Lit-Gill-5 Assignments
- Instructor
- Ms. Denise Gill
- Term
- 2025-2026 School Year
- Department
- English
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Prose for a grade ONE Google Doc for essay; digital or paper for annotations
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Multiple Choice first semester
1. What was your score on this one?
2. Look at your diagnostic MC, practice, and progress checks scores. What do you notice?
3. Do you plan to take the AP exam?
2. Look at your diagnostic MC, practice, and progress checks scores. What do you notice?
3. Do you plan to take the AP exam?
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Prose Final
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Thesis for 2020 Porter (Grandma and Great Aunt) for practice
(Attached are example essays
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FRQ2 Sawley
Do step 1 from my slideshow (slide 2) and the try the annotation method from Slide 8.
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Name the people in your group and share your thesis for the Seraph on the Suwanee essay
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Literary Experience 2
Choose an experience DURING Q2 (see attached list) and then write a paragraph about what you did/thought.
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Frankie MWDS
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Last part of Study Guide due (finish before class for best prep for mini-exam but won't be counted as late if in this week)
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READ THE FIRST FEW SLIDES Prose 2020 Porter
Read slides 2-7 and complete steps 1, 2a, 2b, and 3. If time, write a these statement
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Read your response to Prose1 (rock eaters). How do you think you did? (Did you address the complexity in your thesis? What would your thesis statement be now?)
Use your blue sheets to punch up the language and watch for passive voice-- if you have a chance, try to add some new topic sentences.
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Rewrite/comment/discuss your thesis/topic sentences
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MC Practice Frankie
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Are you finished reading Frankenstein?
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How did you do on the Prose Practice MC (in AP Classroom)?
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What did you notice about each essay? Jot down your impressions in your notebook, and we will discuss next week.
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Have you read through chapter 18?
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Prose1 Practice Essay: Annotate; then on a document, start an essay.
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Study Guide 1-11 due in class today (discuss, then upload)
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Ready for a reading quiz on Chapters 1-10?
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In a paragraph, analyze how Shelley's use of literary techniques in the opening two letters create a complex tone.
(Include brief quotes!)
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Macbeth Timed Write
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Do the Frankenstein Anticipation Guide (hard copy) and be ready to share some responses.
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Read the prompt, and create a thesis and two or three potential "lines of reasoning" that could form your body paragraphs.
1983. From a novel or play of literary merit, select an important character who is a villain. (Macbeth) Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the nature of the character's villainy and show how it enhances the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
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Read over the tragedy, tragic flaw, and tragic hero info from Britainnica (attached here)
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Close Reading Act 5 (2 handouts)
Questions 4, 5, & 6 for Lady M, whole sheet for TOmorrow and Tomorrow . . .
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MWDS for Macbeth--just first page
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Do you have your Chromebook, and are you ready for the Macbeth exam?
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Act 5 SG
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Act 4 SG ready for turnitin.com today
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Dagger Close Reading (2.1)--Hard copy
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At this point, how responsible is Lady Macbeth? What do you think of her? Explain
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How did you do on Progress Check THREE? (this one had two prose and one poem) Explain. (Progress Check TWO is optional)
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Act 3 Study Guide ready to ask questions and upload to turnitin.com
You can choose "scene summaries" on the menu on the top to have it more like the Folger Library Books. Re: #6---Unfortunately, I can't find a publicly available Branagh/Washington/Kurasawa version of the banquet scene. :-(
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Macbeth Quiz 1
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Be ready for a quiz on Acts 1, 2, and Act 3, scene 1
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Act 2 Study Guide (again, questions in class and then upload to turnitin.com)
The MyShakespeare text might be easier to use, so both links are here.
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THIS IS PRACTICE--don't use any other resources
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Act 1 Close Readings (handouts in class)
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Act 1 Study guide on google doc, ready for turnitin.com (we will upload after questions in class)
Go to my website, choose "THE Scottish Play" tab and scroll down to the Act 1 Study Guide. Use the links below for the text (the second one might be easier to navigate).
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"Try to Praise the Mutilated World"
Add I notice/I wonder/I think annotations, and then write comments on the effect of the POV.
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Which of the opening scenes do you prefer and why? (Consider which you find most eerie and perhaps understandable.) Explain .
