themes (I'll name the theme; you name at least three works that talk about it)
The American Dream
SO many...
Gatsby AND Passing take place in this city (also the setting for many of Walt Whitman's poems).
What is New York?
"Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can!”
Who is Gatsby?
Comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
simile
This classroom is number...
G202
Gender roles
What are Gatsby, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Awakening, Story of an Hour, Hills like White Elephants, and more!
Thoreau settled on Walden Pond in this state.
What is Massachussetts?
"Let America be America Again"
metaphor
The author of your summer reading novel
Charles Yu
the natural world
Narrative, Self-Reliance, Walden, Whitman Poems, Dickinson poems, Fall of the House of Usher
In "Accepted," Elaine Park wants to attend this school.
What is Stanford?
“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”
Passing
A character who undergoes a significant change at some point in the story.
dynamic character
The number of NOVELS we read this year (including summer reading)
Plot twist: Three themes FROM DICKINSON
Nature/beauty, death, love, time/eternity, life, mental health
In Narrative, Douglass first experiences a taste of freedom in this city.
What is Baltimore?
“The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. It felt like a mechanical cemetery. So silent. None of the humming hidden energy of machines waiting to function at the tap of a button.”
What is The Veldt?
A writer’s choice of words and phrases.
diction
Name two of the "virtues" Ben Franklin advocated for.
TEMPERANCE, SILENCE, ORDER, RESOLUTION, FRUGALITY, INDUSTRY, SINCERITY, JUSTICE, MODERATION, CLEANLINESS, TRANQUILITY, CHASTITY, HUMILITY
Mental health
Tell-Tale Heart, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Awakening, "Accepted," etc
Gatsby resides on this Egg, which is the equivalent of what REAL LIFE place?
West Egg (new money)
Long Island
“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself."
The Awakening
The type of story-telling in which the narrator knows everything (including the inner thoughts) about just one or a small handful of characters.
limited omniscience
Name every member of the Francis Parker English Department
Who are Ms. A, Mr. Mezzocchi, Mr. D'Onofrio, Ms. Rosin, Mx. Blanco, Ms. Shekter, Ms. Krause, Mr. McGrath, and Ms. Hicks?
AND Ms. Jensen!