Fri, 9/17/10

Fri, 9/17/10

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg, log
• Finish reading Grendel and answer qstns 1-10 p 10.

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg
• Go over answers to p10, #s 1-10

AP Literature Tue & Thu
• Check MC Practice Test 1 and go over a few questions.
• HW: Quotations Acts 1&2 Pick 5 good quotations. Write the quote, document parenthetically (Act, scene, lines), tell who is speaking and to whom, the situation, & why you like the quote.
• Read aloud Act 3

Drama
• SSRFF
• Discuss questions from Thursday work.
• Get back Stage Direction Quiz for The Patient.
• Get handout and discuss the 15 areas of the stage and how to remember them.
• Take blocking quiz

Thu, 9/16/10

Thu, 9/16/10

AP Literature
• AR rdg,
• Hand in list of significant ideas from article p335
• Hand in Response 5
• Editing Quiz
• DVD Macbeth
• HW Complete practice MC quiz

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg, log
• Quiz Anglo-Saxon Period
• Read Beowulf aloud or silently
• Answer questions p 10 #s 1-10 and hand in at the end of class.

Drama Wed & Thu
SSRFF
• Read A Marriage Proposal p 520. Before you start, write the names and descriptions of the 3 characters on a sheet of paper. Underneath each name, draw a face for that character.
• Answer Dev.Comp.Skills 1-7 Dev. Skills in Critical Thinking p533 Dev.Wrtg Skills, #2, p533

Tue, 9/14/2010

Tue, 9/14/2010

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg, log,
• Voc Qz 4-13
• Notes on Anglo Saxon Pd
Five groups of people
• Read Beowulf aloud

AP Literature
• AR rdg, log, postponed to Thur
• Hand in Response 4 & discuss
• Hand in sheet w/name and what you want to work on in your essays
• Check MC, Effective Wrtg & hand in
• Quiz Porter, Evil, Hecate pp283 & 315
• Read aloud
• HW: Response 5
• Read The Knocking at the Gate p335. List ideas significant to you.

Mon, 9/13/ 2010

English 12-Pd 1&4
• AR rdg , log
• Essential Vocab:
10. Figurative
11. Literal
12. Inference
Review 1-9

AP Literature
• Hand in Response 3 & discuss
• Check MC & Effective Writing
• HW: MC 21-25 & Response 4
• HW: Read Macbeth’s Porter p 283, also The King’s Evil & Hecate p 315
• HW: Read comments on returned summer book essays. Know what you want to work on to get essay grade Tues.

Drama
• Patient group work on learning lines
• Jewels group, get scripts, work on learning lines

Thu, 9/9/2010

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg, log
• Any more essays?
• Editing Quiz
• Six Traits +1 notes
• Write definitions for concrete & abstract

AP Literature
• Discuss questions Act 5
• Quiz Act 5
• Hand in Acts 3 & 4 study questions
• Check 17 study questions Act 5
• Get answers to check for HW and write score
• Read aloud
• HW: Free Response 1 and MC questions 1-10.

Drama Wed & Thu
• Jewels groups answer questions pp 720 & 726 as a group for quiz tomorrow.
• Patient group get scripts, memorize, practice

Wed, 9/8/10

Wed, 9/8/10

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg, log
• Any more essays?
• Discuss kinds of words, aka parts of speech
• Editing Handouts
• Six Traits +1 Quiz & hand in notes

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg, log
• Hand in essays: Final draft, Rough draft w/corrections in different color, Outline w/4parts: Main Idea , Intro Idea, Body Idea, & Conclusion Idea
• Editing handouts, Lesson as “quiz”
• Get back STAR & write zpd range in planner
• Notes on 6 Traits: 1. Ideas

Drama
• Separate into The Patient group and Jewels of the Shrine group.
• Practice reading parts for The Patient.
• Read Jewels in groups of 5.

Tue, 9/7/10

Tue, 9/7/10

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg, log,
• College essay due 300-500 words
• Editing marks sheet
• Six Traits + 1: note #6. Sentence fluency

AP Literature
• AR rdg, log
• Discuss questions Act 4
• Quiz Act 4
• Check questions Acts 3 & 4
• Get answers Acts 3 & 4 to check for homework
• HW: Read Act 5 & answer study questions for Act 5
• Check your answers to study questions for Acts 3 & 4. Decide for yourself whether your got the same answer as the ones given & put with completion score.

Fri, 9/3/2010

Fri, 9/3/2010

English 12 Pd 1
• Get STAR reading level and ZPD range
• Revise, peer edit, type essays

English 12 Pd 4
• AR rdg
• Revise, peer edit, type essays

AP Literature
• Questions on Act 3 discussed
• Quiz Act 3 or alternate quiz Tues
• Checking qstns Act 3 postponed till Tue.
• HW: Read Act 4 & get study questions due Tues

Drama
• Continue auditions
• Read “The Jewels of the Shrine” p 710

Thu, 9/2/2010

Thu, 9/2/2010

AP Literature
• STAR test
• Get books & Class discuss qstns
• Quiz Act 2
• Hand in questions 11-18 p284
• HW: Read Act 3 and answer study questions in packet.

English 12-Pd 4
• STAR test
• Revise your essay
• Show me your conclusion and 300 total words.
• Read your AR book

Drama
• Finish reading Part2 of The Patient.
• Answer questions.
• Plan to present part of The Patient.
• Start auditions.

Tue, 8/31/10

Tue, 8/31/10

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg
• Show me 300 words total of your college/application essay.

AP Literature
• AR rdg, log
• Discuss problems reading Macbeth
• Quiz on Act 1, scenes 4-7
• Hand in questions p270-1 #6-17
• Class discussion of 6 – 9 & 11.
• Read Act 2 and answer questions 11-18. Know the answers to 1-10.

Mon, 8/23, 2010

Mon, 8/23, 2010

English 12-Pd 1
• AR rdg, log, quizzes
• College essay assignment handout 300-500 words: due Tuesday, 9/7/10
• Discuss Requirements
• Grades

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg, log, quizzes
• College essay assignment handout 300-500 words: due Wednesday, 9/8/10
• Discuss Requirements and Parts
• Grades

AP Literature
• Quiz Shakespeare & Macbeth Act 1 scenes 1-3
• Hand in notes
• Read aloud. Find peculiarities of language and conventions.
• Grades
HW: Finish Act 1 and answer 6-17 pp270-1.

Drama
Drama
• Read “The Patient” in a circle.

Fri, 8/27/2010

Fri, 8/27/2010

English 12-Pds 1&4
• AR rdg, log, and quizzes
• Discuss "Good & Bad" essays.
• Write 100 more words and hand in.

AP Literature
• Hand in carpe diem essays.
• Read Faerie Queene & paraphrases through stanza 9. Finish next week.
• HW: Read "Shakespeare," pp 247-252 & "Sources of the Play" p253. Take notes on facts you find memorable, perhaps things you haven’t heard before. Divide them into Introduction, Early Plays, “Tragic Period,” The Last Years, Shakespeare’s Genius, and Sources. Quiz Mon.
• HW: Read Macbeth Act I, scenes 1-3, pp255-262 for quiz.

Drama
• Quiz on Stage Directions p686
• Set up a stage for “The Patient”

Thu, 8/26/2010

Thu, 8/26/2010

AP Literature
• Quiz on 3 poems
• Discuss "Nature" & meter
• Hand in Faerie Queene paraphrases .
• Discuss subject, theme, tone, sounds, & figures of speech for the 3 carpe diem poems.
HW: Do critical response p437. See p1237 for help. Focus on answering the main point and use the literary elements to help you. Compare only 2 poems at a time: Coy Mistress to Passionate Shepherd, and Coy Mistress to Virgins. This will be part of your Composition grade.

English 12-Pd 4
• AR rdg
• Discuss writing college/ application essay with handout “It’s Not the Topic that Counts.” Begin with the story (hook) and end with the trait about yourself that you want to emphasize to your audience (college admissions officer, company personnel recruiter, etc.)
• Write 50 words on one of your experiences and hand in. Concentrate on getting your thoughts on paper. You can improve the writing later after you get your ideas.


Drama
• Rdg Lit p519 Notes
• Begin presenting “The Patient” p686 Rdg Lit.

Wed, 8/25/2010

Wed, 8/25/2010

English 12-Pd 1:
• AR rdg
• Deadline for book 10 pts
• Fill out book slip and get signed. Write your title on my list.
• Get back yesterday's work on essay (list & 25 words for 10 pts)
• Write 75 more and hand in.

English 12-Pd 4:

• AR rdg
• Deadline for book 10 pts.
• Fill out book slip and get signed. Write your title on my list.
• Discuss Essay handout.
HW: Make list of 5 events in your life that you remember.

Drama
Rdg Lit Purple Textbook
p518: Discuss and take notes on Drama Elements (up to Stage Directions)

Tue, 8/24/2010

Tue, 8/24/2010

AR Quiz Deadline Friday, Sept 3

English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg
• Deadline to get a book is tomorrow for 10 points.
• Discuss Essay handout and read "Good" essay
• Make list of 5 events in your life that you remember fairly well.
Pick one to write about. Write 25 words to hand in today.

AP Literature
• AR rdg: Deadline for having AR book: Thu. Get Book Notes slip.
• Hand in words on life events.
• Get handouts for good and bad essay and read. Final essay will be 300-500 words.
• Discuss Faerie Queene stanzas 1-3.
HW: Get 1, 2, or 3 stanzas to paraphrase.
HW:Read p232 Passionate Shepherd, p385 To the Virgins, p436 Coy Mistress for a reading-check quiz. Know what happens in each one. Look at the questions at the end of each to check your understanding.

