Soph Lit test next week

Go to StudyWiz for a file of my notes and the additional readings for this unit. Do NOT print this file out at school.

The test will be next Monday, March 5.

Vocab quiz on unit 7 words this Tuesday--sentence completion format.

Bring your copy of The Catcher in the Rye to class on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Yellow Class Vocab Unit 7

Write 10 sentences using words from unit 7, giving context clues to their meanings. Due Thursday, February 23.

Blue Class Vocab Unit 7

Write 10 sentences using words from unit 7 correctly, giving context clues to the meaning of the words.


Due for class Thursday, February 23.

Senior Analytical Essay—final instructions

Senior Analytical Essay—final instructions

Assignment: Write a three to four page, five-paragraph analytical essay on a short story of your choice

Format: use MLA style (heading, title, double-spaced, numbered pages using a MLA style header)

Special instructions: In your first paragraph, circle your central idea (with a pen or pencil). Underline your thesis statement. If you combine these two items into one sentence, then merely underline that one sentence.

Underline your topic sentences in your body paragraphs. It is best to begin body paragraphs with topic sentences.

Due date: February 24—if you are absent on this day, you must submit the paper to me by e-mail

Special notes

Integrate quotations by providing the context first (supply who is talking, what is going on, what the issue is under discussion), then the quotation, and finally your analysis.

NEVER “drop” a quotation into the text as a stand-alone sentence.

Provide smooth transitions from sentence to sentence by using transitional expressions (furthermore, next, on the other hand, etc.), pronouns (this, that, these, those), and repeating key words and phrases from the previous sentence.

Refer to the sample essays in your literature book as models.

Do not use any outside sources. Doing so will result in a grade of zero for plagiarism.

Senior Lab Day--February 14

Today you may work on researching for your research paper OR organizing your five-paragraph essay.

Tomorrow, February 15, you must hand in a typed outline for your essay written in the same format found on p. 38 in your text book. I have attached a copy of p. 38 on Studywiz.

Your forty note cards and four source cards are due on Wednesday, February 22.

Sophs Journal #1--- Song of Myself

Write a "Song of Myself" in the style of Walt Whitman.

Write in first person.

Write in free verse.

Use eclectic (choosing the best from a variety of sources) words and phrases (slang, common language, foreign expressions if you dare). Use the language of "your" life, but be careful that we can understand, you, too.

Repeat key phrases for emphasis. Repeat key phrases for emphasis.

Use repetition, parallel structure, and lists.

These are all distinctive elements of a Whitman poem.


MINIMUM OF 200 words. Why limit yourself? I could go on forever about myself!

The first four comments contain four pretty good (but you will do better) examples from previous years.

Post before Friday, February 17.

Purple Class Lab Day Feb. 2.

Answer this question after reading A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker. You should respond directly here at Schoolsville; compose your response in a "saved" Word document and then copy and paste it to comment at Schoolsville.

Answer any one of these questions:

What characteristics of the woman-narrator do you learn from this interior monologue that you would not have learned using any other point of view? (at least three?)

or

How would you characterize the narrator? What is her chief quality/characteristic? Cite at least three specific items from the story.

Red Class Lab Day February 3

You may research topics for your research paper. Try this site to get you started from Midway College in Kentucky or here at the University of Central Florida.

Remember, you must read The Jilting of Granny Weatherall for tomorrow's class. Go to StudyWiz to read it or here. Of course, it can be found in your text book, too.