What will be on your assessment this Friday and Monday.

1. Epic: a long narrative poem celebrating a hero’s deeds.
Characteristics of an epic:
• The hero, usually male, is of noble birth or high position; is often of great historical or legendary importance.
• Traits reflect values of hero’s society
• Performs courageous (sometimes superhuman) acts
• Actions often determine the fate of a nation or group of people
• Setting is vast; often more than 1 nation
• Poet has formal diction and serious tone
• Major characters deliver long, formal speeches
• Plot is complicated by supernatural beings or events; involves long and dangerous journey through foreign lands
• Timeless values of courage and honor
• Universal themes; ex. Good and evil, life and death
2. Literature
Beowulf:
--Anglo-Saxon epic poem
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
--Romance-imaginative adventure with noble heroes, gallant love, chivalry, and daring deeds.
You will need to be able to summarize both works.
3. Know vocabulary from both works
4. Grammar
a. Correct fragments
b. Correct run on sentences using a comma with a conjunction, semicolon, and separating as two complete sentences.
i. I like school; math is my favorite subject.
ii. I like school. Math is my favorite subject.
iii. I like school, and math is my favorite subject.
5. Literary terms
a. You will be given a new piece of literature and asked to identify different literary techniques.
i. Techniques to know
1. Protagonist
2. Setting
3. Alliteration
4. Characterization
5. Imagery
6. Rhyme
7. simile

Update! Update!

I have been remiss! I have not updated in a long time, but to catch you up...

--You should have your rough draft of the Beowulf compare/contrast essay completed and turned in.

--You should have the analogy notes in your notes section and the vocab exercise in your vocab section. Make sure you have that completed!

We will start reading Sir Gawain tomorrow.

Test Friday!!

Your test on Beowulf will be Friday, October 1st. You will need to know:

alliteration
kenning
caesura

The characteristics of an epic

vocabulary

How Beowulf is an example of the traits the Anglo-Saxons valued.

Beginning Beowulf!

If you missed class on Friday, there are some notes you will need to get. Get those from someone else in class or see me.

Also, the final copy of your college essay is due today. You should turn in the final, rough, and the outline if you have not already.

Thursday there will be a quiz on the characteristics of an epic, the notes from class today, and the vocabulary you will get tomorrow.

Schedule for writing assignment--college application essay

Graphic organizer-10 pts.
Outline-10 pts.(due 9/14)
Rough draft-50 pts. (due 9/16)
Final copy-100 pts. (due 9/20)

Here is some information from the College Board on writing application essays.

Back to school info...

You should have your signed course overview in to me by Friday, September 10, and your materials by Monday, September 13. The materials you need are as follows:

--folder/binder with looseleaf paper
--spiral notebook
--pen

We are starting college application essays and it's imperative that you have your supplies. I'll also be posting some helpful links (hopefully!!) soon to the site for college information.