Mon, 8/23/2010

Mon, 8/23/2010

English 12
• AR rdg

Pd 1 get:
-Book Notes slip and
-College/Application-Essay handout

Pd 4 Get GFgold book to read p486 from Face to Face to p490
• A sample list of events for your autobiography
1. First memory
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Schools

AP Literature
• Quiz pp200-201 & check
• Get books to check HW, discuss, hand in
• College essay handout
HW: Read “Sonnet 75” and “The Flood-Tide” and write Critical Response p213
HW: Make a list of memories, pick one and write 200 words about it or pick 2 and write 100 words each.

Drama
• Finishing your scene: How is it going? Is there a better way?
• Reading: “The Patient” p686. Reading check & read aloud.

Thu, 8/19, 2010

Thu, 8/19, 2010 Mrs. Zimmerman

English 12 Period 4
• AR reading
• Hand in writing not finished in class yesterday from 4 kinds of writing: descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive.
• Vocab quiz covering the first 7 words:
descriptive,
narrative,
expository,
persuasive
ambiguous,
connotation,
mnemonic

AP Literature
• AR reading 10mins
• Hand in notes on meter and Raleigh
• Hand in answers to questions on “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk”
• Quiz on Meter, Raleigh, “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk”.
• Discuss “They Flee from Me” p190 and get out the Tone assignment to discuss and hand in.
• Discuss “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk” p 195
•HW Assignment on handout: Read p200 and answer the 4 questions below for The Faerie Queene for a quiz.
1. How is the Faerie Queene different from a classical epic?
2. What is below the surface of The Faerie Queene?
3. What two meanings of faerie did Spenser intend in The Faerie Queene?
4. What works are synthesized into The Faerie Queene?
•HW: Read the bold print on p 201 and draw a six-frame storyboard on binder paper to illustrate the events in the second column. Label everything in your drawings. Also write a “cast of characters” using all names mentioned for each character, such as Fair Virgin, Una, and Truth, who is the first character mentioned. Add color if you can.
•HW: Read the first three stanzas of Faerie Queene on p 201. Write one sentence for each stanza telling what you think it is saying.
Stanza 1
Stanza 2
Stanza 3

Drama
• Sit with group in close circle. Each group have someone read the group-written beginning of the script. Then each person finish the scene in his/her own way. When finished, staple a comment sheet to your script and let the other members read and comment. Hand in at the end of class.

Wed, 8/18/2010

Wed, 8/18/2010

Period 1: English 12
• AR reading
• Hand in writing not finished in class yesterday from 4 kinds of writing: descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive.
• Vocab quiz covering the first 7 words:
descriptive
narrative
expository
persuasive
ambiguous
connotation
mnemonic

Period 4: English 12
• AR reading
• Check descriptive ¶
• Write narrative, expository, and persuasive ¶s and hand in. If not finished, hand in what’s done, do the rest for homework and hand in tomorrow for 10%-off credit.

Drama
• Sit with group with desks in a close circle.
• Using script format, everyone together write the beginning of your group-scene script on each person’s own paper, giving everyone lines.

Tue, 8/17, 2010

Tue, 8/17, 2010

English 12
• AR reading
• Check descriptive paragraph
• Write narrative, expository, and persuasive paragraphs and hand in for full credit. If not finished, hand in what is done for full credit, do the rest for homework, and hand in tomorrow for 10%-off credit.

AP Literature
• AR reading postpone to Thursday with sub.
• Give me final and first drafts of essay & outline.
• Discuss & paraphrase “They Flee from Me” to discuss Thursday.
• Partner quiz presentation to class
HW: Answer tone qstns on handout for discussion of “They Flee from Me”p190.
HW: Read & take notes on Poetic Meter p193, “Sir Walter Raleigh” p194 for quiz.
HW: Read “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk” p195 and answer qstns 1-6 p196.

Mon, 8/16, 2010

Mon, 8/16, 2010

English 12
• AR reading
• Notes on writing
-Narrative
-Expository
HW: Write 1 ¶ of at least 50 words in DESCRIPTIVE writing and label it Descriptive. Use at least 3 of the 5 senses.

AP Literature
•Hand in: (Each “HW” means a separate sheet)
1. Qstns & answers for Renaissance poetry,
2. Critical Response: Analyzing Diction in “They Flee from Me”
3. Notes on Petrarchan Sonnets
•Quiz on Renaissance Poetry & Petrarchan Sonnets
•Discuss “They Flee from Me” tomorrow
HW Due Tue: Final & first drafts of essay & outline
No minimum length is required, but I would like to see 600 words or more.
1. Write the prompt and its year between your title & your essay.
2. Underline the THESIS in the Introduction and Conclusion ¶s and the TOPIC SENTENCE in each Body ¶ of the final draft of your essay
•Look at & discuss “Loneliness & Love” essay to find THESIS and TOPIC SENTENCES and compare with AP essay rubric

Drama
•Group 3 & 4 perform
•Write reflections and hand in.

Fri, 8/13/10 & Renaissance Poetry Questions

Fri, 8/13/10

English 12
• AR rdg
• Pd 1 Quiz partners and present to class
• Pd 4 Quiz on Believe and Organize handout
• Vocabulary & 4 Kinds of Writing: 1. Descriptive, 2. Persuasive, •ambiguous (SAT), definitions & examples


AP Literature
• Get essays back and take notes about problems.
• AR books that get 1 quarter to read are those with pts > or = to 20, or the pts times the rdg level = to or >100
• Get partner and quiz each other on yourselves.
HW: Due Mon:
•Read pp176-9 and answer 11 qstns on Ren. Poetry from handout. See questions at bottom.
•Read “They Flee from Me” p190 & write “A Critical Response, 2. Analyzing Diction” p191 .
•Read “Petrarchan Sonnets” p191 & take notes for quiz (this article is packed with information, so take good notes & study)
HW Due Tues:
•Final and first drafts of essay and outline.
1. Write the prompt and its year between your title & your essay.
2. Underline the thesis in the Introduction and Conclusion ¶s and the topic sentence in each body ¶ of the final draft of your essay

Drama
• Sit in groups in your area and prepare to perform
• Handout: Script Format, Group 1, Early group,make your improv into a scene script
• Group 2 perform: Bronston group
• Write reflections individually ( except group that performed, write as a group)

Renaissance Poetry pp176-179 Answer the following questions and be ready for a quiz.
1. What years ( give the numbers) were considered one of the greatest ages of English poetry?
2. What was the primary tone of most poetry and other literature of the Renaissance? Why? ( briefly)
3. How were the leisured and educated people portrayed in pastorals?
4. What adjectives would describe most Renaissance poems ( other than songs, which were simple and sincere) ?
5. What term of approval and admiration for poems of the Renaissance meant "skillfully made"?
6. What four qualities did Renaissance poetry have that are unlike most of our poetry today?
7. What was a "conceit" and how do they seem to us today? Give an example.
8. Name 5 uses of Renaissance poetry for purposes that are now served by prose.
9. What was considered the highest kind of poetry during the Renaissance?
10. Who were England's two great poets of this "highest kind" of poetry?
11. What one great Renaissance idea and philosophy was found in both their poems?

Thu, 8/12/10

Thu, 8/12/10

English 12
• AR rdg
• Pd 1 Share quizzes and present partner
• Pd 4 Finish presenting partner; check materials, study handout Believe & Organize for quiz

AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Hand in draft & outline
• Check notes on Renaissance, hand in, & quiz orally.
• Finish "Reading Analysis" questions.
HW: Due Mon: Read pp176-9 and answer qstns on Ren. Poetry from Friday handout.
HW: Read “They Flee from Me” p190 & write “A Critical Response: 2. Analyzing Diction” p191.
HW: Read “Petrarchan Sonnets” p191 and take notes for quiz.

Drama
• Separate room into 4 group sections
• Set up plan for improvisation
• Perform for class
• Write reflection

Wed, 8/11, 2010

Wed, 8/11, 2010

English 12
• AR rdg
• Pd 1: Quiz on H.O.
• Pd 4: Share quizzes and present

AP Literature
• Reading analysis questions
HW: Read “The Renaissance” pp166- 175. After reading one of the 8 sections, make a note of something you found significant in it. Do the same for the other seven. Use Cornell notes. Quiz Thur. COPYING = F
HW: AR book and First draft of essay and outline due tomorrow, Thur.

Drama
• Presentations
• Form Improvisation groups

Tue, 8/10, 2010

Tue, 8/10, 2010

English 12
• AR reading
• Handout: Believe and Get Organized

AP Literature
• Get lists of works of literary merit.
• Show me your thesis and outline or freewrite.
• Discuss Reading Analysis question #7.
HW: First draft and outline due Thursday.
HW: Bring AR book for Thurs.

Drama
• Finish presentations
• Finish discussion

Mon, 8/9, 2010

Mon, 8/9, 2010

English 12
Pd 1: ID&Planner
• Begin reading tomorrow, bring book
• Materials check (5)

AP Literature
• Get books from library.
• Literary Terms questions returned. Discuss the need to connect the literary elements of a work to its meaning as a whole and one way to do it.
• Handouts for essay:
-How to write a thesis,
-Literary analysis (2),
-Charlie essay,
-Rubric.
•Bring book to read for AR Thursday.
HW: Read handouts. Adjust thesis as needed.
Write outline with 2-4 items of evidence for each supporting idea. Or, freewrite 400 words about your thesis and supporting ideas and write outline later.

