Cheat Sheat For First Week

Here is your reward for looking at my blog:


WEEK ONE: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING KNOWLEDGE

Words:
aesthetic: pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics
Genre: a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like
Static: pertaining to or characterized by a fixed and stationary condition
Succinct: expressed in few words; concise, terse
Contingent: dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain.
Anthologia: a gathering of flowers


Textbook Knowledge:
Table of Contents
Appendix
Glossary
Headings/Subheadings
Topic
Summary Sentences
• Graphs/charts
• Maps
• Picture/illustrations
• Sidebars
• Underlining
• Numbered or bulleted lists
• Bold face type
• Italics
• Title
• Footnotes
• annotations

Suffixes/Prefixes
-ary: of or pertaining to. Ex: glossary, dictionary, elementary, diary
-hood: quality, state or condition. Ex: neighborhood, falsehood, sisterhood, priesthood

Content
Discussion questions over Gere article
A personal definition of American Literature
Components of Myths
Theme, point of view, round and flat characters, plot structure (problem/resolution)
The contents of both the Cherokee myth and the Alexie story