*****English 12/AP Lit meets Mondays and Thursdays for a double period, and Wednesdays for the one-period 40 minutes. I give the rationale for the blocks on the policy sheet for the class, and I think you will find them both better both for managing out-of-class work and for richer in- class discussions and activities. Class attendance is very important, and if you miss class for any reason you should expect a make-up assignment, regardless of whether work was handed in during class. See the policy sheet for additional details.
***** Week 1 Wednesday 5 September: First day! Policies, changes, and what you might expect; draft of summer essay due (hand in or post on Jupiter; see policy sheet); all students sign up for essay conference; practice poem in class; everyone gets a Jupiter buddy for “testing” post Thursday 6 September: Signed policy sheet due; “Testing” Jupiter post due; Poem due for recitation; Poem response in class (AP Lit OOCM during study hall 7th period Thursday: C&P assignment #1 due no later than Tuesday 11 Sept., introduction to AP Lit: the test, the rhythms of the class [weekly timed essay, portfolio], OOCMs and scheduling) ***** Week 2 Monday 10 September (School pictures): Reading 1 due (+ 1 study question); Intro to Hamlet; Hamlet opening scenes (Tuesday: Last day to hand in C&P assignment #1) Wednesday 12 September: Reading 2 due (+1 sq) Thursday 13 September: Reading 3 due (+1 sq) ; Word of Advice activity in class ***** Week 3 Monday 17 September: Reading 4 due (+1 sq) AP Only: Tuesday 18 September: C&P assignment 2 due Wednesday 19 September: Reading 5 due (+1 sq); Vocabulary assigned Thursday 20 September: Reading 6 due (+1 sq); Vocabulary due AP Lit Lab: discussion of C&P assignment #2; test prep AP Only: Friday 21 September : C&P assignment #3 due ***** Week 4 AP Students (English 12 students may choose to join in for extra credit) must view or read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead this week as a class, at a time we decide, or on their own. This text must be ready for discussion by Thursday 27 September. Monday 24 September: Soliloquy close-reading activity in class; Reading 7 due (+1 sq) Wednesday 26 September: Reading 8 due (+1 sq); Act IV activity; Vocab review Thursday 27 September: Vocabulary quiz; Hamlet 10 to 1; Hamlet review (AP Lit Lab during study hall 7th period for R&G discussion and mini in-class writing; "Hamlet and His Problems" distributed.) ***** Week 5 Monday 1 October: Hamlet test; Hamlet paper assigned; Hamlet soliloquy assigned Wednesday 3 October: No class; Upper School Hiking Day ***** Readings Hamlet Reading 1: 1.1 Reading 2: 1.2–1.3 Reading 3: 1.4–2.1 Reading 4: 2.2 Reading 5: 3.1–3.2 Reading 6: 3.3–3.4 Reading 7: 4.1–4.7 Reading 8: 5.1–5.2 Readings become longer as we go; once you are oriented, you can read more in a sitting. ***** AP Students By the end of the Hamlet/R&G/C&P unit students must have prepared: •2 revised timed essays (choose among Poem Response, Word of Advice, Soliloquy close reading, R&G in-class writing) •2 revised Hamlet study questions) •1 revised C&P writing ***** •Hamlet paper hot seat opens Wednesday 17 October, closes Wednesday 24 October; papers due Thursday 25 October Comments are closed.
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