Mon, Nov 29, 2010

Mon, Nov 29, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me any work for points.
• Final draft & all work done due tomorrow, Tues.

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me any work and your intro, body, & conclusion ¶s.
• Final draft is due Thursday, Dec 2

AP Literature
• Hand in terms pretest #1for recording missed terms.
• Hand in Critical Response p 622. Some CR’s will go on Essay grade (36%)
• Hand in chart on authors
• Get back student essays 1&2 Open Qstn 3 & get Response to essays
• HW: Read Wm Wordsworth P 631-2. List your 4 most important facts about his life.
• Read “Lines...Tintern Abbey” pp633-37. Answer 1-9 on p 637 and 1&2 in “Verse Paragraphs” under “Analyzing Language and Style,” to be discussed.

Drama
Movie Raisin in the Sun

Wed, Nov 24, 2010

Wed, Nov 24, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me any work and your intro, body, & conclusion ¶s.
• Final draft is due Tuesday, Nov30

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me your next 100 words. (300 total so far)
• Write intro., body ¶’s, and conclusion. Final draft is due Thu, Dec 2

AP Literature
• Hand in work on Burns.
• Tally scores on sample essays1&2 for Open Qstn 3
• Get in groups for review of scores
• Read about William Blake pp617-19, “Blake’s Poems” p620, “The Tyger” p620, and “The Lamb” p622 and do the Critical Response p622.
• HW: Make a chart for
-3 Literary Periods
-Authors read in each period
-One title read for each author
-A telling quotation from that work, documented parenthetically
PP 190,195, 201,213, 232, 254, 340-6, 364-368, 385, 417, 423, 436,/ 482, 518, 527-530, 555-559, 576 / 613, 620-22

Drama
Video of play to Beneatha leaving with George

Tue, Nov 23, 2010

Tue, Nov 23, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me your next 100 words. (300 total so far)
• Write intro., body ¶’s, and conclusion.

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me your next 100 words.
• Write another 100 for tomorrow.

AP Literature
Drill to Makalapa
• Hand in Romantic Pd notes & discuss.
• Hand in Open Question essays.
• HW: Get essay #3 to evaluate.
• HW: Read Robert Burns p 611 and “To a Mouse” p 613-15. Answer questions 1-6 p 615
• HW: Justify scores for the 2 sample essays on the Open Question if you haven’t yet.

Drama
Readers Theater # 4 for pp 119 to 130.

Mon, Nov 22, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me your next 100 words.
• Write another 100 for tomorrow.

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Show me your first 100 words. Write 100 more for tomorrow.

AP Literature
• Hand in your second evaluated essay and your typed third essay.
• Quiz on Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson and the Dictionary p594.
• Discuss Renaissance authors Milton & Donne and Restoration author Pope (Augustan poetry).
• Read scoring guidelines for the Open Question essay and 2 sample student essays for you to evaluate. Justify your score.
• Read the Romantic Period, pp 600-610 and take notes on the intro ¶ and the six parts.

Drama
• Readers Theater #3 for pp107-119.

Fri, Nov 19, 2010

Fri, Nov 19, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me your work on essay
• Next 100 words due Mon

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me your work on essay
• 100 words due Mon

AP Literature
• Hand in qstns on Johnson.
• Hand in third typed essay.
• Quiz on satire, Pope, and Eng Dictionary
• HW: Give the essay you evaluated to another student to evaluate
• HW: Read from The Life of Samuel Johnson pp 576-581 and dictionaries p594 for a quiz.

Drama
• Watch DVD A Raisin in the Sun

Thu, Nov 18, 2010

Thu, Nov 18, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me your topic (5pts), outline of body¶s (10pts), and thesis (10 pts).
• Write 100 words of essay.

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me your topic (5pts), outline of body¶s (10pts), and thesis (10 pts)
• Write 100 words of essay (10pts)

AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in Comparison of Pope’s work to that of Milton & Donne
• Get in groups of 4 or 5 with your essay 1 & 2 for Johnson and Dickinson. Discuss your score. Adjust if you think you should. As a class, compare answers. Get actual scores.
• HW: Read pp555-560. Quiz on p555. Answer any 2 qstns from 1-6 and all of 7-11 on p558, and on p560 #s 1-4.
• HW: Type your third exam essay

Drama
• SSRFF
• Improv with Mrs. Zimmerman

Wed, Nov 17, 2010

Wed, Nov 17, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Show me your topic (5pts), outline of body¶s (10pts), and thesis (10 pts).
• Write 100 words of essay.

English 12 Period 4
Café duty.

