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Homework

Seniors
Continue to read, and we will have a quiz on chapters 4-8 on Thursday. Please consider ch 8: #10 and #13 from your study guide. I will distribute vocab list #1 Wednesday in class. Your first essay on Little Brother will be written in class on Friday. You are to fill out three more pages of vocabulary from ch 4 onward - due Monday.

From the two compiled lists, I will test you on 50 of the terms (list so far). The other half of the Little Brother exam will be objective, scheduled for Wednesday the 11th. Your essay for next week will be a review summary and critique. More on that later.

 Sophomores
Your exam on the period will include the following:
  • Introductory notes
  • Non-fiction (journals, diaries, biographies, essays, newspapers and pamphlets)
  • Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • Satire - including literature, visual art and cartoons
  • Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels, Modest Proposal
  • Alexander Pope - Heroic Couples, Essay on Man, Rape of the Lock
  • Academy For Women, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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