AP Lit&Comp-7 Assignments

Read and jot down some notes:
The history one FIRST: the main issues and how they were resolved is critical, as is the marks of Courtly literature and the changing values.

Metaphysical: "marks" of each time period is the most critical information, but the rest will give you context.

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Read the first part of Eliana's essay. Note how she effectively uses the thesis template to build her argument.

Read Jenny's essay, which has a very strong argument, but re-write her thesis to avoid authorial intent. (In other words, we don't KNOW what Shakespeare intended, but we may comment on what ideas his work generated -- regardless of what he intended.) 

Reflect on your own essay, and re-write your thesis and/or topic sentences to make sure you are creating lines of reasoning. (use your blue sheets if they help!)

(not the progress check, but the practice)

Upload the essay (draft) here

Use the presentation to guide you and complete all the pre-writing steps

Upload to turnitin.com in class

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.

#1-17 done by today!

Read the example essays and jot down what you notice about them--you may do this part in groups of 3 or so people, but you should have conversations about them. What do you notice about the thesis, development, how the paragraphs are organized--or not?

Read the prompt/passage and annotate.

Write a brief reflection (and not just a score).

Make a copy, work with a partner or two to add words (that you know and would actually use!) to fill in more of the chart.

Read, then write a thesis and outline a response.

Read YOUR essay from the summer prompt AND the attached. Then reflect on how you did in your notebook. Use your blue sheets to do  some re-writing of a few sentences, and perhaps use the Garden of English template to work out a new thesis. 

Do the notebook work first, then this!

Remember that the format is on my website under "links and docs"

Will be collected in class today: 
Act 1, scene 7 (Macbeth leaves the banquet, has a soliloquy, Lady M comes in)
Act 2, scene 1 (Dagger)
Act 5 (Tomorrow and tomorrow)

(I have one with updated links now)

Upload to turnitin.com after questions in class

https://www.britannica.com/science/Lawrence-Kohlbergs-stages-of-moral-development

We will upload to turnitin.com after questions in class.

ALSO: make sure that you have read and taken notes on the "England's Golden Age" PPT on the Macbeth tab of my website.

Write a paragraph about what you did and what you thought. Include a photo of you there, a signature of a parent to say that you were there, an email about your writing contest entry, or something else to confirm it in the doc you upload here.

Write a description of your character, including how moral you think they might be and what they might be like in modern day society.

Don't forget to read the slides for background on my website. You don't need to take a lot of notes, but write down some major points. (Major elements of the time period? Why was Chaucer different from other authors of the time? What is a frame story? Why Canterbury?)

"...More Than It's Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence" and
"Is That a Symbol?"

You can save "It's All Political" for later

They are on my website under "links & docs"

BTW: last year I had a senior who-- for much of the year--was not one of the highest scoring students, but she had the most thoughtful reflections every time we did one. She ultimately earned a 5 on the exam!

Explain how you did and general reflections about how you are feeling about taking the AP exam. (This is just for me)

Read the story (on my website) 

AND THEN respond to this

Be ready for a quick quiz on plot points/main details/ideas about:
"The Paper Menagerie"
"The Scarlet Ibis" 
"The Story of an Hour"

Annotations:
Use of detail
Narrator
Character

How to Read Literature like a Professor: "Now Where Have I Seen Her Before?" (under links and docs on the website)
"Story of an Hour" (under Fall Short Stories)

Chose a work of literary merit that you have ready and create a MWDS.

Create a MWDS for a Shakespearean play you have read/watched and upload here. 

Reminder: just the first page from the format on my website under links and docs.

Don't forget to upload to turnitin.com

At least one page (double-spaced)

(include names of people included)
How does James Hurst use literary techniques to reveal the complexities of familial relationships?
How does James Hurst use literary techniques to reveal the complexities of pride?

Finish reading and annotating "The Scarlet Ibis"
Upload page 1 of your Common App to Classroom.
(You will not be given more time in class to work on your allusions presentation, so make sure that you are finishing those by Wednesday)

Finish taking notes on my "Allusions" PPT (under links and docs on the website)
Read and take notes on "Every Trip Is a Quest" from How to Read Literature Like a Professor   (under links and docs on the website)

Read the attached PPT. Do questions 1-5 in your notebook, and then respond to #6 here.

the excerpt from Heavy and The Woman Warrior. Consider narrator, detail, diction, and GQs in particular. (Electronic version of "No Name Woman--and all the other stories/essays--is on my website under "Fall short stories")

We are only going to do a shitty first draft, but you should still aim for at least one and half pages, double-spaced.

Choose three passages from your summer reading book--one from the beginning, one from the middle, one for the end. Use your annotations to find them! Use one of the four part S/M/Ms to examine the passage, and write as a document to upload here and turnitin.com.

Finish reading and annotating "The Things They Carried." Pay particular attention to detail and literary devices such a repetition. 

upload/take a photo/or show me in class

Upload your shitty first draft of your response to turnitin.com. (Include which question you are answering)

1. WEDNESDAY Try #2 with the annotations from "Coming Home Again"
2. THURSDAY is when we plan to do something with your summer read annotations in class. 

For the annotations, pay particular attention to any details you find resonant, but also look for other passages that stand out.

On the "Basics" section of literary terms under "links and docs" tab of my website. The definitions are also there. You NEED to have a hard copy as you will not have access to digital sources.

Have most/all of it read and bring in for classwork today