AP Literature
• Hand in work on "Satire" and Pope's poetry.
• Get literary terms pre-quiz back to learn terms missed for quiz
• Hand in typed essays with pen name on back.
• HW: Get guidelines on AP practice essays. Read and score from 1-9 the 2 essays. Tell why you gave the score.
• Read Pope pp525-6 for quiz. Compare to Milton’s and Donne's poetry on one trait each.

Drama
Readers’ Theater: Act2, Scene 2 pp 96-106 with group 2

Mon, Nov 15, 2010

Mon, Nov 15, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Write outline & thesis

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Write outline & thesis

AP Literature
• Show me essays, I initial & return to you to be typed with a pseudonym (pen name) written on the back. Students in class will evaluate essays.
• Discuss The Restoration &18th Century.
• HW: Write the third exam essay in the packet
• HW: Read "Satire," p 516-17 & find an example of satire in "A Modest Proposal" p 518-523. Write your quote and explain how it is satire. •Read Heroic Couplets" p527 and answer questions 1 & 2 p528. •Read Criticism p829 & answer qstns 1&2 and write Creative Resp. •Read Man p830 & answer qstns 1-5.
• HW: Type 2 essays from exam essay packet Practice 1 without your name on them. Write pen name on back.

Drama
• Get books
• On paper write what part you would like to read in a class reading.
• Readers Theater for pp89-96, end of 2.2

Fri, Nov 12, 2010

Fri, Nov 12, 2010

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Handout Easy Steps to Literary Analysis
• Show me your topic and how you plan to approach it
• Grade reports mid quarter

AP Literature
• Hand in notes on Defoe
• Quiz on Defoe and from Robinson Crusoe
• Pre-quiz on usage & literary terms
• Check usage quiz
• HW: Pick 2 of the 3 practice exam essays to write about. Give yourself 80 mins to read and write both. If one takes less than 40 mins, give yourself more than 40 mins for the second one. Hand write them and print, unless your cursive has been complimented. Other students will assess these in class.
• HW: Due Wed: The third exam essay in the packet
• HW: Due Wed: Read "Satire," p 516-17, and "A Modest Proposal" p 518-523 for quizzes, and Heroic Couplets" p527. Answer questions 1 & 2 p528.

Drama
• SSRFF
• Discuss Raisin in the Sun
• Read in groups
• Mid quarter grade reports

Wed, Nov 10, 2010

Wed, Nov 10, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Handout: Easy Steps to Literary Analysis
• Show me your literary term and chart

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Make a chart using your selected topic
• See modeling of topic in chart

Drama
• Read A Raisin in the Sun in groups.

Tue, Nov 9, 2010

Tue, Nov 9, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Make a chart using your selected topic
• See modeling of topic and chart with comparison

AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Recitation
• Hand in notes on Milton.
• Hand in notes on Restoration & the 18th Century
• Quiz on Milton
• Check
• HW: Read Daniel Defoe p480 for quiz or notes, and Robinson Crusoe p483-495 for quiz only.

Mon, Nov 8, 2010

Mon, Nov 8, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Get Lit essay handouts & discuss, looking at my sample essay

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Literary Analysis: Get Lit essay handouts & discuss, looking at my sample essay

AP Literature
• Hand in notes on PL p420-3
• Hand in questions p434 1-14.
• Class discussion
• HW: Read Milton pp414-416 for quiz or take 2 notes per ¶. Name 4 ways his life was different from John Donne's and 4 ways similar. Tell one way their works were alike and different.
• Read The Restoration &18th Century. Take notes on pp448-450.

Drama
SSRFF
Discuss Raisin for points.

Fri, Nov 5, 2010

Fri, Nov 5, 2010

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Quiz on structure
• Get literary-essay-writing handouts and discuss ideas for essay, rubric, and parts of my sample essay of lit analysis
• Discuss possible topics

AP Literature
•Hand in essays on Milton. Class discussion of poems for points.
• Any more recitations?
• HW: Read Milton's Paradise Lost pp 420-22 and take notes.
• HW: Read The Temptation of Eve pp423-433 and answer questions 1-14 for in class discussion for points.

Drama
• SSRFF
• Discuss Raisin for points.
• Quiz
• Charades

Wed, Nov 3, 2010

Wed, Nov 3, 2010

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Vocab 17-24 Review & quiz
• Writing structure 5 ¶ essay: 3 kinds of ¶s w/ 2 parts each
Intro¶: 1. Hook > 2. Complete Thesis (Main Idea +Supporting Subtopic Ideas)
Body ¶s: 1. Topic Sentence referring to the Main Idea > 2 Supporting facts
Concluding¶: 1. Thesis restated in different words > 2. So What? or Personal Comment

AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Recitations
• Check, discuss, & hand in 3 facts from Donne’s life that correspond to the works we read.
• Check & hand in summary of Metaphysical Poetry
• Check, discuss, & hand in paraphrase of “On His Blindness” and definitions of the 6 words from the poem.
• Get handouts of Milton's 2 sonnets, TPCASTT poetry analysis, and Sample Train of Thought for discovering your thinking on poems
• HW: Write an essay on Milton’s two sonnets, comparing them in various literary aspects. Explain the theme/meaning and tell which poem you think is better and why. "On His Blindness" and "Having Arrived Age 23." Write 300 to 500 words, as in an AP Exam essay.

