Monday 12 April: Brideshead Review and assignment made; Quiz on your assigned section of How to Read Literature Like a Professor; extra credit for additional sections
Please read well so that you are able efficiently to move to excellent group work Everyone: Introduction Group 1: Chapters 1-10 Group 2: Interlude (p. 90)-Chapter 20 (You may skip the sex chapters.) Group 3: Interlude (p. 193)-Envoi Tuesday 13 April: Workday for group presentation on assigned section Wednesday 14 April: Section 1 Presentation; AP Book Reports Assigned Thursday 15 April: Section 2 Presentation; book report parameters elucidated Friday 16 April: Section 3 Presentation; do book report at home Monday 19 April: Test on How to Read Literature Like a Professor; here's the old quiz to help you study; finish book report Tuesday 20 April: AP Book Reports due by 10pm Monday so distribution is possible in class; discussion of book reports; work on Brideshead essay at home Wednesday 21 April: More discussion of book reports; work on Brideshead essay at home Thursday 22 April: Afternoon Gala Rehearsals; work on Brideshead essay at home Friday 23 April: Filming for Gala; finish Brideshead essay Monday 26 April: Ask questions about essay; refine work; Brideshead assignment due by 10pm; here is the answer to the sample prose passage we did in class; here is the good old essay checklist document; here is that Sankar essay that's so good with the transitions Tuesday 27 April: Choose exam essay to revise; discuss "tech talk" considerations, using Hass, Forché, and Edson; begin revising Wednesday 28 April: Sample MC section in class and discussion; revise essay at home Thursday 29 April: Exam Review #1 (Bring 5 Steps to a 5) Friday 30 April: Jane Austen Day (Prom is this weekend) Monday 3 May: Last day for seniors! Revised essay due in class; Exam Review #2 (Bring 5 Steps to a 5) Tuesday 4 May: (Seniors must come back to attend this as final grade for the year). Afternoon review for AP Exam, period 4, lunch, period 5, and period 6. Here is Perrine's Glossary from Sound and Sense; knowing these terms can help you with poetry analysis. Here is the list of rhetorical terms from AP Lang. It is probably still full of typos, but it is helpful. Here is a veritable treasure trove of poetry prompts. Here are the 2017 (Pickle) essay responses as a screencast (because it can't be reproduced except for the prompt and basic rubric); here are pdfs for 2018 (Zenobia) and 2019 (Lapham) samples and commentaries. Wednesday 5 May: AP Exam in the morning! Thursday 6 May: (Juniors only): Begin Dalloway in class Here is the key to the Poetry Fundamentals Quiz. While there are 91 items (so I could give partial credit), the quiz itself is only weighted at 35 points.
Friday 5 March: Introduction to Brideshead; Prologue (through p. 18) Monday 8 March: Paper updates; finish Prologue work (role of Charles Ryder); a little of the mini-series; begin reading Book 1, Chapter 1 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. Tuesday 9 March: Book 1, Chapter 1 due Wednesday 10 March: Book 1, Chapter 2 due Thursday 11 March: Book 1, Chapter 3 due Friday 12 March: Book 1, Chapter 4 due; draft of AK Sourced Paper due by 10pm Monday 15 March: Book 1, Chapter 5 due; hot seat opens for AK Sourced Paper Tuesday 16 March: Book 2, Chapter 1 due Wednesday 17 March: Discussion of 2.1; here is handout for class Thursday 18 March: Book 2, Chapter 2 due; here is handout for class Friday 19 March: Book 2, Chapter 3 due, but no class because of Gala practice Monday 22 March: Book 3, Chapter 1 due; here is handout for class Tuesday 23 March: Book 3, Chapter 2 due Wednesday 24 March: Book 3, Chapter 3 due Thursday 25 March: Maryland Day Festival Friday 26 March: Short writing about 3.3 completed in class; Book 3, Chapter 4 due; here is 3.4 handout for class Monday 29 March: Book 3, Chapter 5 due Tuesday 30 March: Epilogue due; hot seat closes for AK Sourced Paper Wednesday 31 March: Culminating discussion: Brideshead Revisited; Last day to submit practice test evidence; Last day to submit AK Sourced Paper; here is the hot seat sheet Easter Break Remember that your assigned section of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is due upon our return from break. |