Semester Exam Make-Up day

Enjoy you break!  Don't forget about your 12 Days of Christmas Break Package.

Semester Exams December 16-18

Semester Exam Review

“I were planting far out to the forest edge.”

“Aye, the farm is seeded.”

“I think we’ll see green fields soon.  It’s warm as blood beneath the clods.”

“If the crop is good, I’ll buy George Jacob’s heifer.  How would that please you?”

“This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot dropping seeds in it.”

“It’s winter in here yet.”

“You ought to bring some flowers in the house.”

“On Sunday, let you come with me and we’ll walk the farm together.”

Independent Reading Project due today.  In-class IR check today.

Vocabulary Test Lists 17-18 tomorrow.  Here are the flashcards.

Here are the instructions for The 12 Days of Christmas Break Project.  Enjoy :)

Here's next week's exam schedule.

1st Semester Exam Vocabulary Flashcards
1st Semester AP Terms Flashcards

Vocabulary Quiz 18 Today.  Vocabulary Test 17 & 18 Thursday.  Here are the flashcards.  I provided you with the list of words which will be featured on your semester exam.  Here are the flashcards.

In your textual analysis arguments, it is best to integrate quoted material smoothly into your sentence structure.

Incorrect:  In “The Chrysanthemums,” we are presented with a character who is stifled by her environment.  “On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot” (489).  In such claustrophobic surroundings it is not surprising that Elisa has few creative and emotional outlets.  “Her face was eager and mature and handsome, even her work with the scissors was over-eager, overpowerful” (489).

  

Correct:  In “The Chrysanthemums,” we are presented with a character who is stifled by her “closed-off” environment.  Even the sky above “sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a close pot” (489).  In such claustrophobic surroundings it is not surprising that Elisa has few creative and emotional outlets.  Her only source of fulfillment and passion is her ability to “stick anything in the ground and make it grow” (490).

Today we reviewed how to blend textual evidence.  Here's a helpful handout.  Here's the handout you are to review carefully and keep permanently in your binder.

Challenge:
Write a well-developed paragraph in which you analyze the extended metaphor Miller uses in the opening dialogue between Proctor and Elizabeth.  There are at least 8 different quotes (all spoken by Proctor) which you can use.  Blend them into separate units.

Don't forget that your formal Independent Reading Project is due tomorrow and that your final IR check will be in class tomorrow.

Timed Writing Today

Paragraph 1

Write a well-developed paragraph in which you discuss how Miller demonstrates in the opening dialogue of Act Two that Elizabeth is the antithesis of the “cold, sniveling woman” described by Abigail in Act One.

Your textual evidence should include the following:

Elizabeth's discussion about the rabbit.
Elizabeth's initial plea to Proctor to go to Salem.
Elizabeth's plea to Proctor to talk to Abigail.

Paragraph 2

Write a well-developed paragraph in which you discuss why "[Proctor] has been reached by Hale's words. (Stage Directions page 1078 2nd column).  Be sure to use textual evidence from Hale's words and from other locations in Act II.

Option 2

Here are the instructions for the Independent Reading Checks (formal and in class) for Wednesday, December 11th.