Issaquah High School English Department

English Department Faculty:
  • Nan Alvey, alveyn@issaquah.wednet.edu
  • Paul Eberhardt, eberhardtp@issaquah.wednet.edu
  • Amy McGinnis, mcginnisa@issaquah.wednet.edu
  • Holly Whiting, whitingh@issaquah.wednet.edu
  • This one of the Web sites for the Issaquah High School English department.

    Vocabulary lists:

    Every word in the English language has a history. In the following lists, you will learn about the roots of these vocabulary terms, and with that knowledge, you will learn other words related to the ten list words in meaning, form, or history.

    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 1
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 2
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 3
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 4
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 5
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 6
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 7
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 8
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 9
    (P)SAT Vocabulary List 10
    Word Power Vocabulary List 1
    Word Power Vocabulary List 2
    Word Power Vocabulary List 3
    Word Power Vocabulary List 4
    Word Power Vocabulary List 5
    Word Power Vocabulary List 6
    Word Power Vocabulary List 7
    Word Power Vocabulary List 8
    Word Power Vocabulary List 9
    Word Power Vocabulary List 10
    Word Power Vocabulary List 11
    Word Power Vocabulary List 12
    Word Power Vocabulary Word Index
    Word Power Roots

    Other links:

    General Study Aids
    Easily Confused Words
    Misunderstood Singulars and Plurals
    Examples of Misspeech
    Five-Paragraph Essay Format

    English Language Aids
    Personal Pronouns
    Verb Categories and Parsing

    General Literature Aids
    Literary Terms
    Classical Tragedy
    Theme Vocabulary and Review
    Tone Vocabulary

    General Poetry Aids
    Poetry Terms
    Kinds of Poetry; Elements of Poetry
    How to Read a Poem [Alvey]
    How to Read a Poem [Whiting]

    American Literary Periods
    Timeline
    American Puritanism (to 1700)
    Colonial Period (1700–1800)

    American Poetry
    Anne Bradstreet
    Walt Whitman

    American Prose
    Jonathan Edwards

    Study Guides for Wiesel's Night
    Background Information for Night
    Night Thought Questions: Chapters 1-3

    Study Guides for Homer's Odyssey
    Odyssey Plot Diagram
    Odyssey Symmetry

    Study Guides for Dante's Inferno
    Inferno Study Quotes
    Stub of Inferno Chart

    Study Guides for Petrarch's Sonnets
    Petrarch Sonnets

    Study Guides for Golding's Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the Flies Study Questions: Chapters 4-7
    Lord of the Flies Essay Topics

    Study Guides for Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Dorian Gray Study Questions: Intro and Preface

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