Wednesday 10 May: Reduced class because of AP Bio exam; AILD project workday
Thursday 11 May: AILD project workday Friday 12 May: AILD project workday Monday 15 May: AILD project workday Tuesday 16 May: Intro to the Harlem Renaissance; read "Returning Soldiers" (DuBois); "The New Negro" (Locke); here is the handout that accompanies the screencast Wednesday 17 May: Complete readings "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" reading due; "I, Too" and "Theme for English B" (Hughes) Thursday 18 May: Workday for AILD project Friday 19 May: No class; Medieval Day Monday 22 May: Short discussion of "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"; Harlem Renaissance poetry; work day for poetry discussion Tuesday 23 May: AILD project due; discussion in class; poetry discussion (Clare/Fiat and Margot/Lucy) Wednesday 24 May: Poetry discussion in class (remaining groups); IM Prologue due; here is Armstrong's "Black and Blue" Thursday 25 May: IM Chapter 10 due (Liberty Paints); short (15-min) in-class writing to tie it all together Friday 26 May: Half Day; no class Exams Wednesday 3 May: Review for AP Lang exam, from lunch until 3:15
Thursday 4 May: No afternoon classes; funeral Friday 5 May: (Prom) Please look at the three practice tests I have made available in the Jupiter materials for this class: the one you did in the Parsonage, the one you did the synthesis from (and still can complete the rest), and the one we did parts of on review day (and you can still do the rest). Here is the old rhetorical analysis assignment sheet to help you think about rhetorical analysis. Here's a review video for rhetorical analysis; another video Here's a video of AP Lang Exam Readers' best tips Here's that UMD paper that really nails transitions between paragraphs. Remember that this is an argument of inquiry, so it argues for the importance of a question rather than taking a specific position (similar to the Jane Tompkins piece) All the studying you do now will help you on this test, the verbal SAT, and should improve your reading and writing going forward. Monday 8 May: Revise an old test essay for score (bring in Tarzanically marked draft and some ideas, revise in class to hand in at the end of class; refer to the test rubric from the packet, in the class materials on Jupiter) Tuesday 9 May: AP English Language Exam Friday 10 March: Discuss ideas for short story project; Begin As I Lay Dying in class
Monday 13 March: AILD, pp. 10-20; Rhetorical Terms #3 Test Tuesday 14 March: AILD through p. 34; go over Rhetorical Terms #4 Wednesday 15 March: AILD pp. 35–57 Thursday 16 March: AILD pp. 58–81 Friday 17 March: AILD pp. 82–102; hot seat appointments begin Monday 20 March: Faulkner catch-up; more about the last reading Tuesday 21 March: AILD pp. 103–127; here is key to Rhetorical Terms #3 Wednesday 22 March: Rhetorical Terms #4 Test Thursday 23 March: No class; half day for Gala; hot seat for half poem closes today Friday 24 March: No class; Gala practice Monday 27 March: No school; Gala recovery Tuesday 28 March: In-class AP practice (Mrs. Walsh on field trip) Wednesday 29 March: AILD pp. 128–149 Thursday 30 March: AILD pp. 150–176 Friday 31 March: No class; half day; hot seat for story closes today Sunday 2 April: 12-4 (probably a little shorter): Full-length AP exam practice in Parsonage; review video for rhetorical analysis; another video Monday 3 April: Poem recitation or story due (though finished last week for the hot seat) Tuesday 4 April: AILD pp. 177–197 Wednesday 5 April: What! Gala extra surprise! Break begins early! Easter Break There's just the one reading due over the break, because you have done your practice test the week before. Monday 17 April: AILD pp. 198–217 Tuesday 18 April: AILD pp. 218–238; Targeted MC discussion Wednesday 19 April: AILD: pp. 239–end; AILD assignment available; Targeted MC discussion Thursday 20 April: AILD discussion and culminating activity; Discuss Rhetorical Terms #5 Friday 21 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Monday 24 April: Faulkner's Nobel Speech Tuesday 25 April: Passage choice and creative project proposal due Wednesday 26 April: In-Class Writing: Faulkner's Nobel Speech Rhetorical Analysis Thursday 27 April: Darl's Cubistic Vision due Friday 28 April: MC review exercise in class for discussion Monday Monday 1 May: Rhetorical Terms #5 Test, culminating version (20 min); Go over MC review Tuesday 2 May: Passage revision review exercise in class (discussion during review session) Tuesday 28 February: No class; Gala practice!
