AP English

Assignment

Spring Final/Exit Portfolio/Donations/Survey

Assigned Thursday, 05.23.13

Study for your FINAL EXAM: you will need a pencil, pen and paper; Your Exit Portfolio is due at the beginning of the block. Your AP Final Essay (RUBRIC ATTACHED for guidance) due to www.turnitin.com; thank you for your submissions today ([]2 and []3).

POETRY, NAEL, NOVEL AND ELT DONATIONS; THE BOX IS IN FRONT OF THE ROOM--MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE INSIDE COVER....THANKS!

I enjoyed having you all in class this year---good luck to you as you head off into a new adventure! Keep in touch and congratulations.

Final Exam Prep/OA

Assigned Wednesday, 05.22.13: OAs due Thursday before 2:30.

IDEAL HUSBAND CHARTS ("bonus") and Exit Portfolios due on the day of the exam in class (hard copy only);

Final Sequence Analysis Paper due to www.turnitin.com ON TIME! You MUST turn in your SA Paper and Worksheet to Ms Allari on Thursday (RED/GOLD);

Study for your FINAL EXAM: you will need a pencil; Your Exit Portfolio  and BONUS HUSBAND CHARTS are due at the beginning of the block.

I will evaluate your SA Paper as you work----see MOODLE for guidance. I will provide the rubric, too.

[]4: Friday, 05.24

[]2/[]3: Tuesday, 05.28

POETRY AND NAEL DONATIONS; THE BOX IS IN FRONT OF THE ROOM--MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE INSIDE COVER....THANKS!

I enjoyed having you all in class this year---good luck to you as you head off into a new adventure! Keep in touch and congratulations.

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Earnest SGQs/SA Prep/Reminders/Husband

Asssigned Friday, 05.17.13

• REMINDERS:

•  You should have your film sequence, excerpt, quotes from the play/movie and film terms prepped out (think pre-writing) as of this weekend. Is your movie approved? What are your two roman numerals and 4 subtopics? Review the checklist in your Earnest Packet.
  

• After we review your typed HW (3 SGQs from Wilde packet), we will journal on your reading (see above), and continue/ finish AN IDEAL HUSBAND.T
• Prepare for final;
  
• HOW TO WRITE ABOUT FILM link; be ready to continue work on your paper.

•  Sequence Analysis due online to www.turnitin.com (R) 05.23 and (G) 05.23 by 11:59 PM--both electronically to www.turnitin.com and a hard copy of your paper with the worksheet in class (R) and delivered to AH 211 (G); see resources for a Sequence Analysis Worksheet.
• Exit Portfolio: due on the day of the final---hard copy due in class; no electronic copy;
• Final Exam: {}4 Friday, 05.24/[]2 and []3 on 05.28.13;
  

OAs due 05.23.13:

Art Show/VPA/Art Walk 

Poetry Wheel OR

Advertising Poster with Paragraph OR

This I Believe

Spring Final Exam/OA/Sequence Analysis/Husband

Assigned Monday, 05.20.13

Continue Working on your Sequence Analysis Paper, Exit Portfolio, and Optional Assignment as needed; review due dates online.

Please review to today's notes for specific due dates and responsibilities.

We will finish AN IDEAL HUSBAND WED/TH as needed.

Literary Elements/Earnest/Sequence Analysis

Assigned Wednesday, 05.15.13 resources for the Art Show Optional Assignment and the Sequence Analysis can be found on Moodle; the SA Prompt is in Resources on this site.

Literary Elements Exam on Friday/Monday;

HUSBAND: You should have finished reading Act III  and need to answer 3 SGQs   (from Wilde Packet) due in class on Friday/Tuesdays; Typed and ready to turn in....due to APs I have two possible due dates. Please bring to class with your NAEL.

Be ready to view AN IDEAL HUSBAND on Friday/Monday after your Literary Elements Exam --we will be comparing this with EARNEST. If you are absent due to APs, you still are responsible for viewing on your own. There is a packet for this unit, so please pick it up if you were absent this Friday.

Get your film arc approved if it is not EARNEST, HUSBAND, OR REMAINS.

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Oscar Wilde/Non-Fiction Unit/

Assigned Monday, 05.13.13: Please make sure you have your Sequence Analysis Worksheet/Packet and 2013 instructions with you  and your film must be approved by Tuesday, 05.14.13 by 2:15.

Beloved Test on the 15/16th; NSG due at that time.

Literary Elements Exam on 05.21/05.22.

Earnest: Review Act II as needed; we should finish Act III  and answer 3 SGQs   (from Wilde Packet) in class on Wednesday; Typed Responses due on Friday/Monday--that means you have a copy in class, on paper. Do not ask to go to the library.

Be ready to view AN IDEAL HUSBAND on Friday or Tuesday --we will be comparing this with EARNEST. If you are absent due to APs, you still are responsible for viewing on your own.

Think about your sequence analysis: look over your SAW Handout/Worksheet online, and Sequence Analysis Instructions; now read a film review from a reputable source (LA Times, the New Yorker, or Atlantic Monthly). Note the usage of the core techniques and how critics analyze specific arcs in their reviews.

Beoved/Earnest/Sequence Analysis/AP Exam

Assigned Thursday,05.09.13

Hope your AP Tests are going well...

Beloved: Part II/III SGQs are due to TURNITIN.com Sunday, at noon, if you have not submitted them yet; we will have a Socratic Seminar on Sunday.

Earnest:Finish Act I, if you didn't in class this week. You must be ready to read Earnest, Act II in class on Monday. 

Have a great weekend!

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the Great Gatsby/Vogue

Hello, APers! You have been waiting a long time for this production!!! There is a good article in Vogue, with some fabulous pictures and commentary on both the novel and the film....you can even see Carey Mulligan read from The Great Gatsby on the set of her May cover shoot (see the May Digital edition---free for 30 days, 3.99 for the May issue only);

Or, view the trailer here:http://thegreatgatsby.warnerbros.com/

Let me know what you think of the movie---this might be a good opportunity for your Sequence Analysis paper!

INTERESTING FACT: her next role will most likely be Bathsheba, from Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd---and you know all about Hardy and the Byronic Hero from your summer reading, The Return of the Native!

AP Exam: Good Luck/Beloved

Assigned Tuesday, 05.07.13

AP Test on Thursday! Good Luck!

I have attached an Annotated AP List of works found on the AP Exam in the past (yep, 326 pages, so don't print it out!)

We will continue with Poetry Rounds as needed!

Beloved SGQs due Sunday by noon ( I changed due date due to the TURNITIN.com upgrade.)

The Importance of Being Earnest

Finish BIO and Intro on Wilde and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2211/2231) we may have finished in class after Poetry Rounds;you must read/finish Act I for Monday, 05.13.13. We will answer questions in class after we discuss BELOVED.

SPRING SEQUENCE ANALYSIS PAPER (part of your final exam; due on 05.23.13); Review the introduction to the Sequence Analysis; print/download the handout and bring with your SAW (sequence analysis worksheet packet) and the Sequence Analysis Worksheet. Have you given me your Wish List yet? Get your film approved. Use this link of books/short stories/plays/poems that have been made into film: http://www.mymcpl.org/books-movies-music/based-book to help you choose.

Categories: print form before film; 'artsy' or foreign film; musical; film noir; novels read in AP this year.

Take a look at these last minute handouts for AP Prep that I have posted OR have given you in class! Don't forget to look at MOODLE....
EXAM HINTS
HELPFUL ESSAY HINTS
YEATS REVIEW IDEAS/CONCEPTS
Sequence Analysis

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AP Test Prep Reminders

Posted Thursday, 04.25.13

Here is a great link for the novels used on the AP Open Question 3:

http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html

I have posted many resources for AP Prep---look in Supplementary Handouts, or just skim the Resources List, or just go to Moodle to AP Test Prep.

I posted the 4th Quarter AP Success Packet last week..

Optional Assignment Information will be posted on May 1, 2013.

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Independent Reading/AP Prep

Assigned Wednesday, 05.01.13

Do Sound and Sense Rhetoric HW--- one HW assignment on one reading, like Ryan's, as seen in "4th Quarter AP Success Packet" (14-15). TYPED!!!! Due Friday/Monday May 3th/6th; Choose either 20/21^st C or Victorian Poetry: choose ONE poem!

Option A: Victorian Poetry:

• Browning: “Caliban Upon Setebos” (2084)
• Rossetti: “Sleeping at Last” (2157)
• Choice: if not from NAEL you should include the poem in your HW.

Option B: 20^th/21^st C:

• Hardy,” “The Darkling Thrush” (2325)
• Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfre” (2391) or “The Wild Swans at Coole” (2399)
• Auden: “Musee des Beaux Arts” (2693)
• Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (2710)
• Larkin: “Ambulances” (2714)
• Choice: if not from NAEL you should include the poem in your HW.

Option C: Choice from NAEL or For Better for Verse (Bulletin Board); since the poem is not in our NAEL, include it with your response.

Need some points??? Create a new and exciting Poetry Wheel (see the example in the 4th Quarter  AP Success Packet !!!) Choose your "essence" and give to me anytime between May 9^{th and May 23rd (before 2:00 pm).}_; you may work in pairs if you’d like. If you choose to complete this OA, you may not complete the “This I Believe” OA; 

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Beloved/Poetry/Victorianism

Assigned Friday, 04.26.13

Cumulative Paper and Outline due to www.turnitin.com;

April Prof. Journal

Beloved:Independent reading;

Part II (178-247) due 05.01/05/02

Part III (251-290); due 05.07/05.08

Complete 2 from Parts II/III (for a total of four responses); these should be in MLA, typed, and should have textual references, due on May 11th to www.turnitin.com ONLY for Red and Gold;

Test/NSG: will vary by block: anticipated date: 15th/16th

Review Beloved and check out this site: you can hear Toni Morrison reading an excerpt of Beloved.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3912464

Bring NAEL, please;

If you have not read these Romantic Poems, you should!

John Keats:                                    “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

                                                        “Bright Star…”

                                                          “Ode on a Grecian Urn”                       

 Lord Byron:                                       “She Walks in Beauty”

                                                           “So, we’ll go no more a roving”

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley                            “Mutability”*

                                                              “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

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AP Online Scores Notification

Please see apscore.org for info on the new process for receiving your AP Scores this July.

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Beloved/Poetry/Team Teaching

Assigned Wednesday, 04.24.13

We will be working on Poetry Rounds and AP Sound and Sense on Friday, as well as next week; we will also be spending time with the Victorians.

If you miss Friday or Wednesday, make sure you see me about the Heany/Blackberry Picking Packet.

Beloved: read Part II---be ready for a mini-Socratic Circle if your class' presentations are done;

Reminders: Team Teaching OL/WC and Cumulative paper should be submitted to www.turnitin.com tonigh by 04.28.13, unless you are the final 6 students in Gold 4.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Download and bring to class on Wed/Thurs of next week:

Victorian Notes

Victorian Poems

Art for Art's Sake

Take NAEL Victorian Quiz by Wednesday, May 6th

Take the 20^th C Quiz by May 6th.

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BELOVED/Romanticism/Team Teaching

Assigned Monday, 04.22.13

Romantic Poetry: Review bio on BLAKE: Read Songs of Innocence: "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," " The Chimney Sweeper," "Holy Thursday".

Review notes on Coleridge:“The Eolian Harp” (1612); Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1615) ;“To William Wordsworth” (1669)

Mark and Scan for April 26th/30th Thanks!

BELOVED:

Reminders: Novel Study Guide for Beloved will be due on the day of the test.

Review Beloved and check out this site:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3912464

 BELOVED Reading schedule and HW Assignments:

Part IA (1-29; 30-90;): do 2 Q from Part IA

Part IB (100-173): do 2 Q from Part IB: All Part IA/B Questions are due on the 24th/25th;

Part II (178-247) due

Part III (251-290); 

Complete 2 from Parts II/III (for a total of four responses); these should be in MLA, typed, and should have textual references, due on 

Team Teaching:

[]4: Tuesday; Ryan and Megan; Cassidy and Fianna; Analisa*

{}4 Thursday: Analisa; Tanner and Michael; Marie and Allsion

{}2: Wednesday:Eileen and Jady

{}3: Wednesday: Chrissy and Carrie; Ashley

 

 

Unit 6: Romantic Era/Team Teaching/BELOVED

Assigned Tuesday, 04.16.13

Be ready for Presentations on TH/FRI;

Have you read the Barbauld bio and her poems?

BELOVED: You are to read the first half  Part IA (1-29/33--the first two chapters---, depending on the edition you own); what is the most powerful sentence in Part IA? How does the non-linear time affect your reading? due Thursday, 04.18/Friday 04.19.

BELOVED Reading schedule and HW Assignments:

Part IA (1-29; 30-90;): do 2 Q from Part IA

Part IB (100-173): do 2 Q from Part IB: All Part IA/B Questions are due on  April 24, 2013 (R);

Part II (178-247) due ^{_____________.}

Part III (251-290); due ^{_______________.}

Complete 2 from Parts II/III (for a total of four responses); these should be in MLA, typed, and should have textual references, due on ______________.

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Unit 6: Romantic Era/Team Teaching/Poetry

Assigned Friday, 04.12.13

UNIT 6: Romanticism Unit: do the NAEL intro quiz (25 Questions) on or before April 17, 2013 (red and gold have the same due date).

Please have your NAEL and Beloved  (T.Morrison) on Tuesday/Wednesday (G) ) with you daily (MANDATORY), as we are going to be continuing Unit 6: the Romantic Era unit with Anna Letitia Barbauld and O.  Equiano, as well as the Romantic poets being presented by your classmates, as well as beginning the Independent reading of the novel, BELOVED.

Read the bio on Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1388) and "Washing Day" and "Rights of Woman"; be ready to write/respond in class on Thursday, 04.18.13/Friday, 04.19.13 (G);

Download AP Success Packet #4; Romantic Era: Supplement #1 and #2: see resources.

Presentations next week: make sure that you read the bios, check MOODLE for links, and remember your individual responsibilities.

Monday:            [] 4: Eliot and Hopkins

Tuesday:            [] 2: Coleridge                 []3: Keats and Smith * See me

Wednesday:       []  4: Auden and Byron

Thursday:          [] 2: Kipling and Collins     [] 3: EEB and Sitwell

Friday:              [] 4: Rossetti and Atwood

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Remains of the Day/Team Teaching/Poetry

Assigned Monday, 04.08.13
 and Wednesday, 04.10.13

Remains of the Day Final Assignment due Wed/Thurs (G) before 11:59 pm. This is the written portion of your unit test (30 points)---submit to www.turnitin.com ONLY;

Team Teaching Presentations all week: you may put your PPTX in Dropbox; don't forget your file of paperwork to be given to me: OL and WC; handout; slides;

Wednesday: []2 Jacqueline and Theresa; []3 Michael and Chris

Thursday: []4: none; Be ready for your PYGMALION test (due to absences) prior to your Theological Reflections.

Friday: []2 Eliot and Milocz; []3 Wordsworth and Browning

Monday: []4Eliot and Hopkins**don't forget to return the DVD, gentlemen. Thank you.

 

 

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Happy Easter!!!

Remains of the Day Reading; see calendar.You should finish the second segment of reading and complete an HW #2 for Monday/Tuesday;

Poetry Packet Downloads: we will  begin using the packets in class on Monday/Tuesday. Make sure that you have them downloaded (Fall and Spring Packet);

Theological Reflections Next week!!! :)

Team Teaching:

Red 2: Alexie, Eliott, Miiocz

Red 3: Kipling, Browning, Wordsworth

Gold 4: No presentations  (make sure that you did submit your OL on the 27th!!!!)

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Team Teaching Full Sentence OL and WC

Due to Field Trips and Retreat: here are your AP Reminders for Team Teaching:

Your complete, full-sentence, documented/cited outline and works cited are due Tuesday/Wednesday Nite BEFORE 11:59 pm, to www.turnitin.com. Not late work will be accepted, nor graded. NO copy is required in class. Both team members need to submit his/her copy.

