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TENTATIVE LESSON
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Novels for Semester One
Class Novels
- 5 Classes
Quarter
One:
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Quarter
Two:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Heart Of Darkness And Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Turn Of The Screw And In The Cage - Henry James
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Four Great Plays - Ibsen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Candide - Voltaire
+ AP List
Novels for Semester Two
Class Novels
Quarter
Three:
Beloved - Toni Morrison
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Quarter
Four:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Outside
Novels for Reading Groups
The Shipping News - Marshall Paule
Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brian
Light in August - William Faulkner
Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine
Hansberry
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Things Fall Apart - Chinua
Achebe
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac
McCarthy
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon - Morrison, Toni
Ceremony - Silko
Cry the Beloved Country - Paton
Passage to India - Forster, E.M.
+ AP List
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Close Reading of Hamlet
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Victorian Period 1832-1901
Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Morte D'Arthur
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
How Do I Love Thee? (BL Text 383);
My Letters! all dead paper. . .(BL Text 383)
Charles Dickens -
The Schoolboy's Story; Tale of Two Cities - Novel
Samuel Pepys - Life in London of the 1660's - POD 52
Charlotte Bronte - Optional Novels
Emily Bronte - Selected Poems - BL Text 379-381; Wuthering Heights - Novel
George Eliot - The Lifted Veil - BL Text 409
Thomas Hardy -
Selections from Satires of Circumstance; Selections from Poetry - BL Text
450-453; Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Novel
Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Heart - OTAP 61
Guy de Maupassant - The Devil - OTAP 320
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Transcendentalism / New England
Renaissance 1840-1865
Henry David Thoreau
- from Walden - AL Text 254; Writers Notebook - POD 83
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Selections - AL Text 240-247
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil - AL Text 268; The Scarlet
Letter - Novel
Herman Melville - from Moby Dick - AL Text 280;
Whiteness - POD 449
Walt Whitman - Selections - AL Text 398-408; Selections AL Text 25Aestheticism and Decadence
1880-1901 - 1
Classes
Oscar
Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest - Play
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Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism, Determinism 1865-1915
Mark Twain - The Notorious
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - AL Text 445; Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court - Novel; Huckleberry Finn - Novel; Roughing It - Novel
Bret Harte - The Outcasts of Poker Flat - AL Text 452
Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Novel; The Story of an Hour - AL Text 474
Henrik Ibsen - Four Great Plays - Novel;
Hedda Gabler - OTAP 126
Edith Wharton - Ethan Fromme - Novel
Anton Chekhov - The Darling - OTAP 46
Leo Tolstoy - A Prisoner in the Caucasus - OTAP 178
Luigi Pirandello - The Tight Frock Coat - OTAP 372
Ambrose Bierce - An Occurance a Owl Creek Bridge - AL Text 464
Charles Darwin - Tierra del Fuego POD 71
Jack London - To Build a Fire - AL Text 490
Stephen Crane - The Open Boat - AL Text 504
Edgar Lee Masters - Poetry Selections - AL Text 546-548
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Poetry Selections - AL Text
538-542
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Modernism 1915-1946
Katherine Anne Porter - The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - AL Text 606 -
Regionalism - Early 20th Century
William Faulkner - The Bear - AL Text 646; As I Lay Dying - Novel -
Regionalism - Early 20th Century
Eudora Welty - A Worn Path - AL Text 622 - Regionalism - Early 20th Century
Sherwood Anderson -
Sophistication - AL Text 570
John Steinbeck - Flight . AL Text 630
Ernest Hemingway - In Another Country - AL Text 580; Farewell to Arms - Novel;
The Sun Also Rises - Novel
Gertrude Stein - Selections - SOW 82-85
Ezra Pound - Selections - SOW 160-165; In a Station of the Metro - AL Text 700
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock - SOW 169; Preludes - SOW 174
*See Also Conrad Aiken's Book Review An Anatomy of Melancholy
- POD 412
e.e. cummings - Selections - SOW 197-200; Selections - AL Text 760-763
William Carlos Williams - Selections . SOW 137-144
Robert Frost - Selections - AL Text 766-779
James Joyce - Eveline - BL Text 362;
Clay;
The Sisters
D.H. Lawrence - Tickets, Please - BL Text 640;
The Rocking-Horse Winner; Selections - SOW 150-153
Virginia Woolf - Three Pictures - BL Text 690;
Kew Gardens;
Mary Wollencraft - POD 198
Somerset Maugham -
The Lotus Eater; Of Human Bondage - Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams - AL Text 588; The Great Gatsby - Novel
Arthur Miller - The Crucible - Play (AL Text 1034)
Elie Wiesel - The Scrolls, Too, Are Mortal - POD 108
Farley Mowat - Battle Tactics - POD 156
Karel Capek - The Last Judgement - OTAP - 28
Carlo Cassola - The Poor - OTAP 252
Alberto Moravia - Anguish - OTAP 332
