Day 25, Oct 21 B Block/ Oct. 22 D Block
1. Close Reading lecture
2. Timed Writing 40 minutes
3. Conrad's life and Colonialism
HW: Test . . . Oct. 27/28 Reading of Achebe's Article P
Please look up the terms antithesis and negation before reading.
If you need, jot notes while reading. It will be your responsibility to understand the article.
Write the thesis in your own words.
Have two written discussion points for the next class when you finish reading.
Day 24, Oct. 20
-- Vocab will be throughout discussion (hybridity, postcolonialsm)
1. Discuss HOD
2. Discuss article and the structure
3. Colonialism and Post-colonialism
4. HW: Study for test. Timed writing tomorrow over Heart of Darkness.
What's on the test. Multiple Choice and true and false over plot points or quotes from the story. Short answer concerning particulars of plot points from part III and literary points brought up from class discussion or class lecture. Style recognition. You will be given two passages: one from Conrad, one from another. Then you have to tell which is by Conrad and why, stylistically.
Day 23, Oct. 16
1. Vocab -- choose words from HOD, let me know. If nothing, jocund and abscond -- then write synonyms and antonyms
-- please talk briefly about Romeo and Juliet
2. Read 30 minutes
Last 10 may work on voice thread if still needed.
3. Watch a voice thread with class
4. Comment and add to voice threads
5. Read Colonialism (particularly home page, body, and geography)
Discuss in relation to Marlow
HW: Finish book, write blog, read the HOD close reading
Day 22, Oct 12
1. Vocab -- emissary, cipher
2. Close reading / theme writing
3.
Close reading example
4. Homework -- Read to page 121, for next class, then 138 for Friday, and finished by next week.
Finish voice thread, post to wiki on HOD unit page.
Day 21, Oct. 8
1. Vocab drawing
2. Discussion with participation points. Some discussion points:
page 75, knitting women, how are they symbolic, why include them, what are they allusive of?
page 76, doctor. how is this head measuring important historically, what is an alienist? This all relates in some ways back to Freud.
77 discuss the voice with his Aunt. What is the tone? What is his Aunt's tone? Why is "Worker" capitalized? What is being implied? What motif is being set up in this page?
*pg 78 -- notice the adjectives and categorize them in at least 5 categories.
HW: read to page 105ish
Day 20,
1. Vocab
2. Take quiz / discuss
HW: read to page 89 Do a quick description of the four settings. Then write about a theme or motif you have seen so far.
Day 19, Oct. 5/6
HW Due: Book finished/ College Essay
1. Vocab:
2. Return test, turn in college essay to turnitin.com
3. Book report -- on wiki page
a. identify climax, major conflict, resolution or denoument, what type of plot (see page of literary terms)
b. comment about setting
c. identify one major symbol and one minor.
d. discuss two characters. Label as round or flat, dynamic or static. Are they archetypal or foils?
e. Open to the exact middle. What page? Write one paragraph about how this one page relates thematically, symbolically,
or other (just not all plot) to the rest of the book.
f. Tell me one thing other that really only someone who has read the book will get.
Participate in the Heart of Darkness Forum on HOD Unit page. You need to find a short passage from 2 sentences to a paragraph in the reading. Analyze the diction and syntax. Do your own post first, titling it with your name, HOD syntax, then respond at least three times to others.
Your first post is required by 8:00 a.m. Tuesday.
HW: For blog -- obviously write a post (don't need during Chuseok). However, at least one entry where comment about someone's blog entry (not our school) and link to their blog.
How do they tell you linked? How do you tell if they linked to your blog? First, may blogs have a feature that asks for the URL of your blog and this is a feature. Second, you can BACK TRACK by using the Bloglines if you are curious. Bloglines is more a tool for keeping track of many blogs at once so you know when they post something new, but it will also show back tracking.
Day 16, Sept 20
HW Due: Paper -- see below for turnitin.com directions. Must be submitted by 8:00 a.m. to turnitin.com
1. Class tells me what they know about Omelas.
2. TEST (30 min.)
3. Visual Rhetoric, discussion and other HW: Finish reading the visual rhetoric examples, and the Visual Rhetoric of Wrestling (see day 14)
Day 15, Sept. 18 Block D Omelas
HW Due: Blog entry. Paper.
