SEMESTER II

Week 20: Final Exams and Graduation

Week 19:  Work on Research papers and Portfolios--Due Wednesday, May 23

Week 18:  Work on Research papers and Final Portfolios

Test over Beloved

Work in class on Research and portfolios

Week 17:  May 7-11 (AP TEST ON THURSDAY, MAY 10)

Review of Essay Question #3--Thematic

Review Assignment for Question 3--Tuesday

Review of Test Taking Strategies--Wednesday

Chicken Movie--Thursday

Friday--Review of AP exam and work on Portfolios/research projects

Week 16:  April 30-May 4

Monday--Discussion of Beloved and prose response

AP practice test part 2 and review--Tuesday

Wednesday/Thursday--Review of poetry--Blackberry poems and poetry essay

Review exercise for portfolio and AP exam (Essay #3)--handout--Due Tuesday

Week 15:  April 23-27 (midterm week)

Review day/reading day--Monday

Tuesday:  Quiz over part 2 of novel

Timed AP Practice test (multiple choice) and review

Continued discussion of Beloved

-Friday and Quiz--Literary terms

Week 14:  April 16-20

Discussion on Part 1 of Beloved

Researching topics utilizing college databases (see your research paper worksheet)--Computer lab Wednesday and Friday

Close reading exercise:  Analyzing passage from Part I and creating AP type multiple choice questions

Beloved Reading Guide:

Week 14:                                                            Week 15:

Mon:   4-35                                                             Mon:  174-195

Tues:  36-68                                                            Tues:  196-235

Wed:  69-100                                                          Wed:  236-270

Thur:  101-133                                                        Thur:  271-309

Fri:     134-173                                                         Fri:     310-END

Week 13:  Spring Break

Week 12:  April 2-4

Discussion of Morrison criticism and polemical articles on race

quiz over Morrison essay and articles

Journal collection

Handouts:  Final Exam portifolio and Research Paper (due May 23)

Week 11:  March 26-30

Discussion on Kandahar--Journal (see handout)--Monday (3/26) and Wed (2/28)

Handout--Final Exam Portfolio--Start Collecting/Finding your papers (don't wait until the last minute!!!)

Short Story Journal #4--Due Friday

Handout--Toni Morrison "Black Matters" and current polemical articles (Thursday)

Short Story--"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

Readings for Week 12:  begin "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

Week 10:  March 19-22--END OF QUARTER 3

Review of part 3

Test over Things Fall Apart--Tuesday, March 20

Close reading journal: POV and tone

Film:  excerpt from film Kandahar

Extra credit blog--due Thursday

Week 9:  March 12-16 (Kairos Week)

Review current issues/questions pertaining to Things Fall Apart; review of Part 2 of the novel

Journal:  Howard Zinn: "Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress" from A People's History of the Unites States--see questions on back of handout OR "should children learn the brutal, violent versions of their country's history?"

AP Prose passage practice test--characterization

Reading and response:  "The Stereotype Effect" in The Tight Collar by Davis Dobbs (handout)

Writing Workshop:  Review of AP prose passage analysis paper and Journal (3/6/12): 

1) Read AP examples

2) Assess holistic score on paper

3) Refute a possible opposing interpretation of an idea in your essay (techiques for sophistication)

Short Story Journal #3 due--March 16 (don't put off unitl the last minute)

Week 8:  March 5-9

Quiz over Part 2 of TFA

Finish reading book by Friday

Excerpt from People's History--How does a critic read?

Review of key passages--close reading of text

Journal--Real Dilemma's regarding multiculturalism--Muslim headscarves within the uniform or diversity in AP class

Week 7:  Feb. 27-March 2

Readings on topics and discussions (see list from last week)

Quiz over Part 1 of TFA and Discussion

Argumentation--refuting the opposing argument

Week 6:  Feb. 21-24

Tuesday--Handouts (Reader Response Critcism and Chopin's "The Story of An Hour"); Chinua Achebe:  Excerpt from "An Image of Africa"--reader response criticism of Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness"

Wednesday:  Short story analysis questions--excerpts from Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun," Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting," and Cormac McCarthy's "The Crossing" (for Thursday); handouts on Criticism:  exceprt from "Unthinking Eurocentrism" by Shohat and Stam, excerpt from "Modern History (1942)" by Hayes and Moon, excerpt from "People's History of the United States" by Zinn.

Thursday:  Review passages

Friday:  40 min, timed essay exam--AP essay #2--Prose

Readings for Week of Feb. 27-March 2:

Handouts: counter-arguments (The Greatest of Western Civilization)--next week

From novel Things Fall Apart:  "The Second Coming" (poem)--William Butler Yeats, "The Jungle Commission" (fable)--Jomo Kenyatta, Part 1 of TFA (1-111)

Week 5:  Feb. 13-17

Short Short journal #2--See handout for details

Quiz--Short story analysis:  "The Story of an Hour"--K. Chopin and "Happy Birthday" by K. Brush

Journal Collection #1

Discussion of short stories and literary terms

Analysis papers and review--Journal Assignment (2/17/12):

PART 1--

Read the anonymous commentary and grade on your poetry analysis and respond:

A. Overall, what are your thoughts on the assessment?  Do you agree with the grade [be sure to state what it is]?  Why or why not?  Respond directly to the essay.  If you don't agree with the score, what do you think it should be?

B.  What are your thoughts reagrding MY comments on their analysis. 

PART 2--

What are your thoughts overall on your analysis paper. . . what did you learn approaching an analysis from a different viewpoint? 

Week 4:  Feb. 6-10

Quiz and close reading (POV, Character):  stories of Wolff and O'Connor

Read:  Point of View (intro chapter in Perrines book--both editions)--In beige: 237-243

          "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor (in both Perrine's--both editions)--Thursday (quiz)

Journals:  Wednesday, 2/8:  "In my words"--pick a character from one of the 2 stories we analyzed on Tuesday and write in his/her voice (1st person):  How do you see the story?

Week 3: January 30-Feb. 3

Compare and Contrast--art and poetry

Journal--Handout on Shakespeare/Pamuk excerpts

Journal--How we make meaning--What influences your thinking more?  Author, Text, Reader? 

Discussion: POV and TONE

Fiction--Short Stories--POV, Character

"Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff (Beige 86)--Thursday

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor (Beige 434)--Friday

Analysis papers due--Tuesday

Fiction Journal #1--See handout--due Friday

Week 2: January 23-27

Monday--Compare/Contrast--work of Rembrandt (see blog)

Shakespeare Project Presentations and Papers--Begin Tuesday, Jan.24 (see schedule)

Week 1:  January 17-20 (Kairos Week)

Tuesday (1/17):
Compare and Contrast—The Power of Art (Exploring a theme: Rembrandt) and Journal Assignment (see blog)
Schedule for Presentations: Tuesday-Tuesday (1/24-31)
Poetry Journal Project—collect 3 poems that relate to a theme from those you selected n Semester 1
Introduction to the short story journals (handout)—semester 2

Wednesday (1/18):
Journal Assignment: Rewrite one paragraph from 1 of the semester exam essays [much like what we did in class last week]. Pay close attention to parallelism (Style & VOICE) as well as quoting, punctuation, etc.).

Work on Shakespeare projects

Thursday (1/19):
Journal: With a partner, review your semester exams (multiple choice section). Analyze your reasoning on 4 questions that you answered incorrectly.

Work on Shakespeare Projects

Friday (1/20):
Finish Journal assignments
Continued prep for Shakespeare projects
 

My blog for AP class: 

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