Wednesday 1 Feb: Overview of Schools of Literary Criticism; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; my essay on Post-Structuralism; HW: Brainstorm critical schools that are of interest
Thursday 2 Feb: Here's the assignment sheet for the paper; Work on proposal and rudimentary JSTOR research; proposal due at the end of class Friday 3 Feb: Mrs. Walsh at Model UN; In-class writing on "The Dead"; see 5 Steps for parallel sample; prepare so that you can learn as much as possible Here are the main dates for the paper: Proposal due: by the end of class Thursday, February 2 Simple bibliography of 5 sources: Tuesday, February 7 Thesis and Informal outline: Wednesday, February 15 Well written draft due: Wednesday, March 1 Hot seat opens Wednesday, March 8, closes Tuesday, March 21 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Wednesday March 22 in class Here is a pdf of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction Monday 6 Feb: Poetry unit begins while you write the AK paper at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Tuesday 7 February: Simple Bibliography due; Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems Wednesday 8 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes) Thursday 9 February: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise Friday 10 February: Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace) Monday 13 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 14 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Wednesday 15 February: Thesis and informal outline due for AK paper; Thursday 16 February: 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) Friday 17 February: No class; half day Monday 20 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 21 February: (small class because of Opening Number practice) Useful Repetition redux; Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Wednesday 22 February: Literary history and literary theory quest (25 minutes); Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals test; Here is scansion worksheet Thursday 23 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Friday 24 February: Additional scansion review and some cold analysis; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are answers for "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd...," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937." Here is a second packet and a quick screencast about process, focusing on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." Monday 27 February: Poetry fundamentals test with some cold analysis Tuesday 28 February: AP FRQ 1 (Poetry) practice; here's a sample to help you think about a worthy poem and a possible prompt Wednesday 1 March: Well written draft of AK paper (with works cited page) due in class Monday 23 January: Midterm discussion; Begin "The Dead" in class; HW: Work on paper
Tuesday 24 January: Continue "The Dead" in class; read to p. 133 at home Wednesday 25 January: Quiz on reading so far; discussion and reading ahead; HW: Work on the paper Thursday 26 January: Workday in class for AK paper; HW: Finish "The Dead" Friday 27 January: No class; half day; AK 1-4 paper due to Jupiter by 10pm Monday 30 January: Round-up discussion; John Huston's The Dead Tuesday 31 January: No class; Gala practice; Prepare for in-class writing Wednesday 1 February: Schools of Literary Criticism; AK Lit Crit paper assigned; HW: Brainstorming with Anna Karenina Thursday 2 February: Write proposal for AK Lit Crit paper and begin JSTOR research Friday 3 February: Mrs. Walsh at Model UN; In-class writing: Prose passage from "The Dead" Wednesday 9 November: Begin reading Anna Karenina in class; HW: Work on Hamlet writing
Thursday 10 November: Continue reading Anna Karenina in class; Hot seat for Hamlet closes at the end of the school day Friday 11 November: No class; half day; Hamlet writing due, uploaded to Jupiter, by 8pm Monday 14 November: AK Reading 1 due; study questions are for your reference; here is an encouraging handout from brilliant alumna Sophia Sorensen Tuesday 15 November: AK Reading 2 due; topic threads assigned Wednesday 16 November: AK Reading 3 due Thursday 17 November: Seniors in Boston Friday 18 November: Seniors in Boston Monday 21 November: Poetry OutLoud in-class competition; AK translation exercise; here's Rosamund Bartlett on translation; thesis statement discussion Tuesday 22 November: AK Reading 4 due Thanksgiving Break Monday 28 November: AK Reading 5 