Day 65

Objective:  The student will know the background info of Frankenstein. 

1.  Frankenstein Intro Notes:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zPkBJNT0wKVlxC7qHcnENmtc1_ZsU9Fj/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Reading Schedule Discussion and figure out what version you have.

3.  Project Discussion and Sign Up:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pBFpo8xCmN0TeEzqxXMkNb-wqFh7pMH8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

4.  Read the Letters Section (Quiz Thursday) 

Day 64

Objective:  The students will write their first real complete essay.

Note:  If you missed Friday's Essay Reading Activity, sign up for Tuesday Office Hours. 

1.   Today you will use all that you have learned about analyzing prose and writing an AP essay.

2.   You have all period.  No Internet Tabs open other than the doc.

3.  There are many of you who have not completed MC Practice Number 3.  I am locking it at 6 am tomorrow and you will not be able to do it after that.

Tomorrow we start Frankenstein. 

Day 63

Objective:  The students will peer grade two student essays.

1.  Get the sample paper packet.  Read the samples and grade.

Score the paper as follows: 

1:  Thesis

1 or 2:  Textual Evidence

1 or 2:  Analysis of Textual Evidence

1:  Sophisticated Writing 

2.  Read TWO peer papers:  On the back, score them as shown above.  Then leave TWO positive comments and ONE "grow" comment.

 

Day 62

Objective:  The students will complete a digital MC Practice.

1.  Get out your computer and open up the doc in GC.  Get your handwritten 1/2 essay from yesterday and type it word for word.  Then go to library and print it out for me.  I just can't read many of your handwriting.

2.  Go to our AP Classroom and complete the MC Practice 3:  "Tale of Two Cities" 

Day 61

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

1.  We will not turn in the Prose 2 Packet today.  Take out the story "The Grave" and one sheet of lined paper.

2.  Put everything else away.  No phone on your desk, no computer.

3.  Break down the prompt.  Use the story.  Write a great 1/2 essay.  If I can't read it (due to sloppy writing), you will rewrite it tomorrow word for word during office hours.

Day 60

Objective:  The students will read and analyze the last story of the packet.

Note:  I apologize if you got the unedited/uncensured version of yesterday's story.  I am trying to get rid of all old papers in my files and I didn't know that there were some of those left.  I want to retire, but not get fired.  My bad! 

Who has bought FRANKENSTEIN?  We need it by Monday.  This is the version that I have but there are cheaper ones.  If you can't buy your own, see me in private and I will see if I can buy you one for Christmas. 

 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781514651773&crid=1A5KGAFU3D5T9&sprefix=9781514651773%2Caps%2C199&ref=nb_sb_noss

1.  Let me see your Close Reading of story.  Are you like a lit professor yet?

2.  Complete the TTSTCANDI with a friend or group.  Audrey, throw out your gum right now! Be prepard to write on the story tomorrow.

Day 59

Objective:  The students will read and analyze the last story of the packet.

BUY FRANKENSTEIN!!  

 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781514651773&crid=1A5KGAFU3D5T9&sprefix=9781514651773%2Caps%2C199&ref=nb_sb_noss

1.  Close Read (annotate) like a lit professor.

2.  Make sure that you have completed all work for Prose Packet 2.  It is due on Wednesday. 

Cover Sheet:  No MC Terms, No Allusions.  Add MC Practice:  Lighthouse, The River and Wind Gothic 

Day 58

Objective:  The students will complete all vocab terms for the prose packet. 

Note:  I love rainy, wear a hoodie, stay at home with the family and dogs weekends.  Enjoy your Halloween activities, but be safe and responsible!

1.  We have one more story to wrap up Perrine's Prose Packet 2.  We will read and analyze that on Monday.  I have it if you want it today.

2.  Complete the lit terms and tone terms for stamp today. 

 

Day 57

Objective:  The students will share what they found in the short story.

1.  Get "Three Day Blow" out for a stamp.

2.  Discuss what you found.

3.  MC Practice for points.  "To the Lighthouse." 

Day 56

Objective:  The students will complete the analysis of the last Hemingway story. 

1.  Complete the Close Reading and TTSTCANDI of "Three Day Blow."

2.  Due tomorrow for stamp.

 

Day 55

Objective:  The students will present their analysis of the Hemingway story.

