English III
Feb 4th
Starter
2/3/15
 1. was Rip Van Winkle lazy or was he just a good natured man
whoenjoyed not doing to much
 2. alot of people have saw the movie Back To The Future
 3. william Cullen Bryant was only sixteen-years-old when he
wrote the poem thanatopsis
 4. I couldnt of wrote a poem like that when I was sixteen my dad
said
“A Rose for Emily”
 Study Guide
 ACT I
 1. Why do the men and women attend
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Emily’s funeral?
2. Describe Emily’s house.
3. Describe Emily.
4. Why did the deputy go to Emily’s
house, what was the result of his visit?
Act II
1. What had happened to Emily’s
sweetheart?
2. Why were the neighbors complaining
about her house, how did they resolve
the problem?
3. Why did the people in the town not
particularly like Emily?
4. What happened to her father? What
did she refuse to do?
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Study Guide
Act III
1. Who is Homer Barron?
2. What did Miss. Emily get from
the pharmacist?
3. Why doesn’t Emily answer the
pharmacist’s question?
ACT IV
1. What was happening that made
the neighbors watch Emily so
closely?
2. Why did they want her cousins to
come visit her, why were they glad
when they left?
3. What do they believe has
happened to Homer?
4. When did Emily’s doors close for
good?
5. How did she die?
Starter
2/4/15
 1. henry wadsworth longfellow, who was born in Portland
Maine on the atlantic coast was a nineteenth century poet
 2. the poem the cross of snow is a petrarchan sonnet
 3. john greenleaf whittier composed a popular poem that was
a idle anostalgic description of a rural homey scene
 4. whittiers poem Snow-Bound has several illusions to
architecture literature and history
Grammar
Pronouns 2 /4/15
 Write down the definitions of each and at least three
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examples: pages 442 - 447
Pronoun
Personal pronoun
Possessive pronoun
Demonstrative pronoun
Reflexive and intensive pronouns
Interrogative pronoun
Relative pronoun
Indefinite pronoun
Vocabulary
To Kill A Mockingbird
 Chapter 1
 Chapter 4
 1.piety: describes being devoted to God
 7.auspicious: something that is
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or particularly religious.
2.nebulous: means vague or unclear.
Chapter 2
3.conferred: consulted.
Chapter 3
4.expounding: to explain in great detail.
5.judiciously: wisely.
6.concessions: acts of acknowledging
and accepting the opposing party’s
point.
favorable or successful.
 8.parceled: divided and distributed.
 9.evasion: the act of avoiding or hiding.
 10.quelling: pacifying or suppressing.
 Chapter 5
 11.benign: kind and gentle, not
causing harm.
 12.tacit: implied or known without
stating aloud.
 13.benevolence: a kind or thoughtful
act.
 14.peril: immediate danger or risk.
 15.placidly: acting calmly or quietly.
Starter
2/ 5/15
All starters are due today!!!!
 1. in The Chambered Nautilus a poem by Oliver Wendell
Holmes the seashell becomes an extended metaphor for the
growth of the human soul
 2. holmes poem Old Ironsides was written about the
american warship the USS constitution
 3. the fireside poets was poplar writer’s
 4. there poems reflects fertile imaginations
Grammar
2/5/2015
 Complete exercise 17, 18,
and 19 on pages 444-445
 Please complete the
provided handout for
homework. It is due
tomorrow.You will need to
complete both sides.
“A Rose for Emily”
 Study Guide
 Study Guide
 Act V
 Act III
 What happened to Emily’s
 1. Who is Homer Barron?
 2. What did Miss. Emily get from the
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pharmacist?
3. Why doesn’t Emily answer the
pharmacist’s question?
ACT IV
1. What was happening that made the
neighbors watch Emily so closely?
2. Why did they want her cousins to
come visit her, why were they glad
when they left?
3. What do they believe has happened to
Homer?
4. When did Emily’s doors close for
good?
5. How did she die?
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servant?
How long has it been since
the room had been opened?
List five things they see
upon entering the room.
Who was lying in the bed?
What does the strand of
hair imply?
 Essential Question:
 Starter
 How can citizens,
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particularly ourselves,
break through barriers
of prejudice to promote
tolerance?
 1. in the 19th century intelectualls still debated
whether the United States would ever produce
grate writers
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I will be able to
recognize how the
point of view affects the
narrative.
 I will begin to
understand the
characters of Attitcus
and Dill.
 2. some of the early masterpieces of american
literature was written then
 3. among american writters of the nineteenth-
century there was intellectual ferment
 4. the formation of various utopian groups were
responces to this ferment
 To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the
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mid-1930s during the Great
Depression.
Throughout the decade jobs were
scarce, bread lines were long, and
movies cost only a nickel.
Culturally, the swing era, movies, and
radio drama were the talk of the nation.
Women could vote, and the prohibition
of alcohol was finally repealed.
Government programs such as the
Works Progress Administration and
Social Security were established.
But some things endured even the chaos
of economic depression. Jim Crow
laws continued to prevent African
Americans from enjoying equal rights
with other citizens, even if the Old
South seemed to be slowly changing.
