Quarter 3 Presentations
Presentation 14
· Harlem Renaissance was a cultural revolution from 1919 to mid 1930’s
· Many African-Americans moved to Harlem to try to get out of poverty
· Many musical styles became more popular, such as blues and jazz
· Harlem Renaissance declined after stock market crash
· Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri
· African-American novelist, play writer, columnist, writer/poet
· Theme for English B was an assignment for a class
· Theme: Racism
· Mood: Optimistic
· Protagonist: Narrator (student)
· Purpose: Inform and support the Harlem Renaissance
· Moral Lens: Good, teaches that everybody is a part of each other
· Connection: Mockingbird-Addresses racism, whites have more rights
Presentation 13: Angela’s Ashes
By: Julie
· A boy named Francis in Ireland
· Francis has typhoid
· A girl named Patricia starts talking to Francis in the hospital
· Nuns prevent them from talking
· Francis and Patricia ignore the nun and read poetry and books to each other
· Protagonist: Francis and Patricia
· Antagonists: Nuns and nurses
· Conflict: Francis and Patricia are caught talking and get separated
· Author’s Purpose: Entertain or inform
· Connections: Sniper-both take place in Ireland
· Connections: Sniper-someone dies
Presentation 10: Island Morning/Jamaica Kincaid
By: Carly
· Born as Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid changed her name when she started writing
· Born in 1949 in Antigua
· A descriptive essay about Kincaid’s life on the islands
· Everyone on the island gets up early
· Marveled daily routine
· Purpose:
· Theme: Childhood, simple vs. complex living, tradition
· Mood: Thoughtful (Memoir)
· Morally good because it shows you can hold tradition in a different environment
· Connection to To Kill A Mockingbird: Simple life and routine
Presentation 9: A Walk in the Woods and Bill Bryson
By: Miranda and Maria
· Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1951 · Backpacking trip took him to England where he met his wife
· Lived in his family in North Yorkshire before moving to Hanover, New Hampshire then moved back to England
· About a guy named Bill and Katz
· Bill and Katz decide to go on a hike when it starts snowing and become a blizzar
· Bill and Katz can’t go further or back because of the snow
· Bill follows a map that leads to the Appalachian Trail
· Follows the trail when they meet a man and his son, Jim and Keith
· Mood: Sometimes dangerous
· Settings: Streams, Mt. Alberto, Big Spring Shelter, Appalachian Trail
· Bill and Katz were scared, the two started to get courage
Presentation 8: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
By: Alvin and Ievgen
· Born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924
· Died in 1984 in Los Angeles, CA
· Parents were divorced when he was four
· Childhood bond with his friend Harper Lee
· Went to work for the New Yorker at age 17
· Started writing short fiction stories
· Won the O. Henry Award three times
· Buddy and his cousin go to find ingredients for fruitcake for Christmas
· Buddy and his cousin get drunk and amusing their relatives
· The two decorate the tree
· Buddy made a kite for his cousin, his cousin made a kite for Buddy
· Buddy is sent to military school the next year but still manages to keep in contact with his cousin
· Buddy’s cousin soon after becomes ill and dies
· Protagonist: Buddy and his cousin
· Antagonist: Relatives
· Character Development: Buddy is caring and naïve
· Mood: Happy at the beginning, sad at the end
· Purpose: Entertainment
· The kite symbolizes friendship between Buddy and his cousin
· Moral Criticism: Is and is not a good read
Presentation 7: Maya Angelou & I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Dawnrenee and Rani
· Born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis
· Loved art as a teenager, won her a scholarship to study dance and drama
· Became San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor
· Maya dropped out of school at age 14
· Has taught at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC since 1991
· In the story, Maya and her brother were sent to live with their father’s mother, Mama, in Stamps, Arkansas
· One day Mr. Freeman, their mother’s boyfriend, molests and rapes Maya
· After Mr. Freeman’s secret is revealed he is mysteriously killed
· Mrs. Flowers teaches Maya how beautiful speech is
· Maya found someone she could trust and talk to, led her to learn how important talking is
· Theme: Pain of learning about life; Minor theme: sexism, racism, violence and loneliness
· Symbolism: Mama’s store symbolizes the connected community; Maya’s Easter dress smbolizes her lack of love for herself
· Mood: Tense
· Protagonist: Maya
· Purpose: Narration, Autobiography
· Feminism: Why is the girl always the one who gets raped? Why are the girls always the most vulnerable people in stories?
