AP Lit Quarter 1
CLASSROOM CALENDARAUGUST 24, 25 RA: Dickinson poem on Summer Tab as a goodbye to summer and RA: excerpt All the Light We Cannot See as a hello to fab literature.
HOMEWORK 1. Sign up for REMIND by texting a message as follows: Period 1 AP To: 81010 Message: @f69c3f Period 3 AP To: 81010 Message: @4998b9 Period 4 AP To: 81010 Message: @hdbe8b Period 5 AP To: 81010 Message: @da4a8 Period 6 AP To: 81010 Message: @fff84 2. BRING COLORED PENCILS, PAPER, BLUE/BLACK PENS, our 4 resources listed above, and whatever we are currently reading each day. 3. Please procure 2 tennis balls (new or used), cut about 1/3 way around and bring for your chair. 4. Read/Study/Get signatures for Disclosure 5. Submit your The Road mini essay on CANVAS by midnight TONIGHT. 6. Study Big Red sections 2 (Evaluation of Literature) and 3 (Critical Approaches to Literature) and the Writer's Tome info on Plagiarism (quiz on this reading assignment next class) AUGUST 26, 29
1. Finish Footbinding assignment by 9/1, 2 2. A Rose for Emily assignment (see handout) 3. At the bottom of your typed assignment, add 1 or 2 quick insights/comments on your assigned question (1-24, 26, or 27 included with the linked text). Be prepared to share these thoughts in the Socratic Seminar discussion with your classmates. AUGUST 30, 31
1. Finish assignment for Snowflower and the Secret Fan “Footbinding” by next class. 2. Procure Sound & Sense book! Prep check 10/4, 5 SEPTEMBER 1, 2
1. Life of Pi, Cold Mountain, Inheritance of Loss and The Awakening all due 9/8, 9 2. September Vocab Flashcards on A01 and 02-submit on CANVAS by midnight on 9/29 for both A and B classes. SEPTEMBER 5-Labor Day SEPTEMBER 6, 7
1. Finish homework for the four prose excerpts SEPTEMBER 8, 9
HOMEWORK 1. Cutting for Stone & Elegance of the Hedgehog...Prose Packet in its entirety due next class. SEPTEMBER 12, 13
1. Pack your Road logs and book and bring to class 2. Prep for Socratic Seminar by reviewing Critical Approaches to Literature (aka Filters) and reading about TONE found in Big Red sections 3 and 4. 3. Answer (hand written or typed) the following questions: a. What analytical observations can you make about The Road if you were to view it through a PSYCHOLOGICAL filter? An ARCHETYPAL filter? A FEMINIST filter? SOCIAL CRITICISM filter? b. Support your answers with textual references/evidence from the novel-include page numbers! (NOTE: you had a similar question on your quiz 2 weeks ago...do not use the same filter on this assignment that you did on your quiz) c. TONE is defined as the author or speaker’s attitude (emotions/opinions) about the topic at hand. Using your TONE WORDs from BIG RED, select words and write a tone combo in this format:__________ly _____________ to precisely identify the TONE (attitude) of McCarthy toward the MAN. Then do the same for the BOY. Then do the same for the "bad guys." For example, one could argue that the tone in Wilfred Owen's WWI poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is bitterly ironic. IMPORTANT***Support your tone combos with textual references/evidence from the novel. SEPTEMBER 14, 15
1. The Road close reading (page 25+ packet) due 9/20, 21 2. Writer's Tome: study Part I through Opening/Closing Strategies for use in essays. This TOME homework is ABSOLUTELY essential to take seriously...BUT ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE A FREAKING AWESOME WRITER. If you want your writing skills to stay stagnant, then go ahead, skip or rush through the homework in a slapdash, sloppy way! SEPTEMBER 16-A DAY SEPTEMBER 19-B DAY: COLLEGE DAY 8-10:30 A.M. SO PERIODS 5 AND 6 NEED TO STUDY ON YOUR OWN THE MATERIAL IN THE WRITER'S TOME:
1. The Road group Lit Review due 10/4,5 2. The Road close reading (page 25+ packet) with syntax grid due next class. SEPTEMBER 20, 21
