Honors Spring Final Study Guide – 2009
You should study all terms, styles of novels and short stories, characters, and ideas for all works and . Plots of all the works we’ve read are fair game as well. Questions on 1984 will be in-depth (60-ish questions) while BNW, AQ, Night, TFA, and Nectar questions will be big idea questions such as “with which statement would the author most likely agree” and “what does the novel suggest about x?” Study up and good luck! Let your hard work shine through your knowledge!

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”  – Samuel Johnson

Lit Terms
Alliteration
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Connotation
Denotation
Diction
Detail
Imagery (5 types)
Plot (5 steps)
Conflict (5 types)
Syntax
-Balanced
-Loose
-Interrupted
-Periodic
Repetition
Tone
Mood
Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Symbolism
Stanza

Plot Terms
Conflict
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Denouement
Resolution
Foil
Rhetorical Terms
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Claim
Counterclaim
Warrant
Evidence
Rebuttal
Persuasion
Narration
Description
Definition
Cause/Effect
Comparison/Contrast
Process
Division/Classification
Analysis
Exposition/Expository

Logical Fallacies
Ad Hominem
Begging the question / Circular reasoning
Hasty & Sweeping generalizations
Straw man
Red herring
Non sequitur
Post hoc

All Quiet on the Western Front
Soldiers’ experience at the front
Themes
Time and place
Tone
Propaganda
Characters
Gerard Duval
Himmelstoss
Kantorek
Kemmerich
Paul
Tjaden

Night
Themes
Time and places
Tone
Characters
Elie Wiesel
Elie’s father
Madame Schachter

1984
Author’s purpose
Children in 1984
Goals of the Party
Purpose of Newspeak
Themes
Tone
Winston’s job
Characters
Big Brother
Charrington
Goldstein
Julia
Katherine
O’Brien
Parsons
Syme
Winston
Vocabulary
Doublethink
Four ministries
Inner/outer party
Interrogator
Junior Anti-Sex League
Proles
Inner Party
Outer Party
Room 101
Telescreen
The Brotherhood
The diary
Thought Police
Torture
Propaganda

Things Fall Apart
Conflicts
Setting
Themes
Vocab
Tragic Hero
Imperialism
District Commissioner
Oracle

Nectar in a Sieve
Conflicts
Themes
Time and places
Value of males vs. females
Characters
Irawaddy
Kenny
Kunthi
Kuti
Nathan
Puli
Rukmani
Sacrabani
Vocabulary
Dowry
Imperialism
Tannery

“Dancing With Mao”
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Politics and the English Language”
“Harrison Bergeron”
“The Hollow Men”
“Terror and Torture”
“A Case for Torture”

Other unknown readings

If you like, this website above discusses movies that predict the future. They discuss what the movies got right, and what they got incredibly wrong.

Again, the movies you can choose from for analysis:
12 Monkeys
The Island
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Minority Report
Equilibrium
eXistenZ (this is the actual spelling)
Gattaca

Please check the ratings of these movies as parent approval is required for Rated R movies. This movie project will be due in May, so if you want to get a head start…have a blast!

Here’s an extra credit opportunity for you!

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Hum II Honors
Extra Credit Writing Assignment

Value: 20 points

Watch It’s Me or the Dog on Animal Planet (it runs at 9 and 9:30am during the week) and note how Ivan Pavlov’s theories (stimulus and response) works through dogs. You might want to review his practices on the web before you watch.

See: http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/pavlov.htm

And: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqumfpxuzI

Watch It’s Me or the Dog and take notes on how Victoria (the trainer) uses a clicker to encourage a positive response out of the dog. How do the dogs respond? How effective is the treatment? What early challenges does Victoria face? How does she overcome the dog’s stubbornness?

After taking notes, write a one-page, double-spaced analysis. One paragraph should evaluate what Victoria did to encourage behavior responses from the dogs and how effective her Pavlovian approach to training is. The second paragraph should discuss to what extent this method is successful with humans (you can refer to Brave New World if you like). Have you seen teachers or parents use Pavlovian methodologies? How do kids respond to this method? Do adults respond similarly? Differently?

You will be scored on how well you cite the show (use quotes where you can and specific references where you can’t quote) and analyze the effect of her training methods. Mere summaries of the show will earn at most 5 points.

Your analysis must be submitted to turnitin.com by 10:00PM on Saturday April 18th. Bring a printed copy on Monday when we return. If you do not meet all of the submission requirements, you will not earn any points.

This is a good way to raise your grade so take advantage of it!

