Use this link/URL to upload materials for class: Dropbox URL for uploading work: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nh4F354LZkOm8SZwwu6d While we are working on the Anna Karenina sourced paper, in class for a few weeks we will have an advanced version of the poetry unit you completed in English 10. We will review old material and add new material to help you solidify your comfort with the genre. After we've covered ground academically and expressively, we'll turn our attention to the remaining texts of the course. Monday 27 January: Welcome to Quarter 3! Midterm discussion; AP sign up for second chapter of Foster book for presentations, round 2 in February; JSTOR research day for AK sourced paper Tuesday 28 January: 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"; extra-credit sonnet assigned Wednesday 29 January: Proposal due (see assignment sheet); No class; Art History field trip Thursday 30 January: Overall emotional effect; exercise with multiple poems Friday 31 January: Simple MLA Works Consulted due (AP: 5 sources/H: 3 sources); Test Prep Friday: Movements in Literary History ***By the end of February: AP Students must complete one full test using online function of 5 Steps to a 5 and submit proof of having completed it***** Monday 3 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday (maybe a good day to do your online test) Tuesday 4 February: Review: Form, meter, line (line breaks, framing, pace) Wednesday 5 February: Device review: image, symbol, metaphor and simile; 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 Thursday 6 February: Thesis and informal outline for AK sourced paper due; Devices: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox Friday 7 February: Test prep Friday: multiple choice strategies Monday 10 February: Sound tropes; other devices; review using sample poems Tuesday 11 February: Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis); useful repetition; grade is participation-based Wednesday 12 February: Poetry test, based closely on review of 2/11; here is link to sample AP answers to the review prompt; here is a sample answer for the 12H poem AP OOCM: Foster presentations (summary, extension to our texts, interesting insights); quiz: literary theory, literary movements Thursday 13 February: Cold poem sequence practice (AP students should be able to complete 4 poems in 20 minutes; honors students should do 3 in that time) Friday 14 February: Cold poem sequence for score Monday 17 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 18 February: In-class writing: Poetry Deadlines: End of February: AP: One full-length practice test Hot seat (finished work only; 5 error bouncing in effect; 2 visits to hot seat) for AK sourced paper: 6-20 March AK Sourced Paper assignment sheet Welcome back!
Monday 6 January: Begin Joyce's "The Dead" in class; AP: receive Zenobia handouts, assign chapters for Foster presentations (just the first half; we'll do the second half in February) AP: Decide on date for OOCM about Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, schools of lit crit; Zenobia prose passage HW: AP only: work on Zenobia, Foster Tuesday 7 January: Continue to read in class; HW read through p. 136 Wednesday 8 January: Snow delay Thursday 9 January: "The Wild Iris"; Discuss "The Dead"; theme activity; HW: exercise on "The Dead" Friday 10 January: clips of film; preview of in-class writing; in-class prep for in-class writing; here is the handout sequence: 1, 2, 3; here’s the prompt Monday 13 January: In-class writing (no specific prep needed if you've done the reading and have been taking good notes) AP OOCM 5:30-8: Reading of Foster due; Mini-presentation for Foster due; Zenobia journal due; Mrs. Walsh talks about schools of lit crit for AK sourced paper Tuesday 14 January: Introduction to the AK sourced paper; JSTOR; students choose critical focuses for paper Wednesday 15 January: Workday for topic generation Thursday 16 January: Thesis idea for sourced paper due; begin JSTOR research in class (bring tablet or laptop) Friday 17 January: Midterm review |