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 _________________________.

Day 25

Objective:  The students will read their next short story.

1.  Miss Brill reading.  You will close read it.  Mark it up like a Lit Teacher/Nerd.  Look for TTSTCANDI elements.

2.  Bring your Grendel book tomorrow.  We start it tomorrow. 

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.