MON, NOV 16
Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Pd 1: Show me last 100 words or 1¶ for 10 points
Pd 4 : Café duty
DUE WED, NOV 18
• Final draft,
• Rough draft w/corrections in different color,
• Outline
Pd 2
1. Quiz Donne, "Metaphysical Poetry," 3 poems, and prose
2. Movie to end
HW: Do A or B below.
A. Write the 3 Creative Responses for “The Bait,” “Song,” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” from pp 364,365, & 367
B. For Meditation 17, answer questions 5, 6, and 7, all parts, and do the Critical Response p 369.
HW: Write on an index card on any size (but use the same size for all the cards you make) the information listed on the handout you picked up in class (and that is also given below Period 6) for Macbeth and for your summer novel. (I noticed an allusion to Roman generals dying on their swords at the end of the movie. That refers to Brutus and Cassius, who killed themselves after being defeated in battle by Octavius and Mark Anthony as depicted in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Show me 5 ¶s or 500 words. If you missed class Friday, show me 4 ¶s or 400 words and I’ll check the last 100 words of the rough draft when you turn in your final draft on Wednesday.
3. Peer editing. Have a student or someone else you trust edit your paper before you do your final draft. They need to sign in a different color & write these comments: + (good), ? (unclear), & more (needs more details), They also tell what your main idea is. You and your editor will get points.
Reading Record Cards
The purpose of this card is to keep fresh in your mind information about books you read recently so you can discuss them on the Open Question for the AP exam in May.
Use any size note card, but use the same size for all your books. If you don't have a card, do it on paper and then glue it to a card. Index cards are 3" x 5", 4 x 6, or 5 x 7. I have all sizes.
FORMAT:
1. Title of book
2. Author, Dates of birth and death, Where lived
3. Publication year of the book originally
4. Setting: Place, Time, Current events of that time and place
5. Plot synopsis in 25 words or so
6. Characters, with brief descriptions. Identify protagonist and antagonist.
7. A major symbol or allusion
symbol (something that stands for or suggests something larger and more complex)
allusion (an indirect reference to something in literature, the other arts, history, myths,
8. Distinguishing characteristics of the work (what is different about this work?)
9. Your personal response to the content and style of the work
