Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Death on Wright's Farm


Yesterday, we reviewed the three major genres (poetry, drama and prose) and multiple sub-genres. Our focus was the short story. For the final exam, I will expect you to be able to identify genre and sub-genre. I will also expect you to be able to correctly categorize the texts we've read this semester, as well as other texts or writing.

Continue to create your character and event lists for "A Jury of Her Peers." Some questions to ponder: Do we ever meet John and Minnie Wright? Do we have a good portrait of them? Why are Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale important to the story? What is their relationship? What about the canary - is it important?

Our exam review will be on literary archetypes and stages of grief. We will also look at the Odyssey.

Today we will review the parts of speech and then examine sentence structure. Please go to page 320 of Elements of Language and read to page 329. As always, keep notes on the definitions and we will review the examples as a class.

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