Periods+1,+3,+6English+IV

English IV Periods 1, 3, and 6

Week of June 3:

RESEARCH PAPER: All students have now received their graded Senior Research Paper. One copy will be kept in my files if you should need it in the future. I suggest you keep your copy. It may be useful in college, and in other ways you cannot conceive of now.

We will be reviewing for final exams. Be here every day and earn the best grade you can on your final !! The following will be covered:


 * Shakespeare and "Macbeth"
 * "A History of the English Church and People," Bede, and Queen Elizabeth I
 * Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale"
 * Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal"
 * Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" and Doris Lessing's "No Witchcraft for Sale"
 * James Joyce's "Araby," Dickens' "Hard Times," and Chekov's "An Upheaval"
 * "Beowulf"
 * Sonnets and Poems
 * Grammar - Agreement, Phrases, and Clauses
 * The Romantic Period
 * Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
 * Literary Terms (alliteration, simile etc.)
 * 40 words from your College Bound Vocabulary Book


 * CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRADUATION AND BEST WISHES!**