1. Carefully read, and underline and take the Practice Test you received. For every Poem or Prose Passage you must use either a DIDLS; SOAPS; TWIST; or SIFT chart to analyze the language. This may be done in the margins or the test.
2. Open Minds. You should have 4 Open Minds drawn into 4 sections and 1 or 2 Open Minds with the jagged line.
For Open Mind #1: Female Characters Select any four female characters from novels we have read: The Kite Runner; The Piano Lesson (play); Chronicle of A Death Foretold; The Fall of Rome; Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone. Write their name; then record 3-4 actual quotes from the text; 2 images (small); and a simile or metaphor to describe them and 4 WORDS from the QUALITIES OF CHARACTER HANDOUT in each section. Remember you must use color, colored pencils. This assignment must be visually appealing.
Open Mind #2: Minor Characters: Select four minor characters from 4 different texts and complete the same thing as in #1
Open Mind #3: Tragic Characters: We have read a Tragedy (Oedipus), yet characters in other texts also appear to have tragic qualities. Select 4 characters from texts we have read that appear to have had tragic flaws that caused significant loss. Then, do the same thing as in #1--
Open Mind #4: 4 Chracters of Your Choice from Literature you read OF LITERARY MERIT grades 9-12 on your own, or as part of school curriculum.
Open Mind with Jagged Line: Pivotal Moment in The Stranger. On right half select quotes; adjectives for Mersault before the pivotal event; and then quotes, images, description after the pivotal incident.
3. Read-read, and review literary terms. I have entered two sets of terms in our Quizlet.
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