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For a more concise view of the year, click
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(1) The Week of August 25 -
3 classes
- August 25:
Course Description and Expectations / Hand Out Books / Set up Reading Groups
and Work Groups for the year / Finish Setting Up the Listserv.
- August 27: Mock AP Exam
- August 29: Discussion of Mock AP Exam,
including scoring guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary.
Allusion: Greek Mythology Creation of the World
(here and
here) Due
(2) The Week of September 1 -
2 classes
- September 2: Mock Paideia Seminar - Lost in the
Funhouse, Barth
- September 4:
Introduction of First Quarter Novel and Outside Reading Groups / Review
Summer Reading.
Allusion: Prometheus and Epimetheus Due by Friday. By this time, please
have read, commented upon and emailed two of your classmates Preliminary
Essays back to them (cc to me...).
(3) The Week of September 8 -
3 classes
- September 8:
Elizabethan Period / The Renaissance
1500-1660: William Shakespeare -
Selected
Sonnets
- September 10:
Elizabethan Period / The Renaissance
1500-1660: Christopher Marlowe -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (BL Text 126);
Edmund Spencer -
From The Faerie Queen - BL Text 121; Sir Walter Raleigh -
The
Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (BL Text 126);
To His Son; Ben Johnson (Cavalier Poet) -
On My First Son (BL Text 216)
/ We'll begin class with your presentations from yesterday.
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September 12:
Group A: Jacobean / Metaphysical Period
1603-1625: Bible Psalm, p.
208 (BL) - Read the other Bible Psalms on the same page. How does the King
James version compare to the other ones?; John Donne Sonnet 10, p. 214 (BL) -
How is this sonnet different from the other sonnets from the Elizabethean era?
Allusion: Pandora's Box Due. Dinner at
Mr. Rompf's House - 6:00 -
PICTURES FROM THE AP DINNER HERE!
Information on Your Class
Presentations
You will need
to hand in the following for your class presentations:
- Lesson plans for your presentation. Please use the
format
here.
- You should cover SOME information about the periods's
history, the characteristics of the literature, RELEVANT information on
particular authors, AND information or definitons of specific literatry
types or devices you will be looking at in class. As well, have a GOOD
class activity (discussion, etc.) which will "get at" the meat in the
works being presented (using literary terms, as necessary, as well) AND have used
additional resources in your presentation.
- Please include ONLY that
background information which is relevant to the story being considered.
You should do your best to tie this information into the work.
- A presentation package is due within a week after the
presentation. Please use the format
here.
- This handout also includes the rubrics the class will
be filling out and the rubric you and I will be using.
Remember that you are teaching the class, so this is much
less a presentation than an instruction. You know what makes a good class,
and you know what makes a bad class, so make your class a good one!
(4) The Week of September 15 -
2 classes
- September 16:
Group A: Jacobean / Metaphysical Period
1603-1625.
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (BLT 221); Francis Bacon – The Life of a
Man; John Donne – Meditation 17 (BLT 215) John Donne – A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning (BLT 213). Rewritten OR New AP essay due from your summer reading.
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September 18:
Group B:
The Restoration 1660-1700.
“Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared” by John Dryden (handout);
“Diary-The Plague & Great Fire of London” by Samuel Pepys (handout); “An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by John Locke; (ignore the
assignment, scroll down and read The Author and The Selection) -
QUESTIONS TO *THINK* ABOUT WHILE
READING
(5) The Week of September 22 - 2
classes
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September 22:
Group B:
The Restoration 1660-1700.
Read “Paradise Lost, Book I” by John Milton (handout). For a summary of
the complete work of “Paradise Lost”: click
here.
For a line by line explanation of Book I, click
here.
- September 24:
Mid-Point Discussion of First Quarter Novel.
Allusion: The Garden of Eden [Genesis Chapters 1-3] Due by Friday.
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(6) The Week of September 29 - 0 classes
- September 29:
Semana de Crecimiento Personal - NO CLASS
- October 1:
Semana de Crecimiento Personal - NO CLASS
- October 3:
Semana de Crecimiento Personal - NO CLASS.
