Day 53

Objective:  The students will complete a 1/2 essay.

1.  All essays have been graded.  Get them out.

2.  Write 1/2 essay on Cat in the Rain 

AP Essay Problems that Can Be Fixed Next Time

1.  FOCUS!!!  Your paragraphs need clear Topic Sentences to guide your thoughts.

2.  No Universal Truth (Theme) stated.  Put it in the intro.  BUT PROSE essays do not need one if the prompt doesn’t as about “author’s purpose.”

3.  State the devices that you’re going to write about in your intro.

4.  Intro too long.  2-3 sentences.  Mention title, author and UT.

5.  Writing:  “the reader” or “the audience.”  You are NOT part of the essay.

6.  If you say that you are going to write about imagery, tell what kind!

7.  No need for citations and page numbers (Mansfield 89)

8.  Just saying “Mansfield uses diction and syntax…” That just means he uses words and sentences.  Well duh!!!!  Mansfield uses adjective diction and adjective syntax.

9.   Quotes way too long.  Integrate 3-7 word quotes into the flow of your writing.  Example:  She “liked his dignity” and “the way he wanted to serve her.”

10.                   Writing about tone without giving specific words that create it.

11.                   Using first person.  Do not put yourself in the paper.  Try not to even say, “The reader…”

12.                   Slapping the reader (me) in the face with a quote that is not introduced or provided with context.

13.                   Do not mention things that are not part of the piece (The Brill Fish)

14.                   Saying:  This quote shows….

15.                   _____________ diction.

16.                   In conclusion,

17.                   NOT KNOWING WHAT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS….  Many people wrote a paragraph on symbols, then started the next paragraph with, “Hemingway uses figurative language.”

18.                   You have to speed up.  That will take practice.

19.                   Mentioning “rhetorical devices.”  This is LAST YEAR!

20.                   Analysis without and textual evidence (quotes).

21.                   Only one body paragraph

22.                   WRONG FACTS

23.                   Too many devices in one paragraph.  Lacks focus.  Let Topic Sentences guide your writing.

24.                   Too much summary. 

25.                   Maybe use a formula:

a.   Thesis

b.  Claim 1:  Topic Sentence

1.  Fact from poem

2.  Text evidence

3.  Comm

4.  Comm

5.  Fact

6.  Text evidence

7.  Comm

8.  Comm

Day 52

 Objective: Students will analyze "A Cat in the Rain"

1. Take out " A Cat in the Rain" close read for stamping.

2. Complete MC Practice independently and then collaboratively.

3. Complete "A Cat in the Rain" TTSTCANDI.

Day 51

 Objective: Students will begin analyzing "A Cat in the Rain" using TTSTCANDI.

1. Take out "Hills Like White Elephants" TTSTCANDI to get stamped.

2. Read "A Cat in the Rain"

3.  Begin TTSTCANDI.

Day 50

Objective:  The students will complete story analysis.

1.  Get story close reading stamped.  Hope you were nerdy!

2.  Get into small groups and complete TTSTCANDI. 

Day 49

Objective:  The students will know important details about Hemingway to analyze his work.

1.  Discuss "Eveline" and stamp TTSTCANDI.

2.  Write and intro paragraph for the following prompt:

In the short story, “Eveline,” written by James Joyce in 1904, the main character, Eveline, is faced with a critical decision.  Read the story carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Joyce uses literary elements and techniques to convey the complex feelings she has on the night of Frank’s departure and the work as a whole.

3.  Hemingway Intro Notes:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GhGkKHgKN0ELOuSwpSYBiXNSjCU3hoyw/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

4.  Close Read "Hills Like White Elephants."  Do the title section first of the TTSTCANDI. 

 

Day 48

Objective:  The students will analyze "Eveline."

1.  What should your close reading look like?  It should look like a lit nerd analyzed it deeply.  See mine.

This is a story on contrasts (two things that are strikingly different.  Opposites.  

It is a story that uses Juxtaposition:   

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effects.  

2.  Complete TTSTCANDI analysis with partners.

Have a great, safe weekend. 

Day 47

 Objective: Students will complete an MC Practice Test and begin close reading.

 1. Take out 4 complete assignments for stamping (Ch.4, Ch.5, Tone Terms, Lit Terms)

 2. Complete MC Practice Test individually

3. Begin close reading "Eveline" 

Day 46

 Objective: Students will be able to identify and define literary terms and complete notes on POV.

1. Take out a pen, highlighter and theme notes and tone terms from yesterday to be stamped.

2. Add to theme notes.

3. Complete Chapter 5 POV notes and define Literary Terms.

Day 45

Objective: Students will be able to define theme and tone terms.

1. Take out two sheets of paper 

2. Complete chapter outline on Perrine's Chapter 4 on theme.

3. Complete Tone Term definitions. 

*Print your essay from yesterday and turn it in to the basket by the end of the period!

