Thu, Jan 27, 2010
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns ch 18-19 & Answers
• Check study qstns ch 20-21 & return to owner
• Quiz ch 20-21
• Get Answers ch 20-21 and study qstns chs 22-23
• Practice Free Response Qstn#1
• HW: Read ch 22-23 and answer study qstns
• HW: Check your answers ch 20-21
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tue, 25 Jan 2011
Tue, 25 Jan 2011
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in study qstns ch 17 & Answers
• Check study qstns ch 18-19& return to owner
• Quiz ch 18-19
• Get Answers ch 18-19 and study qstns chs 20-21
• Discuss ch 18-19
• Mult Choice Test in class 1-10 on J.Eyre
• HW: Read ch 20-21 and answer study qstns
• HW: Check your answers ch 18-19
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in study qstns ch 17 & Answers
• Check study qstns ch 18-19& return to owner
• Quiz ch 18-19
• Get Answers ch 18-19 and study qstns chs 20-21
• Discuss ch 18-19
• Mult Choice Test in class 1-10 on J.Eyre
• HW: Read ch 20-21 and answer study qstns
• HW: Check your answers ch 18-19
Monday, January 24, 2011
MON, Jan 24, 2011
MON, Jan 24, 2011
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns ch 15-16 & Answers
• Check study qstns ch 17 & return to owner
• Quiz ch 17
• Get Answers ch 17 and study qstns chs 18-19
• Discuss ch 17
• HW: Read ch 18-19 and answer study qstns
• HW: Check your answers ch 17
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns ch 15-16 & Answers
• Check study qstns ch 17 & return to owner
• Quiz ch 17
• Get Answers ch 17 and study qstns chs 18-19
• Discuss ch 17
• HW: Read ch 18-19 and answer study qstns
• HW: Check your answers ch 17
Friday, January 21, 2011
Fri 21 Jan 2010
Fri 21 Jan 2010
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 11-14
• Check study qstns chs 15-16
• Quiz chs 15-16 & check
• Get Answers for chs 15-16 & study qstns for 17
• Discuss chs 15-16 as time permits
• Pretest Literary Terms #5.
• HW: Read ch 17 & answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 15-16
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 11-14
• Check study qstns chs 15-16
• Quiz chs 15-16 & check
• Get Answers for chs 15-16 & study qstns for 17
• Discuss chs 15-16 as time permits
• Pretest Literary Terms #5.
• HW: Read ch 17 & answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 15-16
THU, 20 Jan 2010
THU, 20 Jan 2010
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 6-10
• Check study qstns chs 11-14
• Quiz chs 11-14 & check
• Get Answers for chs 11-14 & study qstns for 15 & 16
• Discuss chs 11-14 as time permits
• Return Lit Terms Qzs and schedule Requizzes
• HW: Read chs 15-16 & answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 11-14
AP Literature
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 6-10
• Check study qstns chs 11-14
• Quiz chs 11-14 & check
• Get Answers for chs 11-14 & study qstns for 15 & 16
• Discuss chs 11-14 as time permits
• Return Lit Terms Qzs and schedule Requizzes
• HW: Read chs 15-16 & answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 11-14
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Tue, 18 Jan 2010
Tue, 18 Jan 2010
AP Literature
TUE
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 4&5
• Check study qstns chs 6-10
• Quiz chs 6-10
• Get Answers for chs 6-10. √ when your answer is similar, add brief notes to your answer when it isn’t
• Discuss chs 6-10 as time permits
• HW: Read JE Chs 11-14 & answer study qstns
• HW: Check answers chs 6-10
AP Literature
TUE
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Hand in study qstns & Answers chs 4&5
• Check study qstns chs 6-10
• Quiz chs 6-10
• Get Answers for chs 6-10. √ when your answer is similar, add brief notes to your answer when it isn’t
• Discuss chs 6-10 as time permits
• HW: Read JE Chs 11-14 & answer study qstns
• HW: Check answers chs 6-10
Fri, 14 Jan 2010
Fri, 14 Jan 2010
AP Literature
• Hand in Qstns 1-3 & Answer Packet
• Check Stdy Qstns 4&5
• Quiz 4 & 5
• Check
• Get Answer Packet chs 4& 5
• Discuss chs 1- 3
• HW: Rd chs 6-10 and answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 4&5
AP Literature
• Hand in Qstns 1-3 & Answer Packet
• Check Stdy Qstns 4&5
• Quiz 4 & 5
• Check
• Get Answer Packet chs 4& 5
• Discuss chs 1- 3
• HW: Rd chs 6-10 and answer study qstns.
