GOOD DAY, Wonderful Students...

Here are your POINTERS FOR REVIEW for our upcoming Final Semester Exams in Literature 9. If I were you and I had intentions of passing, I would definitely start reviewing for it as early as N-O-W!
ALL the stories we have taken up...TMDG, ASOT, TB, TKMB, PB, WOO, and LOTF...!

• Literary Terms
• Paragraph Writing/Essay
• Grammar & Tenses

The test will consist of Multiple Choice questions, Modified True or False questions, Sequential Order, and Words to Own from the stories. That's it! CIAO!!!

Mr. A

TO ALL GRADE 9 LITERATURE STUDENTS...

GREETINGS!

Here are your 18 Additional Literary Terms as promised...although it is, I do believe, a day late. This brings our LT up to an even 100 words. Thank you. CIAO!!!

Mr. A

ADDITIONAL LITERARY TERMS

OXYMORON (plural oxymora)
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level.
(Simple examples include such oxymora as jumbo shrimp, sophisticated rednecks, and military intelligence. The richest literary oxymora seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions. These oxymora are sometimes called paradoxes. For instance, "without laws, we can have no freedom.")

PARADOX
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth.

COMIC RELIEF
Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative.

ARGUMENT
Form of persuasion that uses reason to try to lead a reader or listener to think or act in a certain way.

HAIKU
Japanese verse form consisting of three lines, usually seventeen syllables, lines of 5-7-5.

COUPLET
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

EPIC
Long story told in elevated language which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.

SOLILOQUY
An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.

ACRONYM
A word formed from the initial letters in a phrase.

RESOLUTION (Denouncement)
Rounds out and concludes the action.

ANTAGONIST
The principal character in opposition to the main character of a narrative or drama; an antagonist is not always a character, it can come in the form of a force of nature, an aspect of society, or even an internal force within the main character.

EUPHEMISM
The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die." The basic psychology of euphemistic language is the desire to put something bad or embarrassing in a positive (or at least neutral light).

SARCASM
A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise.

ALLEGORY
Figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic, or metaphorical meaning.

PARODY
Satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work. The parodist exploits the peculiarities of an author's expression in his literary work.

SEQUEL
A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel.

TRAVESTY
Any work that treats a serious subject frivolously-- ridiculing the dignified. Often the tone is mock serious and heavy handed.

GENRE (ZHAHN-ruh)
A type of literature. We say a poem, novel, story, or other literary work belongs to a particular genre if it shares at least a few conventions, or standard characteristics, with other works in that genre.

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html

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TO ALL MY LITERATURE 9 STUDENTS...

GREETINGS!

I am still alive...in case some of you were wondering...and I have here your Quarter Break homework/assignments.

FIRST...be ready for our LOTF 7-12 discussion when we get back from the break; we'll start it off by watching the most recent version of LOTF and I will have Guide Questions for you to answer, however, you are going to respond to those questions while viewing the movie; then we'll discuss Chapters 7-12...and then your second part MT...!

SECOND...as I mentioned earlier...make sure you have read, taken notes, and finished Of Mice & Men by the time we get back from the break; I might give you a Check-Up Quiz as soon as we get back so you'd better be ready...!

THIRD...answer in your NB Reading Check (a-e) on page 77 of your text; aside from that, answer also in your NB Shaping Interpretations (2-4) also on page 77 of your text...!

FOURTH...do "Creative Writing: Who's In Charge?" on page 78 of your text; remember that you are writing a "feature article" not a simple report...A4/F12/DS/TNR; no more than one and a half page please...!

LASTLY...make sure you continuously review your Literary Terms over the break...I will be posting the additional words here on Wednesday next week, 24 October 2007...!

That's All Folks! Have a great and relaxing Quarter Break...and remember...I want to meet most of your parents for the Parent-Teacher Conference in November...PLEASE LET THEM KNOW THAT NOW! Take care and be safe over the break...come back refreshed and ready to Rock-n-Roll...God Bless! CIAO!!!

Mr. A

TO ALL LITERATURE 9 STUDENTS...

GREETINGS!

SORRY FOR THE DELAY OF THIS POSTING...I was just down the whole day yesterday as well as the entire morning today...! Anyways, since it is my bad, I will make sure that this will mostly be reminders of what's in stored for the Second Quarter in class.

FIRST...be ready for the discussion of Chapters 7-12 of The Lord of the Flies...if you have nothing to do then review it well, especially those of you who did not fair too well in the previous test we had;

SECOND...I will be giving you another 100-point check-up test on our 82 Literary Terms in the next few weeks...be ready! I am also going to release the additional terms here on BLOGSPOT soon so stay tuned;

THIRD...start reserving your copy of the story Of Mice and Men from the library already...this is going to be our next novel discussion...once you have the copy, start reading it;

FOURTH...our next story from the text is The Birds by Daphne du Maurier (pp. 50-75); you may begin reading it now if you wish and do not forget to take notes on it in your NB; and

LASTLY...start memorizing and practicing your poems for your oral delivery in class...we will talk more about this in the next few weeks!

That's it...as promised I am not asking any written assignments from you based on this homework. Take care and be safe always! Get an early head start and study-study-study! CIAO!!!

Mr. A

GREETINGS LITERATURE 9A CLASS...

As I mentioned, by now you should have formed your groupings already before you undertake this task. Good Luck! Be good and have a nice weekend...CIAO!!!

Mr. A
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LORD OF THE FLIES SOCIETY PROJECT

As we can see in “Lord of the Flies”, the boys try to set up a society with rules, leaders, and jobs. The question is what makes a society? You will be creating your own society with governments and leaders. You will have notes on four different types of government, and you will either choose one of these governments, or elements from each one to create your own society. Your society and government need to make sense in the context of the notes you took, and the novel you are reading.

Each society must have these elements:

1. A government with a title

a. Democracy, dictatorship, communism, monarchy
b. Create your own, give it a name and tell what that name means
2. President, king, emperor, dictator
a. Create your own position, give it a name and explain what the leader does
b. Anyone can be the leader
3. Ten rules/laws for your society
a. Freedoms/restrictions of the people
b. Role of the government (powers and restrictions)
c. Punishments for people who break the law
d. Information specific to the government you pick or create
4. Optional ideas
a. Map of the country/map of the capital city with government buildings
b. Portrait of the leader