Welcome! It is time to embark upon an amazing journey of discovery and triumph. You will be challenged to think, read and write, and (maybe the newest aspect of all) become disciplined. We will work together towards your individual (and our class) success. Question. Think. Challenge. Act.
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8/14: JE #1
8/15: JE #2
Notes: Connotation Vs. Denotation
Handout: "Why I Write" and "The Meanings of a Word"
8/21: Notes: Painting Deconstruction/Analysis
Notes: Analysis
8/31: Definition Essay due
9/5: Peer-revision Test
9/7: Personal Statement Essay due (w/drafts and revisions, and rubric)
Mood paragraph due (setting, sensory detail, diction)
9/11: Notes: Reading Story (Commercial Vs. Literary Fiction) (Perrine's Ch. 1)
"Most Dangerous Game" or "Hunters in the Snow"--annotate, answer questions
9/12: "Child by Tiger"--annotate (Handout)
9/13: Notes: Plot and Structure (Perrine's Ch. 2)
"The Destructors" (pg. 111)--annotate (notes), questions (1,2,5,6,8)
9/14: In-class Essay--Evaluating a short story to classify it as "commercial" or "literary" fiction
9/19: Read and take notes on Characterization (Perrine's pg 161-65)
Read and take notes on Theme (Perrine's pg. 188-94)
Read/annotate "The Worn Path" (pg. 212) and answer questions 1-5
9/20: Read and take notes on "Point of View" (Perrine's, pg 227)
"The Lottery" (pg. 251)--annotate (notes), questions (1,2,4,5,6,8)
Vocabulary--"characterization" and "internal conflict" using "Child by Tiger"
9/24: 1st draft, peer revision, and 2nd draft (typed) of Theme paragraph for essay on "Child by Tiger"
1st draft of diction paragraph
10/1: Peer revision of plot/structure paragraph for essay
Presentation of posters (plot/structure, characterization, theme, point of view)
HW: 1) Vocabulary typed (symbol); 2) Type draft 2 of plot/structure paragraph
10/2: Notes on Characterization, theme, point of view (presentation of posters)
LAB "Child by Tiger"
10/3: Notes: Introduction
Notes: symbol
HW: 1) typed 2nd draft of introduction; 2) LAB; 3) Vocabulary
10/5: HW:
1) Revised individual LAB (short story)
2) Revised group LAB
3) Typed intro and body paragraphs (1, 2, and 3) put together into essay format (reflective of 2nd drafts)
4) Make sure that all work is complete, in order, and reflected in your table of contents
5) Study for Short Story Unit Test (test will Monday OR Tuesday)
6) Make sure to bring In the Time of the Butterflies to class
10/8: Peer Review Chart (for essay draft)
Personal Statement returned and discussed
HW: 1) LAB; 2) Revised essay draft based on chart (draft 3); 3) STUDY FOR TEST!; 4) Personal Statement if you have not turned one in
10/9: SHORT STORY VOCABULARY TEST
10/10: Notes: Conclusion
Read in class "Hills Like White Elephants" (Notes)
HW: Complete essay draft, questions for story (1,4,5,6,7), and In The Time of the Butterflies Author's Note pg 329-332
10/15: HW: In The Time of the Butterflies chapters 1 and 2 (main points, characterization, symbolism)
10/16: "What is poetry?" pg 647-654 (notes)
HW: Read and annotate the handouts: 1) "The Archetype" and 2) "The Memo That Started it All" (Hero's Journey)
10/22-26: Presentations
10/30: Practice EAP prompt and questions
HW: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" pg 311--notes and questions 4, 8
10/31: Short Story Unit Test
11/2: Practice AP Prompt 2: using "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (deconstruct, identify what you are being asked, plan essay)
"Using the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," by Joyce Carol Oates, note the author's use of such elements as diction, syntax, imagery, and figurative language. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author's use of language generates a vivid impression of ARNOLD FRIEND as a character."
11/7: Summary of ARNOLD FRIEND (to be used in into)
11/8: 1st draft of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" essay--typed for hw
11/9: Peer revision, revise essay, typed (emailed by Monday, hard-copies turned in Tuesday)
WINTER BREAK WORK: Memorize Greek/Latin roots and vocabulary words. Bring in copy of Invisible Man.
01/7: Practice EAP prompt (brainstorm, essay, revise, second draft)
01/8: Greek/Latin stems and vocabulary test
Personal poem (simile and metaphor--I am...)