• HW: Check answers chs 4&5
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thu, Jan 13, 2010
Thu, Jan 13, 2010
AP Literature
• Check Study questions chs 1-3
• Quiz chs 1-3
• Get answers for study qstns.
• Literary Terms #4
• HW:
AP Literature
• Check Study questions chs 1-3
• Quiz chs 1-3
• Get answers for study qstns.
• Literary Terms #4
• HW:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tue, Jan 11, 2011
Tue, Jan 11, 2011
AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Get Jane Eyre books from library
• Discuss Lyric 95 and compare poetry analysis techniques: Train of Thought and TPCASTT
• HW: Read JE Chs 1-3 & answer study qstns
AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Get Jane Eyre books from library
• Discuss Lyric 95 and compare poetry analysis techniques: Train of Thought and TPCASTT
• HW: Read JE Chs 1-3 & answer study qstns
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Fri, Jan 7, 2010
Fri, Jan 7, 2010
English 12: Pds 1 & 4
• AR reading
• Review summary sentences & qstns 1-7 p162 for The Canterbury Tales General Prologue
• Quiz on The Canterbury Tales General Prologue
AP Literature
• Quiz: Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott," and "Comment"
• Check Analyzing qstns 1-4&7 and In Memoriam Lyric 55 Train of Thought, and hand in both.
• HW:
Read "Tears, Idle Tears," p779 & answer Analyzing 1-5.
Read "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal," p780 & do TPCASTT chart.
Read "Break, Break, Break," p781 & write Critical Response (short)in AP Exam style
Read "Crossing the Bar," p782 & write Critical Response (short)in AP Exam style
Drama
• SSRFF
• Group 1 present Readers Theater for Twelve Angry Men.
English 12: Pds 1 & 4
• AR reading
• Review summary sentences & qstns 1-7 p162 for The Canterbury Tales General Prologue
• Quiz on The Canterbury Tales General Prologue
AP Literature
• Quiz: Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott," and "Comment"
• Check Analyzing qstns 1-4&7 and In Memoriam Lyric 55 Train of Thought, and hand in both.
• HW:
Read "Tears, Idle Tears," p779 & answer Analyzing 1-5.
Read "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal," p780 & do TPCASTT chart.
Read "Break, Break, Break," p781 & write Critical Response (short)in AP Exam style
Read "Crossing the Bar," p782 & write Critical Response (short)in AP Exam style
Drama
• SSRFF
• Group 1 present Readers Theater for Twelve Angry Men.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
THU, Jan 6, 2010
THU, Jan 6, 2010
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Quiz Victorian Pd
• Poetry analysis: 2 methods- Train of Thought & TPCASTT
• HW: Read Tennyson p777-8,“Lady of Shalott” & “Comment” p784-8 for quizzes. Answer Anlyz 1-4&7 p789.
• HW: Read “In Memoriam,” Lyric 55, &Write Train of Thought, one ¶ for each of the 5 stanzas. Do first stanza together in class.
AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Quiz Victorian Pd
• Poetry analysis: 2 methods- Train of Thought & TPCASTT
• HW: Read Tennyson p777-8,“Lady of Shalott” & “Comment” p784-8 for quizzes. Answer Anlyz 1-4&7 p789.
• HW: Read “In Memoriam,” Lyric 55, &Write Train of Thought, one ¶ for each of the 5 stanzas. Do first stanza together in class.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
For AP Literature before Saturday, December 25, 2010
Example of Train of Thought Analysis of a Christmas Poem:
"In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Again at Christmas did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth;
The silent snow possess'd the earth,
And calmly fell our Christmas-eve:
The yule-log sparkled keen with frost,
No wing of wind the region swept,
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
As in the winters left behind,
Again our ancient games had place,
The mimic picture's breathing grace,
And dance and song and hoodman-blind.
