Vacation Assignment

Over break you'll be expect to read one novel of your own choosing. This will be part of our author study groups that will go through March.

We'll have a timed writing essay on your novel the first class convened after break.

You can choose from any of the following authors:

Toni Morrison (available in Book Room with Alonso)
Junot Diaz
Daniel Alarcon
Octavia Butler
Sherman Alexie
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sylvia Plath    (novel, memoir and poems)

Or any authors that you may be interested.

But all groups must be 2-5 people. So try to find a friend that's interested in the same author you are.

The rest is silence.

Review for AP ENG LIT Semester Exam

Terms 

simile 

metaphor

overstatement

paradox

alliteration

sprung rhythm

irony 

parenthetical

Vocab

verbose

bafflement

skepticism

poignant

effusive

introspective

Works

¨Fire on the Hills¨ by Robinson Jeffers

Dr. Samuel Johnson´s ¨The Life of Milton¨

Sara Orne Jewett´s ¨The Dulham Ladies¨

Gerard Manley Hopkins ¨Spring and Fall: To a Young Child¨

Hamlet Performance in Art Terrace

This afternoon let's meet at 2:15, in costume, on the art terrace, behind Lina and Patricia's classrooms. Be sure to bring at least one script from your group in case someone forgets a line. While I can't promise what time we will finish, I believe we will be done by 4pm. 

Hamlet Performance Rubric

You will find our performance rubric here.  

Look Now

Choose one of these "Memento Mori" paintings. Compare it to Hamlet.