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APRIL/FEEL FREE TO WORK ON DURING SPRING BREAK!!!
MONDAY
5
“A & P” Packet Due
(See Below)
TUESDAY
6
DIALECTICAL
JOURNALS DUE!
Work On:
o Dialectical Journals
o Roots Flashcards (43
total)
o Literary Terms
Flashcards (39 total)
o Lyrics Project
o Roots 9 Ex (no
notes)
o Print Out 6 Songs
Lyrics
Work On:
o Roots Flashcards
(43 total)
o Literary Terms
Flashcards (39
total)
o Lyrics Project
o Roots 9 Ex (no
notes)
o Print Out 6 Songs
Lyrics
12 ROOTS REVIEW
13 ROOTS FINAL
ROOTS & LIT.
DEVICES
FLASHCARDS DUE
LYRICS
PROJECTS DUE!!!
Work On:
o Lyrics Projects
o Study Flashcards
Work On:
o Study Literary
Devices!!!
WEDNESDAY
7
ROOTS 9 DUE
Work On:
o Roots Flashcards
(43 total)
o Literary Terms
Flashcards (39
total)
o Lyrics
o Roots 9 Word
Map
Miss Vasquez in
Night Library
THURSDAY
8
PURCHASED
FLASHCARDS
DUE!
Work On:
o Roots Flashcards
(43 total)
o Literary Terms
Flashcards (39
total)
o Lyrics Project
o Roots 9 Word
Map
Miss Vasquez in
Night Library
FRIDAY
9 ROOTS 9 QUIZ
ROOTS MAP DUE
Work On:
o Roots Flashcards
(43 total)
o Literary Terms
Flashcards (39
total)
o Lyrics Project
o Study Flashcards
14 LIT. REVIEW
LIT. FINAL!!
15
LIT. FINAL
(complete)??
16
QUARTER 4
BEGINS!!!
Work On:
o CST REVIEW
END OF
QUARTER 3
Staff vs Student Bball
Game (EXC)
FINAL GRADES
Movie Night (EXC)
MINI DAY!!!
* NO COLLAB
MONDAY!!
VASQUEZ AFTER
SCHOOL (rm 1109)
(LAST DAY FOR LATE
WORK!!!!!)
“A & P” PACKET (DUE MONDAY!!!!)
“A & P” Intro Notes/Piece of the Pie Foldable =20 points (class participation)
“A & P” Story with Sticky Notes= 25 points (reading comprehension)
Literary Devices Organizer= 26 points (2 pts each term defined/example) (credit/no credit)
“A &P”/Catcher Template = 20 points (writing drafts)
“A & P”/Catcher= 40 points (writing finals)
Figurative Language Review Packet= 45 points (5 pts each page) (reading comprehension)
ROOTS FLASHCARDS (see other page; 39 total)
LYRICS PROJECT (see other page)
Style Elements in Music /Lyrics Project
ASSIGNMENT
39 Flashcards
Copies of Lyrics
15 Literary Terms Identified (highlighted/underlined) in Lyrics
15 Explanations (impact/purpose) of Lyrics
Cited Artist(s) and Song Title(s)
Neatness
TOTAL
POINTS
POSSIBLE
20
10
30
30
5
5
100
POINTS
EARNED
LYRICS TERMS (WORD ON ONE SIDE AND DEFINITION ON THE OTHER): * or create online & print!
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Allegory: a story, painting etc in which the events and characters represent ideas or teach a moral lesson
Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds Ex: Peter Piper Picked a Peck…
Allusion: a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature.
Analogy: comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship (like a long simile/metaphor)
Anaphora/Repetition: Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times to emphasize a particular
idea.
Apostrophe: when the speaker addressed a nonliving object, idea, or person
Assonance: (similar to alliteration) repeating vowel sounds Ex: the Soul selects her own Society
Cacophony: a loud unpleasant mixture of sounds Opposite of euphony.
Cliché: overused expression or idea
Connotation an association that comes along with a particular word. a quality or an idea that a word makes you think
of that is more than its basic meaning
Denotation: dictionary definition; the exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may
imply. It is the opposite of “connotation
Dialect: a form of a language which is spoken only in one area, with words or grammar that are slightly different
from other forms of the same language
Dialogue: a conversation in a book, play, or film
Euphony: soothing pleasant sounds. Opposite of cacophony.
Foreshadowing: Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested/hinted by the author before
they happen
Homily: a speech given as part of a Christian church ceremony
Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration
Idiom: a group of words that has a special meaning that is different from the ordinary meaning of each separate word.
For example, 'under the weather' is an idiom meaning 'ill'.
Imagery: the use of words or pictures to describe ideas or actions in poems, books, films etc
Irony: a situation that is unusual or amusing because something strange happens, or the opposite of what is expected
happens or is true; when you use words that are the opposite of what you really mean
Juxtaposition: to put things together, especially things that are not normally together, in order to compare them or to
make something new; n literature, it's when one theme or idea or person or whatever is paralleled to another.
Mood: Overall feeling of the story, poem, etc
Motif: A dominant theme or central idea.
Onomatopoeia: a word that imitates the sound it represents. Example:splash, wow, gush, kerplunk Oxymoron:
putting two contradictory/opposite words together. Ex:hot ice, cold fire, jumbo shrimp
Paradox/antithesis: a statement that seems impossible because it contains two opposing ideas that are both true;
reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. Two opposing ideas
Parody: a piece of writing, music etc or an action that copies someone or something in an amusing way
Parallel Structure: Parallel structure is the term writers use to describe similar ideas expressed in similar ways. Easy
example: The sentence "I like running, fishing, and to ski" lacks parallel structure. The similar ideas are running,
fishing, and to ski, the three things you like to do. A more graceful and readable way to write them is to use parallel
structure: "I like running, fishing, and skiing."
Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects
Point of View: The identity of the narrative voice; the person or entity through whom the reader experiences the story.
May be third-person (no narrator; abstract narrative voice, omniscient or limited) or first-person (narrated by a character
in the story or a direct observer).
Prose: written language in its usual form, as opposed to poetry
Protagonist: main character
Pun: an amusing use of a word or phrase that has two meanings, or of words that have the same sound but different
meanings
Simile: comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Stanza: a group of lines in a repeated pattern forming part of a poem (like a paragraph for a poem)
Symbol: a picture or shape that has a particular meaning or represents a particular organization or idea
Theme: the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, film etc; is the general idea or insight about life that a
writer wishes to express
Tone: the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character