Drama/Acting
• Do you want to do monologue performance for classes? no
• Reading a play/ Presenting scene from a play read in English, for which we have books.
Should it be Reader’s Theater or Acting w/memorized dialogue?
• We will alternate reading a play in groups with shorter activities.

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Conventions of Literary Analysis: An academic paper is formal, unlike personal essays such as our college application essay. Formal papers are only about their subject, not about the writer of the essay.
1. Do not say I or me or my or talk about your essay. Talk only about the literature or the author’s techniques using 3rd person: it, he, she, they
2. Contractions are informal. Don’t = Do not. Do not use contractions.
3. Do not use slang, use only standard English. Write man, not guy or dude. Say many, not a bunch or a lot.

AP Literature
• Quiz on Donne’s 4 works. Hand in questions 1-8, with your quiz, afterward.
• Check notes on Big 4. Get back, discuss, and hand in.
• Recitations? No. Due Mon
• Check MC Practice #1 FINISH
• HW: Recite lines Mon
• HW: Read Donne’s life pp362-3. Make a list of 3 facts from his life that correspond in some way to the 4 works we read. Tell how they correspond.
• HW: p363 Read Metaphysical Poetry and summarize the 2 ¶s.
• HW: Read p 417, “On His Blindness” by John Milton, and paraphrase it (not a summary) Look up these words that are used with a meaning different from the most common one: spent, chide, exact (vt: verb transitive), fondly, bidding, post (vt)

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 20 mins
• Literary Analysis: Compare Grendel and The Seafarer to learn more about their meaning.
• Analyze by looking at small parts, common elements of stories such as plot, characters, setting, theme, & tone.
• Make a T chart to compare facts for the 2 works. Use literary terms to analyze a small part: plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Write facts for each part and for each work.
Hand in your chart and handout of the 2 works.

AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in essays. As I collect them, read pp338-9 in textbook for quiz. Also read Shakespeare’s sonnets #s 29, 30, 71, 73, 116, 130 on the next pages.
• Take a quiz on sonnet form.
• Check MC Practice #1
• HW: Recitations due tomorrow or Mon
• HW: Read pp364-369: Bait, Song, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, and Meditation 17. Either answer all the Analyzing the Poem questions, or take a quiz on the 4 works tomorrow.
HW: Take notes (always Cornell) on the “Big Four” rules #s14-17 p18-?

Mon, Oct 25, 2010

Mon, Oct 25, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Voc: NEW
#22 irony
#23 analysis
Coming up:
moral
omniscient
symbolism
thesis
tone

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Review & take Qz on the Medieval Period

AP Literature
• AR rdg in the library and check out books.
• Peer Edit
• Essay due tomorrow

Drama
• Present monologues, due today
• Scores will be F 50% until performed

Fri, Oct 22, 2010

Fri, Oct 22, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• EssVoc: ballad
• Read Edward, Edward p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Read Edward, Edward, p 148 Rdg Lit, answer 1-7 p150 and hand in.

AP Literature
• Show me 600 words
• MB outline posted below to help in finding quotations and evidence
• Go over how to quote and document Shakespeare and poetry. See below for information.
• Check MC prose2 and poetry 2
• HW: Write final draft, due Tues. Peer editing Mon.

Drama
• SSRFF
• Monologues


OUTLINE of Macbeth

ACT I
Scene 1, p255 Witches talking, “Fair is foul.”
Scene 2, p256 Macbeth’s bravery, Cawdor’s treason
Scene 3, p257 Macbeth meets witches, who prophesy for him and Banquo.
Scene 4, p263 King Duncan congratulates Macbeth on his bravery and new title.
Scene 5, p265 Lady Macbeth gets letter, plans to murder King Duncan.
Scene 6, p267 King arrives at Macbeth’s castle.
Scene 7, p268 Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill, against his objections.

ACT II
Scene 1, p272 Macbeth sees dagger appear in the air and goes to kill the king.
Scene 2, p274 Macbeth hears voices saying Macbeth has murdered sleep.
Scene 3, p277 Ross and Macduff come to wake Duncan, find him dead, call to everyone.
Scene 4, p282 Ross and Macduff discuss the strange situation with an old man.

