Valenti, Donna
- Overview
- Composition
- Catcher in the Rye Essay
- A Separate Peace Journals
- Catcher in the Rye Emulation Assignment
- A Separate Peace Vocabulary
- ASP Finny/Gene
- Schedule Until Vacation
- ASP Controlling Idea Paragraph
- ASP/Catcher Critical Lens Essay
- Antigone /Dead Poet Society Essay
- Antigone and "Invictus" Paragragraph
- LOTF Essay
- 2012 Fall Syllabus
- Catcher Questions to pg. 58
- Catcher Bubbling Instructions and Example
- Catcher Text Messaging
- Red Hunting Hat and its Symbolism
- Analysis of Holden toward the end of the story
- Holden and the Ducks
- The Symbolism Behind the Obscenity
- Holden and the Cliff as a Metaphor
- "Doll" creative assignment for Gene OR Finny
- Symbolism in ASP
- Fall Freshman English
- Harriet Shock Poem
- ATGB Vocabulary from Book One
- ATGB Vocabulary Chapters 7&8
- ATGB Vocabulary from Chapters 9-14
- ATGB Emulation of Style Assignment
- ATGB Journal Assignment
- ATGB Vocacabulary Chapters 38-42
- ATGB Vocabulary Book Four
- ATGB Francie "Doll" Assignment
- Grief in Ordinary People
- Regents Paragraph on OP and Sonnet CLXXI
- OP and Sonnet Regents Paragraph: Cal (tennis and plans)
- Sonnet and OP Paragraph Cal, Con, Grandma: Laugh
- Sonnet and OP Paragraph: Con and Music
- 2012 Fall Syllabus
- "Eleven" Group Work
- ATGB Short Responses in the Form of a Collective Journal
- ATGB Essay on Positive and Negative Influences
- Spring Freshman English
- Comparative World Literature
- Regents Practice Paragraphs with Creation Stories
- Regents Paragraphs on Flood Stories
- Big and Basic Questions essay
- The Ten or More Commandments of Writing
- Dante Creative Assignment
- Regents Controlling Idea Paragraph on Ruth and Jonah
- Literary Element Paragraph on Ruth or Jonah
- The Book of Job Essay
- "Ecclesiastes" Essay
- Song of Songs literary device paragraph
- The Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan controlling idea paragraph
- Chaucer literary device paragraph
- Prologue Creative Assignment
- Chaucer Tales Essay
- Dante Power Point
- Arcadia Essay
- Dostoevsky Information
- Critical Lens Essay on Dostoevsky and Kafka
- Advanced Composition
- Shakespeare
- AP English Literature and Composition
- Description of Course
- Essay on Tone for the Heart of Darkness
- Tone and Language
- The Structure of the AP Exam
- Poetic Terms
- Faustian Legend
- The Year in Review Before AP Exam
- Top Ten Reasons to Take AP English
- Beowulf Close Reading Assignment
- Literary Terms to Know for The Knight's Tale
- Beowulf Close Reading Assdignment 2012
- Close Reading of Part I in the "The Knight's Tale"
- Conception of worlds in Parts I and II of "The Knight's Tale"
- Close Reading after Part III in "The Knight's Tale"
- HW: Devising Meaning(s) from Violent scenes in TTTC
- Dateline story about a Vitenam soldier and a little girl's photo
- Background/Shifts in The Sound and the Fury
- Midterm Tips
- The Sound and the Fury: Book Four
- Book Two: June 2 1910
- Possible Meanings of Birds in the Sound and The Fury
- Quentin and Benjy Commentary
- Essay on The Sound and the Fury and The Bluest Eye
- Plagiarism Contract
- Shakespeare Day 2011
- The Public Theater
- The American Globe Theater
- The Bam Theater
- Field Trips
- Shakespeare Day 2012
- Literary Devices List
- Literary Elements
- Philosophical "isms"
- Writing Requirements
- Much Ado About Nothing Mixed Tape
- Creative Project on All Plays
Comparative World Literature Mantra: "Literature is Cumulative!"
Mrs. Valenti: "This course might be the closest you get to a philosophy course in Schreiber!"
Early Literature/ Seminal Stories The Creation Stories: Greek, Ugandan, Japanese and Genesis The Flood Stories: Greek, Babylonian and Genesis The Book of Ruth The Book of Jonah The Book of Ecclesiastes The Book of Job Select Psalms "Song of Songs" The Good Samaritan The Prodigal Son |
Medieval Literature Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales : Prologue The Knight's Tale The Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue The Pardoner's Tale and Prologue |
The Renaissance Cervantes: excerpts from The Adventures of Don Quixote
Dante: excerpts from L'Inferno
Petrarch, Shakespeare: Sonnets
Donne: Metaphysical poetry
Herrick: Carpe Diem
Donne: Metaphysical poetry
Herrick: Carpe Diem
Classicism Alexander Pope: poetry
Tom Stoppard: Arcadia
Romanticism Robert Burns: poem
Tom Stoppard: Arcadia
Nihilism Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
Realism Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Surrealism Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
Surrealism Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
Modernism Goerge Orwell: 1984
Taoism Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh
Existenialism Jean-Paul Sartre
Absurdism Eugene Ionesco: The Bald Soprano
Absurdism Eugene Ionesco: The Bald Soprano
