Continue to use this link/URL to upload materials for class:
Dropbox URL for uploading work in Quarter 3: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nh4F354LZkOm8SZwwu6d Here it is as a link. ***** While we are working on the Anna Karenina sourced paper, in class for a few weeks we will have an advanced extension of the poetry unit you completed in Grade 10. We will review old material and add new material to help you solidify your comfort with the genre. After we've covered the ground both academically and expressively, we'll turn our attention to the remaining texts of the course. ***** Wednesday 30 January: Snow day! (Two-topic memo for the Anna Karenina sourced paper due) Thursday 31 January: Bibliography of 5 desired sources due (this is a hard deadline, as announced in class on Monday); Poetry genre review: lyric vs. narrative; "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," A Green Crab's Shell"; sonnet assigned AP Lab: Midterm essays feedback; Foster discussion part 2 Monday 4 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Wednesday 6 February: Overall emotional effect; activity with multiple poems Thursday 7 February: Review: Form, meter, line (line breaks/endings, framing, pace) APLab: Foster discussion part 3; Spring practice-test assignment given **Thesis and informal outline due for AK sourced paper due to the Dropbox by midnight on Friday** Here are the sources we amassed together: Anna Slavonic Architecture of AK Article about Genette Being Moved by Fiction Mannison Block AK Principle Catherine Brown Scapegoating Cohen Educational Philosophy Ekphrasis AK Gayle Greene Women, Character, Society Jahn Unity of AK Leavis Thought and Significance Les Liaison Durkin Miller Reception of Psychoanalysis Morson Prosaics Paskins On Being Moved Pedagogical Directions Radford How Can We Be Moved Railroad Spatial Form Curtis Turner Psychology Rhetoric Morality Monday 11 February: Device review: image, symbol, metaphor and simile, metonymy and synecdoche; 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 of repetition as we see them in the Mass) Wednesday 13 February: Devices: Antithesis, Oxymoron, paradox Thursday 14 February: Sound tropes; other devices Lab: Poetry prompt overview; pre-writing exercise (anyone who missed must make up before reading for next class) Monday 18 February: No school; Presidents' Day Wednesday 20 February: Closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet) Thursday 21 February: Draft due of AK paper; Shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Lab: After pre-writing exercise, read through pp. 80-91 in 5 Steps to a 5; Poetry prompt in-class writing Monday 25 February: Cold poem practice sequence (speed analysis). We'll review and practice together before doing a round for score. AP students should complete 4 poems in 20 minutes; grade-level students should do 3 in that time. Wednesday 27 February: Review of poetry devices and principles; poem packet from 2/25 activity; poetry review Thursday 28 February: Test on poetry devices and principles; any extra-credit sonnet due; celebratory reading AP Lab: List of poetry prompts; review of sample essays Further AK deadlines Final due for hot seat: Thursday 7 March-Friday 15 March Paper due: Monday 18 March New Dropbox link for uploading work in Quarter 2: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nh4F354LZkOm8SZwwu6d Monday 7 January: "The Dead" introduced and read aloud in class; AP students choose chapters from Foster to present at meeting Thursday; AP SQs for Foster distributed. **Do you owe any make-up work? Please sign up on my door today to schedule your test or manage your paper.** Wednesday 9 January: "The Dead" through p. 140 due Thursday 10 January: "The Dead" due for final discussion, John Huston's The Dead, prep for in-class writing AP Lit Lab: HT Read Literature due, Ch. 1-15; have completed the SQs for your chapters; choose chapters for the second half and receive instructions Monday 14 January: Snow day! Wednesday 16 January: "The Dead" in-class writing Thursday 17 January: Schools of Lit Crit in-class activity; Intro to the AK Sourced Paper (Proposal due Mon. 28 Jan.); Exam review AP Lit Lab: HT Read Literature due, Ch. 18-Envoi ***************************** Review for midterm: Here is the midterm review for grade-level English IV. Here is a list of Hamlet passages that you can use to help you review. Here is a third study guide, which gives you an example of a longer passage. Here is a midterm review for AP Lit. Here is a page of prompts for the free-response question, prompts specific to Hamlet and Anna Karenina, and thus directly relevant to the exam. Midterm 22 January, 8:30-10:10 After midterms, we will go to the library to get sources for our papers, and then we will complete a poetry unit in class while you are writing your paper at home. The poetry unit is important and reasonably rigorous, but there will not be homework associated with it until after your paper is well underway. |