Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Assignment review for the 6 weeks

Literary Terms Review   Create a game with your group to help review the literary terms. You may take something already made and adapt it to our 34 terms.

Jeopardy game 

Bingo Game 

Create a quiz on Quizziz.com   or Kahoot  or Google forms

Story Review Chart  (complete with 2-3 people) - chart should be complete and turned in by Friday 10 / 13

"The Sniper" By Liam Flaherty (1897 - 1984) 
short story that uses irony to make social commentary about war
setting: 1923 Irish Civil War Ireland 
Assignment: Turn in annotated sniper story with comments, summaries & 5-6 lit terms identified 
Assignment: Sniper Summary (Writing a summary resource) 
"The Interlopers" by Saki (1919)  Setting: Romania
a satire meant to ridicule the characters to point out their vices, bad characteristics
& an allegory about the futility of war between humans

Are we motivated more by love or resentment? Are there good reasons for grudges? Which can you never underestimate... man or nature? 

Assignment: Rhetorical Activities Interlopers Literary Device Chart 

Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian Renaissance 14th century Italy)
this is an allegory about the where the characters represent Sacrifice .. Love ..Giving ..Selflessness ..Care

Assignment: Argument Paragraph on Federigo's Falcon
Argument writing tips (what to not do & do)
Assignment: Annotate Federigo's Falcon (Guided Annotations)

Assignment: Courtly Love Due Friday, 9 / 22 everyone completes their own document, but work with a partner.

Assignment: Pre-Reading for Federigo's Falcon

The Lady or the Tiger  by Frank Stockton (1804) 
this is a fairy tale - like short story in which the king's "justice" system is an allegory for justice and an allegory for making the right choice 

Assignment # The Lady or the Tiger Pre-Reading w/ a partner

Assignment #2 Read and Annotate the Lady or the Tiger by answer questions in the boxes, annotating lines that indicate whether they thought it was the lady or the tiger and vocabulary 

Read answers to the Lady or the Tiger 

Assignment #3 Lady or the Tiger Small Socratic Discussion or complete evidence questions