Style Analysis
Homework Assignments: Week 5
AP EnglishMonday
9/24 Complete the figurative language assignment--write one paragraph on the Fahrenhiet 451 and finishe the term identification packet.Tuesday
9/25 Write an introduction and two body paragraphs analyzing the tone, diction, imagery, and/or figurative language on the Fahrenhiet 451 passage. Revise your imagery paragraph.Wednesday
9/26 Complete the allusion homework assignment.Thursday
9/27 Finish writing the final, final draft of the imagery paragraph on "Shooting an Elephant" that we started in class. Choose 4 passages from any of the packets and write a thesis statement for each. Spend time and make them good: clear, strong, and combining style and content.Friday
9/28 Read in your IR book. Get a lot of reading done if you are not already ahead on independent reading because you will have a lot of reading in The Scarlet Letter for the next three weeks.
Homework Assignments: Week 4
Monday
9/17 Write an essay analyzing how the archetype of the Hero’s Journey applies to Huckleberry Finn. Be sure to discuss how the book ends with Huck in the same place as the beginning, but transformed. Be sure to discuss a few of episodes on “the road of trials” that educate Huck. Use specific quotations from the novel and refer to your class notes on the definition of the archetype.Tuesday
9/18 Complete the diction and tone homework assignment.Wednesday
9/19 Write a diction/tone paragraph on the Walt Whitman poem.Thursday
9/20 Complete the imagery homework assignment. Write an imagery paragraph on the Deerslayer passage and complete the tone and imagery identification on #3 - 10.Friday
9/21 Complete the imagery homework assignment. Write an imagery paragraph on "Shooting an Elephant" and finish the tone and imagery identification #6 - 10. Read in your IR book.
Due Dates
Literary Terms
Tone
Diction
Imagery
Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, personification)
Syntax
Allusion
Narrative Perspective
Dialect/Vernacular
Irony
Reversal
Interior Monologue