Polanski (1971): Traditional interpretation of the play. (Skip the BBC one and the Kurtzel one)
Wright (2006) Modern adaptation of the play set in Melbourne, Australia.
Goold (2010: (Warning: this one is bloody and has some flashing lights): Modern adaptation of the play that subtly links Macbeth to Joseph Stalin.
Separate video--Coen (2021) Black and white, stark, simple the witch is one? Or three?
Wright (2006) Modern adaptation of the play set in Melbourne, Australia.
Goold (2010: (Warning: this one is bloody and has some flashing lights): Modern adaptation of the play that subtly links Macbeth to Joseph Stalin.
Separate video--Coen (2021) Black and white, stark, simple the witch is one? Or three?
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Read the historical information and take particular note of "Ideals and Ideas" (take a few notes). Then read Shakespeare's Bio to refresh/inform you of his background
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Literary Experience Q1
Write a paragraph about your experience and include verification if possible.
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Questions for open-note quiz
Do on paper so you have access (unless you think you will remember/have time to print)
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Anticipation Guide
Hard copy
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POV
In notebook; be ready to share on GC
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What is your best POV thesis? (From the HW PPT)
Share and comment on someone else's
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Take notes on the Blue Umbrella connecting mood/symbols/character to theme by taking note of:
Examples, descriptions, details
Colors, Light / Dark
Weather, Seasons, Time of Day/Night
Character, descriptions, actions, shapes, movements, expressions
Significance -How do they function as symbols to create meaning?
Colors, Light / Dark
Weather, Seasons, Time of Day/Night
Character, descriptions, actions, shapes, movements, expressions
Significance -How do they function as symbols to create meaning?
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Be ready to share your character description with a group. See my example so you know what to do.
Characterization example: The Knight is high-status AND high morality. The narrator first describes his virtue before saying anything about his physical appearance, which is different from most of the characters. He is described as "distinguished" and that he had "followed chivalry,/ Truth, honor, generousness and courtesy." Then Chaucer describes the many, many battles he had been in various places, showing that he was a truly experienced soldier, not simply for show. His horses and dress are fine, but practical.
He lives up to the ideals of chivalry, is humble, hard-working, and a gentleman.
A modern version: The Knight would be a former highly-decorated Navy SEAL who remained humble. He married his college sweetheart, and they raised three kids, who are now college to mid-twenties. They go to church every Sunday, and regularly participate in charity events and nonprofit work. They are considered upstanding members of the community, and some neighbors would like him to run for city council. Anthony Mackie would play him in the modern movie version.
Canterbury Characters
Squire
Prioress
Monk
Friar
Franklin
Doctor
Wife of Bath
Parson
Plowman
Reeve
Summoner
Pardoner
He lives up to the ideals of chivalry, is humble, hard-working, and a gentleman.
A modern version: The Knight would be a former highly-decorated Navy SEAL who remained humble. He married his college sweetheart, and they raised three kids, who are now college to mid-twenties. They go to church every Sunday, and regularly participate in charity events and nonprofit work. They are considered upstanding members of the community, and some neighbors would like him to run for city council. Anthony Mackie would play him in the modern movie version.
Canterbury Characters
Squire
Prioress
Monk
Friar
Franklin
Doctor
Wife of Bath
Parson
Plowman
Reeve
Summoner
Pardoner
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Canterbury Tales Prologue
READ this version of the Prologue.
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Choice Summer Read: Say/Mean/Matter PLUS
Choose three of your annotations from throughout your choice summer read and turn each of the three into a Say/Mean/Matter PLUS. You may use any of the versions for each quote, as long as you add the plus, and you could use different ones for different quotes/passages. Use paragraph form instead of columns or boxes, and make sure that you are including meaning/big ideas in parts of it. Use your blue sheets to help you develop your commentary with strong verbs.
Then upload to turnitin.com
AS ALWAYS, MAKE SURE YOU USE ONE DOCUMENT, no cutting and pasting, where I can see the history.
Then upload to turnitin.com
AS ALWAYS, MAKE SURE YOU USE ONE DOCUMENT, no cutting and pasting, where I can see the history.