Wednesday 1 March: Anderson: "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," "Tandy" due; Here is a pdf of the collection, Winesburg, Ohio, which contains all of the Anderson stories we will read Thursday 2 March: go over Rhetorical Terms #3; "The Strength of God" due; hot seat closes for sourced argument paper Friday 3 March: more activities with "The Strength of God"; Sourced Argument paper due by 10pm (draft work may be submitted on Monday) Monday 6 March: Eliot: "Prufrock" in class Tuesday 7 March: Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" due Wednesday 8 March: ""Big Two-Hearted River," Part I, due Thursday 9 March: "Big Two-Hearted River," Part II, due; short story assignment made. For Anderson, choose "Paper Pills," "The Teacher," or "Sophistication"; For Hemingway, choose "Battler," "The End of Something," or "The Three-Day Blow"; alternative assignment is to memorize "Prufrock" in full Friday 10 March: Begin As I Lay Dying in class Monday 13 March: Rhetorical Terms #3 Test Please complete one full sample test from 5 Steps to a 5 (on paper) and hand in your work by the end of March. Please take this sample test in one sitting--you will need to schedule it on your family calendar so you have the full three hours to complete this assignment. If desired, I can make an evening or a Saturday session. Rhetorical terms (a very AP form of vocab)
Monday 23 January: Go over Rhetorical terms #1; Introduction to the Sourced Argument Paper; Two approaches: Causal argument; Proposal argument; HW: Brainstorm what you would like to argue; reacquaint with sources Tuesday 24 January: Causal arguments: causal chain activity; HW: Brainstorm causal arguments for your topic; handout 1, handout 2; here is the handout for classical structure Wednesday 25 January: Discuss possible causal arguments; Proposal arguments; group proposal argument activity Thursday 26 January: Finish group proposal arguments; HW: TS/IS Chapter 7 Friday 27 January: No class; half day Monday 30 January: TS/IS Chapter 7 quiz and discussion Tuesday 31 January: Mrs. Walsh's Famous Emily Dickinson lecture; Dickinson presentation assigned; Dickinson poems chosen; "There Came a Day at Summer's Full" copy text is HW Wednesday 1 February: "There Came a Day" copy text discussion; work on own copy text Thursday 2 February: Sourced Argument Informal outline due to slot in Jupiter; No class, Gala practice Friday 4 February: Workday for Emily Dickinson presentation/paper Monday 6 February: Quiz on Rhetorical Terms #1; Go over Rhetorical Terms #2; Questions on Emily Dickinson presentation/paper Tuesday 7 February: Emily Dickinson presentation workday; for more manuscripts of your poem, see Emily Dickinson Archive Wednesday 8 February: Emily Dickinson presentation workday Thursday 9 February: Emily Dickinson presentation; hot seat for the sourced argument opens Friday 10 February: Emily Dickinson presentation Monday 13 February: Headmaster's holiday; no classes Tuesday 14 February: Sourced Argument Review; Emily Dickinson questions Wednesday 15 February: Hand in Emily Dickinson paper; In-class Argument: Emily Dickinson; HW: Reading 1 of "Bartleby the Scrivener" Thursday 16 February: "Bartleby" Reading 1 (pp. 1–top of 12) due Friday 17 February: No class; half day Monday 20 February: Presidents' Day; No classes Tuesday 21 February: No class; Carnevale Wednesday 22 February: Rhetorical Terms #2 Quiz (but cumulative); "Bartleby" Reading 2 (pp. 12–top of 22) due Thursday 23 February: "Bartleby" Reading 3 (22–end) due Friday 24 February: "Bartleby" Reading 3 SQs Monday 27 February: "Bartleby" In-Class Writing Hot seat for the sourced argument closes March 2; Sourced argument due Friday, March 3, by 10pm. Wednesday 4 January: Midterm review distributed; Custom House presentations from Fiat, Adrianna, Margot, and Siena