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1.  Present your slideshow.

2.  "Three Day Blow" reading and TTSTCANDI (this is a two-day assignment). 

 

Day 54

Objective:  The students will create an amazing slideshow to present the story.

1.  Get out your close read story.

2.  Get assigned a group.  Create your slides.  The period who makes the best slide show 10 points extra credit.  Period who makes the second best gets 5 points extra credit.  Period that makes the worst, you get nothing.

1:  Slides 1-2

2:  Slides 3-4

3:  Slides 5-6

4:  Slides 7-8 

5:  Slides 9-10

6:  Slides 11-12 

Day 53

Objective:  The students will read a Nick Adams story.

1.  Close Read "The End of Something."  On Monday I will assign you to a group to present one aspect of TTSTCANDI.

Period 5:  What kind of bread do you want on Monday or Tuesday?  I will make four loaves just for your class. 

Day 52

Objective:  The students will discuss the Hemingway story.

1.   Get out "Cat in the Rain" and the TTSTCANDI.  Write an intro for the prompt on top of the story.

2.  Get both stamped as you write.

3.  Discuss the TTSTCANDI.

4.  "The River" MC Practice.

Next Novel for class.  Frankenstein.  Buy it.  Borrow it (but you will write in it).  

Day 51

Objective:  The students will complete the TTSTCANDI Analysis for "Cat in the Rain." 

BE GREAT FOR SUB!  Work hard.  The assistant superintendent is here today and if he comes in, he wants to see students working, even if I am not here.      

1.  Make sure that the story is close read like I want it.  Nerds.

2.  Complete the TTSTCANDI Chart with a friend or group of friends.  I will stamp both tomorrow. 

Day 50

Objective:  The students will read and analyze another great story.

1.  Get out "Hills Like White Elephants."  Look at the prompt.  Write an intro.

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927), an American man and a woman named Jig converse at a train station in the Ebro River valley while waiting for the  train. Throughout their exchange, the couple navigates a delicate, high-stakes decision.

Read the text of the story carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Hemingway uses literary elements and techniques such as setting, tone and narrative structure to convey the underlying tension in the couple's relationship and their conflicting attitudes toward their shared future.

2.  Discuss story and what you would write about.

3.  Close read (very lit nerd-like) "Cat in the Rain." 

Day 49

Objective:  The students will read an amazing story by Ernest Hemingway.

1.  Point of View PP:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XlKcC0CtI3kMo5uiUAKKPv3h8gmQfSo2/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Hemingway Into Notes PP:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v8J9eZfDp_gqOL8SUYViizmI8TXr6yG6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Read "Hills Like White Elephants."  Please don't use any internet to analyze the story.  My goal is to award every one of you with an A this year (it's my last year, what better way to go out!) and what are they gonna do, fire me?  So please, just use your brain and see what you can come up with on your own.  Be a lit nerd who has fun figuring things out.

Day 48

Objective:  The students will complete a TTSTCANDI Slide Show.

1.  Get out your close read "Eveline" story.

2.  Get assigned to a group.

3.  As a group, complete your slide.

4.  Present to class 

Day 47

Objective:  The students will complete a group MC Practice.

1.   MC Practice:  "Wind"

2.  "Eveline" close reading.  I expect "lit nerd" annotations showing deep analysis.  Due tomorrow. 

Day 46

Objective:  The students will outline the next chapter in preparation for our first story of the unit. 

1.  Perrine's Theme Chapter Discussion:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Yg6VeNYCViUv0wiUzcpf2C2acigECXut/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Outline Perrine's Chapter 5:  Point of View:  238-245.  Show me for stamp.

3.  On separate new paper, complete Lit Terms. 

4.  In groups of five, go to library and print your Grendel Q3 Study Form for points. 

Day 45

Objective:  The students will begin Perrine's Prose Packet 2.

1.  Open yesterday's essay. Make it double spaced so that I can write on it when I grade it.

2.  Go down to library and print it.  Make sure that your name and period are on it.

3.  Turn it in.

4.  Perrine's Outline:   Chapter 4: Theme pages 203-210

This is due today.  Bring up to front desk for stamp when complete. 

