Mrs moon

Can Briare come to our party? She's my ride home this afternoon.

Sad cats

http://youtu.be/PKffm2uI4dk

I'm not particularly fond of cats, but this video made me laugh a bit.

Guess who I'm watching?

Your boyfriend professor engel!!! He's talking about Gone With the Wind :)

Spartan

Origin-was unique among the Greek city-states because of the rigid program of military indoctrination it instilled in its citizens.

Definition-rigorously self-disciplined or self-trained

El dorado

Spanish for "the gilded one" is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dove into the Guatavita Lake. Later, it became the name of a legendary "Lost City of Gold", that fascinated explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors.

Marathon

a long distance race; source of the Victory of the Greeks over Persians in 490 B.C

Casanova

Casanova: Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725–98) was a famous Venetian adventurer and writer who romanced well over a hundred women in the course of his travels. In modern parlance, a Casanova is a charismatic man with a reputation for having many romantic conquests. I know he's a Casanova, but I can't resist those eyes
.

Chauvinist

One who exhibits fanatical patriotism

Named after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier famous for his devotion to Napoleon.

Bloomer

Origin: invented by Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-94), and American social reformer

Definition: undergarments for dance or active wear; underwear formally worn by females that was composed of loose trousers gathered at the ankles

Attila

Origin-A king of the Huns in the fifth century. Attila's forces overran many parts of central and eastern Europe.His armies were known for their cruelty and wholesale destruction, and Attila himself was called the“scourge of God.”

Definition- a successful barbarian 

Boycott

Definition: an act of voluntarily abstaining from someone or something

Origin: there was an Irish land war and Captain Charles Boycott was an absentee landlord. Prices and things dropped dramatically and his tenants wanted lower rates because they weren't making as much money on their crops. The tenants ended up boycotting Mr. Boycott

Horatio Alger

Origin: Horatio Alger is the author of a series of rags-to-riches stories. The main characters work hard and earn the American Dream in his stories, despite the many challenges they face.

Definition: A person who achieves success by his own effort in the face of great obstacles.

Sardonic

O: Sardinian plant that makes you laugh until you die if eaten
D: skeptically humorous, cynically mocking, smile

Swiftian

Origin: Jonathan swift's famous satire on politics in Gulliver's travels
Definition: satirical

SHANGHAI : 
To coerce or trick someone into a position or into doing something
ORIGIN: 
comes from the Chinese city of Shanghai, a common destination of the ships with abducted crews

McCarthyism

Origin: Joseph McCarthy- 2nd red scare
Meaning: unfair allegations

Machiavelli

Origin: Niccolo Machiavelli was a Renaissance political philosopher whose book The Princeadvised rulers to be ruthless and cunning if they wanted to hold onto their power

Meaning: a willingness to engage in trickery in order to achieve political power

Nostradamus

Origin: French physician and astrologer who wrote a book of rhymed prophecies Definition: Fortune teller

Are we nerdy yet?

Being studious cruisin on the high seas

Oops!

I forgot to ask you about the spring break assignment. I can find the book at the library, all I need to know is what it is and what I need to do with it. Sorry

Spot the allusion

Can you find it?

My boyfriend

Woo hoo!

Quoting lines in a play

How do you quote lines in a play?

Ophelia

I was finishing my AP Art History homework when I came across this in one of the slides in a Powerpoint. It's called Ophelia by John Everett Millais. It depicts Ophelia's death in Shakespeare's Hamlet. I thought it was pretty ironic that I happened to learn about it the same day we finished reading

Final WTK!

Symbol: A word or object that stands for another word or object, but always represents something larger than itself.

Synecdoche: a whole is represented by naming one of its parts

Syntax: The arrangement, ordering, grouping, or placement of sentences.

Tone: The attitude of the author towards the subject at hand (or sometimes the reader).

Tragedy: (You know this because of my boyfriend). Remember that the protagonist puts himself there (think Humpty Dumpty)

Tragic flaw: the character trait that brings about a downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.

Verisimilitude: Having the appearance of truth or realism. In a fictional work, an author creates characters and situations and "asks" that the reader believe they are true.

Villanelle: A poem with a specific form (which we will discuss tomorrow). Usually pastoral, idyllic sentiments with rural, simplistic themes.