The Jim Crow South
Former slaves and their children had little assurance that their post-Civil War freedoms
would stick. By the 1890s, a system of laws and regulations commonly referred to as
Jim Crow had emerged; by 1910, every state of the former Confederacy had upheld this
legalized segregation and disenfranchisement.
During the Jim Crow era, state and local officials instituted curfews for
blacks and posted "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs on parks, schools,
hotels, water fountains, restrooms, and all modes of transportation. Laws
against miscegenation or "race-mixing" deemed all marriages between
white and black people not only void but illegal. Almost as bad as the
injustice of Jim Crow was the inconsistency with which law enforcement
applied it. Backtalk would rate a laugh in one town, and a lynching just
over the county line.
Though violence used to subjugate blacks was nothing new, its character changed under
Jim Crow. Southern white supremacist groups like the Klu Klux Klan
reached a membership of six million. Mob violence was encouraged. Torture
became a public spectacle. White families brought their children as witnesses to
lynchings, and vendors hawked the body parts of victims as souvenirs. Between 1889
and 1930, over 3,700 men and women were reported lynched in the United States,
many for challenging Jim Crow.
Education, religion, and music became
their solace and salvation until, in the
organized political action of the Civil
Rights Movement, Jim Crow's harsh
music finally began to fade.
Prejudice – is the
intellectual and moral
bias of people who hold
strict opinions without
having examined the
available facts.
Feb 11/2015
 1. ralph waldo emersons utopian
group was known as the
transcendental club
 2. the word transcendental may be
traced to the german philosopher
Immanuel Kant
 3. the word transcendental refers to
the idea that one must go beyond
everyday experiance
 4. Transcendentalists were idealists
they beleived in human perfectibility
 FYI:
 You will
have a
notebook
quiz
tomorrow!
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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 Literary Terms
 Point of view – is the observation
from which a narrative is told.
 First person point of view – is
the story told by one of the
characters referred to as “I”.
 Limited third person point of
view – the writer tells the story
from the vantage point of one of the
characters in the story, referring to
this character by name or by “he” or
“she”.
 Omniscient or “all-knowing:”
can reveal the thoughts of many
characters and can describe any event
from a variety of points of view.
Chapter 1
1. Who is the narrator?
2. Who is Simon Finch and what did he establish?
3. Jack Finch leaves Alabama. Where does he travel?
4. Who stayed behind on the farm?
5. What is Atticus’s occupation?
6. Who helps Atticus to raise his two children, Jem and Scout?
7. How does Jem feel when he thinks of his Mother?
8. Describe the first meeting between the Finch children and Dill.
9. How does Dill suggest the children spend their time?
10. Describe the myth of Boo Radley.
11. Who takes care of Boo?
12. What does Dill dare Jem to do?
13. What do the children believe they see from the house?
Feb 12, 2015
 1. on a trip to europe Ralph Waldo
Emerson met the english romantic
poet’s William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 2. Emerson setled in Concord, and
married Lydia Jackson
 3. emerson, begun to give public
lecture’s to supplement his meager
income
 4. he demanded that american
scholars free theirselves from the
past
When Dr. King was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1964, at the time he was
the youngest Peace Prize winner ever, at
the age of 35.
Chapter 2 Study Guide
1. How does Miss Caroline react
when Scout talks about Walter
being poor?
2. Describe the Cunningham
family.
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Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), a Republican,
was president when the Great Depression began.
He infamously declared in March 1930 that the
U.S. had “passed the worst” and argued that the
economy would sort itself out. The worst,
however, had just begun and would last until the
outbreak of WWII (1939).f
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Pamphlet
“To Kill A Mockingbird”
You must create with a
partner a pamphlet.Your
pamphlet must have three
sides.
1) Side one of your pamphlet
has to be an illustration and the
title of your pamphlet.
2) Side two must contain facts
and information regarding
your topic.
3) Side three must contain
current (2015) information
about your topic. It must
address how your topic affects
people today?
Starter Feb 19, 2015 Vocabulary
 1. in his book Nature Emerson
 piety nebulous conferred
uses imagery to show his
readers seen’s of nature
 2. Emersons vivid imagry,
occurs in many passages.
 3. imagine building a house for
$28.12 exclaimed Mrs Hebert
 4. thats how much Thoreau
spent; when he built his house
at Walden Pond she explained
 1)The priest’s ______ was
expounding judiciously
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known throughout the
community.
2)The teacher made her decision
about quitting her job
______________.
3)The was _________to the jury
the murder of the young girl.
4)The doctors _______ with
each other about the patient’s
condition.
5) The story of Boo Radley was
______ and unbelievable.
Notebook Quiz #1
 1) What was your first essential question?
 2)What is the definition of tumultuously ?
 3) What is the definition of a noun?
 4) What is the first sentence of your starter on Jan 23 2015?
 5) Complete the following sentence: It was all she could do to maintain her
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_______ while the lady cursed at her.
6)Answer the following question from the short story “The Story of a Hour”
: What health issue did Mrs. Mallard have?
7. What is the essential question for the story :A Rose for Emily”?
8) Define – auspicious
9) Define - Prejudice
10) Define - Omniscient or “all-knowing:” point of view