ACT III
Scene 1, p285 Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo.
Scene 2, p289 Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about more killing to come.
Scene 3, p291 Banquo is murdered, but Fleance escapes.
Scene 4, p293 The murderers report; Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost at the supper feast.
Scene 5, p298 Hecate plans a meeting with the witches to give Macbeth his destiny.
Scene 6, p299 Lennox and another lord discuss Macduff raising an army against Macbeth.

ACT IV
Scene 1, p301 Macbeth visits the witches and sees the apparitions
Scene 2, p306 Macbeth’s murderers slaughter Macduff’s wife and child
Scene 3, p309 Malcolm tests Macduff’s honor by appearing to have many vices

ACT V
Scene 1, p317 Lady Macbeth sleepwalks while a doctor and a gentlewoman look on.
Scene 2, p319 Scottish lords discuss Malcolm and Macduff’s plan and Macbeth’s state.
Scene 3, p320 The doctor reports Lady Macbeth's condition to Macbeth, who calls for armor
Scene 4, p322 Near Birnam, Malcolm and Macduff’s soldiers march
Scene 5, p323 Lady Macbeth dies, Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane
Scene 6, p324 Malcolm and Macduff call for the attack on Dunsinane
Scene 7, p326 Macbeth kills Young Siward as Malcolm, Macduff, Siward enter Dunsinane.
Scene 8, p327 Macduff, not of woman born, kills Macbeth; Malcolm becomes the new king.

How to Quote from Works by Shakespeare
by Dr. Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College English Department

Assuming that it is clear from the context of your paper which play you are quoting from, you need not identify the work by its title. At the end of the quotation from Shakespeare, place parentheses, in which you put three numbers, separated by periods. The first number is the act, the second is the scene, and the third the line numbers quoted, the first one and the last one, separated by dash. The parentheses locating the quotation come after the quotation mark and before the punctuation of your own sentence. Here are three examples:

1) "So shaken as we are, so wan with care," Henry announces to his court (1.1.1).

2) Henry appears infirm from the very beginning of the play: "So shaken as we are, so wan with care" (1.1.1).

3) Henry thinks of the terrain of England as a thirsty mother perversely feeding on the blood of her sons: "No more the thirsty entrance of this soil / Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood" (1.1.5-6).

Note the use of the slash (/)--preceded and followed by a space--to separate lines of poetry in example #3. This is standard practice when you are quoting blank verse (iambic pentameter) from Shakespeare into your own text.
Sometimes--though not often in short essays--you will want to quote a larger block of verse, four verse lines or more, which you then should discuss in close, careful detail. Usually this sort of quotation will be introduced by a full colon (:) and then indented ten spaces from your left-hand margin. You will no longer need slashes to separate lines, nor quotation marks; instead, the quotation should appear as it does on the printed page.

4) Henry's first speech is full of metaphors of physical distress: (Students, I added hyphens to simulate 10 spaces. You don't.)

----------So shaken as we are, so wan with care,

----------Find we a time for frighted peace to pant

----------And breathe short-winded accents of new broils

----------To be commenced in strands far remote. (1.1.1-4)

In this instance, the parentheses locating the quotation follow the final punctuation mark. Note that all citations in parentheses are in Arabic rather than Roman numerals.

Do note, finally, that Shakespeare also writes some scenes in prose. You need to know the difference!

Please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research for more information and additional examples.

Tue, Oct 19, 2010

Tue, Oct 19, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Read & take notes on Medieval Pd p 140-1 in Rdg Lit. up to ¶2 of Medieval Church.
• Hand in.

AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Show me:
- Prompt
- 3 Easy Steps to thesis
- Rough outline
• Check MC Practice #1, Poem
• HW: Write >or = 300 words of essay

Mon, Oct 18, 2010

Mon, Oct 18, 2010

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”

English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg
• Quiz on “The Seafarer”

AP Literature
• Hand in notes on “An Approach to Style” 4 + 20 and discuss.
• Macbeth essay handout; discuss requirements.
• Essay due next Tuesday
• Triangle graphic on how to write for a prompt on the AP Exam: Answering the question, identifying strategies, & finding evidence for the strategies
• How to write a thesis from an AP essay prompt using the 3 Easy Steps process:
Write a simple,obvious statement, Draw inferences & ask questions, Add new ideas and polish.
• Example of working with 3 Easy Steps to Write a Thesis- 1. Simple/obvious statement: In MB Shakespeare shows how being too ambitious causes one to “overleap and fall…” Sh. uses an object to further this idea by giving it purposes that parallel his theme.

Drama
• Any more monologues? Practice. Monologues must be memorized.