1. Read Story -- Omelas
2. Discuss tone.
3. Analyzation exercise.
4. Paragraph on tone in story. HW: TEST, PAPER --
TEST IS MONDAY, SEPT. 21
2. Papers, hand back. Reworked papers due . . .
with POV sheet.
3. Visual Rhetoric Discussion Visual Rhetoric Questions Visual Rhetoric Examples The Visual Rhetoric of Wrestling
HW: Rewrite essay -- it would be great if you give it to the sub on Friday.
Test on Monday.
Blog entry. -- minimum 3 by Friday
Read book -- due after Chuseok
Write a novel -- due next Wednesday
Design a new fashion line -- due next Thursday
Day 13, Sept. 14
HW Due: Have read the Metamorphosis essay. Essay
1. Vocab -- endemic
Write a journal entry (a bulleted list) containing the word and one other about the Breen essay
2. Discussion of Metamorphosis essay.
3. Discussion of own essay.
4. Work on essay or in class.
HW: Bring to class a visual -- advertising or with words.
Day 12, Sept. 9
HW Due: quiz questions sent to me via wiki, ready to lecture
1. Vocab -- Please correct the following sentence: the boston common a public area in downtown bosteon is the main settin for the shrot story the patriot which is about a man who argues to such an extent that it became _ ( insert vocab word).
2. Start with Soft Rains (20)
3. Then Metamorphosis Discussions
HW: Write paper for Monday. Please, please draft, set aside for at least two hours and do something else, then do draft two.
Read
about Metamorphosis. Highlight 3 lines and be prepared to either discuss or write a well-developed paragraph about the ideas. Obviously, you are welcome to read the entire article. However, recommended READ 1,5,6,11,12 -- SCAN 2,3,4,7,10 SKIP 8,9
Day 11, Sept. 7, B Block / Sept. 8 D Block
HW Due: Discussed the questions on discussion tab
1. Vocab -- Sophism
Use the word in a paragraph describing the style of Borges.
2. Discuss Tlon -- (20 minutes)
Practice Borges style (10)
3. Discuss "Soft Rains" and style
If time in class, if not as homework, write about a meal in the style of Bradbury.
HW: Read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka --
Each group (from yesterday's discussion) is responsible for a part.
Part 1: Ilwon, Yura
Part 2: Jung-Ah, Jessica
Part 3 Annie, Yongmin
Your group will give a 3-5 minute lecture about your section including specific reference to the text and have ready 3 questions for discussion (1 easy and 2 to make us think). Each member will also separately send me (on the wiki) 3 possible quiz questions that relate to your section.
Reread the
Day 10, Sept 4, B Block/ Sept. 7 D Block
HW Due: have read both stories, bring choice book to class, have at least one blog entry
1. Read Choice book
2. Vocab review
3. Discuss Stories -- particularly Tlon
HW: Reread Tlon. Answer the questionsgiven in class. Discuss with your group.
Watch the Soft Rains Soft Rain Movie (You will need to scroll past the review to access the movie. At least watch the first 5 minutes.)
If you want to work ahead, this week one of the stories is Metamorphosis. It's a little long. Part of the assignment that will be with it is some highlighting in Diigo.
Day 9, Sept. 3
HW Due: collected point of view writings, shared others on wiki or in class.
1. Vocab --
2. Blog Sharing / Point of View Sharing B Block D Block
3. Discuss stories and point of view
4. Read criticism by Cynthia Bily
HW: Read Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertiusby Jorges Luis Borges
This website has some interesting resources on Soft Rains (it's another English teacher's site, but I thought I would share).
Some questions for thought: * What happened before the story? At the end of the story?
What is the poem read during the story? Summarize it.
Find one image or line that stands out for you. Why?
What defines the style of this author? What would Cynthia Bily say?
Note: Bring your choice literature book to the next class.