1. You must cite all data. whether paraphrased or directly quoted, using the MLA method, which demands PD and a Works Cited.

2. You will never put NAEL, TCLC, or poetry.org (or similar urls) in your PD. You will lose points each time---you know how to cite, have two great manuals and have been required to cite ALL year. Don't be lazy---do it CORRECTLY the first time! Please review the MLA.Also, you need to use your WC to ensure correct PD.

3. You must follow all formatting rules, according to the MLA Handbook.

4. Your outline is for the BODY of your presentation only....the Introduction and Conclusion paragraphs (remember the expectations for paragraphs, too) are "traditional" and without a Roman numeral.

5. I cannot help you if you do not come to see me, if you do not have an outline for me to peruse, or if you do not ask a specific question.

6. You may pick up your RD OL from WED/TH on Friday--

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March Seminar Novel/TT/Pope

Assigned Friday, 03.22.13: SUBMIT YOUR MARCH PROF J!!

REMINDER: YOUR TT FULL SENTENCE OL IS DUE TO WWW.TURNITN.COM ON THE 26/27TH BEFORE 11:59. EACH STUDENT MUST SUBMIT. I DO NOT NEED A HARD PAPER COPY AT THIS TIME. YOU SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF YOUR WORKS CITED, as well

Read Pope: Cantos II-V for Tuesday/Wednesday (G);  We may have finished Cantos II and III in class; Study Guide Questions due at beginning of class (see packet);please type and use MLA methods.

Unit Exam: 17th C/Restoration on 03.26/03.27 (50 mins); this will be administered after we discuss "The Rape of the Lock." I suggest that you review your notes, recap the readings, and look at the handouts/PowerPoints and lectures that I have posted on MOODLE and in Resources.

Poetry Response 1 is an in class assignment on 03.25/-3.26 that will be a "Warm Up." If you are going to be absent, see me ASAP.

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March Seminar Novel/TT/Pope

Assigned Wednesday, 03.20.13

()3: AP Essay #4 Read-Arounds on Friday;

()2: AP Essay #4 in class WITH Read-Arounds on Friday.

Review bios on Dryden (899) and Pope (1124); read "From an Essay on Poesie" (922) for Friday: be ready to read  "The Rape of the Lock" Canto I  (and maybe more) on Friday.

 Unit Exam: 17th/Restoration: March 26/March 27.*

 Bring REMAINS OF THE DAY (Ishiguro) to class daily, as it is your March Seminar Novel; I will check for points during class.

March Seminar Novel: REMAINS  Reading and Assignment #1 (see your list of 22 options); due on March 26. 2013. You must keep track of your reading/due dates; see today’s packet; annotate your text—it is part of your grade.

Download the first three pages of Poetry Packet (Fall) and Poetry Packet (Spring) for next Tuesday---this is for a practice explication. Mandatory: no poems=detention.

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Team Teaching/GT

Assigned Friday, 03.15.13

Refer to the 2012 Team Teaching Rubrics for research guidance; make sure that you come to class on Wed/Th with your Intro Paragraph and first Roman Numeral, with three tiers (I, A, 123, b. 123 etc); typed, MLA---all Allari, MLA, and PD rules must be followed. I need a hard copy, please. I will stamp your annotated poem at this time;

REMINDER:Bring NAEL, CB, and Remains of the Day on Wed/TH;

REMINDER 2: Be ready to discuss GT and Lemuel's effect on those he meets on his travels. I will check Q 1-3 (which I didn't get to in class), which should be in ink, in your CB---you should be writing, even in cursive, daily, as the AP exams are handwritten!

 

Pygmalion/TT/GT

Assigned Wednesday, 03.13. 13

Beware the Ides of March!!!

Bring CB daily, with your NAEL; be ready for Daily Warm Ups (ELT, Sound and Sense, and Spring Poetry Packet);

Pygmalion/My Fair Lady/Shaw Unit Test on Friday/Tuesday. Bring pen and pencil;

Restoration Quiz (pushed from Wednesday, due the announcement of our new Pope) will be on Friday/Tuesday, as well, due to your democratic voting!

TT: keep researching and "homescreening" your esources; you also should be taking notes, gathering data, and basically budgeting time to work on this assignment.

GT: read Part IV, Ch 1 and 2; answer Q 1-3 (in resources), in cdw, in ink, in CB for Friday/Tuesday. Be ready to share/discuss/view a part of GT.

Please make sure that you have REMAINS OF THE DAY with you on Wednesay of next week/Thurs (G).

 

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Restoration/Swift/TT/Satire

Assigned Monday, 03.11.13: read this article to see how lit crit is relevant: 

OAs due on 03.13.13

Our Warm Up Exercise for Wednesday is in the ELT text; if you have one, please bring it. (You may want to check one out to review over Easter, as you have a literary term test after Easter Break!); you will need a pen and your CB;

UNIT 3: PYGMALION: we will read the Epilogue on Wednesday, view the end of the film, and discuss the social mores revealed in Shaw's work; Quest on Friday;

Unit 4: Restoration Era:be ready for a quiz on the Restoration Era this Wednesday; RESTORATION HANDOUTS: I have posted the first handout, but there are three more Restoration Handouts and one on Bathos and Satire---please Home Screen; Gulliver's Travels (GT):Read:  Part I (CH 3 and 4) {991-998}; Part II (CH 6 and 7) {1041-1049}. Be ready to answer Q 1-3 in class.

How to Read Literature Like  a Professor Journal due dates can be found at www.turnitin.com;

Team Teaching Reminders: The Full-Sentence/Cited/MLA Outline: each student needs an Intro Paragraph with AG and POD and at least ONE ROMAN NUMERAL l with each set of 3 tiers (see sample---the key is to know that every A, I, a etc MUST be at least three sentences---see handouts online---you will recieve official rubrics on Wednesday); due on March 20/21. (REMINDER, YOUR FIRST FINAL DRAFT OUTLINE WILL BE COLLECTED ON MARCH 26/27, WITH YOUR FINAL DRAFT WORKS CITED);

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Team Teaching/PYGMALION/

Assigned Thursday, 03.07.13

EL SOL OA SUBMISSIONS DUE BY THE 13th.

PYGMALION: read Act IV and V for Monday---we will read the Epilogue as a class; Skim McCarter site to note differences between My Fair Lady and Pygmalion;

TT: Continue research on your poem, poet, and era; bring a typed, annotated Works Cited page for me to collect on Monday (five sources in MLA format; each entry is followed by 3-5 sentences on how intend to use each source in the project.

Bring your NAEL daily OR you will receive a detention.

***I have attached last year's rubric so that you can see the categories for research; I am still modifying the 2013 rubric*****

 

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Pygmalion/TT/Restoration

Assigned Tuesday, 03.04.13

Pygmalion: Read Act II and Act III for Thursday and complete 2 SGQs for each act, citing lines as needed (loose CDW format); you will be turning these in after a peer edit; you may use the attachment or the questions from last week's site (I showed you in class).

Read the bio on SWIFT (971); define SATIRE in your own words---take into account its purpose, its audience, and how we see it today in the world around us; ne ready to share;

TT: annotated poems will be due next week.

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TT/Pygmalion/Restoration

Assigned Friday, 03.01.13

See notes on Team Teaching Outline.

Read Intro to Restoration/18th C (NAEL 853-876) for next Tuesday; complete the 25 Q quiz as well.

PYGMALION:We will view part of PYGMALION (G. Bernard Shaw) next week---please review this information as needed: See Resources for important links (POWERPOINT/STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS).

Read Act I of Pygmalion for Tuesday--make sure that you have perused the bio on Shaw (see resources) and that you have the text and the "Reading Guidelines" (see last week's link or the Resources) with you in class!

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/shaw/Pygmalion.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw-bio.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jshaw.htm

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Pymalion/Restoration/Team Teaching

Assigned Friday, 03.01.13

PYGMALION:read/skim the attached powerpoint, please. Read Act I and be ready to discuss.

Team Teaching: make sure I get the titles of your poems. Have you signed up?

Restoration: the NAEL Quiz is due on Tuesday (25 Q, please).

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TT/Milton/Restoration Intro

Assigned Wednesday, 02.27.13

Finish reading/annotating Milton, PL Book choice for Friday's in-class writing.

Cavalier Poetry Reflection due electronically to www.turnitin.com this Saturday night BEFORE 11:59pm;

Team Teaching Poems and Sign Ups on Friday!

Reminders:

 

Read Intro to Restoration/18th C (NAEL 853-876) for next Tuesday; complete the 25 Q quiz as well.

 

PYGMALION:: See Resources for important links (POWERPOINT/STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS). Read Act I of Pygmalion for Tuesday--make sure that you have perused the bio on Shaw (see resources) and that you have the text and the "Reading Guidelines" (see last week's link or the Resources) with you in class!

 

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TT/Cavalier Poetry/Milton

Assigned Monday, 02.25.13

Cavalier Poetry Groups 1-5 will present Wednesday/Thursday after the Milton/PL, I Quest.

Paradise Lost, I Quest on Wed; bring a #2 pencil, please. Choose your PL Book (from II-XI) to read and annotate for Friday/Monday. Use the bar on the left to read online, or choose a Book from your NAEL (Dartmouth:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/);

Make sure that you have the Spring Poetry Packet in class on Friday, too.

 

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Paradise Lost/Team Teaching/Poetry

Assigned Thursday, 02.21.13: Your essay is due tonight for RED kids and tomorrow night for GOLD kids. I will get your individual typed copy, with the rubric stapled to the top, on Monday/Tuesday.

MILTON:finish PL, Book I for Monday and complete half of the ten questions; type and use at least one quote in each response (See the questions in the packet for topics we will use with our Socratic Discussion); I will collect; cite lines and PD. You do not need a "Study Buddy" for this assignment.

As you read: do a 15 item plotline for Book I, as shown on front board. Staple to your SGQs;

Test yourself here: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=paradise-lost-book-1; choose one more book that you'd like to read independently (Books II-XII).

Be ready to duscuss PL during our next class;

Cavalier Poets: we will begin these wonderfully fun poets on Monday/Tuesday. Bring your NAEL.

 

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Milton/Donne/Hamlet Essay

Assigned Tuesday, 02.19.13

Welcome Back! If you were absent on Tuesday, please make sure that you come by and pick up your essay, as you must submit it to www.turnitin.com by the due date.

MILTON: read "On Shakespeare" (697), the intro and beginning of "Lycidas," and then the intro to Paradise Lost (723). Download the attachment on Epic Conventions, please.

Renaissance Scenes will conclude on Thursday.

Make sure you bring your Hamlet Essay Rubric and in-class work to class on the due on the 21st BEFORE 11:59 pm.  (see last week's reminders or go to www.turnitin.com---NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED).

Team Teaching: same HW; see last week.

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John Donne/Hamlet Essay/Team Teaching

Assigned Wednesday, 02.13.13

Have a great four-day weekend!

Conrad: Socratic Circle and test on Tuesday; Conrad Packet, Collage and Explication due Tuesday.; submit explication to www.turnitin.com AND attach it to the back of your collage, please.

John Donne Reflection (1 page typed min.); submit to Moodle by Tuesday's class (you may have finished this in class today); use at least different poetic terms, and follow directions, found in the 17th C Packet----review Donne notes in Packet, too.

TT: Choose two poems from your TT poet (2 per each team member). You must copy/xerox/print these out----hard copies are mandatory for this annotation and scansion exercise. You may not use your NAEL book.

HAMLET Essay is due to www.turnitin.com BEFORE 11:59 p.m. I refuse to grade any late papers as this has been a long-term assignment,

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CCA Writng Workshop Opportunity

Interested in Writing?

The Second Annual CCA Writers Conference will be from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Canyon Crest Academy, Media Center, 5951 Village Center Loop Road, San Diego, 92130. The event is for high school students, and is free. Students should register by sending an email to: ccawritersconference@gmail.com

Unit 2: the Early 17th C/TT/Heart of Darkness

Assigned Monday, 02.11.13

Heart of Darkness: read Part III for Wednesday!  Be ready to chat about your resposne to the ending.

TT: start lookig for appropriate poems.

Bring your NAEL daily for Unit 2: the Early 17th C.

Our next mini-unit (OR)  will be George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION: you may use the online edition that I will provide the link to OR you may use the Penguin Classic edition, as I showed you in class.

 

Team Teaching/H of D/17th C Poetry

Assigned Thursday, 02.07.13

Heart of Darkness: read Part III (2368-2386) and annotate carefully; complete the appropriate pages in your Conrad Packet. Read for the 11th/12th;Conrad Packet, Collage, and Explication (ATTACHED TO BACK OF COLLAGE) due on the 13th/14th; be ready to discuss and share before your test.*Submit Explication to www.turnitin.com 02.13/02.14 before 11:59 pm. NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.

TEAM TEACHING: go to Moodle to see handouts.

BRING NAEL DAILY.

Have fun at the dance!

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Team Teaching/H of D/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned Tuesday, 02.05.13

Heart of Darkness Part II Reading---if discussion doesn't go as anticipated, there will be a quiz. Please read the Heart/Conrad PPT beofre the next due date. (See next entry for dates)

Team Teaching: You havae committed to your poem and era---you are to begin collecting academic sources (print and electronic).

Review Bios on John Donne (600) and John Milton (693). We will read some John Donne on Thursday/Friday in class, after Renaissance Scenes are presented. Celebratory Buffet???

Renaissance Scenes are to be presented Thursday/Friday---no exceptions.

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Hamlet SA/Conrad/HTRLLAP

Assigned Wednesday, 01.30.13

INDEPENDENT READING: Heart of Darkness: read Part I (2329-2350) for Tuesday; I have linked reading guide questions in resources, but am not requiring responses.

HEART OF DARKNESS VOCAB:

http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/41668

QUIAS: http://www.quia.com/pages/lallari/page2

Shakespeare Sequence Analysis:  first FD due on Friday/Monday for peer edit; you MUST have a paper copy for this in-class exercise; we have practiced this in class; the rubric is now online-- remember, you will share your ideas with your peers, so be ready to read a thought or two.

Peer Edit with rubric; take home, rework and submit to www.turnitin.com on 02.05.12. See www.turitin.com. I will provide the rubric in class.

Read bios on John Donne (600) and John Milton (693) for Friday/Monday.

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Team Teaching Links: Find some poets!!!

Team Teaching:

Below you will find some links that will help you find the perfect poet for your Team Teaching Project; remember that this individual must primarily be a poet from the Romantic, Victorian, 20^th or 21^st C. Be ready to explain why your choice is an appropriate selection. I prefer that your poet is non-American, and more of a global influence, but retain the right to change my mind. J

 Have at least four options for your Wish List.

 Many more links are in resources---just keyword "poetry."

 

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=10386

http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/poetry.html

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellpatke/poco/index.htm

http://www.xcapedcat.com/the-top-10-historical-poets-in-english-literature/

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/forche/witness.htm

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/greatpoets

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/books/07arts-THE10BESTPOE_BRF.html

http://www.worldliteraturetoday.com/

 

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58

http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/herb4.html

http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/3352f01/vic.html

http://complit.berkeley.edu/?page_id=3847

 

Poet Laureate: each state, and most countries have one; check them out!

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/

http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/OfficialRoyalposts/PoetLaureate.aspx

http://www.cac.ca.gov/programs/poetlaureate.php

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/about_laureate.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2012/09/conversation-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html

http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html

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Conrad/Hamlet SA/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned Monday, 01.28.13

Hamlet SA due on Friday for Peer Edit and discussion---YOU MUST HAVE A PAPER COPY FOR THE PEER EDIT; FD due to TURNITIN.COM on 02.05.13. Absolutely no late papers will be graded/accepted due the extension.

Team Teaching Wishlist is due on Friday: at least two choices for each time period, please.

RED II: bring NAEL and HAMLET on Wed; we will intro Heart of Darkness and have the in-class HAMLET Essay;

RED III: we will intro Heart of Darkness and have Senior Liturgy on Wednesday; Hamlet essay will be on Friday after the peer edit.