1. Read the article called "Scariest Passage in literature" under Links & Docs. Complete an AACC typed document for next class. 2. Be prepared to answer this question in class: What is the scariest thing you have ever read or seen? Prepare a 30-second polished response! Practice and time yourself! 3. Writer's Tome Part III through Essay Booboos. Complete the syntax grid included in the TOME on the text called "Tickets, Please." -Due 10/6, 7-NOTE: periods 5 and 6 still need to bring by this homework even though you miss class for Career Day! NOTE: a QUARTERLY EXAM taken on CANVAS will be October 26, 27 on the following: Writer's Tome (excluding the past essay prompts), Grumpy Cat A01-04 and the Lit Terms Master Chart sections on Narrative Structure, Characterization, Imagery, Symbol, Theme, Figurative Language and Tone. QUARTERLY EXAMS MAY BE TAKEN a SECOND TIME FOR A HIGHER SCORE BY MIDNIGHT ON HALLOWEEN. If you retake one or more exams, you MUST EMAIL ME ASAP to let me know so I can replace your lower scores with the higher ones on Skyward. So review, review, review! Alone or with study partner/group! Make flashcards, pop popcorn, eat chocolate, make your study sessions fun and effective. SEPTEMBER 22, 26
1. The Road close reading and study guide (page 90+) - plan to divide and conquer this assignment in your study group...turn in 1 completed copy with all names on it. Due 10/4, 5. 2. Prepare and bring at least 1 quote as possible evidence for each of the three OREOs in your group essay for next class. SEPTEMBER 27, 28
1. September Vocab due 9/29 midnight on CANVAS 2. Bring at least 1 CD that might be used on OREO 3 ALONG WITH 2 CMs to go with it :) 3. Also look over the closing strategies in the TOME, and select one to present to your group FOR POSSIBLE use in your conclusion paragraph. SEPTEMBER 29, OCTOBER 3-computer lab (SEPTEMBER 30-NO SCHOOL)
1. Decide who will be in charge of final tweaking and printing the group essay to turn in with group names on it -due 10/4, 5 2. GCat September Vocab 20 word flashcard assignment due in CANVAS by midnight 9/29 for both A and B days!!! 3. Prep check for Sound & Sense books next class! NOTE ABOUT ESSAYS...
OCTOBER 4, 5
1. October Vocab A03 and 04 flashcards due by MIDNIGHT on CANVAS on Halloween 10/31 for both A and B classes. 2. Check out Oedipus Rex by Sophocles from the school library 3. Be working on your The Road Lit Review in your study group...due 10/10, 11 OCTOBER 6 A DAY
OCTOBER 7 B DAY PERIOD 5 IS ONE HOUR AND PERIOD 6 IS 55 MINUTES. CAREER DAY 9 A.M TO 10:30 A.M.
1. Reflections turn in Submission form with your original work and artist statement in basket by 10/12, 13. 2. Ongoing study for Quarterly Exams which will cover: *Writer's Tome (excluding the past essay prompts) *Grumpy Cat A01-04 *Lit Terms Master Chart sections on Narrative Structure, Characterization, Imagery, Figurative Language, Symbol, Theme, and Tone. OCTOBER 10, 11
Typed Rhetorical Precis on “The Miracle that was Greece” article in your Oedipus Packet-due 10/12,13 2. Reflections submission: any literary genre you choose. Forms available in main office. Due next class! THEME: "What's Your Story?" OCTOBER 12, 13
1. Typed Lit Reviews for The Road due next class...remember to put names next to numbers so I know who did what. 2. Benny Paret assignment due 10/18 and 19. Follow the model in the Blue Writer's Tome to find your own CDs and CMs from the Benny Paret text. OCTOBER 14, 17
HOMEWORK 1. Have you started your INDEPENDENT READING novel yet? Hmmm.... 2. Keep studying for Quarterly Exams 3. FINISH BENNY PARET ASSIGNMENT OCTOBER 18, 19
1. Alexander Pope Assignment - Read the excerpt from his “Essay on Man” in your ORex packet and write a paraphrasing of each line to the side of its original counterpart. Then, in a short paragraph, explain the central paradox (conflict/contradiction that nonetheless makes sense when examined) discussed in this text and include at least two quotes from the text that SUPPORT your explanation of the central paradox. Add this text as an example of paradox in your Lit Term Master Chart. This will be due 10/24, 25 2. Study for Quarterly Exams. Quarterly exams are allowed one retake in class before or after school between 10/26 (A Day) or 10/27 (B DAY) AND 10/31. 3. Pace yourself reading in your IR novel :) GOAL: Finish IR novel and timed essay BEFORE Christmas break when we will be starting a new novel. You get to choose your own prompt from the past prompts included in the TOME. 4. Alexander Pope assignment "Essay on Man" 5. Go on a hike and make some kind of pumpkin dessert. OCTOBER 20, 21 FALL RECESS OCTOBER 24, 25 Starter: "O Hushed October" By Robert Frost-demonstrate RA then class recites together
