MON, DEC 14, 2009

MON, DEC 14, 2009

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

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

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

SUN, DEC 13,2009

AP EXAM: FINAL COUNT OF QUESTIONS

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

THU, DEC 10, 2009

THU, DEC 10, 2009

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

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

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

WED, DEC 9,2009

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

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

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

TUE, DEC 8,2009

TUE, DEC 8,2009

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

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

MON, DEC 7, 2009

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

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

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

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

THU, DEC 3, 2009

THU, DEC 3, 2009

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


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

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

WED, DEC 2, 2009

WED, DEC 2, 2009

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

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

Pd 6
1. AR reading& log
2. Speeches

TUE, DEC 1, 2009

TUE, DEC 1, 2009

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

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

MON, NOV 30, 2009

MON, NOV 30, 2009

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Make up work reminders: essays, Medieval Pd Quiz, Vocab Quiz, Silent Rdg at TASK tomorrow.
3. Watch animated Canterbury Tales
Make list of tales viewed:
1. Priest told tale of rooster who dreamed he was attacked by a fox.
2. Knight told tale of (pd 1 only)

Pd 2
1. "Rules of Usage" pretest & discuss: Part 1: apostrophe, comma, semi-colon, colon
HW: Read pp 420-433 for quiz--from Milton’s Paradise Lost: The Temptation of Eve
Answer #2 Syntax: a, b, & c only, in the second column of p 434

Pd 6
1. AR reading & log
2. Speeches require a card with
1] notes from outline of article and
2] article documentation or article itself
3. Speeches presented

WED, NOV 25. 2009

WED, NOV 25. 2009

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR reading & log
2. Quiz Medieval Pd.
3. Watch a Centerbury Tale (pd 1)

Pd 2
1. Hand in answer explanations sheet
2. Finish presentations
3. Sentence diagrams examples and quiz
HW: none

Pd 6
1. AR reading & log
2. Speeches: writing outline to get notes for index card
3. Rubric

TUE, NOV 24, 2009

TUE, NOV 24, 2009

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
Mastery Learning of the Medieval Period
Art: 3 columns, Draw & color
Corrective: Feudalism, Church, Town and related fact for each. Write and illustrate
Enrichment: Write 3 new facts about the Medieval Pd from silver book pp68-75 and illustrate.

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Quiz on Bible, Milton, “On His Blindness”
3. Hand in homework qstns p417
4. Get multiple choice answers
HW: List the numbers you missed and tell why.
5. Continue presentations Macbeth

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Pg 147 “Romance” Read and outline for speech. Know main idea.
3. Get speech rubric.
HW: Prepare your speech presentation from outline and practice to present tomorrow.

MON, NOV 23, 2009

MON, NOV 23

Pd s 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Vocabulary Quiz 1-4, 7-10, 15

Pd 2
1. Quiz on parts of speech & Writing Tip.
2. Write answers to multiple choice test on answer sheet and hand in.
3. Hand in sentence diagrams & discuss
HW: Read for quiz
• pp 394-5 about the King James Bible
• pp 414-16 about John Milton
• p 417 “On His Blindness”
HW: Answer questions 4, 5, and 6 on p 417 in complete sentences

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Hand in speech topic and source
3. Speech:
1] Will have all the parts of an essay: Introduction, Body, Conclusion
2] Will be short, around 2 minutes
3] Will require note card(s) with outline of speech

THU, NOV 19, 2009

THU, NOV 19

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Write and discuss Essential Vocabulary 7-10 for a quiz Monday.
3. Period 1: Mastery Learning- Medieval Period. 80% is mastery.
••Corrective: Art: 3 columns, Draw & color Feudalism, Church, Town and one related fact for each.
Facts:
• The feudal state was based on possession of land. The king was the head of the hierarchy with knights, nobles, and lords as his vassals. Serfs were at the bottom of the system, growing crops and doing the bidding of their lords.
• The Roman Catholic Church unified most of the people of Europe in a common religious faith. It settled disputes among nobles. It was a center for learning. Monks copied, translated, and preserved manuscripts from ancient civilizations. It sponsored the Crusades to take the Holy Lands from the Moslems in the Middle East.
• Towns grew up on major trade routes which developed from the journeys of armies traveling to the Middle East. Serfs left the feudal state to work in the towns for themselves rather than their lords.
••Enrichment: Find 3 new facts about the Medieval Period from the reading on pp 68-75 in Elements of Literature. Is there a connection to the feudal state, the church, or the towns?

Pd 2
1. Hand in “Rules for Style” sheet.
2. Presentations for Macbeth
3. Grades for midquarter
HW: Pg 1273 in text, know the definitions of the 8 parts of speech , a phrase, a clause, and a sentence for a quiz. Look through the highlighted TIPS FOR WRITERS to find a tip you didn’t already know. Be ready to write it on the quiz.
HW: Read Diagramming Sentences handouts. Diagram 1-10 simple sentences. Then try 1-7 of the harder ones.
HW: Multiple Choice Practice Test I

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Voc Quiz 1-5, 7-10, 15
3. Speech on article: Find an interesting nonfiction article to present to the class in a short speech. Magazines and newspapers are good sources. The topic should be appropriate for the classroom. Topic is due Monday.

