Monday 29 April: Any remaining Foster presentations (Elena, Adrianna, Margot, Sydney, Siena)
Tuesday 30 April: Foster test (open notes); work on mini-portfolio Wednesday 1 May: MC review (the event); work on mini-portfolio Thursday 2 May: MC review (the discussion); AP Book Reports due; finish mini-portfolio Friday 3 May: Mini-portfolio due; Review FRQ3s Monday 6 May: Poetry review; Garden of English Poetry Review Tuesday 7 May: Afternoon review for Lit exam (lunch–end of day) ******************* Lit Review 12:10–3:15pm 12:10–12:30pm: Eat and chat; big notes from poetry lesson (divide the poem into gestures, talk precisely about what you see and what the effects are, notice formal variations); big notes from prose passage lesson (value of clincher sentence in maintaining line of reasoning) 12:30pm–12:45pm: MC practice set completion 12:45–1:30pm: MC discussion 1:30–2pm: Essay fundamentals review (lateral thinking; topic sentences, division of paragraphs, carrying through line of reasoning, transitional expressions; citing; balance of evidence and commentary) 2–2:30pm: Prose passage practice 2:30-3pm: FRQ3 game (with an eye to abundant, specific evidence) 3pm–3:15pm: Dismissal; individual questions ******************** Wednesday 8 May: AP Lit Exam (Students not taking the AP Exam will have a class exam on May 9 and May 10.) Here is a useful blog where you can look up references you don't know.
AK Final Sourced Paper due March 26 in class Friday 15 March: Introduction to Brideshead; Prologue (through p. 18) Readings for the novel are nightly but not too long; feel free to read ahead in order to be able to balance multiple assignments in a reasonable way; annotating your book will enable you to read ahead and then to check back over the current reading to be sharp in class. You will need to use your planner in order to be able to pace out assignments so that you are successful. Monday 18 March: Book 1, Chapter 1 due Tuesday 19 March: Book 1, Chapter 2 due Wednesday 20 March: Book 1, Chapter 3 due Thursday 21 March: No class; half day Friday 22 March: Gala practice Monday 25 March: Maryland Day Festival Tuesday 26 March: Book 1, Chapter 4 due Wednesday 27 March: Book 1, Chapter 5 due Easter Break Tuesday 9 April: Book 2, Chapter 1 due Wednesday 10 April: Begin Foster presentations, one each day (Ana); Book 2, Chapter 2 due; here is handout for class Thursday 11 April: (FP Lucy) Book 2, Chapter 3 due Friday 12 April: (FP Fiat) Book 3, Chapter 1 due; here is handout for class Monday 15 April: In-class writing, Brideshead prose passage Tuesday 16 April: (FP Mairin) Book 3, Chapter 2 due Wednesday 17 April: Seniors skip (Book 3, Chapter 3 due) Thursday 18 April: Book 3, Chapter 4 due; here is 3.4 handout for class Friday 19 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Saturday, April 20, 9am: Meet for full-length practice exam, Parsonage Monday 22 April: (FP Karolina, Elena, Clare, Ashlee) Book 3, Chapter 5 due Tuesday 23 April: AP Practice Test MC Review (class for students who took the test; others may have a study hall elsewhere to prep for the class final this group will take May 9 or 10) Wednesday 24 April: Epilogue due; Culminating discussion, graded Thursday 25 April: No class Friday 26 April: Half day, Grandparents' Day, Prom (no class) Mini-Portfolio can consist of two revised pieces. Pieces eligible for the mini-portfolio: 1. AK Comparative Translation 2. In-Class "The Dead" 3. Poetry Practice essay 4. Waste Land in-class writing 5. BR Prose passage 6. Any essay from the sample test •You must submit the old, graded version as well as the new revision. •In lieu of the reflective memo, submit one paragraph for each revised essay in which you discuss your changes, presumably from a combination of teacher comments, principles you have learned in class, closer reading of the prompt (complexity, on one hand, and/or literary techniques, on the other). **************************************************** Tuesday, March 5: Beginning: Context, some allusions, sound, beginning to read; paper draft due