Day 8 Sept. 1
1. Vocab -- Teleological (which stories have followed this pattern)
2. Discussion of "Wanderers in the Valley" and Cultural Poetics
3. Share mood writings, post to wiki.
4. Write for mood in own essay.
HW: Read Bigfoot Stole My Wife by Ron Carlson and Roselily by Alice Walker Roselily questions from Bedford Introduction to Literature. You do not have to answer, but they might help.
Writing: First, choose one then write a short statement from the point of view of another character within the story.
Then choose a story we have already read and analyze how point of view contributes to the story's overall meaning. Make this NO MORE than two pages. Incorporate at least two quotations and cite them.
Day 7 Aug. 28th for B Block/ Aug. 31 for D Block
1. Vocab -- Pinguid
2. Discussion of Stories -- Setting
3. Including setting or mood in your writing
HW:a. Read "Wanderers in the Valley" by Kim Yu-Jeong -- Notice setting, mood and how they give hints to character and plot.
b. Participate in the discussion on Short Story Page concerning the above story and setting.
d. Sit somewhere (a cafe, the mall, your roof, the bus. . .) for 5 minutes and jot very specific notes about the place. What does it sound like, taste, see, what do you notice when you close your eyes? Then spend 5 more minutes organizing the details to create a mood. Try to think in opposites. If you are on a playground, try to give a sense of evil. If you are on the bus, maybe convey a sense of peace.
e. By next Friday, have at least one blog post and put the link on your wikipage.
Day 6
1. Vocab -- Inveterate
2. Writing about conflict using in medias res or flashback
3. Blog explanation
What makes a good blog?
4. Discussion of Stories -- Plot
HW: Read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (it's long, give yourself time) Start your blog: Make sure the visual has been played with. Create one post by Saturday. Bring questions to our next class.
Day 5 AP English
1. Vocab -- Gambit
Please write the definition, then write a journal entry aboutThe Flyusing the word gambitand one other vocab word.
Don't forget these are in the vocab part of the wiki.
and analyze what they would be on the rubric. Have one person put this on the overhead.
c. Revise 1-2 paragraphs of your own paper. Not edit, but revise. Next class turn in 1st draft, revision, short, short explanation of revision or what you have discovered about your own writing.
3. Discuss The Fly.
HW: a. Revision
b. Read Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Use as a Resource Literary Terms by Sparks Notes
Read Stories given in class by Liu Yichang and Wang Zengqui
Day 4 AP English
1. Vocab -- Canonical
2. Openers/Closers Discussion
3. Blogs
4. Timed Writing
HOMEWORK AP Blog Reading.docBlog Reading Assignment
Read The Fly by Katherine Mansfield -- be prepared to discuss character and plot
Coherency and Unity and Discussion of Openers
1. Read about unity and coherence. Pay particular attention to sentence cohesion.
Day 2 AP English
Vocab -- apocryphal
Simulacrum and After Dark discussion
Working with voice, coherency in essay
Sontag and pictures (read article)
HOMEWORK --
Read pages given in class from John Trimble, Writing with Style Then create 5 openings__ (be prepared to share in class). If you can, make these about the same topic. Play around, take a risk. So what if one of the leads is horrible as long as it is obvious you tried? Be extra brave and write the openers about Sontag's theories and After Dark.
Also read this article and be prepared to discuss its lead, closing, and diction.
We know all the standard types of openers: quote, story, reference to history or historical review, analogy or metaphor, rhetorical question, startling statement. I want to also suggest the blunt statement of topic (play around with it, it could work) and the myth-blasting lead. Think of some commonly held ideas and work to say the opposite: We all know that babies come from sex between males and females. If I were to tell you that it has never clinically been proven, you might not believe me, but it is true OR You think that if you stopped breathing tomorrow you would die. But don't tell that to Katwon Aswami, a Tibetan yogi who hasn't breathed for two years.
DAY I AP ENGLISH
Vocab -- simulacrum Wiki article
Susan Sontag Review article 1by Tyson Williams Please read article 2 This article is just for additional support and is not required reading.