HW: Invisible Man: Prologue (light v.s. dark, invisibility-->sleeping/awakening, perspective, passive v.s. taking action, music) 1) How do you see all of the previous things in the prologue? 2) What is the function of the prologue? 3) Pick two parts that you think are important to discuss in class tomorrow.
01/9: JE: "Invisibility"
"Black and Blue" by Louis Armstrong--annotate and discuss
Discuss Prologue (Notes)
HW: "I Am" Poem (Due Friday)
01/10: Reflection: Identity Poem "How does the poem reflect you as a person? Your identity? Why did you choose the things you did? Explain."
01/11: Quiz: Prologue
HW: Ch 1 (main points-->grandfather, speeches, fight, woman, masks/illusion)
1) Explain grandfather's message?
2) Explain the point of his speech and why people liked it.
3) What is significant about the fight?
4) Why is it so important for him to deliver his speech after the fight?
5) From who do he seek acceptance and why is it so important that he get it?
01/14: Correcting 2 examples of student writing.
Re-do Quiz (prologue) in different groups
HW: Chapter 2
01/15: Group work on hw questions for chapter 1
HW: Prepare for quiz on chapter 1 and 2
01/16: Quiz: chapter 1
01/17: 4-minute writing (invisibility, narrator)
Title each chapter (1-3) and write a paragraph explaining your choice of title
HW: Prep Paper (w/works cited), Presentation (10 min)
01/22: Notes: Presenting a Speech
Revision of "I Am" poem
HW: draft of poem and plan for visual representation
01/18: Presentations (Harlem Renaissance)
01/22: HW: Chapters 5-6 due Friday (main points, title for each chapter)
01/23: Explanation of given passages chapters 1-3:
Chapter 1:
pg 16-17 top of page 16 ending with "community" on 17
pg 33 "To whom...college."
Chapter 2:
pg 69 "Here...bill!"
Chapter 3:
pg 86 "Then some of the men...He's only a man!"
pg 93-95 "Rest, rest...bashing in your heads."
01/25: Invisible Man Quiz chapters 1-6 Due Monday, NO EXCEPTIONS
1) Find a song that represents the main point/title of each chapter and print it out
2) Annotate each song
3) Write a 1-page (typed) explanation where you show how the song relates to the chapter (must include an analysis of the song (quotes and explanation), analysis of the chapter (quotes and explanation), and then how they relate)
HW: Finish Quiz, Finish poem, Plan for visual
01/29: Presentation Assignments:
Thursday: Stefania, Ruth, Jesus, Juan G, Jose, Yamile, Ester, Alex, Adelina, Pink
Friday: Elidia, Fish, Chamu, Carlos, Diana, Blue, Melissa, Jordy, Juan S, Devontae, Peter
***Remember: It is PROFESSIONAL DRESS only on the day you present
01/31: PRESENTATIONS!!!
Reflection--Include the following in your 1-page typed reflection (do NOT write the questions)
1. What went well in terms of the speech?
2. What would you change/work on?
3. Visual--what would you have done differently or changed about your approach or what is included?
4. What was your experience like with the overall process of creating your poem? Where there any difficulties or things that were unexpected? Why?
5. What have you learned from the overall experience?
02/01: PRESENTATIONS!!!
HW: Chapters 7-9 notes (by Monday)
02/04: In-class Practice AP Essays (1 and 2)
HW: Chapters 10-11 due WEDNESDAY
02/05: In-class practice AP Multiple Choice Test
Invisible Man "CD" Project--handed out. DUE MARCH 1st
02/06: HW: Chapters 12-15 Due Monday
02/07: "Dream" and "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes--Annotate and then discuss the similarities and differences of both poems, paying specific attention to theme, imagery, and diction.
1 page response: Explain how "Dream" relates to the Narrator and his state of mind in chapters 1-10.
