August 17:
Course Description and Expectations / Weekly Allusions & Figurative
Language / Demonstrate Listserv / Reading Groups & Work Groups for Year /
Passwords / AP Potluck Dinner.
Essays and Group Notes for Summer Reading Due August 26.
Peer Review of Summer AP Essays Due September 1 (Choose one essay from the
person listed above you and one from the person listed below you).
August 19:
Part 1 Mock AP Exam.
Weekly Workshop: Greek Mythology Creation of the World (here
and
here) due. For more information about the Weekly Workshops, click
here.
(2) The Week of August 22 - 3
classes
August
22: Part 2 Mock AP Exam.
August 24:
Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring guidelines,
sample responses and scoring summary. /
Two Essays, two short book reviews and one set of group reading notes for
your Summer Reading are due next class (Please
all three - remember that the Group Notes should only be
handed in by only one member of the group).
For more information about writing a book review, click
here.
August
26:Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring guidelines,
sample responses and scoring summary.
Please have the AP Test Package read for class.
Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due. Summer AP
Essays, Book Reviews and Reading Group Notes
Due.
(3) The Week of August 29-
3 classes
August 29:Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including
scoring guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary.
Please have the AP Test Package read for class.
Please grade sample essays G, FF, EE (Emily Dickinson)
and T, FF, DDDD (Henry James) for the next class.
August 31:Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring
guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary.
Read Lost in the Funhouse, the
Paideia
Seminar Agenda, the
Common
Criticism & your
Group Criticism for Class (These were handed out).
September 1 -
FALL AP POTLUCK DINNER - 6:00
September 1:
Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring guidelines,
sample responses and scoring summary.Please have graded sample essays G, FF, EE (Emily Dickinson) and T,
FF, DDDD (Henry James) for class. Read Lost in the Funhouse,
the
Paideia Seminar Agenda, the
Common Criticism & your
Group Criticism
for Next Class (These were handed out).
September 7: Review
of Prose Terminology - plot, setting, character: A&Pby John Updikeand
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?
by Joyce Carol Oates. See the handouts
here
for more information.
September 8:
Review of Prose Terminology -
plot, setting, character: A&Pby John Updikeand
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?
by Joyce Carol Oates. See the handouts
here
for more information and analyze Updike story for plot and structure and
the Oates story for character. Read
Hills Like White Elephantsby Ernest Hemingway and
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allen Poe for next class.
Weekly Workshop: Prometheus and Epimetheus due.
(5) The Week of September 12 - 3
classes
September
12: Finish
discussion of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been."
September 13:
Review of Prose Terminology and History - point of view, theme:
Hills Like White Elephantsby Ernest Hemingway and The
Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allen Poe. See the handouts
here
for more information.
September 15: Review of Prose
Terminology and History - point of view, theme:
Hills Like White Elephantsby Ernest Hemingway and The
Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allen Poe. See the handouts
here
for more information. Please
bring a theme study for two short stories (one which was assigned in class
& one choice from those we've read).
Style
Worksheet
(PDF) Due Next Class. Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due.
(6) The Week of September 19 - 3
classes
September 19:
Review of Prose Terminology - diction, syntax: Discuss
Style
Worksheet (PDF).
September 20:Review of Prose Terminology - diction,
syntax: Discuss
Style Worksheet (PDF).Please have examined tone in your assigned novel opening & one other
selection. As I Lay Dying Mid-Point (to page 137) Discussion
Next Class.
September 22:Mid-Point Discussion of
As I Lay Dying (to Page 137). Weekly
Workshop: Book or Movie Review due.
September 26:
Literary Terms Review - Movie Analysis
September
28:
Review of Formal Essay, EBSCO Research & MLA Style (PowerPoint &
Plagiarism Handout).
Read
Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff and The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson for next class.
September 30:Review of Prose Terminology - putting it all
together:
Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolffe and The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson.
Review Presentation Expectations. See the lesson plans
here.
Weekly Workshop: Pandora's Box due.
