 25th 1871

C) He was a soldier.

- He wrote a famous book called "The devil's dictionnary"

Write three questions related to different litterary elements done on feb.03.

1) How many people were on the bridge with Peyton Fahrquhar?

2) Where does the story takes place?

3) Wich war is mentionned in the text?


"The devil's dictionary "

Christian :
One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Love:
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage :
The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Cat :
A soft indestructible automaton provided by Nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

The Tell-Tale Heart

A) Author:

-He was born in 1809, in Boston.
-His parents died before he was three years old.
-Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen years old cousin.
-He started to drink alcohol more often after his wife died in 1847.

B) Plot:

The story of the Tell-Tale Heart his about a man, the narrator, who's obsessed by an old man's white eye. He is so obsess that he decides to kill the old man. For seven nights he watched the old man sleeping but the "evil eye" was closed. The night after, the old man wakes up in the middle of the night asking "Who's there?". The other man in the room waited patiently for the old man to lie down in the bed but it didn't happened. He then open a little crevice in his lantern and sees the evil eye. He jumps on the old man an kills him.

After the murder, he puts the body under the floor and clean up everything. At four o'clock in the morning, three police officers knocked on the door. The murderer invites the officers to take a cup of tea in the old man's room. But he kept hearing the beating of the old man's heart and its driving him crazy so he confess everything.

C) Analysis:

1-Setting(place and time of the story): in the house of an old man where the narrator lives, in the 1840's in The US.
2-Characters: An unnamed narrator who proclaimes that he's sane.
The old man with an evil eye.
The neigbourgh
The three policemen
3-Themes(reader interpretation): I) A human being has a perverse,wicked side - another self -
that can provoke him to doing evil things without an
apparent motive.

II) Fear of discovery can bring about discovery.

III) The evil within is worse than the evil without.


4-Point of view : First person narrative.
5-Sentence style : "Obect there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the man..." - Sentences are like the beating of a heart.
6-Figures of speech
-Anaphora (repetition): I heard things in Heaven
I heard things in Hell
-Personification (gives human features to objects or animals): Death becomes a person.
-Simile (comparison using the word "like"): "A single ray of light like the thread of a spider."
-Alliteration (repetition of sounds)
-Irony: "I was never kinder to the old man during the week before I killed him."