02/11: "Identify the overall meaning of the poem "Let America Be America Again" and discuss how the message is created through the use of imagery, simile, metaphor, or diction. (1 paragraph only, choose only one)
Reading the Poem--pg 668 (notes)
Project work
HW: Read, annotate, and answer the specified questions for: "Break of Day", John Donne pg 677 (question 1); "Mirror", Sylvia Plath pg 680 (questions 1-3); Imagery--pg 700-703 (read and notes): Read and answer the specified questions for: "Spring", Gerard Manley Hopkins pg 703 (questions 2, 4); "The Widow's Lament in Springtime", William Carlos Williams pg 704 (questions 1-3)
Invisible Man Chapter 19 by Friday--Chapters 1-6 for project due Friday
02/13: Score practice AP essays 1 and 2 using the AP rubric--#1 switch with a partner and score your partner's and #2 score your own
Work on Invisible Man Project (chapters 1-6 due Friday)
02/14: Invisible Man Project and Individual Writing Conferences
02/15: HW: Chapters 16-19 Due Tuesday (read and annotation); Chapters 7-10 of project due Tuesday
02/19: Analyze "Girl on Fire": 1) identify the theme and 3 supporting details, 2) identify overall metaphor and explain it, 3) Identify 3 examples of the motif of fire 4) 1 paragraph explaining how the song relates to the book
"Chop 'em Down" and "Indestructible"--Matisyahu; "Give Me the Power"--Molotov; "I Can"--Nas; "Keep Ya Head Up", "Me Against the World", and "Rearview Mirror"--2pac; "Live Ya Life"--TI and Rhianna; "A Todo Pulmon"--Nicho Hinojosa
HW: Book finished by Monday (02/25)
03/04: HW: 2011 AP Free Response Question 3--DUE Monday, 3/11
"In a novel by William Styron, a father tells his son that life “is a search for justice.”
Choose a character from a novel or play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character’s understanding of justice, the degree to which the character’s search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole."
03/06: Intro and body paragraph #1
03/07: Body paragraphs #2 and #3
03/11: "Love or Hate--Which Sister Do You Desire?"
1) Annotate
2) Identify Theme
3) Identify 3 different forms of figurative language and explain how they help create the theme..
03/12: In-class essay
"Using the poem 'Love or Hate-which sister do you desire?', identify the theme and explain how the author uses figurative language (i.e.. tone, personification, oxymoron, diction, etc.) to create it."
1) annotate poem
2) deconstruct prompt and create plan
3) draft
4) revise
5) final
03/18: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (annotate, identify theme, identify 3 pieces of figurative language that help create theme)
03/19: PRACTICE AP prompt 1 (2003)
1) Deconstruct prompt
2) Annotate poem
3) Plan
4) Write Essay
***5) revise (after 40 minutes)
03/20: Practice AP prompt 1 (2012)
IN PARTNERS:
INDIVIDUALLY:
04/02:
Go over multiple choice practice test and if you change your answers write and explanation
04/03:
Vacation work graded
Practice AP essay (poetry): "Elegy for Jane",by Theodore Roethke
In groups: Discuss 1st poem and questions from MC test--all must decide on correct answers
Discuss as a class
04/04:
Practice AP essay (poetry): "It's a Woman's World", by Eavan Boland
Discuss student introductions to yesterday's essay (identify 3 parts, revise/make corrections)
Continue discussing MC test
04/05:
2011 Practice AP Test Essay #1
HW: Re-write essay based on class discussion and notes given on body paragraph (due Monday)
04/08: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", Robert Frost
Notes: What to look for in a poem (quickly)
Practice body paragraph: Explain what the horse represents.
04/09: ""Icarus", Edward Field
Analysis of a 9 essay for "Icarus" (details and commentary)
HW: Reflection: How did the writer integrate details and commentary? How have you traditionally used both? How might you begin to change your use of the two?
04/10: Analyze a 9 essay on "The Speech of Wolsey on his Downfall", Henry VIII (Identify detail and commentary w explanation for why you think it is what it is)
Practice AP Essay for above poem.
"In the following speech from Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey considers his sudden downfall from the position of advisor to the king. Spokesman for the ing have just left Wolsey alone on stage. Read the speech carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Shakespeare uses elements such as allusion, figurative language, and tone to convey Wolsey's complex response to his dismissal from court."
Identify your use of detail and commentary
Reflection: How did you use details and commentary? What would you change or do differently if you could re-write the essay?
HW: Re-write essay
04/10:
Peer revise essays (color code details and commentary) and then write a paragraph explaining ways to improve essay
Practice AP essay (poems--compare/contrast)-->Pre-writing
"Both poems Flight 063, by Brian Aldiss, and To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph, by Anne Sexton, respond to the fall of Icarus. Read the poems carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, please compare and contrast the poems analyzing how Aldiss and Sexton use literary devices such as tone, diction, and figurative language to communicate their views about Icarus' fall."
