Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Simplicity

Hey You All! So today we took a quotes quiz and then started Act 2 scene 1. So you are going to want to finish that and do the question for Thursday. Simple as that. Get it done.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

for tuesday

Hello fellow literature students,

Please excuse my tardiness in making this post. On Thursday we went through Act 1 Scene 2 of Hamlet. The homework for this Tuesday is to read and finish all questions for scenes 3-5 of Hamlet in the Hamlet Study Guide Questions packet; also be advised that there will be a test on the entirety of Act 1 on Tuesday; so read, re-read, then re-re-read. Know the lines well.

Happy studying

hamlet

Hello sorry for the late post there was some account confusion. So last class we read act.1 scene. 3-4 your hmrk is to finish the act and do all the questions as well or prepared for a quiz on act 1 on Tuesday.

Have a splendid afternoon

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Hamlet 1.2

Firstly, I apologize for forgetting to blog over the Easter long weekend as I was supposed to. Nevertheless, you all did your homework despite my fault so I commend you all! In class today we started reading Act 1 Scene 2 of Hamlet and our homework for Thursday is to finish reading the scene and do the questions.

Have a nice evening!
Matt

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Test Day

Today in Lit class we wrote the Victorian Unit Test. Then, we were introduced briefly to Hamlet!
Homework: Read Preface to Shakespeare on page 422, answer all the reading check questions and then do question #3 for study & discussion. On Thursday (next class), there will be a history test on the Victorian Age.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

I See Dead People

and one really cute love sonnet.

On today's episode of Literature 12, we reviewed and discussed "To An Athlete Dying Young" and "Is My Team Ploughing" by A.E. Housman. After that, we read Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet 43, "Song" by Emily Brontë, and the sections on The English Novel and The Growth of the English Language. Since we've wrapped up this age, we'll be having our unit test on Tuesday composed of the following:

  • Name That Poet - given a line or two from some poems we've studied, if you know it, name the poet.
  • *Define the Underline(d) - give the definitions for 5 different underlined words from the lines of poetry mentioned above
  • Fill-in-the-Blanks
  • Quotes - provide the titles and meanings of each quote
  • One-Paragraph Response (3x)
*study tip: re-read the poems we've looked at in this unit, and define the words you're unfamiliar with in each poem.

IN ADDITION we will be tested on the History section for this Age on Thursday (to make things easier). Just for fun (and to get some studying done without actually studying), check out Mr. Osborne's 8-minute video on the Victorian Age here.

Haaaaaave a good long weekend!

x

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Holla Chica's

Today (...err well yesterday) we finished the Importance of Being Earnest and read Ah, Who's Digging on my Grave? For Tuesday there is no homework, but there will be a quiz on the Importance of Being Earnest.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Wild for Wilde

So today in class we went over act 1 questions, and watched some of the film. We were then graced by the vocal talents of a few star pupils as we read some of act 2! So for tonight's homework it's pretty simple, you're going to want to break open that lit textbook, find some quiet place maybe listen to the pitter patter of the rain  and finish reading  act 2 up to the reading check questions...and then do them.

caio

k

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Hello Again

Kay crazy kids, let's try to keep this short and sweet.

In today's class we discovered that only half the class did the homework assigned over Spring Break--read Act 1 of The Importance of Being Earnest-- myself included (my baaddd) and so we watched the first little bit of the movie on Youtube just to get us introduced to the characters.

We had a bit of time at the end of class to go through a powerpoint on the characters that Mrs. Loconte graciously whipped up for us, and to re-read the first act again.

Your homework is to finish reading Act 1, and answer the Reading Check Questions (#1-5) as well as the study discussion questions on the first Act (#1-2) by Thursday's class!

Weeo lets get er done