Eugene Ionesco - Foursome - OTAP 344; The Photgraph of the Colonel - OTAP 485
Par Lagerkvist - The Children's Campaign - OTAP 429
Kume Masao - The Tiger - OTAP 455
Thomas Mann - The Infant Prodigy - OTAP 463
Federico Garcia Lorca - Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias - OTAP 519
Jorge Luis Borges - The Circular Ruins - OTAP 539
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Post Modernism or Contemporary
1946 to Present
Albert Camus - The Stranger - Novel; The Guest - OTAP 350 - Existentialism
Early 20th Century
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall - OTAP 196 - Existentialism Early 20th Century
Dylan
Thomas - The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - BL Text 604
George Orwell - Why I Write - BL Text 692; 1984 - Novel;
Revenge is Sour - POD 380
John Updike - The Slump - AL Text 854
Kurt Vonnegut -
Harrison Bergeron
Sylvia Plath - Mirror - AL Text 1002
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman - Play
Tennessee Williams - Optional Plays
Ralph Ellison -
From Hidden Name and Complex Fate - AL Text 908;
Invisible Man - Novel
Toni Morrison -
Recitatif; Beloved - Novel
Maya Angelou -
Selections from the Academy of American Poets;
My Name is Margaret - POD 97
Jack Kerouac -
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity; On the Road - Novel
John Barth -
Virtuality
Allen Ginsberg - Selections - SOW 226-234
Theodore Roethke - Selections - AL Text 954-956
James Wright - Lying in a Hammock... - AL Text 1014
Marshall Paule - The Shipping News - Novel
John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy Of Dunces - Novel
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - Novel
J.D. Salinger -
A Perfect Day for Bananafish; Franny and Zooey - Novel
Tim O'Brien -
The Things They Carried (Short Story & First Chapter of Novel); The Things
They Carried - Novel
*See Also Nicholas Tomalin The General Goes Zapping Charlie
Cong - POD 166
James Baldwin - The Rockpile - AL Text 844; My Dungeon Shook:
Letter to my Nephew - POD 42
*See Also Lerone Bennett, Jr. The Birth of Jim Crowe - POD
227
Annie Dillard - Seeing - POD 396
Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist - OTAP 337
Ilse Aichinger - The Bound Man - OTAP 362
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Add more comprehensive writing, grammar and
punctuation program at beginning of the year - see
Aaron's handout (One,
Two,
Three) & Talk
to Aaron and Mike (Dialectic Entries).
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Add testing to the class?
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Penalize late presentation plans and
packages with late days - one week before for plans & one week after for
packages.
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Use "Tragedy
and the Common Man" from Miller
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Move Gatsby to the beginning of the year and
As I Lay Dying to the end.
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Make more discussion time for books
(especially difficult books), perhaps two mid-point discussions, a seminar and
then a critical analysis.
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Continue with the Boot Camp at the beginning
of the year but reinforce it throughout the year (see below).
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Keep all things Shakespeare.
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Start the class with the modern/contemporary
period and then work up from the past. Maybe extended selections from
the modern/contemporary period could be used in the Boot Camp.
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Even out the work in the two semesters;
semester two is not strong enough as final prep for the AP Exam, especially in
terms of mock AP essays.
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AP essays should be both typed and hand
written.
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Most presentations could be better.
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Testing could occur at quarter and semester
to force content review. Tests should be open book and could be oral.
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The late days should be kept.
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Consider a reading journal to force more
practice analysis of daily reading, provide evaluation of reading done and to
reinforce the Boot Camp and AP terminology.
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Presentations and class should use texts
with more complexity, like they use on the AP test. These could be part
of weekly workshop rotations with allusions, figurative language and
book/movie review assignments.
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Literary terminology needs to be more
thoroughly reinforced throughout the year.
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We need more practice with the two "other"
essay questions on the AP (could be used as a rotation for the workshops?)
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Use and implementation of technology was
good. Having to print readings wasn't too difficult, but I still need to
evaluate the number of copies made for the class.
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Try to integrate more creative writing
(workshop rotation?). Creative writing exercises could be used to
reinforce terminology.
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Most people feel more comfortable with the
formal essay now than at the beginning of the year.
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