Haiku - Poetry Contest

What adventures does your future hold?  Tell Dell about it!  Here's a fun haiku-writing contest with prizes from Dell!

This contest is open to students in grades 7–12 (who are 13 or over) and it’s easy to enter! Here’s all they have to do:

1. Write an original haiku in an unrhyming, 5-7-5 style that answers the question: What adventures does your future hold?
2. Submit your haiku at http://www.scholastic.com/dellhaiku. Deadline: 11/18/11.
3. Check back in December 2011 to see the winning haiku!

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

English 3 - Poe Unit Test Review

You need to know the following:

All 3 works we covered, which are as listed below:

• "To Helen"
• "The Raven"
• "The Pit and the Pendulum"

Also, you must know some information on the author (page 285) and the Gothic characteristics (found in the post below this one).

Study, study, study!!!  :-)

Characteristics of the Gothic Story - English 3

 

• Setting is medieval - a caste 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 method or torture)
• Myths or legends are mentioned

"The Pit and the Pendulum" - Eng. 3

Here's a link to the e-text:

http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/pit-and-pendulum.html

"The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe

English 3 students - here's a link to "The Raven"

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe/poems/18848

English 3

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