Day 24

Objective:  The students will go over what is expected to pass a Q2 Essay.

1.  Get out "How I Met My Husband" TTSTCANDI for stamp.

2.  Let's discuss what you found and what you could write about if made to write an essay.

3.  Pull out your computer and open up your 1/2 essay from last week.  If you submitted it, unsubmit now so that you can work on it.  After we discuss what should be there, go through and color code it.

4.  Discuss how a Q2 Essay is graded and scored:

      1 point for thesis

      1 or 2 points for textual evidence

      1 or 2 points for analysis of your textual evidence

      1 last point for sophisticated writing (that's a hard one to get)

Here is a formula that you can use that will help you score well in the body paragraphs:

Topic Sentence

Fact from story

Integrated Quote from the story

Analysis of the fact and quote

Analysis of the fact and quote 

Fact from story

Integrated Quote from the story

Analysis of the fact and quote

Analysis of the fact and quote 

 

What score would this essay get using an AP Literature Q2 Rubric? 

Day 23

Objective:  The students will complete a MC Practice.

Period 2:  Please be great.  Don't get loud.  Work. 

1.  MC Practice:  "Janie" 15 minutes alone.

2.  10 minutes in group.

3.  Put answers on board and correct.  Winning team gets extra credit tomorrow.

4.  Finish TTSTCANDI Chart for "How I Met My Husband" for stamp tomorrow.

Day 22

Objective:  The students will analyze the short story in pairs or groups.

1.  How I Met My Husband Quiz

2.  Discuss a bit of the story

3.  Complete the TTSTCANDI with a partner/group 

Day 21

Objective:  The students will read their next short story.

Today we have some "house cleaning to do." 

1.  Allusion/Common Symbols Notes:  Colors

2. Make sure that you have submitted your "Destructors" half essay in GC.  

3.  If you have not signed up for my class in College Board, you must do it by Friday.  It is worth 10 points and the list of students who have not done it is very long!

4.  Personal Statements:  I will call you up one at a time to discuss them.  You have a week to make them better if needed.  Staple the old one to the new one.  I don't want to read the whole thing again.

5.  Read our next story:  "How I Met My Husband." 

Symbols in Lit:  Colors

·    White:  Purity and innocence; live, love.  Sometimes death (snow is white)

·    Orange:  Midday; high noon of existence, harvest, pride, ambition.

·    Black:  No color, sorrow, evil, darkness, depression.  Nothingness, void, corruption.

·    Gray:  Mediocrity, sickness.

·    Red:  Sexual passion, anger,

·    Green:  youth and vigor, growth and fertility. Hope, change, life, and inexperience.

·    Yellow:  Sickness, weakness

·    Purple:  royalty, riches, quickening of life.

·    Blue:  Truth, intellect, dawn and awakening.  Life.

 

 

Day 19

Objective:  The students will analyze TTSTCANDI elements in the short story.

Note:  Tomorrow I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled.  I hate being out of school and having to miss, so please be great for the sub. 

1.  Destructors Quiz

2.  TTSTCANDI Analysis in groups or pairs. 

Day 18

Objective:  The students will read their first story in Perrine's.

1.  Allusion Notes:  JC and his Apostles and Noah

2.  The Destructors Brief Intro Slide Show:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l3VRYlAAm2Ne4sw60H2J9imPNVSuC3v4/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

Note:  My slide show presentations will not open on the school wifi because I created them with my personal account.  But they will work if you are at home or off our wifi.  Stupid huh! 

3.  Read "The Destructors" in Perrine's by tomorrow.  Just read it and think about all that we have covered as far as how to read like a lit teacher/AP student. Page 115-129.

 

Allusion Info

Jesus Christ and his Twelve Disciples

·     New Testament

·     God in human form

·     Son of God

·     Humble, kind, soft-spoken

·     Everyone Sins

·     Comes into conflict with the Jewish elders who question his authority

·     Jesus paid the price for all people’s sins by dying on the cross (crucifixion) for all people.

·     Rose three days later

·     Was a carpenter

·     Twelve Apostles (believers, followers, supporters)

·     Peter, James, John, Andrew, Bartholomew/Nathanael, James, Judas, Jude/Thaddeus, Mathew/Levi, Philip, Simon, Thomas

 

Allusion Notes

Biblical Allusion:  Noah and the Flood

·     From Genesis (first book in the Bible)

·     God saw that sin and wickedness had taken over the world

·     Decided to wipe away humankind

·     But there was one good man:  Noah

·     When told by God, Noah built an ark. 

·     Noah tried to warm others to repent.

·     Took two of all living creatures

·     Rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

·     Noah and family spent one year on the ark.

·     God promises no more floods to destroy earth.

As a sign of this promise:  Rainbo