Presentation 6: The Rights to the Streets of Memphis & Richard Wright
By: Ayub and Dima
· First African-American writer that targeted the racial segregation in American during the 20th century
· Publicly opposed prejudice
· Wright was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1908
· Father abandoned his family and his mother was paralyzed
· Left school at age 17
· Moved to Chicago in the 30’s where he started writing
· 1938: Uncle Tom’s Children is his first book to talk about racism
· Died in 1960
· Theme: Coming of age, Survival, Courage and Cowardice
· Character Development: Richard was scared of being beat up but later went to beat them up; cowardly to courageous
Presentation 5: The Most Dangerous Game
By: Sarah and Juliana
· Written by Richard Connell
· Connell was born in New York on October 17, 1893
· Connell is the best known short-story writer of his time
· The Most Dangerous Game is about a hunter named Rainsford who wants to hunt humans
· Theme: Put yourself in someone else’s shoes
· Symbolism: The newly invented animal represents man.
· Imagery: “But you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night”
· Mood: Creepy, scary and mysterious
· Protagonist: Rainsford (Main character)
· Antagonist: General Zaroff (hunting people)
· Conflict: Rainsford played Zaroff’s game
· Purpose: Entertainment
· Critical Lens: Morally bad-hunting people and can’t really learn much from the book
· Connections to The Sniper: Shooting your own men
· Connections to Cask of Amontillado: Actually wanting to kill someone you know
Presentation 3/4: Ray Bradbury/Sound of Thunder
By: Kyle, Michaela, Cierra, Alec
· Sound of Thunder is about a man named Eckels who is a hunter
· Mr. Eckels goes to Time Safari Inc. to go back in time to hunt a T-Rex
· Mr. Eckels messed up the future by stepping on a butterfly
· Ray Bradbury was born August 22, 1920
· Famous for Fahrenheit 21, Martian Chronicles
· He has 20 filmed dramas of his works
· Graduated high school and went to the library 3 days every week
· Received French Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, Hollywood Walk of Fame star
· Sound of thunder is about trying not to mess anything up
· Mr. Eckels wasn’t taking the hunt seriously and was shown a huge risk
· Shows the fragility of life
· Theme: Fragility because the book talks about how the littlest things can change everything
· The butterfly symbolizes the small changes that cause huge effects
· Protagonist: Mr. Eckel
· Antagonist: Travis
· Conflict: The problem is Mr. Eckels killing the T-Rex
· Purpose: Entertainment
· Feminist Lens: There’s no females, men typically hunt, mentions cavemen
· Moral Lens: Worth reading-shows carefulness; not worth reading-breaks rules
· Connections to Pancakes: Main character changes, Stress, learning takes time
Quarter 2 Presentations
Presentation 6: Liam O’ Flaherty
Presentation 5: Cask of Amontillado
Presentation 4: Edgar A. Poe
By-Dawn Renee and Maria
· Poet, storyteller, and critic, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most highly regarded writer
· “All that we see or seem, is but dream within a dream”
· “Years of love have been forgotten, in the hatred of a minute.”
· I became insane with long interval horrible sanity”
· Books
· A decent in the Maelstrom, A dream, A dream Within A dream
· The Raven “ Poem
· The fall of the house of user”
· Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston January 19, 1809
· At the age of 15 he wrote his the requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young.” In memory of female friend.