Allusion: Cain and Abel
[Genesis Chapter 4] Due.
(7) The Week of October 6 -
2 classes
Your outside reading the first quarter should be
finished this week; please hand in your AP essay by Friday.
- October 7:
Group C:
Augustan Age 1700-1745:
Read a Modest Proposal (pg. 259 in British Literature Textbook) and bring
textbook to class. (For a copy of the lesson plans and background
information, click here
- for the short version of today's and Thursday's agendas, click
here.)
- October 9:
Group C:
Augustan Age
1700-1745: read Handout on Education of Women by Daniel Defoe and From An
Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (pg 274 on British Literature Textbook) Bring
textbook to class. Allusion: Noah and the Flood [Genesis Chapters 6-9] Due by Friday.
(8) The Week of October 13 -
2 classes
- October 14:
Group D: Age of Sensibility / The
Enlightenment 1745-1785. Read Life of Samuel Johnson (pg. 283 in British
Lit. Textbook) and from Macbeth (handout). Bring a modern English dictonary.
- October 16: Group D:
Age of Sensibility / The Enlightenment
1745-1785. Read Letter to Chesterfield (pg. 277 in British Lit.
Textbook). Book or Movie Review
due Friday. Outside Novel should also be finished by Friday;
please hand in an AP essay (to Turnitin) as well as a one page summary of your two
discussions with your reading partner (to me - this may be done as a group).
(9) The Week of October 20 -
3 classes
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October 20:
Group E:
Romanticism, Light, Dark and
Gothic 1785-1830: William Wordsworth –
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (BL Text 312-314); John
Keats -
Ode on a Grecian Urn (BL Text 333); Lord Byron – She Walks in
Beauty (BL Text 321); William Cullen Bryant -
Thanatopsis (AL Text 187);
William
Blake – Holy Thursday (BL Text 304
- 2 Poems)
- October 22:
Group E:
Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic
1785-1830:
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (See Handout).
Check out one online analysis of the poem to bring to class. Please
bring your completed mid-term report and any books to return from quarter one,
as well.
- October 24:
Final Discussion of
First Quarter Novel / Introduction of Second Quarter Novel & Second Quarter
Outside Reading.
Allusion: Paris and the Golden Apple Due.
(10) The Week of October 27 - 1
class
- October 28:
Group E:
Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic
1785-1830: Edgar Allen Poe - The
Fall of the House of Usher - AL Text 194; Mary Wollencraft Shelley -
Frankenstein - Handout. Peer
Review for Quarter One Outside Novel AP Essay due by 10/31 (You can
either do this using the established questions on Turnitin OR you
can download the essay from
here, do it in Word and then email it to the author and me. In
either case, please use the distribution list
here).
Allusion: Odysseus and the Trojan Horse due by Friday.
(11) The Week of November 3 -
2 classes
- November 4:
Group F: Victorian Period 1832-1901.
Read “The Schoolboy’s Story” by Charles Dickens
here and “The Devil” by
Guy de Maupassant on p.320 from book Of Time and Place. For a copy of
the lesson plans for this unit, click
here.
- November 6: Group F:
Victorian Period 1832-1901.
"I’ll Not Weep" (Emily Bronte) in British Literature Textbook p.381.
Sonnets 28 and 43 from “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (Elizabeth Barrett
Browning) in the British Literature Textbook p.383. Allusion: Tantalus and Ixion and Sisyphus Due by Friday.
Major essay over due by
November 7.
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(12) The Week of November 10 - 2
classes
- November 10:
Rompf:
Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic
1785-1830: Emily Dickinson - Selections - AL Text 332-343; Selections - SOW 39-43.
- November 12:
Writing
Work in Class for Major and Minor Essays (Conference Room) (See
Writing an AP
Introduction &
Using
Quotations in your Writing).
- November 14:
NO
CLASS - SPORTS DAY Book or Movie Review Due.
(13) The Week of November 17 -
2 classes
- November 19:
Mid-Point
Discussion of The Scarlet Letter.
