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Satire in The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride and Prejudice

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – from Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)


Agenda
Mon 3-9-2020
     -Guidance Visit "After Submit"
Tues 3-10-2020
     -Film IOBE
     -Pride and Prejudice Books
     -P&P Summative Assessment
     -Satire in IOBE
Wed 3-11-2020
     -Aphorism Groupings and Assignment
          -Group A: Stephanie, Shela, Gift, Tianna
          -Group B: Naya, Fatima, Andrea, Tahlea
          -Group C: Raymond, Amahia, Victoria, Emily, Maxime
     -Film IOBE
Thurs 3-12-2020
     -Oscar Wilde
     -Finish watching TIOBE
     -HW: begin reading P&P (reading schedule to follow)
Fri 3-13-2020
     -Pausing for the Pandemic
     -Use this day to reset, gather supplies, help your families organize for the 2 weeks that schools will be closed.
     -On Monday, please refer to this page for further details. I will be sending a remind with updates soon.
     -HW: (1) Aphorism Activity due Wednesday, 3-18-2020 uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm, (2) IOBE Summative Assessment due Friday 3-20-2020 uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.

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​Mon 3-16-2020
     -Read P&P
Tues 3-17-2020
     -Read P&P
     -PPC #3 (timed) - You will have 24 hours to complete this Personal Progress Check , but it is timed. You will have an ample 45 minutes. Plan accordingly.
*Update 3/18: I am going to open this PPC for the remainder of  the week. It will close on Friday evening at 11:45pm. Moving forward, PPCs will occur on Mondays.
Wed 3-18-2020
     -Read P&P
     -Aphorism Activity due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm
Thurs 3-19-2020
     -Read P&P
     -Blog Entries
Fri 3-20-2020
     -Read P&P
     -IOBE Summative Assessment due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.

THIS WEEKEND:
You should continue reading Pride and Prejudice with an eye for completing the summative assessment:
   1. Pick which essay question you are going to use as your focus for reading.
   2. As you read, keep note of sections of the novel that you might use to support your reasoning in your final summative assessment.
   3. Select 10 passages in the novel that you feel best support the essay question that you have selected. Create a dialectical journal for these 10 sections on a Word or Google Doc that explains how each passage supports your reasoning.

*This is Dialectical Journal due on Friday, April 3rd uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.

*The P&P Summative Assessment is due on Sunday, April 5th uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.


Starting Monday March 23rd, this is how you should organize your weeks until we return to school:

Monday: MC Monday (PPC) and GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture

Tuesday: Poetry Blog Activity Part 1 and GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture

Wednesday: GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture 

Thursday: Finish Poetry Blog Activity Part 1 and GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture

Friday: Poetry Blog Activity Part 2 and GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture

* You should devise a reading schedule for yourself to finish Pride and Prejudice in time.

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Mon 3-23-2020
     -Read P&P
     -PPC #5 (timed) - You will have 23.75 hours to complete this Personal Progress Check , but it is timed. You will have an ample 45 minutes. Plan accordingly.
Tues 3-24-2020
     -"Perseverance" Poetry Blog Activity Part 1 (Primary Blog Entry) due by 11:59pm
     -Read P&P
Wed 3-25-2020
     -Read P&P
     -Passage Analysis Timed Essay Online #1 due by 11:59pm on Turnitin
Thurs 3-26-2020
     -Read P&P
     -"Perseverance" Poetry Blog Activity Part 1 (Secondary Blog Responses) due by  11:59pm.
Fri 3-27-2020
     -"Perseverance" Poetry Blog Activity Written Response due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.
     -Read P&P
    -review comments on Passage Analysis Essay

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Mon 3-30-2020
     -PPC #6 
     -Read P&P
Tues 3-31-2020
     -"Naming" Poetry Blog Activity Part 1
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #1
     -Read P&P
Wed 4-1-2020
     -Read P&P
​    -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #2
Thurs 4-2-2020
     -"Naming" Poetry Blog Activity Part 2
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #3
     -Read P&P
Fri 4-3-2020
     -"Naming" Poetry Blog Activity Written Response due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.
     -P&P Dialectical Journal due on Friday, April 3rd uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.
     -P&P SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT due on Sunday at 11:590m uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm

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Mon 4-6-2020
     -PPC #7 
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #4 and #5
Tues 4-7-2020
     -"Love" Poetry Blog Activity Part 1
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #6
Wed 4-8-2020
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #7 and #8
Thurs 4-9-2020
     -"Love" Poetry Blog Activity Part 2
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #9
Fri 4-10-2020
     -"Love" Poetry Blog Activity Written Response due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #10
    -Good Friday

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April Break
     -Watch Hamlet and read Garth Hinds Graphic Novel
     -
Poetry Blog Activity "Fathers" Parts 1 & 2

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Mon 4-20-2020
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #11
     -PPC #8 
Tues 4-21-2020
     -"Struggle/Freedom" Poetry Blog Activity Part 1
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #12
Wed 4-22-2020
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #13
Thurs 4-23-2020
     -"Struggle/Freedom" Poetry Blog Activity Part 2
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #14
Fri 4-24-2020
     -GClassroom: APCentral Virtual Lecture #15
     -"Struggle/Freedom" Poetry Blog Activity Written Response due uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59pm.

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Mon 4-27-2020
     -
     -PPC #9 
Tues 4-28-2020
     -
Wed 4-29-2020
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Thurs 4-30-2020
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Fri 5-1-2020
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Mon 5-4-2020
     -
Ties 5-5-2020
     -
Wed 5-6-2020
     -AP Literature & Composition Exam
Thurs 5-7-2020

Resources and Materials

Oscar Wilde Background 

If you choose to watch the "Oscar Wilde himself" video below, please do watch all 6 parts (approximately 1 hour long total)

The Importance of Being Earnest (1898)


Important Documents and Resources

industrial_revolution_provides_millions_of_out.docx
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life_of_the_victorian_woman.pdf
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victorianaintiobe.pdf
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Distance Learning Documents and Resources

aphorisms_in_earnest[1].doc
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the_importance_of_being_earnest_summative_assessment.docx
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p_p_summative_assessment.docx
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