| Week 15 | Class work | Homework |
| Monday (Print out syllabus and turn in by Tuesday at beginning of class for 100 points extra credit). | Timed creative Writing Assignment Prompt page 292 | Finish draft and submit to Turnitin.com |
| Vocabulary Personification-the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or ideas Extended Metaphor-a comparison that is developed at great length, often a whole work or part of it Discerning-show approval or dislike, take exception, object Immortality-life without death, a living forever Cornice- an ornamental molding along the top of a wall, pillar, building etc. Surmise-infer or guess | Read/listen Emily Dickenson Poems Objectives: · What are the influences on a poet? · What view of the world do we see through a poet’s writings? · Emily Dickenson invented her own punctuation, capitalization, and syntax · Walt Whitman’s poetry offended most of the people who read his first book · To consider themes of individuality, solitude, nature, life and death · To recognize examples of personification · To explore a poet’s styles · To understand sentence structure | Complete Handouts on Emily Dickenson Literary element and Study Guide |
| | Vocabulary Quiz Check test Dickenson | Grammar Worksheet Dickenson |
| Thursday | Selection test Dickenson | Revise Timed Creative Writing Assignment |
| Friday | Read Grapes of Wrath | Read Grapes of Wrath over Vacation Questions on The Grapes of Wrath will be on Final Exam |
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