In-class Essay:
"In a well-developed essay analyze how Sexton uses literary devices such as tone, diction, and figurative language to communicate her view about Icarus' fall."
HW: Final typed draft of essay and typed reflection
04/12: Same essay as above only substitute Aldiss for Sexton due by Sunday at 11:59 pm
Compare/Contrast essay due Wednesday (4/17) by 11:59 pm
--Draft
--Highlight Detail and Commentary
--revise-->type
Act II and III of Hamlet--read and annotate paying attention to the question of Hamlet's "craziness" and the various plots
04/23:
Timed AP Practice Essay Question 1 from 2010 test
"Read carefully the following poem by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Then write an essay analyzing how Waniek employs literary devices to develop the complex meaning that the speaker attributes to The Century Quilt. You may wish to consider such elements as structure, imagery, and tone."
In groups, read 3 sample student essays and decide which is the 2, 5, 7. Write notes about your reasoning.
HW: Read the College Board's reasoning for why each essay received the score that it did and then write a paragraph for each discussing the similarities or differences in your thoughts.
04/29:
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2012 test
"And after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fast, destiny, or any supernatural agency." Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces.
Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.
Discuss and revise essay.
Begin review on short story elements (Theme and Characterization)
04/30:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2010 test
"In the following passage from Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, the narrator provides a description of Clarence Harvey, one of the suitors of the novel's protagonist, Belinda Portman. Mrs. Stanhope, Belinda's aunt, hopes to improve her niece's social prospects and therefore has arranged to have Belinda stay with the fashionable Lady Delacour.
Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze Clarence Harvey's complex character as a Edgeworth develops it through such literary techniques as tone, point of view, and language.."
05/01:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2009 test
"The following selection is the opening of Ann Petry's 1946 novel, The Street. Read the selection carefully and then write an essay analyzing how Petry establishes Lutie Johnson's relationship to the urban setting through the use of such literary devices as imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language."
05/02:
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2009 test
"A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can exspress an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning.
Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."
05/03:
2 Timed Essays:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2009 B test
"The passage below is the opening of Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), a novel written by Zora Neil Hurston. Read the passage carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the literary techniques Hurston uses to describe Sawley and to characterize the people who live there."
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2009 B test
"Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."
8/14: JE #1
8/15: JE #2
Notes: Connotation Vs. Denotation
Handout: "Why I Write" and "The Meanings of a Word"
8/21: Notes: Painting Deconstruction/Analysis
Notes: Analysis
8/31: Definition Essay due
9/5: Peer-revision Test
9/7: Personal Statement Essay due (w/drafts and revisions, and rubric)
Mood paragraph due (setting, sensory detail, diction)
9/11: Notes: Reading Story (Commercial Vs. Literary Fiction) (Perrine's Ch. 1)
"Most Dangerous Game" or "Hunters in the Snow"--annotate, answer questions
9/12: "Child by Tiger"--annotate (Handout)
9/13: Notes: Plot and Structure (Perrine's Ch. 2)
"The Destructors" (pg. 111)--annotate (notes), questions (1,2,5,6,8)
9/14: In-class Essay--Evaluating a short story to classify it as "commercial" or "literary" fiction
9/19: Read and take notes on Characterization (Perrine's pg 161-65)
Read and take notes on Theme (Perrine's pg. 188-94)
Read/annotate "The Worn Path" (pg. 212) and answer questions 1-5
9/20: Read and take notes on "Point of View" (Perrine's, pg 227)
"The Lottery" (pg. 251)--annotate (notes), questions (1,2,4,5,6,8)
Vocabulary--"characterization" and "internal conflict" using "Child by Tiger"
9/24: 1st draft, peer revision, and 2nd draft (typed) of Theme paragraph for essay on "Child by Tiger"