Drama
• Hand in 3 ideas for situations. Example: Breaking up with your boy/girl friend.
• Finish presentations.

Fri, 8/6, 2010

Fri, 8/6, 2010

Pds 1,4 Eng12
• Pd 1 name on planner! Checking ID & Planner Mon!
• Any more contact sheets?
• Meecher Teacher Quiz
HW: Write 5 interesting or unusual facts about yourself for 5 points. On a separate sheet, write a multiple choice quiz with 3 answers for each of your 5 questions for 15 points.
HW: Have 4 materials(on p2 of syllabus) and syllabus for points Monday.

AP Literature
• Hand in contact sheets.
• Hand in 5 facts & get back to make quiz.
• Quiz “How to Mark a Book”
• Get books and annotations back.
• Meecher Teacher Quiz
• Reading Analysis: hand in today or Mon.
HW: On a separate sheet, write a multiple choice quiz about yourself with 3 answers for each of 5-10 questions about yourself.
HW: From the handout list of Open Questions, find a topic that fits your novel. Write a thesis proposal that includes a main idea and 2-4 supporting ideas.

Drama
• Share quizzes with partner and with class.
HW: Make a list of 3 situations to do for improvisation .

Thu, 8/5, 2010

Thu, 8/5, 2010

English12
•Hand in contact sheets.
•Discuss AR books due
•Discuss syllabus
•Materials due Mon for points
• Period 4: Meecher Teacher quiz
HW: Write 5 interesting or unusual facts about your self

AP Literature
•Quiz on terms: 11 summer + 10 figures of speech.
•Get syllabus add-on & contact sheet to be signed
HW: Reading Analysis: read and answer 8 questions, 7 & 8 fully
HW: Write 5 or 10 interesting or unusual facts about self.

Drama
•Use your 5 facts to write a quiz about yourself, with 3 multiple choice answers to each question.

Wed, 8/4, 2010

Wed, 8/4, 2010

Periods 1 & 4 English 12
Get syllabus & contact form to fill out, get signed & return for 10 pts.
(Pd 1 got #1 of Meecher Teacher)
(Pd 4 discussed class information page)

Period 2 AP Lit
1. AR quiz in Mac lab.
HW: New list of terms: Figures of Speech from AP Exam. Study for quiz.
Tomorrow: Finish quiz on summer literary terms and add new terms to quiz. Also, fill-in-the-blank quiz on “How to Mark a Book” from summer assignment. See Summer Assignment below this post or you can Google it also.

Period 6 Drama
1. Hand in contact sheets
2. Meecher teacher quiz, check, and hand in.
HW: Write 5 interesting or unusual facts about your self.
3. Hand in your answers to 6 questions today or tomorrow .

Tue, Aug 3, 2010

Tue, Aug 3, 2010

Periods 1 & 4
1. Alpha seating
2. Get ID photos
3. Discuss class procedures

Period 2
1. Alpha seating & syllabus
2. Quiz on basic literary terms from summer assignment
3. Hand in annotations/book and answers to literary term questions
HW: tomorrow AR quiz and finish literary term quiz

Period 6
1. Alpha seating
2. Syllabus and student/parent/teacher contact sheet to return for 10 pts tomorrow.
HW: Answer 6 questions about theater/drama with at least 50 words each to discuss tomorrow.

2010 AP English Literature Summer Reading Assignment

Ms. Scanlon: shscanlon@aol.com
Phone: (808) 545-5023
www.scanlons.blogspot.com

CONGRATULATIONS on your acceptance into the AP English Literature and Composition class! I welcome you to a rewarding and challenging course for your senior year. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by email or phone. If you have not been in a Gifted and Talented English class at Radford or the AP Language class and you want to find out how to get into the AP Literature class, come see me in room 266, call, or e-mail.

This class studies critical reading of and analytical writing about classic literature. Students learn to interpret poetry and prose from various literary periods. Perceptive reading and quality writing are the primary goals of the class.

During the school year we will read poems from several literary periods, along with a novel, Jane Eyre, and two plays, Macbeth and Pygmalion. You will need to be familiar with a variety of works to be able to write an essay about one of them that will fit the third essay question on the AP Exam in May. If you pass the exam with a score of 3 or above, some colleges will give you English credits.

This summer’s assignment is to read and understand one book from the list of 22 novels in this packet. Every book in this list is a work of art, and not the kind of book the average teenager would pick up to read for pleasure. But you are probably not the average teenager. Take the time to pick one you will enjoy reading. You can find more information on the books and even read a few pages by searching Amazon.com. Also, most of the older books have complete texts available online.

Since you will also be annotating your book, you may want to buy it instead of borrowing it. Most students will be glad they have read and own an annotated classic work when they get to college. If you have a novel you cannot write in, use a composition book or a small binder or folder with lined paper to take notes on important elements, as directed in the article below “How to Mark a Book.” Make notes by page numbers, then paragraph numbers, to note characters or anything else you like, and then be able to find it later when you need it for your essay.

• Your assignment for the summer:

(If you do not have a print copy of this assignment, copy the parts you need here, paste it into a document to print, and bring it on the first day of school. Please separate the Literary Terms Questions pages to be able to hand them in easily)

1. Select a novel from the list. See me in room 266 to borrow one of our copies or get your book from any library or bookstore.
2. Read and annotate your novel.
3. Read the Literary Terms Questions BEFORE reading your novel so you know what to look for.
4. Read “How to Mark a Book” and use it to do your annotations.
5. Answer the questions on literary terms related to your novel. Write in the space given. If you need more space, write on the back and connect with an arrow, or expand the box with your computer.

• Bring your book to school for the first few days' work and be prepared to:

1. Take an AR test by computer for your novel.
2. Take a quiz on “How to Mark a Book.”
3. Take a quiz on the literary terms below.
4. Write a literary analysis essay.
5. Make a Reading Record Card. (This will NOT be due on the first day.) If you want to see what this is, use the search function for this blog.


NOVELS:

TITLE/ AUTHOR/ COUNTRY/ PUBLISHING DATE/ BRIEF SUMMARY

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Russian 1876
Tale of the married Anna and her love for Count Vronsky.

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner American 1930
The Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, away to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each member of the macabre pilgrimage.

The Awakening Kate Chopin American 1899
The story of one woman's emotional journey from a stifled, miserable marriage to a spirited and lusty freedom.

Beloved Toni Morrison American 1987
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad.

Billy Budd Herman Melville American 1886
A handsome young sailor is unjustly accused of plotting mutiny in this timeless tale of the sea.

Catch-22 Joseph Heller American 1961
Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier, was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament.

Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko American 1981
Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people.

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevski Russian 1866
An impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student formulates a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil, worthless parasite.

A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen British play 1879
The story of Nora and Torvald rises above simple gender issues to ask the bigger question: "To what extent have we sacrificed our selves for the sake of social customs and to protect what we think is love?"

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad British 1899 Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior of Africa, Marlow makes his way, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders.

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison American 1953
Invisible Man is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, an unnamed African American man who considers himself socially invisible.

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad British 1899
A young, idealistic Englishman is disgraced by cowardice while serving as an officer on a merchant-ship. His life is ruined, but then his courage is put to the test once more. This book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English.

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert French 1856
Emma Bovary, a bored country housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. Written in a modern style, this powerful novel was a scandal in its day.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy British 1886
Michael Henchard, having sold his wife and baby early in the novel for five guineas while in a drunken rage, gets what he deserves despite his valiant efforts at atonement years later.

Medea Euripides Greek 341 BCE
Medea tells the story of the jealousy and revenge of a woman betrayed by her husband. She leaves home and father for Jason's sake, and after she has borne him children, he forsakes her.

Middlemarch George Eliot British 1871
This "Study of Provincial Life" has a multiple plot with a large cast of characters, and it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, and education.

Moby Dick Herman Melville American 1851
This story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity.

Obasan Joy Kogawa Canadian 1981
Obasan uses a combination of personal narrative, lyrical outpourings, official letters, and dreams to protest the treatment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II. The voices clash and mesh until they reach the ending, which both stuns and reveals truth.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy British 1891
Tess of the d'Urbervilles describes the experiences of a woman who, through no fault of her own, falls outside of the moral code of the Victorian era in which she lives and suffers long-reaching consequences as a social outcast.

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston American 1937
An African American woman, Janie Crawford, tells the story of her life in Florida in the early 1900s and her marriages to three very different men.

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte British 1847
This swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness is cruel, violent, dark and brooding. And yet it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of pity and great loss that sets it apart.

Literary Terms Questions

Any work taken from a study guide is PLAGIARISM and receives a FAILING GRADE. Answer questions honestly. You will not lose points for your personal view or thoughts. This is a learning experience, not a test. Answering the questions to the best of your ability will receive a 100% score. However, "I don't know" is not an acceptable answer. If you have read the book, at least guess at an answer.

Answer questions below about LITERARY ELEMENTS of your novel.
TERMS: Definitions to learn for the quiz are in BOLD print.

1. THEME: The central message or dominant meaning of a work as a whole. It is often a universal idea. In a well-written story, all other elements support the theme. What do you see as the theme of the book you read?

 
2. PLOT: The sequence of events, including
Exposition: background facts,
Conflict: problems, struggles, rising action
Climax: point of greatest tension, the turning point
Resolution: conflicts resolved. Denouement
Write a précis, a concise summary, of the plot in one sentence, around 25 words. Do not go over 30! Your challenge is to simplify something as complex as a novel.
 

