8/18 2nd:Please read through the website BEFORE coming to this first class.
Course Description and Expectations +
Standards & Benchmarks;
Rubrics & Formats; Chapter Reviews & Reading
Discussion/Questions from Perrine + Hamilton Literary Terms
homework, Discussion
Expectations & Rubric; Website (+ Updates) & Passwords.
Hand out How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
Assignment for Next Class: Read
introduction to AP test (photocopies)
8/19 5th:
Part One Mock AP Exam
Assignment for Next Class: None
(2) The Week of August 23 - 3
classes
8/23 3rd:
Part 2 Mock AP Exam
Assignment for Next Class: None
8/25 1st:
Discussion of Mock AP
Exam, including scoring guidelines, sample responses, scoring
summary, and AP Reader Comments.
Assignment for Next Class: None
8/26 4th
Discussion of Mock AP Exam,
including scoring guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary.
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chief
Reader Comments & Rubrics for Essays
(3) The Week of August 30 - 3 classes
8/30 2nd:Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring guidelines,
sample responses and scoring summary.
Assignment for Next Class: Research to
share background information on Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man
8/31 5th:Introduction of First Quarter Novel:
The Invisible Man – Ellison, Ralph. See
Invisible Man Background and Themes.
Review Summer Reading & Discuss
first quarter outside novel.
Review rubrics for AP Essays
Assignment for Next Class: Read Lost in the Funhouse
- Photocopies
Assignment for Sunday: Two AP Essays from your Summer Reading are due
Sunday; please email
these
to me.
9/2 3rd:
Discussion Over
Lost in the Funhouse
Assignment for Next Class: None
09/5/:Summer AP
Essays due. We do not have class this day.
You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
(4) The Week of September 6 - 4
classes
9/6 1st:
Essay Work over Summer AP Essays.
Set up AP Potluck Dinner.
Assignment for Next Class: None
9/7
4th:Essay Work over Summer AP Essays.
Assignment for Next Class: Bring ONE
copies of your summer essays.
Assignment for Friday: Two peer reviews
using the Peer Review Format. Please return your summer reading novels.
9/9 2nd: Work
on summer AP Peer Reviews.
Review rubrics and expectations for class discussions, presentations,
Essential Literary Terms homework .
Assignment for Next Class: Read Pages 8 to
12 in Hamilton +
Chapter One &
The Most Dangerous Game, page 67, in Perrine
9/10 5th:
Chapter Summary & Presentation
for
Chapter One Perrine & The Most Dangerous Game, page 67.Azuero Jorge
Casasfranco Marcela. Discussion of commercial and literary fiction + Fiction Literary Forms
Assignment for Next Class: Read Hunters in the Snow, page 86
09/12/: Peer Reviews for Summer Essays
due. We do not have class this day.
(5) The Week of September 13 - 2
classes
9/14 3rd:Discussion of Hunters in the Snow, page 86.
Assignment for Next Class: None
9/16 1st: Senior Convivencia
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter Two from
Perrine and The Destructors, page 111.
(6) The Week of September 20 - 3
classes
9/20 4th:Chapter Summary &
Presentation for
Chapter Two Perrine & The Destructors, page 111 -de las
Salas Alejandra & Estrada Nicolas
Assignment for Next Class:
Read
How I Met My Husband, page 125
9/22 2nd:Continued discussion
of plot and structure and How I Met My Husband, page 125.
Assignment for Next Class: The Invisible ManMid-Point (to Chapter 14, page 296)
9/23 5th:Mid-Point Discussion of
The Invisible Man(to
Chapter 14, page 296).
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter
Three from Perrine and Everyday Use, page 166.
9/27 3rd - REFERENCE ROOM:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter Three Perrine
and Everyday Use, page 166 - Glennon Nicolas &
Gutierrez Mario. Discussion of characterization
in Everyday Use
Assignment for Next Class: Read Miss Brill, page 175 and How Far She Went, page 179.
9/29 1st:
Discussion
of characterization with Miss Brill, page 175, and How Far She Went,
page 179.
Assignment for Next Class:
Read pages 125 to 144 in Hamilton & Do the exercises on pages 132
(Two examples only for II and III - you don't need to do I) and 144
(Choose Three)
9/30 4th:Discussion of Hamilton, pages
125 to 144
& Exercise Review.