Wednesday, March 6: Have read through the end of Part I; schedule Saturday practice exam Thursday, March 7: Have read through the end of Part II; drawing of room discussed Friday, March 8: Have read Part III Monday, March 11: Parts IV and V due Tuesday, March 12: Group work on approaches, other questions Wednesday, March 13: No class; extra Gala practice Thursday, March 14: In-class writing, The Waste Land Hot seat opens Wednesday, March 13, closes Tuesday, March 25 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Tuesday, March 26 in class Tuesday 6 Feb: Overview of Schools of Literary Criticism; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; my essay on Post-Structuralism; HW: Brainstorm critical schools that are of interest
Wednesday 7 Feb: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise; Here's the assignment sheet for the paper; Work on proposal and rudimentary JSTOR research Thursday 8 Feb: Quiz: Literary History and Literary Criticism; More proposal work; proposal due by 10pm Friday 9 Feb: Poetry unit begins while you write the AK paper at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Here are the main dates for the paper: Proposal due: by 10pm Thursday, February 8 Simple bibliography of 5 sources and refined proposal: Tuesday, February 13 by 10pm Thesis and Informal outline: Wednesday, February 21 Well written draft due: Tuesday, March 5 Hot seat opens Wednesday, March 13, closes Tuesday, March 25 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Tuesday, March 26 in class Here is a pdf of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction Monday 12 Feb: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: No class; Carnevale; Simple Bibliography and refined proposal due by 10pm Wednesday 14 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems Thursday 15 February: Mrs. Walsh on field trip; workday for paper Friday 16 February: No class; half day Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes) Wednesday 21 February: Thesis and Informal Outline due; Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace); 3 of Shakespeare's sonnets Thursday 22 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Friday 23 February: Rhetorical figures (check out Liturgy Guys episode [Season 2, episode 24, "Pete and Repeat..."; begin at 4:10 after the banter; substance starts at 8:10 or so] for related tropes as we see them in the Mass); useful repetition handout Monday 26 February: Useful Repetition redux; Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Tuesday 27 February: Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals test; Here is scansion worksheet Wednesday 28 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Thursday 29 February: Additional scansion review and some cold analysis; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are poems: "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937"; here are answers for "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd...," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937." Here is a second packet and a quick screencast about process, focusing on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." Friday 1 March: Poetry fundamentals test with some cold analysis Monday 4 March: AP FRQ 1 (Poetry) practice; here's a sample to help you think about a worthy poem and a possible prompt; here are sample answers and scoring (it's the old 9-point rubric, but you can see what's successful) Tuesday 5 March: Well written draft of AK paper (with works cited page) due at 10pm Wednesday 24 January: Midterm discussion; Begin "The Dead" in class; HW: Read through p. 130
Thursday 25 January: "The Dead"; HW: Read through p. 141 Friday 26 January: No class; half day Monday 29 January: "The Dead" through p. 141 due; Sample prompt and discussion; HW: Finish the story Tuesday 30 January: "The Dead"; John Huston's "The Dead"; "The Dead" prose passage sample prompt #2 Wednesday 31 January: In-class writing "The Dead"; HW: MC practice; have 2-3 questions for us to discuss Thursday 1 February: No class; Gala practice Friday 2 February: No afternoon classes; Career Day Monday 5 February: Any review of MC practice; Reprise of Literary History lecture with more materials, to reinforce and extend Tuesday 6 February: Schools of Literary Criticism; AK Lit Crit paper assigned; HW: Brainstorming with Anna Karenina Wednesday 7 February: Write proposal for AK Lit Crit paper and begin JSTOR research Thursday 8 February: Quiz: Literary History and Literary Criticism; Continued in-class research Thursday 9 November: Begin reading Anna Karenina in class; HW: Work on Hamlet writing