Zeugma: When one part of speech (usually the main verb) governs two or more parts of the same sentence.
Example: Johnny carried his gun and a tune through the murky bog. 

See you tomorrow! 

I'm gonna be an aunt...again!! :D

Mrs. Moon, I'm currently sitting at the hospital waiting for my oldest sister to give birth and there is a chance, depending on how long her labor takes, that I won't be at schoool tomorrow.

My cat is cute.

Mrs. moon, my surgery went really well, but I don't think I will be coming Monday because of the pain. Besides that, look how adorable my cat is being. He usually acts like the devil, but he must know I need a little extra love today.

Motif

A recurring element with symbolic significance

Vocab

Controlling metaphor: a symbolic story where the whole story may be a metaphor for something else

Implied metaphor: a indirect metaphor

Vocab

metonymy

Noun The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for examplesuit for business executive

Hmmm

Nice proofing Home Depot!

parallelism: similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Vocab

Litotes:
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

Vocab

Litotes:
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

Vocab

METAFICTION: Fiction in which the subject of the story is the act or art of storytelling of itself, especially when such material breaks up the illusion of "reality" in a work.

Vocab

Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparent contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Vocab

Editorial narrator: a narrator who expresses or strongly implies moral judgments of the characters or their actions

Naïve narrator: a narrator who does not know the significance of some of the events, or is unaware of some important facts in the story (events, relationships, goals)

Unreliable narrator: a narrator who cannot be trusted  

Hamlet Reading

Hello Mrs. Moon, I was wondering how much of Hamlet I need to read while I'm down here. I have read up to the second act.

P.S. Quincey says hello

Got it!

Yay me! Just what I wanted!

Oh WOW!

Get out right now!! How great does this look?!?

Make-Up Work

Hey! I've been pretty sick the past few days. I was just reading the blog and saw that there was an essay and was wondering if there was a prompt or if it was based on a poem. I know I need to turn in my Gatsby assignment on Monday as well as take the vocab quiz from today. Is there anything else I could do that would catch me up a little?

WTK 2

Hey girls!

Post your word and definition here by Sunday at 5:00 and copy down all definitions for Monday!

Good luck on your essay, too!

Mrs Moon-

Do you know if Mr. Moon has picture day passes for the Aquatic Club?

WTK list 2

Please post your word and definition in the comments section by Sunday at 5:00.

Also, copy all the definitions onto your master list for Monday!

For Thursdsy

Hey all!

Don't forget to bring East of Eden tomorrow and to finish that awesome E of E quiz!

What to do?

Sorry I was not in class today. Think I must have gotten food poisoning last night from something and was sick all morning. Was wondering if there was anything that I could work on from the sheets that we get in the beginning of the school year that would help me get caught up for tomorrow. Thanks! hope everyone had a great day.

The Big Read

So, I just briefly mentioned this in class today, but The Big Read is happening here in Wilmington! Obviously, because I am a huge literature nerd, I'm super excited!

Here is a link to the website and it has all the info--check out the events! I'm definitely attending some and I think we should plan on doing something together! Think about it!

I know most of you have read The Great Gatsby, but we will be rereading it and hopefully analyzing it AP Lit style!

I'm so excited about seeing Professor Engle in March!!!!!

BIG NEWS!

I have huge news that I can't wait to share with you all tomorrow! HUGE!

Hint... E.E.

Any guesses?

"T" anyone?

Here's a typo in Washington D.C.

1st day of AP Lit

I can't wait for AP Lit to start!

For the first day, bring your English binder (I hope you heeded my advice and did not throw ANYTHING away) because we will be going through it, throwing some things away (per my approval), and reorganizing the sections!

Don't forget to order your AP book ASAP. It's The Princeton Review's Cracking the AP Literature and Composition Exam 2012. You can certainly order the 2013 addition, but save money and order 2012. Here is a link. I think it's going for around $4.00. You don't need it until March, but go ahead and order it.

I would also look over both East of Eden and The Kite Runner. I will definitely be doing this, too! We'll need to go over both novels during the first week back. You'll probably even have an assessment!

Go ahead and put this blog address in your favorites because I'll be using it for the rest of the year. Also, you may want to go to the settings page and find where Blogger will email you when I post. That way, you won't miss anything!

See you soon!