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter Four from
Perrine and The Lesson, page 195
(8) The Week of October 4 - 3
classes
10/4 3rd:Chapter
Summary & Presentation for Chapter
Four Perrine & The Lesson, page 195- Irurita Isabella &
Llano Maria Paulina. Discussion of Theme.
Assignment for Next Class:
A Worn Path, Page 212,
and A & P, page 619
10/5 5th:Discussion of Theme & A Worn Path, Page 212 and A & P, page 619
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter Five Perrine
and Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, Page 251
10/7 3rd:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter
Five Perrine & Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, Page 251.
We will be using
this
worksheet and the criticisms assigned. Discussion of Hamilton, pages
112 to 122
& Exercise Review.
Assignment for Next Class: Read Katherine Anne Porter – The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, page 260
and Ernest Hemingway – Hills Like White Elephants, page 268. Read pages 112 to 122 in Hamilton
& Do the exercises on page 122 (Choose Three of the Ten
Exercises)
Semana de Receso
(9) The Week of October 19 - 3
classes
10/19 1st:
Discussion of Point of View and Katherine Anne Porter – The Jilting of
Granny Weatherall, page 260 and Ernest Hemingway – Hills Like White
Elephants, page 268.
10/20 4th:Finish discussion from yesterday
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter One in Perrine Poetry
and Prepare Robert Hayden – The Whipping; Emily Dickinson – The Last
Night that She lived; William Carlos Williams – The Red Wheelbarrow;
Langston Hughes – Suicide Note; Adrienne Rich – Poetry: 101;
Archibald MacLeish – Ars Poetica 102.
Assignment for Tuesday: First Quarter Outside Novel
and AP Essay due Sunday
10/22 2nd:Chapter Summary &
Presentation for
Chapter One Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems - Manevich Ammiel &
Ocampo Jaime Alberto - Robert Hayden – The Whipping; Emily Dickinson – The
last Night that She lived; William Carlos Williams – The Red
Wheelbarrow; Langston Hughes – Suicide’s Note; Adrienne Rich – Poetry:
101; Archibald MacLeish – Ars Poetica 102. What is poetry?
Assignment for Next Class: None
10/31:First Quarter Outside Novel and AP Essay due.
We do not have class
this day. You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
(10) The Week of October 25 - 3
classes
10/25 5th:Continued
discussion of Chapter One Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems
Assignment for Next Class: Final
Discussion of The Invisible Man.
October 26 & 27:Parent's Day - Please use the agenda
here for Parent's Day.
10/29 3rd:Final Discussion
of The Invisible Man.
Assignment for Next Class: Read Writing About Literature in Perrine, pages 3-23
& pages 247-274 in Hamilton (skim and review) / Please complete
the discussion sheet for Invisible Man HERE
(11) The Week of November 1 - 2
classes
11/3 1st:
BINATIONALS
Assignment for Sunday: Peer Review for Quarter One
AP Essay.
11/4 4th:
BINATIONALS
11/7: Peer Review for
Quarter One AP Essay. We do not have class
this day.
11/8 2nd:
Finish discussion of Invisible Man. Discussion of
First Quarter Formal Essay and readings from Perrine & Hamilton.
Review use of
Peer Reviews and Self Check Formats for Formal Essays plus
Formal Essay rubric.
Assignment for Next Class: Please read
Writing About Literature in
Perrine, pages 23-34,
and the sample essays, pages 40 to 58, for next class.
11/9 5th:
Discussion of First Quarter Formal Essay.
Chapter Summary
& Presentation for Writing About Literature in
Perrine, pages 3-39 - Otoya Laura & Palaez Marisol
(Pages 2 to
23) & Palma Daniel & Romero Juan Manuel (Pages 23 to 39).
Discussion of the Essay
Format, sample essays from Perrine (pages 40 to 48),
Review use of Peer Reviews and Self Check Formats for Formal Essays plus
Formal Essay rubric. Discuss proper documentation and plagiarism.
Assignment for Next Class: Read
background material on Nathaniel Hawthorne and
Scarlet Letter
11/11 3rd:Finish Discussion
of First Quarter Formal Essay. Introduction of Second Quarter Novel,
Scarlet Letter
& Second Quarter Outside Reading.