· The object, truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, passion, or the excitement of the heart, are although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far , more
Presentation 3: Narrative Structure, Characterization and Point of View in Pancakes
Presentation 2: Literary Genres
By-Carly and Miranda
· Plays
· Novels
· Poetry
· Short stories
· Short stories contain all the elements of a novel, but they are simply shorter.
· Edgar Allen Poe
· Plays are stories written
· Shakespeare was extremely famous, they such as Romeo and Juliet, and hamlet.
· Novels are longer, more in depth stories.
· There are millions of popular books
· Subgenres are more defined by what
· Fantasy stories are all about imagination.
· Inheritance cycle
· Historical fiction books.
· Mystery books are usually based on a de
· Science fiction stories are stories that couldn’t quite happen
· Westerns were popular in the 1900’s. they all about
· Almost no book has only on genre.
Presentation 1: Writing Process
By: Cierra and Kyle
Prewriting-Compile ideas
Writing-Start writing sentences from your ideas
Revising-Fix punctuation mistakes
Editing-Work with partner to find mistakes you missed
Publishing-Final draft after other steps and should have little or no error.
Presentation 2: Reading Comprehension Strategies
By: Sara Tarr
Tells you what to do while your reading
Text to text; text to self; text to world
Asking questions, inferring, making connections, visualizing, determining importance
Making connections-Text to self, text to text, text to world
Text to self-Reading and making connection from what has happened in your life
Text to text-The connection made between a text being read and a text that was previously read.
Text to world-The connection being made between the text being read and something that occurs in the world.
Questions-Helps make clear understanding of what is being read
Right there questions-Requires to flip to page and find it
Think and search questions-Makes you think about how ideas or information in text relate to each other
Author and you questions- Requires you to use information not used directly in the text to answer the questions.
On my own questions-Can be answered using background knowledge
Visualizing-Readers make images in their mind as they read, help readers connect to book
Inferring-Reading between the lines, forming a best guess, making predictions, drawing conclusions
Determining importance-Need to choose between fiction and nonfiction, think of facts, questions and responses.
Synthesizing-When you read to get to know information, continue reading to get more info. Identify key concepts; put concept in own words
Presentation 3: Jane Schaffer Essay By: Dawnrenee and Eunice
Jane Schaffer writing method is usually used in book reports to create a mini essay with a single paragraph or multiple paragraphs.
The Jane Schaffer writing method is a way to construct an essay paragraph including 8-11 sentences and key terminology.
Terminology:
TS- Topic Sentence
Contains the main idea, must contain your opinion
CD-Concrete detail
Points out a fact and proves its true and not your opinion.
CM-Commentary sentence
Use it to explain your opinion and support information to explain in more detail the statement in your topic sentence
CS-Closing sentence
Summarizes all information provided in essay
Remember-
8-11 sentences
Uses the terminology above
Structure of essay
TS-topic sentence
CD-Concrete detail to support TS
CM-Describes how sentence 2 supports topic sentence
CM-Describes how sentence 2 supports topic sentence
CD- Concrete detail to support TS
CM-Describes how sentence 2 supports topic sentence
CM-Describes how sentence 2 supports topic sentence
CS-Summary
Paragraph 1:
Should have at least 40 words and
Paragraphs 2 and 3:
They should support the paragraphs and be 8 sentences.
Paragraph 4:
Conclusion paragraph, summarize and support paragraph 1.
Presentation 4: Literary Terms
By: Rani, Taylor
Literary terms are words used to identify characteristics of a literary text
Alliteration, characterization, climax, foreshadowing, metaphor, point of view, exposition, onomatopoeia, etc.