Friday 10 November: Continue reading Anna Karenina in class; Hot seat for Hamlet closes at the end of the school day; upload Hamlet writing via Google Doc link to the assignment slot in Jupiter and write in the notes field your relationship to the hot seat. Monday 13 November: AK Reading 1 due; study questions are for your reference; here is an encouraging handout from brilliant alumna Sophia Sorensen Tuesday 14 November: AK Reading 2 due; topic threads assigned Wednesday 15 November: AK Reading 3 due Thursday 16 November: Seniors in Boston Friday 17 November: Seniors in Boston Monday 20 November: AK translation exercise; here's Rosamund Bartlett on translation; thesis statement discussion Tuesday 21 November: No class; St. Cecilia's Day Thanksgiving Break Monday 27 November: AK Reading 4 due Tuesday 28 November: AK Reading 5 due Wednesday 29 November: AK Reading 6 due; Topic thread update; Classroom competition, Poetry OutLoud Thursday 30 November: Comparative translation in-class writing Friday 1 December: AK Reading 7 due Monday 4 December: AK Reading 8 due; here is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow Tuesday 5 December: AK Reading 9 due; AP Review: psychological realism beginning discussion Wednesday 6 December: AK Reading 10 due Thursday 7 December: AK Reading 11 due; characterization exercise Friday 8 December: No class; Feast of the Immaculate Conception festival day Monday 11 December: AK Reading 12 due; Tuesday 12 December: AK Reading 13 due; AK Parts 1-4 paper assigned Wednesday 13 December: Field trip to the Shakespeare Theatre to see As You Like It Thursday 14 December: AK Reading 14 due Friday 15 December: Thesis workshop Monday 18 December: Reading 15 due Tuesday 19 December: Thesis and informal outline due; History of Literature Christmas Break Winter Reading: Readings 16, 17, 18, 19 Thursday 4 January: Scenes from 16–19: visit to Seryozha, the opera, Vasenka Veslovsky, Dolly's visit Hot seat for AK Psych Realism paper opens Friday 5 January: Reading 20 due Monday 8 January: Reading 21 due Tuesday 9 January: Reading 22 due Wednesday 10 January: Reading 23 due Thursday 11 January: Reading 24 due; hot seat for AK Psych Realism paper closes Friday 12 January: AK 1–4 Psych Realism paper due Midterms: Here's the review; here are past FRQ3 prompts Here are the readings: Reading 1: pp. 1–35 Reading 2: pp. 35–68 Reading 3: pp. 68–101 Reading 4: pp. 101–139 Reading 5: pp. 139–176 Reading 6: pp. 176–210 Reading 7: pp. 210–244 Reading 8: pp. 244–278 Reading 9: pp. 278–311 Reading 10: pp. 311–346 Reading 11: pp. 347–380 Reading 12: pp. 380–418 Reading 13: pp. 418–438 **end of part 4** Reading 14: pp. 439–473 Reading 15: pp. 473–508 Reading 16: pp. 508–540 Reading 17: pp. 540–572 Reading 18: pp. 572–607 Reading 19: pp. 607–641 Reading 20: pp. 641–676 Reading 21: pp. 676–711 Reading 22: pp. 711–744 Reading 23: pp. 744–779 Reading 24: pp. 779-end Monday 2 October: Begin Hamlet in class, opening scenes, video clips, general discussion; HW: 1.2
Tuesday 3 October: School closed for the funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: 1.2 due Review and forward reading Thursday 5 October: Here are the Hamlet SQs for your reference; Reading 3 due Friday 6 October: No classes; Feast day for Our Lady of the Rosary Do you have the stamp for your college essay? Be sure to meet soon enough that you have time to revise and meet again! Monday 9 October: No school; Columbus Day; found this today in the NYT Tuesday 10 October: Reading 4 due; Recitation assigned (due 25 October) Wednesday 11 October: No classes; SAT or College Workshop; Final college essay due Thursday 12 October: Word of Advice in-class writing (no prep other than Reading 2) Friday 13 October: Reading 5 due Monday 16 October: Reading 6 due; Soliloquy Close Reading in class Tuesday 17 October: Reading 7 due; Lessons of super-preparation; Act IV Activity (long quotation) in class Wednesday 18 October: More Reading 7; worksheet due Thursday 19 October: Hamlet Reading 8 due; Friday 20 October: Hamlet 10 to 1; Hamlet review; Here is where to find the passages; Here are some answers for passages 1-3. Receive "Hamlet and His Problems" Monday 23 October: Hamlet test; Portfolio introduced, how to write the reflective memo Tuesday 24 October: Begin Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in class, up to p. 17 (entrance