Daily Schedule and Assignments
Day 25, Oct 21 B Block/ Oct. 22 D Block
1. Close Reading lecture
2. Timed Writing 40 minutes
3. Conrad's life and Colonialism
HW: Test . . . Oct. 27/28
Reading of Achebe's Article P
Day 24, Oct. 20
-- Vocab will be throughout discussion (hybridity, postcolonialsm)
1. Discuss HOD
2. Discuss article and the structure
3. Colonialism and Post-colonialism
4. HW: Study for test. Timed writing tomorrow over Heart of Darkness.
What's on the test. Multiple Choice and true and false over plot points or quotes from the story. Short answer concerning particulars of plot points from part III and literary points brought up from class discussion or class lecture. Style recognition. You will be given two passages: one from Conrad, one from another. Then you have to tell which is by Conrad and why, stylistically.
Day 23, Oct. 16
1. Vocab -- choose words from HOD, let me know. If nothing, jocund and abscond -- then write synonyms and antonyms
-- please talk briefly about Romeo and Juliet
2. Read 30 minutes
- Last 10 may work on voice thread if still needed.
3. Watch a voice thread with class4. Comment and add to voice threads
5. Read Colonialism (particularly home page, body, and geography)
Discuss in relation to Marlow
HW: Finish book, write blog, read the HOD close reading
Day 22, Oct 12
1. Vocab -- emissary, cipher
2. Close reading / theme writing
3.
Close reading example
4. Homework -- Read to page 121, for next class, then 138 for Friday, and finished by next week.
Day 21, Oct. 8
1. Vocab drawing
2. Discussion with participation points. Some discussion points:
- page 75, knitting women, how are they symbolic, why include them, what are they allusive of?
- page 76, doctor. how is this head measuring important historically, what is an alienist? This all relates in some ways back to Freud.
- 77 discuss the voice with his Aunt. What is the tone? What is his Aunt's tone? Why is "Worker" capitalized? What is being implied? What motif is being set up in this page?
*pg 78 -- notice the adjectives and categorize them in at least 5 categories.HW: read to page 105ish
Day 20,
1. Vocab
2. Take quiz / discuss
HW: read to page 89 Do a quick description of the four settings. Then write about a theme or motif you have seen so far.
Day 19, Oct. 5/6
HW Due: Book finished/ College Essay
1. Vocab:
2. Return test, turn in college essay to turnitin.com
3. Book report -- on wiki page
- a. identify climax, major conflict, resolution or denoument, what type of plot (see page of literary terms)
- b. comment about setting
- c. identify one major symbol and one minor.
- d. discuss two characters. Label as round or flat, dynamic or static. Are they archetypal or foils?
- e. Open to the exact middle. What page? Write one paragraph about how this one page relates thematically, symbolically,
or other (just not all plot) to the rest of the book.- f. Tell me one thing other that really only someone who has read the book will get.
4. HOD introduction, reading of passage HOD, discussion5.
HW:ReadHOD textfrom page 65-73.
Participate in the Heart of Darkness Forum on HOD Unit page. You need to find a short passage from 2 sentences to a paragraph in the reading. Analyze the diction and syntax. Do your own post first, titling it with your name, HOD syntax, then respond at least three times to others.
Your first post is required by 8:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Day 18, Sept. 23/24
Day 17, Sept 22
HW Due: Article Read
1. Vocab -- Castration/ Inculcate
2. Discuss article (8 minutes)
3. Assignment of
HW: For blog -- obviously write a post (don't need during Chuseok). However, at least one entry where comment about someone's blog entry (not our school) and link to their blog.
How do they tell you linked? How do you tell if they linked to your blog? First, may blogs have a feature that asks for the URL of your blog and this is a feature. Second, you can BACK TRACK by using the Bloglines if you are curious. Bloglines is more a tool for keeping track of many blogs at once so you know when they post something new, but it will also show back tracking.
Day 16, Sept 20
HW Due: Paper -- see below for turnitin.com directions. Must be submitted by 8:00 a.m. to turnitin.com
1. Class tells me what they know about Omelas.
2. TEST (30 min.)
3. Visual Rhetoric, discussion and other
HW: Finish reading the visual rhetoric examples, and the Visual Rhetoric of Wrestling (see day 14)
Day 15, Sept. 18
Block D Omelas
HW Due: Blog entry. Paper.
