CCS: Students can identify the writer’s craft (literary devices) used in four Sylvia Plath poems and identify unifying patterns found within each of them.

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This is a corrected sheet  for Summer Assignments for readings. The sheet I handed out to you had extra work for All the Kings Men that I have gotten rid of for you.

Antigone study guide

1984 opening Questions beginning of novel

Goal: to provide opportunities for students to identify the artist’s craft.

Tuesday: final printing of Dali paper. Make sure you included listed literary techniques: metaphor, simile, allusion…

Wednesday: I will exchange papers and your peers will attempt to iddentify the literary devices and techniques you used in your papers.

This week we have spent two days in the Computer Lab composing letters of request for  Letters of Recommendation:

Three request letters to different individuals with an April 29 due date.

Copies of the letters will go into your portfolios.

Wednesday and Thursday we will examine high school student examples of resumes.

The Heart of Darkness Redaction: Should be page and half single space and be 10 font. Should be able to look at this page and use it as a study guide for an AP exam or college exam.

Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple source texts are combined (redacted) and altered slightly to make a single document.

Create a summary of the story where you hit the major points.

After the summary:

Briefly write about the narrator and Kurtz: offer significant insights

What theme(s) did you observe?

Did any literary devices jump out at you (list, but do not go into great detail)

Due Tuesday we get back from break.

Students will be looking at stories that make use of symbolism, allegory and fantasy: “The Rocking Horse Winner,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

They will soon be given the novella: The Heart of Darkness.