The Eagle’s Nest

This blog is being set up to be a communication tool for my English classes at Sarasota Military Academy.

Archive for May 15th, 2009


May 18-22, 2009

May 18 – 22, 2009  5/15

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                          English I

QRA – 700

Finish Monologues

Position Paper Due

Start Position Paper Presentations – ALL READY TO PRESENT

HW-                                                       Voc 9 Test &WB 

 

English IV

QRA Due – Sheet, summaries, and projects (10% of grade)

ALL BOOKS MUST BE TURNED IN OR YOU WILL BE BILLED

Last day for any work turn in or test make-ups.

HW-                

STUDY for final. Bring completed sheet for five points

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English I

Voc. 9 Test & WB

Position Paper Presentations Cont.

Note – NO PAYNTER POINTS ALLOWED.  50% DEDUCTION FOR PAPER AND PRESENTATION

 

 

 

English IV

LAST Day of class & LAST DAY TO RECITE “IF” POEM

TURN IN PAYNTER POINTS

 

HW –

STUDY for final. Bring completed sheet for five points

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English I

Position Paper Presentations Cont.

 

HW – Voc. 7-9 WB

 

 

 

 

 

 

English IV

FINAL during    4th Period

 

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English I

Position Paper Presentations Cont.

HW – Voc. 7-9 WB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English IV

NO SENIORS

 

GRADUATION!!!!!

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 English I

Review for exam

HW – Voc. 7-9 WB & Review for exam (on Wed)

QRA is due on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

English IV

NO SENIORS

 

 

Eng IV final review

 

Final Part II

 

Is considered the greatest satirist in the English language.           

             

His political pamphlets lead to his imprisonment.           

                                                         

The author of Jane Eyre.             

                                                           

Created the detective Sherlock Holmes.   

                                                             

Wrote “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”.                                                           

 

Is England’s greatest nature poet.                                                           

 

Is considered the father of Romanticism                                               

 

Thought to be the most romantic figure of the Romantic Age.           

 

First novel was The Lord of the Flies.                                                           

 

One of Byron’s romantic poems.

                                   

Dickens’s most autobiographical novel.           

                

Novel warns of a scientifically controlled society.

 

Considered to be the greatest novel ever written.

             

T.S. Eliot proves he has a whimsical side.           

                

The castle of Camelot is mentioned in this poem.   

     

James Joyce’s story about a childhood crush.   

          

Considered to be the first novel in English.

 

Foreshadowing is used to build suspense.                            

 

What is the narrative technique that attempts to imitate the workings of the human mind called? 

 

What major event changed the tenor of T.S. Eliot’s writing?

 

In what form is the poem “Oymandias” written?

 

Who wrote a famous novel of scientific horror?

 

What were the little people that Gulliver encountered called?

 

Why did the Duke turn against his wife and possibly kill her in “My Last Duchess”?

 

The Victorian period is called the age of what literary form?

 

 

“How do I love thee…” was written by which poet?

 

His poem was about the fleeting nature of fame.

 

Far From the Madding Crowd was his big success.

 

Considered by many to be the greatest poet of the 20th century.

 

Occurs when a character or the reader expects one thing to happen, but something else happens.

 

Virginia Woolf’s novel about a middle-class woman preparing for a party.

 

T.S. Eliot spent much of his life in Britain.  Where was he born?

 

 “The Hanging” is this author’s essay against destroying a healthy human being.

 

Her stories about Africa became the basis for a popular movie.

 

This point-of-view was used by Chaucer in the 14th century.

 

 

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Match the facts to the book.

 

Basil Hallward is murdered by this story’s main character.

 

The author’s best known book is Journey to the Center of the Earth.

 

In the movie the main character in this story teaches Tom Sawyer to shoot long distances.

 

Stevenson’s story of man’s two personalities.

 

Mina was a schoolmistress in this story.

 

H. Rider Haggard’s story about Africa.           

 

Lord Henry proves to be a bad influence.

 

It is believed that a monster is terrorizing the seas.

 

The author of this work also wrote Treasure Island.

 

Lucy Westenra is the story’s first victim.

 

Science fiction novella by H.G. Wells.

 

Sir Danvers Carew is murdered in the streets of London.

 

The impact of age and evil is not realized until the end of the story.

 

Jonathan Harker is hired to handle a real estate transaction.

 

Jules Verne wrote this classic science fiction novel.