Assignment for Next Class: Read Chapter Two in Perrine Poetry and Prepare
John Donne – Break of Day; Emily Dickinson – There’s been a Death, in
the Opposite House; Mari Evans – When in Rome; Sylvia Plath – Mirror;
William Blake – The Clod and the Pebble; Yusef Komunyakaa - Facing It.
(13) The Week of November 15 - 2
classes
11/16 1st:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter
Two Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems - Rueda Juan David & Sardi
Alejandra - John
Donne – Break of Day; Emily Dickinson – There’s been a Death, in the
Opposite House; Mari Evans – When in Rome; Sylvia Plath – Mirror;
William Blake – The Clod and the Pebble; Yusef Komunyakaa - Facing It..
Reading the Poem
Assignment for Next Class:
Read Chapter Three in Perrine Poetry and Prepare
Henry Reed – Naming of Parts; Langston Hughes –
Cross; Robert Frost – Desert Places; John Donne – A Hymn to God the
Father; Elizabeth Bishop - One Art.
11/17 4th:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter Three Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems - Soto Maria Paula &
Spataro Oriana - Henry Reed –
Naming of Parts; Langston Hughes – Cross; Robert Frost – Desert Places;
John Donne – A Hymn to God the Father; Elizabeth Bishop - One Art.
Denotation & Connotation
Assignment for Next Class:
None
Assignment for Sunday: First Quarter Formal Essay Due. Please submit this to
Turnitin AND
by email to me. Hand out Turnitin logon information.
11/19 2nd:Continued discussion of Chapter Three Perrine Poetry & Assigned
Poems.
Denotation & Connotation
Assignment for Next Class:
(14) The Week of November 22 - 2
classes
11/22 5th:
Work on Peer Editing and Formal Writing.
We will be using the
Peer Review
Format.Discuss
rewrite policy and opportunities
Assignment for Next Class: Bring
TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT comments
11/23:First Quarter Formal Essay. Please submit this to
Turnitin AND by email to me
(instructions for Turnitin are
here).
We do not have class
this day. You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
11/24 3rd:Work on Peer Editing and Formal Writing.
We will be using the
Peer Review
FormatBring TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT comments to this class.
Monday: Read Chapter
Four Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems (Gerard Manley Hopkins – Spring; William Carlos
Williams – The Widow’s Lament in Springtime; Adrienne Rich – Living in
Sin; Seamus Heaney – The Forge; Robert Frost – After Apple-Picking; Jean
Toomer – Reapers; John Keats – To Autumn)
11/29:
TWO Peer Reviews using the
Peer Review
Format. We do not have class
this day.
(15) The Week of November 29 -
3
classes
11/30 1st:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter
Four Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems (Gerard Manley Hopkins – Spring; William Carlos
Williams – The Widow’s Lament in Springtime; Adrienne Rich – Living in
Sin; Seamus Heaney – The Forge; Robert Frost – After Apple-Picking; Jean
Toomer – Reapers; John Keats – To Autumn)-Uribe
Simon & Zambrano Mateo. Imagery.
Assignment for Next Class:
Scarlet Letter Mid-Point Discussion (to chapter 12)
12/1 4th:
Continued
discussion of
Chapter Four Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems.
Assignment for Next Class: Mid Point
discussion of Scarlet Letter
12/3
2nd: SKIP DAY
Assignment for Next Class: Mid Point
discussion of Scarlet Letter
12/05/09:OPTIONAL: Rewrite of First Quarter
Formal Essay due. You only need to rewrite the Introduction, One
Argument and the Conclusion - grades for rewrite will be averaged with
original essay grades. You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
Please send via email.
(16) The Week of December 6 - 2
classes
12/6 5th:
Mid-point discussion of
Scarlet Letter(to chapter
12)
Assignment for Next Class: Read
Chapter Five in Perrine Poetry and Prepare Sylvia Plath – Metaphors;
Adrienne Rich - Ghost of a Chance; John Donne – A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning; Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress; Langston
Hughes – Dream Deferred; Billy Collins – Introduction to Poetry. Read pages 32 to 42 in Hamilton
& Do the exercises on page 36 (Do Four of the Ten Exercises in
Part I; and Part 2 of Part II - the Dickinson poem) and 42 (Do Four
of the Ten Exercises)
Assignment for Sunday: Second Quarter Outside
Novel and AP Essay.
