Hamlet Movie Link

Hamlet with David Tennant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuF1-tyaAE

Poe and Gothic Tone

http://blogs.longwood.edu/elliotar/2012/09/06/poe-under-a-microscope-gothic-literature-setting-tone-and-mood/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CD4QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unc.edu%2F~lianne%2Fteaching%2F12%2FU3%2Fsamples%2FShort_Story_Critiques%2F4452.doc&ei=lQ-mUqz3NcbmyQHWsoHIDQ&usg=AFQjCNFkNOvN326mVhoiSy6UgB2-oh8h2g

Sir Gawain / Morte D'Arthur / Wife of Bath Test

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/90864E962C124F0180FA64C9B4050D7E

Access Code: BF73D

Sleepy Hollow / Devil and Tom Walker Test

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/1121294F900942488B926EA50A696A00

Access Code: BE5S

Devil and Tom Walker Quiz

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/AAC6E4714BD64EC38686F85B92642390

Code: 66VKN75

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Audio book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOYRr48GFY

1st Block is at 22 minutes

2nd Block is at 12 minutes

Federalist #10 - American Literature

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/79AAB7E8D68A4B79A55BA1B8CC223FE0

Code: U7D27H7

AP Lit - Pride and Prejudice Chps 9-20

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/44A8CC9B4AA049B59DBD6C144D6AB6FA

Code: PXS4K8K

Thesis Practice - AP Lit and Comp

http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/405.htm

AP Lit and Comp - Poem Essay

Essay:

Choose one of the following poems. Write a minimum of 1,000 words, but no more than 1,500. Typed, double spaced.

Your task is to 1.) develop a thesis 2.) explicate the poem 3.) interpret the poem.

In a nutshell, the thesis is your overall position/argument, explication is the unpacking of the poem (explaining how it is built, dealing with murky areas, what significant devices are used and their effect etc.), and interpretation is the unpacking of your thesis using a text-based argument.

“The World is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
“Work Without Hope” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“To Wordsworth” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“To Autumn” by John Keats
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” by Robert Browning
#175 (“I cautious, scanned my little life —”) by Emily Dickinson
#355 (“It was not Death, for I stood up”) by Emily Dickinson

Puritan Test 11th Grade

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/DE6FE3AB4734426482ACA3194540F177

Code: 3VM7V4G

The Odyssey - Reading for Weekend

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odhome.htm

On this page, find the book you were assigned. Read it over the weekend. On Monday, we will be spending some time finding pictures to represent your section.

Presentations on Wednesday.

Odysseus - Shmoop Overview Quiz

Click Link: http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/ECF8F32148E149AE893D1BCFF8A0AE55

Code: DHJ9XV

AP Lit and Comp - Poetry Terms Quiz

On the link you place the arrow
Like on a limb a tiny sparrow
Click the link and enter the code
And wonder, wonder is this an ode?

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/1FD52E2463394C5B8D9E1DDAD0DF9666

Code: FP4BBW

Sentence Fragments

Take the Pretest by clicking the link below:

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/eight/fragments_pretest.html

Make sure to write down your results. You will receive 4 scores. Each score will give you an idea of which type(s) of sentence fragment(s) you are having issues with, if any.

After you complete that, correct these paragraphs found here:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/fragment_fixing.htm

12th Grade Reading Test

Click the blue link below, and then enter your name and the code.

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/75ECD04342AB441B8439643BDEDCEB48

Code: 4AKD

AP Poetry Links

Follow this link to the list of poems: http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/twenty-one-poems-ap-literature-and-composition

From the list of poems below, you and a partner will choose / be assigned one.

Arnold - Dover Beach

Bishop - In the Waiting Room

Browning - My Last Duchess

Donne - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Frost - Mending Wall

Carolyn Forche - The Colonel

Hughes - Let America be America

Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn

Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Using all of the resources on that site, our poorly edited and yet informative poetry packet, and whatever else you may wish to utilize, you will teach this poem to the class.

* Include brief author biography, highlighting any possible relevance to the poem.
* Use photographs to represent images / allusions in the poem.
* Annotate / Paraphrase
* Identify the use of literary devices and be prepared to discuss their effectiveness.

Each of you will turn in a one-page reflection paper on your poem. All due Thursday.

11th Grade - Main Idea and Sequence of Events

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/A3C44DE00DAC4EB8AFF7DE935261DED1

Code: GNFM2D

Use the short story to answer the matching section. Match the events to the order in which they occur.

The Iliad

Source for the complete book

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3059/pg3059.html

Summaries of each book

http://classics.uc.edu/~johnson/epic/ilsum.html

Study guide for the whole book:

http://classics.uc.edu/~johnson/epic/study_guide2.html

Judgement of Paris, The Trojan War, Fall of Troy - Quiz

Access Code: 3SF3L

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/50C990AC2264424B9862AD784D22B452

Brit and World Lit - Edith Hamilton Part One - Quiz

When you click on the link below, enter your first and last name and then the access code:

6PX222

All questions and answers are randomized.