Bring
printed copy of Connecticut Yankee essay for Friday.
- November 21:
Writing Work in Class: Peer Review of First Quarter Major Essay (Propal) -
Bring a hard copy of your essay.
Allusion: The Death of John the Baptist [Mark 6] Due.
(14) The Week of November 24 -
1 class
-
November 25:
Group A:
Transcendentalism /
New England Renaissance 1840-1865: Read Ralph Waldo Emerson, 240-247 in the
American Lit Text. Allusion: The Birth of Christ [Luke 1-2] Due
by Friday.
(15) The Week of December 1 - 3 classes
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December 1:
Final Discussion of
The Scarlet Letter
/ Reading Assignment for Christmas. Please read the Scarlet Letter
Paideia Seminar Agenda AND Critical Commentaries in
this
handout BEFORE class AND bring a copy to class (I won't have
additional copies).
AP Essay for Second Quarter Outside Novel Due (Send by email & to
Turnitin). Please hand in your discussion notes directly to
me.
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December 3:
Group A:
Transcendentalism /
New England Renaissance 1840-1865: Emerson: 240-241 “Nature”, “Self Reliance”
242; Thoreau: 254- 260 “Walden”, 262 “Civil Disobedience”; Whitman: 399-403
“Song of Myself”, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” 406, “A Noiseless
Patient Spider” 407.
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December 5:
Christmas Stuff & Preparation for the Final Exam.
Quarter Two major essay due by
Sunday 8:00 AM.
(16) The Week of December 8 - 0 classes
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December 10: Mock
AP English Literature and Composition Exam COMPLETE from 10:30 to 2:20
in the Library Reference Room. You will
need transportation after the exam.
(17) The Week of December 15 - 2 classes
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December 16: Hand back final exams and review.
Distribute grades.
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December 17: Class Review of First Semester & Suggestions
for Second Semester
Semester One - 32 Classes, 17 Weeks, 4 Missed Classes
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Class Comments from Semester One
- Figurative Language / Allusion
Assignments
- Rather than one a week, have a
certain number due by the end of the quarter; perhaps, one needs to
complete a certain amount in order to get a CE.
- Mix the figurative language
assignments with allusions, creative writing, movie reviews, , etc.
- Try to inject more creativity into the
teaching groups - they tend to be monotonous now.
- Break up the presentations with
something else: Rompf teaching, movies, etc.
- Discuss and include more about the
outside reading assignments.
- Students write a SHORT review on the
novel to share with the class AND to archive for future classes.
- Include more multimedia.
- Continue to review writing format
before assigning new major writing assignments.
- Allow options for writing assignments
for those who have now mastered the formal essay.
- Students like the informal
atmosphere of the class, the freedom to express themselves, the analytical
discussions over the reading and the challenge of the class.
- Replace Allusions with Figurative Language Weekly
Assignments
-
Novel Research
Essay
- Finish Reviewing AP Christmas Exam (Multiple Choice and
Essays - See Mock Essay Sets)
- Read Hamlet or Lear?
- Missing Groups
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Group B:
Aestheticism and Decadence
1880-1901.
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Group C:
Realism 1865-1915.
- Group D:
Naturalism,
Impressionism, Determinism 1900-1915
- Group E:
Edwardian Period 1901-1914
- Group F:
Regionalism - Early 20th Century
- Further
Variations on a Formal Essay AND Add Creative Writing Exercises
- Integrate
More Non-Fiction, Close Reading Exercises (See Package)
- Grammar and
Punctuation; Essay format (first person, present tense, etc.) - Use last
essays as examples.
- Different
Writing Activities for Julie and Elyssa - Creative?
- Check
2002-2003 Handouts
- Check AP CD
and Package Again - See Sample Tests from 1994 & 1999 (Plus Exams from
Package) and Teacher Essays for Preparation
- Methods of Literary Analysis
(SIFT for Stories & TPSFAST for Poetry
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Suggestions & Missing from Semester One
- Click Here...
