Good morning everyone, I’m going to be reading a passage from Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23,1961 in Potsdam, in Northern New York State. She read all the time; awful at math, but then lots of creative people were. She graduated form Georgetown University in 1984 with a B.S.L.L in Languages and Linguistics. For years, Laurie loved to write, but considered it more than a hobby, and became a freelance reporter, she also began to write all types of books, and accomplished to pile up a lot of rejection letters.
AP English Language and Composition Summer Reading Instructions The mandatory summer reading for AP English Language and Composition is based on the 2003 book by Thomas C. Foster entitled How to Read Literature Like a Professor (ISBN: 006000942X). Students are responsible for securing a copy of the book on their own. It can easily be purchased online or at a local bookstore, but sharing amongst peers is encouraged. Students should read the book in its entirety, and then complete the assignment outlined below. It is imperative that both parts of the assignment be completed by each AP Lang student and turned in to Mrs. Rickard on the first day of school.
As I got a little older in middle school, I really enjoyed reading the Sweet Valley High book series. In high school I really only read what I was assigned to read. Examples were Where the Red Fern Grows and The Scarlet Letter. We also read William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When I was a young adult, I had a stepson named Scott.
8. 9. About the Author About the Book Reviews Honors Questions to Guide Reading or Discussing the Book Quotes Suggested Chapters for Reading Aloud with Adult Literacy or Other Groups Extensions/Real World Literacy Activities Links to Other Resources ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine
Students will discover by looking as word choice and sentence structure how language styles Diction and Syntax from Civil have changed over time. After the reading lesson, students will write two RAFTs in the style of the times to show their War Times to the Present: understanding. In this lesson, students will read and analyze literary devices used in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." They will read the first part of the story with support and modeling from the teacher, the next part in small Creating Suspense Lesson 1: groups, and the final section on their own. Students will examine Poe's use of imagery, foreshadowing, simile, Analyzing Literary Devices in personification, symbolism, and characterization.
Name______________________________ Period________ Write your thesis statement here. It should be one sentence and include both the name of the story and the author. Remember that the titles of short stories are indicated by quotation marks (like this: “The Cask of Amontillado”). Use the sample thesis statement on the other side as a model. Write a complete sentence that explains each of the main points you want to make in your essay to support your thesis.
RGD 350 Children’s Literature Entire Course Material https://hwguiders.com/downloads/rgd-350-childrens-literature-entire-course-material RGD 350 Children’s Literature Entire Course Material RDG 350 Week 1 Individual Assignment Favorite Book Share Prepare to discuss one of your favorite books you read as a child. • Write a paper (no specific word count) describing your favorite book or books that you read as a child. What makes this book or books so appealing? Were the books for both boys and girls alike? What genre were the books?
She decided to write one. While today there are many books about drugs, gangs, abusive families, etc., Hinton's stories stand out because they confront issues like these, but they are not about these issues. They are about individuals, like Ponyboy and Dallas and Johnny--three very different boys who happen to belong to the same social group. Hinton usually writes her stories in the first person, to reinforce the strong individual identities of her characters. Her other stories include Tex, about a teenager who loves
G/T LA Reading Guide - October 2012 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 1. As you read, Notice – Name – Analyze the elements of good fiction. (grade) 2. After reading designated pages, reflect on the following questions each day in your NB OR directly on this sheet OR type up your responses (OR any combination of those): (grade) Day 1 = AFTER pages 1-10: Predict why the spelling of words is so weird on these first pages? I predict that Charlie has a lower qi Day 2 = AFTER pages 32-33: Analyze the changes Charlie has gone through since page 1.
ACTIVITY #1: Use a dictionary or web resources to find and define the following literary terms: Upload or hand-in your work for marking. (11 marks) Atmosphere: Atmosphere refers to the feeling the reader gets about the story based on the details the author uses. Atmosphere is created by the description of backgrounds and settings, and sometimes by description of the characters and