From above, here are words you need to know: allegory, allusion, antagonist, cacophony, carpe diem, denouement, all forms of irony, epiphany, exposition, foil, hamartia, hubris, hyperbole, in medias res, Oedipus Complex, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, parody, personification, point of view, prologue, protagonist, pun, satire, simile, syntax, tone, understatement
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The DEATH OF PRINT! Satirical article in The Onion HERE
TKAM: have racial relations changed? Pro group/con group read article HERE
Students will watch Dr Seuss' "The Sneetches" and write a 6x8 notecard reaction as to how the clip mirrors the themes and human nature aspects from TKAM. The notecard is to force students to focus on BREVITY
In preparation for a class discussion on To Kill a Mockingbird, please do some research on the following topics:
The Great Depression Hoovervilles The New Deal (Roosevelt) How the writing of TKAM may have been influenced by the Civil Rights Movement The Scottsboro Trials Jim Crow laws
Have notes from your research (handwritten...NOT printed out) to use for the discussion
Write about this homeless man picture. What is the back story? Can you see THROUGH the pic?
The Lottery: It was on this day in 1948 that Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker. She wrote it in two hours, and when it was published in 1948, hundreds of readers wrote to the magazine, many of them wanting to cancel their subscriptions because they were so upset by the story. Jackson later wrote: "On the morning of June 28, 1948, I walked down to the post office in our little Vermont town to pick up the mail. I was quite casual about it, as I recall -- I opened the box, took out a couple of bills and a letter or two, talked to the postmaster for a few minutes, and left, never supposing that it was the last time for months that I was to pick up the mail without an active feeling of panic. By the next week I had to change my mailbox to the largest one in the post office, and casual conversation with the postmaster was out of the question, because he wasn't speaking to me."
Updike's "A&P"...a dramatization followed by an interview of Updike by Donald Murray about the story HERE
A digital story for "The Most Dangerous Game" HERE
Write a letter to JD Salinger. Check out an example HERE
Catcher 6 degrees of separation assignment HERE and a clip to go along with it HERE and here's an EXEMPLAR. Also, create a playlist for Holden of his songs.
Some videos to help with understanding of Catcher HERE and HERE
Check out many digital stories on youtube done for Catcher ONE