New and Improved: The Weekly Allusions are NOW Weekly
Figurative Language Assignments:There are
approximately 18 weeks in the second semester. You are required to
complete 25 figurative language assignments BEFORE the end of the
semester (13 before March 8 and the remaining 12 before May 14).
However, you may replace any FIVE (5) of these assignments with
allusions, creative writing, movie reviews, etc. Please hand
these into Turnitin TWO AT A TIME. We will be
discussing the format for these the first day back, but the handouts I will be
using can be found below:
(1) The Week of January 12-
2 classes
During the following five weeks,
while we are reading Hamlet in class, you should be working on the
following:
- You should read
two Second Quarter Major Essays from your peers (alphabetically, one name ahead of you and one
name behind - Please download them from the website and review them using
Word (You can either keep or remove my comments - If you don't know how
to remove the comments, see me - Do not use Turnitin for this), fill out
and attach an
online rubric
with a comment back to the author, and email the author and me (cc:) the
paper, rubric and comments. This should be finished by January 30.
- You should carefully review
your own Second Quarter Major Essay and note five things which you feel
need improvement (we'll call this our List of Common Errors). Based on
this list, I want you to rewrite one argument and the introduction.
Hand in the list to me by February 3
electronically.
- You should be writing a SHORT essay
(3-5 pp) over As I Lay Dying or another approved novel or author.
This will be due by February 5, emailed AND sent 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 Common Errors
must accompany your paper when you hand it in.
- You need to be reading Beloved by Toni
Morrison. Information about the book can be found on the resources
page - both handouts and web links - and I will be giving you some handouts
in class. This book will be half due (to page 165) by February 9
and finished by Feburary 26.
- Finally, your Third Quarter Outside novel choice is due
by January 20 AND the AP Paper, Short Review (for class) and reading
notes are due by March 11.
Optional writing assignments will be
available for those who have mastered the formal essay.
(2) The Week of January 19-
2 classes
- January 20:
Paideia
Seminar over As I Lay Dying. Third Quarter Outside Novel
Choice due - Please choose from the list
here.
- January 22: Introduction
to Shakespeare, Tragedy and Hamlet.
(3) The Week of January 26-
3 classes
- January 26: Close
Reading of Hamlet. Please read the introduction
(pages vii to xlii) in Hamlet, the handouts and the online
resources I've posted
here.
- January 28: Close Reading
of Hamlet
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January 30: Review
punctuation and structure (see
handout) & formal
essay expectations - use sample essays in class.
Second Quarter Essay Peer Reviews due.
List of Common Errors due directly to me Tuesday.
(4) The Week of February 2- 2
classes
- February 3:
Finish Punctuation Exercises . Close
Reading of Hamlet.
List of Common Errors due directly to me.
- February 5:
Close Reading of Hamlet Short Essay over As I Lay
Dying
due
by Monday
7:00AM(Email to Me & Upload to Turnitin
(5) The Week of February 9- 2 classes
- February 9: Close
Reading of Hamlet. Short
essay over As I Lay Dying Due BEFORE 7:00AM
(Email to Me & Upload to Turnitin)
- February 11:
Beloved
(to 165) due - We'll have an in-class discussion on the first half
of this book and discuss possible (short) paper topics (due by March 15).
- February 13:
NO CLASS - MOCK ICFES
(6) The Week of February 16 - 2
classes
- February 17:
Close
Reading of Hamlet
- February 19:
Close
Reading of Hamlet
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(7) The Week of February 23-
2 classes
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February 24:
Watch Hamlet Films - We'll be in L-27 / Bring money for Pizza
- February 26:
Finish Close Reading of Hamlet.
(8) The Week of March 1- 2 classes
- March 1: Cindy
Clark for AP Exam Information. Finish Hamlet Montage. Discuss possible essay topics and
review writing format (Option:
Novel Research
Essay).
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March 3:
Watch Beloved
movie over pizza
- March 5:
NO CLASS - SKIP DAY /
At least 8 Figurative Language assignments are due by Monday, March 8.