3. Describe the three parts of the SETTING:
(1) Place:
(2) Historical time:
(3) Social environment:

(4)How does the setting affect the meaning of the work as a whole?


4. CHARACTERIZATION: The means by which an author describes and develops characters.
FLAT characters are types, defined primarily by a single quality.
ROUND characters are complex, like real people.
STATIC characters stay the same.
DYNAMIC characters change.
DIRECT characterization TELLS what a character is like.
INDIRECT characterization SHOWS what the character is like by other means, such as actions or words of the characters.

Describe two characters.

Character 1: __________________________________________
Circle one: Flat or Round?
Static or Dynamic?
Explain:



How does the characterization fit into the meaning of the work as a whole?




Character 2: __________________________________________ Circle one: Flat or Round?
Static or Dynamic?
Explain:



How does the characterization fit into the meaning of the work as a whole?



5. POINT OF VIEW: The vantage point from which a narrative is told.
FIRST PERSON: The story is told through a character that refers to himself or herself as “I.”
THIRD PERSON: The narrator is omniscient (all knowing) or limited primarily to one character and is not a character in the story.

What is the narrative point of view of your book?


How does the point of view fit with the meaning of the work as a whole?



6. SYMBOL: Something that stands for itself and also suggests something larger, more complex, and often abstract. An object can be a symbol if a characteristic of the object is also a characteristic of the idea it may stand for.

Choose an object from your novel that might work as a symbol:________________________
(1) List the chapter and page number where it is mentioned: Chpt ___ Page___
(2) What might the symbol represent?


(3) How is the symbol related to the meaning of the work as a whole?


7. ALLUSION: An indirect reference to something (a person, event, statement, or theme) found in literature, the other arts, history, myths, religion, or popular culture. The title of William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury is an allusion to a line from Shakespeare's play Macbeth. “Life is...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

(1) Find an allusion_________________ and list the page and chapter where it is mentioned. Chpt ___ Page___
(2) How does the use of the allusion add to the meaning of the work as a whole?


Essay: How to Mark a Book
By Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.

You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to write between the lines. Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.

I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love. You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours.

Librarians (or your friends) who lend you books expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking books, you will have to buy them. Most of the world's great books are available today, in reprint editions.

There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood stream to do you any good.

Confusion about what it means to "own" a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type -- a respect for the physical thing -- the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire the idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without staking his claim by pasting his bookplate inside the cover. Having a fine library doesn't prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them.

There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers -- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books -- a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many -- every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. (This man owns books.)

Is it false respect, you may ask, to preserve intact and unblemished a beautifully printed book, an elegantly bound edition? Of course not. I'd no more scribble all over a first edition of 'Paradise Lost' than I'd give my baby a set of crayons and an original Rembrandt. I wouldn't mark up a painting or a statue. Its soul, so to speak, is inseparable from its body. And the beauty of a rare edition or of a richly manufactured volume is like that of a painting or a statue.

But the soul of a book "can" be separate from its body. A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a painting. No great musician confuses a symphony with the printed sheets of music. Arturo Toscanini reveres Brahms, but Toscanini's score of the G minor Symphony is so thoroughly marked up that no one but the maestro himself can read it. The reason why a great conductor makes notations on his musical scores -- marks them up again and again each time he returns to study them--is the reason why you should mark your books. If your respect for magnificent binding or typography gets in the way, buy yourself a cheap edition and pay your respects to the author.

Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don't mean merely conscious; I mean awake.) In the second place; reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed. Let me develop these three points.

If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read. Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, "Gone With the Wind," doesn't require the most active kind of reading. The books you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable. You don't absorb the ideas of John Dewey the way you absorb the crooning of Mr. Vallee. You have to reach for them. That you cannot do while you're asleep.


If, when you've finished reading a book, the pages are filled with your notes, you know that you read actively. The most famous "active" reader of great books I know is President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago. He also has the hardest schedule of business activities of any man I know. He invariably reads with a pencil, and sometimes, when he picks up a book and pencil in the evening, he finds himself, instead of making intelligent notes, drawing what he calls 'caviar factories' on the margins. When that happens, he puts the book down. He knows he's too tired to read, and he's just wasting time.

But, you may ask, why is writing necessary? Well, the physical act of writing, with your own hand, brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves them better in your memory. To set down your reaction to important words and sentences you have read, and the questions they have raised in your mind, is to preserve those reactions and sharpen those questions.

Even if you wrote on a scratch pad, and threw the paper away when you had finished writing, your grasp of the book would be surer. But you don't have to throw the paper away. The margins (top as bottom, and well as side), the end-papers, the very space between the lines, are all available. They aren't sacred. And, best of all, your marks and notes become an integral part of the book and stay there forever. You can pick up the book the following week or year, and there are all your points of agreement, disagreement, doubt, and inquiry. It's like resuming an interrupted conversation with the advantage of being able to pick up where you left off.

And that is exactly what reading a book should be: a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; naturally, you'll have the proper humility as you approach him. But don't let anybody tell you that a reader is supposed to be solely on the receiving end. Understanding is a two-way operation; learning doesn't consist in being an empty receptacle. The learner has to question himself and question the teacher. He even has to argue with the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. And marking a book is literally an expression of differences, or agreements of opinion, with the author.

There are all kinds of devices for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully. Here's the way I do it:
-1. Underlining (or highlighting): of major points, of important or forceful statements.
-2. Vertical lines at the margin: to emphasize a statement already underlined.
-3. Star, asterisk, or other doo-dad at the margin: to be used sparingly, to emphasize the ten or twenty most important statements in the book. (You may want to fold the bottom comer of each page on which you use such marks. It won't hurt the sturdy paper on which most modern books are printed, and you will be able take the book off the shelf at any time and, by opening it at the folded-corner page, refresh your recollection of the book.)
-4. Numbers in the margin: to indicate the sequence of points the author makes in developing a single argument.
-5. Numbers of other pages in the margin: to indicate where else in the book the author made points relevant to the point marked; to tie up the ideas in a book, which, though they may be separated by many pages, belong together.
-6. Circling or highlighting of key words or phrases.
-7. Writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page, for the sake of: recording questions (and perhaps answers) which a passage raised in your mind; reducing a complicated discussion to a simple statement; recording the sequence of major points right through the books. I use the end-papers at the back of the book to make a personal index of the author's points in the order of their appearance.

The front end-papers are to me the most important. Some people reserve them for a fancy bookplate. I reserve them for fancy thinking. After I have finished reading the book and making my personal index on the back end-papers, I turn to the front and try to outline the book, not page by page or point by point (I've already done that at the back), but as an integrated structure, with a basic unity and an order of parts. This outline is, to me, the measure of my understanding of the work.

If you're a die-hard anti-book-marker, you may object that the margins, the space between the lines, and the end-papers don't give you room enough. All right. How about using a scratch pad slightly smaller than the page-size of the book -- so that the edges of the sheets won't protrude? Make your index, outlines and even your notes on the pad, and then insert these sheets permanently inside the front and back covers of the book.

Or, you may say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That's one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading. Some things should be read quickly and effortlessly and some should be read slowly and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things differently according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you -- how many you can make your own. A few friends are better than a thousand acquaintances. If this be your aim, as it should be, you will not be impatient if it takes more time and effort to read a great book than it does a newspaper.

You may have one final objection to marking books. You can't lend them to your friends because nobody else can read them without being distracted by your notes. Furthermore, you won't want to lend them because a marked copy is kind of an intellectual diary, and lending it is almost like giving your mind away.

If your friend wishes to read your Plutarch's Lives, Shakespeare, or The Federalist Papers, tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat -- but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Essay taken from The Radical Academy


 

Mon, May 1, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg
2. Vocabulary 22, 24
3. Quiz 13-19, 22-24

Pd 2
1. Vote on video
2. Watch Jane Eyre and note differences with book

Pd 6
1. AR rdg.
2. Any more essays?
3. Vocabulary 22, 24
4. Quiz 13-19, 22-24

Tue, May 4, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Final draft postponed until Wed to add research of one item
3. Show me any more work done.

Pd 2
1. Check HW Mult Choice 1-21 from 2009 exam
2. Check “How Should I Plan” for poem “On the Subway.”
3. Handouts to read for exam preparation:
Diction for Pygmalion and marking “On the Subway”;
Sample essays for Wolsey and Symbol

Mon, May 3, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg
2. Write your second 200 words
3. Show me your first 200 if you have not yet done so.

Pd 2
1. Hand in essay Qstn 3: Symbol for a work you have read (Open Topic)
2. Discuss essay on Wolsey and how to mark the text.
3. Handouts for homework
HW: Read “How Should I Spend My Time” handout and mark the poem on the back page
HW: Read the passages from last year’s exam and answer the questions. We will go over them tomorrow.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg.
2. Write your second 200 words
3. Show me your first 200 if you have not yet done so

Reading Record Cards

Reading Record Cards

The purpose of this card is to keep information about books you read recently fresh in your mind so you can discuss them on the Open Question Essay for the AP Exam.

Use any size note card, but use the same size for all your books.
Include the type of information briefly.
For example,
Protagonist: Jane Eyre

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.
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
10. A quotation that is meaningful to you or that is typical for the author. Document so it can be found if needed.
11. What do you think is the theme of this work? Look for a universal idea.

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

Pd 2
1. Get back reading record cards; discuss themes for all 3 works read this year, and Catch 22 and Beloved as summer novels.
2. Get packet about Qstn 3, the Open Topic. Read for the AP exam.
3. Get last year’s AP Exam Qstn 3 to write, due Monday. Use Macbeth or one of the other books that has a reading record card. Time yourself to see what you can do in 40 minutes.
4. Get back "Flame-Heart" essays. Talk about “working the prompt” and notating the passage.
HW: Write the Qstn 3 Essay on a symbol. Time yourself.
"A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning.

Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."


Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. STAR for absent students
3. Show me 200 more words for 400 total.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Show me 200 words of your essay
HW: Write 200 more words for Monday

Wed, Apr 28, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg and STAR for absentees
2. Show me 200 more words

Pd 4
1. AR rdg and STAR for absentees
2. Show me 200 words

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and STAR for absentees
2. Clarification of assignment topics and procedures
3. Show me thesis and outline
HW: Write 200 words for tomorrow

Tue, Apr 27, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Write 200 words and show me for 20 points

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in essay J.E. & Pygmalion
3. Discuss complexity and conflict in AP exam essays
4. Essay Flame Heart
HW: Write Reading Record Card* for Pygmalion
*FOR READING RECORD CARD FORMAT, SEE Oct 24, 2007, IN ARCHIVES

Mon, Apr 26, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg
2. Get progress report
3. Check thesis & outline
4. How to write Intro & Body ¶
5. 250 words to write per day for the next 2 class days. Essay due Monday.

Pd 2
1. Get Qstn 1 Wolsey & Henry VIII
Plan and write introduction containing thesis in 15 minutes.
2. Get STAR scores
HW: Due tomorrow: Jane Eyre & Pygmalion Final draft, rough draft, rough outline, & final outline.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg.
2. STAR scores and progress reports
3. Discuss essay topics
1] Journal of Plague Year: Critical Response # 3, p 504
2] “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” p642-3 and “The Solitary Reaper” p645: Critical Response: Comparing Poems, p646
3] Analyze using TP-CASTT one of the three Lucy poems, pp 638, 39, 40. Thesis is the author’s central meaning based on his title, what happens, connotations of his imagery and figurative language, author’s attitude, any shifts, and anything else the author may do to convey his meaning.
HW: Pick a work to write about, write your main idea and 3 ideas that support it. Make an outline of body ¶s with 3 details of evidence for each subtopic idea. I, A,B,C; II, A,B,C; III, A,B,C

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Pd2
1. Hand in Qstn 1 essay Sir Walter Elliot
2. Get with editing partner to comment on essay
3. Writing conference: Sade
4. STAR test
HW: Final drafts due Tuesday

Pd4
1. STAR test
2. Show me thesis and outline of persuasive essay
3. Write body ¶s
HW: Check work done

Pd6
1. AR rdg
2. Discuss questions 1-6 p 615 on "To a Mouse"
HW: Read 4 poems by William Wordsworth, pp638, 639, 640 & 642-3
Three "Lucy poems" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Wed, Apr 21, 2010

Pd 1
1. STAR test
2. Show me thesis (4pts) & outline (8pts)
3. Write body ¶s
HW: Thesis & outline due Monday

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Start persuasive essay writing: Choose topic, make For and Against chart, write thesis, write outline

Pd 6
1. Socratic Seminar on "Modest Proposal"
2. STAR test
HW: Read “To a Mouse” p 613 and answer questions 1-6 on p 615

Tue, Apr 20, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Start persuasive essay writing: Choose topic, make For and Against chart, write thesis, write outline

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Show me your 600 words or 400+thesis & outline
3. Writing conferences: Afton, Monica, Ashley Randle
HW: Bring edited draft to share Thursday
HW: Finish Qstn 1

Mon, Apr 19,2010

Pds 1& 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review voc 11 & 13
3. Persuasive essay

Pd 2
1. Show me your 200 words
2. Page 3 Advice for AP essays
HW: JE/Pyg essay Write last 200 words or thesis and outline. You should have at least 600 words and thesis plus outline to show me tomorrow.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg.
2. Review voc 11, 13 & quiz
HW: Quiz 9-23 tomorrow

Fri, Apr 16, 2010

Pds 1,4
1. AR rdg
2. Vocabulary 11 & 13
3. Voc. Quiz 9-23

Pd 2
1. Hand in MC corrections
2. Show me thesis or 200 words of Pygmalion/J.E. essay.
3. Pg 2 of advice for AP essay
4. Discuss Qstn 1 essay: Searching, planning, outlining, order of ¶s
HW: 200 words for either the Qstn 1 essay or JE/Pyg

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Finish questions in groups
3. Vocabulary 11 & 13
HW: Have questions 1-11 p 524 for "A Modest Proposal"answered by Monday

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Pd 2
1. Check 200 word freewrite
2. Get back your MC 28-56 and answers to do corrections
3. Hand in quotation evidence for Qst 1: 3 terms. Read some aloud.
4. Get handout of advice for writing essays for AP exam. Read aloud and discuss page 1. Bring to class every day until finished rdg.
5. Together write introduction to Qstn 1, then first body ¶.
HW: MC corrections
HW: For J.E./ Pymalion essay, either write your thesis or freewrite 200 more words.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Art: Quotation from Macbeth, documented with page number
Include: Speaker, Occasion, Attitude
Use color, contrast b&w, fill page

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on Modest Proposal
3. Groups to answer questions

Wed, Apr 14, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Art: Quotation from Macbeth, documented with page number
Include: Speaker, Occasion, Attitude
Use color, contrast b&w, fill page

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review Macbeth questions pp90-1
3. Test

Pd6
1. AR rdg
2. Read “A Modest Proposal” aloud p518

Tue, Apr 13, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Finish questions p91
3. Test on Macbeth
4. Art: Quotation, documented with page number
Pick a quotation from a character in Macbeth pp 73-88.
Illustrate the quotation using...
-color,
-contrast from black to white,
-objects suitable for the quotation,
-filling the page, but...
Also state the following on your paper:
• Speaker, person who says the lines.
• Occasion, what is happening,
• Attitude, feelings of the speaker

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Check similarities & differences for Jane Eyre and Pygmalion
3. Hand in 6 Traits quiz & your answers to the 2 questions about your writing
4. Continue essay Qst 1: Discuss syntax, handout: loose & periodic sentences, parallel structure
HW: For essay Qst 1, with
Main idea: How the speaker's attitude is revealed by
1] details,
2] diction,
3] syntax:
For each of the three terms above, find one quotation from the passage as an example that reveals the speaker's attitude toward Sir Walter Elliot. Possible attitudes discussed are formal, critical, objective. You may think of a different one.
HW: For any literary aspect that interests you in Jane Eyre or Pygmalion, i.e. characterization, setting, theme, symbol, style, etc.(see past handouts), freewrite 200 words exploring and comparing that aspect in both works.

Mon, Apr 12, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Discuss questions p 91

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Discuss questions p 90 -1

Pd 2
1. Quiz Epilogue to Pygmalion
2. Quiz Six Traits Plus 1 of writing
3. Hand in HW on MC Test 2: 28-56 to explain the ones you missed
4. Hand in HW questions 1-7 p1209 The Play as a Whole
HW: On your Six Traits Quiz, answer these questions:
1] What do you want to know about your writing?
2] What do you want to improve?
HW: Begin major essay : Comparison of Jane Eyre and Pygmalion.
List similarities and differences

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on p555 Introduction to Dictionary of the English Language and check
3. Give examples of funny definitions.
4. Hand in 3 words and definitions.

Fri, Apr 9, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Finish film
3. Questions, all

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Finish film
3. Questions 1-3

Pd 2
1. Quiz Act 5
2. Hand in MC 29-56
Get back 1-28 & answers
Hand in questions 9, 10, 11 p1209
3. Practice Essay Qstn #1 discussed in class: Sir Walter Kellynch
HW: MC 1-28 Write about questions missed, show you understood answer.
HW: Read Epilogue p1201-1208, Answer 1-7, p 1209 on “The Play as a Whole”

Pd 6
1. AR rdg in library
HW: Read “Dictionary of the English Language” pp 555-8.
• Quiz Monday on p 555.
• From dictionary, find & write:
-1 word & definition the same as today
-1 word & definition differ- en t from today
-1 word & definition you think is funny
2. Restoration & 18th Century:
From ornate language of the past to plainer language of science and logic;
Focus on nonfiction: Journal & Dictionary
3. Romantic Period:
30 years long;
Turn to intuition and idealism rather than logic & reality.
4. Read “To a Mouse”p613.
HW: Read again for quiz.

Thu, Apr 8, 2010

Pd 2
1. Quiz Acts 3 & 4
2. Hand in MC Practice Test 2: #1-28
3. Read Act 5 aloud
HW: Finish reading Act 5 and answer questions 9,10,11 on p 1209
HW: MC Practice Test 2: #29-55

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz “Journal of the Plague Year”
3. Discuss questions at end.
HW: Write: How are the themes of Milton’s two sonnets similar? How are they different? What can you infer about what Milton is saying in the two poems?
.

Wed, Apr 7, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Check HW
3. Discuss 5 styles
HW: Read "A Journal of the Plague Year" p497-503

Tue, Apr 6, 2010

Tue, Apr 6

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Review
3. Watch film

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz on Act 2
3. Discussion
HW: Read Acts 3 & 4
HW: Do Mult Choice 1-28 Practice Test 2

Mon, Apr 5, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & Quizzes
2. Read Macbeth

Pd 2
1. Quiz on Pygmalion readings
2. AR quizzes
3. Discuss Pygmalion questions
HW: Read Act 2

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & quizzes
2. Quiz Robinson Crusoe
3. Review sonnets for test. Pass back work on sonnets.
HW: Read pp438-443.
1]Write the most important idea from each of the first three sections, The First…, The Battle…, and What is Style?
2]For the five styles in the last section on Style, write your own 2 examples showing the difference in each of the five. For example, if the style consists of beginning sentences 1) with the subject or 2) not with the subject, you could use these examples:
With subject: John saw a deer.
Not With subject: In the forest John has seen many deer.

