English 9 Honors
Test Tuesday September 13th
covering 3 short stories--"Initiation," "The Most Dangerous Game," "A Christmas Memory." Your test will cover literary elements and how these devices are used within the text, as well as the VOCABULARY from these selections.
Bring Fahrenheit 451to every class next week.
AP Language and Composition
Complete AP Multiple Choice debriefing
Take AP Multiple Choice test for The Adventures Huckleberry Finn
Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
Exercises for Rhetorical Analysis
PREP SESSION SATURDAY--SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
ENGLISH 11
The Lost Generation
The years immediately after World War I brought a highly vocal rebellion against established social, sexual, and aesthetic conventions and a vigorous attempt to establish new values. Young artists flocked to Greenwich Village, Chicago, and San Francisco, determined to protest and intent on making a new art. Others went to Europe, living mostly in Paris as expatriates. They willingly accepted the name given them by Gertrude Stein: the lost generation. Out of their disillusion and rejection, the writers built a new literature, impressive in the glittering 1920s and the years that followed.
Romantic clichés were abandoned for extreme realism or for complex symbolism and created myth. Language grew so frank that there were bitter quarrels over censorship, as in the troubles about James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (1919) and-much more notably-Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1931). The influences of new psychology and of Marxian social theory were also very strong. Out of this highly active boiling of new ideas and new forms came writers of recognizable stature in the world, among them Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, and E. E. Cummings.
_______________________________________________________________
This week we will begin the THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This link is to University of South Carolina where you will find a brief life of Fitzgerald http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
Reading quizzes will be given this week to check for reading comprehension
Questions to Think About:
1) Who do you think the characters in The Great Gatsby represent? Do they seem like real people? Which characters seem the most real to you?
2) What is the symbolism of the green light that appears throughout the novel (at the end of Daisy's pier, at intersections throughout the book)?
3) Fitzgerald returns several times to describe a decrepit optical products sign -- the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleberg -- that hovers over "the valley of ashes." What does that sign represent?
4) Fitzgerald describes the world as "a valley of ashes" but often contrasts Daisy and Jay Gatsby as being spotless. What does this say about his view of American culture and of both Jay and Daisy?
5) In what ways does Fitzgerald present a tension between Modernism and Victorianism in The Great Gatsby?
6) The Great Gatsby is often referred to as the quintessential novel of the "Jazz Age." Using examples from the book, explain what this term meant, and Fitzgerald's attitudes towards that characterization of the 1920s.
FRENCH I/II
WE WILL BEGIN CHAPTER 2 THIS WEEK. PLEASE BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK AND YOUR WORKBOOK TO CLASS. Complete the handout for homework. Practice the vocab on the link below
Vocabulary 1 chp. 2 http://quizlet.com/1304581/bien-dit-1-ch-21-flash-cards/
MYTH AND LEGEND
This week we continue our work with the first 3 chapter of Edith Hamilton's Mythology
On Monday I will give you additional information and you will watch a documentary from the history channel CLASH OF THE GODS--ZEUS.Bethany created this vocabulary practice on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/6448766/vocab-for-september-12-flash-cards/
No comments:
Post a Comment