(9) The Week of March 8- 2
classes
- March 9:
Paideia Seminar over Beloved.
Please read the
Paideia Seminar handout
and the Toni
Morrison interview BEFORE the seminar AND bring both to class.
- March 11:
Introduction of Fourth Quarter Novel - The Sun Also Rises.
Discuss creative writing tie-ins with the book for fourth quarter paper (due
by April 19) AND ideas to make the teaching groups more lively and
creative (Integrate More Non-Fiction, Close Reading Exercises [See Package])!
Third Quarter Outside Novel AND the AP Essay (Email to Me & Upload to
Turnitin), Short Review (for class)
and reading notes (Email to Me) are due.
(10) The Week of March 15-
3 classes
- March 15:
Group B: Realism 1865-1915.
Read "Story of an Hour"(Chopin) in American Lit; "The Darling" (Chekhov)
in Time and Place; "Madame
Bovary--Chapter 9" (or
here as a Word
document). The handouts are here:
Background,
Biographies,
Monologue Activity
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March 17:
Group B: Realism
1865-1915. Read Mark Twain's "Fenimore
Coopers Literary Offenses" and think about Twain's main criticism of the
piece and what does it show about realism vs romanticism. We will be reading and discussing more works by
Twain in class and also wrap up the discussion of the 3 stories from
Monday. Review and discuss the Third Quarter Outside Novels -
Please bring a hard copy of your outside novel review. Fourth Quarter Outside Novel Choice due -
Please choose from the list
here.
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March 19: Group C:
Naturalism, Impressionism, Determinism 1900-1915. Please read
The Open Boat (p. 504 AmLit Text),
McTeague by
Frank Norris and the
Handout.
(11) The Week of March 22- 2
classes
(12) The Week of March 29 2
classes
APRIL 3 to APRIL 12
- SEMANA SANTA
(13) The Week of April 12
2 classes
- April 13: Groups D - Modernism. Read "The Last Judgment" Karel Capek" (OTAP
28); "The Poor" Carlo Cassola (OTAP 252);
"The Children's Campaign" Par Lagerkvist (OTAP 429). Don't forget to bring your book to class because there will
be NO HANDOUTS for this.
- April 15:
NO CLASS - SENIOR EXAMS
- April 16: AP English
Final Exam 8:20 to 10:20, Science Department Balcony - Mock AP Exam. You
need to exchange essays after the exam for peer reviews and grading AND
RETURN THEM TO ME MONDAY AM.
(14) The Week of April 19 1 class
- April 19: NO CLASS -
SENIOR EXAMS
- April 21:
Final discussion & Seminar over The Sun Also Rises.
You need to read the Common Criticisms
here
AND the one critique assigned to your group (These are Adobe PDF
documents):
Group A,
Group B,
Group C,
Group D,
Group E,
Group F. You should also review the
Paideia
Seminar Agenda. Creative writing assignment for Fourth
Quarter due (Email
to Me & Upload to Turnitin) by 8:00AM.
APRIL 24 & 25
-
ICFES
(15) The Week of April 26
2 classes
- April 26:
NO CLASS - POST ICFES SKIP DAY
- April 28: AP Test Preparation and Final Suggestions - See Web Links
here.
Review MC and Essays from Final Exam.
- April 30: AP Test Preparation and Final Suggestions - See Web Links
here.
Review and discuss the Fourth Quarter Outside Novels.
Fourth Quarter Outside Novel AP Essay (Give
Printout to Me & Upload to Turnitin), Short Review (for class)
and reading notes (Email to Me) are due by 8:00 AM Monday, May 3.
(16) The Week of May 3 - 1 class
MAY 3 - AP ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION EXAM
- May 4:
Course Summary and Recommendations. Your final Figurative
Language assignments are due by Monday, May 10, 8:00AM NO EXCEPTIONS -
(See
here if you're not sure how many to do...).
You should download ALL your work from Turnitin before the end of the
year.
