Tomorrow: Submit your Gatsby notes before you write the essay. You may use your vocabulary lists and a thesaurus during the essay but no other notes or texts. This essay will be based on your preparations and memorization of quotations.
Today: We picked out 19th century novels and reviewed the terms, genres and authors of the Renaissance/17th century, Romantic, Victorian and Modern eras.
Terms test: March 7th
Notes due: March 7th
Those students who have not taken Lit 12 yet may have an extension until after spring break.
We will be studying poetry for the next two weeks and you will be choosing three poems to analyze formally in a longer essay using MLA style citations and works cited page.
This weekend you will be doing a short essay on a poem (section 2 practice for the exam).
It is similar to the prose passage excerpt essay analyses you have been doing except now the genre has changed.
