Mar. 8-12 ‘10_____ Language Arts Syllabus_____ Mrs. Switski

Announcements: Report cards go home Friday Mar. 12. Cap and Gown orders due Mar. 12

Tommy Guns permission slip due Mar. 18. February Book work due Mar. 24. Science project 3/17.

A NEW TRIMESTER – MAKE IT YOUR BEST !!!

Mon. class

1. Review the syllabus and copy assignments into planner.

2. Share themes for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

3. Complete pgs. 26 & 28 in class.

HW Review your packet to remember the action of the play.

Study allusion, paradox, alliteration, theme, and starred vocab. for Act. 4 & 5.

Tues. class

1. Review for test.

HW Study for test on the whole play and starred vocab. for 4 & 5.

Wed. class

1. Test on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

HW Poetry terms – Use Red Lit. books to define the following terms:

internal and end rhyme, rhyme scheme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia.

Thur. class

1. Review poetry terms and examples of each.

HW Poetic techniques: allusion, compacting, colloquial speech, humor, inversion, parallelism.

paradox, symbolism, imagery, figurative language. Use Red Lit. books to define the following terms.

Fri. class

1. Find examples of Poetic techniques in the Hockey poem pg. 624

HW Read Feb. book.