1. Read Story -- Omelas
2. Discuss tone.
3. Analyzation exercise.
4. Paragraph on tone in story.
HW: TEST, PAPER --
turn paper in to turnitin.com
class id: 2884779
enrollment password: hathaway
Day 14, Sept. 15 B Block, Sept 16, D Block
HW Due: item
1. Vocab and
TEST IS MONDAY, SEPT. 21
2. Papers, hand back. Reworked papers due . . .
with POV sheet.
3. Visual Rhetoric Discussion
Visual Rhetoric Questions
Visual Rhetoric Examples
The Visual Rhetoric of Wrestling
HW: Rewrite essay -- it would be great if you give it to the sub on Friday.
Test on Monday.
Blog entry. -- minimum 3 by Friday
Read book -- due after Chuseok
Write a novel -- due next Wednesday
Design a new fashion line -- due next Thursday
Day 13, Sept. 14
HW Due: Have read the Metamorphosis essay. Essay
1. Vocab -- endemic
Write a journal entry (a bulleted list) containing the word and one other about the Breen essay
2. Discussion of Metamorphosis essay.
3. Discussion of own essay.
4. Work on essay or in class.
HW: Bring to class a visual -- advertising or with words.
Day 12, Sept. 9
HW Due: quiz questions sent to me via wiki, ready to lecture
1. Vocab -- Please correct the following sentence: the boston common a public area in downtown bosteon is the main settin for the shrot story the patriot which is about a man who argues to such an extent that it became _ ( insert vocab word).
2. Start with Soft Rains (20)
3. Then Metamorphosis Discussions
HW: Write paper for Monday. Please, please draft, set aside for at least two hours and do something else, then do draft two.
Read
Day 11, Sept. 7, B Block / Sept. 8 D Block
HW Due: Discussed the questions on discussion tab
1. Vocab -- Sophism
- Use the word in a paragraph describing the style of Borges.
2. Discuss Tlon -- (20 minutes)Practice Borges style (10)
3. Discuss "Soft Rains" and style
- If time in class, if not as homework, write about a meal in the style of Bradbury.
HW: Read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka --Each group (from yesterday's discussion) is responsible for a part.
Part 1: Ilwon, Yura
Part 2: Jung-Ah, Jessica
Part 3 Annie, Yongmin
Your group will give a 3-5 minute lecture about your section including specific reference to the text and have ready 3 questions for discussion (1 easy and 2 to make us think). Each member will also separately send me (on the wiki) 3 possible quiz questions that relate to your section.
Reread the
Day 10, Sept 4, B Block/ Sept. 7 D Block
HW Due: have read both stories, bring choice book to class, have at least one blog entry
1. Read Choice book
2. Vocab review
3. Discuss Stories -- particularly Tlon
HW: Reread Tlon. Answer the questionsgiven in class. Discuss with your group.
Watch the Soft Rains Soft Rain Movie (You will need to scroll past the review to access the movie. At least watch the first 5 minutes.)
If you want to work ahead, this week one of the stories is Metamorphosis. It's a little long. Part of the assignment that will be with it is some highlighting in Diigo.
Day 9, Sept. 3
HW Due: collected point of view writings, shared others on wiki or in class.
1. Vocab --
2. Blog Sharing / Point of View Sharing
B Block
D Block
3. Discuss stories and point of view
4. Read criticism by Cynthia Bily
HW: Read Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertiusby Jorges Luis Borges
This website has some interesting resources on Soft Rains (it's another English teacher's site, but I thought I would share).
Some questions for thought: * What happened before the story? At the end of the story?
- What is the poem read during the story? Summarize it.
- Find one image or line that stands out for you. Why?
- What defines the style of this author? What would Cynthia Bily say?
Note: Bring your choice literature book to the next class.Day 8 Sept. 1
1. Vocab -- Teleological (which stories have followed this pattern)
2. Discussion of "Wanderers in the Valley" and Cultural Poetics
3. Share mood writings, post to wiki.
4. Write for mood in own essay.
HW: Read Bigfoot Stole My Wife by Ron Carlson and Roselily by Alice Walker
Roselily questions from Bedford Introduction to Literature. You do not have to answer, but they might help.