GOLD IV: bring NAEL and HAMLET on THURS; we will intro Heard of Darkness and have the in-class HAMLET Essay;

RENAISSANCE SCENES ARE STILL GOING TO BE PRESENTED ON THE 7TH/8TH; RUBRICS WILL BE ISSUED ON WED/TH AS WELL AS A CHECKLIST FOR THE PLAYBILL.

 

 

HamlHa

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Playbill Checklist 2013

See Attached, please.

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Early 17th C/Independent Reading

Assigned Thursday, 01.24.13

Shakespeare Sequence Analysis rubric is online.---choose one  roman numeral and write one to two pages on that topic---Staging, props and setting, for example, focusing on one of the Hamlets that we have viewed ---and bring your typed first copy on 01.30.13--you will be peer editing in class; remember, you will share your ideas with your peers, so be ready to read a thought or two. I will check as you edit. Make sure that the WC is at the TOP.

First RD and Notes due on 01.30.13

Final Draft: due on 02.01.13

 Read Bios on John Donne (600) and John Milton (693) by next Friday. We will read some John Donne on Friday in class.

Renaissance Scenes will be presented onThursday, 02.07 and Friday, 02.08. One workday remains, next week.

 

Shakespeare Around Us!!!

Upcoming Opportunities to see WS and how people see him!

All the world's a stage on PBS, which begins an enthralling and informative series taking us deep inside the Bard's masterworks with Shakespeare Uncovered (check tvguide.com listings). In the first back-to-back episodes, an intense Ethan Hawke investigates the roots of the dark classic Macbeth, followed by Joely Richardson exploring the enduring appeal and splendid female characters in the comedies As You Like It and Twelfth Night. She gets an assist from her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, whose performance as Rosalind in As You Like It on the London stage is the stuff of theatrical legend.

 

Intrepid Shakespeare Co., HAMELT: in Encinitas: go to www.intrepidshakespeare.com, Jan 30-Feb 17th.

Hamlet/Quia

Assigned Tuesday, 01.22.13: REMINDER

Hamlet Test on Thursday/Friday. For review, see my QUIA site, or click on the link below:

http://www.quia.com/quiz/4028089.html

HAMLET/Renaissance Scenes/Two-Pager

Assigned Tuesday, 01.22.13

Hamlet Exam is on Thursday, after Socratic Discussion; I will be checking your annotations in the HAMLET text (play and LitCrit) at this time.

Bring HAMLET and NAEL to class daily, please.

Lit Crit/Two Pager due 01.24.13

For Monday--just letting Retreatants know what to look forward to!

Review Intro to 17th C/Metaphysical Poets (575-597) and read bio on Joseph Conrad (2326) (for indpendent reading);

Team Teaching Unit was mentioned on Thursday.Think about an era you like---Romanticism, Victorianism, Twentieth C/Twenty-first C---and who you might like to Team Teach with!

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Hamlet SGQs/Two-Pager

Assigned Thursday, 01.17.13

See Above for details.

Sequence Analysis Proposal due on Tuesday.Sample papers and rubrics on Moodle (Sequence Analysis Workshop);

Reminder: HAMLET Two-Pager is due ONLINE only to www.turnitin.com; make sure that you use TWO literary criticism essays, like Feminist and Marxist---do not use the critical history, please.

Have a great three-day weekend!

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Hamlet: SGQs/SAW/LC and Act V

Assigned Tuesday, 01.15.13

*Note: most of this work is staggered---we are discussing Acts IV and V this week, and practicing the Sequence Analysis. You must choose when to read the lit crit and complete your Group Work on your own.

January Prof J due online by January 31, 2013;

Read "A Critical History of Hamlet" (181-204) and finish Act V of HAMLET for Thursday;

Literary Criticism: Feminist Criticism and Hamlet (208-238) was assigned on Friday.

Read, scan, and mark two of the following for Tuesday;

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Hamlet: (241-281)

The New Historicism Criticism and Hamlet (368-400)

Marxist Criticism and Hamlet (332-366).

LIT CRIT FREE RESOURCES:

http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/humanities/index.aspx?id=3052

http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496

Hamlet  Team/Group Questions/Worksheet: DUE ON Tuesday, 01.22.13/01.23.13: submit your individual answers to Moodle; I will collect your individual worksheets. Have copies of your SGQs in class for your oral presentation.

Halmlet Test on Thursday/Friday---we will arrange make ups for Retreatants.

We will be practicing the Sequence Analysis on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING on Tuesday.

Renaissance Scene Groups. Know your character. You will have two more Library workdays: one for the Renaissance Scenes and one for your CDW Character essay prep.

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HAMLET/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned Friday, 01.11.13

Please work on your individual Act Questions (see Hamlet Packet from today);EACH INDIVIDUAL MUST HAVE HIS/HER OWN COPY OF THE RESPONSES (CITE, EACH IS AT LEAST A PARAGRAPH) AND THE APPROPRIATE WORKSHEET(S).

Read Act IV.i-vii (109--131) for Tuesday. It is a longer act, so budget time accordingly. You have group time on Tuesday/Wednesday. We will view the Ophelia scenes, also.

Lliterary Critisims Assignments for next week:

Close Read "Feminist Criticism: and HAMLET: What is Feminist Criticism?" (Murfin 208-215) for Tuesday.

Close Read "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminsist Criticism" (Shwowalter 220-238);

More Lit Crit readings will be assigned at a later date.

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Hamlet/Lit Glossary FC/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned 01.09.13

Bring NAEL and Hamlet on Friday.

HAMLET: read Act III (from where we left off in class) for Friday; expect a quiz!

Download the Sequence Analysis  handout; bring daily (SAW and directions: see Resources); MB/EH/KB/DT);-Choose which Hamlet for your SA;  get, plan out your time, and view!

Make flashcards (define; example, like on Midterm);

due Friday;

• 1. KENNING
• 2. BLANK VERSE
• 3. PARODY
• 4. METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT
• 5. VOLTA
• 6. EPIGRAM;
• 7. ARCHETYPE
• 8. ANACHRONISM;
• 9. PERIPHRASIS
• 10. LITOTES
• 11. PARADOX
• 12. APOSTROPHE

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Merry Christmas!

Assigned Thursday, 12.20.12: Thanks for taking the Monkey Surveys!

Have a safe and Merry Christmas!

Make sure that you have read HAMLET, Acts I and II for 01.04.12. (we began this in class on 12.07/12.08 and 12.12./12/13, so you should be  done already!) Be ready for some type of evaluation, like a Socratic Seminar....

If you want to review with audio, or view an appropriate version---one that is almost similar to the Bedford edition of HAMLET---go to PBS.org to see the RSA adaptation:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/

 

Keep your brain active--read a book or some short stories or some non-fiction articles---come ready to talk and write. BRING HAMLET, please.

 

 

2nd Quarter OA

Posted Thursday, 11.15.12

2nd Quarter OA (do not call this "extra credit" this is optional)

Please be aware that you have two options for this quarter's OA; you may only complete ONE of the following. The due date is "rolling," which means you can turn it in anytime, TO ME, between 11.30.12 and 12.13.12.

"Elizabeth OA"

OR

Independent Reading Bulid-A-House.

Both handouts are in RESOURCES. if you want to ask questions, please see me at lunch or after school.

Thank you! And keep up the good work!

Fall Final Prep/HAMLET/OR

Assigned Monday, 12.10.12

Remember that I posted last year's exam handout---you read BEL CANTO, BEOWULF, and RETURN OF THE NATIVE as summer reading.

HAMLET: finish Act I for Wed/Thurs; if participation wanes, I have an Act I Quiz ready!

Renaissance Quiz on Wed/Thurs---review the historical information in your NAEL.

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TN Take Home Test/Hamlet/NAEL Quiz

Assigned Thursday, 12.06.12

Reminder: you should have read the intro to the Early Seventeenth C {1603-1660} in your NAEL (575-599) and then completed  the NAEL QUIZ---if you haven't, do so BEFORE Monday, 12.10.12, as some info from the intro may be on the Midterm. Be ready for a Renaissance Reading QUiz on Wednesday!!!

Twelfth Night: Post-ReadingTake Home Test  to www.turnitin.com on Saturday!;

Hamlet Act I: please read for Wednesday(I.1-I.v {27-56} for Wednesday! Begin Study guide Questions; you will be responsible for odds OR evens; every response MUST have a cited quote. We will begin Act II in class on Wednesday---please know that I expect you to take notes as you read, as I lecture, as I present a PPT. :)

 Discussion Boards/Moodle: have you posted?

Twelfth Night Take Home Test

Posted 12.03.12

Students: your Test Packet for the take home test is now posted on MOODLE; it will remain there unitl Thursday at 2:00pm. After that time, it will be closed.

Choose two prompts and answer, following directions carefully.

I will only grade work posted to www.turnitin.com. No exceptions.

Twelfth Night/NAEL/OR HW #1

Assigned Friday, 11.30.12: HW #1 due on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Be ready to read some Shakespearean Sonnets on Tuesday; see packet in Resources; bring NAEL daily.

TN: Read Act V and choose an exceprt that has what critics call "linguistic playfulness," in other words, choose a passage where WS "plays" with us with his diction, puns, etc. Be ready to share with the class.

Twelfth Night Post-Reading SGQuestion to Moodle/TN Test to turnitin.com due SATURDAYfor Red and Gold (due to my absence)--remember that this is your "test," so follow all ALLARI/MLA rules! Since I was  absent on Friday, you can pick up the Take-Home Test on Monday.Thanks. CHoose TWO.

Hamlet: read the Intro (1-26) before class on Thursday---you absolutely must have the Bedford's/St Martin's edition.

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Links for in-Class Friday/Monday

Assigned Friday, 11.30.12: in class!

Act III/IV QPAs due on Friday/ Monday---submit to MOODLE before class. Be read y for your quiz on Act I--IV.

Look at theses links, and others like it, to review your knowledge of TWELFTH NIGHT;

http://www.twelfthnightsite.co.uk/shakespeare_shootout.htm to review for the test, or http://quizlet.com/9800169/english-the-twelfth-night-test-tomorrow-flash-cards/ or http://www.quia.com/pop/323645.html

Remember that your Act I-IV quiz has been rescheduled for the RED blocks only---be ready on Tuesday!

Twelfth Night/OR/iPads

Assigned Monday, 11.26.12

TH: Read II.i---II.v (527-541); read and scan in your NAEL; please do not use an online text as I cannot control the authenticity not the translation; also, you will need your NAEL every day up unitl your Final Exam. No SGQs due to the Volleyball Game! GO Lady Dons!

Bring your iPad to work on your peer edit for KA/Excalibur.

Bring your Outside Reading Novel, too. Start thinking of your HQ #1 choice: due on 12.04.12/12.05.12 (G).

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Grendel/Twelfth Night/King Arthur

Assigned Monday, 11.19.12

Happy Thanksgiving! If you are caught up, all you need to do is relax and read part of your Independent OR Novel. (See dates below.)

TWELFTH NIGHT: we read Act I in class today--please bring your NAEL text daily when you return.

• If you like the Renaissance, check out:
  • http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html AND/OR
  • http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/barnettod_abl/chapter3/deluxe.html

Submit Excalibur/King Arthur Project to www.turnitin.com; Due 11.26.12:it is due by 11.59. Double check due dates listed on your block's page.

Be ready to talk about it in class after your GRENDEL TEST. Make sure you have your NSG with you--it will be collected, but you may have finished it today in class. I collected all work on Monday/Tuesday, so we will have a quick Socratic Seminar before your reading test.

Here is an interview excerpt (Gardner and GRENDEL) that you might find interesting:

http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle/Issues/scanned/issue11/gardner.htm

I have put some LONG TERM reminders below:

Nov-Dec Novel Reminders:

1. Bring to class on Wednesday/Thursday (11.28/11.29)
   
2. HW #1 due (like with the Seminar Novel) on 12.04.12
3. Optional Assignment Opportunity: “Build A House" on your independent novel (OR "Elizabeth OA 2012)
   
4. and AP Essay #4 (in-class on 12.12/12.13)

Grendel/1600s: TWELFTH NIGHT/OR

Assigned Thursday, 11.15.12: Have you signed up for your Independent Outside Reading Novel?

Grendel: Finish Grendel for Monday, 11.19/Tues. 11.20; Study Guide Questions CH1-6 and 7-12 ) are due then as well. Be prepared for Socratic Discussion on Mon/Tuesday.

GRENDEL NSG AND TEST: Monday 11.26/Tuesday 11.27;

1600s: take NAEL Quiz; Finish reading bio on Shakespeare (NAEL 493) and intro to TWELFTH NIGHT (NAEL 510-512). We will read Act I together on Monday/Tuesday---bring your NAEL daily.

Please go to resources and make sure that you put the Twelfth Night Packet and Film Worksheets into iBooks. Thanks.

 

 

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Grendel/Cumulative Paper

Assigned Tuesday, 11.13.12

Be ready to write an in-class AP Essay (Open, #3), on your Novel Pair novel, this Thursday/Friday (G).

Finish and submit your cumulative paper (see notes here in HW site, not in Resources.)!

Finish Grendel for Monday, 11.19.12; Study Guide Questions CH 1-6 and CH 7-12 (#2)  are due then as well.

Due to Retreat, field trips, and other absences, I have made these decisions:

Work on NSG; due on MONDAY, 11.26.12; Grendel Test is next MONDAY, 11.26.12 Bring your novel and completed GRENDEL NSG;

Have you signed up for your Nov-Dec Contemporary novel?

Please bring your NAEL on Thurs, as we will read the bio on Shakespeare and the intro to TWELFTH NIGHT (W.S.); Bring your NAEL daily.

NP/Grendel/Existentialism

Assigned Thursday, 11.08.12

Last presentations on Tuesday! Congrats. In-class AP Essay on Thurs/Friday.

NAEL Quiz: Take the NAEL Quiz on the 1600s BEFORE November 17^th.

GRENDEL:see above for info on your "One Pager."

READ CH II-VI FOR TUESDAY, 11.13.12: Bring your novel, expect a quiz, and bring questions, comments, and ideas--ask yourself, "does this Grendel negate the Grendel in BEOWULF?" (parallels, diverging representations, etc...)

Study Guide Questions Ch 1-6 check on TUESDAY, too. (MLA/typed/with study buddy---answer odd/even questions within each chapter--these may be in your iPad, in your CB, or typed). These will be stamped but will be collected after Chapter 12 with your NSG. I have put the Grendel Packet in Resources to GUIDE you, but I will not be collecting it this year.

Grendel: review vocabulary for your novel; see resources on Moodle.

Also, Review the information on: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html ,as needed, for BEOWULF review;

Sign up for your Nov-Dec Novel BEFORE 11.19.12.

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Grendel/Novel Pair Presentations/Cumulative Paper

Assigned Tuesday, 11.06.12

Grendel Intro on Thursday;·  You must have GRENDEL with you on Thursday, we will begin in class! Your Existentialism One-Pager" is due 11.08/11.09-  Read CH I very carefully on your own. Then, type up a “one-pager” definition of existentialism (there are sub-groups of ex, so be complete) and cite sources as needed.  Write this in “lecture” format, using “I.”---submit electronically to turnitin.com ONLY!!  Remember, your goal is to explain existentialism to SOPHOMORES, who are going to read THE STRANGER. I expect a WC at the bottom of your One Pager.

Sign up for your Nov-Dec Novel BEFORE 11.19.12—we will be done with Grendel by the time you start your independent reading; you need to have a parent signature for this contemporary, global, AP-Worthy Novel; This is independent reading and your written will occur on 12.10.12/12.11.12; There will be one checkpoint around November 28^th/29^th;

·  Excalibur/King Arthur Project; due on either 11.26/11.27; submit to www.turitin.com ON TIME. (50 points). Electronic only.

·  November Prof J due on 11.29.12 (Both R AND G)---electronic only!

Presentations for the week:

WED: Andrea and Reeny's groups

THURS: Theresa, Chase, and Jady's groups;  Patrick, Ileane, and Alexis' groups (see me--one group from each block will have to present on Tuesday.)