Thu, Apr 1, 2010

Pd 2
1. Hand in essay on one poem from the Victorian period.
2. Write in-class AP exam essay Open Question on Macbeth
3. Read Act 1 of Pygmalion aloud.
HW: Read for quiz:
p 1148 Introduction ¶ to Preface
p 1151, column 2, ¶s 2 & 3, beginning “I wish…” and ending “…ridiculous.”
pp 1152-1158 Act 1
AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5

Pd 4
1. AR rdg AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5
2. Write response to film so far
3. Read to page 83.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg AR QUIZ DEADLINE MONDAY, APRIL 5
2. Hand in paraphrase of sestet (solution) for “Blindness.”
3. Work on chart comparing the two sonnets with respect to their problems and solutions, giving textual evidence for each part.
HW: Read From Robinson Crusoe
p 483-495 for quiz Mon.

Wed, Mar 31, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg
2. Write response to film so far
3. Read to page 81.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Watch film to dagger scene
3. Quiz 1 Macbeth

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in paraphrase for octave of “On His Blindness.” Listen to all read aloud.
3. Define words and discuss sestet of “Blindness.”
HW: Paraphrase the sestet of Blindness.

Tue, Mar 30, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Watch film to dagger scene
3. Quiz 1 Macbeth

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Quiz Charles Dickens p 845 and David Copperfield p 846
3. Discuss Title, Paraphrasing, Connotations for TP-CASTT
HW: Practice for AP exam by writing a 5¶-style essay analyzing one of the 3 poems used with TP-CASTT. Your thesis or main idea should be what you think the poem is saying. Your subtopics will be the literary techniques the author uses that support your idea about his theme. Use literary terms and quotations, as always.
Possible poetry terms:
• Denotation and connotation
• Figurative language:
-Simile
-Metaphor,
-Personification,
-Apostrophe,
-Symbol
-Paradox
-Overstatement
-Understatement
-Irony
-Allusion
• Meaning and idea
• Tone
• Musical devices
-alliteration
-assonance
-consonance
-rhyme
-rhythm
-onomatopoeia

Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Pds 1&4
1. AR rdg
2. Review Macbeth so far
3. Watch beginning of film

Pd 2
1. Hand in TPCASTTof Duchess, Spring & Fall, & Darkling Thrush
2. Discuss tpcastt analyses for the 3 poems
HW: Read pp 845-857: Charles Dickens & From David Copperfield for quiz

Pd 6
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in paraphrase if separate from poem
3. Define words and discuss “On His Blindness”
HW: On a separate sheet paraphrase the first 8 lines of "On His Blindness."

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Read Macbeth through the dagger speech

Pd 2
1. Qz on Victorian Era #1,2,4,6 & p771 #s 1-3
2. Discuss for pts TPCASTT ideas for Tennyson's “Break, Break, Break”
3. Read around class “Spring and Fall” p828 and “The Darkling Thrush” p834
4. Read aloud “My Last Duchess” p800 and discuss what you understood.
HW: TPCASTT all 3 poems:
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning p800,
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manly Hopkins p828 ,
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy p834

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz on sonnets
3. Take notes on Milton’s “On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three”
HW: Paraphrase Milton’s “On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three” (Say in your own words what you think Milton is saying)

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

1. AR rdg
2. Read Macbeth through the dagger speech on p 79.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg
2. Get back Qtr 3 Exam & essays
3. Grade reports
4. Begin Macbeth p73-74.

Pd 6
1. Hand in Macbeth essay homework
2. Cornell notes on sonnets
3. Milton sonnets
4. Grade reports

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Essays returned
3. Grade reports
4. Begin Macbeth p73-74 to Witches

Pd 2
1. AR rdg
2. Hand in essays, revision of up to 1 paragraph, and explanation.
3. Quiz on "Frankenstein”
4. The Victorian Pd handout. Discuss for quiz Thur
6. Tennyson’s “Break, Break, Break” p781, Read and discuss using TPCASTT
HW: Do TP-CASTT for “Break, Break, Break” p781 (See below for explanation. Also search TPCASTT online.)
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/things/PDF/TP-CASTT.pdf

TP-CASTT

Title: What predictions can you make from the title? What are your initial thoughts about the poem? What might be the theme of the poem?

Paraphrase: Summarize the poem in your own words.

Connotation: What is the connotative meaning of the poem? Find examples of imagery, metaphors, similes, etc. and elaborate on their connotative meanings.

Attitude: What attitude does the poet have toward the subject of the poem? Find and list examples that illustrate the tone and mood of the poem.

Shift: Is there a shift in the tone/attitude of the poem? Where is the shift? What does the tone shift to?

Title: Revisit the title and explain any new insights it provides to the meaning of the poem.

Theme: What is the overall theme of the poem?

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Get back Qtr 3 Exam and go over answers

Pd 2
1. Hand in and discuss answers to "Frankenstein"
2. Get Jane Eyre essays back
HW: Rewrite no more than one paragraph of your Jane Eyre essay, based on your own evaluation or mine (from comments at the end or corrections in the text.) Don’t correct only trivial errors such as spelling and punctuation.
Tomorrow hand in
1] your essay,
2] your corrected section, and
3] a sheet that tells me...
--A. What is different about your new section,
--B. Why you did it that way, and
--C. What you think of the result.

Pd 4
1. Café duty

Pd 6
Krystle, Kanani, and Kayla, you can come in and get your essays tomorrow if you want a chance to do the HW before grades go in.
1. Get Qtr 3 Exam and Macbeth essays back
HW: Rewrite no more than one paragraph of your Macbeth essay, based on your own evaluation or mine (from comments at the end or corrections in the text.) Don’t correct only trivial errors such as spelling and punctuation.
Wednesday hand in
1] your essay,
2] your corrected section, and
3] a sheet that tells me...
--A. What is different about your new section,
--B. Why you did it that way, and
--C. What you think of the result

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Write ¶ from partner’s sentence,
taken from Writing Connection p 72.

Pd 2
1. Presentations finished
2. Read from Frankenstein p743, Answer qstns 1, 5-8

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Uncommon Sense

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Pd 1
Reading Analysis Post Test
Uncommon Sense

Pd 2
Presentations

Pd 6
1. Hand in Macbeth essay
2. Qtr 3 Exam Macbeth Acts 1-5

Tue, Mar 9, 2010

Tue, Mar 9, 2010

Pd 4
1. Take Qtr 3 Exam
2. Silent reading or Uncommon Sense game

Pd 6
1. Get Mult Choice 1-10 Macbeth back with answers
2.Take Act 5 Test, check, record score, keep to study for exam
3. Get Acts 3 & 4 back to study. Get Act 2 also. Act 1 returned earlier.
HW: Macbeth essay due Wed

Mon, Mar 8, 2010

Mon, Mar 8, 2010

Pd 1
Qtr 3 Exam

Pd 2
Qtr 3 Exam
Go over answers
HW: Presentations Wed

Pd 4
Review for Qtr 3 Exam

Thu Mar 4, 2010

Thu Mar 4, 2010

Pd 2
1. Hand in Reading Record Cards for Jane Eyre
2. Get review sheet for Qtr 3 exam Monday (attached to bottom of blog)
3. Presentation topics are intended for you and your listeners to consider new ideas about the novel.
Presentations require students to do the following:
1] Immediately before presenting, students hand in their 1-2 minute speech (Sentences, paragraphs, etc) written legibly, preferably printed, on paper.
2] Leader or alternate will begin presentation by reading the group's discussion topic.
3] Each group member will explain his/her part of the question to the class.
4] After presenting, students hand in their index card with notes (no sentences).
Groups will present when called whether all are present or not. Absent members will present later.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg and log
2. Check answers to Reading Analysis of Jane Eyre passage

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Take test on Acts 3 and 4
3. Get back Act 2 and go over answers
4. Show me your outline and complete rough draft of >600 words.
Tues: Take Act 5 test, check, and go over Acts 3, 4, 5 answers as time permits
Wed: Paper due and Qtr 3 Exam

Period 2 Exam review:
Literary Work, Element, Period, or Technique
1] Know Authors
2] Pay attention to the introduction in bold print before each work

• Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock
p532 last ¶ description of mock epic.
Definition of mock epic on p 1266

•Satire definition p1270

• Romantic Pd pp600-604: Political and Economic Changes:
p600 ¶ "Another. . . .England."
p604 last 4 ¶s The Term Romantic: Know its 3 useful meanings.

• Know the typical elements of a medieval Romance:
-an all-good hero,
-an evil enemy,
-a quest,
-a test of the hero,
-supernatural elements,
-good vs. evil
p146 Critical Response. Do the works of the writers of the Romantic period fit any of these elements?

• Article:"Blake's Poems"
William Blake's The Tyger pp620-621 Know first 2 lines from memory
William Blake's 2 Chimney Sweeper poems pp 623 & 625;
Critical Resp: Know the difference in the two poems based on Innocence and Experience.
Be able to relate them to Wordsworth's ideas in Tintern Abbey.

• William Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey pp 633-637.
Know
-the role of nature in the poem,
-the changes in the poet since first visit, &
-the main idea of the poem.
• William Wordsworth's 3 Lucy poems, pp638-640,
Critical Response: Know one image from each poem and two themes of the group.

