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Mr. Michael Scirocco


Calendar
 
Week 1-January 8-12   Project 1
Week 2-Janurary 14-16    
Week 4-February 4-8    
Week 6- February 25-March1    
Week 8- March 10-14    
Week 9- March 17-21    
     
     
  Literary Analysis Essay 2007 Literary Festival
Shakespeare Project

Essay-Persuasive Fall 2007

LiteraryAnalysis

Essay/Topics Semester 2

Bio Poem
Essential Questions Kooser's Poetry Selections

Tone Words

Style Words

Mood Words

Characater Words

Emotion Paper

List of Emotions

Documents
 

Syllabus 2007-2008


- Questions for Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Tell-Tale Heart Essay
- Model Emotion Essay
The Big Six -Reader Response Questions
- Model Emotion essay 2
Critical Reading Questions  

- SAT Words To Describe Tone

Questions for Nonfiction Texts
  - Kaplan's SAT Writing Skills
Major Themes in Literature  

Literary Analysis Group Project

Lord of the Flies/The Secret Life of Bees

- Active Verbs for Discussing Ideas   - AP words
- Writing- Rubric   - Transition Words

 

Subject Resources
 
-Analysis Rubric
-Texts for Literary Analysis
-Literary Analysis Essay   -The"Emotional" Essay
-List of Emotions   -Shakespeare Links
-Archetypes Unit   - Grammar Exercises
eBOOKS for Literary Criticism    
Big Dog's Grammar

-fragments

-comma splices

-joiners

-parallel structure

-pronouns

-active & passive

-consistency

-subject/verb agreement

-pronoun/antecedent agreement

-dangling modifiers

-misplaced modifiers

-reference