Day 41

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

1.  Complete your Grendel Packet.  It should include in order.

     12 Chapter Handouts:  Philosophy and Zodiac Signs Close Read.

     12 Chapter UT Charts

     1 MC Practice:  "Louisa"

     4 Allusions:  Cave, Adam/Eve, Cain/Abel, and Temptation 

     1 Song Lyrics  "One Time One Night"

2.   Close Reading Check:  25 points

3.  Q3 Study Form in Google Classroom.   

Day 40

Objective:  The students will finish Grendel.

1.  Adam and Eve Allusion Notes

2.  Read the last chapter of Grendel and complete handouts.  Tomorrow is the 2nd close reading check for 50 points.  I will grade harder than last time.  You have to look up the philosophy.

Link found this music to listen to as you read the fight scene.  The specific part begins at 2:38 and ends at 4:56.

Here's the link:

https://youtu.be/soerymwMNpg?si=5aLq5kV2zKunssjh 

3.  Tomorrow you will finish all parts of packet to turn in by end of the period. 

Day 39

Objective:  The students will finish Grendel by Wednesday.

1.  Grendel 10 PP: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u75uFmn4-WwCDzYwAPAfN1U9zE6WE0Bl/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Grendel 11 Reading and Handouts

3.  Take Grendel 12 Handouts too in case you're absent.

4.  Book must be finished by Wednesday. I will do the second close reading check.

5.  Grendel Packet due Wednesday in order of cover sheet. 

Day 38

Objective:  The students will read Grendel Chapter 10.

1.  Grendel Chapter 9 PP:  I am not going to lie... this chapter confuses me.  Feel free to Google it.  I never have, so it still confuses the heck out of me.  I will retire not knowing what the heck it means.   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11oLeBshs87Zz12A0nCFN9erj2IaN66mc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Grendel 10 and handouts 

3.  AP Classroom Registration 25 points to grade going in today if you have registered.

Log in:  Take the the MC Practice that you have been assigned. 

https://myap.collegeboard.org/courses

AP English Literature and Composition

A consolidated list of all of the Sections that you are assigned to.

Section	Join Code	Max Students	Enrolled	Taking Exam	Actions
AP Lit Period 1	2MQNQQ	40	0	0
AP Lit Period 2	L7YQPG	40	0	0
AP Lit Period 5	7EXV42

Day 37

Objective:  The students will analyze chapter 9 of novel.

1.  Here is the PP for Chapter 7:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wCwDbklDyu7YP4dk-I59a-YsI8C7N-fv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true 

2.  Chapter 8 Quiz:  Write an AP qualilty paragraph on the following prompt:

3.  Discuss Chapter 8 PP:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AW0og__OEA3AfSCplGd6TTFUI7NOn6zx/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

4.  Read Chapter 9 and handouts.

 

 

 

 

In a paragraph, discuss the two new characters presented in this chapter and the tree metaphor.  Connect the tree metaphor to the UT on morality and questioning society.  You can use your book. 

Day 36

Objective:  The students will analyze a poem/song and write an AP Intro Paragraph for an AP Question 2 Prompt.  Learning Target:  Describe how authors use literary devices to prove their UT.  Writing Standard 3.7 and 1.23.   

1.  Read and break down prompt.  Does this prompt require a UT?

2.  Read and Listen to the poem/song.  

3.  Write an AP Intro Paragraph:  Note:  It was written in 1987.

4.  Discuss new lit term to know.

5.  How was that lit term presented in Grendel Chapter 7?

6.  Grendel Chapter 8 Reading and Analysis. 

 

 

 Juxtaposition is the act of placing two or more things, ideas, or characters close together or side by side to compare them, contrast them, or create an interesting effect.

Day 35

Objective:  The students will show that they have read Chapters 1-6 of Grendel.

1.  Grendel 1-6 Test

2.  Grendel 6 Power Point:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mnjg8QCIxLHhhcMyzRfjgurKCDZJ4UlU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Grendel 1-6 Close Reading Check (25 points)

4.   Grendel Chapter 7 Reading Analysis

Day 34

Objective:  The students will discuss Grendel 5.

