Week of May 31 and June 6

Exam Review: You must refresh your memory on the works and terms listed below. There are three sections to the exam. Literary terms and poetic devices, a formal writing with research included, and a creative writing assignment. Please remember all research must be completed by Friday, June 10. You must hand in your folder on that day with researched information, a typed works cited page, and a typed outline with a thesis statement.

Works studied during the second semester:
Hedda Gabler, A Doll's House, Whale Rider, Osama, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The House on Mango Street, Night, A Midnight Clear, All Quiet on the Western Front, and your independent reading novel

Terms you will need to study:
Aside
Concealment
Syntax
Diction
Situational Irony
Assonance
Consonance
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Vignette
Imagery
Metaphor
Simile
Synesthesia
Oxymoron
Malapropism
Allusion
Anachronism
Rhetoric
Soliloquy

Complete the following tutorials before Monday, June 6:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Other useful websites on plagiarism:
https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/
http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/citeisright.html

Read your chosen novel by Friday, June 10.

The Weeks of May 16 and May 23

The thesis paper and works cited page are due on Tuesday, May 17. Any students not in class on Tuesday must still get the paper to me or it will be considered late.

Please read Night and take notes in preparation for the Fishbowl discussion on Wednesday, May 25. (The due date has been changed from Monday, May 23 to Wednesday, May 25. You will have time to finish reading and preparing for the fishbowl discussion on Tuesday, May 24).

We will be viewing A Midnight Clear in class on Wednesday (5/18) through Monday (5/23).