of Player) Wednesday 25 October:"Hamlet and His Problems" due; Choose a Hamlet paper topic (the hot seat is open immediately for the Hamlet writing); Google Doc reminders Thursday 26 October: Workday for recitation Friday 27 October: No classes; Archdiocesan Professional Day Monday 30 October: Recitation due; read R&G in class while writing at home Tuesday 31 October: No class; Halloween Festival Wednesday 1 November: Work on Hamlet and portfolio writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Thursday 2 November: Work on Hamlet and portfolio writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Friday 3 November: Portfolio due; Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Monday 6 October: Discuss prominent themes and connections R&G and Hamlet Tuesday 7 November: Workday for Hamlet or prep for in-class writing Wednesday 8 November: In-class writing: R&G Thursday 9 November: Begin Anna Karenina! Hamlet writing is due Monday 13 November; Hot seat closes Friday 10 November Hamlet Readings Reading 1 (1.1) Reading 2 (1.2–1.3) Reading 3 (1.4–2.1) Reading 4 (2.2) Reading 5 (3.1–3.2) Reading 6 (3.3–3.4) Reading 7 (4.1–4.7) Reading 8 (5.1–5.2) Thursday 7 September: Policy sheet; Poem review and recitation; Jupiter assignment
Friday 8 September: No class; Welcome Back assembly Monday 11 September: Reading quiz: C&P; overall discussion of Crime & Punishment; genre; knowable purpose; themes and evidence; HW: Read through the study questions and isolate 5 that are of particular interest to you (we will complete 3) Tuesday 12 September: College essays returned; College essay discussion; Talk about the exam; the three essays; the six-point rubric; sign up for SQs in class Wednesday 13 September: Seminar 1: Major themes and characterization Thursday, September 14: Seminar 2: Structure Friday, September 15: Seminar 3: Style Monday 18 September: Seminar 4: Symbol Tuesday 19 September: SQ 1: Bring an outline and write in class, using your book Wednesday 20 September: Discussion of SQ 1; mini-presentations Thursday 21 September: SQ 2: Bring an outline and write in class, using your book Friday 22 September: Discussion of SQ 2; mini-presentations Monday 25 September: SQ 3: Bring an outline and write in class, using your book Tuesday 26 September: Discussion of SQ 3; mini-presentations; FRQ 3 Prompts from time immemorial; HW: Choose two prompts you think would work especially well for Crime and Punishment Wednesday 27 September: FRQ 3 practice using Crime and Punishment Thursday 28 September: FRQ 3 in-class writing Friday 29 September: No class; half day Monday 2 October: Begin Hamlet in class For Portfolio 1, you'll revise three of the essays you have written over the course of the quarter. Feel free to begin revision or to meet with me once you have an intermediate draft. I hope you are enjoying Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment this summer! There's not a written assignment over the vacation, but you should read and annotate well enough that you can find passages and track the sequence of events. We are using the Oliver Ready translation only, and I think every student has connected with me to receive the book. If you somehow missed me, or you should feel free to order it yourself.
Here is the intro handout I gave out, along with this accompanying screencast. Here are the study questions I handed out in class. Reading along with the study questions in hand will guide your reading in a way that's still pretty open. I strongly recommend you use the study questions rather than a commercial summary that will tell you what to think and otherwise overly influence your interpretations. You will probably want to read Ready's introduction to the text after you have finished the novel, as the intro contains spoilers. Finally, here is a screencast about the Russian names. I discussed this briefly, but this refresher is helpful. I hope you love and admire this strange and insightful look at human psychology, the power of ideology, and redemption. Thursday 7 September: Welcome; policy sheet distributed; poem due; group practice and a little C&P discussion; HW: passage-finding assignments Friday 8 September: No class; welcome assembly Monday 11 September: C&P reading quiz (20 min); passage Harkness discussion Here is a useful blog where you can look up references you don't know.
