Thursday, September 9, 2010

Day 7 (9.9.10 A Day)

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of literary terms
and allusions; students will explicate and analyze Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities
  • Summative Test: Literary Terms "Critical 50" (In "Tests" tab on Blackboard)
  • Presentations: Allusions (Zeus, Hera, and Aphrodite)
  • Essay: Begin assignment
  • Read: Hamlet (Students will take notes.)

Homework
  1. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Bring three quotes (one must be from your summer reading novel and two from novels of literary merit you have read in the past) to prepare for the first formal writing assignment.
  2. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Allusions (next 3)
  3. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Sentence Model 1 & 2 Notes (Bring to class)
  4. DUE on Wednesday (9.15.10 A Day): Read - Types of Poetry (Handout from DiYanni, pages 775-778) and Elements of Poetry (On Blackboard from DiYanni, pages 779-786).
Work Collected in Class
  1. None.