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Notes from Grading Your Tests

Notes from Grading Your Tests. Quotes don’t need to be dialogue. Punctuating practice needed: comma placement, quotations, and citations Everyday vs. every day [ Everyday is an adjective which describes something ordinary or commonplace, while the phrase every day means “each day.”]

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Notes from Grading Your Tests

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  1. Notes from Grading Your Tests • Quotes don’t need to be dialogue. • Punctuating practice needed: comma placement, quotations, and citations • Everyday vs. every day [Everyday is an adjective which describes something ordinary or commonplace, while the phrase every day means “each day.”] • “Such as” and “Like” signal dependent clauses, so they can’t begin sentences without creating fragments. • “ ‘ and pointing out words

  2. Notes from Grading Your Tests • Quality insight, evidence of understanding, observations, & critical thought! • References to/quotations from the text were relevant and blended with original thought.

  3. Notes from Grading Your Tests • A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C- are not “bad grades.” • Invitation • True life transcript

  4. American Gothic Literature Late 18th and Early 19th Century Writings

  5. Origins • Inspired by Gothic architecture: irregularly placed towers, high ceilings, and gargoyles

  6. Romantic movement – backlash from Age of Reason: authors could now follow their imagination. Gothics followed it to the shadowy region where the fantastic, demonic, and insane reside.

  7. Setting • Weird – went beyond typical settings to the bizarre • Often dark, medieval castles or decaying ancient estates

  8. Plots • Macabre: gruesome, grisly, horrid • People in extreme situations (murder, live burials, torture, and retribution from the grave) that reveal their true nature • Peered into the darkness of the supernatural

  9. Purpose of Gothic Literature • Explore human mind in extreme situations and arrive at some truth • Examine human heart under various conditions: fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal. • Show off/explore the dark side of human nature

  10. 9 Facts about William Faulkner (527) • Great-grandson of a Civil War hero • Grew up hearing about the gallant honor of his ancestors • HS dropout, but avid reader. • Attd. U of Miss for 1 yr • Pub’d 15 books in 13 yrs • Focused on ppl and places of N. MS. • Experimented with stream of consciousness and fractured chronologies = not popular,no $ales • Hollywood screenwriter in 1930s and 40s • Nobel Prize for Lit.--considered one of USA’s greatest writers

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