1. GCat October A03-04 flashcards due midnight 10/31 on CANVAS. 2. Study for Quarterly Exams NEXT CLASS! OCTOBER 26, 27: QUARTER 1 CUT OFF FOR ALL LATE AND MAKEUP WORK: ONE LOW SCORE WILL BE DROPPED. Homework Heads Up and head to the library lab! THREE QUARTERLY EXAMS ON CANVAS: WRITER'S TOME, GRUMPY CAT A01-04, and LIT TERMS MASTER CHART SELECT SECTIONS: characterization, narrative structure, theme, symbol, imagery, figurative language, tone HOMEWORK 1. October Vocab flashcards on A03, 04 due midnight 10/31 ALL CLASSES OCTOBER 28, 31-END OF QUARTER ONE
QUARTERLY FINAL EXAM RETAKES must be done before or after school in the classroom between 10/26,27 and 10/31 FOR BOTH A & B CLASSES. SIGN UP ON THE RETAKE LOG WHEN YOU COME IN FOR A RETAKE! 2. Sound & Sense Chapter 1 Assignment due next class...see sidebar. 3. FYI: Sound & Sense Chapter 2 will be due 11/3, 7 Pygmalion link below
Pygmalion 1938 Classic FilmPYGMALION ESSAY PROMPT
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Get your poetry anthology...Prep check in class on 10/4,5
You will need to procure a new or used copy of Perinne’s Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry 12th Edition by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. Google to find copies ranging from a few bucks to double digits. IF YOU PURCHASE A DIFFERENT EDITION, YOU WILL NEED TO GET MISSING POEMS ONLINE AND QUESTIONS FROM ME OR A FRIEND WHO HAS THE 12TH EDITION. CLICK AMAZON BUTTON BELOW TO LOOK FOR NEW/USED COPIES IMPORTANT: FOR EACH SOUND & SENSE CHAPTER, DO THE FOLLOWING:
1. READ THE ENTIRE CHAPTER, ANNOTATING ALL THE POETRY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS 2. THEN ONLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOR SELECTED POEMS AS INDICATED BELOW in the MARGINS of your book if possible. Sound&SenseChapters 1 & 2
Poem and Questions to Answer in your text Eagle 1 Winter 3 Dulce et Decorum Est 2 The Whipping 1, 2 The Last Night That She Lived 2, 5 The Red Wheelbarrow 1, 3 The Man He Killed 2, 3 A Study of Reading Habits 1, 2 Break of Day 1, 2 There’s Been a Death 1 Mirror 3 Book BlissBookBlissBookBlissIf you have the gall to ask for full points on LATE WORK...HOMEWORK PROTOCOL1. Form a study group of 3-4 members & exchange contact information. COME UP WITH A GROUP NAME and sign up on the ROSTER-submit by August 26, 29. WE WILL WORK IN VARIOUS GROUP CONFIGURATIONS ALL YEAR-THIS GROUP IS YOUR GO-TO GROUP FOR HOMEWORK AND STUDY SESSIONS IN GENERAL.
2. GOOD NEWS-Any study guide, lit review or Sound & Sense poetry chapter assignment is considered GROUP work where each group member contributes equally; so divide and conquer! BUT NOTE: you must all have an individual completed copy of all homework! You learn and retain knowledge better that way, plus you need your own study copy. 3. Essays, quizzes, vocabulary study and exams are INDIVIDUAL work-just you and your brain! 4. PLAGIARIZED WORK will garner a zero and a tarnished reputation. If you cut and paste ANYTHING for ANY assignment in ANY class, you must cite your source! AN EVEN BETTER WAY...Answer questions using your own words and ideas-you will learn and retain the information better, and you will never have to worry if you crossed the line into the mine fields of plagiarism. 5. BE AWARE-any class time interrupted or missed due to long assemblies, breakfasts for perfect attendance, appointments in the office, checking out of class or into class late, evacuation drills, zombie invasions, etc. AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTS TO HOMEWORK. 6. Don't read any online study notes (e.g. Sparksnotes) until AFTER you read the text on your own and form your own impressions, analysis, and opinions. These online novel guides can be helpful as a supplement, but should never replace the experience of reading the book for yourself. As for just watching a movie version... Grumpy Cat Emotions make excellent TONE wordsVOCABTASKSMonthly Vocabulary
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ARS POETICA
IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING
WHEN MY LOVE SWEARS
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Click on the link above to see the full text. This story is the consummate short story, the mothership of short fiction mastery.
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Click on the link above to see the full text. This story is the consummate short story, the mothership of short fiction mastery.
