Diving into the Deep End
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| diving_into_the_deep_end_mini-project.pdf |
Part I: Organization
Part II: Seeing
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Part III: Reading
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Agenda
Monday 11/18/2019
-In class: SF II, Unit 4 Overview
-Multiple Choice Monday
-HW: Read and annotate “Videotape” by Don Delillo, Exploring the Text Ques: 1, 2, and 3 in Reading Notebook AND MC Justifications
Tuesday 11/19/2019
-SFII:U4 PACKETS DISTRIBUTED
-Discussion of “Videotape”
-Diction-PPT Notes (Readers’ Notebook) and Packet
-Room Excerpt-Read and Annotate In your Reader’s Notebook
-compose a brief analysis of the use of diction in Room by Emma Donoghue (see aligned prompt in packet).
-HW: Read and annotate “Zenobia” and compose a thesis statement as if you were going to write a literary analysis essay.
Wednesday 11/20/2019
-Point of View-PPT Notes (Readers’ Notebook) and Packet
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Excerpt-Read and Annotate In your Readers’ Notebook
-compose a brief analysis of point of view in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (see aligned prompt in packet).
-HW: Read and annotate “Middlemarch” and compose a thesis statement as if you were going to write a literary analysis essay.
Thursday 11/21/2019
-Syntax-PPT Notes (Readers’ Notebook) and Packet
-The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway Excerpt-Read and Annotate In your Readers’ Notebook
-compose a brief analysis of syntax used in The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway (see aligned prompt in the packet).
-HW: Read and annotate “Johnny Got His Gun” and compose a thesis statement as if you were going to write a literary analysis essay.
Friday 11/22/2019
-SCHOLAR HOUR
- Come to class first for attendance and to submit Frankenstein Dialectical Journals, Prose Packets, and Readers’ Notebooks for a Formative Assessment Grade.
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Monday 11/25/2019
-Tone-PPT Notes (Readers’ Notebook) and Packet
-Lit by Mary Karr Excerpt-Read and Annotate In your Readers Notebook
-compose a brief analysis of tone in Lit by Mary Karr (see aligned prompt in packet).
-HW: Read and annotate “The Spectator” by Joseph Addison and compose a thesis statement as if you were going to write a literary analysis essay.
Tuesday 11/26/2019
-"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
-One Pager Activity
-Housekeeping! Buffer Day!
Wed 11/27/2019
-Community Awareness Day!
Thursday 11/28/2019 and Friday 11/29/2019
-Thanksgiving Day! Enjoy your family time!
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Monday 12/2/2019
-Multiple Choice Monday
Tuesday 12/3/2019
-SNOW DAY
Wednesday 12/4/2019
-Discussion Tuesday (Wednesday)
-Packet review
-Prepare for Writing Wednesday (Thursday)
-please open and read the file named "sfii-u4summativeassessment.pdf" under the Materials and Resources section to the right.
Thursday 12-5-2019
-Short Fiction II: Unit 4 Summative Assessment
-Timed in-class essay
-randomly selected passage analysis essay using new rubric
-SFII:U4 packets due at end of class
Friday 12-6-2019
-Computer Lab
-PPC #4
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Mon 12-9-2019
-No Class (KW out sick)
Tues 12-10-2019
-Housekeeping
Wed 12-11-2019
-Identity Poster (Analysis and Creation through Modeling)
-Project Overview Final Project (The Identity Poster – see student samples on website)
-Sample Poetry Modeling:
-“Meditation on a Bone” (1956) by A.D. Hope
-"Meditation on a Grapefruit” (2009) by Craig Arnold
-“Meditation on a Hoofbeat” (2015) by Kristin Williams
-Homework: an honest 15 minutes of creation (in Writer’s Notebook).
Thurs 12-12-2019
-Poem Analysis and Creation
-Poems to Analyze:
-“My Father’s Gift” (2004) by Edwina Trentham
-“The Self-Unseeing” (1901) by Thomas Hardy
-Homework: Select one of these poems as a mentor (Feeling ambitious? Use both!) and spend an honest 15 minutes of creation (in Writer’s Notebook).
