terminology

first, here is the literary terms worksheet, the terms the test covers.



Second, here you'll find the meanings of the various LITERARY TERMINOLOGY.

2nd Quarter Run Down, from the syllabus

Second Quarter Run Down
November-January

Unit 1: What is Poetry?
Review of AP test: approaches to poetry.

Unit Readings:
Blackberries: a poetry series
John Keats “When I Have Fears,”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mezzo Cammin”
Walt Whitman “Song of Myself,” (selections)
Emily Dickinson various
T. S. Eliot “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Wallace Stevens “Sunday Morning”
Robert Frost various
Nikki Giovanni “Because”
Theodore Roethke “My Papa's Waltz”
Linda Pastan “Autumn”
Elizabeth Bishop “One Art,” “The Fish”
Robert Pinsky ‘The Shirt”

Unit Writing
Poem Analysis

Unit 2: Review of AP Practice Test, cont.

Unit 3: Critical Approaches to Shakespeare
How to interpret a monologue

Unit Readings
William Shakespeare Hamlet

Unit Writing
Hamlet: Essential question OR passage explication
Writers Notebooks:
SOAPStone
TPCAST
Say-Show-Mean
Compare/Contrast
Question # 1 practice
College Application Essays: Risk and Well-Written


Winter Break Reading: Begin Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Poem Quest

For a 2nd Quarter Writers Notebook:

The poem quest!