Ms. McElhannon

Honors Brit Lit

Last week before Spring Break! Please come to school and finish your assignments; you can refresh and relax next week!

Monday 3/28=Vocab #11;Daniel Defoe;Samuel Johnson; Thomas Gray

Tuesday 3/29=17th/18th Century PosttestDownload 17th-18th Lit terms

Wednesday 3/30=Unit Test over 17th/18th Century.

Thursday 3/31=Pretest over Romantic period; Intro to Romantic Unit; assign romantic poetry projects(due Friday 4/15)

Friday 4/1=vocab test #11;Wordworth; work on romantic poetry projects 

Have a safe holiday!

 

Honors/Senior World Lit

Last week before Spring break! Please come and continue to work; you can relax next week! Good luck to our Heather Thomas who is representing Kell at the semifinals for the public speaking contest at Marietta High School on Tuesday! Heather, we are so proud of you!

Monday 3/28=Vocab #11; Dante's Inferno

Tuesday 3/29=Finish The Inferno

Wednesday 3/30=Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

Thursday 3/31=Shakespeare's Othello

Friday 4/1=Vocab test #11; finish Othello

Have a safe and wonderful Spring break!

Senior/Honors World Lit

Remember- I will be at school from 8am-12pm on Saturday March 19 and March 26. If you need tutoring or need to make up work-be there!

Graduation tests this week; schedule is different for 1st block; normal for 3rd.

3/21=vocab 10; Perceval

3/22="Lay of the Werewolf"

3/23=The Inferno

3/24=vocab test 10; The Inferno

Have a great weekend!

Honors Brit Lit

Remember , I will be at school on Saturday March 19 and 26 from 8am-12pm for tutoring and makeup work. If you need extra help or need to make up work-be there!

3/21=vocab #10; Pope-"Essay on Man" and The Rape of the Lock

3/22=Pepys and Defoe-The Diary;Journal of a Plague Year

3/23-Media Center to check out 1984- due 4/27; finish Pepy and Defoe

3/24=Samuel Johnson-First dictionary of the English language

3/25= Vocab test 10; pre Romantic Thomas Gray. Lit terms posttest on MondayDownload 17th-18th Lit terms

Have a wonderful weekend!

Honors/Senior World Lit

Our first week of Spring forward! I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful prom!

3/14=vocab #9; Unit 4 posttest; pretest unit 5+focus questions

3/15=French Epic=Song of Roland

3/16=Finish Song of Roland

3/17=Happy St. Patrick's Day! We will celebrate by reading Germany's Epic The Nibelungenlied!

3/18=Unit 9 vocab test; finish The Nibelungenlied.

Have a super weekend!

Honors Brit Lit

First week of Spring forward! The good news is the days are lighter; the bad news is we will be driving to school in the dark! I hope everyone had a safe and fun-filled prom.

3/14=vocab 9;cavalier poets, carpe diem. If you missed the vocab test on Friday, you need to make it up this week!

3/15=John Milton, sonnets and Paradise Lost

3/16=Finish Milton

3/17=Happy St. Patrick's Day; we will celebrate by reading one of Ireland's best known writers-Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

3/18=vocab test #9;Finish Swift, "A Modest Proposal" Last day for research paper redos!!!!

Have a good weekend!

 

Senior/Honors World Literature

We are back on track and ready for spring, prom, vacation graduation, etc!

3/7=vocab #8; Oedipus Rex

3/8=Oedipus Rex; from the Apology

3/9=Oedipus Rex

3/10=Oedipus Rex; from the Annals(3rd only)

3/11=vocab#8 test; finish Oedipus

Have a wonderful weekend! If you are going to prom, please make wise choices!

Honors Brit Lit

We are back on track and ready for a new unit in British Literature!

Great job on your speeches; I enjoyed each performance. We will leave Shakespeare and the English Renaissance for the 17th/18th century- aka as A Turbulent Time, The Restoration, The great age of satire, The Enlightenment, The Age of Reason.Download 17th-18th Lit terms

Important dates!!!

• Polished first draft of lit analysis paper is due on Tuesday March 8. Please turn in the draft with your rubric packet.
• Mind Maps due either 3/8 or 3/9(Tuesday or Wednesday)

3/7=Vocab 8; mind maps

3/8=first draft due;mind maps due

3/9=John Donne; metaphysical poetry; mind maps due

3/10=Finish Donne; Ben Jonson poetry

3/11= vocab test # 8; finish Donne and Jonson

Have a safe and wonderful weekend; if you go to prom, please make wise choices!