1st draft of diction paragraph
10/1: Peer revision of plot/structure paragraph for essay
Presentation of posters (plot/structure, characterization, theme, point of view)
HW: 1) Vocabulary typed (symbol); 2) Type draft 2 of plot/structure paragraph
10/2: Notes on Characterization, theme, point of view (presentation of posters)
LAB "Child by Tiger"
10/3: Notes: Introduction
Notes: symbol
HW: 1) typed 2nd draft of introduction; 2) LAB; 3) Vocabulary
10/5: HW:
1) Revised individual LAB (short story)
2) Revised group LAB
3) Typed intro and body paragraphs (1, 2, and 3) put together into essay format (reflective of 2nd drafts)
4) Make sure that all work is complete, in order, and reflected in your table of contents
5) Study for Short Story Unit Test (test will Monday OR Tuesday)
6) Make sure to bring In the Time of the Butterflies to class
10/8: Peer Review Chart (for essay draft)
Personal Statement returned and discussed
HW: 1) LAB; 2) Revised essay draft based on chart (draft 3); 3) STUDY FOR TEST!; 4) Personal Statement if you have not turned one in
10/9: SHORT STORY VOCABULARY TEST
10/10: Notes: Conclusion
Read in class "Hills Like White Elephants" (Notes)
HW: Complete essay draft, questions for story (1,4,5,6,7), and In The Time of the Butterflies Author's Note pg 329-332
10/15: HW: In The Time of the Butterflies chapters 1 and 2 (main points, characterization, symbolism)
10/16: "What is poetry?" pg 647-654 (notes)
HW: Read and annotate the handouts: 1) "The Archetype" and 2) "The Memo That Started it All" (Hero's Journey)
10/22-26: Presentations
10/30: Practice EAP prompt and questions
HW: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" pg 311--notes and questions 4, 8
10/31: Short Story Unit Test
11/2: Practice AP Prompt 2: using "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (deconstruct, identify what you are being asked, plan essay)
"Using the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," by Joyce Carol Oates, note the author's use of such elements as diction, syntax, imagery, and figurative language. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author's use of language generates a vivid impression of ARNOLD FRIEND as a character."
11/7: Summary of ARNOLD FRIEND (to be used in into)
11/8: 1st draft of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" essay--typed for hw
11/9: Peer revision, revise essay, typed (emailed by Monday, hard-copies turned in Tuesday)
WINTER BREAK WORK: Memorize Greek/Latin roots and vocabulary words. Bring in copy of Invisible Man.
01/7: Practice EAP prompt (brainstorm, essay, revise, second draft)
01/8: Greek/Latin stems and vocabulary test
Personal poem (simile and metaphor--I am...)
HW: Invisible Man: Prologue (light v.s. dark, invisibility-->sleeping/awakening, perspective, passive v.s. taking action, music) 1) How do you see all of the previous things in the prologue? 2) What is the function of the prologue? 3) Pick two parts that you think are important to discuss in class tomorrow.
01/9: JE: "Invisibility"
"Black and Blue" by Louis Armstrong--annotate and discuss
Discuss Prologue (Notes)
HW: "I Am" Poem (Due Friday)
01/10: Reflection: Identity Poem "How does the poem reflect you as a person? Your identity? Why did you choose the things you did? Explain."
01/11: Quiz: Prologue
HW: Ch 1 (main points-->grandfather, speeches, fight, woman, masks/illusion)
1) Explain grandfather's message?
2) Explain the point of his speech and why people liked it.
3) What is significant about the fight?
4) Why is it so important for him to deliver his speech after the fight?
5) From who do he seek acceptance and why is it so important that he get it?
01/14: Correcting 2 examples of student writing.
Re-do Quiz (prologue) in different groups
HW: Chapter 2
01/15: Group work on hw questions for chapter 1
HW: Prepare for quiz on chapter 1 and 2
01/16: Quiz: chapter 1
01/17: 4-minute writing (invisibility, narrator)
Title each chapter (1-3) and write a paragraph explaining your choice of title
HW: Prep Paper (w/works cited), Presentation (10 min)
01/22: Notes: Presenting a Speech
Revision of "I Am" poem
HW: draft of poem and plan for visual representation
01/18: Presentations (Harlem Renaissance)
01/22: HW: Chapters 5-6 due Friday (main points, title for each chapter)
01/23: Explanation of given passages chapters 1-3:
Chapter 1:
pg 16-17 top of page 16 ending with "community" on 17
pg 33 "To whom...college."
Chapter 2:
pg 69 "Here...bill!"
Chapter 3:
pg 86 "Then some of the men...He's only a man!"
pg 93-95 "Rest, rest...bashing in your heads."