(8) The Week of October 3 - 3
classes
October 3:
Review of Prose Terminology - putting it all together:
Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolffe and
The
Lotteryby Shirley Jackson.
Please be prepared to present an analysis of your assigned story to the
class.
ReadBright Star
by John Keats and
The Nature of Proof by Perrine for next class.
October 5:
Introduction to Poetry. Discuss Bright Star
by John Keats and
The Nature of Proof by Perrine. See the lesson plans
here.
Please review as many sonnets from
here as you can (choose
from 3, 18, 20, 29, 73, 116, 130, 133, 134, 138, 144, 147, 150) before
coming to class, and choose 3 favorites to print (one page-7 copies). Read
the
background information and review the handout on poetic devices before
next class.
October 6:Rompf:
Elizabethan Period / The Renaissance 1500-1660.
Discuss Shakespeare's sonnets and culture. Review Literary Periods
Overview
here (pdf).The
lesson plans are
here.
Read Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (BL Text
126); 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) for next class - these may be downloaded
here.
You will need to hand in
the following for your class presentations:
Lesson plans for your presentation. Please use
the format here.
Lesson Plans are due to me AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE
your class presentation.
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!
(9) The Week of October 10 - 3
classes
October 10:
Rompf:
Elizabethan Period / The Renaissance 1500-1660
- Christopher Marlowe -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (BL Text 126); 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).
October
12:
Group A:
Jacobean / Metaphysical Period 1603-1625
- Please read A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, To His Coy
Mistress & The Life of Man. These may be downloaded
here; the lesson plans are
here. Briefly analyze the poems for central themes, structure
and tone.
October 13:Group A:
Jacobean / Metaphysical Period 1603-1625.
Continuation from yesterday's class: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,
To His Coy Mistress & The Life of Man. These may be
downloaded here;
the lesson plans are
here. Briefly analyze the poems for central themes, structure
and tone.
Weekly Workshop: Book or Movie Review due.
(10) The Week of October 17 - 1
classes
October 17:
Outside Novel AP Essay, Book Review and Reading Notes
(one set per group) due. We do not have class this day...
October
18:
NO CLASS - Not Enough People...
October 19 and 20 -
Parent's Day - Please use the agenda
here for Parent's day.
October 21:NO CLASS - SPORTS DAY
Weekly Workshop: The Garden of Eden [Genesis Chapters 1-3]
(11) The Week of October 24 - 1
classes
October 24: First
Quarter Formal Essay Due. Please submit this and ALL major
assignment (I will tell you which) to MyDropBox
AND by email to me.
The instructions are
here.We do not have class this day...
October 25: NO CLASS
- ICFES EVALUATION
October 27:Final Discussion of
As I Lay Dying. Please have read the critical commentary on
Addie
here and the Paideia Seminar handout.
Introduction of Second Quarter Novel,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
& Second Quarter Outside Reading.
Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due.
(12) The Week of October 31 - 3
classes
October 31:
Group B: The
Restoration 1660-1700. The lesson plans for this unit are
here and
the background handout
here.
Please read the peoms
here. Peer
Reviews for First Quarter AP Essay Due - One Up & One Down. Email
corrections & comments to the person whose work you're correcting and to
me.
November 2:Group B:
The
Restoration 1660-1700.
Please do the exercise assigned for Dryden's "Song
to a Fair Young Lady Going out of town in the Spring" and Waller's "The
Self Banished." They can be downloaded
here. Bring
TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT comments to our next class!
November 3: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. TWO Peer Reviews using the
Peer Review
Format will be due next class. Weekly Workshop: Book or
Movie Review due.
November 8:
Finish Work on Peer
Editing and Formal Writing.
Rewrite your introduction and first argument for November 15 & Write Down
5 Major Errors to Work On (email both to me...).
Please research one classical author for
next class.
November 11:Group C:
Augustan Age 1700-1745.The
lesson plans,
background,
poetry and
in-class image are
available for download.
