Upcoming Vocabulary and Literary Terms due dates:
*11/5 Literary Terms Quiz #3 (#41-60 Terms to Know for Pre-AP I)
*11/6 Annotation Check Part I To Kill a Mockingbird
*11/10 Sentences #91-120 The Shakespeare List
*11/12 Quiz #91-120 The Shakespeare List
*11/2 Annotation Check Part II (chapter 12 to the end of the book)
What to annotate for . . . To Kill a Mockingbird
Look for and mark the following as you read:
• Universal themes (see the handout you received earlier this year)
• Imagery
• Conflicts
• Turning Points
• Tone shifts
• Things that are confusing
• Things that you think are important
• Interesting syntax
• Interesting diction
• Predictions you may have as the reader
• Questions you may have as the reader
• Any literary devices that you notice (ex. alliteration, tone, irony,
etc. anything on your poetic terms handout or from our notes)
• Symbolism (there is tons in TKAMB)
• Southern cultural aspects (the novel is set in the south—if you see
a “Southernism” take note of it)
Other things to think about while reading (or rereading). . .
-Historical background and how it affects the piece
-Social Class
-Prejudice
-Gender roles (how are the male characters portrayed, the female characters)
****Annotation check for Part I of To Kill a Mockingbird
scheduled for Friday 11/6/09
Extra Credit Opportunity—Burned Books (maximum points 25)
Directions: Choose one of the books or authors mentioned in the novel
Fahrenheit 451. Create a short Power Point on that work/author giving others
a brief summary of what it is about and why one might want to censor the
work. Please make sure that the Power Point is at least 3 slides long and
that the last slide contains the source of your information (the website link
if you used a website, or the title of the book and author if you used a
book). When you are done, print out the presentation in handout format
(click handout on the print screen to save paper) and e-mail the completed
presentation to me erin.dewitt@polk-fl.net .
List of authors/works to choose from:
• Plato’s Republic
• Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
• Marcus Aurelius
• Charles Darwin
• Schopenhauer
• Albert Einstein
• Albert Schweitzer
• Aristophanes
• Mahatma Ghandi
• Gautama Buddha
• Confucius
• Thomas Love Peacock
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Lord Byron
• Tom Paine
• Machiavelli
• Bertrand Russell
• Dante
• Edna St. Vincent
• Walt Whitman
• William Faulkner
• Matthew (book in The Bible)
• Mark (book in The Bible)
• Luke (book in The Bible)
• John (book in The Bible)
