Monday 25 January: Discuss midterm; hot seats for the AK Parts 1–4 paper Tuesday 26 January: Poetry unit begins while you write at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Wednesday 27 January: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems; "The Next Day" Thursday 28 January: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes); Hot seat closes for AK Parts 1–4 paper; hot seat sheet is here Friday 29 January: No class; March for Life day Monday 1 February: AK Parts 1–4 Paper due by class time; fill out hot seat sheet; Schools of Literary Criticism lecture in class; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; AK Sourced Paper assigned Tuesday 2 February: Proposal writing and discussion in class Wednesday 3 February: Research on JSTOR day; bring laptop to class Thursday 4 February: MLA style reviewed; scope and depth of paper; other research paper issues; more work on closed forms and what they can do; extra credit poem assigned Friday 5 February: Proposal for paper due; proposals returned via the assignment in Jupiter Monday 8 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 9 February: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise Wednesday 10 February: Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace) Thursday 11 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Friday 12 February: No class; half day. Works Consulted page due: MLA style (format, spacing, hang indentation), 5-6 sources (so that you can cut a less useful source later); put revised thesis/topic/question/proposal at the top Monday 15 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 16 February: Literary history and literary theory quest (25 minutes); 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) Wednesday 17 February: Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Thursday 18 February: Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals quiz Friday 19 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Monday 22 February: Poetry fundamentals quiz Tuesday 23 February: Cold poem sequence practice Wednesday 24 February: Cold poem sequence for score; Review for Poetry Test; Here is scansion worksheet; here is key to scansion worksheet; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are the cold poems from class; keys: Hayden, Donne, Dickinson, Kumin; here is a quick screencast about process. Thursday 25 February: Poetry Unit Test Friday 26 February: Informal Outline for AK paper due by 10pm As you review for midterms, please make a study sheet for each main text: Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, and Anna Karenina, in which you use your annotations and the study questions to recall main characters, the sequence of events in the plot, the main themes and how they manifest, and main devices.
Here are some old exams' question packets. •Look at each prose passage question and practice making a thesis that is exigent enough and that you are able to develop using clearly discrete categories of information. Is your response analytical enough? You can read the sample answers and discussions. You should feel free to ask me any questions you have as you study. •Read the Question 3 examples. Know that I will choose or compose a question that will enable you to use Anna Karenina, Hamlet, or Crime and Punishment. Not every question will work as well with every text, though, so you want to review well enough that you have options. Be sure that you are able to answer the question fully, that your thesis is analytical enough, and that you can develop your answer fully. Feel free to review the sections in 5 Steps to a 5 that handle the prose passage and the free response question. Please don't complete the prose passage excerpt from "The Dead," though, because we will get to that ourselves after exams. 2018 Sample Questions, sample prose passage answers, sample free response answers 2017 Sample Questions, sample prose passage answers, sample free response answers 2016 Sample Questions, sample prose passage answers, sample free response answers |