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Mood/Tone words
Use a thesuarus. EXPAND with words you know but perhaps don't use often. You can put them where it makes sense in the graph.
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Bring in your annotations from your summer reading choice book (finally!)
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How did you do on Progress Check 1 in AP Classroom? Reflect on how you did!
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Are you ready for a quiz on the short stories? (plot points and general characteristics) Make sure you finish reading "The Scarlet Ibis."
"The Scarlet Ibis"
"The Paper Menagerie"
"No Name Woman"
"The Lives of the Dead"
"The Paper Menagerie"
"No Name Woman"
"The Lives of the Dead"
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NOW COMMENT ON SOMEONE ELSE'S: How does (Liu/Garcia Marquez) use magic realism to make us consider a truth about the world?
Choose either story, and write a response as a thesis statement with a couple bullet points of support.
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Draft for an ASSESSMENT GRADE of 35 points
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Magic Realism
Read the "Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and then complete the information about Magic Realism.
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Read and annotate "The Paper Menagerie"
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On slide seven, choose two questions to answer in your notebook and one to answer here. Then respond to someone's else's response.
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"No Name Woman"
Do the freewrite and then I notice/wonder/think statements
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Literary terms quiz
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"The Lives of the Dead"
annotate and consider what is "true"
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Draft 2-3 printed out for self/peer review
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Practice GOE Thesis: Using the template, create a thesis about a commonly known work to post here. (Disney, Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Barbie . . .)
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What is your second draft thesis for the Heavy excerpt?
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Literary terms
Terms and the links to where to find good definitions are on my website under Links & Docs. Define any terms you don't already know well. Quiz very soon!
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In your notebook . . . .
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Do #2 in your notebook, discuss #3 with a neighbor, respond to #4 here.
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"Dessert"
read and be ready to chat
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Read the rest of the excerpt of Heavy and answer the attached in your notebook.
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Read/take notes "Now Where Have I Seen Her Before"
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How did you do on the diagnostic MC (what was your score)? What type of questions did you miss/find difficult? What did and/or did not go well? (this will not be seen by classmates, just me)
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Allusions presentation
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Catcher: Say/Mean/Matter PLUS
Choose three of your annotations from throughout Catcher in the Rye and turn them into a Say/Mean/Matter PLUS. You may use any of the versions, as long as you add the plus, and you could use different ones for different quotes/passages. You may do them as bullets or paragraphs, but make sure that you are including meaning/big ideas in parts of it, and make sure it's all on one google document where I can see the history.
Then upload to turnitin.com
Then upload to turnitin.com
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At least two pages (double spaced) of a shitty first draft of a personal essay
a finished-ish DRAFT
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read and annotate "Every Trip Is a Quest." Be ready to give examples of books and/or films that are quests.
(annotations can be notice/wonder/think statements, as well as examples of stories that might be quests.)
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At least one page of a sh*tty first draft of a personal statement done by today (Common App)
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Complete a MWDS for your choice summer read AND a Shakespearean play
The format is under links and docs on the website. Either recreate it on your own or make a copy. You are only doing the first page! Upload your finished doc, or take a picture and upload here.
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The Things I Carry
UPLOAD to TURNITIN.COM
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Upload PIQ drafts here--I'm not reading them, just checking off that you wrote!
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Finish reading "The Things They Carried" and be ready to consider the tangible and intangible things.
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What is your thesis statement/topic sentence for "Remember"? Include a couple bullet points of supporting ideas.
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"Remember" questions
Bring your handwritten paragraph (in a notebook is fine) to class on Thursday.
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Pick a detail from "Coming Home Again" to write here and explain why and how it resonates with you.
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Complete a MWDS for Catcher in the Rye AND a second one for a book of your choice of "literary merit" (almost anything you read for class in high school counts.)
The format is under links and docs on the website. Either recreate it on your own or make a copy. You are only doing the first page and you may skip the Great Questions section until we discuss it later! Upload your finished doc, or take a picture and upload here.
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UChicago Essay Q 2
Choose one of the questions and write a rough draft response to it in a Google doc. Your response should be approximately 2 double-spaced pages. ("Shitty rough draft", so don't worry about editing.)
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"Remember"
For now, just general annotations--what do you notice? Wonder? Think?
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getting to know you
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