due Tuesday 29 November: Comparative translation in-class writing Wednesday 30 November: Field Trip to Shakespeare Theatre Thursday 1 December: AK Reading 6 due; Topic thread update Friday 2 December: AK Reading 7 due Monday 5 December: AK Reading 8 due; here is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow Tuesday 6 December: AK Reading 9 due; AP Review: psychological realism beginning discussion Wednesday 7 December: AK Reading 10 due Thursday 8 December: AK Reading 11 due; characterization exercise Friday 9 December: History of Literature Monday 12 December: AK Reading 12 due Tuesday 13 December: AK Reading 13 due; AK Parts 1-4 paper assigned Wednesday 14 December: History of Literature reprise with art Thursday 15 December: AK Reading 14 due Friday 16 December: Thesis workshop; here are Elise's notes from class (thanks, Elise!) Monday 19 December: Reading 15 due Tuesday 20 December: Review of AK topics and elements of fiction Christmas Break Winter Reading: Readings 16, 17, 18, 19 Wednesday 4 January: Readings 16–19 due; AK Rdgs 16-19 review activity; hot seat opens for AK 1-4 paper Thursday 5 January: AK Reading 20 due; Activity Friday 6 January: AK Reading 21 due ***** Review rules for hot seats: Make sure you are bringing to the hot seat a paper you fully expect to receive a stamp. This paper should be clean of usage errors from "Unlucky 13" and represent your best work and fullest thinking. I am always happy to have quicker meetings with you that answer questions or dig out a particular composition problem. Electronic/screencast hot seats are also available. Please feel free to upload your stamp-worthy draft to the draft turn-in slot in Jupiter, email me (not via Jupiter--I need a real email address to respond to with the screencast) to let me know it is there, and I will respond within 24 hours. The last day to ask for an electronic/screencast hot seat is Tuesday, January 24. Each student may visit the hot seat 2 times; students must visit the hot seat in order to receive an A on the paper. ***** Monday 9 January: AP Prep: Prose Passage review; bring comparative translation in-class essay and 5 Steps; student sample of comparative translation writing Tuesday 10 January: AK Reading 22 due; AK characters for review Wednesday 11 January: AK Reading 23 due; questions for discussion Thursday 12 January: AK Reading 24; AK passages for review Friday 13 January: AK Test Monday 16 January: MLK day; no school Midterms The AP Lit midterm features one prose passage essay (which should prepare for by studying compositional aspects of old papers and practicing writing thesis statements and outlining) and one FRQ3 (for which you will be required to use Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, and/or Anna Karenina--so you should prepare by book report-style reviews of those texts to remember patterns and details). This reviewing should be reasonable and self contained. For the prose passage essay, review the sample essays and guidelines in 5 Steps to a 5 and try these sample prompts: Sample 1 (2021, pp. 3-4), Sample 2 (2022, pp. 3-4). Use the rubrics in 5 Steps to remember how essays are scored. Remember that you should make a specific, argumentative claim and maintain a line of reasoning throughout. Monday 16 January: MLK Day; no classes Tuesday 17 January–Thursday 19 January: Midterms Paper due Friday 27 January by 10pm When you hand in your paper, use the notes field to tell me when you visited the hot seat and anything I may have said with regard to your relationship to the stamp. If you have a physical stamp on your paper, please put that draft on top of the materials you turn in. Please turn in the final to-be-graded (or stamped) copy on top, and then draftwork underneath, all in the same pdf file. All electronic work for English class should be in pdf format and double spaced. Here are the readings: Reading 1: pp. 1–35 Reading 2: pp. 35–68 Reading 3: pp. 68–101 Reading 4: pp. 101–139 Reading 5: pp. 139–176 Reading 6: pp. 176–210 Reading 7: pp. 210–244 Reading 8: pp. 244–278 Reading 9: pp. 278–311 Reading 10: pp. 311–346 Reading 11: pp. 347–380 Reading 12: pp. 380–418 Reading 13: pp. 418–438 **end of part 4** Reading 14: pp. 439–473 Reading 15: pp. 473–508 Reading 16: pp. 508–540 Reading 17: pp. 540–572 Reading 18: pp. 572–607 Reading 19: pp. 607–641 Reading 20: pp. 641–676 Reading 21: pp. 676–711 Reading 22: pp. 711–744 Reading 23: pp. 744–779 Reading 24: pp. 779-end Here are the Hamlet SQs.