FRI: Megan and Cassidy's Groups

TUES: see Thursday, above.

***Remember to submit your handout to Moodle by the 16th of November! Thanks to those who have already submitted!

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Middle Ages Unit Test/NP Presentations

Assigned Wednesday, 10.31.12

Presentations all week; due to the Homecoming Rally, we may not get as far as anticipated---we wil have to reorganize a bit! If you are to present on Monday, come prepared---we will discuss reorganization in class.

Please bring GRENDEL on Tuesday/Wednesday; make sure you download the Grendel SGQs and Existentialism notes prior to our class meeting.

Middle Ages Unit Test on Friday/Monday. (50 MC/2 Short Answer).

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Novel Pairs/Malory

Assigned Monday, 10.29.12

Please bring NAEL on Wed/TH; we will begin GRENDEL next week (11.06.12);

Middle Ages Unit Test on Friday/Monday (may be pused to

Happy Halloween!!!

If you didn't do so in class, finiish Malory's Morte d'Arthur from your NAEL (301-318); annotate and expect a quiz on Wednesday;

Presentations begin Wednesday--all files for all groups are due at this time (exceptions: Works Cited, PPT slides, and Handout); I will check lit crit at this time, if it is electronic.

Presentations for the week:

Wednesday: Lindy and Thomas; no Red 2

Thursday: Kori, Alison, and Marie; Denis and Tanner

Friday: Patrick; Abby and Caroline

Monday: Andrea; Reeny

***please note that Ms. Allari will review the cumulative paper in class this week: Page One: your interaction with your text, your progress, and your awareness of your novel's universality; Page Two: your reaction, commentary, and reflection on your presentation, compared with those in your class.

***Remember to submit your handout to Moodle by the 9th of November!

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Malory/Novel Pairs/HTRLLAP

Assigned Thursday, 10.25.12: make sure you post your October Prof J!!!

Malory: read bio (299-301) and Book II, Book III and Excalibur for Monday---use the PDF from today or use the URLS, found in Resources; bring annotated packet of readings to class, too. Look at the attached handout--bring to class. There are three Malory Resources.

Presentations begin next week.

Excalibur/King Arthur Assignment: download handout from online Resources.

(I will be posting the Optional Assignment around 11.13.12.)

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Reminders for Next Week

 

Reminders for next week:

 Novel Pairs:

1. Make sure that you have your three research items, MWDS, 2 HW assignments, etc. for your presentation day; Review the rubrics! Use the comparison chart , using your novel and Return of the Native. Thank you.
2. Due to absences/individual preferences, you may decide as a group to complete a group works cited OR each member will present individual works cited pages in the file folder;
3. The MWDS (in file) is due on the day of the presentation: it is a group effort!
4. Look at the rubrics: presentation/group/and file.
5. Cumulative Paper (to be discussed next week) is due to www.turnitin.com (electronic copy only), in November.
   
6. Please submit your group handout to Moodle so that the other AP Block can review your presentation highlights. (Please do this before November 5th.)
7. Make sure that your group has signed up for due dates: SIGN UP GENIUS (I have also posted a reminder on the front door!)
8. iMovie/Book Trailer: http://selfpublishingteam.com/4-steps-to-making-your-own-book-trailer/3-4 minutes/see me to verify your choice. Thanks.

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EVERYMAN/Morality Play/Novel Pairs/Malory

Assigned Tuesday, 10.23.12

EVERYMAN: we reviewed the first 15 exchanges of EVERYMAN and finished the pay today in class, and viewed a DVD on Medieval Drama.

Take the time tonight to recharge, to work on applications and application essays, and to finish your seminar novel pair work…

Seminar Novel Work Time on 10.25.11 (Tuesday)---bring your MLA.

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EVERYMAN/Morality Play/Novel Pairs

Assigned Friday, 10.19.12

Download and print the Everyman Handout; review PPT notes from today's class, and intro (290-291);

Read the first 25 exchanges of EVERYMAN tonight—be ready to complete your reading in class on Tuesday; use this e-text: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/everyman.asp

Homescreen or reading list Malory Packet for Tuedsay/next week.

Seminar Novel Reading/Work. (HW #2)

October Professor Journal: due on the 25th/26th.

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Chaucer/Novel Pairs/Practice AP MC #1

_{Assigned Wednesday, 10.10.12}

OA Due Tomorrow: see this cool site to hear other 007 theme songs: http://www.musicpophits.com/MainPages/FeaturePages/JamesBondMusic.htm

_{Chaucer Pilgrim Chart due on October 12th/October 15;}

Chaucer: Read "The Pardoner" Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue (233-249) for October 16th/18th; we may have finished the Prologue in class.

Chaucer Exam on October 19th/22nd.

Novel Pair Reading and HW #1; October 16 (R)/October 18 (G)

AP Practice MC  and ELT worktime on Friday after we finish the Chaucer documentary--I will provide the textbooks, but please bring your CB and pen/pencil.

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1st Quarter Bonus

Assigned Friday, 10.05.12

Happy Global James Bond Day. Listen to the new theme song, by Adele, for the upcoming 007 movie, Skyfall.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/adeles-leaked-skyfall-bond-theme-376494

This is the 23rd James Bond movie, and the theme songs are quite legendary; write a review of this song and its lyrics, and hypothesize the theme of this movie. Write at least one page, refer to the lyrics, and contrast with prior themes songs for more points!!!! Use appropriate language!!

This is an optional assignment for 1st Quarter; you must give me your paper, in person,  before Friday, 10.12.12.

 

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Chaucer

Assigned Friday, 10.05.12

Have a great three-day weekend!

Canterbury Tales Prologue Quiz on Wednesday, 10.10.12; MC and matching on scantron;

Reading: continue "The Wife of Bath" Prologue and Tale (207-234), from where we left off in class,  for October 10th/11th; http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/chaucer/WBT.html

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99F/medieval_lit/wifeofbath/summary.htm

LOOKING AHEAD:

Chaucer Pilgrim Chart due on October 12th/October 15;

Chaucer: Read "The Pardoner" Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue (233-249) for October 16th/18th; we may have finished the Prologue in class.

Chaucer Exam on October 19th/22nd.

Novel Pair Reading and HW #1;

 

 

Chaucer/Novel Pairs

Assigned Wednesday, 10.03.12

Please download the Chaucer Chart, Chaucer SGQs, and Chaucer Packet, if you did not do so in class today. The supplementary Chaucer Notes are attached.

Novel Pair Workday #2 on Friday/Tuesday;

Review/take notes on Chaucer (165) and the intro to CANTERBURY TALES: review PPT notes and continue reading the Prologue; FINISH the Prologue for Friday/Tuesday;

Work on Chaucer Chart (remember the Bonus Opportunity);

Prologue Quiz on Wednesday/Thursday.

Looking Ahead: print out AP Exercises  3 and 4 from Resources.

Chaucer Sites for Audio OR interlinear translation:

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/gp-par.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/audio.htm

For Research on your author and novel:

The Largest Library Catalogue!!!

http://www.worldcat.org/

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"Lanval"/ Novel Pairs/Chaucer

Assigned Monday, 10.01.12

Please finish "Lanval"(Annotate carefully) from where we left off in class, for Wed/TH; download the attached AP Exercise for Wednesday's Warm Up, too!

Here is a nice link to review before or after you read!: http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng222/marie_lanval.htm

Please read the bio/intro to Geoffrey Chaucer (165) before you come to class.

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"Lanval"/Sir Gawain/AP Essay #1

Assigned Thursday, 09.27.12

Sir Gawain Quiz Monday/Tuesday (G);

Your essay on Bel Canto OR Return of the Native is due to www.turnitin.com 09.3012. No late work will be accepted. Please make sure to bring a paper copy to classs on 10.01/10.02.

Novel Pairs: READ!!!!

 

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Novel Pairs/Sir Gawain SGQs/HTRLLAP

Assigned Tuesday, 09.25.12: HTRLLAP Sept Journal due tonite!!!

Be sure to have the AP Theme Exercise for Warm Up this TH/FRI.

Submit SIR GAWAIN to MOODLE; make sure your name is on your indvidual responses; cite!

Sir Gawain MC Quiz on Monday/Tuesday;

Novel Pair Workday #1 TH/FRI; you must have your novel with you! Bring your novel daily, along with your NAEL.

Submit your AP Essay #1 on Bel Canto or Return of the Natve to TURNITIN.com; also, bring the hard copy on 10.01/10.02.

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Sir Gawain/HTRLLAP/Essay

Assigned Friday, 09.21.12

Novel Teams: you must have your novel with you in class Tues/Wed, which is the official first day of the long term project! (KINDLE, iBOOK, PAPER, LIBRARY, ETC....)

AP Essay: bring both your essay and your lit crit to class with you on Tues/Wed; be ready to review MLA and WC rules.

SIR GAWAIN: read Parts II, III, and IV for Thursday/Friday: complete your individual SGQs and submit to Moodle; see Moodle for more info.

Here is a BBC documentary on SIR GAWAIN :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74glI1lg1CQ

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HTRLLAP WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

Assigned Monday, 09.10.12

Here are the prompts for HTRLLAP. Due dates will be throughout the year, ending on May 1/May 2 (G). NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Put due dates into  your iCal.

ALL WORK WILL BE SUBMITTED TO WWW.TURNITIN.COM UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE (LIKE A MOODLE FORUM, PERHAPS).

 

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Sir Gawain/Novel Pairs

Assigned Wednesday, 09.19.12

Download AP Theme Exercise; Middle Ages Packet wil be posted on Friday.

Go to MOODLE and check out the Sir Gawain SGQs;

Read intro to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (112) and read Part I for Friday (ll. 1-490);

Have a great day!

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Gaskell/Novel Teams/Essay

Assigned Monday, 09.17.12

Library on Wednesday!

Read Bio on Elizabeth Gaskell; notes are online; then read "the Nurse's Tale" (2036), annotating gothic elements, style, tone, and essential passages. QUIZ on Wed/TH;

Continue to work on your esay.

Check the due dtaes on www.turnitin.com

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"Araby"/Essay/Wishlist

Assigned Wednesday, 09.12.12

Have a great three-day weekend!

Bring BEL CANTO again; check out this link:

http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137869519/ann-patchett

Look at www.turnitin.com for due dates for the Fall Semester.

Make sure you found at least ONE literary criticism for your essay that supports your analysis; email it to yourself/have it with you on Monday.

We will work in the ELT texts on Monday  and I will issue a james Joyce bio/reading quiz on Monday/Tuesday.

Novel Pairs/Triads: turn in a wish list on Monday/Tuesday. Choose an author—remember that this novel must be "AP Worthy!" andthe publication must be from  1750ish-1890; it must be over 400 pages (should not be an issue!); look at these sites for inspiration:

http://www.powells.com/awards/

http://www.powells.com/awards/#literaryfiction

https://sites.google.com/a/cardinalcomet.com/cardinal-library/Home/high-school-library/top-100-literary-classics

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html

http://wonderfulpen.blogspot.com/2007/03/best-british-novelsists.html

http://www.thewritingtutor.biz/suggested_reading/APliteraturebyauthor.php

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/ap-english-summer-reading-list

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/98464-college-board-s-ap-english-reading-list

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/16484-101-great-books-recommended-for-college-bound-readers

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AP Peer Letter #1/HJ Reflection

Assigned Monday, 09.10.12

AP Letter (TODLLS and AP Rubric) due with essay on Wed/TH for Read-Arounds/Conferencing;  use General AP Rubric, TODDLLS, and CDW Rules to comment, evaluate. Sentences should be postive and refer to specific parts of the essay. Letter should indicate the AP Score and justify such a "grade."if you were absent, please get a prompt from me upon your return.

We will begin our next class with a Socratic Seminar, using your notes/text: BEL CANTO! We will also be going to the library the last half of the block on Wed/TH to practice research and Peer Mark.

James Joyce's "Araby" (NAEL: 2503) --read by next Monday; I will introduce on Wed/TH.

LONG TERM/Reminders:

Submit your HJ Reflection by tomorrow night!

Bring NAEL/BC daily; Poetry Packet for Fall; HTRLLAP; NOTE: your Practice AP Essay #1 becomes your first essay for me to grade. Rubric forthcoming (late September).

Poetry Packet for Fall should be in iBooks or Noatability for annotations;

Seminar Novel Groups for October: with whom would you like to work? Wishlist of pair/triad and three authors from 1750ish---1890; due on Monday/Tuesday.

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Return of the Native/Bel Canto Response/Poetry

Assigned Thursday, 09.06.12

Please download the Poetry Packet from Tuesday's HW; put it in your AP Folder on your iPad.

See Tuesday for reminders.

Return of the Native/Bel Canto Response/Poetry

Assigned Tuesday, 09.04.12: make sure you submit your response to Turnitin before 11:59 pm tonight. NO late work will be accepted.

Practice AP #1 (W) will be on Monday;

Native PPTs will continue, too; good job so far!!!

Bring BEL CANTO;

Heroic Journey Diagram/Explanation due Monday (R)/Tuesday (G); be ready to share.

***There will be no class on Thursday/Friday: meet here for attendance and then we'll head to the Lecture Hall for  your Counseling Meeting.****

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NAEL/Return of the Native

Assigned Thursday, 08.30.12

Happy Labor Day!

Reivew Monomyth Packet and choose your Hero for the diagram;

Did you submit the NAEL Quiz (Middle Ages; 25Q)? Due on Friday by 6:00 p.m.

Return of the Native PPTs due in class Tues/Wed (G);

TURNITIN.COM: submit your favorite response from RN or BC before 11:59 pm on Tues/Wed. You have already done this resopnse, just submit it on time!

We will be grading the BEOWULF short answers on Tues/Wed.

For Thursday: Bring your favorite pen/paper for your first Practice AP Written (on BC); you may have your book with you, but odds are that you will place direct quotes on your own time.)

Work on Monomyth Packet.; review Joseph Campbell notes, the Heroic Journey, and brainstorm for your Hero’s Journey Chart.

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Return of the Native/NAEL Quiz/Monomyth

Assigned Tuesday, 08.28.12

Please register on TURNITIN: if you have not registered THIS YEAR for an account, register with the CCHS email address; if you have already registered for TURNITIN for another class THIS YEAR, use the same account (we don't want duplicate accounts).

Thank you!

MOODLE:

Choose 5 awesome words and submit to glossary in Topic 1 by Thursday;

RETURN OF THE NATIVE Pair PowerPoints notes/data due in class on Thursday/Friday--see handout on Moodle for more info!

Your Pair PPT/Keynote must be ready to present on Tues/Wed. You will share/talk with the class!

Please submit your "best" written response, complete with PD and detail, from either Bel Canto or Return of the Native, to Turnitin.com by Tuesday, 09.04.12/Wednesday, 09.05.12 before 11:59 p.m.

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NAEL Quiz/Return of the Native/Glossary FC

Assigned Friday, 08.24.12

Literary Glossary FC due Tuesday/Wed (G); create awesome flashcards that will elevate your language and style! Side one: word and pronunciation, if needed! Side two: definition and example/citation.

Beowulf Test Part II (Open Book; Q 51-100) will continue on Tues/Wed (G);

NAEL Intro  Quiz on the Middle Ages (1-21) due Friday, 08.31.12 before 6:00 p.m.;

 

 

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Lit FC/Beowulf/Signature

Assigned Wednesday, 08.22.12

BEOWULF Test on Fri/Mon (G); Part I (1-50); Open Book---please bring a #2 pencil;

Portfolio and Signature;

Glossary FC: using index cards or your APP, create 25 literary FC for "awesome" literary lingo, as discussed in class. Due Tues/Wed. Look at links in resources, your NAEL, and attached.

Bel Canto HW due on Fri/Mon.

** You will need BOTH Beowulf and Return of the Native Tues/Wed.

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Beowulf/Materials

Assigned Monday, 08.20.12

Return of the Native Summer Work due on Wednesday with your BEOWULF Chart;

Parent/Student Signature (at end of the Welcome Letter) due Friday;

Open Book Test on Beowulf on Friday;

Glossary FC due on Tuesday (25 fc; list posted with Wednesday's HW.