Monday: Welcome back, scholars. We’ll begin the semester with our new Vocabulary (provided the copier is working this morning). Flash cards will be due tomorrow. We will go over a powerpoint on Frankenstein and hand out the instructions for the Children’s Book Project. Tomorrow, you’ll have some group time to coordinate the work. gothic_childrens_book

Vocabulary: vocabulary-semester-two

Tuesday: First, we’ll check flash cards and check out Things Fall Apart and its study guide. There is a background assignment that that will be collected on Thursday. After intrducing the novel, we’ll have group time in which you should determine the general plot of your Children’s Story and what will happen in your segment. You can also decide how you are handling the illustrations (this part is required). Decide how you can (fairly) break up the project so that no one person will be taking on more than others.

Wednesday: Today, we’ll take the Frankenstein Test.

Thursday: Vocab Quiz Today! We’ll discuss the Essay Circles Writing Project for the Semester. We’ll review Thesis statements and Topic Sentences and discuss the first Essay (Expository). Essay is to explain how an invention changed humanity (industry, warfare, or daily living).

Friday: Outline for Expository Essay and your two pages of Children’s Book Project due! Today you will have time to beign writing the essay. The final 20 minutes, you can work with your group on assembling your project.

Tuesday: Intro Satire Project. Read Wordsworth and Blake poetry.

Wednesday: Read Keats and Shelley.

Thursday: Vocab Quiz #14; Read Coleridge, begin “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Friday: Finish “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Homework: work on Satire Project

Tuesday: We are going over “Vanity of Human Wishes” and doing a pre-writing strategy. An outline for a Compare and Contrast will be due on Monday when we return from break. Use this Study Guide to help you understand the poem: vanity_of_human_wishes

Wednesday: Today, we’ll briefly discuss the other poems in the poetry packet.

Thursday & Friday: Happy Thanksgiving.

Vocab Quiz on Monday.

Monday: Vocab intro and Dr. Jekyll overview

Tuesday: Dr. Jekyll Test

Wednesday: Dr. Jekyll discussion

Thursday: Vocab quiz, begin reading Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”

Friday: Begin reading Pope, Wilchansea, Montagu.

Finish readings at home.

Tuesday: COIN Program Info with Mrs. White

Wednesday: Begin Performances

Thursday: Complete Performances. Unit Exam Tomorrow.

Unit Exam Study Guide: u2_exam_study_guide

Friday: Unit Exam

If you are absent during a performance: You need to choose a monologue of 30-60 lines to memorize and present next week. See me for an appointment (most will be held at lunch or before first period).

Tuesday: Machiavelli’s “The Morals of the Prince” and Capellanus’ “Rules for Courtly Love”.  Read Act 5 by Friday.

Wednesday:  Forced Choice debate on “Courtly Love” and “Guigemar”.

Thursday:  Vocabulary Quiz.  Finish Debate.  Acting!! Act 4

Friday:  Act 5 DYR.  Wrap up Courtly Love and Shakespeare.  Dialectic Journals Due Monday!

Tuesday–Gender Essays are Due.  In class, we will discuss basic drama terms and apply them to 12th Night. HW: prepare level questions for a discussion on character and gender roles on Wed.

Wednesday–Fishbowl discussion on character and gender roles.

Thursday–Be ready for a DYR quiz on Act III.  Writer’s workshop on blending evidence.  HW: Read Act IV by Tuesday.

Friday–  Today we will compare different performances of key scenes in 12th night.

Monday–Act I Due–DYR? Quiz.

Acting exercises in class.  Read Act II by Friday.

Writer’s Workshop on Blending Evidence: ww3-evidence

Tuesday–Vocab flashcards due.

Assign Dialectical Journals: honors-12th-cyrano-dialectical-journal

Here’s the template for the assignment: 12thnt_cyr_djtemplate

Intro to Humor: irony, satire, parody

Wednesday–Fishbowl discussion on Aristotle, sonnets and 12th Night.

Thursday–Vocab Quiz.

Fanning: In class essay on gender stereotypes; missing rubric will bring 10% penalty. Prompt/Rubric here: genderrolesessay

See this file for formatting and style model: papersample

Allen: Dissecting a scene–performances. If time, we’ll begin the gender essay.

HW:  Gender stereotypes essay.  Due Tuesday 10/7, typed and turned in to Turnitin.com.

Friday–Performing Arts Assembly

HW:  Read Act 3 by Wed. 10/8.  Be ready for a DYR? quiz on Act 2, Monday.

Monday: Today we will review Aristotle’s poetics (DYR more than likely) and begin looking at poetry terms vis-a-vis Shakespearean Sonnets. We will read one sonnet from the packet, the rest will be for homework. Today, we will also get Twelfth Night, the Shakespearean play we will be reading. If you are absent, you will need to obtain a copy on your own, either through the book room (Mr. Perdue) or purchased from a bookseller. Here is the document for shakespearean-sonnets and

petrarchsonnets along with the honors-poetry-terms.