• p 646: Know the meaning of a "meditative poem"

• George Gordon (his real name), Lord Byron's Don Juan
p684 Know the kind of poem, the tone, what is being satirized, and what traits, if any, fit the Romantic period.

• John Keats's Bright Star: p 710 Know what the speaker tells the star;
p 711 When I Have Fears: Be able to summarize Keats's feelings when he wrote this sonnet

• Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Wed, Mar 3, 2010

Wed, Mar 3, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR reading and log
2. Review for exam & return work
Renaissance
Sonnets
Milton's 2 sonnets
Six Traits
Vocabulary 1-10, 12, 14, 15

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Check analysis practice

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Act 1 Test returned, take Act 2 Test
3. Show me thesis, outline, 300 words
4. Handout: Literary analysis of Macbeth assignment sheet
HW: Write 300 more words for Thur

Tue, Mar 2, 2010

Tue, Mar 2, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR reading and log
2. Finish checking analysis practice
3. Review Renaissance for exam

Pd 2
1. AR reading and log
2. Hand in essays
3. Group project J.E. Research & Discussion topics. Divide up your topic and discuss. Each person is responsible for writing what s/he plans to say and turning it in to me before presenting. The presentation should be elucidating for the speaker and the audience. Use a quote, for authority and effort. Also, use a note card for presenting, which you will give to me afterward.
HW: Write a Reading Record Card for Jane Eyre.

Mon, Mar 1, 2010

Mon, Mar 1, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & QUIZ
2. Check analysis practice

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & QUIZ
2. Analysis practice

Pd 2
AR QUIZ DEADLINE TODAY
1. If you have your essay ready for editing, give it to people to read. Write the legend in top right corner: names of editors, in different colors, & use color for editing marks + ? more. Hand it in tomorrow with final draft and outlines.
HW: Final draft, rough draft, final outline, rough outline due Tues

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and QUIZ
2. Handouts for quoting and writing a thesis statement
HW: Write 300 words for Wed to show me with your thesis statement and outline

Fri, Feb 26, 2010

Fri, Feb 26, 2010

ALL CLASSES: AR DEADLINE MONDAY

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg, log, and quizzes

Pd 2
1. Show me 600 words of your rough draft and your outline. 15 pts each. No more than one third (200 words)of your essay can be quotations.
HW: AR deadline Mon
HW: Mon Share essay for editing
HW: Tue Final draft, rough drafts, final outline, rough outline due (Use standard topic outline form & begin with your complete thesis). I, A, 1, a

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Begin planning Q3 essay: 500 word minimum with no more than one third quotations.
HW: Read essay ideas pp333-4 in textbook, Critical Responses #4-10. Choose one or write your own topic that is your arguable opinion about some aspect of the play. For example, what is Shakespeare’s central message (theme) and how does he achieve it? (literary elements) Write an outline of the body paragraphs. Show me rough thesis and outline Monday.

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Read Conflict p 72- and do Writing Connection

Pd 2
1. Show me your standard format topic outline and 300 words of your essay 15 pts
2. Get study questions back
HW: Finish 600 words of rough draft
Mon: Edit drafts
Tue: Final draft, other drafts, final outline, rough outline due

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Mastery Test Act 1 Macbeth & check

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more essays?
3. Reading analysis practice

Pd 4
1. AR reading and log
2. Hand in essays & initial.
3. Read p 72 Reading Focus, Conflict through tragic flaw.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Check & discuss HW sheet
Macbeth mastery tests tomorrow

Tue, Feb 23, 2010

Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Pd 1
1. AR reading and log
2. Hand in essays & initial.
3. Read p 72 Reading Focus & Conflict.
Do Writing Connection and hand in.
Read Macbeth p 73, ¶s 1-2.

Pd 2 1. AR rdg & log
2. Thesis statement of theme:
Did you make it
• arguable and
• universal?
Did you remember the three easy steps to a thesis?
3. Handout 6 pp for help w/ essay
4. Take notes on last essay
5. MC 21-30 J.E. to you, check answers, & give back
6. Show me your 300 words or 14 parts to outline* (see sample outline below)
HW: Write 300 more words or the detailed outline, and show me everything you have so far.
*Thesis: Shakespeare's depiction of the significant women characters in Macbeth suggests that women are evil.
I. Weird sisters
_A. Words
__1. “toil and trouble”
__2. “He shall live a man forbid”
_B. Other characteristics
__1. Presented “killing swine”
__2. Presented as “having beards”
II. Lady Macbeth (done as above)

Mon, Feb 22, 2010

Mon, Feb 22, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Tomorrow after taking essays, we begin reading Macbeth. No use of computers during class after today.
3. Any essays ready? Need any help?
HW: Essay due next class.

Pd 2
1. Show me your 2 theme proposals with support. Choose one to use for your essay.
2. Essay Rubric handout
3. Essay will be 600 words min.
HW: Write a thesis statement that is arguable and universal. Either write 300 words or write a complete outline with evidence included for tomorrow. I will have more options and help for you tomorrow.


Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Hand in project
3. Get Macbeth outline handout
HW: Conflict & Characterization handout

Fri, Feb 19, 2010

Fri, Feb 19, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Comparison
3. Writing your outline
HW: Essay due Tues, Feb 23

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Work on essay or read AR book.
HW: Essay due Wed, Feb 24

Pd 2
1. Quiz chs 37-38
2. Multiple choice 21-30 J.E.
3. Get answers to check 37-38
4. Get information sheet for essay
5. Discuss essay
HW: Decide on a theme and explore ways to support it. Have proposals (supporting subtopics) for 2 different themes for Monday. Possible THEMES:
-inequality
-freedom and liberation
-hypocrisy
-duty
-appearance versus reality
-love and passion
- or your own idea
SUPPORT:
-characterization, the effect of characters on Jane;
-settings and lessons learned there;
-symbolism such as the Red Room, nature, or fire and ice;
-contrast between places or between people (foils?)

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Show me what you have so far on your project
3. Film to end
HW: Finish quotation project
HW: Test on Macbeth Monday

Thu, Feb 18, 2010

Thu, Feb 18, 2010

Pd 4
1. AR reading and log
2. Show me your rough draft
3. Give me your documented sentence to check & return.
4. Work on essay
HW: Essay due Wed, Feb 24

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Qz chps 33-36 & voc
3. Get answers to check 33-36
4. Get study qstns 37-38
5. Discuss chs 25-35 and terms: anaphora, polysyndeton, pathetic fallacy, bildungsroman
HW: Read chs 37-38 and answer study questions

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Get quotes back Acts 1-5
3. Film: Act 4
HW: Quotation/Art Display. Use one sheet of paper or two, but art must fill the page.
Have half by tomorrow.
• Write a Quotation from Macbeth in quotation marks & document.
List in dark, legible print:
Speaker: ___
Occasion: ___
Attitude: ___
Paraphrase: ___
• Art: 3+ colors, contrast black & white, fill the page, no stick figures, use details, appropriate content (no clowns, cartoons)

Wed, Feb 17, 2010

Wed, Feb 17, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR reading and log
2. Show me your complete rough draft
3. Work on essay, edit rough draft & proofread
HW: Essay due Tues, Feb 23

Pd 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Show me the rest of your essay
3. Get back papers blending quote into your sentence. Document your quote with a parenthetical.
HW: Essay due Wed, Feb 24

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Read Act 5 aloud

Tue, Feb 16, 2010

Tue, Feb 16, 2010

Pd1
1. AR reading & log
2. Show me the rest of your essay for points.
3. Practice blending a quotation from the sonnets into your sentence and documenting it with the line number.

Pd 2
1. Qz J.E. chps 29-32
2. Hand in notes on thinking for qstns missed on MC 1-20.
3. Check Study Qstns chps 29-32
4. Checking will be given points. Give each answer a sign as follows: √ X NS (not sure)
5. Get study qstns chs 33-36
6. Discuss chs 21 – 24
7. Two new terms--
• bildungsroman: a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
• pathetic fallacy: A term coined by John Ruskin to deplore the tendency of certain writers and artists to ascribe human emotions and sympathies to nature, a technique used extensively in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by Wordsworth, Shelley, and other Romantic writers.
HW: Read chps 33-36 & answer study questions.

Thu, Feb 11, 2010

Pd 2
1. Quiz chps 27-28
2. Practice Free Response Question 4
3. Pick up the following:
1] answers to study questions chs 27-28 to check
2] study questions chs 29-32
3] Mult choice 1-20 Answers to check your 2 quizzes returned.
HW: On binder paper write a short note about your thinking on each question you missed of 1-20 Jane Eyre Mult Choice. Include part of question.
HW: Read chs 29-32 & answer study questions

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me 200 total words due today.
3. Write a sentence blending the quote “only stand and wait” into it. Copy my blending of “late spring” for minimum points. Hand in.
HW: Write the rest of your rough draft due Wednesday, Feb 17. 300 words minimum 700 maximum Final Draft due Wednesday, Feb 24.
• Literary analysis is a formal paper.
• Do not use any slang words or informal speech such as contractions (don’t = do not)
• Write only about the poems, the author, and the ideas. Do not write about yourself, the reader, or what you are writing, except in personal comment at the end.
• Name the author and the sonnets.


Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Read Act 4 aloud.
3. Movie

Wed, Feb 10, 2010

Wed, Feb 10, 2010

1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me 200 total words due today.
HW: Show me the rest of your rough draft on Tuesday, Feb 16. 300 words minimum 700 maximum Final Draft due Tuesday, Feb 22.
• This is a formal paper.
• Do not use slang or conversational words such as guy for man or a lot for many or much. Don't use informal speech such as contractions (don’t = do not; they're = they are)
• Write only about the poems, the author, and the ideas. Do not write about yourself, the reader, or what you are writing.
• Name the author and the sonnet titles.