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Summer Reading 2012-2013

Hello, Seniors!

To see your Summer Reading Assignment, please click on the AP Literature and Composition link.

Thank you,

Ms. Allari

PS: there are many AP resources that we will use throught the year on my AP English site; for ease, your summer assignment is listed separately. Have a great summer, and see you in August.

Final Exam Prep/OA

Assigned Thursday, 05.24.12

Study for your FINAL EXAM: you will need a pencil, pen and paper; Your Exit Portfolio is due at the beginning of the block. Your AP Final Essay (RUBRIC ATTACHED for guidance) due to www.turnitin.com;

[]1: May 29th; []5: May30;

POETRY AND ELT DONATIONS; THE BOX IS IN FRONT OF THE ROOM--MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE INSIDE COVER....THANKS!

I enjoyed having you all in class this year---good luck to you as you head off into a new adventure! Keep in touch and congratulations.

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SA Paper/Earnest SGQs/Final Exam Prep/OA

Assigned Friday, 05.18.12

IDEAL HUSBAND CHARTS ("bonus") and Exit Portfolios due on the day of the exam in class (hard copy only);

Final Sequence Analysis Paper due to www.turnitin.com ON TIME! (electronic only);

Finish your Contemporary Non-Fiction Reading as needed.

Spring Final Exam/OA/Sequence Analysis

Assigned Tuesday, 05.22.12

Read "A Pearl in the Storm" for Thursday; all Unit 9: Contemporary NF readings can be found in the supplemental readings category; you will use one on the final exam!!!

Continue Working on your Sequence Analysis Paper, Exit Portfolio, and Optional Assignment as needed; review due dates online.

Please review to today's notes for specific due dates and responsibilities.

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Earnest Quest and SGQs/SA Prep/Reminders

Asssigned Friday, 05.18.12

• REMINDERS:

•  You should have your film sequence, excerpt, quotes from the play/movie and film terms prepped out (think pre-writing) as of this weekend. Is your movie approved?
  

• After we review your typed HW (3 SGQs from Wilde packet), we will journal on your reading (see above), take and EARNEST QUESTand finish AN IDEAL HUSBAND.THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST  Quest on Tuesday/Wed.
  
• STUDY!
  
• HOW TO WRITE ABOUT FILM link; be ready to continue work on your paper.

•  Sequence Analysis due online to www.turnitin.com (R) 05.26 and (G) 05.26 by 12:00 noon--both electronically only; see resources for a Sequence Analysis Worksheet.
• Exit Portfolio: due on the day of the final---hard copy due in class; no electronic copy;
• Final Exam: {}1; May 29, 2012; {} 5: May 30, 2012
  

Make sure you have your film review in class or that you have read one over the weekend; don't forget to look in the resources for "How to Write About Film" and "Cultivating Happiness" for Tuesday;

If you would like to get some bonus points, make a poster to accompany your SA Paper: see the samples on the back board--

 

Oscar Wilde/Non-Fiction Unit

Assigned Wednesday, 05.16.12: resources for the Art Show Optional Assignment and the Sequence Analysis can be found on Moodle; the SA Prompt is in Resources on this site.

We will finish Act III  and answer 3 SGQs   (from Wilde Packet) in class on Friday/Monday; Typed Responses due on Tuesday/Wed. Please bring to class with your NAEL.

Be ready to view AN IDEAL HUSBAND on Friday/Monday --we will be comparing this with EARNEST. If you are absent due to APs, you still are responsible for viewing on your own. There are two handouts for this unit, so please pick them up if you are absent.

Get your film arc approved if it is not EARNEST, HUSBAND, OR REMAINS.

 

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Oscar Wilde/Non-Fiction Unit

Assigned Monday, 05.14.12: Please make sure you have your Sequence Analysis Worksheet/Packet and 2012 instructions with you Wed/Fri---you should have the title of your film in mind for approval.

Review Act II as needed; we should finish Act III  and answer 3 SGQs   (from Wilde Packet) in class on Wednesday; Typed Responses due on Friday/Monday.

Be ready to view AN IDEAL HUSBAND on Friday or Tuesday --we will be comparing this with EARNEST. If you are absent due to APs, you still are responsible for viewing on your own.

Looking Ahead; Read "Cultivating Happiness"  (read on link and cut/paste/bring to class) and mark three passages for class discussion/reflection for our class on Tuesday. Note that the article spans 8 panels.

Think about your sequence analysis: look over your SAW Handout and Sequence Analysis Instructions (use the handout linked to this assignment, not the one in your packet); now read a film review from a reputable source (LA Times, the New Yorker, or Atlantic Monthly). Note the usage of the core techniques and how critics analyze specific arcs in their reviews.

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Earnest/Sequence Analysis/AP Exam

Assigned Thursday, 05.10.12

Free Night! Hope your AP Tests are going well...

You must be ready to read Earnest, Act II in class on Monday and finish the play for Wednesday.

 

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AP Exam: Good Luck!

Assigned Tuesday, 05.08.12

AP Test on Thursday! Good Luck! I have placed important links and reminders on the Bulletin Board (below);also, I have attached an Annotated AP List of works found on the AP Exam in the past (yep, 326 pages, so don't print it out!)

We will continue with Poetry Rounds as needed!

Finish BIO and Intro on Wilde and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2211/2231) we may have finished in class after Poetry Rounds;you must read/finish Act I for Monday, 05.14.12. We will answer questions in class;

Introduction to the Sequence Analysis; print out the handout and bring with your SAW (sequence analysis worksheet) from Fall Semester for next Monday,

Take a look at these last minute handouts for AP Prep that I have posted OR have given you in class!
EXAM HINTS
HELPFUL ESSAY HINTS
YEATS REVIEW IDEAS/CONCEPTS
Sequence Analysis

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AP Test Prep/Stevenson/Wilde

Assigned Friday, 05.04.12

You may check out an ELT or AP Book, if desired; please see me to sign out books, which must be returned before the end of the semester.

Close read bio on Robert Louis Stevenson (2168-2169) and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, "Story of the Door" (2169-2173) and "Search for My Hyde" (2173-2178); reading quiz on Tuesday/Wednesday;

Bring NAEL all week, as we will review for AP, begin Wilde (2211): the Critic as Artist and The Importance of Being Earnest on Tuesday/Wednesday.

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Use this for HW the week of May 1, 2012

See instructions on chart and in the chart, found in Writing Assignments, in Resources.

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Literary Elements Exam/Sound and Sense Exercise

Assigned Wednesday, 05.02.12: PLEASE REVIEW THE AP REGULATIONS THIS WEEK.

Literary Elements Exam this Friday/Monday---please bring a #2 pencil and a highlighter;

Sound and Sense Exercise due in class Friday/Monday;

OA Poetry Wheel: see me if you have any questions;

 

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Pygmalion/Poetry R I/ Practice MC AP

Assigned Monday, 04.30.12

Poetry Response #3 due May 3 to www.turnitin.com (no hard copy needed);

NAEL 20th C and Beyond Quiz due by May 2 at 11:00 pm.

Pygmalion: be ready to anlayze an excerpt in class Wed/TH;quiz yourself here: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nadrama/content/review/plays/19c-present.aspx

Literary Elements Exam on Fri/Mon;

Do Sound and Sense Rhetoric HW--- one HW assignment on one reading, like Ryan's, as seen in "4th Quarter AP Success Packet (14-15). TYPED!!!! Due Friday/Monday May 4th/7th; Choose either 20/21^st C or Victorian Poetry: choose ONE poem!

Option A: Victorian Poetry

• Browning: “Caliban Upon Setebos” (2084)
• Rossetti: “Sleeping at Last” (2157)
• Kipling: “If” (2290)

Option B: 20^th/21^st C:

• Hardy,” “The Darkling Thrush” (2325)
• Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfre” (2391) or “The Wild Swans at Coole” (2399)
• Auden: “Musee des Beaux Arts” (2693)
• Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (2710)
• Larkin: “Ambulances” (2714)

Option C: Choice from NAEL or For Better for Verse (Bulletin Board)

Need some points??? Create a new and exciting Poetry Wheel (see the example in the 4th Quarter  AP Success Packet !!!) Choose your "essence" and give to me by May 9^th; you may work in pairs if you’d like. If you choose to complete this OA, you may not complete the “This I Believe” OA, which is due before May 25^th.

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Victorianism/Shaw/Literary Elements Exam

Assigned Thursday, 04.26.12

• Review VICTORIANISM NOTES and NAEL/Turnitin.com due dates---bring attached resource  or you will receive a detention---we will be using it in class.
  
• SHAW: read Act II of Pygmalion; links in Resources--or see Tuesday's reminders.
  
• Bring NAEL and POETRY daily!
• Review Victorianism for  Monday’s mini-lecture; Bring POETRY and Anthology every day! We will begin Poetry Rounds on Monday. Don’t forget your “Line Up!”
• Need some points??? Create a new and exciting Poetry Wheel (see the example for your AP Success Packet #2!!!) Choose your "essence" and give to me by May 9^th; you may work in pairs if you’d like. If you choose to complete this OA, you may not complete the “This I Believe” OA, which is due before May 25^th.

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AP Novel "Line Up"

Posted Friday, 04.20.12

Here is a great link for the novels used on the AP Open Question 3:

http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html

I have posted many resources for AP Prep---look in Supplementary Handouts, or just skim the Resources List.

I will give one more packet at the end of the month.

Optional Assignment Information will be posted on May 1, 2012

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New Unit: Victorianism

Assigned Tuesday, 04.24.12

We will view part of PYGMALION (G. Bernard Shaw) this week---please review this information as needed: Resource also has important links. Please have Act I with you in class (library/iPad/iPhone) as we will use the links below in class---I will attempt to check out some tech, just in case!

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/shaw/Pygmalion.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw-bio.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jshaw.htm

You should have downloaded:

Victorian Notes

Victorian Poems

Art for Art's Sake

Taken NAEL Victorian Quiz by Wednesday, 04.25; 

Take the 20^th C Quiz by May 2^nd.

 More Romantic Poems:  Have you reviewed the following poems?

1. Burns: "A Red, Red Rose" (1454)
2. Wm. Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey," (1491), "What is a Poet?" (1502)( "London 1802" (1549)
3. D. Wordsworth: "Grasemere" (1606)
4. S. Coleridge: "Eolilan Harp" (1612), "Kubla Khan" (1632), "Chrstabel" (1634) --just to the first break!.

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Beloved/Romantic Poetry

Assigned Friday, 04.20,2012

Red and Gold: your Poetry Response #2 is due on 04.23.12---online only. See Moodle for directions.

BELOVED Unit Test and in-class AP Essay on Tuesday, 04.24.12/04.25.12 (G);please bring completed NSG and text. I have attached literary criticism for TM and BELOVED for you to peruse; also avaliable in Resources.

We will view part of PYGMALION (G. Bernard Shaw) this week---please review this information as needed: Resources also has important links.

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/shaw/Pygmalion.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw-bio.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jshaw.htm

LOOKING AHEAD:

Download and bring to class on Tues/Wed:

Victorian Notes

Victorian Poems

Art for Art's Sake

Take NAEL Victorian Quiz by Wednesday, 04.25;  

Take the 20^th C Quiz by May 2^nd.

AP EXAM HINTS:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_tips/4053.html

EXAM QUESTIONS

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2002.html

 

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Beloved/More Romantic Poems/NAEL

Assigned Wednesday, 04.18.20

RED ONE: presentations continue! We are almost done! :)

Beloved: read part III for Friday; Part II/III SGQs are due Friday, typed with cited data/supprt. We will have a Socratic Semianr as time allows;

Reminders: Team Teaching OL/WC and Cumulative paper should be submitted to www.turnitin.com tonight; Poetry Response 2 is due on Moodle 04.23.12---instructions online.

 

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Beloved/More Romantic Poems/NAEL

Assigned Monday, 04.16.12

Beloved: Read part II for Wed; listen to TM on NPR (link is on Easter HW notes);

Bring NAEL, please;

Review today's poets/poems:  Romantic Poems:

John Keats:                                    “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

                                                           “Bright Star…”

                                                            “Ode on a Grecian Urn”                       

 

Lord Byron:                                         “She Walks in Beauty”

                                                               “So, we’ll go no more a roving”

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley                               “Mutability”*

                                                               “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

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Happy Easter

Assigned Tuesday, 04.03.12

Happy Easter!

 

Bring your NAEL and Beloved on Mon/Tues.

Beloved Reading: finish all of Part I and do your questions: see the reading schedule below. Type and be ready to share with the class after Easter Break. If you missed the PowerPoint Lecture, see me!

Novel Study Guide for Beloved will be due on the day of the test.

Review Beloved and check out this site: you can hear Toni Morrison reading an excerpt of Beloved.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3912464

 

BELOVED Reading schedule and HW Assignments:

Part IA (1-29; 30-90;): do 2 Q from Part IA

Part IB (100-173): do 2 Q from Part IB: All Part IA/B Questions are due on the 16^th /17^th;

Part II (178-247) due April 18^th/19^th

Part III (251-290); due April 20^th /23^rd

Complete 2 from Parts II/III (for a total of four responses); these should be in MLA, typed, and should have textual references, due on the 20^th/23^rd;

 

RED: Presentations: thank you for turning in your written work! Here are the assigned presentation days: if something doesn’t work, let me know! I didn't receive work from everyone, so please see me before you go on break.

Monday: Cummings

Wednesday: Kipling or Heaney* we have Worship and Praise, so I hope there will be enough time for at least one group!

Friday: Heaney or Kipling

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BELOVED/Team Teaching

Assigned Monday, 04.02.12: make sure that your March Prof J is due tonight (extension from Friday's Closure); remember that the Poetry Response 2 is due on Moodle; you can do it this week, over break, or the week we get back, but don't procrastinate, as it is online only.

RED: all individuals who have not presented their Team Teaching presentations should bring their file contents, PPT slides, and outlines to class this TUESDAY. Groups who did not get to present last Friday should have the written work done, and groups assigned to tomorrow should be on task as well. Mikee, Kristyn, Katy, Michelle, Ashley, Matt, Paula, Abby, Celina, Brennan, and Shawn.

Be ready for an intro to BELOVED, for your REMAINS of the DAY test, and for one presentation tomorrow.

Red and Gold:

LITERARY ELEMENTS EXAM willl be given April 20/23.

BELOVED: You are to read Part IA (1-29/33, depending on the edition you own); what is the most powerful sentence in Part IA? How does the non-linear time affect your reading? (RED will begin Part IA in class)

BELOVED: Read Part IB (30-90; 100-173) over Easter;do 2 Q from Part IB and:

Read Part II (178-247) and Part III (251-290) ; answer 2 SGQs from Parts II and III; these should be in MLA, typed, and should have textual references; for Wednesday/Thursday, 04.19/20

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Team Teaching/Romantic Age/Beloved Intro

Assigned Wednesday, 03.28.12

March Prof Due 03.30.12

Poetry Response #2 due date has changed: see notes from class.

Please bookmark this site, as you will be responsible for reading litearary criticism for Toni Morrison's Beloved:

http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/beloved.htm

Bring BELOVED on Friday/Monday. You must have this text!

If you have the POETRY: CLOSE READINGS text, please bring it Tuesday;if not, you may check one out from me.

More Romantic Poems Handout Online

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Team Teaching/BELOVED

Assigned Wednesday, 03.29.12: here are some reminders, due to my absence:

March Prof Due 03.30.12;

Romantic Age 25 Q NAEL Quiz due on 03.31.12;

Poetry Response #2 due date has changed: see notes from class: April 18^th—see Moodle;

Please bookmark this site, as you will be responsible for reading litearary criticism for Toni Morrison's Beloved:

http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/beloved.htm

Bring BELOVED on Friday.. You must have this text!

If you have the POETRY: CLOSE READINGS text, please bring it Tuesday; f not, you may check one out from me.