May 4 -
END OF
REGULAR CLASSES
MAY 6 - AP
ENGLISH LITERATURE
AND COMPOSITION EXAM
DINNER FOR AP CLASS ON MAY
10
May 4 - 18 -
SPECIAL SCHEDULE
May 19-27 -
SENIOR PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS
May 28 -
SENIOR LUNCH
June 12 -
GRADUATION
Semester Two - 32 Classes, 16 Weeks, 3 Missed Classes
End of Year Comments
& Ideas for Next Year...
- Change Listserv to
http://lists.topica.com/ or
http://netpals.lsoft.com/default.htm. These both archive postings.
- Work on Fallacies - See short story
"Love is a Fallacy" and
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_fallacies.html and
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/logic.html
- Use Aristotle's definition of tragedy
for As I Lay Dying Paideia Seminar.
- See Email Folder "Newsletters\AP
English Listserv\AP English Pending Ideas
- Create Database of Reviews for
Outside Reading (Import This Year's Reviews...)
-
AP "Boot Camp" - Literary
Terms through Short Stories:>
Use Figurative Language Assignments from 2003-2004 for Examples and Reference
Interlace Figurative Language Assignments with Allusions, Book/Movie Reviews,
etc.
See College Literary Terms
Quiz
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Character: Where
Are You Going? Where Have You Been?, Oates (also great for symbolism);
Enough, Mc Dermott; "Everyday Use" and "The Swimmer"
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Symbolism: A Secret
Lion, Rios; The Lottery, Jackson: Everyday Use, Walker; Janus, Beatty; 15
Minutes in the Life of Larry Weller, Shields; "I Stand Here Ironing" and
"The Guest";
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Plot: A Rose for
Emily, Faulkner; Battle Royal, Ellis; A Worn Path, Welty; "The Destructors"
and "The Lottery
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Setting: Greasy
Lake, Boyle; The Storm; Chopin; IndAff, Weldon; Shiloh, Mason; "A
Wedge of Shade" and "The Track"
PofView: any by Poe; Big Black Good Man, Wright; Teenage Wasteland,
Tyler; Amish Farmer, Bourjaily; Who's Irish, Jen; A White Heron; "A Rose for
Emily" and "Hills Like White Elephants"
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Tone: Story of an
Hour; Roman Fever
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Theme: Flight; "A
Worn Path" and "Defender of the Faith"
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"A Rose
for Emily" (POV, characterization, theme, irony)
"Paul's Case" (POV, characterization, theme, symbolism, setting [places--contrast],
irony)
"The Story of an Hour" (irony, diction)
"Desiree's Baby" (irony, theme)
"Hunters in the Snow" (characterization, irony, plot)
"I Stand Here Ironing" (characterization, POV, theme, setting [time])
"Everyday Use" (characterization, contrast,theme, irony)
"Life After High School?" (setting [time], irony, theme, characterization)
"How I Met My Husband" (humor, plot, characterization, POV)
"You're Ugly, Too" (characterization--much detail and debate!, irony, wit
vs. sarcasm)
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Poetry Terminology
Sylvia Plath's "The Sow"
Randall Jerrel's "Camp in a Prussian Forest."
Keats' "Bright Star"
"Poetry" by Nikki Giovanni
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Class
Comments
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Things not to change...
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Paideia
Seminars
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Group presentations
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Keep giving elp
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Nice comfortable environement, great class dynamic
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Allusions and Figuratie Language assignments
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Reading Groups
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10
Late Days
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Keep the book reviews in class
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The
website helps but make the assignments easier to find
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The
Listserv was also helpful
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Thing
to change...
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Work on the Figurative Language assignments, alternate with the allusions
and keep them weekly
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Make the teaching groups more dynamic, could be monotonous
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More time for the outside reading
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Break up the teaching groups with my own teaching
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More Rompf Teaching
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More movies
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More work on the multiple choice - less figurative language?
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Content not to change
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As
I Lay Dying
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Scarlet Letter
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Shakespeare (Hamlet)
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Hamlet Movies
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World Authors
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Modest Proposal
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Beloved?
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Content to change...
- Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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