Who show'd a token of distress?
No single tear, no mark of pain:
O sorrow, then can sorrow wane?
O grief, can grief be changed to less?
O last regret, regret can die!
No--mixt with all this mystic frame,
Her deep relations are the same,
But with long use her tears are dry.
This title tells me that Tennyson is still remembering his good friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died while still young and for whom he wrote his famous In Memoriam poem. This seems to be a remembrance of him at Christmas. I wonder how long after he died Tennyson wrote it*.
The speaker is describing that "we" decorated the fire with holly, that snow is on the ground, and things are "calm."That sounds good, hope it stays that way, but could be a foreboding since it's so early in the poem.
The fire "sparkled" and there was no wind, which adds to the calm mood, but sparkle seems happy, and then there is "brooding" and sleeping and a feeling of loss. Here comes the remembrance.
Speaker remembers past winters and the "ancient games" which could be winter sports or indoor activities, who knows? Oh, the next lines sound like games although the "mimic picture" and "breathing grace" confuses me, unless it is like the tableaus presented in Jane Eyre where players present a scene and stand like statues until the other people guess what the scene represents, sort of like a cross between non-moving charades and Pictionary. Breathing grace could be being able to breathe even though you are statue-still. And the dead are statue-still but don't have the "grace" of breath! Other activities are the dance and song and blind man's bluff. The dead are also blind, but they can't dance or sing. Maybe the mix of the two represents the living and the dead.
Next stanza the speaker loses it and starts getting upset that no one was sad, and is sad himself that he still mourns his dead friend and wonders if his grief will ever diminish.
"O last regret, regret can die" seemed paradoxical on first reading, but now the speaker seems to be saying that he is sad that his grief will indeed grow less, the diminishing he seemed to be wishing for in the previous stanza. Looking back at that stanza, when he says that no one was sad, maybe he wasn't sad only because no one remembered but because our sorrow brought on by death does diminish and he doesn't want it to! So it is a paradox after all.
Then, the "No" that I didn't understand is another paradox. He is sorry that remembrance fades, but says it does and it doesn't when it is inside our hearts- "mixt with this mystic frame" that is the human body. "Her" refers to what? the human body or regret? Personification of regret would fit well here because it is human emotion he refers to. Then regret's "relations" could be her kin or fellow beings or friends, or her feelings, saying they are "the same" meaning still there, but it's been so long now that the speaker doesn't have to cry anymore.
Theme?: It is true that time lessens grief, but not completely, because we don't want to forget what we loved so much.
It just occurred to me that winter is appropriate for this remembrance because it connotes cold and death while the holly, the hearth, the sparkling log, and the games, dances,and songs bring a sense of life still existing in the "dead" of winter. This juxtaposition adds to the meaning of the poem because the speaker has a feeling for both death and life inside him, as do all humans.
* Hallam died in 1833. Tennyson wrote In Memoriam for years and finally published it in 1849. The number 78 in the title of this poem that I thought might be the year he wrote it is actually the verse number from In Memoriam. When I first saw this poem I thought it would be part of the longer poem, so I didn't consider giving it to the class to analyze. When I looked for a poem to analyze, I decided to check this one out, since Tennyson is my favorite poet, and it seemed to be complete in itself, so I used it.
"In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave"
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Again at Christmas did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth;
The silent snow possess'd the earth,
And calmly fell our Christmas-eve:
The yule-log sparkled keen with frost,
No wing of wind the region swept,
But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
As in the winters left behind,
Again our ancient games had place,
The mimic picture's breathing grace,
And dance and song and hoodman-blind.
Who show'd a token of distress?
No single tear, no mark of pain:
O sorrow, then can sorrow wane?
O grief, can grief be changed to less?
O last regret, regret can die!
No--mixt with all this mystic frame,
Her deep relations are the same,
But with long use her tears are dry.
This title tells me that Tennyson is still remembering his good friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died while still young and for whom he wrote his famous In Memoriam poem. This seems to be a remembrance of him at Christmas. I wonder how long after he died Tennyson wrote it*.
The speaker is describing that "we" decorated the fire with holly, that snow is on the ground, and things are "calm."That sounds good, hope it stays that way, but could be a foreboding since it's so early in the poem.
