Thursday 7 September: Welcome; policies; poem due if possible (poem is due tomorrow in class and definitely before the assembly on Friday); rhetoric (Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion."--Aristotle); differences between AP Lang and other English classes; Elizabeth Bishop
Friday 8 September: (Class may be shortened because of All-School Mass during 2nd period; poem is still due before the assembly) Poem due in class; here are Gatsby SQs (good resource for thinking about the novel) Monday 11 September: Rhetorical lens: "One Art"; What are some ways in?; SPACECAT Tuesday 12 September: In-class exercises SPACECAT Wednesday 13 September: In-class writing: "One Art" and SPACECAT Thursday 14 September: Gatsby was your assigned summer reading; today is your reading quiz (10 min., objective); opening discussion; this is a good way to do this, because now as we go (pretty fast) it's all your second read-through Friday 15 September: Gatsby Chapter 1 Monday 18 September: Gatsby Chapter 2; HW: finish the drawing or answer 2.5 and 2.7 (the two together), 2.8, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, or 3.9 in a good paragraph--upload the link to the Doc on Jupiter or hand in on paper Tuesday 19 September: Gatsby Chapter 3 Wednesday 20 September: Gatsby Chapter 4; list of names on the timetable Here is the prep page for the Rhetorical Analysis you'll do on Monday Thursday 21 September: No class; Upper School Summer Reading Session #2 instead Friday 22 September: No class; TAC college visit Monday 25 September: Gatsby 1-4 in-class writing Tuesday 26 September: Chapters 4 (after names list); Wednesday 27 September: Chapter 5; main ideas: time words; clock scene; rain, clouds, fog; shirts scene Thursday 28 September: Catch-up: memorization assigned; modernism handout redux; Chapter 6 Friday 29 September: Chapter 7 exercise in class; prep for graded discussion by taking notes on Chapter 7 SQs and thinking about what it all means in light of the end of the novel Monday 2 October: Chapter 7 graded discussion (people called upon) in class; HW: Brush up Chapter 8 Tuesday 3 October: School closed for the funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: More Chapter 7; HW: Chapter 8 study question Thursday 5 October: Chapter 8 SQ due Friday 6 October: No class; Full-day festival day for Our Lady of the Rosary Monday 9 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 10 October: Chapter 9 due; culminating activities; Night scene by El Greco activity; HW: Last line activity Wednessday 11 October: No class; PSAT Thursday 12 October: Overall review of The Great Gatsby Friday 13 October: Test: The Great Gatsby; Read They Say/I Say Chapter 1 Monday 16 October: TS/IS Chapter 1 due Tuesday 17 October: Workday; Rhetorical Analysis and SQ revision is also in the hopper, due October 27, but the feedback is fresh now and it would be good to begin working incrementally Wednesday 18 October: Recitation due Thursday 19 October: TS/IS Chapter 2 due; consider Columbus and Franklin for in-class writing Friday 20 October: In-class writing Columbus and Franklin Comments are closed.
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