1.  Grendel 5 Quiz

2.  Allusion Notes:  The Temptation of Christ 

2.  Discuss Grendel 5 and complete the questions and UT Chart:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NCqpLWRxWD8riR9-4M14xLpa5deo94eK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.   Read Grendel 6

 

Day 33

Objective:  The students will read what I think is the most important chapter of the book.

1.  Allusion Notes:  Cain and Abel.  Add this to bottom of cover sheet.

2.  Grendel Chapter 5 Reading and handouts.

Day 32

Objective:  The students will discuss Grendel's character development.

1.  Discuss Chapters 3 and 4

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EVspEry5w8vL3Z98npOCgWoYyn83g-Pu/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dBSTp93xyf3-spMootRHP8zEJjjMB2ML/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101482473147710513077&rtpof=true&sd=true

2.  Complete Chapter 4 handout and UT Chart.

3.  MC Practice:  "The Breakup." 

Day 31

Objective:  The students will analyze chapter 3 of Grendel.  That's our target.

Note:  Today I am upstairs learning how to teach.  Be great for the sub.  If you need anything, send an email.  I can come downstairs and take care of it. 

1.  Grendel Chapter 3 Analysis:  Chapter 3 handout and UT Chart.

2.  Get Chapter 4 handout.  Close read the zodiac and philosophy allusion before you read Chapter 4.

3.  Read Chapter 4. 

 

Day 30

Objective:  The students will complete analysis of Grendel Chapter 2.  That's our target.

Note:  Tomorrow I have to be out all day being trained on how to use AI in the classroom, which I will never use.  Be great for the sub.  I have no idea who it will be, but I know that you all will be great!

1.  Complete Chapter 2 questions and theme chart.

2.  Discuss my slides:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17mUMUssaFGR6WUlqdPLTZn__1nhXoXJv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Read Chapter 3.  Make sure that you close read the philosophy and zodiac sign info first. 

4.  Finish the 1/2 essay partner conferences. 

Day 29

Objective:  The students will discuss Grendel Chapter 1.

1.  Put together Perrine's Prose Unit 1.  Put cover sheet on top and all papers in order of the cover sheet list.

2.  Discuss Grendel Chapter 1 Slides:  

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h25wg6WMY1_91-sUjvObXpYYuxjcT0eA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true 

3.  Allusion Notes:  "Allegory of the Cave":  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rW1plIRmTkSw1l3jMe50qB0ILK9Ok3I5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

4.  Video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM

5.  Pair Essay Conference with me.

6.  Read Grendel Chapter 2. 

Day 28

Objective:  The students will complete the handouts for Grendel Chapter 1.

Happy Friday to you all... not me though.

1.  Counselor Senior Discussion

2.  Grendel Chapter 1 Quiz

3.  Complete the Grendel Worksheets.  

No homework this weekend.  Have fun. 

Day 27

Objective:  The students will begin our first novel.

1.  Make sure that you have finished your 1/2 essay for "Miss Brill."  I will start grading them today.

2.   Grendel Intro Notes:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ke1TnXtRkXIcWRpKUiigh21F1jqV8wPH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Read Chapter 1:  I am sure that you can find some audio on youtube if you prefer listening while reading.  You have to close read it for 50 points.

4.  Tomorrow will be a quiz and work with it. 

Day 26

Objective:  The students will write an intro and body paragraph with a partner.

PUT YOUR GRENDEL BOOK ON YOUR DESK! 

1.  Go over Miss Brill reading and my PP slides.

2.  Discuss how to properly use quotes in your AP Essays.  Take Notes.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l6UTIiqKgBYLdZFUfYrlwF5Jc9vOqRJF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

3.  Open up the doc that I put in your GC.   

4.  With a partner, share your doc.  Then the two of you write a great AP Intro paragraph and one body paragraph for the following prompt.

Read below the following passage from Katherine Mansfield’s story “Miss Brill.”  Then write a careful analysis of how the narrator reveals the complex character of Miss Brill.  You may emphasize whichever devices (tone, imagery, point of view) that you find most significant.

Your thesis statement should be something like this:

Mansfield uses ________________ and ______________ to present Miss Brill as a very complex character who is ________________ and ______________, living a life that is _________________________.