Please read and prepare
Swift's Modest
Proposal (use of irony and satire), as well as the second poem for
class. Rewrite of introduction and first argument for quarter
one formal essay & 5 Major Errors due November 15 (email both to me...).
Weekly Workshop: Cain and Abel [Genesis Chapter 4] due.
(14) The Week of November 14 - 2
classes
November 16:
(Binationals)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Mid-Point Discussion (to page
129) & Essay Ideas; see the
study questions.Please write a thesis statement for
Swift's Modest
Proposal("Swift satirizes _____ through his use of ___,___ and ___), and
then give some support for one of the devices he uses. Second
Quarter Formal Essay due December 4. Read Poetry by Nikki
Giovanni, The Sow by Sylvia Plath, and Camp in a Prussian Forest by
Randell Jerrel, all available
here; as well, please
read but do not do the exercises for the handouts on
imagery and
simile/metaphor.
November
17:
(Binationals)Review of Poetry Terminology -
imagery,
metaphor & simile:
Please FULLY prepare the following poetry for discussion based on the
elements of imagery, simile and metaphor: Poetry by Nikki Giovanni, The
Sow by Sylvia Plath, and Camp in a Prussian Forest by Randell Jerrel
(All available
here).
Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due.
(15) The Week of November 21 - 1
classes
November 21:Review of Poetry Terminology -
imagery,
metaphor & simile. Have
the following poems FULLY prepared for discussion based on the elements of
imagery, simile and metaphor discussed in the last class: Poetry by Nikki
Giovanni, The Sow by Sylvia Plath, and Camp in a Prussian Forest by
Randell Jerrel (All available
here).
November 23: NO
CLASS - Skip Day.
Weekly Workshop: Book or Movie Review due.
(16) The Week of November 28 - 3
classes
November28:
Rompf:
Romanticism, Light, Dark and Gothic 1785-1830: Please PREPARE
William Wordsworth – Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; John
Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn; Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty; William
Cullen Bryant - Thanatopsis; William Blake – Holy Thursday (All available
here).
Outside Novel AP Essay, Book Review
and Reading Notes (one set per group) due.
December 1:
We will finish the discussion over Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
based on the
discussion questions you prepared last period.
Review Reading Assignment for Christmas (Beloved -
Reading Information).Weekly
Workshop: Noah and the Flood [Genesis Chapters 6-9] due. For our
discussion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, please have the
novel finished and read and prepare (major ideas, key points, literary
reaction, etc.) your assigned criticism: Group A:
Mixed Heritage; Group B:
Formal Tragedy;
Group C: Point of
View
(17) The Week of December 5 - 2
classes
December 5:
Final Discussion of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. We will be discussing the
novel with reference to your assigned criticism (Group
A:
Mixed Heritage;
Group B:Formal Tragedy; Group C: Point of View)
December 7:
Review for Final Exam.
December 9:
Review for Final Exam.
Class Review of First Semester &
Suggestions for Second Semester.
Weekly Workshop: The Birth of Christ [Luke
1-2] due.
(18) The Week of December 12 - 1 class
December 11:
Second
Quarter Formal Essay Due by 7:00AM 12/12. Please submit to
MyDropBox
AND by email to me.
The instructions are
here.You MAY NOT use late days for this assignment. We do not
have class this day...
AP Final Exam 10:15 to 2:00, Tuesday, December
13
Reference Room, Library You are responsible for your own
transportation home.
Senior Exams:
December 12 to December 15
January 7:
Rewrite for
Second
Quarter Formal Essay. Please submit to
MyDropBox
AND by email to me.
The instructions are
here.You MAY NOT use
late days for this assignment. We
do not have class this day...
Semester One - 44 Classes, 18 Weeks, 4 Missed Classes
January 11: Discuss plans
for second semester (Optional Reading Groups [Single readers must hand in an
AP essay, book review and a
Reader's Journal],
Options for Weekly Workshops, AP Class expectations, work effort, etc.
