AP Lit. (Face-to-Face) (Period P 5) Assignments

Here is the link to the on-line senior survey which you must take ASAP.  You will not require a log-in to take this survey.  Be SURE to provide the information about where you want your transcripts sent!!!!  

 

Read the next two chapters (7 and 8) of Grendel.  Expect a reading quiz in the same format as the previous quizzes. 

Finish updating the Post-Modern Era on your website (threads, card trick and zeitgeist). 

Read Chapters 5 and 6 of Grendel and expect a reading quiz (same format as previous two reading quizzes). 

 

Read each of the following articles (see links below) in your teams and outline the substance of each.  When done, write a definition of postmodernism that encompasses ALL FOUR articles. 

http://www.poeticbyway.com/index.html

Read to end of Part I of The Stranger.   Expect a reading quiz next class. 

1.  Read the following handout (see link below) and carefully follow the instructions.  

Read to p. 34 in Heart of Darkness.  There will be a quiz next class.  

 

NOTE:  Be sure to post your last two quizzes on the Edwardian Era webpage BEFORE Friday.  I will be grading the Victorian and Edwardian Era webpages and your two posted quizzes as part of this progress report grade.  

1.  Today (Thursday, 2-18-16), for your in-class quiz--listen for instructions from the sub--you are to access the NPR interview with Chinua Achebe about Joseph Conrad at the following link: 

2.  For homework, you are to continue reading Heart of Darkness to the end of page 24.  Expect a reading quiz. 

 

Lesson Plan for Period 5
(2/22/16)

At the following link, you are to read the article about the comparison of Heart of Darkness, the novel, to Apocalypse Now:  

http://www.itiscannizzaro.net/Ianni/booksweb/sitodarkness/papers/giacomochristoph.htm

When done, you are to find three examples from the text that support each of the following quotes taken from this article.  (You may use the e-text of Heart of Darkness to help you complete this assignment.)

1. “... in Heart of Darkness we find a critic to colonialism….”
2. “Although the novel can be considered modern for many aspects it's  still a Victorian Age book.”
3. “The theme of human degeneration has got its big importance….”

When done, on your website under the “Edwardian Era” you are to create a new subpage named “HOD vs. AN”, and you are to post this completed assignment there.  You should do the same with the assignment you completed on Friday.  The subpage for that assignment is to be titled “Achebe and HOD”.

For the remainder of the period you are to continue reading Heart of Darkness to Page 40.  What you don’t finish today, you are to finish for homework.  There will be a reading quiz next class for the text up to Page 40.

NOTE:  The link to this article has been put on the homework website for easy access.  

1.  Read Heart of Darkness from p. 4 (where we stopped in class) to the bottom of p. 14.  Expect a reading quiz next class. 

 

Good work on your websites!!!  

 

 

Compete the form at this link:  https://docs.google.com/a/spusd.net/forms/d/1SGnJDnL9q2h25SZukc8MLoKT9TfLJvWwia3btkay_TU/viewform

1.  Choose one of the Earnest prompts listed in the attached document and OUTLINE (per our discussion on Thursday) your essay.  Do not write a full essay.  Simply outline it.

 

Enjoy your weekend.    

1.  We agreed, after some clarification about the assignment, that Part I (along with Part II) of your Victorian Era poetry packet will be turned in next class.  Remember, Part I is a 1-2 pp. reflection on what Tennyson is saying in his essay about poetry while Part II involves the explication of 4 poems (2 earlier Victorian Era poems and two later Victorian Era poems) in your packet.  Bullet points only for these explications! 

2.  Finish reading The Importance of Being Earnest on your own.  Hopefully, you got at least to the beginning of Act III (the last act). 

3.  Turn-in the homework in which you listed quotes as evidence for each of the institutions listed on the whiteboard.  Students took pictures of it, so many of your classmates have it in pic form if you didn't write them down somewhere. 

 

We will begin watching Earnest next class, and stopping along the way to clarify action and discuss themes.  Remember, we've got an essay coming next week

1.  Follow the instructions on the handout given in class today.  You must complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this handout (the first page of your packet).  I've attached all documents given in class today as well as the PowerPoint on the Victorian Era. 

 

1.  For each "institution" of society satired by Oscar Wilde's in as much of The Importance of Being Earnest as we have read in class thus far and listed on the whiteboard, find its textual reference and copy-and-paste lines from the play where each "institution" is satirized.  Use an online version of the play to help you.  Below, I have provided a link to an online version of the play.  This version will allow you to use Control + F to search the document for key words.   

2.  Remember you also have work due (Part 1 and Part 2 of your Victorian Poetry Packed) due on Tuesday of next week. 

3.  CHANGE IN PLANS FOR FRIDAY:  YOU ARE TO CONTINUE READING THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST WITH YOUR SUBSTITUTE TEACHER.  READ AS FAR INTO THE PLAY AS POSSIBLE.  WE WILL FINISH READING IT IN CLASS ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. 

 

The final exam prompts are listed in the link below   Note that they are worded for Wuthering Heights.  You will write, of course, on Frankenstein or else on the evolution of literature. 

1.  Use DIDLS, TPCAST, and SOAPS-T to analyze the THREE "dead white women" poems and use "How to Explicate a Poem" to analyze the ONE "dead white man" poem. NOTE:  You only have to write the 300-word (give or take a few words) paragraph for the women.  This is all due next Monday. 

