Block Day: Week 31

* Open

• Today's Prayer Below
• Look Over the Poetry Contest Entry Form
• Send In Your Very Best Before Your Leave on the Senior Trip

* Work on Your Best Poem

• Edit Together
• Share with the Class

* Regular Course

• A Bit More Perrine's Ch. 7

AP Only:

* Prepare for Your Essay

• Look over the sample prompt and essay below
• Make sure your paper notes are stellar...keep adding goodness to them. 
• Our Excellent Terms List
• Rhetoric: .pdf

  
Writing About Literature:

an analysis (literally a "breaking up" or separation of something into its constituent parts)--instead of trying to examine all parts of the work in relation to the whole--selects for examination just some elements or parts that relate to the whole. Clearly, an analysis is a better approach to longer works and to prose works than is an explication. A literary work may be usefully approached through almost any of its different elements--point of view, characterization, plot, setting, symbolism, structure, and the like--so long as you relate this element to the central meaning or the whole. 

The same book on comparison and contrast essays:

The comparison and contrast of two stories may be an illuminating exercise, because the similarities highlight the differences, or vice versa, and thus lead to a better understanding not only of both pieces but of literary processes in general. The works selected may be similar in plot but different in theme, similar in subject but different in tone, similar in theme but different in literary value, or, conversely, different in plot but similar in theme, different in subject but similar in tone, and so on. In writing such a paper, it is usually best to decide first whether the similarities or the differences are more significant, begin with a brief summary of the less significant, and then concentrate on the more significant. 

HW: Send In Your Poem