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60 Second Recap of Huck Finn
of The Scarlet Letter
Word of the Day:
distaff
rodomontade
insipid
bromide
fatuous
Quote of the Week: "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." - William Faulkner
Website of the Week: Woot
64. Monday, Dec. 12: Marking Period #2 Ends; Exam Review
65. Tuesday, Dec. 13: Exam Review
Form V English: American Literature
Semester One Exam Review
http://www.davidkidd.typepad.com (for vocabulary lists, a list of works we have read, words of the day, etc.)
1. Words of the Day, High-Frequency vocabulary from The Scarlet Letter, and Literary Terms (scantron) (20 points)
2. Quotation Identification (scantron) (10 points)
3. Essay (blue book) (70 points)
For your essay, I will give you three passages from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and three passages from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The size of the passages I will give you on the exam will be comparable to the size of passages we have examined in AP prompts. You will be asked to choose two passages (one from each novel) and write a close reading and comparison/contrast essay. Your task will be twofold: to give a close reading of both passages and to write a comparison and contrast of the two novels. We will discuss some strategies in class for this essay.
Wednesday, Dec. 14: Math Exam
Thursday, Dec. 15: History Exam
Friday, Dec. 16: English Exam
Monday, Dec. 19: Science Exam
Tuesday, Dec. 20: Foreign Language Exam; last day to hand in any revisions (before the start of the Foreign Language Exam!)
Wednesday, Dec. 21-January 2: Winter Break
Tuesday, January 3, 2012: Holiday for Students; Professional Development Day for Faculty
66. Wednesday, Jan. 4: Exam Review
Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture
63. Essay due; Zydeco presentation
64. Monday, Dec. 12: Marking Period #2 Ends; Exam Review
Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture
Semester One Exam Review
http://www.davidkidd.typepad.com
Texts and ideas to consider:
Black Boy by Richard Wright
“Fire and Cloud” by Richard Wright
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Gone With the Wind – Mitchell/Selznick
Terms from our research essay like “Lost Cause,” “Cavalier,” “Slave Narrative,” etc.
Elvis Presley by Bobbie Ann Mason
Excerpt from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
Night by Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize Addresses by Faulkner and Morrison
Essays and Letters by Faulkner
Country Music
Blues
Zydeco
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
For this exam, you will be asked to write two essays. You can bring any notes that you would like to the exam. The first essay question will be based on a text that I will give you in its entirety, and you are to read that text and respond to it as a commentary on and lens through which to view the other texts in our course. You will not know what that text is until the exam, but it will be a text in keeping with the kinds of things we have examined all semester.
Your second essay will be about the ways that you can use Faulkner’s and Morrison’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speeches as a way to respond to at least three texts and one cultural aspect of the South. Successful essays will demonstrate a thorough and insightful understanding of both Nobel addresses. Successful essays will also make significant mention of at least three literary texts and at least one cultural aspect. If one of your literary texts is not William Faulkner’s Light in August, then I will assume that your essay is flawed, and I will read it even more critically. Really successful essays will use Morrison’s Nobel Address as a lens through which to view Light in August and will not be shy of addressing the more challenging aspects of both of those texts.
Here (again, for your convenience) are both speeches: (the speeches will appear in their entirety on the exam)
William Faulkner
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-speech.html
Toni Morrison
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html
65. Tuesday, Dec. 13: Exam Review
Wednesday, Dec. 14: Math Exam
Thursday, Dec. 15: History Exam
Friday, Dec. 16: English Exam
Monday, Dec. 19: Science Exam
Tuesday, Dec. 20: Foreign Language Exam; last day to hand in any revisions (before the start of the Foreign Language Exam!)
Wednesday, Dec. 21-January 2: Winter Break
Tuesday, January 3, 2012: Holiday for Students; Professional Development Day for Faculty
66. Wednesday, Jan. 4: Exam Review in 537 at Activities Bell
XIV.
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