Writing: First, choose one then write a short statement from the point of view of another character within the story.
Then choose a story we have already read and analyze how point of view contributes to the story's overall meaning. Make this NO MORE than two pages. Incorporate at least two quotations and cite them.
Day 7 Aug. 28th for B Block/ Aug. 31 for D Block
1. Vocab -- Pinguid
2. Discussion of Stories -- Setting
3. Including setting or mood in your writing
HW:a. Read "Wanderers in the Valley" by Kim Yu-Jeong -- Notice setting, mood and how they give hints to character and plot.
b. Participate in the discussion on Short Story Page concerning the above story and setting.
d. Sit somewhere (a cafe, the mall, your roof, the bus. . .) for 5 minutes and jot very specific notes about the place. What does it sound like, taste, see, what do you notice when you close your eyes? Then spend 5 more minutes organizing the details to create a mood. Try to think in opposites. If you are on a playground, try to give a sense of evil. If you are on the bus, maybe convey a sense of peace.
e. By next Friday, have at least one blog post and put the link on your wikipage.
Day 6
1. Vocab -- Inveterate
2. Writing about conflict using in medias res or flashback
3. Blog explanation
What makes a good blog?
4. Discussion of Stories -- Plot
HW: Read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (it's long, give yourself time)
Start your blog: Make sure the visual has been played with. Create one post by Saturday. Bring questions to our next class.
Day 5 AP English
1. Vocab -- Gambit
- Please write the definition, then write a journal entry about The Fly using the word gambit and one other vocab word.
- Don't forget these are in the vocab part of the wiki.
2. a. Look atb. Then as a class, read the
c. Revise 1-2 paragraphs of your own paper. Not edit, but revise. Next class turn in 1st draft, revision, short, short explanation of revision or what you have discovered about your own writing.
3. Discuss The Fly.
HW: a. Revision
b. Read Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Use as a Resource Literary Terms by Sparks Notes
Read Stories given in class by Liu Yichang and Wang Zengqui
Day 4 AP English
1. Vocab -- Canonical
2. Openers/Closers Discussion
3. Blogs
4. Timed Writing
HOMEWORK
AP Blog Reading.docBlog Reading Assignment
Read The Fly by Katherine Mansfield -- be prepared to discuss character and plot
Day 3 AP English
Vocab -- Venal
AP Choice Book.pagesAP Independent Book
College Board 100 Recommended
Titles from Free Response
Library catalogue
Coherency and Unity and Discussion of Openers
1. Read about unity and coherence. Pay particular attention to sentence cohesion.
Day 2 AP English
Vocab -- apocryphal
Simulacrum and After Dark discussion
Working with voice, coherency in essay
Sontag and pictures (read article)
HOMEWORK --
Read pages given in class from John Trimble, Writing with Style
Then create 5 openings__ (be prepared to share in class). If you can, make these about the same topic. Play around, take a risk. So what if one of the leads is horrible as long as it is obvious you tried? Be extra brave and write the openers about Sontag's theories and After Dark.
Also read this article and be prepared to discuss its lead, closing, and diction.
We know all the standard types of openers: quote, story, reference to history or historical review, analogy or metaphor, rhetorical question, startling statement. I want to also suggest the blunt statement of topic (play around with it, it could work) and the myth-blasting lead. Think of some commonly held ideas and work to say the opposite: We all know that babies come from sex between males and females. If I were to tell you that it has never clinically been proven, you might not believe me, but it is true OR You think that if you stopped breathing tomorrow you would die. But don't tell that to Katwon Aswami, a Tibetan yogi who hasn't breathed for two years.
NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE -- ANALYTICAL PERSUASION Finally, take a look at this article for writing style.
DAY I AP ENGLISH
Vocab -- simulacrum
Wiki article
Susan Sontag Review
article 1by Tyson Williams Please read
article 2 This article is just for additional support and is not required reading.