Hot seat for the AK paper opens Wednesday, March 8, closes Tuesday, March 21 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Wednesday March 22 in class We need to do a full AP Literature practice test in March. Should we schedule a Saturday? Probably. Let's talk. Thursday 2 March: Introduction to Brideshead; Prologue (through p. 18) Friday 3 March: Book 1, Chapter 1 due Readings for the novel are nightly but not too long; feel free to read ahead in order to be able to balance multiple assignments in a reasonable way; annotating your book will enable you to read ahead and then to check back over the current reading to be sharp in class. You will need to use your planner in order to be able to pace out assignments so that you are successful. Monday 6 March: More activities with Book 1, Chapter 1 Tuesday 7 March: Book 1, Chapter 2 due Wednesday 8 March: Book 1, Chapter 3 due Thursday 9 March: Book 1, Chapter 4 due; Thomas Foster book distributed, due after return from Easter Break Friday 10 March: Small class, catch up Monday 13 March: Book 1, Chapter 5 due Tuesday 14 March: Book 2, Chapter 1 due Wednesday 15 March: Review of Brideshead so far: What's at stake, why is this novel important? Thursday 16 March: Book 2, Chapter 2 due; here is handout for class Friday 17 March: Workday for paper Monday 20 March: Book 2, Chapter 3 due Tuesday 21 March: Book 3, Chapter 1 due; here is handout for class; hot seat closes for AK Sourced Argument Wednesday 22 March: AK Sourced Argument due Gala hiatus Tuesday 28 March: In-class writing, Brideshead prose passage Wednesday 29 March: Book 3, Chapter 2 due Thursday 30 March: Book 3, Chapter 3 due Friday 31 March: No class; Maryland Day Festival Sunday 2 April: Meet for full-length practice AP Lit test Monday 3 April: Book 3, Chapter 4 due; here is 3.4 handout for class Tuesday 4 April: Book 3, Chapter 5 due Wednesday 5 April: Epilogue due; Culminating discussion Easter Break Remember that your assigned section of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is due upon our return from break. Here is the handout to help you plan your presentation. There will be a test on the presentations after they have been made. Monday 17 April: Epilogue of BR, returned AP sample tests Tuesday 18 April: No class; seniors skip school! Wednesday 19 April: Targeted MC discussion; extra practice and extra essays policy; AP book reports assigned; Foster presentations Thursday 20 April: Foster presentations Friday 21 April: No class; Jane Austen Day All remaining Foster presentations should be ready, with any materials uploaded for Monday. I will call on Tuesday people on Monday in the event of absences, so please be prepared. Because of lack of student preparation on the multiple choice, I've decided not to go over the questions in class. I am happy to answer questions in my office or during the afternoon review session. *************************************************** Pieces eligible for the mini-portfolio: 1. AK Comparative Translation 2. In-Class "The Dead" 3. Poetry Practice essay 4. BR Prose passage 5. Any essay from the sample test •To get credit, you must submit the old, graded version as well as the new revision. •In lieu of the reflective memo, submit one paragraph for each revised essay in which you discuss your changes, presumably from a combination of teacher comments, principles you have learned in class, closer reading of the prompt (complexity, on one hand, and/or literary techniques, on the other). **************************************************** Monday 24 April: More Foster presentations: Elif, Yahfyah, Benedetta, Lucia Tuesday 25 April: Yet more Foster presentations: Lilly, Ruthie; Book reports due and discussed (you should spend about 15 minutes completing each book report) Wednesday 26 April: Mini-portfolio due, 2 pieces; Brideshead in-class: Prose poetry, prose passage, or FRQ3-style. (Only prep is reviewing your book annotations and notes to make sure you have conversance with all elements) Thursday 27 April: MC practice in class (the MC event, 45 min) Friday 28 April: MC practice in class (the discussion) Monday 1 May: Poetry Review Tuesday 2 May: English AP Review: Lunch through 3:15pm Wednesday 3 May: senior non-AP exam, part 1 Thursday 4 May: AP Lit Party (dress as your favorite character, author, symbol, or text from anywhere in the English curriculum) Friday 5 May: Prom Monday 8 May: senior non-AP exam, part 2 Tuesday 9 May or Wednesday 10 May: no obligation for AP Literature |