More Romantic Poems Handout Online---please download.

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Unit 5: Romantic Period/Team Teaching

Assigned Monday, 03.26.12

Read the bio on Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1388) and "Washing Day" and "Rights of Woman"; be ready to write/respond in class Wed/Fri;

Team Teaching Continues;

Poetry Response due date has changed---I will address that in class;

March Prof J due this week ONLINE only;

Your NAEL Quiz (25Q) is due March 31st (due to Retreat, Red and Gold have the same due date);

Please bring BELOVED (T. Morrison) on Friday/Monday.

 

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Team Teaching/17thC and Restoration

Assigned Thursday, 03.22.12: due to the many absences, I have placed reminders below: thank you!

Remains of the Day Final Written due on 03.26.12---please submit to www.turnitin.com BEFORE you go on your Retreat. Have a safe time.

Prepare for 17^th/Restoration Unit Exam Monday/Tuesday, Individuals on Retreat will take the test Thursday at 2: 05.  

UNIT 6: Romanticism Unit: do the NAEL intro quiz (25 Questions) on or before March 31^st(R and G)

Please have your NAEL and POETRY with you daily (MANDATORYRomantic Era: Supplement #1 and #2: see resources.

 PRESENTATIONS NEXT WEEK:

RED: AUDEN (AFTER EXAM ON MON); HEANEY/HOPKINS (WED); CUMMINGS/KIPLING (FRI)

GOLD: HEANEY (AFTER EXAM ON TUES); ANGELOU/YEATS (THURS)

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Team Teaching/Pope/17th C/Restoration Exam

Assigned Tuesday, 03.20.12

Poetry Bios for this week:

Red One: Yeats and Kipling (TH); Auden (M)---note, some changes were made in class today before Career Day Dismissal.

Gold V: Tennyson/Byron/finish Neruda (W); Shelley and Kipling (F);

Finish Cantos Ii-V ("The Rape of the Lock" for TH/Fri and complete all SGQs from the Packet (per instrucions given in class);

Unit Exam: 17th C and Restoration: Red on 03.26 and Gold on 03.27;

Looking Ahead: March Prof J; Poetry Response 2

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Remains/Pope/Team Teaching

Assigned Wednesday, 03.14.12

See above for reminders!

If you have presented this week, Congrats! and  see me about the cumulative paper on your presentation.

Remains of the Day Reading Test/Check:

Red: Tuesday, March 20th

Gold: Monday, March 19th

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Remains/Team Teaching/Pope

Assigned Wednesday, 03.14.12:

Assignments for the Week of March 14th: be aware that some dates may be pushed due to presentations---the most up-to-date reminders will be given in class on the HW board.

Red One: Read bios on Yeats and Kipling (Fri);

Neruda/Wordsworth (Tues); for Team Teaching Presentations;

Gold Five: Read bios on Elliot and Heaney (Wed);

Angelou and Byron (Fri);l for Team Teaching Presentations

Poetry Response 1 due in class on 03.20/03.21---attach scanned poem (follow all four steps).

Remains of the Day: finish reading this weekend and be ready for a reading test on 03.20/03.21 before presentations; Final Written due on 03.26.12/03.27.12 (online only, see attached); be ready for a Socratic Seminar---bring your book! Sequence Analysiss/Viewing of film on 03.30/04.02*** (if not before).

LONG TERM REMINDERS:

Read Pope: Cantos II-V for Thurs, 03.22/Friday, 03.23. Study Guide Questions due at beginning of class (see packet);

Unit Exam: 17th C/Restoration on 03.26/03.27 (50 mins);

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Remains/Pope/Team Teaching

Assigned Thursday, 03.08.12

TEAM TEACHING:

RED ONE: Blake/Cummings (03.14.12)

GOLD FIVE: Blake (03.13.12)

AP Essay #4: your essay should now be revised and submitted to MOODLE: the next step is to peer edit at least 2 essays---one from Red I and one from Gold V; try to review essays that have not been viewed/peer edited for parity. See Reminders from last week; set yourself a time limit of 15 mins each;

Remains of the Day #2: see calendar;

Bring your NAEL so we can continue reading Pope/Canto II.

Poetry Response: due date change: see Tuesday's reminders, thanks!

Remains/Pope/Team Teaching

Assigned Tuesday, 03.06.12

Review bios on Dryden (899) and Pope (1124); read "From an Essay on Poesie" (922) for Thursday; please make sure that you have the Restoration Packet daily.

Team Teaching: fluid due date on Intro/OL---place in folder on table.

Remains of the Day Reading; see calendar.

Poetry Packet Downloads: we will continue in class on TH/T with the next three poems. PLEASE NOTE: the due date for your first Poetry Respnse has been changed: it is now MARCH 20th (R)/MARCH 21 (G).

Unit Exam: 17th/Restoration: March 16/March 19.*

 

 

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Team Teaching/Remains of the Day/Poetry

Assigned Friday, 03.02.12

Team Teaching: Intro Paragraph/roman numeral(s) due Tues or Thursday---it is up to you, as long as it is done for review. See notes from class.

March Seminar Novel: REMAINS Reading and Assignment #1 due Tuesday; (see your list of 22 options). You must keep track of your reading/due dates; see today’s packet; annotate your text—it is part of your grade.

Download the first three pages of  the Poetry Packet (Fall) and Poetry Packet (Spring) for next Tuesday---this is for a practice explication. Mandatory: no poems=detention. I have posted these in the AP Prep Category

AP Essay #4:  review your Peer Suggestions from today; type up revised essay and submit to Moodle for Peer Forums; submit by 03.08.12 before 6:00 pm.; respond and discuss on Moodle by 03.15.12 at 6:00 pm; use the General AP Rubric as your guide; you are to issue an AP "score" after your comments; you must cut and paste your discussion in (not as a download—thread should be visible;you are to read at least one essay from each block.

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Remains/GT/Team Teaching OL

Assigned Wednesday, 02.29.12

March Seminar Novel: REMAINS  Reading and Assignment #1 (see your list of 22 options). You must keep track of your reading/due dates; see today’s packet; annotate your text—it is part of your grade.

Download the first three pages of Poetry Packet (Fall) and Poetry Packet (Spring) for next Tuesday---this is for a practice explication. Mandatory: no poems=detention.

GT: see Monday’s instructions.

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Gulliver's Travels/Remains of the Day/Team Teaching

Assigned Monday, 02.27.12

Annotated WC due on Wed with at least 3 sources;

Outline: each student needs and Intro Paragraph with AG and POD and at least one Roman Numeral with each set of 3 tiers (see sample---the key is to know that every A, I, a etc MUST be at least three sentences---see handout from Day One);

GT read Part IC, Ch 1-2 for Friday; answer Q 1-4 from packet (typed);

Read Arounds for AP Essay #4 on Friday; bring your sample AP Rubrics from Spring or from Resources.

Bring REMAINS OF THE DAY (Ishiguro) to class daily, as it is your March Seminar Novel; I will check for points during class.

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Gulliver's Travels/ELT/Team Teaching

Assigned Thursday, 02.23. 12

For Monday/Tuesday:

Gulliver's Travels (GT): Read:  Part I (CH 3 and 4) {991-998}; Part II (CH 6 and 7) {1041-1049}. Be ready to answer Q 1-3 in class.

ELT: Satire Exercises: Q 1, 4, 7, 9; 29 due one Monday/Tuesday (questions are in the gray box);

Looking Ahead:
Remains of the Day: bring Novel on Wednesday/TH; Remains Handout/Calendar will be given oiut on Wed/TH.

Work on your Team Teaching---research and the like. Print out lit crit for file. See samples from class. Your Annotated Works Cited (3 sources min) due on Wed/TH.

 RESTORATION HANDOUTS: I have given you a packet, but if you need review the Restoration before your quiz next week (changed from this TH/FRI due to mass, reivew docs are posted online:

GOLD FIVE: don't forget to complete your practice AP #4 for Tuesday---read and annotate, answer: 40 mins only.

Restoration/Team Teaching

Assigned Tuesday, 02.21.12

Please remember to bring your NAEL and ELT every day (you may have to check out an ELT); I expect you to take notes, to be engaged while in class, and to have your supplies.

Unit 4: Restoration Era:be ready for a quiz on the Restoration Era this Thursday (historical info); Define SATIRE for Thursday;( in your own words!) Attach to your Swift Satire Journal! (see explanation on last week's HW Board);

How to Read Literature Like  a Professor Journal due dates can be found at www.turnitin.com; we will begin Gulliver's Travels in class this Thursday;

Unit 3:Team Teaching: please bring your working list of sources Thursday so that we can discuss the annotated works cited assignment. You must have your MLA with you to do the in-class assignment.

Unit 5: Seminar Novel: The Remains of the Day: please have this novel with you in class on Monday/Tuesday.

AP READING: If you are pursuing other novels that are AP Worthy, you may want to check your Lexile Level---and choose accordingly; or, you may want to head to the AP Central Site to look at recommended reading!

Restoration/Team Teaching/Hamlet Peer Edit

Assigned Wednesday, 02.15.12

RED ONE: we will meet in the library Tuesday morning!!!!

Please see the Restoration Handouts in Resources, for Pope and Swift/GT.

• Restoration Reading and NAEL  Quiz by Tuesday morning (red and gold);
• Define SATIRE for Tuesday/Wednesday;( in your own words!) Attach to your Swift Satire Journal! (see explanation below); bring your ELT or Borrow one from me for both Tuesday/Wednesday;
• Practice AP Essay #4 on Tuesday/Wednesday on Poetry.
• Make sure that you've read/finished the essay "A Modest Proposal" (1114-1119). You may have finished in class;
• After reading, please copy at least two textual references containing satire, note the type and then identify what/who Swift is satirizing( approx. 2 paragraphs)---look at the attached handout before you begin this assignment. We will spend a lot of time on SATIRE, so be thorough. Thanks.

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Restoration/Team Teaching/Conrad

Assigned Monday, 02.14.12

Team Teaching: sampe rubric from 2011 is attached (2012 is still a work-in-progress); Library Workday #1 on Wed/Thurs;

Scanned/annotated poem is due Wednesday;

Follow Steps 1-3, as you did with Cavalier Poets;

Practice AP Written #4 will occur in class next Tuesday, 02.21.12: Poetry.

Read Bio on Jonathan Swift (971) for  02.15.12---we will read "A Modest Proposal" toogether as an intro to SATIRE.; Read Intro to Restoration/18th C (NAEL 853-876) for 02.21.212 and complete the 25 Q Quiz;

Heart of Darkness Objective Test on Wed (pushed back from Monday) after Socratic Seminar.

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Heart of Darkness

Assigned Thursday, 02.09.12

Heart of Darkness: we will finish our Socratic Discussion on Mon/Tues, when the collage and reflection are due with the packet; after presentations, expect a test! See 02.07.12 for more information.

Bring NAEL daily, please.

Team Teaching Workdays: all dates are in February: please choose your poem(s); xerox, annotate, explicate for 02.13/02.14 (G); if you have not come to class to view previous groups' files, please make an appointment to do so!

15/16

21/22

23/24

27/28

17th C/Heart of Darkness/Cavalier Poetry

Assigned Tuesday, 02.07.12

Read/Finish Cavalier Poet Bios; Hard copy of your Reflection on the/your Cavalier Poets due  AND submitted electronically; this should be one page typed and have at least two textual references. Your group will "teach" the poet and 2 poems to the class on TH/Mon (FRI/Tues);

1. Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
2. Herrick, “To the Virgins Who Die Young”
3. Lovelace, “ The Garden”
4. Jonson, “Queen and Huntress,” To Althea,” ‘the Definition of Love,: and “Though I am Young”

 Renaissance Scenes Continue!

Heart of Darkness Finish!  Socratic Seminar on TH; Packet and Collage/Explication due on 02.14,12/02.15.12.

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Paradise Lost /Renaissance Scenes/Heart of Darkness

Assigned Friday, 02.03.12: your last day to change Poets is Tues/Wed (G); if you are sure, print out your poem choice(s) and bring daily. Thanks.

HAMLET: submit to turnitin.com this weekend---sorry for the delay.

Paradise Lost: finish Packet for Tues/Wed (G);  Book I test on Thursday/Friday (G)  before Renaissance Scenes:

Study: http://www.paradiselost.org/5-summary.html

Read/Finish Cavalier Poet Bios (see class notes/instructions) as needed.We will continue on Tues/Wed.

Renaissance Scenes begin Tues/Wed and conclude on TH/FRI (G);

Heart of Darkness Part III should be completed by Thursday's class---bring at least one quote per part to use during our Socratic Discussion---see notes from Friday/Monday's class.

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Milton/Renaissiance Scenes

Assigned Wednesday, 02.01.12

 Welcome to Paradise Lost, I!

• Paradise Lost: Finish PL, I for Friday and complete half of the ten questions (Q 1-10; o/e. )Type and use at least one quote in each response See the questions in the packet for topics we will use with our Socratic Discussion.. Cite lines in PD; Quiz Yourself here: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=paradise-lost-book-1

Read Bios on Cavalier Poets (. www.luminaraium.org is a wonderful site, check it out!) for Tuesday's class
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Herrick, “To the Virgins Who Die Young”
Lovelace, “ The Garden”
Jonson, “Queen and Huntress,” To Althea,” ‘the Definition of Love,: and “Though I am Young”

  Renaissance Scenes: presentations start next week---last work day on Friday/Monday for Program Contents/props. You will get rubrics this week.

 Heart of Darkness---keep reading---see due dates in the previous post.

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Heart of Darkness/Hamlet Essay/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned Monday, 01.30.12

Milton on Wed;

Heart of Darkness Part II Reading.

Part II due on Friday/ Monday 02.03/02.06

Part III due on Thursday/Friday, 02.09/02.10

Hamlet Essay due on Wed; attach rubric to hard copy; submit to www.turnitin.com; don’t forget the Works Cited Page---all three sources should be cited and documented correctly. Review the rubric before you submit/hand it.

Be ready to peer edit!

Team Teaching: time to commit! You need to choose your poems. See me to verify.

Hamlet Essay/IR/17th C

Assigned Thursday, 01.26.12

John Donne Journal due Monday (see your 17th C Packet)

Heart of Darknes: mini reading schedule; reading guide in resources; each day will focus on a different aspect/theme--be ready to share, question, and respond in class.

Part I due on Monday/Tuesday, 01.30/01.31

Part II due on Friday/ Monday 02.03/02.06

Part III due on Thursday/Friday, 02.09/02.10

Packet/Collage/Explication/Test on Monday/Tuesday 02.13/02.14

Be ready to practice your Renaissance Scene on Wednesday; presentations of scenes on 02.07 and 02.09.12.

 

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Heart of Darkness IR/1th C

Assigned Tuesday, 01.24.12

INDEPENDENT READING: read Part I (2329-2350) for Monday; I have linked reading guide questions in resources, but am not requiring responses.

Shakespeare Sequence Analysis: we have practiced this in class; the rubric is now online-- bring  your notes to class; remember, you will share your ideas with your peers, so be ready to read a thought or two. I will collect ( this was supposed to happen last class, but we ran out of time, sorry).

Read bios on John Donne (600) for Thursday and John Milton (693) for Monday;

If you are in class TH/FRI, you will recieve your essay from our last class;

Final Draft Paper and Works Cited due Wednesday, 02.01.12 (R)/02.02.12 (G); submit to www.turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on your due date.

 

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Hamlet/Early 17th C/Independent Reading

Assigned Friday, 01.20.12

Lit Crit Two-Pager is due Tues/Wed. Don’t forget to submit to www.turnitin.com. AND TO MOODLE---you want to be able to read other Two-Pagers and to share with  your classmates. You need HAMLET and the NAEL in class with you daily.

• Shakespeare Sequence Analysis: we have practiced this in class; the rubric is now online.
• choose one  roman numeral (from I-V in the SAW Packet) and
  
• write one to two pages on that topic---Staging, props and setting, for example,
• focusing on one of the Hamlets that we have viewed ---and bring to class; remember, you will share your ideas with your peers, so be ready to read a thought or two. I will collect.
  