Thursday 5 January: Scarlet Letter Quiz; discussion of approaches to Hawthorne's argument; winter reading guide Friday 6 January: More work with Scarlet Letter winter reading guide; HW: Read 5 Steps Synthesis Essay section Monday 9 January: More work with Scarlet Letter winter reading guide; Synthesis essay practice in class (bring 5 Steps) Tuesday 10 January: Scarlet Letter in context: Emerson (review), Thoreau, "Thanatopsis" due for discussion; American nature writing; specific prep for the in-class writing Wednesday 11 January: In-class writing on The Scarlet Letter Thursday 12 January: Review for Midterm: Synthesis essay practice in class; here is rubric for wind power synth (2019); here are student samples; here is scoring Friday 13 January: Review for Midterm: Rhetorical Analysis Midterms: The English Midterm is Tuesday, January 17, at 8:45am in Fellowship Hall Monday 7 November: Three-Topic Memo due; Have finished the Tompkins essay for discussion; HW: What is Tompkins' solution to the apparent problem? Answer should be one paragraph uploaded to Jupiter before class
Tuesday 8 November: Discussion of Tompkins' solution; Academic Summary assigned Wednesday 9 November: One-Topic Memo due, refined and beautiful, with details Thursday 10 November: Scholarly and popular sources; credible sources Friday 11 November: No class; half day Monday 14 November: Hot seat opens for academic summary; Research methods; here is worksheet from class Tuesday 15 November: Prep for library trip; use of JSTOR and Google Scholar Wednesday 16 November: Purpose of in-text citations (ohhhhh!) and how works cited pages actually make a lot of sense Thursday 17 November: Poetry OutLoud In-Class Competition; how to save stuff you get at the library so that you don't make a ridiculous mistake resulting in my having to go back and get stuff for you Friday 18 November: UMD Library Field Trip Monday 21 November: Hot seat closes for academic summary; Brush up your sources; begin reading; make sure you can cite Handing in material for the academic summary: If you don't have the stamp, upload your final version and draft work, marked versions, as pdfs to the assignment in Jupiter. In the comment field, note the times you have visited the hot seat and the outcomes. Tuesday 22 November: No class; St. Cecilia's Day; Academic Summary due; preliminary bibliography due (in MLA style; remember to put your research question at the top) Thanksgiving Break The Scarlet Letter will be winter reading for AP Lang. You will receive this book now, and it will be due right after Christmas Break Here is the assignment sheet for the annotated bibliography. Here is the checklist for that assignment. Here is a sample student annotated bibliography. Here is a grid you can use for the stasis grid in Word; as a pdf (This grid has spots for 10 articles; you only need to do 5 articles.) link to Popplet student example stasis grids: Popplet 1, Grid 1, Grid 2, and here is another Popplet that sees the stases in a slightly different way and uses popular sources, but you can get the idea. I like the use of the leftmost box for an author credential--it makes the credential easy to remember and forces you to be concise. Monday 28 November: Workday for annotated bib, stasis grid HW: Read one article or write one entry + grid Tuesday 29 November: Workday for annotated bib, stasis grid; HW: Read one article or write one entry + grid Wednesday 30 November: Field Trip to Shakespeare Theatre to see Much Ado About Nothing; HW: Read one article or write one entry Thursday 1 December: Workshop of two annotations, stasis grid entries Friday 2 December: Begin RA in class, using an AP sample; RA assignment sheet distributed; HW: find your source Monday 5 December: Student samples of 3-page RA; Informal Fallacies; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Tuesday 6 December: Informal Fallacies; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Wednesday 7 December: Fannie Lou Hamer; Here is the text of the speech; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Thursday 8 December: Fannie Lou Hamer; HW: Work on Annotated Bib + Stasis Grid Friday 9 December: Annotated Bib and Stasis Grid due; In-class cold RA; hot seat opens for RA Monday 12 December: Discussion of in-class cold RA Tuesday 13 December: Workday for your RA (hot seat opportunities) Wednesday 14 December: In-class cold RA Thursday 15 December: Intro to American Romanticism/Transcendentalism, The Scarlet Letter Friday 16 December: More Scarlet Letter in class; winter reading guide Monday 19 December: Hot seat closes for RA; last minute tips and admonitions Tuesday 20 December: RA due; Lessons and takeaways Christmas Break! The Scarlet Letter will be due upon our return from Christmas 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 Orientation: Policy sheet; poem logistics; SQ assignment established; the return of Tea Party Tuesday
