What's Due in Order to Be Eligible for Passing This Cycle

The following assignments must be completed and turned in, in order to be eligible to receive credit. If you are behind, see me during lunch for extra help.

1) Introductory writing piece: Description: A place where I like to hang out..." (a page and a half)

2) Dorothy Parker poem - with rhyme scheme and interpretation

3) 2 stanzas translation of "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

4) "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" poem and worksheet

5) YOUR OWN "archaic” love poem

6) Translation of your own archaic love poem into slang

7) Read: Taming of the Shrew Prologue, Scene 1

8) Read: Taming of the Shrew Prologue, Scene 2

9) Taming of the Shrew characters sheet

10) Taming of the Shrew Open Book Assessment

11) Required readings:
Neil Gaiman’s “World’s End”
Frame tale (Story of Charlene and Brandt)
“A Tale of Two Cities”
“Aurelia of the Plains”
“Hob’s Leviathan”

12) “Hob’s Leviathan” Essay

11) Final exam, based on “World’s End,” “Taming of the Shrew” prologue, and basic knowledge of “archaic language” that we’ve studied.