• We have viewed in class, but if you need to recap, you can use PBS.org or specific clips can be found on youtube.com.
  
• (NOTE: you may have taken notes in class WED/FRI or THURS/MON (G))
  

Read Bios on John Donne (600) and John Milton (693 by next Thursday/Friday). We will read some John Donne on Thursday/Friday in class.

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Hamlet/Early 17th C/Independent Reading

Assigned Wednesday, 01.18.12

Hamlet Test on Friday, after Socratic Discussion; Worksheets due at that time. Are your SGQs submitted to Moodle? You can find review quiz questions on QUIA.

Bring HAMLET and NAEL to class daily, please. I will also be checking on Friday/Monday for the Sequence Analysis Worksheet Packet AND the instructions for the Hamlet SA Assignment. Consider this a supply check for points, as some individuals have been less than prepared lately.No materials=no credit.

Lit Crit/Two Pager due 01.24.12

For Friday:

Review Intro to 17th C/Metaphysical Poets (575-597) and read bio on Joseph Conrad (2326) (for indpendent reading);

Think about an era you like---Romanticism, Victorianism, Twentieth C/Twenty-first C---and who you might like to Team Teach with!

Hamlet Lit Crit/Test/Individual Questions

Assigned Thursday, 01.12.12

See Tuesday;

Work on Individual SGQs! Post to Moodle no later than January 18 (both R and G). You may have done so while in the library this week.

Bring NAEL on FRIDAY/MONDAY, please, to use after your HAMLET exam. (MOVED DUE TO CLASS MASS DURING GOLD 5 THIS THURSDAY)

Sequence Analysis—make sure that you have the SAW and SA Hamlet Instructions with you DAILY.  We will be practicing next Friday, like we did in class today. Look in Resources if you have not already printed out the packet/instructions. Ultimately you will write a sequence analysis for the opening sequence of one of the Hamlets (KB/MG/DT/EH), TBA

LONG TERM:

Two-Pager due on 01.24.12/01.25.12 in class; don’t forget to submit to www.turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on the due date. You will be using the lit crit/Two Pager as part of your Lit Crit essay---you will have a timed first draft at that time.

Renaissance Scenes.

 

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HAMLET/Renaissance Scenes

Assigned Tuesday, 01.10.12

*Note: most of this work is staggered---we are discussing Acts IV and V this week, and practicing the Sequence Analysis. You must choose when to read the lit crit and complete your Group Work on your own.

January Prof J due  online.

Read "A Critical History of Hamlet" (181-204) and THEN read the assigned essay (see below--you may choose if you prefer). Read this week and next--you will receive information on the "Two-Pager" during our next class. IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE INSTRUCTIONS, GO TO RESOURCES/WRITING ASSIGNMENTS.

A--G: Feminist Criticism and Hamlet (208-238)

H-N: The New Historicism Criticism and Hamlet (368-400)

O-Z: Marxist Criticism and Hamlet (332-366).

Read, scan, and mark--you will be using ideas from this essay and the play in your essay next week, and in your "Two Pager."

LIT CRIT FREE RESOURCES:

http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/humanities/index.aspx?id=3052

http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496

Hamlet Test and Team/Group Questions/Worksheet: DUE ON Wed, 01.18/Thurs. 01.19: submit your individual answers to Moodle; I will collect your individual worksheets. Have copies of your SGQs in class for your oral presentation.

Renaissance Scene Groups. Know your character. You will have two more Library workdays: one for the Renaissance Scenes and one for your essay prep.

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Hamlet/Jan Prof

Assigned Friday, 01.06.12

Read Act IV/V for Tuesday; work on your team questions.

Look at how Ophelia is a catalyst; what momentous events occur in ACT III/IV?

Hamlet Test will be on 01.18.11; Team Questions are due at the same time on MOODLE. Refer to today's class notes for specifics.

Reveiw Sequence Analysis Worksheet/Instructions.

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January Prof J/Hamlet/Lit Terms

Assigned Wednesday, 01.04.12

HAMLET: read Act III (from where we left off in class) for Friday; expect a quiz!

Jan Prof J

Download the Sequence Analysis  handout; bring daily (SAW and directions: see Resources); MB/EH/KB/DT);

Make flashcards (define; example, like on Midterm);

due Friday;

• 1. KENNING
• 2. BLANK VERSE
• 3. PARODY
• 4. METAPHYSICAL CONCEIT
• 5. VOLTA
• 6. EPIGRAM;
• 7. ARCHETYPE
• 8. ANACHRONISM;
• 9. PERIPHRASIS
• 10. LITOTES

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Christmas Work

Assigned Friday, 12.16.11

Have a safe and Merry Christmas!

Make sure that you have read HAMLET, Acts I and II for 01.04.12. (we began this in class on 12.07/12.08 and 12.12./12/13, so you should be able done already!) Be ready for some type of evaluation, like a Socratic Seminar....

If you want to review with audio, or view an appropriate version---one that is almost similar to the Bedford edition of HAMLET---go to PBS.org to see the RSA adaptation:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/

 

FOR FUN!!!!

NY Times High School Page: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/

If you go to this site, look at the index located on the bottom right---you can take quizzes, learn a word a day, do a crossword puzzle, check out student contests, read student blogs, and complete practice math and language arts questions. Enjoy!

Hamlet/Fall Final/AP Essay #4

Assigned Monday, 12.12.11

Come prepared for your final this week: pen, pencil, paper, eraser!

Have you read the intro to the Early 17th C?

See you Thursday and Friday.

 

Hamlet/Fall Final/AP Essay #4

Assigned Thursday, 12.08.11

Midterm Exams begin on Wednesday, 12.14.11

OA due 12.13.11 before 2:15 p.m.

In-Class AP Essay#4: bring pen, prompt, paper, and text on Mon/Tues for your 50 min. writing period;

Hamlet Act I: please read! We will begin Act II after your essay.

Discussion Boards/Moodle

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Fall Final Info

Assigned Tuesday, 12.06.11

Twelfth Night Take-Home Test due tonight on www.turnitin.com; no late work will be accepted;

TN SGQs due to MOODLE by the end of the week (15-20; at least 3 per act);

Read intro to HAMLET (1-26) and bring text on TH/MON;

Looking Ahead: in-class AP Essay #4 (independent novel) on Mon; bring your prompt and writing materials.

Independent Reading HW #1 due on TH/FRI.

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Twelfth Night and Independent Reading

Assigned Friday, 12.02.11

Be ready to read some Shakespearean Sonnets on Tuesday; see packet---bring daily. You have each been assigned a sonnet to "teach" to the class!

Twelfth Night: Post-Reading Question to Moodle and your Take Home Test  to www.turnitin.com due Wednesday (11:59) for both R and G--remember that this is your "test," so follow all ALLARI/MLA rules! NO late work will be accepted.

 

Looking Ahead:

Hamlet: read the Intro (1-26) before class on Thursday/Friday (12.08/12.09) (G)---you absolutely must have the Bedford's/St Martin's edition.

Bring Nov-Dec Novel on Thursday, 12.08.11/Fri 12.09.11 (G)  for an in-class assignment (AP Essay #4---choose the prompt from your AP "Tip" packet) with HW #2;

Please read the intro to the Early Seventeenth C {1603-1660} in your NAEL (575-599) and take the NAEL QUIZ BEFORE 12.14.11 as some info from the intro may be on the Midterm.

Build-A-House due 12.13.11 (Optional);

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Twelfth Night Act V

Assigned Wednesday 11.30.11

Finish Act V as needed; look at the entire play--choose an excerpt of linguistic playfulness, or one that you enjoyed, for us to examine in class on Wednesday---mark it up and identify the rhetorical devices Shakespeare uses in the excerpt. Be ready to share! We will finish the film afterwards (bing film worksheet, please! ) :)

Bring NAEL and Independent Reading Novel for in-class written on Friday/Mon;

HW #1 for Independent Novel due on 12.08.11

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AP Exam Registration

Posted on Thursday, 10.13.11

The link to AP exam registration is up on the CCHS website under Academics. Look for the AP Exam Registration button or click below!

AP Exam Registration

The registration deadline is in February so students  may spread their registration for each AP test through February, instead of having to register and pay for all tests

Twelfth Night and Independent Reading

Assigned Monday, 11.28.11

TN: Act III (III.i-III.iv) {541-556} and Act IV (IV.i-IV.iii) {556-561}.

 Quiz on Acts II--IV on Wed, 11.301..; make sure you have completed three QPA’s (NOT TWO) for Act III and Act IV for Wednesday; typed; column form (see handout);

TN SGQs will be turned in with your Take Home Test. More info is forthcoming.

Submit Excalibur Project to www.turnitin.com;

Nov-Dec Novel Reminders:

1. Bring to class on Wednesday;
2. HW #1 due (like with the Seminar Novel) on 12.08,11
3. Optional Assignment: “Build A House:
4. and AP Essay #4 (in-class on 12.12/12/13)

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Unit 4: the Renaissance

Assigned Monday, 11.21.11

Grendel Test/NSG due on Monday, 11.28.11

TEMPEST: Finish Act I  and Act II of TN for 11.28/11.29—we may have finished in class---you will complete written work as you go—see your handouts from today. Bring TN Packet with SGQs to class--we will do them IN CLASS;

EXCALIBUR ASSIGNMENT (from the MA Unit) due on 11.28/11.29-assigned on October 27, 2011)

 PLEASE PRINT OUT THE TN STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS (RESOURCES) AND THE FILM WORKSHEET; THANKS!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

 

 

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Shakespeare/Grendel

Assigned Thursday, 11.17.11

Grendel: Finish Grendel for Monday, 11.21/Tues. 11.22; Study Guide Questions CH 1-6 (from 11.16) and CH 7-12 (#2) and Grendel Packet are due then as well. Be prepared for Socratic Discussion on Mon/Tuesday.

GRENDEL NSG AND TEST: Monday 11.29.28/Tuesday 11.29;

TEMPEST: Finish Act I of TN as needed—we may have finished in class---you will complete written work as you go—see your handouts from today.

If you like the Renaissance, check out:

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html AND/OR

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/barnettod_abl/chapter3/deluxe.html

TN: review (510-512) as needed.

Here is a cool site for our first Shakespearean play of the quarter: Twelfth Night.

http://fteague.myweb.uga.edu/wctn.html

PLEASE PRINT OUT THE TN STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS (RESOURCES) AND THE FILM WORKSHEET; THANKS!

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Post Presentation/Grendel/1600s

Assigned Wedensday, 11.16.11

GRENDEL READING:

Presentations: check grades in gradebook, please. Don't forget to submit your cumulative paper (50 points) and your class handout (MOODLE);

NAEL 1600s QUIZ;

Please bring your NAEL on Thurs/Fri, as we are going to begin TWELFTH NIGHT (W.S.); we will also be using the ELTs in class.

NOTE: for more info on WS, order Shakespeare Alive (Papp)--get it used, or at Barnes and Noblel (6.50). It is a great Renaissance Resource, bu optional;

SIGN UP FOR YOUR NOV/DEC NOVEL: YOU ARE TO READ AN APPROVED, CONTEMPORARY "AP WORTHY" NOVEL FROM ANY COUNTRY!!!

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Peer Edit/Grendel/Cumulative Paper

Assigned Thursday, 11.10.11

Last presentations on Monday (G)! Congrats!

NAEL Quiz: Take the NAEL Quiz on the 1600s BEFORE November 16^th.

GRENDEL:see above for info on your "One Pager."

READ CH II-VI FOR TUESDAY, 11.15,11: Bring your novel, expect a quiz, and bring questions, comments, and ideas--ask yourself, "does this Grendel negate the Grendel in BEOWULF?" (parallels, diverging representations, etc...)

Study Guide Questions Ch 1-6 due on TUESDAY, too. (MLA/typed/with study buddy---answer odd/even questions within each chapter). These will be stamped but will be collected after Chapter 12.

Sign up for your Nov-Dec Novel BEFORE 11.17/11.18.11—-This is independent reading and your written will occur on 12.08/12.09; there will be one checkpoint around November 28^th/29^th;

Review the comments on your essay; bring your essay to class on Monday. Thanks.

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Presentation Wrap Up/Grendel and Existentialism

Assigned Tuesday, 11.08.11

Peer Edit: Use the General AP Rubric (linked in Resources)  and evaluate the essay you picked up today; I expect you to evaluate content, mechanics, TODDLLS and make comments; lastly, write a “letter” of explanation , as your individual is from the other block---due on Thursday/Monday.

 November Prof J due on 11.08.11 (Both R AND G)---electronic only!

GRENDEL:  Read CH I very carefully. Then, type up a “one-pager” definition of existentialism (there are sub-groups of ex, so be complete) and cite sources as needed.  Write this in “lecture” format, using “I.” Due on G)---submit electronically to turnitin.com ONLY , due 11.15.11---you may want to wait until after we finish the Existentialism PPT/you get your notes; Write in your own words and cite sources. "I" is okay. Remember, your goal is to explain existentialism to SOPHOMORES, who are going to read THE STRANGER:

Review the information on: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html as needed as BEOWULF review;

Vocabulary from CH I:

1. Docile (7)

2. Sycophantish (7)

3. Trifling (8)

4. Mere (9)

5. Fuliginous (10)

6. Hex (10)

7. Coy (10)

8. Thanes (12)

9. Hoary (12)

10. Dirge (13)

11. Pyre (14)

12. Dogmatism (14)

13. Quavering (14)

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Middle Ages/Presentations/Grendel

Assigned Friday, 11.04.11

Grendel Intro on Tuesday;

Middle Ages Exam: you will take the test before presentations; be ready to start at the bell/after prayer. #2 pencil is necessary.

Sign up for your Nov-Dec Novel BEFORE 11.17/11.18.11—we will be done with Grendel by the time you start your independent reading; you need to have a parent signature for this contemporary, global, AP-Worthy Novel; This is independent reading and your written will occur on 12.08/12.09 or 12.11/12.12; There will be one checkpoint around November 28^th/29^th;

·  Excalibur/King Arthur Project; due on either 11.28/11/29; submit to www.turitin.com and bring a hard copy (ask yourself what you want to do over Thanksgiving Break!)

·  November Prof J due on 11.08.11 (Both R AND G)---electronic only!

·  You must have GRENDEL with you on Tuesday, we will begin in class!

Presentations for the week: please note that Ms. Allari will review the cumulative paper Th and Fri;

 

***Remember to submit your handout to Moodle by the 16th of November!

Novel Pair Presentations; Middle Ages Test

Assigned Monday, 10.31.11

November Prof Journal is due 11.08.11 (R and G);

Presentations Continue this week; Cumulative Paper is due on 11.16.11 to www.turnitin.com;

Please make sure that you have John Gardner's GRENDEL---we will start it on the 8th./9^th; Please bring it then...THANKS! This will dovetail with our class presentations.

REMINDER: please post your Novel Pair Handout on MOODLE (with correct answers/fill-ins, etc); I expect this to occur before the 16^th.

Middle Ages Test on Friday/Monday.

Post a topic on the Turnitin.com Discussion Board by next Tuesday.

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Morte D'Arthur/November Prof J

Assigned Thursday, 10.27.11

Finish Malory's Morte d'Arthur from your NAEL (301-318); annotate and expect a quiz on Monday;

Presentations begin--all files are due at this time (exceptions: Works Cited, PPT slides, and Handout);

Presentations for the week: please note that Ms. Allari will review the cumulative paper Th and Fri;

Monday: Celina, Mikee, and Matt; Anna, Melanie, and Katie;

Tuesday: Grace, Katie, and Monica;

Wednesday: Clayton and Eugene; Brennean and Shawn

Thursday: Allison and Caitleen; Clare, Garret, and Dalton;

Friday: Paula and Michelle: Katharine and Michelle

***Remember to submit your handout to Moodle by the 16th of November!

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Morte D'Arthur

Assigned Tuesday, 10.25.11

Malory: read bio (299-301) and Book II, Book III and Excalibur for Thursday; bring annotated packet of readings to class, too. Look at the attached handout--bring to class.