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me your 100 words and your chart with evidence.
3. Show me 100 more, 200 total, tomorrow.
Essay should be at least 300 words and no more than 700.
Answer these questions:
• What is the meaning of Milton’s two sonnets? To find it, do the following:
• Discuss the problem and solution. Use evidence and show how it supports your ideas.
• Analyze by comparing them. How are they alike and how are they different?
Final Draft due Wed, Feb 23.
4. Get progress reports.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Read aloud.
3. Watch play.
4. Get progress reports

Tue, Feb 9, 2010

Tue, Feb 9, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me your 100 words. I will check your chart with evidence tomorrow.
3. Show me 100 more words, 200 total, tomorrow.
Essay should be at least 300 words and no more than 700.
Answer the questions:
• What is the meaning of Milton’s two sonnets?
• Discuss the problem and solution. Use evidence to support your ideas about the meaning and explain your evidence.
• Analyze by comparing sonnets. How are they alike and how are they different?
4. Get progress reports

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Qz J.E. chps 25-26
3. Mult Choice 11-20
4. Check study qstns 25-26
5. Get study qstns 27-28
HW: Read chs 27-28 & answer study qstns
6. Get progress reports.

Mon, Feb 8, 2010

Mon, Feb 8, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Get handout for essay writing
HW: Write 100 words of your rough draft for next class.
Essay should be at least 300 words and no more than 700.
Answer the questions: What is the meaning of Milton’s two sonnets? Analyze by comparing them. How are they alike and how are they different? Discuss the problem and solution and use evidence to support your ideas about the meaning. Evidence should be explained.

Pd2
1. Qz J.E. chps 22-24
2. Check Study Qstns chps 22-24
Hand in TP-CASTT if you haven't already.
3. Discuss ch 18-20 for points
4. New terms:
Anaphora: repeated words or phrases at the beginning of sentences or lines
Polysyndeton: single word repetition
HW: Read chps 25-26 & answer study questions.


Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Hand in quotes Acts 4 & 5
3. Quiz p 329 “Soliloquies and Asides”

Thu, Feb 4, 2010

1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me your paraphrases.
3. Compare Milton’s 2 sonnets using a T chart. Analyze (look at a part to learn about the whole)
4. Examine the octave (problem section) of "Age 23". Write in your own way what you see as his problem. Then supply evidence from the poem to show why you see it that way. Do this for both poems.
5. For evidence, use direct quotes-- "my late spring" (4) -- or use indirect quotes-- He referred to his current age as being in the latter part of spring (4). Instead of documenting in parentheses, you can document within your text by saying "In line 4 Milton writes about his "late spring."
HW: Give the evidence for both poems

Pd 2
1. Quiz chps 20-21
2. Practice Free Response Qstn 1 J.E.
3. Check study qstns 20-21
4. Get study qstns 22-24
HW: Read chs 22-24 & answer study qstns
HW: Any more TP-CASTT?

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Read aloud from Act 3 up to scene 6 p 299
HW: Read “Soliloquies and Asides” p 329 for a quiz Monday
Hand in quotes Act 4&5

Wed, Feb 3, 2010

Wed, Feb 3, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz on Age 23
3. Comparing Milton’s 2 sonnets with a T chart. Analyze (voc: look at a part to decide about the whole) parts of the 2 poems to understand Milton’s ideas.
4. Examine the octaves (problem section ) of both.
Hand in paraphrases for grade and get back for homework:
HW: Give the evidence for them

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Check paraphrase of “On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23”.
HW: Paraphrase “On His Blindness”

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Mult Choice AP Macbeth 1-10
3. Movie to end of Act 2
HW: I forgot to collect quotes for Acts 4 &5. Have them ready tomorrow.

Tue, Feb 2, 2010

Tue, Feb 2, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Check paraphrase of “On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23”.
HW: Paraphrase “On His Blindness”

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Multiple Choice 1-10
3. Qz J.E. chps 18-19
4. Check study qstns 18-19
5. Discussion chs 14 & 15
HW: Read chps 20-21 and answer study questions
HW: Hand in TP-CASTT Thursday

Mon, Feb 1, 2010

Mon, Feb 1, 2010

Pd 1&4
1. AR reading & quizzes
2. Write paraphrase on handout of “ On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three”
3. Finish for homework

Pd 2
1. AR quizzes
2. Qz J.E. chps 15-17
3. Check Study Qstns chps 15-17
4. Hand in TP-CASTT
5. Discuss ch 13 for points
HW: Read chps 18&19 & answer study questions.
HW: Finish TP-CASTT (see 1/28 for poem suggestions)

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and quizzes
2. Read aloud in circle Act 3
HW: Pick quote you like from Act 5, write, document, and give Speaker, Occasion, Attitude of speaker, and Paraphrase.

Thu, Jan 28, 2010

Thu, Jan 28, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & new log
2. Discuss poem “ On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three” & answer questions 1,2, 4, 5, 6 on handout. Homework for Pd4.
HW: Finish AR book for quiz Mon, Feb 1, deadline

Pd 2
1. Quiz chs 13 & 14
2. Check study qstns chs 13&14
3. TP-CASTT poetry analysis. Pick a poem you don’t understand well to analyze on a blank form. Suggested poems: p 638 Lucy poems, pp 710-11 Bright Star or When I Have Fears, p 1092 The Second Coming, p 1122 The Naming of Parts
HW: Read chps 15-17 and answer study questions
HW: Finish AR book for quiz Mon, Feb 1, deadline

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Hand in work on quotes for Acts1-3
3. Read aloud
HW: Act 4 quote w/5 parts as done previously
HW: Finish AR book for quiz Mon, Feb 1, deadline

Wed, Jan 27, 2010

Wed, Jan 27, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. Library 15 minutes AR rdg
2. Reread "On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23" p 63
3. Paraphrase and discuss comparison analysis essay

Pd 2
1. Library 15 minutes AR rdg
2. Quiz chps 11&12.
3. Check Study Qstns chps 11&12
4. Discuss Jane Eyre
HW: Read chps 13&14 and answer Study questions

Pd 6
1. Library 15 minutes AR rdg
2. Get handout: Macbeth Outline of acts & scenes
3. Read aloud
HW: Pick a quote you like from Act 3, write it, document it, and give Speaker, Occasion, Attitude of speaker, and Paraphrase
EXAMPLE
“And pity . . . shall blow the horrid deed in every eye.” (1.7.21-24)
Speaker: Macbeth speaking his thoughts aloud
Occasion: He’s deciding whether to kill the king.
Attitude: ? He doesn’t want to kill him.
Paraphrase: Everyone will feel bad for the murder.

Tue, Jan 26, 2010

Tue, Jan 26, 2010

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Finish discussing questions
3. Quiz “On His Blindness”
4. Read “On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three.” p 63

Pd 2
1. Qz J.E. chps 6-10
2. Check Study Qstns chps 6-10
3. Discuss J.E.
4. Discuss Lucy poems, get TP-CCASTT handout to keep in binder
HW: Read chps 11&12 & answer study questions.
AR rdg tomorrow is postponed to Thursday during trip to library


Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Discuss essay in groups
3. Read quotes aloud
4. Read Act 2 aloud
HW: Pick good quote from Act 2, write, document, and give Speaker, Occasion (the situation), Attitude of speaker, and Paraphrase the quote (write in your own words). Go back and do this for the quote from Act 1.

Fri, Jan 22, 2010

Fri, Jan 22, 2010

Pd 1
1. AR reading & new log
2. Discuss qstns p 66 # 3, 7-10 "On His Blindness"

Pd 2
1. Discuss Jane Eyre study qstns in groups
2. Check answers
3. Hand in 9 essay scores
HW: Read chps 6-10 and answer study questions

Pd 4
1. AR reading and log
2. Finish paraphrase
3. Discuss qstns p 66 # 3, 7-10 "On His Blindness"

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Show me your chart/ outline
3. Read aloud Act 2 Scene 1
• HW: Write essay explaining how the contrast between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the first 30 lines of Act 1 Scene 5 foreshadows later interaction between the two.
In the first paragraph use quotes from scene 5 to illustrate the contrasting traits of character revealed for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the next ¶, explain how this contrast reappears later.
• HW: Find a quote you like from Act 1, write it, and document it with act, scene, and line #s. E.g., (1.5.1-30)

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

Thu, Jan 21, 2010

Pd 2
1. AR reading & log (not Jane Eyre)
2. Hand in Jane Eyre study questions.
3. Hand in essay scores if you got SS in place of WWW. All others get SS and revise scores without WWW.
4. Quiz Jane Eyre chps 1,2,3
5. Discuss Jane Eyre and Strange Fits of Passion
HW: Read chps 4&5 and answer Study questions
HW: See # 3 above

Pd 4
1. AR reading and log
2. Quiz on Sonnets
3. Paraphrase and discuss “On His Blindness.”

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Quiz Act 5 Macbeth
3. Movie to end of Act 1
HW: Carefully read p 265 lines 1-30 to write an essay that 1] compares the characters of Macbeth &Lady M using short quotes as evidence, and 2] Explaining how the contrast between Macbeth &Lady M foreshadows later action. Due tomorrow: a chart or outline of each character, your description (e.g., selfish), & quotes you base it on, & Name a later action (page & lines) that is foreshadowed by the contrast on p 265.