Readinng:
Monday: continuance of poetry unit
Quiz on poetry term handouts and vocabulary from “To Young Readers”.
We are studying poetry in reading at present. I must give a benchmak this 9 week. So, I have written a test on
what we have covered considering we have had 8 fewer classes than I had planned on having before a
benchmark test would be administered. It will be given onWednesday.
3rd 9 weeks Bench Mark Study Guide
Use your handouts and the blue literature books as a reference guide.
The Glencoe.com website that we have used in class that goes with your text has an interactive literary terms handout.
Know the following terms and be able to use them to analyze pieces of literature.
Non-fiction, personal narrative, diary, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Novel
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme scheme
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Stanza, line of poetry
Speaker of the Poem
Mood
Genre
Protagonist
Anthology
Ms.Cox will also be giving the test that I wrote.
English: We will take the “jur”” test on Tuesday. We will also take open notes quizes
on superlatives and comparatives and commas. The participial test was open notes and
the quizzes will follow the same format.