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BOARD INSTRUCTIONS for The Road Group Essay work 9/22, 26
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Independent Reading Assignment Titles
Choose a book from the list below; read it; write an essay timed 40 minutes without the use of the book at home; Choose a prompt from the past prompts for Essay #3 in your Writer's Tome
DUE: JANUARY 4, 5 IN CLASS
Choose a book from the list below; read it; write an essay timed 40 minutes without the use of the book at home; Choose a prompt from the past prompts for Essay #3 in your Writer's Tome
DUE: JANUARY 4, 5 IN CLASS
AP INDEPENDENT READING LIST
*-District Approved
100 years of Solitude by Marquez
A Fine Balance by Mistry
A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving
A River Runs Through It by Maclean
*A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
A Thousand Acres by Smiley
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
Accidental Tourist by Tyler
Agnes of God by Pielmeier (play)
Alias Grace by Atwood
*All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy
American Gods by Gaiman
Atonement by McEwan
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr
Beloved by Morrison
Billy Budd by Melville
Brave New World by Huxley
*Cold Mountain by Frasier
Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
*Crime and Punishment by Solzhenitsyn
*Cry the Beloved Country by Paton
*Cutting for Stone by Verghese
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather
*Death of a Salesman by Miller (play)
East of Eden by Steinbeck
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery
Ethan Frome by Wharton
Fences by Wilson (play)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy
Fight Club by Palahniuk
*Frankenstein by Shelley
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Flagg
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Chevalier
*Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
*Great Expectations by Dickens
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (play)
In the Lake of the Woods by O’Brien
Invisible Man by Ellison
*Jane Eyre by Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Hardy
The Joy Luck Club by Tan
*Life of Pi by Martel
Light on Snow by Shreve
Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel
*King Lear by Shakespeare (play)
Light in August by Faulkner
Mansfield Park by Austen
Middlemarch by Eliot
*Night by Wiesel AND *Heart of Darkness by Conrad (these two books are short and must be read as together to count for Independent Reading; your essay must be a compare/contrast of the two books
Obasan by Kogawa
Oliver Twist by Dickens
Out of Africa by Dinesen
*Persuasion by Austen
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
*Pride & Prejudice by Austen
Return of the Native by Hardy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by (play)
*Sense and Sensibility by Austen
Snow falling on Cedars by Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by See
Sophie’s Choice by Styron
*The Awakening by Chopin
The Bell Jar by Plath
The Cider House Rules by Irving
The Color Purple by Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai
The Jungle by Sinclair
The Kite Runner by Hosseini
The Last of the Mohicans by Cooper
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Edwards
The Piano Lesson by Wilson
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
*The Stranger by Camus
*The Things They Carried by O’Brien
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Albee (play)
Wuthering Heights by Bronte
*-District Approved
100 years of Solitude by Marquez
A Fine Balance by Mistry
A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving
A River Runs Through It by Maclean
*A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
A Thousand Acres by Smiley
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
Accidental Tourist by Tyler
Agnes of God by Pielmeier (play)
Alias Grace by Atwood
*All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy
American Gods by Gaiman
Atonement by McEwan
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr
Beloved by Morrison
Billy Budd by Melville
Brave New World by Huxley
*Cold Mountain by Frasier
Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
*Crime and Punishment by Solzhenitsyn
*Cry the Beloved Country by Paton
*Cutting for Stone by Verghese
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather
*Death of a Salesman by Miller (play)
East of Eden by Steinbeck
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery
Ethan Frome by Wharton
Fences by Wilson (play)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy
Fight Club by Palahniuk
*Frankenstein by Shelley
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Flagg
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Chevalier
*Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
*Great Expectations by Dickens
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (play)
In the Lake of the Woods by O’Brien
Invisible Man by Ellison
*Jane Eyre by Bronte
Jude the Obscure by Hardy
The Joy Luck Club by Tan
*Life of Pi by Martel
Light on Snow by Shreve
Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel
*King Lear by Shakespeare (play)
Light in August by Faulkner
Mansfield Park by Austen
Middlemarch by Eliot
*Night by Wiesel AND *Heart of Darkness by Conrad (these two books are short and must be read as together to count for Independent Reading; your essay must be a compare/contrast of the two books
Obasan by Kogawa
Oliver Twist by Dickens
Out of Africa by Dinesen
*Persuasion by Austen
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
*Pride & Prejudice by Austen
Return of the Native by Hardy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by (play)
*Sense and Sensibility by Austen
Snow falling on Cedars by Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by See
Sophie’s Choice by Styron
*The Awakening by Chopin
The Bell Jar by Plath
The Cider House Rules by Irving
The Color Purple by Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai
The Jungle by Sinclair
The Kite Runner by Hosseini
The Last of the Mohicans by Cooper
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Edwards
The Piano Lesson by Wilson
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
*The Stranger by Camus
*The Things They Carried by O’Brien
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Albee (play)
Wuthering Heights by Bronte