Here is the famous Unlucky 13 handout Thursday, September 1: Poem recitations; Intro to course; the rhetorical triangle USING BISHOP TO UNDERSTAND SPACECAT Friday, September 2: No class; Opening All-School Assembly (Poem due before assembly, see sign-up sheet on my door) HW: Take SPACECAT notes on "One Art" using the worksheet Monday, September 5: Labor Day; No school Tuesday, September 6: Bring a cup for Tea Party Tuesday; "One Art" discussion SPACECAT, drafts of "One Art" HW: Review the Introduction to Spiritual Writings SOLIDIFYING SPACECAT AND INTRODUCING RHETORICAL ANALYSIS WITH GIANNONE Wednesday, September 7: More discussion of SPACECAT as a method for rhetorical analysis, some connections to Giannone; discussion of the rhetorical analysis prompts and scoring Thursday, September 8: An example (question 2, p. 11) and tip sheet here; line of argument Friday, September 9: In-class writing: SPACECAT and the Spiritual Writings Introduction; HW: Work on SQ paragraphs ADDING DAILY EXAM PRACTICE COMPLETING RHETORICAL AND CLOSE READING WITH O'CONNOR Monday, September 12: Begin daily warm-ups from 5 Steps; Story assignments made, as some students will have completed SQs: "Good Country People" (Hulga): Clare, Ashlee, Fiat "The Life You Save May Be Your Own": Siena, Lucy, SHannan "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (the Misfit): Ana, Margot, Astrid "Parker's Back": Sydney, Adrianna, Gabby Tuesday, September 13: Tea Party Tuesday; Workday for the Flannery O'Connor SQs or on stories Wednesday, September 14: Spiritual Writings SQs due (4 total, paragraphs of 5-6 sentences each); work on stories in class; discuss in a general way; HW: (Bare minimum) Have read and annotated story for presentation Thursday, September 15: Here is the assignment for the group presentation; work on your group presentation Friday, September 16: Continue working on your group presentation Monday, September 19: Last workday for story presentation Tuesday, September 20: Story presentation day 1; HW: work on SQ essay prep Wednesday, September 21: Story presentation day 2; Quiz on presentations; HW: work on SQ essay prep Thursday, September 22: Two-day in-class essay (homework allowed if desired): Choose one of the questions you have written an answer to, or one of the three-asterisked questions if you would like to start fresh, to produce a response that works as a fully argued AP Lang FRQ-type question. You may consult with me on your work during lunch or class on Thursday, or during lunch or class on Friday. Friday, September, September 23: Complete the in-class writing; your homework is the Introduction to They Say/I Say Here is the rubric we looked at in class; you should take from it broad points about what is valued generally in the AP Lang essays. The first rubric is probably least applicable to what you are writing unless you are integrating outside sources. Look at the second and third for inspiration. Thursday 12 May: Begin reading Othello in class
Monday 16 May: (Have read through 1.3.335) Return after Gala weekend Tuesday 17 May: Have read through 2.1.173; HW: Act I speech activity Wednesday 18 May: Reading forward in class, beginning 2.3.235; Final exam review available for non-AP exam takers Thursday 19 May: 3.3 due Friday 20 May: No class; Medieval Festival Monday 23 May: 3.4 and 4.1 due; activities to bring together rhetorical features so far Tuesday 24 May: 4.2 and 4.3 due; finish play in class Wednesday 25 May: Rhetoric of Iago activities; HW: Revise thesis for sophistication; make notes incorporating important but less used material: the manipulation of Othello using his outsiderhood and using imagery Thursday 26 May: 5.2 due; culminating activities and prep for in-class writing Friday 27 May: In-Class Writing on Othello |