Fri 12-13-2019
-Poem Analysis and Creation
-Poems to Analyze:
-“Still I Rise” (1978) by Maya Angelou
-“Invictus” (1875) by William Earnest Henley
-Homework: Select one of these poems as a mentor (Feeling ambitious? Use both!) and spend an honest 15 minutes of creation (in Writer’s Notebook).
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Mon 12-16-2019
-Poem Analysis and Creation
-Poems to Analyze:
-“Autobiography of Eve” (2015) by Ansel Elkin
-“Theme for English B” (1949) by Langston Hughes
-Homework: Select one of these poems as a mentor (Feeling ambitious? Use both!) and spend an honest 15 minutes of creation (in Writer’s Notebook).
Tues 12-17-2019
-Poem Analysis and Creation
-Poems to Analyze:
- “Black Lace Bra Kind of Woman” (1994) by Sandra Cisneros
-“Remember” (1983) by Joy Harjo
-Homework: Select one of these poems as a mentor (Feeling ambitious? Use both!) and spend an honest 15 minutes of creation (in Writer’s Notebook).
Wed 12-18-2019
-Writing Workshop
Flexible seating: Solo Work, Pairs, Reading Group with Teacher.
-Homework: Continue work on your “after So-and-So” poems.
Thurs 12-19-2019
-Writing Workshop
Flexible seating: Solo Work, Pairs, Reading Group with Teacher.
-Homework: Continue work on your “after So-and-So” poems.
Fri 12-20-2019
-Conference Day
Last chance to work with Writing Groups before Winter Break.
Conference with Teacher.
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*Winter Break 12-21-2019 through 1-1-2020
-Creation and Reflection Time
-Spend time with friends and family and really appreciate these days together.
-Rest and Recuperate: You need to take care of yourself too!
-Consider a little “me-time” through creative writing: I hope you use this poetry project to open yourself to some thoughtful reflection and introspection.
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**Thurs 1-2-2020
-Independent Reading Assessment Due Date
Timed Essay (In-Class) – You select your prompt.
Prepared Essay (uploaded to Turnitin by 11:37am) – You select your prompt.
MindMap/SketchNote Poster (theme, thesis, evidence, analysis, connection to human nature) – Due in class and posted in room by 11:37am.
Fri 1-3-2020
-Conference Day
Last chance to work with Writing Groups before Due Date.
Conference with Teacher.
-Peter Elbow’s “Tips on Getting Feedback from Friends or Fellow Students”
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Mon 1-8-2020
-Three Kings' Day
*Tues 1-7-2020
-The Search for Identity Poster
-Review Peter Elbow’s tip sheet.
-Gallery Walk with stickie notes.
(2018-2019 Introductory Unit and Agenda
*using the Aufses, Jago, and Scanlon text
and the Meyers Anthology
Weeks 1&2: Introduction to the course
Introduction to the course: Thinking about literature. What makes an effective reader? How do we approach literature? Experience, Analysis and Extension
“The Sacred” by Stephen Dunn, “When my love swears that she is made of truth” by William Shakespeare, “Vegetarian Physics” by David Clewell, “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander, “The Bagel” by David Ignatow, “Shawl” by Albert Goldbarth, “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, “Learning to Read” by Franz Wright, “‘Out, Out – ,’” By Robert Frost, “Snow” by Julia Alvarez
Weeks 3& 4: Close Reading: Analyzing Poetry and Passages of Fiction
What is composition and language? How do we become close readers?
The Foundation – Elements of Style: Diction, Figurative Language, Imagery, Syntax, Rhyme, Meter, Form, Tone and Mood.
Explanation will be given of the nature of writing assignments in AP Literature as well as how to use annotation in close reading, and developing a thesis statement.