The fire "sparkled" and there was no wind, which adds to the calm mood, but sparkle seems happy, and then there is "brooding" and sleeping and a feeling of loss. Here comes the remembrance.
Speaker remembers past winters and the "ancient games" which could be winter sports or indoor activities, who knows? Oh, the next lines sound like games although the "mimic picture" and "breathing grace" confuses me, unless it is like the tableaus presented in Jane Eyre where players present a scene and stand like statues until the other people guess what the scene represents, sort of like a cross between non-moving charades and Pictionary. Breathing grace could be being able to breathe even though you are statue-still. And the dead are statue-still but don't have the "grace" of breath! Other activities are the dance and song and blind man's bluff. The dead are also blind, but they can't dance or sing. Maybe the mix of the two represents the living and the dead.
Next stanza the speaker loses it and starts getting upset that no one was sad, and is sad himself that he still mourns his dead friend and wonders if his grief will ever diminish.
"O last regret, regret can die" seemed paradoxical on first reading, but now the speaker seems to be saying that he is sad that his grief will indeed grow less, the diminishing he seemed to be wishing for in the previous stanza. Looking back at that stanza, when he says that no one was sad, maybe he wasn't sad only because no one remembered but because our sorrow brought on by death does diminish and he doesn't want it to! So it is a paradox after all.
Then, the "No" that I didn't understand is another paradox. He is sorry that remembrance fades, but says it does and it doesn't when it is inside our hearts- "mixt with this mystic frame" that is the human body. "Her" refers to what? the human body or regret? Personification of regret would fit well here because it is human emotion he refers to. Then regret's "relations" could be her kin or fellow beings or friends, or her feelings, saying they are "the same" meaning still there, but it's been so long now that the speaker doesn't have to cry anymore.
Theme?: It is true that time lessens grief, but not completely, because we don't want to forget what we loved so much.
It just occurred to me that winter is appropriate for this remembrance because it connotes cold and death while the holly, the hearth, the sparkling log, and the games, dances,and songs bring a sense of life still existing in the "dead" of winter. This juxtaposition adds to the meaning of the poem because the speaker has a feeling for both death and life inside him, as do all humans.
* Hallam died in 1833. Tennyson wrote In Memoriam for years and finally published it in 1849. The number 78 in the title of this poem that I thought might be the year he wrote it is actually the verse number from In Memoriam. When I first saw this poem I thought it would be part of the longer poem, so I didn't consider giving it to the class to analyze. When I looked for a poem to analyze, I decided to check this one out, since Tennyson is my favorite poet, and it seemed to be complete in itself, so I used it.
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
Thu, Dec 16, 2010
English 12 Pds 1&4
• Play Uncommon Sense
AP Literature
• Get Christmas poems to analyze with train of thought a.k.a. stream of consciousness
"Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost
"A Christmas Ghost Story" by Thomas Hardy
"Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall" by Robert Herrick
• Play AP version of Uncommon Sense
Drama
• SSRFF
• Watch Grinch with Jim Carrey
English 12 Pds 1&4
• Play Uncommon Sense
AP Literature
• Get Christmas poems to analyze with train of thought a.k.a. stream of consciousness
"Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost
"A Christmas Ghost Story" by Thomas Hardy
"Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall" by Robert Herrick
• Play AP version of Uncommon Sense
Drama
• SSRFF
• Watch Grinch with Jim Carrey
Wed, Dec 15, 2010
Wed, Dec 15, 2010
Drama
• SSRFF
• Take Sem 1 Exam
English 12 Pd 1
• AR rdg
• Discuss grades
AP Literature
• Hand in chart on Romantic Pd authors
• Check Sem 1 Exam and go over answers
Drama
• SSRFF
• Take Sem 1 Exam
English 12 Pd 1
• AR rdg
• Discuss grades
AP Literature
• Hand in chart on Romantic Pd authors
• Check Sem 1 Exam and go over answers
Tue, Dec 14, 2010
Tue, Dec 14, 2010
English 12 Pd 4
• AR rdg
• Review
• Sem 1 Exam
Drama
• Take notes on work studied this semester
• Note parts to be used on Sem 1 Exam
