Commonly Misspelled Words - English 2 Lab

Commonly Misspelled Words

                       beginning            occasion            receive
                       beneficial            performance      separate
                       choose               proceed             sincerely
                       definitely             professor           sophomore
                       environment        realize                success

Research Paper Topic Selection - Eng. 3

English 3 - Research Paper Topic Selection

What to consider when looking for a research paper topic?

Use the card catalog or search through the shelves for books; write down topics and titles as you find them.

If you can answer YES to the following questions, you may submit your research paper topics to me for approval.

• Are you interested in this topic?
• Will you be able to interview someone with knowledge of your topic?
• Can you locate 5 sources (varied sources - they can not all be from the internet) in addition to your interview?
• Can your topic be converted into a thesis question? 
• Will you be able to write 6-8 pages on this topic and provide your opinion about the topic?
• Does the Media Center have any information on your topic, so that you will be able to do some of your research at school?

The Great Gatsby Voc. - Eng. 3

The Great Gatsby - Vocabulary - English 3

exempt       bizarre       bantering       complacency     desolate     supercilious     apathetic
languid       vehemently       credulity       cynical          ascertain    labyrinth         sinister
juxtaposition     distraught     fluctuate       saunter       abyss       presumptuous   formidable
corroborate      garrulous      holocaust     incoherent

Themes in ASP - English 2

Themes found in A Separate Peace

• Man's inhumanity to man
• Friendship
• Microcosm parallels macrocosm
• Life's contrasts
• Escape from reality
• Conformity vs. Nonconformity

English 3 - Emerson or Thoreau?

Who said it – Emerson or Thoreau?

Where does it come from & what does it mean?

1.  "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
2.  "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature."
3.  “It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.”
4.   “Nature never wears a mean appearance.”
5.  “Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide."
6.  “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
7.  “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
8.  “What I must do is what concerns me, not what the people think.
9.   “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.”
10.  “We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
11.  “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”
12.  “Trust thyself:  every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
13.  “That government is best which governs not at all.”
14.  "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
15.  “Our life is frittered away be details.”

Transcendentalism - English 3

Transcendentalism – a philosophical movement that occurred in the middle of the 19^th century (the 1800s) which influenced a great deal of writing of that time period.

Characteristics of Transcendentalism

·       Simplicity of life

·       A need to live in solitude

·       A lack of necessity of material items

·       A need to follow your own rules

·       More focus on the inner self

·       Relying solely on yourself and having the ability to think for   yourself

·       Breaking free from conformity

·       A strong sense of nature

Vocabulary - English 2

A Separate Peace Voc. - List 3

1.  frail
2.  cacophony
3.  incompetent
4.  samaritan
5.  querulous
6.  timidly
7.  illuminate
8.  whim
9.  novelty
10.  benevolent
11.  cordial
12.  profound
13.  decathlon
14.  tacit
15.  exuberance

Characteristics of the Gothic Story - English 3

• Setting is medieval - a castle or dungeon
• The mood is of mystery or suspense
• Metaphors of fear, horror, dread (ex. thunder, footsteps, creaks, bells, fog, etc.)
• Omens,visions, or haunting dreams are mentioned
• Supernatural, evil, or violent events occur
• "Mad" characters
• Merciless villains
• The Inquisition is mentioned (and their methods or torture)
• Myths or legends are mentioned

A Separate Peace - Voc. List 2 - English 2

idiosyncrasy     emissary     automaton     fratricide     judicious     implausible     discernible      accolade
austerity           stealthy       guileful          assert          assimilate    bellicose        disconcerting

"The Tell-Tale Heart" Voc. - English 3

foresight     sufficient     sagacity     mortal     suppositions     over-acuteness
stimulate     concealment     vex     waned     cunningly          suavity
bade          audacity      vehemently

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - English 3

The link below will take you to an e-text of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".  Read it by Monday and be prepared to take a quiz on the reading.

http://www.enotes.com/legend-sleepy-hollow-text

"The Devil and Tom Walker" Voc. - English 3

These words are to be defined for Monday, September 13th.

1.  morass
2.  forlorn
3.  prevalent
4.  balk
5.  piteous
6.  termagant
7.  askance
8.  celibacy
9.  stagnant
10.  precarious
11.  bittern
12.  impregnable
13.  quagmire
14.  incantations
15.  boding
16.  cloven
17.  swarthy
18.  consecrate
19.  surmise
20.  obliterate
21.  resolute
22.  surly
23.  carrion
24.  prowess
25.  obstinate
26.  usurer
27.   ostentatious
28.  parsimony
29.  expediency
30.  coffer

Romanticism - English 3 Notes

Romanticism

What comes to your mind when you hear the word Romanticism?

Information about Romanticism:

• This refers to a time in American Literature between 1770 and 1860

• What else is going on in American during this time period?

Civil War

Revolutionary War

Forced migration of Native Americans

Influx of immigration

Industrial Revolution

Global Trade

Propaganda

Common Sense

 The American Frontier promised opportunity for expansion, growth, freedom.

 There is an increased spirit of optimism invoked by the promise of new discovery.

 Immigration brought new cultures and perspectives.

 Growth of industry.

 There is an increased need to become more spiritual.

• Some famous “romantic” writers include Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville…just to name a few.

• There are several characteristics that mark a “romantic” piece of literature. They are:

1. Emotion

2. Individualism

3. Revolutionary

4. Love of nature and solitude

5. Full of fantasy and/or introspection

6. Subjective perception

7. Right-brained (more creative and emotional than logical and analytical)

8. Strong sense of nationalism

9. Provides an outcast or savage character

10. Mysterious settings

11. Focus on the supernatural

• The Romantic period in American literature brings about the basis for two important literary movements … Gothicism and Transcendentalism.