01/25: Invisible Man Quiz chapters 1-6 Due Monday, NO EXCEPTIONS
1) Find a song that represents the main point/title of each chapter and print it out
2) Annotate each song
3) Write a 1-page (typed) explanation where you show how the song relates to the chapter (must include an analysis of the song (quotes and explanation), analysis of the chapter (quotes and explanation), and then how they relate)
HW: Finish Quiz, Finish poem, Plan for visual
01/29: Presentation Assignments:
Thursday: Stefania, Ruth, Jesus, Juan G, Jose, Yamile, Ester, Alex, Adelina, Pink
Friday: Elidia, Fish, Chamu, Carlos, Diana, Blue, Melissa, Jordy, Juan S, Devontae, Peter
***Remember: It is PROFESSIONAL DRESS only on the day you present
01/31: PRESENTATIONS!!!
Reflection--Include the following in your 1-page typed reflection (do NOT write the questions)
1. What went well in terms of the speech?
2. What would you change/work on?
3. Visual--what would you have done differently or changed about your approach or what is included?
4. What was your experience like with the overall process of creating your poem? Where there any difficulties or things that were unexpected? Why?
5. What have you learned from the overall experience?
02/01: PRESENTATIONS!!!
HW: Chapters 7-9 notes (by Monday)
02/04: In-class Practice AP Essays (1 and 2)
HW: Chapters 10-11 due WEDNESDAY
02/05: In-class practice AP Multiple Choice Test
Invisible Man "CD" Project--handed out. DUE MARCH 1st
02/06: HW: Chapters 12-15 Due Monday
02/07: "Dream" and "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes--Annotate and then discuss the similarities and differences of both poems, paying specific attention to theme, imagery, and diction.
1 page response: Explain how "Dream" relates to the Narrator and his state of mind in chapters 1-10.
02/11: "Identify the overall meaning of the poem "Let America Be America Again" and discuss how the message is created through the use of imagery, simile, metaphor, or diction. (1 paragraph only, choose only one)
Reading the Poem--pg 668 (notes)
Project work
HW: Read, annotate, and answer the specified questions for: "Break of Day", John Donne pg 677 (question 1); "Mirror", Sylvia Plath pg 680 (questions 1-3); Imagery--pg 700-703 (read and notes): Read and answer the specified questions for: "Spring", Gerard Manley Hopkins pg 703 (questions 2, 4); "The Widow's Lament in Springtime", William Carlos Williams pg 704 (questions 1-3)
Invisible Man Chapter 19 by Friday--Chapters 1-6 for project due Friday
02/13: Score practice AP essays 1 and 2 using the AP rubric--#1 switch with a partner and score your partner's and #2 score your own
Work on Invisible Man Project (chapters 1-6 due Friday)
02/14: Invisible Man Project and Individual Writing Conferences
02/15: HW: Chapters 16-19 Due Tuesday (read and annotation); Chapters 7-10 of project due Tuesday
02/19: Analyze "Girl on Fire": 1) identify the theme and 3 supporting details, 2) identify overall metaphor and explain it, 3) Identify 3 examples of the motif of fire 4) 1 paragraph explaining how the song relates to the book
"Chop 'em Down" and "Indestructible"--Matisyahu; "Give Me the Power"--Molotov; "I Can"--Nas; "Keep Ya Head Up", "Me Against the World", and "Rearview Mirror"--2pac; "Live Ya Life"--TI and Rhianna; "A Todo Pulmon"--Nicho Hinojosa
HW: Book finished by Monday (02/25)
03/04: HW: 2011 AP Free Response Question 3--DUE Monday, 3/11
"In a novel by William Styron, a father tells his son that life “is a search for justice.”
Choose a character from a novel or play who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character’s understanding of justice, the degree to which the character’s search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole."
03/06: Intro and body paragraph #1
03/07: Body paragraphs #2 and #3
03/11: "Love or Hate--Which Sister Do You Desire?"
1) Annotate
2) Identify Theme
3) Identify 3 different forms of figurative language and explain how they help create the theme..
03/12: In-class essay
"Using the poem 'Love or Hate-which sister do you desire?', identify the theme and explain how the author uses figurative language (i.e.. tone, personification, oxymoron, diction, etc.) to create it."
