Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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.