I highly recommend this version of Twelfth Night as it has a modern translation alongside the actual text. It costs $6 on Amazon and $6 at a Barnes and Noble Store.

http://www.amazon.com/Twelfth-Night-No-Fear-Shakespeare/dp/1586638513/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222014858&sr=8-1

Also available here, free online.

Tuesday: Heroic Journey Rewrite due! If you are absent, you must email it to me by today, no exceptions! Today we will introduce Shakespeare and the cultural/historical context for the play we will begin to read. We will conclude our discussion on Shakespearean Sonnets and begin discussing Petrarchan Sonnets.

Wednesday: Bring your Poetry Packets as we will be working with some of the poems in there. Be prepared to explicate and analyze one or a few poems and perhaps write on them.

Make-ups at Lunch!!! Last day to make up quizzes/tests/in-class writes from Unit 1. All blanks will be computed as Zero after Wednesday. No exceptions!

Thursday: Twelfth Night books must be brought to class and we will begin reading Act I together. No book: no participation points today. Finish reading Act I by Monday.

Friday: We will discuss drama elements and lit terms. This weekend’s homework is to finish reading Act I and create flashcards for Week #6 by Tuesday.

Tuesday: Vocab Flash Cards due! Today we will look at Aristotle’s Poetics. The reading will include a discussion on comedies and tragedies. What we do not finish reading will be for homework. aristotle_poetics

Tuesday at Lunch, I will offer a tutorial on how to rewrite your Heroic Journey. You must attend the tutorial if you wish to rewrite.

Wednesday: We will attempt a powerpoint on Greek art. Study Vocab for quiz tomorrow and for Unit Exam on Friday.

Wednesday at Lunch, Make ups for all previous Vocab Quizzes, in-class assignments, etc. At the end of the unit, all assignments are final and unfinished work becomes a zero.

Thursday: Vocab Quiz Today! We will review for the Unit Exam on Friday after we take the vocab quiz.

Friday: Unit Exam! Bring #2 pencil for scantron. Over the weekend, you may elect to get started on the reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Weekend: Read Aristotle’s Poetics Part I: Comedies and Tragedies and create a T-Chart with 5-6 characteristics each for Comedies and Tragedies. Additionally, write 2-3 Level Questions (level 2 or 3 only). These questions can relate to books, literature, or other stories you’ve encountered in your literary life.

Expect a DYR (Did-You-Read) Quiz on Monday.

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Tuesday: Vocabulary Flash Cards due! We will take notes on a Powerpoint on Greek art representing life and death. We will discuss the Shield Project. Homework: write 3 Level Questions for discussion on the Themes of the Iliad.

Wednesday: Level Questions due! We will have an inner/outer circle discussion based upon your questions. Homework: Study for Vocab Quiz tomorrow.

Thursday: Vocab Quiz today! We will have a writer’s workshop on Choosing Concrete Details. Don’t miss it; it’ll be a blast!

Friday: Shield Projects due. We will do a gallery walk and comment on each other’s shields. Homework: begin studying for Vocab Week #5.

Tuesday: Vocab Flash Cards due! Today we will review essay writing strategies and analysis.

Wednesday: We will read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and discuss how Socrates uses the multi-leveled story to explain a philosophy.

Thursday: Vocab Quiz #3. Allegory of the Cave Assignment Due. We will work on Thesis statements in a writing workshop.

Friday: We will write our Writing Response #2 on the “Allegory of the Cave.” Study Vocab over the weekend to reduce your workload during the week.

The class ID is: 2331822

The Password is: Hum2

Sorry about that! Click here to go to turnitin.com

Please email me at cmuirhead@guhsd.net to RSVP (reserve) space. Failure to RSVP may prevent you from having a seat.

We will meet in Room S2 at 12:45pm (after Summer School). Transportation will need to be arranged by the student and the student’s family. Hope to see you there!

Please bring your Iliad books and prewrite questions you have on the book. Questions such as “I don’t get it” or “I don’t understand it” are unhelpful whereas “I know ___________, but I’m confused about _____________”

Under “Pages” click on “Hum II Honors Weekly Blog” for a day-by-day description of activities and links to handouts, powerpoints, and study guides/aids.

Under “Links” use “OWL-Online Writing Lab” for MLA formatting of Essays and all written assignments (unless noted otherwise).

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at cmuirhead@guhsd.net

Here is the handout: iliadsummerassignment