Monday 26 September: Introduction to TS/IS due for discussion in class
Tuesday 27 September: Gatsby Chapter 1 due; in-class Harkness discussion to heighten tech talk; here is Chapter 1 handout for class Wednesday 28 September: Gatsby Chapter 2 due; Modernism; In-class activity on imagism Thursday 29 September: More about modernism, imagism, and artistic context; HW prompt (notes only): At the end of Chapter 2, what is happening? What stylistic choices does Fitzgerald make to shape and execute the scene? What are the effects of these stylistic choices? Friday 30 September: No class; half day Monday 3 October: Gatsby Chapter 3 due Tuesday 4 October: They Say/I Say Chapter 1 due Wednesday 5 October: Gatsby Chapter 4 due Thursday 6 October: They Say/I Say Chapter 2 due Friday 7 October: No classes; Our Lady of the Rosary Monday 10 October: No school! Columbus Day Tuesday 11 October: Gatsby Chapter 5 due Wednesday 12 October: No classes for upper school: PSAT Thursday 13 October: Gatsby Chapter 6 due Friday 14 October: They Say/I Say Chapter 3 due Monday 17 October: Gatsby Chapter 7 due Tuesday 18 October: They Say/I Say Chapter 4 due Wednesday 19 October: Gatsby Chapter 8 due; Portfolio information distributed Thursday 20 October: Gatsby Chapter 9 due Friday 21 October: More novel culmination activities Monday 24 October: Discuss Fitzgerald's use of allusion in Chapter 9; HW: Prep 25-30 min for in-class writing using your well read, well annotated book and class handouts; here is the link to the rubric we looked at in class Tuesday 25 October: In-class writing: Gatsby, Franklin, and Columbus; HW: Work on portfolio Wednesday 26 October: Discussion of in-class writing in light of the novel and also principles of TS/IS, review of major themes in and approaches to Gatsby; here are some old SQs to help you tune up to what kinds of things I ask in AP Lang. Thursday 27 October: No class; Halloween Festival Friday 29 October: No school! Monday 31 October: Gatsby test; HW: Work on portfolio Tuesday 1 November: Gatsby passage in-class writing, no prep needed but annotated book and knowledge of main themes, but HW: finish portfolio Wednesday 2 November: Paper sequence introduced; Jane Tompkins: "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" in class; HW: Finish Tompkins Thursday 3 November: Discussion of Tompkins and academic summary assignment made Friday 4 November: Portfolio due; Beginning brainstorming topics for the paper sequence Here are rubrics for synthesis essays, rhetorical analysis essays, and argument essays. Portfolio items; Portfolio due Friday, November 4 1. Reflective memo 2. Choose any 2 from this list: •Giannone Rhetorical Analysis •O'Connor SQ Essay •Colin Powell FRQ3 expanded to essay length •In-class writing on allusion in Gatsby Comments are closed.
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