Thursday, September 3: Welcome, policies, poem practice; please bring your 5 Steps to a 5 everyday for the warm-up; sign up to recite poem; seniors' college essay draft due
Friday, September 4: No class, Welcome Assembly Monday, September 7: No school, Labor Day Tuesday, September 8: Begin daily warm-up in 5 Steps to a 5; Plagiarism policy review; College essays returned; Poem discussion; HW: Annotate poem Wednesday, September 9: Intro to the AP poetry essay; Exam overview; Poetry essay sample prompts; Prep poetry essay Thursday, September 10: In-class writing: Excerpt from Little Gidding; refresh Crime and Punishment reading Friday, September 11: Crime and Punishment quiz; seminar 1: major themes/characterization; sign up for SQs in class To produce the SQs: In class, you will choose your three questions to work on. (Remote students will send me their top 5, so that I can eliminate overlap.) Then, over the next week and a half, you will produce the half-page responses to the questions. All three answers, though, will be developed into 5-paragraph essays (intended to be outlined in 30 minutes, using your original response as a starting place, and written in 40), so the more you produce upfront, the more you are helping yourself later. At the end of the quarter, you will choose one of the 5-paragraph essays to refine and polish further. Monday, September 14: See this handout for an overview of the C&P assignments; seminar #2: themes/characterization Tuesday, September 15: SQ #1 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Wednesday, September 16: deepening the SQs Thursday, September 17: SQ #2 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Friday, September 18: seminar #3: setting/psychogeography of the novel Monday, September 21: SQ #3 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Tuesday, September 22: C&P reflections--what is the novel's genre? what is the novel about?--and wrap-up (epilogue to the epilogue exercise) Comments are closed.
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