Day 65

Objective:  The students will get a score of 4 or better on the district writing test.

1.  District Writing Test.  You have 50 minutes.

Hints:  Remember, AP Literature likes to present contrasts as something that is to be analyzed.  Remember too that the prompt will TELL you specific words (ideas, concepts) that you need to focus on and mention IN YOUR ESSAY.  And remember, everything comes back to the author's purpose which should be mentioned and referred to a few times. 

Hint 2:  I am not dumb.  Believe me... I am not dumb.  Don't chance doing something stupid that you will regret!  One grade will have little effect on the semester grade.  One dumb mistake means I will seek to fail you or have you dropped from class.  To make this clear... I know there are essays on the internet... don't use them!!!

Day 64

Objective:  The student will discuss Chapter 11 and then outline chapter 12.

1.  Discuss Chapter 11:  Musical Devices

2.  Outline Chapter 12:  Rhythm and Meter, pages 915-930 Due tomorrow

Day 63

Objective:  The students will analyze a poem in an AP Test Type of situation and then outline a Perrine's chapter.

1.  Writing Prompt:  Prompt: Read carefully the following poem by Lorraine Dafney, paying close attention to the relationship between form and meaning. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the literary techniques used in this poem contribute to the author's purpose.

2.  Perfectly Poised.  Use Perfectly Poised to outline what you would discuss if you had to write the essay above.

3.  Outline Chapter 11 on Musical Devices in Poetry.

Day 62

Objective:  The students will analyze a poem by Sylvia Plath.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Mad Girl's Love Song in GC TTSTCANDI (due Monday)

This is well done:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twIfwSvL9Uo

3.  Albert.io assignment:  Poetry Practice Early Spring (Due tomorrow)

Day 61

Objective:  The students will have a great discussion about the analyzed poem, and if they do, there will be no essay tomorrow.

Roll in GC

1.  All Frankenstein essays are graded.  These were good.  I think most of you have a grasp on what is needed to pass the AP essay.  You are getting the typical errors out of the way, but...

Book need italics or underlines... not quotations.

Quotation Punctuation... "The punctuation goes inside of the last quotation mark."

Make sure you say the CORRECT AUTHOR!

Long Quotes still do not help your paper.

If you use Example Quotes:  You need a colon before.

The monster feels that he is in total control: "You made me, but I am your master." 

2.  Let's analyze Sweetness together

Day 59

Objective:  The students will practice MC Poetry and then analyze a cool, but sad poem.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  MC Practice:  To Autumn in GC 

3.  Analyze "The Weight of Sweetness" in GC.  Complete assignment.

Day 58

Objective:  The students will discuss their analysis of She Trod...

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Discuss analysis of the poem.  What would you write about if this was the subject of an essay?

Day 56

Objective:  The students will analyze a great poem by William Wordsworth.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Discuss the Frankenstein Prompt and Essay:  What did you all write about?  And what would I have written about?

3.  Perrine's Chapter 7 Outline PP.  You don't have to outline it.  Just takes notes from the discussion.

4.  "She Dwelt Upon the Untrodden Ways" TTSTCANDI due Wednesday.

Day 55

Objective:  The students will write a passing grade essay.

1.  Frankenstein Q3 Essay

Hints:  

1.  Do not say "the reader" anywhere.  You are not part of the essay.  Instead of saying something like "this shows the reader that..."  Just say, "this shows"  or something to that effect.

2.  Have a good but short intro.  Must include the thesis.  And use key words from the prompt.

3.  Use a few quotes, but not too many on the Q3 essay.

4.  Develop your points with specific details to support your thesis.

5.  Make sure you mention the book and the author's name.

I picked a great prompt.  It should be easy if you read.

Day 55

 Objective:  The students will complete the Frankenstein test on Albert.io.

1.  I WAS SO PISSED after our lack of discussion of Frankenstein last class.  

I want to treat you all like college kids.  In college, it is the class discussions that make it all so RICH and educational.  

NOT Multiple Choice Tests.  So I hoped that we wouldn't have to use Multiple Choice Tests (other than the Practice MC for the real test).

But since only about 1/3 of you read the book... there has to be some consequence.

This is worth 100 points.  You have 45 minutes from when you start.  It is due today by 2 pm.

Day 54

Objective:  The students will have a final discussion of Frankenstein in preparation for their next essay.

1.  Roll out loud.

2.  Frankenstein Final Observations PP

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rpgG2qJuE6MWanD7AEcWluDDGWTGyfFz/view?usp=sharing

 3.  Complete Frankenstein Q3 Study Form in GC due next class.

Day 53

 Objective:  The students will complete their Final by discussing the two Perrine's Chapters.