1) annotate poem
2) deconstruct prompt and create plan
3) draft
4) revise
5) final
03/18: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (annotate, identify theme, identify 3 pieces of figurative language that help create theme)
03/19: PRACTICE AP prompt 1 (2003)
1) Deconstruct prompt
2) Annotate poem
3) Plan
4) Write Essay
***5) revise (after 40 minutes)
03/20: Practice AP prompt 1 (2012)
IN PARTNERS:
- Deconstruct Prompt
- Annotate poem
- Plan Essay
INDIVIDUALLY:
- Write essay
04/02:
Go over multiple choice practice test and if you change your answers write and explanation
04/03:
Vacation work graded
Practice AP essay (poetry): "Elegy for Jane",by Theodore Roethke
In groups: Discuss 1st poem and questions from MC test--all must decide on correct answers
Discuss as a class
04/04:
Practice AP essay (poetry): "It's a Woman's World", by Eavan Boland
Discuss student introductions to yesterday's essay (identify 3 parts, revise/make corrections)
Continue discussing MC test
04/05:
2011 Practice AP Test Essay #1
HW: Re-write essay based on class discussion and notes given on body paragraph (due Monday)
04/08: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", Robert Frost
Notes: What to look for in a poem (quickly)
Practice body paragraph: Explain what the horse represents.
04/09: ""Icarus", Edward Field
Analysis of a 9 essay for "Icarus" (details and commentary)
HW: Reflection: How did the writer integrate details and commentary? How have you traditionally used both? How might you begin to change your use of the two?
04/10: Analyze a 9 essay on "The Speech of Wolsey on his Downfall", Henry VIII (Identify detail and commentary w explanation for why you think it is what it is)
Practice AP Essay for above poem.
"In the following speech from Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey considers his sudden downfall from the position of advisor to the king. Spokesman for the ing have just left Wolsey alone on stage. Read the speech carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Shakespeare uses elements such as allusion, figurative language, and tone to convey Wolsey's complex response to his dismissal from court."
Identify your use of detail and commentary
Reflection: How did you use details and commentary? What would you change or do differently if you could re-write the essay?
HW: Re-write essay
04/10:
Peer revise essays (color code details and commentary) and then write a paragraph explaining ways to improve essay
Practice AP essay (poems--compare/contrast)-->Pre-writing
"Both poems Flight 063, by Brian Aldiss, and To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph, by Anne Sexton, respond to the fall of Icarus. Read the poems carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, please compare and contrast the poems analyzing how Aldiss and Sexton use literary devices such as tone, diction, and figurative language to communicate their views about Icarus' fall."
In-class Essay:
"In a well-developed essay analyze how Sexton uses literary devices such as tone, diction, and figurative language to communicate her view about Icarus' fall."
HW: Final typed draft of essay and typed reflection
04/12: Same essay as above only substitute Aldiss for Sexton due by Sunday at 11:59 pm
Compare/Contrast essay due Wednesday (4/17) by 11:59 pm
--Draft
--Highlight Detail and Commentary
--revise-->type
Act II and III of Hamlet--read and annotate paying attention to the question of Hamlet's "craziness" and the various plots
04/23:
Timed AP Practice Essay Question 1 from 2010 test
"Read carefully the following poem by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Then write an essay analyzing how Waniek employs literary devices to develop the complex meaning that the speaker attributes to The Century Quilt. You may wish to consider such elements as structure, imagery, and tone."
In groups, read 3 sample student essays and decide which is the 2, 5, 7. Write notes about your reasoning.
HW: Read the College Board's reasoning for why each essay received the score that it did and then write a paragraph for each discussing the similarities or differences in your thoughts.
04/29:
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2012 test
"And after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fast, destiny, or any supernatural agency." Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces.
Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.
Discuss and revise essay.
Begin review on short story elements (Theme and Characterization)
04/30:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2010 test
"In the following passage from Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, the narrator provides a description of Clarence Harvey, one of the suitors of the novel's protagonist, Belinda Portman. Mrs. Stanhope, Belinda's aunt, hopes to improve her niece's social prospects and therefore has arranged to have Belinda stay with the fashionable Lady Delacour.
Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze Clarence Harvey's complex character as a Edgeworth develops it through such literary techniques as tone, point of view, and language.."
05/01:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2009 test
"The following selection is the opening of Ann Petry's 1946 novel, The Street. Read the selection carefully and then write an essay analyzing how Petry establishes Lutie Johnson's relationship to the urban setting through the use of such literary devices as imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language."
05/02:
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2009 test
"A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can exspress an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning.
Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."
05/03:
2 Timed Essays:
Practice AP Essay Question 2 from 2009 B test
"The passage below is the opening of Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), a novel written by Zora Neil Hurston. Read the passage carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the literary techniques Hurston uses to describe Sawley and to characterize the people who live there."
Practice AP Essay Question 3 from 2009 B test
"Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."