1 ST Six Weeks English I Pre AP

1. Agenda: Bell Ringer Discuss Independent Reading Introduce Literary Terms 1ST Six WeeksEnglish I Pre AP

2. Bell Ringer • Grab Bell Ringer from table and begin work. • You have 15 minutes to complete it! • Once you identify the nouns, write an “A” for abstract or “C” for concrete above the word. • We will not have SSR today. However, when you are done you may read a book from the class library quietly.

3. Independent Reading • Synopsis Handout • You have a week to get the book. This will be outside of class reading. Independent work will be assigned for you to complete as you read the book. • In six weeks, you will stop reading this book and choose another.

4. Introducing Literary Terms First, create your foldable. Take a two bright green papers. Staple them together 3 times on the across the long edges. Cut 1 of the pages in half. Make sure the cut is in the middle. Then make 5 cuts of equal distance a long each flap. (Do not cut all the way to the edge of the paper.) Make sure you have a total of 12 flaps. It should look like this:

5. Archetypes Archetypes: A model image, personage, or theme that recurs in stories and myths throughout history and literature. Ex: ‘The Fall’ of Adam and Eve in Genesis

6. Antagonist Antagonist- the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work. Example: Iagois the antagonist of Othello

7. Connotation • Connotation: The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry. • Ex: home= family, love, happiness

8. Conflict • Conflict: In literature, conflict is the opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story; conflict maybe internal, as psychological conflict or external • Ex: home= family, love, happiness

9. Denotation • Denotation: The dictionary definition of a word; the literal or cognitive meaning. • Example: Home is the building structure where one resides.

10. Foil • Foil- A secondary character who contrasts with the protagonist in order to highlight aspects of the main character’s personality. • Example: Foils may be sidekicks (e.g., Han Solo to Luke Skywalker) or enemies (e.g. The Joker to Batman).

11. Foreshadowing • Foreshadowing- A literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story.

12. Epiphany Epiphany- The point in a work of literature where a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding. Example: In the movie Sweeny Todd, the main character realizes that humans are cruel, two-faced creatures. He believes they all deserve to die.

13. Imagery • Imagery- the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions. Imagery can be used for emotional effect and to intensify the impact on the reader. • Example: such sweet sorrow

14. Mood • Mood- The atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage. Mood can be expressed through imagery, word choice, setting, voice, and theme. • Example: The mood evoked in Edgar Allen Poe’s work is gloomy and dark.

15. Idiom • Idiom: An expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words. Idioms are particular to a given language and usually cannot be translated literally. • For example: have the upper hand or under the weather • “Back seat driver”

16. Protagonist • Protagonist:the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.