Epigraph:
Epithet:
Euphemism:
Elegy:
Denouement:
Couplet: A two-sentence rhyme, each line containing the same amount of syllables
Aphorism:
Stanza:
Presentation 5: Story Elements and Structure
By: Maria, Sam
Presentation 6: Harper Lee
By: Gagan and Jessica
Wrote to Kill a Mockingbird
Youngest of 4 children
Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama
Was a tomboy
After graduation in 1944 she went to Huntingdon College in Montgomery
University of Alabama
Editor of the Rammer Jammer
Lee was accepted into the university’s law school
1949, went to New York City
Met Michael Martin Brown (Broadway composer)
Had titles such as Watchman, Atticus then finally To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
Used to be an airline ticket saleswoman
Presentation 7: The Great Depression
By Miranda and Nikole
The economy got bad and people started advertising themselves for food
Banks started closing, businesses closed
People couldn’t feed their families and people started burning their furniture to keep warm and stole what they could.
A job surge was made, this boosted the stock market
The stock market drops with housing prices, milk and eggs
When the stock market completely collapses things are pretty much free
The depression began 1929
A recession is less severe than a depression; a depression is more severe and disastrous
A Hooverville is a place where homeless/jobless people would go
The great depression ended because of a job surge and because FDR had good ideas to help the stock market.
Presentation 8: Research Paper
By: Ievgen and Allan
Organize your research
Ease on your project
Contains clearly stated thesis statement
Convincing textual evidence from multiple outside sources
Clear organization
Bibliography
The Writing process
Research
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing
Analyze the writing situation and make sure directions are clear
Focus on the topic
Meet the assignments requirements
Know the goal of the paper
Be aware of your audience
Do preliminary reading, library
Use an online search engine
Visit web sites
Take detailed notes from published resources, make sure to cite
Create a detailed and organized outline of all the gathered information
Revise the thesis statement
Begin a rough draft
Use vivid, precise words
Cut or change unnecessary repetition
Take out unnecessary writing
Look at rough draft thoroughly
Examine overall organization, ideas should flow logically
Research papers are to organize your research
Examine each paragraph; consider the way each sentence contributes to the paper
Check each sentence; make sure it flows smoothly from one to the next
Prepare the final copy
Begin with a correctly formatted firs page
The difference between a research paper and a the Jane Schaffer essay is that the Jane Schaffer essay has a specific outline.
Presentation 9: MLA Format
By: Julie
· MLA stands for modern language association
· MLA style is most
· Type up what you are writing on the computer and print it on 8.5 by 11 inch paper
· Double space your text
· Use legible font
· Your font size must be 12
· Create a header in the upper right corner that numbers all pages
· Do not make a title page for your paper
· In the upper left hand corner of the first page put your name, your teacher name the period and date
· Center the title
· You must have a cited page at the end of your research paper
· Label the page work cited
· Double space all citations
· Do not skip spaces between entries
· List page numbers
Presentation 10: Latin Roots
By: Eric and Reece
· A Latin root word is a root of an en
· Most of
· Geo, in and im
· These are just some of the thousands of root words and there
· In 1066 england was conquered by William, duke of Normandy
· Over 65% of the English languages.
Presentation 11: Greek Roots
By: Shervin and Alvin
Roots derived from the Greek language
Examples: Auto, Biblio, Eco, Geo, Haemo, Anthrop
Root Morphemes-Essential for prefixes suffixes and compound words
Free Morphemes-can stand alone like near in the word nearly
Bound Morphemes-Occur only as parts of words such as “ly” in the word nearly
Greek roots can help us by giving different meanings of words by using different prefixes and suffixes.
Effect of inflection-
Presentation 12: Prefixes and Suffixes
By: Michaela and Kowser
Prefix-Letters before a word to extend the definition
Suffix-Letters after a word to extend the definition and change the grammatical function
Both prefixes and suffixes are called affixes, this means they are attached to a word
Example: Act>ReAct>ReActIon
If the main word ends in ‘y’ then ‘y’ is dropped if adding a suffix
If the suffix is ‘ing’ then you can keep the ‘y’
Double the the suffix letter if the prefix ends in a short vowel sound
The prefix accommodates the root word
A, an-Not, without
Auto-self
In-into
cid-kill(ing)
logy-study of field of
isk, iscus-small