Click on this link: http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/0ED3560C44D84DF1A62BC9EFDBF4065E

7th Grade Final - Social Studies

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/8FC7B268F70447C4A240D2AD1A4F1B57

Code: B6MV

7th Grade Questions and Answers

I will pull 125-150 questions from these 300.

http://www.4shared.com/office/LGsb-pTj/7th_Grade_Final_Questions_and_.html

7th Grade Spring Final 2013 (Practice)

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/F7C4AB27F6744659A743CBC78AA12D52

Code: EK56M35

Age of Exploration Test

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/A8682D4DAB9D4B00B1D23D3C7424A5BC

Code: 2PTJW

Carnegie and Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller PowerPoint
Sections of presentation: minimum of 25 slides. Tell the story in pictures only.

1.) Biographical material. Give background on their life before they became famous.
Rockefeller: http://www.biography.com/people/john-d-rockefeller-20710159
Carnegie: http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756
2.) Their rise to power. How did they build their empires? What strategies did each follow to consolidate, or gather, power and dominate their industries.
a. Examine vertical and horizontal consolidation
b. How they treated their competition
c. How they ran their factories
d. Etc.
http://americanhistory.unomaha.edu/module_display.php?mod_id=130&review=yes
3.) How dominant were they? Use statistics/graphs/charts to prove.
4.) Examine the controversies surrounding them by presenting political cartoons from the late 1800s early 1900s. The cartoonist Thomas Nast is the most famous of the time.
5.) Take a position and persuade the class that each was either a Robber Barron or a Captain of Industry.

REMEMBER. TO FIND "FOR SURE" GOOD SITES TO USE, TYPES IN site:.edu in the search bar + your search terms. Only university websites will be returned.

Age of Exploration - Webquest

http://iweb.jackson.k12.ga.us/cstewart/explorers/Home.html

The Most Dangerous Game Questions - Due Monday

Directions: You may either type or write out your answers to the following questions. Answers should be between 1-3 sentences for Part 1. Answers should be between 5-7 sentences for Part 2.

WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, YOU MAY PLAY WORD GAMES AT THIS WEBSITE: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/

*****PART 1*****

What do the following phrases mean:
1) "He lived a year in a minute."
2) "I am still a beast at bay."

The answers to the following questions can be found in the text:
3) In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island?
4) How is Zaroff able to finance his life style?
5) If Rainsford wins the hunt what does Zaroff promise him?
6) Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt?
7) How many acres did Zaroff's father have in the Crimea?
8) Why does Zaroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins?

In your own words:
9) What experience of hunting has Rainsford had?
10) Describe Zaroff's dining room.


*****Part 2****** (CHOOSE 6 of the following 10 to answer)

1.)What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons.

2.) How does Zaroff stock his island with 'game'?

3.) What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story?

4.) In spite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his 'Malay mancatcher', why?

5.) How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man?

6.) Do you agree that hunting is the 'best sport in the world'?

7.) Do you agree with Zaroff that 'instinct is no match for reason'?

8.) Why has Zaroff chosen an island for his sport?

9.) To what extent does the author use descriptions of Zaroff's looks to define his character?

10.) Do you think Rainsford's attitude towards hunting changes through the story?

EXTRA CREDIT: 20 Points Draw a map of Ship-Trap island as described in the story.

Questions have been borrowed from East of the Web

The Most Dangerous Game - Vocab Words

Define the following words using http://www.ldoceonline.com/ Palpable Dank Lore Tangible Indolent Extremity Anguish Vitality Opaque Vigor Lacerate Palatial Chateau Refectory Palate Amenity Aristocrat Affable Cosmopolitan Appraise Ardent Imprudent Surmount Attribute Quizzical Condone Droll Naive Scruple Solicitous Opiate Sallow Placid Cower Then define these terms using Wikipedia or some other general info site. Borsch, Great White Czar, Folies Bergere, Tartar, Cossack, Ennui, Lazarus, Madame Butterfly, Marcus Aurelius

Rus to Sulieman

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Test/C98CD9409F7D49B4A45CA290A5409EF5 Code: WMXSXK

Language Arts and Poetry Games

http://www.poetry4kids.com/games http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames/poem.html http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/kidsgames.html

Poetry Terms Test

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/4ca93cb7b78d4378a7e3cccd95ad8934#/InitializeTest.xaml Code: 9LXT7A

Mongols

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Chp 11, Sec 1 Quiz

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/8a38b48476ab43ffb6aa18d61e915de5 Code: DY2P

Richard the Lionhearted to Diaspora

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The Monkey's Paw Test

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/8077980d14ef467c838fae3db6c6c059 Code: 6J4LMT

England After Conquest to El Cid

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/6d1550dc7b094cb8b97c7accdd658c8e#/InitializeTest.xaml Code: 34TA

England After Conquest - Chivalry

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/24a0b5591b984021847c5fe3ca219ba4 Code: H8XHPN

Underground Railroad Research Links

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center http://www.freedomcenter.org/underground-railroad/ Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=4568 PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ Maps http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/ugrrMAPS.html

Vikings to Hastings - Ernesto, "Sit Down!"

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/c82a9f3d4ba4482fa8449a82c4e387ee Code: 7DMXN5

Vikings to Hastings

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The Gift of the Magi - Test

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8th Grade Research Links

http://www.notablebiographies.com/

Clovis to Charlemagne

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/ba000841624d45268b3cd431aa932c5b#/InitializeTest.xaml Code: J3SWF5L

7th Grade History - The Franks

http://www.classroomclipboard.com/285288/Home/Test/e5c36412022f40b2a5774984682e3cca#/InitializeTest.xaml Code: T6M8