1.  Roll on GC

2.  Discuss Poetry and Figurative Language 1 and 2 PP

3.  Have a great break!  Be safe!

Day 52

 Objective:  The students will complete the last assignment of the semester.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Complete the assignment in GC:  Chapter 6: Figurative Language 2, pp. 807-817 

3. Tomorrow we will discuss Chapters 2 and 3 and be done! You MUST SHOW UP FOR THIS FINAL!!!!! IT WILL AFFECT YOUR GRADE IF YOU DON'T!

  

Day 51

Objective:  The students will discuss imagery and complete the next Perrine's outline.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Discuss Perrine's Poetry Chapter 4 on Imagery PP

3.  Outline Perrine's Chapter 5:  Figurative Language 1

4.  Frankenstein Reading Schedule for the Week:

Monday: Chaps. 18-19

Tuesday: Chapter 20

Wednesday:  Chaps. 22-23

Thursday:  Chapter 24 to end

Friday:  Vacation

 

Day 50

 Objective:  The students will discuss Frankenstein reading and outline a chapter on Imagery.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Discuss Frankenstein reading

Week 2:

Monday:  Chaps. 8-9

Tuesday:  Chaps. 10-11

Wednesday:  Chaps. 12-13

Thursday:  Chaps. 14-15

Friday:  Chaps. 16-17

3.  Outline Perrine's Poetry Chapter on Imagery:

Chapter 4: Imagery, pp. 771-774   

Day 49

 Objective:  The students will discuss "kitchenette building" and their TTSTCANDI.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  "kitchenette building"  PP

3.  Frankenstein reading:

Week 2:

Monday:  Chaps. 8-9

Tuesday:  Chaps. 10-11

Wednesday:  Chaps. 12-13

Thursday:  Chaps. 14-15

Friday:  Chaps. 16-17

Week 3:

Monday: Chaps. 18-19

Tuesday: Chapter 20

Wednesday:  Chaps. 22-23

Thursday:  Chapter 24 to end

Friday:  Vacation

Day 48

Objective:  The students will discuss Frankenstein and then look at a very cool poem.

1.  Roll/Frankenstein Quiz Chapter 5-7 on GC for 20 points

2.  Let's discuss this book.  You have to agree that it is pretty good!  Right?

3.  Kitchenette Building reading and TTSTCANDI

 

kitchenette building:  Gwendolyn Brooks 1963

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43308/kitchenette-building

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.”

But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall,
Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms

Even if we were willing to let it in,
Had time to warm it, keep it very clean,
Anticipate a message, let it begin?

We wonder. But not well! not for a minute!
Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now,
We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.

Day 47

Objective:  The students will read and analyze a poem by Sylvia Plath.

1.  Roll Quiz on Frankenstein worth 20 points.

2.  Allusion Notes (Narcissus)

3.  Read "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnHcCIObIcE

4.  Complete the TTSTCANDI in GC

 

Week 1:

Monday:  All Letters

Tuesday:  Chaps. 1-2

Wednesday:  Chaps. 3-4

Thursday: Chaps. 5-6

Friday: Chapter 7

“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see I swallow immediately

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.

I am not cruel, only truthful ‚

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long

I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Day 46

 Objective:  The students will discuss the Exposition of Frankenstein.

1.  Roll in GC

2.  Student Psychology Study for King Student

3.  Frankenstein Discussion...  If we don't have a good one... Writing...

Day 45

 Objective:  The students will discuss how to read a poem, then talk about "Out, Out."

1.  Roll Quiz

2.  Discuss your essays:  I may have graded them "like your teacher" instead of an AP Reader.  But that is OK, I will get harder as we go...

3.  How to approach a poem.  Or at least how I suggest that you do it...  Notes

4.  "Out, Out":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBdxu9t-zs

5.  Discuss Poem

6.  Frankenstein Intro PP:  

7.  Mary Shelly TED Talk Video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDgu25Dsv34

8.  Frankenstein Reading Schedule:   About 13 pages per day.  Keep up with reading.  Quizzes will be done.

Week 1:

Monday:  All Letters

Tuesday:  Chaps. 1-2

Wednesday:  Chaps. 3-4

Thursday: Chaps. 5-6

Friday: Chapter 7

Week 2:

Monday:  Chaps. 8-9

Tuesday:  Chaps. 10-11

Wednesday:  Chaps. 12-13

Thursday:  Chaps. 14-15

Friday:  Chaps. 16-17

Week 3:

Monday: Chaps. 18-19

Tuesday: Chapter 20

Wednesday:  Chaps. 22-23

Thursday:  Chapter 24 to end

Friday:  Vacation