[Class preparation grade - return handouts with notes, definitions and
underlines]); Review Final Exam - multiple choice and essays.
Hand out AP Test Prep CD. Please read the
handout on essay grading for the AP for next class.
January 13:
Review Final Exam - multiple choice and essays. Discuss Poetry Festival ideas and participation.
Bring TWO copies of your formal essay WITHOUT
comments to our next class! Weekly Workshop:
Paris and the Golden Apple due.
(2) The Week of January 16 - 3
classes
January 16:
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. TWO Peer Reviews using the
Peer Review
Format will be due next class.
January 18:
Work on Peer Editing and Formal Writing.
January 20:
Finish Work on Peer Editing and Formal Writing. Give
handout
and assign criticisms (one
& two)
for Beloved seminar on Wednesday.
Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due.
(3) The Week of January 23 -
3 classes
January 23:
Review punctuation and structure (see
handout) and MLA Format.
Grammar
Exercises due for next class.
January 25:
Review punctuation and structure (see
handout) and MLA Format;
review
grammar exercises from last class.
Introduce King Lear - Hand out
Background,
Critical
Reviews and
Tragic Hero Handout. King Lear through Act III due by February 8 and finished by February 20 - reading notes and AP essay due by
February 23. Read and prepare the Emily Dickinson poems and
letters assigned to your group
here AND the background on
Dickinson here. Also,
please look at
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins.
February 3:
Introduction to Shakespeare, Tragedy and Hamlet. Please read the introduction
(pages vii to xlii) in Hamlet, the handouts and the online
resources I've posted here.
Weekly Workshop:
Odysseus and the Trojan Horse due.
You should be writing a SHORT essay
(3-5 pp) over Beloved or another approved novel or author.
This will be due by February 20, emailed to me AND uploaded to
MyDropBox.
You need to be reading King Lear by William
Shakespeare and one other Shakespeare play of your own choosing. 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, which should be read with your reading
partner (and which counts as your 3rd quarter outside novel), should be read to the end of Act III by
February 14 and finished by February 23. Your second
Shakespeare play, along with reading notes and a play review, will be due by March
10.
King Lear will "count" as your outside novel this
quarter. Your AP Paper and reading
notes are due by February 27.
Finally, you will have a formal essay due on
March 30 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.
Optional writing assignments will be
available for those who have mastered the formal essay.
(5) The Week of February 6 - 2 classes
February 7:Close
Reading of Hamlet. Please read the introduction (pages vii
to xlii) in Hamlet, the handouts and the online
resources I've posted here.
February 8:
Close Reading of Hamlet.
February 10:
Close Reading of Hamlet. King Lear to end of Act III due Tuesday.
(6) The Week of February 13 - 2
classes
February 14:King Lear (to end of Act III) due - We'll have an in-class
discussion on the first half of this play and discuss choices for your
second Shakespeare play Due March 7.
February 15:
Close Reading of Hamlet.Third Quarter Short Essay
due Monday - Email to me & upload to
MyDropBox).
February 21:
Close Reading of
Hamlet. Third Quarter Short Essay due -
Email to me & upload to
MyDropBox.
February 23:
Close Reading of Hamlet. King Lear due
next class - Please have read the entire play and the
criticisms assigned to your group (Group
A,
Group B,
Group C)
AND be thinking about how to present to the class. Don't forget
your books!! Weekly Workshop:
Tantalus and Ixion and Sisyphus due.
(8) The Week of February 27 - 4 classes
February 27:Final discussion over King
Lear. We will discuss the criticisms assigned (Group
A,
Group B,
Group C)
and the play as a whole.
Don't forget your books!!!
February 28:Watch Hamlet Films (One-Minute
& Montage).
Lear AP Essay and reading notes
next class (email both to me).
March 2:Watch Hamlet Films
(One-Minute & Montage). King Lear
AP Essay and reading notes (email both to me) are due; you do
not need to write a review.