Timed in-class writing: critical analysis of poem (reader-response theory)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (excerpt), “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housmann, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (excerpt), “Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art” John Keats, “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick, “My Father’s Song” by Simon Ortiz, “Promises like Pie-Crust” by Christina Georgina Rossetti, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (excerpt), “Slam, Dunk, & Hook” by Yusef Komunyakaa, “The Beauty and Danger of Basketball” by Carlton Curtis, “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch, “One Game, Two Lives” by Talat Rubin, “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford
and the Meyers Anthology
Weeks 1&2: Introduction to the course
Introduction to the course: Thinking about literature. What makes an effective reader? How do we approach literature? Experience, Analysis and Extension
“The Sacred” by Stephen Dunn, “When my love swears that she is made of truth” by William Shakespeare, “Vegetarian Physics” by David Clewell, “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander, “The Bagel” by David Ignatow, “Shawl” by Albert Goldbarth, “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, “Learning to Read” by Franz Wright, “‘Out, Out – ,’” By Robert Frost, “Snow” by Julia Alvarez
Weeks 3& 4: Close Reading: Analyzing Poetry and Passages of Fiction
What is composition and language? How do we become close readers?
The Foundation – Elements of Style: Diction, Figurative Language, Imagery, Syntax, Rhyme, Meter, Form, Tone and Mood.
Explanation will be given of the nature of writing assignments in AP Literature as well as how to use annotation in close reading, and developing a thesis statement.
Timed in-class writing: critical analysis of poem (reader-response theory)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (excerpt), “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housmann, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (excerpt), “Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art” John Keats, “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick, “My Father’s Song” by Simon Ortiz, “Promises like Pie-Crust” by Christina Georgina Rossetti, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (excerpt), “Slam, Dunk, & Hook” by Yusef Komunyakaa, “The Beauty and Danger of Basketball” by Carlton Curtis, “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch, “One Game, Two Lives” by Talat Rubin, “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford
AP Literature is designed to help you accomplish the following:
• see complexity
• find patterns
• recognize shifts in a passage
• make inferences based on the evidence available
• determine how form suits function
• connect seemingly small details to the meaning as a whole
• follow the relationship of diction’s influence on tone, and tone’s influence on mood
• appreciate point of view
To get the most out of this year, be prepared, be curious, ask questions, and enjoy. I’ll do my best to send you off in style–it’s your job to do the work to get there.
Here’s to an excellent year!
Skills list courtesy of Brian Sztabnik (@TalksWTeachers), Miller Place High School
Print and Media Resources and Links
Important Documents
| ckrwilliams-short_story_analysis_assignment.pdf |
| tell_all_the_truth_but_tell_it_slant.pdf |
| tellthetruthbuttellitslantthesisstatements.pdf |
| clewell-vegetarianphysics.pdf |
| shakespeare-sonnet18.pdf |
| dunn-thesacred.pdf |
| collins_billy-introductiontopoetry.pdf |
| goldbarth_albert-shawl.pdf |
| frost_robert_--out_out.pdf |
| atwoodmargaret-bored.pdf |
| housmanae-to_an_athlete_dying_young.pdf |
| rossetti-promiseslikepie-crust.pdf |
| ortizs-myfatherssong.pdf |
| keatsj-brightstar.pdf |
| short_story_bootcamp_basic_training_graduation.pdf |
| gilman-theyellowwallpaper.pdf |
| leguin-theoneswhowalkawayfromomelas.pdf |
| marquez-averyoldmanwithenormouswings_pdf.pdf |
| oates-whereareyougoingwherehaveyoubeen.pdf |
| oconnor-goodcountrypeople.pdf |
| stafford-travelingthroughthedark.pdf |
| kumin-woodchucks.pdf |
| stafford-kuminsampleessay.pdf |
| hughes-doty-hawkroosting-goldenretrievals.pdf |
| unit_1_summative_assessment__1_.pdf |
SF II: U4 Materials and Resources
| sfii.u4.overview.pdf |
| williams-diction_lesson.pptx |
| williams-point_of_view_lesson.pptx |
| williams-syntax_lesson.pptx |
| williams-tone_lesson.pptx |
| paper_menagerie_ken_liu.pdf |
| sfii-u4summativeassessment.pdf |
| identity_poetry_project.pdf |