Presentations begin next week.

Excalibur Assignment: download handout from online Resources!

(I will be posting the Optional Assignment on 11.01.11.)

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Seminar Novel/Everyman/Malory

Assigned Friday, 10.21.11

Review your Everyman Handout that we reviewed today; we reviewed the first 15 exchanges of EVERYMAN today in class; and viewed a DVD on Medieval Drama—be ready to complete your reading in class on Tuesday.

Free Weekend! Happy Homecoming…

Take the time to recharge, work on applications and application essays, finish your seminar novel pair work…

Seminar Novel Work Time on 10.25.11 (Tuesday)---bring your MLA.

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Everyman/Seminar Novel

Assigned on Wednesday, 10.19.11

Download and print the Everyman Handout;review PPT notes and intro (290-291);

Read the first 15 exchanges of EVERYMAN tonight—be ready to complete your reading in class on Tuesday.

Print Malory Packet for Tuedsay/next week.

Seminar Novel Reading/Work.

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Chaucer Test/Everyman

Assigned Monday, 10.17.11

Chaucer Packet due/ Chaucer Test on Wed/TH: you may use a printout of your chart! Yippee!

Seminar Novel HW #2 due on Wednesday; Library Workday

We will begin EVERYMAN in class after your test; please bring the appropriate handouts: download, read, and bring the AP Exercise---look at Luminarium/Fordham U site (attached);

Novel Pair NSG: continue your individual work.

Make sure that you have your Malory Packet of readings on Tuesday!

 

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Chaucer Chart/Seminar Novel/ "The Pardoner"

Assigned Thursday, 10.13.11

Please print out the Chaucer Packet; begin working on and reading contents; due on the day of the Chaucer Exam. Definitions of SATIRE in this packet....:)

Continue/Read "The Pardoner" Prologue, Tale and Epilogue (233-249) for Monday (17^th/18^th);

Pilgrim Chart due October 17^th/18^th (MON/TUES); bonus points if "creative."

Chaucer Test 19th/20th (Prologue/Wife of Bath/Pardoner);

Seminar HW #2 due on the 19^th/20^th; be ready for a group work day (reminders below!);

Reminders for this week:

Seminar Novel Pairs:

1. Make sure that you have your three research items, MWDS, 3 HW assignments, etc. for your presentation day; Review the rubrics! Do not worry about the comparison chart. Thank you.
   
2. Due to absences/individual preferences, you may decide as a group to complete a group works cited OR each member will present individual works cited pages in the file folder;
   
3. The MWDS (in file) is due on the day of the presentation: it is a group effort!
4. Look at the rubrics: presentation/group/and file.
5. Cumulative Paper (to be discussed next week) is due to www.turnitin.com (electronic copy only).
6. Please submit your group handout to Moodle so that the other AP Block can review your presentation highlights. (Please do this before November 14th.)
   

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Chaucer/Seminar Novel

Assigned Friday, 10.07.11

Prologue Quiz on TH/FRI (13th/14th) (matching on scantron);

Reading: continue "The Wife of Bath" Prologue and Tale (207--234) for Thursday (13/14)

Read "The Pardoner" Prologue, Tale and Epilogue (233-249) for Monday (17^th/18^th);

Pilgrim Chart due October 17^th/18^th (MON/TUES)

Chaucer Test 19th/20th
Seminar HW #2 due on the 19^th/20^th.

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Chaucer

 

Assigned Wednesday, 10.05.11

Novel Pairs: Assignments/Reading: HW # due on 10.07/10.11

Review/take notes on Chaucer (165) and the intro to CANTERBURY TALES: review PPT notes and continue reading the Prologue; FINISH the Prologue for Friday/Monday

Looking Ahead: print out AP Exercises  3 and 4 from Resources.

Chaucer Sites for Audio OR interlinear translation:

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/gp-par.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/audio.htm

For Research on your author and novel:

The Largest Library Catalogue!!!

http://www.worldcat.org/

 

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"Lanval" and Sir Gawain

Assigned on Monday, 10.03.11

HW #1 due on 10.07/10.011; Seminar Novel/Pair Workday II on 10.07.11; READ! Be ready to complete your first Discussion Log.

Sir Gawain Test on Wednesday, 10.05.11; be ready to read Chaucer on Wed after the test (165);

October Prof J 10.05.11 (online only!!!!)

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Middle Ages: the Romance

Assigned Thursday, 09.28.11

Individual Responses and the Group Study Guide Question Responses (typed and cited) Mon/Tuesday with your AP Theme Exercise; Individual Groups need to collate, label and post SGQs to MOODLE before Sunday/Monday (G) at 11:00.

Sir Gawain Quiz on Mon/Tues.

Bring; NAEL daily; we will start Marie de France on Monday, after discussing the medieval romance.

Seminar Novel : READ!!! HW #1 due on the 7^th/11^th.

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Sir Gawain/Seminar Novel

Assigned Tuesday, 09.27.11

Congrats on finishing your first major essay!

Make sure that you read and annotated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts II-IV for Thursday(R)/Friday(G); I expect AWESOME discussion or there will be a reading quiz.

Individual Responses and the Group Study Guide Question Responses (typed and cited) are due on Monday/Tuesday with your AP Theme Exercise. Submit as a group to MOODLE.

Seminar Novel/Pair Workday 1.5 on Thursday/Friday (in class) You MUST have your novel with you!

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Unit 2: Middle Ages/AP Essay #1

Assigned Friday, 09.23.11

Seminar Novel Day 1 is TUESDAY; you must have your novel with you in class---one copy per indiviual.

Download the:

AP Theme Exercise, which will be due after discussion of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Ideally, this would be , along with your group's responses to the Sir Gawain Study Questions. You have been divided up alphabetically for Parts II-IV;

AP Essay FD #1 with rubric due on Tuesday; don't forget to submit to www.turnitin.com or I WILL NOT GRADE THIS ESSAY.

Continue reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight....Work on your assigned Sir Gawain SGQs. ( we will review Part I in class on Tuesday)

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Moodle News

Hi! Please register for Moodle again---I had to reset Moodle, so if you registered prior to 09.17.11, you MUST register again!

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Unit 2/Socratic Discussion/Gaskell

Assigned Wednesday, 09.21.11

Bring your anthology and Sophie's World on Friday. Make sure you have the chart!

Heroic Journey Chart/Diagram and Explication due on Friday/Monday---be ready to share.

Review the AP Essay #1 Rubric; work on your essay and check due dates on TURNITIN.COM.

Looking Ahead: Unit 2: the Middle Ages;

Download the:

Sir Gawain Study Guide Questions

AP Theme Exercise, which will be due after discussion of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Read the introduction to SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT and Part I of “Sir Gawain” (1-490; 112-124) for Tuesday.

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Sir Gawain Sources

Make sure that you download the appropriate handouts for class! Bring Daily! You will be divided into three alphabetical groups.; you will meet in class on Friday/Monday and divide the questions evenly. All responses will be labeled, collated, and submitted to MOODLE.

Red 1 and Gold 5

Part II: Auerbach---Donahue; Akarmann---David

Part III: Haupt---Ontiveros; Dillingham---McComb

Part IV: Pham---Yazdanmehr; Oberauer---Yoder

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Heroic Journey/Gaskell/Novel Pairs

Assigned Wednesday, 09.14.11

Hope your visit with the counselors went well!

See Monday's box for reminders!

Look at www.turnitin.com for due dates for the Fall Semester.

Due to the Counselor Visit, power issues, and the short week, your Wuthering Heights essay is now due on Friday/Monday.

We will work in the ELT texts on Monday  and I will issue a james Joyce bio/reading quiz on Monday/Tuesday.

Novel Pairs/Triads: did you turn in a wish list on Wednesday/Thursday? choose an author—remember, no American authors, unless it you get approval from me; the publication must be 1750-1890; it must be over 400 pages (should not be an issue!); look at these sites for inspiration:

http://www.k12.hi.us/~konawahs/ap_suggested_reading_list.htm

http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

http://www.thewritingtutor.biz/suggested_reading/APliteraturebyauthor.php

http://belmont.sd62.bc.ca/teacher/english/ap_reading_list.htm

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Summer Reading Wrap Up/Reminders

Assigned Thursday, 09.08.11/Monday 09.12.11

Due to the power issue on Friday, some due dates have been adjusted.

1. I will not be collecting the Monomyth Packet, but the Heroic Journey Chart/Diagram and Explanation will be due around the 21st/22nd.

2. Sophie's World: print out chart and bring next Wednesday/Thursday (21/22);

3. Bel Canto: Socratic Seminar on 09.23/09.23.11.

 

Seminar Novel Pair Wish Lists for authors/groups due on Wednesday/TH before the counseling visit.

If you were absent for Read-Arounds, please bring your essay and letter with you to class to return it to the author. THANKS.

James Joyce: read the bio and "Araby" for next Monday, 09.19.11;

Monomyth/Bel Canto/Practice APs

Assigned Thursday, 09.08.11

Professor: read (xi-xviii) for Monday/Tuesday (G) and bring to class with your Peoples Essential Literary Terms; or sign out an allari copy.

Bring Bel Canto  and Sophie’s World---print out Sophie Chart for class, on Mon/Tues, too.

Practice AP MC #1 on Mon/Tues. You should have your Practice AP Written #1  with you; now is the time to proof, revise, and add data. Your Wuthering Heights final draft is due on 09.20 (R) or 09.21 (G); submit to class in hard copy and to www.turnitin.com by 11;50 p.m. on the correct day. I will give you the essay rubric on the 12/13^th.

Work on Monomyth Packet---I cannot collect until we are done with the DVD (hopefully on Mon/Tues), so be prepared to done with your chart/packet for Wed/Thursday.

Heroic Journey Chart (creative) will be due at the same time.

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AP Comments Rubric

Addition to Tuesday, 09.06.11---due on 09.08.11

Please use this rubric as you evaluate your peer's essay; address his/her success with TODLLS and the AP Comments Rubric. Use the College Board site as needed.

Your "letter" should address at least one "best" segment; a constructive comment on style, and a suggestion for better fusion/flow. Feel free to write comments on the essay, but know that the letter must address everything. :)

AP College Board: English Lit

Sample Test Forms and Scoring Guidelines

AP Central

I have other rubrics that will be utilized for the Read-Arounds, but please print this one out for class.

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Monomyth/Campbell/Bel Canto and Sophie!

Assigned Tuesday, 09.06.11

Bring your AP Written #1 Letter with you to class with the essay for the Read-Arounds (TH/FRI);

Work on Monomyth Packet.; review Joseph Campbell notes, the Heroic Journey, and brainstorm for your Hero’s Journey Chart.

Bring your BC or SW Response that you DID NOT SUBMIT to www.turnitin.com for a peer edit on TH/FRI.

NEXT CLASS: after read-arounds you will watch 30 mins of Joseph Campbell and then you will view the beginning of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: please keep track of the gothic elements (visual and audio) presented in the film clip you view.

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WH and the Monomyth

Assigned Thursday, 09.01.11

Wuthering Heights Novel Study Guide (NSG) due on Tuesday; See resources for the format (note: it has been revamped);

Bring your favorite pen/paper for your first Practice AP Written (on WH); you may have your book with you, but odds are that you will place direct quotes on your own time.)

Look at TURNITIN.COM for due dates.  (WH Reflection and Bel Canto OR Sophie’s World Response---choose your most favorite novel/best response---due on or before the 4^th so you can have a free Monday.)

Bring Sophie’s World and Bel Canto on TH/Mon (Fri/Tues for Gold);

HAVE A WONDERFUL THREE-DAY WEEKEND!

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Wuthering Heights/Supplies

Assigned Tuesday, 08.29.11

Beowulf Packet/Response due TH;

WH and Emily Bronte Thursday and Tuesday Come to our next class prepared with one quote exercise, focusing on: fate, characterization, imagery, social rigidity and mobility, marriage, style, landscape, OR the supernatural: choose an excerpt of at least three lines and discuss in 8-12 sentences. Typed or in ink, using MLA

Reminder: in-class Practice AP #1 is on Tuesday: bring your favorite pen.

*** Please review these articles before Thursday:

See “Behind the Scenes” with PBS (filming WH---two clips of about 6 minutes each):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/wutheringheights/index.html

“The Dreams in Wuthering Heights  byJohn P. Farrell,

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/ebronte/farrell1.html

See and Hear Where the Brontes grew up!

http://www.globaladventure.us/articles/brontes.html

GLossary Flashcards

Please make at least 15 literary glossary flashcards, using 3x5 index cards; put the term on the front; the back should included the definition, example, and "trigger."

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Wuthering Heights/Supplies

Assigned Friday, 08.26.11

Flashcards due on Tuesday/Wed.;

NAEL Quiz: click here for link. NAEL

WH Journal and Beowulf Packet due on Thurs/Fri.

Submit Beowulf Response 2 to turnitin.com; (Wuthering Heights due on 09.04.11 for both R and G);

• Looking Ahead:We will discuss "AP" and TODLS on Tuesday; 
  •  Monomyth Packet
  • Heroic Journey Diagram/Chart
  • Wuthering Heights bring text and summer work on Tuesday/Wednesday/TH/FRI.
  • Put www.turnitin.com and How to Read Like a Professor Journal due dates in your organizer/handbook! Budget your time wisely.
    

 

Beowulf/Supplies/WH

Assigned Wednesday, 08.24.11

• Read Intro to the Middle Ages (1-19) in your NAEL. Take the online quiz (20 Qs) and submit no later than Tuesday/Wed (G) at 11:59 pm;
• Literary Elements Handout/Glossary Ch 9 HO—15 FC; use this  handout and the link to create your first 15 FC, due on Tues/Wed. (G)
• Please bring your signed syllabus to class on Friday (R) or Monday (G): I will collect;
• Pick up your portfolios and bring them to class by this Wednesday—put them on the appropriate shelf;
• WH Intro on Friday; I will collect your WH then.
  
• Look at www.turnitin.com assignments/due dates.
• Do Beowulf Reflection from today's work. Keep in binder.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beowulf/Syllabus

Assigned Monday, 08.22.11

Please pick up your portfolios.

Type up your prayer/poem which will be used to start class together as a community....cite as needed; due Wed (R)/TH (G);

Bring BEOWULF and WUTHERING HEIGHTS WED (WH work due);

Beowulf Open Book Test due on Wed/TH (100 Qs; MC and Fill-in);

Glossary: 15 flashcards due on 08.30.11 (R)/08.31.11 (G);

 

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Summer Reading

Assigned June 2011

Please bring your NAEL/Beowulf for Day 1.

Reminders: always refer to the text and use MLA rules; specific due dates are listed on handout.

Beowulf:
Read and annotate
Outline notes
One written responses (directions are online---follow carefully and use all MLA parameters)
HERO'S JOURNET chart---compete with quotations from the text;

College Level Exam on BEOWULF during Week1/2

Wuthering Heights:
Read/annotate/comment 

One written response

Objective Test/AP Style Essay will be assigned;

Sophie's World:
Read/annotate---perhaps chart out philosophies;
Answer the question based on the quote
Take notes in response to discussion question for class--expect a Socratic Circle

Bel Canto:
One written response
Notes on  literary elements;

Socratice Seminar/Quiz/AP Style Essay?

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Final Exam/Sequence Analysis/OA

Assigned Wednesday, 05.18.11

IDEAL HUSBAND CHARTS and Exit Portfolios due on the day of the exam in class (hard copy only);

Final Sequence Analysis Paper due to www.turnitin.com ON TIME! (electronic only);

Study for your FINAL EXAM: you will need a pencil (and pen and paper if time allows);

POETRY AND ELT DONATIONS; THE BOX IS IN FRONT OF THE ROOM--MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE INSIDE COVER....THANKS!

I enjoyed having you all in class this year---good luck to you as you head off into a new adventure! Keep in touch and congratulations.

(TIME CAPSULES WILL BE MAILED ON 05.28.11 :))

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