HW Due Wednesday, April 1

Complete a brainstorm for your essay. Brainstorms can be done in any format, but each the literary elements that follow must be addressed. In other words, decide on some specifics for your own writing, in terms of:

Setting- Where are you going to take your reader?

Mood- What moods will your setting convey? Write phrases to convey the mood of your essay through setting description. Refer to your list of mood words to decide.

Narrator- Write in first person point of view, from your own perspective.

Narrator's tone- How will you, as the narrator, convey your tone? Look at the list of tone words to decide on the tone(s) you plan to convey in your essay.

Imagery- Write phrases to use in your essay that appeal to each of the five senses

Personification- Write phrases to include in your essay that contain personification

Theme(s)- Decide on fundamental, universal ideas to convey in your essay.

Similes / Metaphors- Write comparisons (similes and metaphors) to include in your essay.

Dialogue- Use quotation marks around characters' words. Dialogue is a form characterization. Decide on the relationships between the people who are described in your essay. Decide on the words you want them to speak so that you can convey your theme(s) through them. How will other characters react to the characters who are speaking? How will the speaking characters interact with one another?

Use vocabulary words- Write at least 15 sentences that contain new vocabulary words. Use a combination of the words defined in the current packet, and synonyms and antonyms from that list.


REMINDER!!!
Bollywood Banquet this Thursday!

HW / Period 2 3/18/2009

Finish reading the story. Keep themes in mind and take any notes in the margins that speak the themes.

Homework 3/16/2009

Read to page 30 of Jhumpa Laheri's "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine."

Always be prepared for reading check quizzes!!!

HW Due Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Complete the multiple-choice questions that correspond to Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and the poem I Am Ezra. Reread the passages so they are fresh in your mind, as we'll be learning how to write a formatted controlling idea essay tomorrow!!!