• Review those items: Stage locations and the play A Raisin in the Sun
English 12 Pd 4
• AR rdg
• Review
• Sem 1 Exam
Drama
• Take notes on work studied this semester
• Note parts to be used on Sem 1 Exam
• Review those items: Stage locations and the play A Raisin in the Sun
Monday, December 13, 2010
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Review
• Sem 1 Exam
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Sem 1 Exam review
AP Literature
• Sem 1 Exam
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Review
• Sem 1 Exam
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Sem 1 Exam review
AP Literature
• Sem 1 Exam
Fri, Dec 10, 2010
Fri, Dec 10, 2010
English 12 Periods 1&4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Review for exam
AP Literature
• Discuss questions about Keats work
• Quiz
• HW: Chart the Romantic Pd: Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, due Wed, 12/15
1. Author
2. Significant fact to remember about life
3. Favorite work read
4. Favorite quote w/ line #
pp613, 620, 21; 633-40, 42, 45; 655; 680, 81, 84; 697; 710, 11, 12
Drama
SSRFF
Discuss plans for the day
English 12 Periods 1&4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Review for exam
AP Literature
• Discuss questions about Keats work
• Quiz
• HW: Chart the Romantic Pd: Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, due Wed, 12/15
1. Author
2. Significant fact to remember about life
3. Favorite work read
4. Favorite quote w/ line #
pp613, 620, 21; 633-40, 42, 45; 655; 680, 81, 84; 697; 710, 11, 12
Drama
SSRFF
Discuss plans for the day
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Thu, Dec 9, 2010
Thu, Dec 9, 2010
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Finish questions 1-7 p162
• Discuss 3 summaries and questions 1-4
AP Literature
• Hand in work on Shelley & Apostrophe
• Quiz
• Discussion
• Sem 1 Exam: Discuss
• HW: Read about Keats pp 707-708. Write 4 important facts about his life. Read “Bright Star’ p 710, “When I Have Fears” p 711, & “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” p 712. Answer “Analyzing the poem” qstns for all three.
Drama
SSRFF
Review Sem 1 for exam questions
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Finish questions 1-7 p162
• Discuss 3 summaries and questions 1-4
AP Literature
• Hand in work on Shelley & Apostrophe
• Quiz
• Discussion
• Sem 1 Exam: Discuss
• HW: Read about Keats pp 707-708. Write 4 important facts about his life. Read “Bright Star’ p 710, “When I Have Fears” p 711, & “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” p 712. Answer “Analyzing the poem” qstns for all three.
Drama
SSRFF
Review Sem 1 for exam questions
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Wed, Dec 8, 2010
Wed, Dec 8, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Finish questions 1-7 p162
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Read complete Prologue beginning. Students write 3 summary sentences
• Read the Knight, Squire, &Prioress (nun) and answer qstns 1-7
Drama
Play analysis
Discuss qstns 2-4
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Finish questions 1-7 p162
English 12 Period 4
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Read complete Prologue beginning. Students write 3 summary sentences
• Read the Knight, Squire, &Prioress (nun) and answer qstns 1-7
Drama
Play analysis
Discuss qstns 2-4
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Tue, Dec 7, 2010
Tue, Dec 7, 2010
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Read Prologue, beginning three stanzas. Write 3 summary sentences.
• Read the Knight, Squire, and Prioress. Answer all questions.
AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Check questions and discuss.
• Quiz from Don Juan and discuss.
• HW: Read Shelley pp694-96. Write 4 significant facts of his life. Read "Ode to the West Wind." Answer Identifying Facts 1-4 and "Terza Rima and the Sonnet" under Analyzing Language 1-3, p700. Read "Apostrophe." Write 1 note per ¶ for a quiz.
English 12 Period 1
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Read Prologue, beginning three stanzas. Write 3 summary sentences.
• Read the Knight, Squire, and Prioress. Answer all questions.
AP Literature
• AR rdg 10 mins
• Check questions and discuss.
• Quiz from Don Juan and discuss.
• HW: Read Shelley pp694-96. Write 4 significant facts of his life. Read "Ode to the West Wind." Answer Identifying Facts 1-4 and "Terza Rima and the Sonnet" under Analyzing Language 1-3, p700. Read "Apostrophe." Write 1 note per ¶ for a quiz.
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