MON, DEC 14, 2009

MON, DEC 14, 2009

Pd 1
1. Semester 1 Exam
2. Writing about six Canterbury Tales due Thursday.

Pd 2
1. Hand in HW on Pope's Essay on Man
2. Semester 1 Exam

Pd 4
1. Review tales for writing about six Canterbury Tales due Thursday and for exam.

SUN, DEC 13,2009

AP EXAM: FINAL COUNT OF QUESTIONS

Essay Writing 10
MLA Form 5
Conventions of Literary Analysis 5
Quotation Use in Literary Analysis 6
Elements of Style (from handout) 7
Literary Periods- Renaissance and Restoration 4
Author Matched to Work 7
Quotation Matched to Work 6
Author Matched to Life Fact 3
Six Traits of Writing 6
Literary Terms from Textbook 35

THU, DEC 10, 2009

THU, DEC 10, 2009

Pd 2
1. Discuss satire. What words first alerted you to the satire in Modest Proposal?
Hand in work on couplets.
2. Quiz on Pope and works.
3. Review for exam.
HW: Why do you think Pope says the first two lines from Essay on Man, p 530?

Pd 4
1. AR reading& log
2. Write about tales
3. Review for exam

Pd 6
1. AR reading& log
2. Quiz on Renaissance drama and poetry
3. Review for exam

WED, DEC 9,2009

Pd 1
1. AR reading & log
2. Review Essay writing & Lit Pds
3. Write more about tales

Pd 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Write about tales
3. Review vocabulary for exam. Questions will be examples.

Pd 6
1. AR reading & log
2. Discuss notes & hand in
3. Quiz Renaissance Poetry
HW: Read Renaissance Drama pp 179-183. Concentrate on comprehension and/or take notes

TUE, DEC 8,2009

TUE, DEC 8,2009

Pd 1
1. AR reading& log
2. Write about tales from handout.
3. Exam review sheet

Pd 2
1. AR reading& log
2. Quiz on Growth of Modern English pp438
3. Discuss work p 444
4. Get review sheet for exam
5. Look at Macbeth response #5
1] Did they answer the question?
HW: Read Satire pp514-17. Read “A Modest Proposal” p 518-523 until you come to the words that make you realize that the author MUST be kidding. Make note.
HW: Read about Alexander Pope p525-6, & Heroic Couplets p527. Choose 2 that you are familiar with or that you like. Copy them and explain what they say in your own words. Read An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man for a quiz. See if you can answer the questions.
HW: Learn the elements of style of the Restoration p443 for quiz

MON, DEC 7, 2009

Pd 1
1. AR reading and QUIZ today
2. Write about tales from handout questions

Pd 4
1. AR reading and QUIZ today
2. Finish Franklin’s tale video, add him to list, & describe the tale. Hand in list.

Pd 2
1. Pass out books.
2. Hand in poem you found.
3. Hand in Response#5
4. Quiz Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe
HW: Read pp 438-443 “The Growth of Modern English” for a quiz. You may need to take notes.
HW: On p444, do #1 and #3. For #1 you will need a print dictionary. For #3, make a T chart w/3 columns. The first column will be for the kind of differences to look for, the second for the 1st work, and the third for the 2nd work.

Pd 6
1. AR reading & quiz
2. Hand in facts about reading.
3. Hand in creative sentence: Time passed.
4. Quiz on the Renaissance pp166-175
HW: Read pp 176-179 Renaissance Poetry for quiz. Take notes on terms in bold print.

THU, DEC 3, 2009

THU, DEC 3, 2009

Pd 2
1. Hand in Paradise Lost passage and the ages that appeal and don’t appeal.
2. Discuss Restoration: 3 ages: Dryden, Pope & Swift, & Johnson. Discuss each section of the reading.
3. Quiz: Restoration, 18th Century
4. Train of thought for “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Find a poem that you can think about this way.
HW: Find a short, confusing poem & bring to class
HW: Write a 40 minute essay for Free Response #5 for the Open Question on the AP exam. Take up to 10 minutes out of the 40 to plan first. (1]Answer question, 2]Pick strategies, 3]Find evidence for strategies.) Draw a line at end after 40 minutes, then keep writing if you wish on the other side of the line. Will be looked at by other students in class.
HW: Read pp 480-495 about Daniel Defoe and the selection from Robinson Crusoe for a quiz.


Pd 4
1. AR reading& log
2. Watch, write, & talk about Canterbury Tales. Write who told the tale & what happened in it.
4] Merchant
5] Pardoner
6] Franklin (not finished)

Pd 6
1. AR reading & log
2. Finish speeches
3. Creative writing sentences: "It fell to the floor." Write no more than 30 words. Vote 2 at a time.
HW: Read about the Renaissance pp 166-175. For each bold heading division write one interesting fact.
HW: Creative rewriting of this sentence: Time passed.

WED, DEC 2, 2009

WED, DEC 2, 2009

Pd 1
1. AR reading& log
2. Watch, write, & talk about Canterbury Tales. Write who told the tale & what happened in it.
5] Pardoner tells of 3 rioters who want to find & kill death. They find death when they kill each other from greed over money.
6] Franklin tells of a squire who loves a married lady and wins her, but he releases her because of guilt.
7: Who in the Franklin’s tale-- Squire, lady, knight, scholar-- is the most honorable? Explain.

Pd 4
1. AR reading& log
2. Watch, write, & talk about Canterbury Tales. Write who told the tale & what happened in it.
2] Discuss Knight’s tale of two knights who fight for the love of Emily.
3] Wife/Woman of Bath told of a knight who raped a virgin and was punished by being forced to marry an old woman who had magic powers.

Pd 6
1. AR reading& log
2. Speeches

TUE, DEC 1, 2009

TUE, DEC 1, 2009

Pd 1
1. AR reading& log
2. Watch, write, & talk about Canterbury Tales. Write who told the tale & what happened in it.
3] Wife/Woman of Bath told of a knight who raped a virgin and was punished by being forced to marry an old woman who had magic powers.
4] Merchant told of January, an old man who married a young virgin who cheated on him.

Pd 2
1. Pass out books
2. AR reading& log
3. Hand in Syntax answers
4. Discuss Paradise Lost reading
5. Quiz Temptation of Eve
HW: Write a phrase, line, or lines that you like from Paradise Lost, Temptation of Eve.
HW: Read pp 448-457 “The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century” for a quiz. Tell which of the 4 Ages appeals to you most, then tell why it appeals and why the others don’t.