1.  Use DIDLS, TPCAST, and SOAPS-T to analyze the THREE "dead white women" poems and use "How to Explicate a Poem" to analyze the ONE "dead white man" poem. NOTE:  You only have to write the 300-word (give or take a few words) paragraph for the women.  This is all due next Monday. 

Below, you will find a link to our most recent PowerPoint on Romanticism.  This should help you with your website. 

We have a quiz on the first 4 chapters today AND you have to read the next 4 chapters for homework.  (Remember, they are short chapters; so you should be able to navigate your way through them without too much effort.  Enjoy the reading.)  Mr. Asher

We are finishing "The Enlightenment" section of our websites (threads, card tricks, and zeitgeists) AND finishing our reading of The Misanthrope!  That is our goal before we leave for Thanksgiving Break.  We should review all sections of our websites and KNOW the "why" of "how" of the literature evolved from one era to the next--and how our representative piece of literature read reflects that evolution.    Below, there are a few links  to help you all complete "The Enlightenment" section of our websites and do your in-class peer editing today. 

1.  Read finish Act I of Macbeth.  Expect a reading quiz on the entire act. 

 

You all did a most excellent job today getting your site header (banner) in place.  We will have some time in class to work in our teams to complete the first three eras of your website.  We should be caught up in no time!  See you all on Friday.  Again, expect a quiz.    

1.  Analyze the first two sonnets.  That is, paraphrase them.

2.  Work on your banner for your website and be prepared to insert it into your website.

 

BRING YOUR MACBETH BOOK TO CLASS EVERY DAY.

1.  Our first portfolio pick.

2.  We will begin taking notes on the Renaissance and Shakespeare on Thursday.  We will also learn about several literary "forms" (i.e., soliloquy, sonnet, A/S literary traditions (epithets, kennings, alliteration, rhyming couplets, etc.) that Shakespeare used in his writing.  So come prepared to take notes (using Thinking Maps) and ask questions.

3.  If we have our computer cart up and running, we may even begin building our individual websites tomorrow, too.  (The technician is supposed to begin fixing them Thursday morning.  It only involves changing out the computer chip that "runs" the cart, and this process takes 6-10 minutes!)  Your website will serve as your electronic portfolio and a study resource for the mid-term (end of Sem. 1) and the final exam (end of Sem. 2). 

 

"Homework?" you ask?  Rest, rejuvenate.  You'll have plenty of homework in the future.

1.  Complete the chart.  Make sure you substitute "The Knight's Tale" for "The Miller's Tale" in the chart. 

2.  Remember, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is NOT written by Chaucer, but it still reflects various aspects of the five play forms of the Medieval Era.

3.  Prepare to write your essay next class.  You are allowed to use your chart and your Canterbury Tales book.  Prompt options will range from Chaucer's use of physiognomy to his use of the five play forms to his use of paganism and Christianity to his use of various elements of style (DDISFT:  diction, detail, imagery, syntax, figurative language, and tone). 

1.  Read "The Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.  Next class, we will quickly talk about this tale and other Chaucer tales you will soon be reading. 

 

NOTE:  Next class, we will finish our Anglo-Saxon poem team analysis and present them.  Then it's bye-bye Beowulf !   

1.  Essay next class on Beowulf.  Think two-fold:  literary devices and plot/story substance.  Bring your book; you will be allowed to use it on this essay, but it will likely slow you down.  So be prepared to write without the book. 

1.  Review the attached Beowulf PowerPoint, especially page 3, the page that wasn't included in your handout given in class.  (As I am providing you the entire PowerPoint here, I will not be passing out this page in class.)

2.  Read your team's assigned Anglo-Saxon Poem in the attached packet of poems.  Number them in the order they are presented in the packet.  Team #1 is to read poem #1; Team #2 is to read poem #2; so forth and so on!  Simply read your team's assigned poem and make a whole-hearted effort to understand it.  We will be working on these poems next class, and we need to hit the ground running.  So be sure to read it carefully and bring your understanding to class.

3.  Read the next 30 pages of Beowulf.  We all need to get to page 91 ASAP; so read, read, read.  It's a cool story and Heaney's translation is awesome!  

 

 

1.  Create a Google Doc. (a "working" editable document) in which your team lists in a T-chart the differences between ancient and modern mythology.  Draw from each of the 250-word highlighted paragraphs passed  back to you in class in order to compile this list.  Print out ONE master document with ALL of your team names on it as well as the date, and period.  (The name of the assignment always goes on the first line of the paper or at the top centered, that is, if you don't have lined paper.)  

2.  Bring your packet of Anglo-Saxon poems and be prepared to work with your team analyzing your assigned poem from this packet.

3.  Read the next 30 pages of Beowulf.   So you should end up at page 120-ish. 

 

1.  Read Beowulf to top of p. 30.   

2.  Short M-C test on Oedipus.

3.  Timed essay--on Oedipus, Streetcar or Catcher.

4.  Use these symbols when you annotate Beowulf:

C = Christianity

P = paganism (belief in many gods)

A = alliteration

K = kenning (colorful metaphor, usually with alliteration involved)

E = epithet (title of a person)

 

1.  Bring your signed syllabus slip to class.

2.  Read the first 45 pp. of Oedipus at this web address:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27673/27673-h/27673-h.htm.  Stop at the following point where Jocasta says the following:  Indeed no. When he came that day, and found / Thee on the throne where once sat Laïus crowned, / He took my hand and prayed me earnestly / To send him to the mountain heights, to be / herdsman, far from any sight or call ' Of Thebes. And there I sent him. 'Twas a thrall / Good-hearted, worthy a far greater boon.