WED, NOV 18 , 2009

WED, NOV 18

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in essays
• Final draft,
• Rough draft w/corrections in different color, 10 pts
• Outline 5 pts
3. Mastery Learning Medieval Period, Pd 1 only
Art: 3 columns, Draw & Color Corrective: Feudalism, Church, Town and related fact.

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in Donne:Creative or Critical Responses
Hand in Rdg Record Cards
3. Presentations on Macbeth
HW: Read handout on Style.
1] Write on the back of the “Rules for Style” sheet the 4 most important points for you from pp 66-69.
2] Write what you think is the most important sentence/idea/phrase from each section on the “Rules for Style” sheet.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in essays
• Final draft,
• Rough draft w/corrections in different color, 10 pts
• Outline 5 pts
3. Vocabulary 7-10 learn definition
and review 1-4 & 15 for quiz

MON, NOV 16, 2009

MON, NOV 16

Pds 1 & 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. Pd 1: Show me last 100 words or 1¶ for 10 points
Pd 4 : Café duty
DUE WED, NOV 18
• Final draft,
• Rough draft w/corrections in different color,
• Outline

Pd 2
1. Quiz Donne, "Metaphysical Poetry," 3 poems, and prose
2. Movie to end

HW: Do A or B below.
A. Write the 3 Creative Responses for “The Bait,” “Song,” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” from pp 364,365, & 367
B. For Meditation 17, answer questions 5, 6, and 7, all parts, and do the Critical Response p 369.

HW: Write on an index card on any size (but use the same size for all the cards you make) the information listed on the handout you picked up in class (and that is also given below Period 6) for Macbeth and for your summer novel. (I noticed an allusion to Roman generals dying on their swords at the end of the movie. That refers to Brutus and Cassius, who killed themselves after being defeated in battle by Octavius and Mark Anthony as depicted in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and log
2. Show me 5 ¶s or 500 words. If you missed class Friday, show me 4 ¶s or 400 words and I’ll check the last 100 words of the rough draft when you turn in your final draft on Wednesday.
3. Peer editing. Have a student or someone else you trust edit your paper before you do your final draft. They need to sign in a different color & write these comments: + (good), ? (unclear), & more (needs more details), They also tell what your main idea is. You and your editor will get points.

Reading Record Cards

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

Use any size note card, but use the same size for all your books. If you don't have a card, do it on paper and then glue it to a card. Index cards are 3" x 5", 4 x 6, or 5 x 7. I have all sizes.

FORMAT:

1. Title of book
2. Author, Dates of birth and death, Where lived
3. Publication year of the book originally
4. Setting: Place, Time, Current events of that time and place
5. Plot synopsis in 25 words or so
6. Characters, with brief descriptions. Identify protagonist and antagonist.
7. A major symbol or allusion
symbol (something that stands for or suggests something larger and more complex)
allusion (an indirect reference to something in literature, the other arts, history, myths,
8. Distinguishing characteristics of the work (what is different about this work?)
9. Your personal response to the content and style of the work

THU, NOV 12, 2009

THU, NOV 12

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & log
2. How to write Introduction ¶
3. Show me thesis and outline for 10 pts and 3 ¶s for 10 pts each
HW: Last 2 ¶s due tomorrow, Friday

Pd 2
1. Hand in Macbeth essay: Final draft, Rough draft w/editing corrections, outline, and 3 steps to write thesis
2. Watch Macbeth movie
3. Presentations handed in
HW: If you did not include your 3 steps to write your thesis with your final draft today, bring it in next class. Can’t find it? Rewrite it and hand it in.
HW: Read about John Donne p362-3 and Metaphysical Poetry p363; Read 3 poems, "The Bait" p364,"Song" p365, and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” p 366-7. Write a favorite line and a line you don’t understand for each poem. Know the answers to the Identifying Details questions for a quiz. Read “Meditation 17” p 368. Know answers to Identifying Facts questions p 369 for a quiz.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg & log
2. How to write a thesis
Pardoner evidence pp 104,122,129
Priest evidence pp 121, 117, lines 89-99 (no description in Prologue)
Literary Analysis Topics: Guidelines are given on the page for the Critical Response. Choose only one.
The Canterbury Tales: p 131 Critical Responses
2] Comparing Storytellers;
3] Evaluating the Tales as Short Stories;
4] Analyzing Character
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" p146 Critical Response:
3] Analyzing a Romance
3. Show me outline & thesis for 10pts and 200 words for 20 pts
HW: 200 more words (400 total so far) by Friday with 4 quotations circled in your ¶s.
HW: Mon show me all 5 ¶s

TUE, NOV 10, 2009

TUE, NOV 10

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me thesis and outline for 10 pts and100 words for 10 pts
HW: 200 more words (300 total) due Friday