Day 44

Objective:  The students will write a great Q3 Essay.

1.  Get the prompt.

2.  Open up GC and write the essay.

3.  Print and staple prompt to it. 

Day 43

 Objective: Students will write an outline for their AP essays.

1. Take out complete Q3 Study Guide.

2. Today you will work in groups of 3. 

Day 42

Objective:  The students will complete a Q3 Study Form for Grendel. Or Grendel.

1.  I am doing Quarter Grades today.  If you have work to make up, it's due today.  I will not grade anything after today.

2.  Grendel  Q3 Study Form:  It's now time for your talk again about the internet and AI.  I am getting disappointed/mad/ragingly furious at some of you.  YOUR BRAIN and YOUR THINKING is all that I want to see on papers from here on out.  Just because you have a high grade in the class does not mean that you are learning anything.  And it will show on the essay, and the AP Test.  This is due tomorrow.  So get busy.

Day 41

 Objective: Students will prove their knowledge of Grendel

1. Turn in Grendel Packet

2. Put everything away except scantron and pen

3. Complete Grendel Test and turn it in when you're done

Day 40

Objective:  The students will know how Grendel is a novel of social commentary.

1.  Social Commentary Notes:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_efeAeXKgmvCoBj-ZP-BuFEhSINAnXQN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Complete Packet:  Add today's notes to it instead of Adam and Eve Notes.  Turn in if done.  Turn in tomorrow to Miss Rush if not ready yet. 

3.  Close Reading Check:  Today!

 

Day 39

Objective:  The students will finish Grendel.

1.  Discuss Chapter 11:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UtjefRciiWmdy8Iu8aywZQtZ5TOg2LYc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Read Chapter 12.

3.  Tomorrow you will complete all packet work, put it in order and have it ready to turn in on Wednesday.   

Day 38

Objective:  The students will complete work from Chapter 10.

From the Asst. Principal:   MLK uses the default setting for AP Tests (meaning you are all scheduled to take it!!!!).  You must inform me of any student who will not be taking the test so that I can change them to "No."  So if you are not taking the test, write your name on the paper on the whiteboard.

1.  Complete Chapter 10 work.

2.  Chapter 10 PP:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MlWjvu7b5O5VgGEGa4nIn0gjLbPD41Wf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Chapter 11 Reading and worksheets. 

Day 37

Objective:  The students will discuss Chapter 9.

1.  Get handout for Chapter 10.

2.  Discuss Chapter 9 Power Point:  You will supply some good quotes for Themes discussion.  Have some ready to share.

3.  Read Chapter 10.  Grendel's almost done.  The book... and the monster. 

Day 36

Objective:  The students will discuss Grendel Chapter 8.

1.  Discuss Chapter 8.  Don't make me mad!!  

2.  Complete Chapter 8 Questions and Themes Chart

3.  Read Chapter 9 

Day 35

Objective:  The students will discuss Grendel Chapter 7 and read 8.

1.  Discuss Chapter 7:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1opMT4bxU_BSj8GVe8mcxO_A3JqlBp8je/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Complete Questions and Themes Charts

3.  Read Chapter 8.

4.  Make up work from yesterday:  Test or Reading Check. 

Day 34

Objective: The students will show that they are reading Grendel.

1.  Grendel Test 1-6

2.  Grendel Close Reading Check #1 for 25 points.

3.  Discuss Grendel Chapter 6:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1koXRLc7BuAhCKUNPPi-V169z9uIvJKFW/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

4.  Grendel 7 Reading and analysis. 

Day 33

Objective:  The students will complete all work for the first half of the novel.

1.  Read Chapter 6.

2.  You should have six Chapter Questions done and six Theme Analysis done.

 Day 32

Objective: Students will engage in a structured, evidence-based discussion connecting nihilism in the novel and the article.

You need: Red Pen, Quick Write, 3-2-1, Article, Grendel, Question Stems

No reading tonight - catch up if you're behind!

Day 31

Objective: Students will close read chapter 5 and the article and write level 2 and 3 questions to prepare for Socratic Seminar

Materials: Pen, Nihilism Note from yesterday, Highlighter, Post It, Theme Chart, Question Stems, Article, Grendel, Anticipation Guide

Objective:  The students will read the most important chapter in the book.

1.  Discuss Chapter 3:  Sophists:  Great speakers.  Skilled at moving people with words.  And they don't care about truth, right or wrong, good or bad.  Just winning.

2.  Discuss Chapter 4:  Theology:  The belief in god and religion as a binding force for men and society.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19ZMzgW8VGQ54eEHPmU6W4JIK4ZMjzeFv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true 

3.  Make sure that you have completed four chapter questions AND four theme analysis.

4.  Read Chapter 5:  The Dragon and Nihilism.   

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