Literature By Pegs, Pao and Paras!

What is literature? We don’t know! The definition doesn’t matter. Lit is the study of not only texts, but what these texts mean in society.

Top Ten Tips! 1. Ask Lamby-poo for help! 2. Try your hardest even though its “just” year Read the text! More than once 4. Have an interpretation 5. Avoid obvious statements 6. Do extra reading 7. Write practices 8. Come to class on time- don’t waste the year 12’s time 9. Swallow your pride/ego 10. Be peasants (Lit is a feudal class)

Quick Quiz! 1) Finish the line “to be or …” 2) What does soliloquy mean? 3) “… to sulk upon my mothers breast” which poem is this from or which author? 4) Katherine M……… (Finish her name) 5) What was William Blake caught doing in the garden with his wife? 6) Which is the title of one of our texts next year? - All the ugly goats - All the sexy hippos - All the pretty ponies - None of the above 7) Which is our teachers preferred name? - Lambstinator - Lamby-poo - Ms. Lambrianidis - Chris Lamb

Quick Quiz Continued… 8) Who was part of the Lit course last year, but not this year? - Mary Shelley - Virginia Woolf - Siegfried Sassoon 9) Which extra curricular team, contains some fellow literature students? - Debating Society - Swim Team - Volley Ball Team 10) On a scale of 1-10 how monotonous was this quiz? (1 is not at all, 10 is very)

Answers 1) “…not to be.” 2) An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play 3) Infant Sorrow By William Blake 4) Katherine Mansfield 5) Playing Adam and Eve 6) None of the above 7) Ms. Lambrianidis 8) Mary Shelley 9) Debating Society 10) 1