12/9 3rd:
Chapter Summary & Presentation
for Chapter
Five Perrine Poetry & Assigned Poems: Sylvia Plath –
Metaphors; John Donne – A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; Andrew
Marvell – To His Coy Mistress; Langston Hughes – Dream Deferred; Billy
Collins – Introduction to Poetry) Azuero
Jorge & Casasfranco Marcela. Figurative Languiage: Simile,
Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonomy + Hamilton exercises.
Assignment
for Next Class: Bring
back books from Semester One
12/12:
Second Quarter Outside Novel
and AP Essay due.
We do not have class this day.
You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
(17) The Week of December 13 - 2 classes
12/13 1st:
Final Discussion of Scarlet Letter.
Introduce Beloved
for
Christmas reading. Bring back books from
Semester One.
12/14 4th: Christmas StuffReview for Final Exam. Class Review of First Semester &
Suggestions for Second Semester. Bring back books from
Semester One.
1/3/11: Second
Quarter Formal Essay due. Please submit to
Turnitin AND by email to me. You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment.
AP Final Exam -
December 17, 7:45 to 11:30 Library Bring money for pizza!
You are responsible for your
own transportation home.
High School Exams - December 15 to December 17
Semester One - 45 Classes, 17 Weeks, 0 Missed Classes
January 13 2nd Period:
Discuss plans for second semester. Review Final Exam - multiple choice and essays.
Discuss Poetry Festival Participation & Preparation (Slam?)
Assignment:
None
January 14 5th Period:
Review Final Exam - multiple choice and essays.
Discuss Poetry Festival Participation & Preparation (Slam?)
Assignment:
None
(2) The Week of January 17 - 3
classes
January 18 3rd Period:
Review AP exam essays.
Assignment: Bring
TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT comments to our next class!
January 20 1st Period:
Finish reviewing AP exam essays.Start work on Peer Editing
and Formal Writing. We will be using the
Peer Review
Format.
Bring TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT
comments to this class.
Assignment: TWO Peer Reviews using the
Peer Review
Format will be due January 24 (Hard Copy) plus 5 Common Errors (Email)
January 21 4th Period:Work
on Peer Editing and Formal Writing. Work on Common Errors
(3) The Week of January 24 - 3 classes
January 25 2nd Period: ICFES TEST - No Class.
January 26 5th Period:Discussion and Test Over How to Read
Literature Like a Professor.
Assignment:
Please read
Chapter Six (Fiction) Perrine & Joyce Carol Oates – Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?, Page 311
for next class.
January 28 3rd Period:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for
Chapter Six (Fiction) Perrine & Joyce Carol Oates – Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?, Page 311 - Casasfranco Marcela and de las Salas
Alejandra. Discussion of Symbol, Allegory and
Fantasy.
Assignment:
Please read Chapter Seven (Fiction) Perrine & Frank O’Connor – The
Drunkard, Page 339
February 2 4th Period:Chapter Summary & Presentation
for
Chapter Seven (Fiction) Perrine
& Frank O’Connor – The
Drunkard,
Page 339
- Glennon Nicolas and Gutierrez
Mario. Discussion of
Humor and Irony.
Assignment: Please read
Woody Allen – The Kugelmass Episode, page 348, for next class.
Read Hamilton, pages 21-24 and pages 44 to 47, and do the exercises
on page 24 (4 of the 10) and page 47 (6 of the first 15)
February 4 2nd Period:
Finish Chapter Seven from Fiction (p. 645).
Discuss Humor and Irony:
Woody Allen – The Kugelmass Episode, page 348. Discuss Hamilton
reading and exercises.
Assignment: Please read
Chapter Eight (Fiction) Perrine & Edith Wharton – Roman Fever, page 409,
and Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man Is Hard to Find, page 454.
(5) The Week of February 7 - 2 classes
February 7 5th Period:Chapter Summary &
Presentation for
Chapter Eight (Fiction) Perrine & Edith Wharton – Roman Fever, page 409,
and Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man Is Hard to Find, page 454 - Irurita
Isabella and Llano Maria Paulina. Discussion of
Evaluating Fiction.
Assignment:
Please read Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado, page 611, and
Elizabeth Tallent - No One’s a Mystery, page 617, for next class.