Pd 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Editing rough drafts
Peer editing required for credit with your rough draft:
1] Sign name or pen name
2] Mark with + ? more
in a different color
3] Tell what they think main idea is
HW: Final draft, rough draft with corrections, editing in different color, and outline DUE THU
HW: Presentations after movie THU

MON, NOV 9, 2009

MON, NOV 9

Pd 1
1. AR rdg & quizzes
2. Show me thesis & outline expos essay for 10 points
3. Write 100 words due tomorrow

Pd 4
1. AR rdg & quizzes
2. Show me thesis, outline, & one ¶
HW: Write 2 more ¶s for Thur

THESIS: Main idea + subtopic ideas
I learned _________ by/at/from/in (etc) _______, _______, &_______.

I learned about teaching ideas at the Moanalua Conference in an English session, a math session, and the general session.

OUTLINE OF BODY ¶ #1
I. English session
A. Teaching without teaching
B. Can I do it? My answer

Pd 2
1. AR quizzes
2. Quiz on terms
Peer editing
Mark: + ? more
Use a different color
& sign w/pen name
HW: Final draft, rough draft w/ editing, and outline due Thur. Editing tomorrow.
HW: Have presentation passage ready for end of movie.

Pd 6
1. AR rdg and quizzes
2. Writing literary analysis: Body paragraphs
3. Show me outline & thesis
HW: Write 200 words by Thur

Literary Analysis

LITERARY ANALYSIS OF FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON BY DANIEL KEYES
Written as an example for sophomore English class

Use MLA format, not the format used here. Double space everything and indent paragraphs instead of using block form.



THESIS: Charlie’s entire life was lonely, not only when he was a child, but also when he worked at the bakery, and even after he became a genius.

OUTLINE:


Introduction Paragraph

1. Attention getting sentence
2. Complete THESIS


Body Paragraphs

I. As a child.

A. Other children
B. His family

II. Workers at the bakery

III. Relationships as a genius

A. Alice
B. Faye
C. Doctor's comments


Conclusion Paragraph:

1. THESIS restated in different words
2. Personal comment



Wilson 1


Pat Wilson
Mrs. Scanlon
English II Period 1
15 December 2003

Loneliness and Love

The average person would love to be a genius. Anyone might change his mind, however, after reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The main character in this novel is a mentally retarded thirty-two-year-old man named Charlie Gordon. After having brain surgery as part of a scientific experiment, his thinking reaches genius level. His life, however, becomes worse instead of better because he cannot get along with other people. Charlie finds that the loneliness he suffered as a child and then as an adult continues and gets even worse after he becomes a genius.

The novel begins with Charlie recalling his childhood as an unhappy one, the beginning of his loneliness. He says no one would be his friend, that his schoolmates made fun of him and sometimes even beat him up. Although he had a family-- a mother, father, and sister, he still felt lonely and sad. His sister lied to her friends: “[Charlie] is not my real brother! He is just a boy we took in because we felt sorry for him” (83). His mother saw Charlie’s mental retardation as a sign that she herself was imperfect, and therefore could not accept Charlie or his handicap. At first she tried to improve his intelligence, but when her second child was born normal, Charlie’s mother gave up on him. She began to mistreat him by beating him for not controlling his bodily functions and then by favoring his sister. Finally she forced her husband to take Charlie to a mental institution.

The second phase of Charlie’s loneliness begins when Charlie grows to be a man, and gets a job cleaning at a bakery. Charlie treats his fellow workers like friends, even though they play tricks on him and laugh at him. He does not know that laughing at someone is different from laughing with them. Later he says he misses “all my friends and the fun we have” (15). But they are the kind of “friends” who get Charlie drunk, tell him to go around the corner to see if it is raining, and then leave. They are not his friends.

After Charlie has surgery on his brain, he expects his life to improve, but loneliness follows him even then. He thinks the other workers will be proud of him for being smart. But they do not know about the surgery, and instead of admiring him, they become hostile and ignore him because he makes them feel stupid. He says, “all of the pleasure is gone because the others resent me.” He is fired from his cleaning job, and even Alice Kinnian, his reading teacher and friend, becomes less friendly when his level of intelligence far exceeds hers. He meets Fay, a free-living artist, and has a relationship with her. Charlie says she is “what I need most of all right now. I’ve been starved for simple human contact” (148). She becomes the only person to keep him from being completely alone. Charlie realizes he was better off when he was retarded because at least then he was not smart enough to know that he had no friends. Charlie’s surgeon says Charlie has lost his faith in his fellow man. It is clear he has.

Charlie’s loneliness is extreme. From his experiences in childhood, to his job at the bakery, to his reincarnation as a genius, he suffers mightily from it. He finally declares that “intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn” (173). Soon he finds out that the surgery is wearing off and he will die. But before he deteriorates completely, Alice finds him and refuses to let him be alone. His loneliness is finally over, and Charlie recognizes that in the short time he has left, he and Alice will share more love than “most people find in a lifetime” (205).

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