March 3:Watch Hamlet Films
(One-Minute & Montage) - Bring
money for Pizza.
Weekly Workshop: Literary Device due.
(9) The Week of March 6 - 3
classes
March 7:Writing Work.
RE-Introduce Presentation guidelines and expectations: Lesson Plans,
Presentation Package, Send ALL Handouts, Work should be AP Challenging and
Quantity AND include terminology where applicable.
Second Shakespeare play should be read by Thursday. Reading notes,
AP essay and a play review are due March 12.
March 9:Second outside Shakespeare play due.
Final discussion of Shakespeare and his works & possible paper topics
based on one of his plays (you must use a Shakespeare play for this
assignment).We will be using
this worksheet. Introduction of Fourth
Quarter Novel - The Great Gatsby (background
information here). Discuss creative writing tie-ins with
the book for fourth quarter paper. (Mid point discussion of book on
March 23; final discussion or Paideia
Seminar on April 6 AND paper due on May 3.)
March 10:NO CLASS - ICFES PREP. Weekly Workshop:
Pilate and Jesus [Matt.27] due. Please email
me reading rotes, AP essay and a play review for your second Shakespeare
Play by Sunday midnight (March 12).
March 23:Group B: Realism 1865-1915.
We will be reading and discussing
The
Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain. The
lesson plans are here. ICFES English Exam
Prep: Review Exam and Discuss Strategies.Cindy Clark for AP
Exam.
Please read Edith by
William Dean Howells for class Tuesday.
Weekly Workshop: Book or Movie Review due.
MARCH 26
- ICFES :(
(12) The Week of March 27 - 2
classes
March 27:NO CLASS - ICFES
March 28:Group B:
Realism 1865-1915.We will be looking at
Editha by Willilam Dean Howells.
Mid-Point discussion of
The Great Gatsby; read
to page 103 (Chapter VI).
April 2: Third Quarter Formal Essay due over ONE
OR MORE Shakespeare plays (email to me &
upload to MyDropBox). 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. We do not have class this day.
April 18:Introduction
and close reading of Medea.Set
up additional prep time for students taking the AP Exam (See
Speed Dating).
April 20:Close reading of Medea.Please have the play finished by Monday! Great Gatsby should be
finished for next Tuesday. Set
up additional prep time for students taking the AP Exam (See
Speed Dating).Please start
returning your books; reminder about missing presentation packages. Decide on unused late days...
(15) The Week of April 24- 4 classes
April 24: AP Test
Preparation
April 25:Final discussion & Seminar over
The Great Gatsby. We will be reading the criticisms
here in class. Please
also see the
discussion
questions and definition of
the American Dream we will be using in class.- you do
not need to print them.
April 27: AP Test
Preparation
April 28:Course Summary and Recommendations.
Creative writing assignment for Fourth Quarter due (email to me & upload to
MyDropBox) / Fourth Quarter Outside Novel Short Review (email to me)
and Reading Notes (email to me) due Monday Midnight. You
may not use late days for either of these assignments!
(16) The Week of May 1 - 0 Classes
May 1:
Creative writing assignment for Fourth Quarter due (email to me & upload to
MyDropBox) / Fourth Quarter Outside Novel Short Review (email to me)
and Reading Notes (email to me) due. You
may not use late days for either of these assignments! We do not
have class this day...
May 4: AP English Literature and
Composition Exam / AP English Class Exam
MAY 1-4 & MAY 8 -SENIOR FINALS
MAY 4 -
AP
ENGLISH LITERATURE
AND COMPOSITION EXAM
/ AP ENGLISH CLASS EXAM
MAY
10 - POTLUCK DINNER FOR AP CLASS
MAY 9-26 -
SPECIAL SCHEDULE & SENIOR PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS
MAY 31 -
SENIOR LUNCH
JUNE 3 -
GRADUATION
Semester Two - 40 Classes, 15 Weeks, 3 Missed Classes
all three - remember that the Group Notes should only be
handed in by only one member of the group).
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