February 9 3rd Period:
Finish Chapter Eight from Fiction (p. 645).
Discuss Evaluating Fiction:
Edgar Allan Poe – The Cask of Amontillado, page 611, and Elizabeth Tallent - No One’s a Mystery, page 617.
Assignment: Please read the introduction (pages vii to xlii) in
Hamlet, Perrine (pp 1027 to 1032 &
1074-1078), the handouts (Tragedy Handouts -
Tragic Structure
and
Tragic Hero)
and the Hamilton (pages 1 to 7) for next class.
You should be writing your third
quarter essay.
This will be due by March 27 emailed to me AND uploaded to
Turnitin.
You need to be reading King Lear by William
Shakespeare and one other Shakespeare play of your own choosing (see #3
below). Information about
Shakespeare and his work can be found on the resources
page - both handouts and web links - and I will be giving you some handouts
in class. King Lear should be read to
the end of Act III by March 10 and finished by
March 23.
You are asked to
read a THIRD Shakespeare play (try to choose a comedy or history) with a
reading partner. You must clear this play through me BEFORE you start
reading. This play should be read by March
30, and an AP essay will be due on March 30.
You will have a formal essay due on
May 8 over
one of the Shakespeare plays we will read during the third quarter. You must use a Shakespeare play for this assignment.
AT LEAST two of your peers MUST have reviewed the essay before
you finish the final draft, and their comments along with your UPDATED
Common Errors
must accompany your paper when you hand it in.
Assignment:
Read
Hamilton 198 to 207, and do the exercises on page 207 (Part I - 2 of
5; Part II - 2 of 5; Part III - 2 of 5; Part IV - All)
(8) The Week of February 28 - 4 classes
February 28 1st Period:Close Reading of Hamlet.
Review Hamilton reading and exercises.
March 1 4th Period:
Close Reading of Hamlet.
March 3 2nd Period:
Close Reading of Hamlet.
Assignment:
King Lear (to end of Act III) due
March 10
March 4
5th Period:
MISS CLASS COPA DE AMISTAD
(9) The Week of March 7 - 1
class
March 10 3rd Period:King Lear (to end of Act III) due -
We'll have an in-class
discussion on the first half of this play.
We will be using the worksheets on
Animal Imagery,
Character Study
and Reading
Questions from the play.
(10) The Week of March 14 - 4 classes
March 14 1st Period:Close Reading of Hamlet.
March 15
4th Period:Close Reading of Hamlet.
March 17 2nd Period:Close Reading of Hamlet.
Assignment:
Read
Hamilton pages 210 to 223, and do the exercises on page 215 (5 of
10) and 223 (Part I - 5 of 10; Part II - All).
March
18 5th Period:Close Reading of Hamlet.Review Hamilton reading and
exercises.
Assignment: King Lear should be finished next class.
(11) The Week of March 21 - 2
classes
March
23 3rd Period:
Final discussion of King Lear.
March 25 1st Period
(Reference Room):No Class - SPORTS DAY
Assignment for March
27: AP essay over third
Shakespeare play
(12) The Week of March 28 - 3
classes
March 28 4th Period:
Close Reading of Hamlet
Assignment for April 3:
Third quarter formal
essay due - Email to me & upload to
Turnitin.
AT LEAST two
of your peers MUST have reviewed the essay before you finish the
final draft, and their comments along with your UPDATED Common
Errors must accompany your paper when you hand it in. NO LATE DAYS
March 30 2nd Period:Hamlet Films
April 1 2nd Period:Hamlet Films
(13) The Week of April 4 -
3
classes
April 4 5th Period:Hamlet Films
April 6 3rd Period:Hamlet Films
April 8 1st Period:Free Period
(14) The Week of April
11 - 2
classes
April 13 2nd Period: Multiple Choice Exam
Review
April 14 5th Period:Multiple Choice Exam
Review
(15) The Week of April
25 - 1
class
April 25 3rd Period: Exam Preparation
(Do's and Don'ts) & Class Review
April 28, 7:45 to 9:45 - Senior AP
English Final
April 18 Period:Fourth quarter formal
essay due on Shakespeare- Email to me & upload to
Turnitin.
NO LATE DAYS. This is the Monday of Semana
Santa - We do not have class this day.
these
to me.