Notes from Grading Your Tests • Quotes don’t need to be dialogue. • Punctuating practice needed: comma placement, quotations, and citations • Everyday vs. every day [Everyday is an adjective which describes something ordinary or commonplace, while the phrase every day means “each day.”] • “Such as” and “Like” signal dependent clauses, so they can’t begin sentences without creating fragments. • “ ‘ and pointing out words
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Notes from Grading Your Tests• Quotes don’t need to be dialogue.• Punctuating practice needed: comma placement,
quotations, and citations• Everyday vs. every day [Everyday is an adjective
which describes something ordinary or commonplace, while the phrase every day means “each day.”]
• “Such as” and “Like” signal dependent clauses, so they can’t begin sentences without creating fragments.
• Quality insight, evidence of understanding, observations, & critical thought!
• References to/quotations from the text were relevant and blended with original thought.
Notes from Grading Your Tests
• A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C- are not “bad grades.”
• Invitation
• True life transcript
American Gothic Literature
Late 18th and Early 19th
Century Writings
Origins
• Inspired by Gothic architecture: irregularly placed towers, high ceilings, and gargoyles
• Romantic movement – backlash from Age of Reason: authors could now follow their imagination. Gothics followed it to the shadowy region where the fantastic, demonic, and insane reside.
Setting• Weird – went beyond typical
settings to the bizarre
• Often dark, medieval castles or decaying ancient estates
Plots• Macabre: gruesome, grisly, horrid
• People in extreme situations (murder, live burials, torture, and retribution from the grave) that reveal their true nature
• Peered into the darkness of the supernatural
Purpose of Gothic Literature
• Explore human mind in extreme situations and arrive at some truth
• Examine human heart under various conditions: fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
• Show off/explore the dark side of human nature
9 Facts about William Faulkner (527)
1. Great-grandson of a Civil War hero
2. Grew up hearing about the gallant honor of his ancestors
3. HS dropout, but avid reader.
4. Attd. U of Miss for 1 yr
5. Pub’d 15 books in 13 yrs
6. Focused on ppl and places of N. MS.
7. Experimented with stream of consciousness and fractured chronologies = not popular,no $ales
8. Hollywood screenwriter in 1930s and 40s
9. Nobel Prize for Lit.--considered one of USA’s greatest writers