AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
We will begin Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS
MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE
practice multiple choice test
syntax: sentence structure(handout)
Stylistic Analysis (handout)
VOCAB WORDS FOR THIS WEEK: http://quizlet.com/3886406/c-d-words-flash-cards/
FRENCH 2
THIS WEEKS VOCAB WORDS CHAPTER 4:
http://quizlet.com/622772/bien-dit-level-2-ch-4-vocab-1-flash-cards/
HOMEWORK EXERCISES: # 5 P. 121, 12 & 14 P.124-125, 18 P. 127
ENGLISH 11
ALERT: The test over both sets of vocabulary for the novel OF MICE AND MEN will be on Thursday Jan 13 or Friday Jan 14th following the schedule for English A and B.
VOCAB WORDS FOR OF MICE AND MEN: http://quizlet.com/1099563/of-mice-and-men-vocabulary-colloquialisms-flash-cards/
CHARACTERS: http://quizlet.com/959239/of-mice-and-men-characters-flash-cards/
As per my instructions you were to read John Steinbeck's novel OF MICE AND MEN over the break. Actually you should only have to reread the text as this was your assigned summer reading.
John Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression (a downturn in the American system of producing, distributing, and using goods and services in the 1930s, and during which time millions of people lost their jobs).
Of Mice and Men (1937), first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella (short novel) about an unusual friendship between two migrant workers (laborers who travel to wherever there is available work, usually on farms). Although the book is powerfully written and often moving, some critics feel that it lacks a moral vision. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Steinbeck-John.html I personally disagree. I think George's concern and his self sacrifice to insure Lennie's well being speaks to man's ethical responsibility to those with disabilities.
Additionally, the theme of loneliness underscores man's desire for community and the struggle to answer the age old question: How shall we live well together? The American Dream of property ownership is powerfully depicted within the text through the characters' desire for their own farm. George is not selfish with his dream like Gatsby, but rather his dream signifies a desire to establish an edenic setting for those marginalized by society.
Senior English:
We are moving into the Elizabethan period. We will begin our study of the Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth.
BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS.
TEST ALERT Begin to study these Macbeth quotes: http://quizlet.com/3281867/macbeth-quotes-flash-cards/
Shakespeare
Welcome to the class!
This a link to the introductory vocabulary list
http://quizlet.com/23945/shakespearean-english-vocabulary-flash-cards/ TEST ON MONDAY JAN 10
Introduction to Shakespeare
Elizabethan England
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