Thursday, September 22: Begin Hamlet in class; Reading 1 and Branagh's opening, compare and contrast Friday, September 23: Workday for C&P in-class writing #2 Monday, September 26: Read Hamlet 1.2 in class; finish Reading 2; complete one SQ in notebook but read through them all to be ready for seminar Tuesday, September 27: Hamlet SQ due in notebook; discuss Readings 1 & 2 Wednesday, September 28: Word of Advice In-Class Writing (no prep other than Reading 2) Thursday, September 29: Hamlet Reading 3 due, read through SQs to understand probable focus of the discussion Friday, September 30: No class; half day Monday, October 3: Hamlet Reading 4 due along with one SQ in notebook but read through all Tuesday, October 4: One refined SQ due; Field Trip to NGA Wednesday, October 5: Hamlet Reading 5 due along with one SQ in notebook but read over all SQs to be ready for seminar; Soliloquy recitation assigned Thursday, October 6: Reading 6 due Friday, October 7: No class; Our Lady of the Rosary Do you have the stamp for your college essay? Be sure to meet soon enough that you have time to revise and meet again! Monday, October 10: No class; Columbus Day Tuesday, October 11: Hamlet Reading 7 due; Soliloquy Close Reading in class Wednesday, October 12: No class; SAT day Thursday, October 13: Act IV Activity (long quotation) in class Friday, October 14: Hamlet Reading 8 due; Hamlet 10 to 1; Hamlet review; Here is where to find the passages; Here are some answers for passages 1-3. Monday 17 October: Additional review; receive "Hamlet and His Problems" Tuesday 18 October: Hamlet test; Portfolio introduced, how to write the reflective memo Wednesday 19 October: Begin Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in class, up to p. 17 (entrance of Player) Thursday 20 October: "Hamlet and His Problems" due; Choose a Hamlet paper topic (the hot seat is open immediately for the Hamlet writing) Friday 21 October: "To be" recitation; we will read R&G in class while you write at home Monday 24 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Tuesday 25 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Wednesday 26 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Thursday 27 October: No class; Halloween Festival Friday 28 October: No school Monday 31 October: More R&G Tuesday 1 November: Finish R&G with film Wednesday 2 November: Discuss prominent themes and connections R&G and Hamlet Thursday 3 November: In-class writing: R&G Friday 4 November: Workday for portfolio or Hamlet writing; 2 hot seats available Monday 7 November: Portfolio due, workday for Hamlet writing; 3 hot seats available Tuesday 8 November: Workday for Hamlet writing; 3 hot seats available Hamlet writing due Friday 11 November Possible portfolio pieces (choose 2) + Q1 Reflective Memo: In-Class Writing "Little Gidding" C&P Essay #1 C&P Essay #2 Word of Advice writing NGA writing R&G In-class writing Hamlet Readings 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. Scroll down to the next entry to see material specifically about the process of reading Crime and Punishment.
Orientation: Policy Sheet; Intro to the course; the return of Tea Party Tuesday Thursday, September 1: Welcome; poem practice; poetry recitations; college essay draft due; differences between Lang and Lit; exam overview Friday, September 2: Last-chance poetry recitations, AP FRQ1 (poetry) example prompt 2021; Assembly begins at 1:30; here are essay examples to go with this prompt (saxophone) Monday, September 5: No school; Labor Day Tuesday, September 6: Begin daily warm-ups from 5 Steps to a 5; College essays returned; Poem discussion; HW: Annotate poem; another example prompt (2019); here are essay examples to go with this prompt Wednesday, September 7: Intro to the AP poetry essay; poetry essay example prompts; prep poetry essay Thursday, September 8: In-class writing: Excerpt from Little Gidding; HW: Refresh Crime and Punishment reading Friday, September 9: C&P quiz; Seminar 1: Major themes and characterization: sign up for SQs in class To produce the SQs: In class, you will choose your three questions to work on. 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, after you've had some AP English Literature instruction, you will choose one of the 5-paragraph essays to refine and polish further. Monday, September 12: See this handout for an overview of the C&P assignments; seminar #2: themes/characterization Here is the SQ sign-up sheet Tuesday, September 13: SQ #1 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Wednesday, September 14: deepening the SQs Thursday, September 15: SQ #2 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Friday, September 16: seminar #3: setting/psychogeography of the novel Monday, September 19: SQ #3 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Tuesday, September 20: SQ essay admonitions and advice; C&P reflections--what is the novel's genre? what is the novel about?--and wrap-up (epilogue to the epilogue exercise) Wednesday, September 21: In-class writing: Be prepared beforehand and revise one SQ in 40 minutes in class Thursday, September 22: Begin Hamlet in class Friday, September 23: In-class writing: Be prepared beforehand and revise one SQ in 40 minutes in class I look forward to discussing with you in the fall Fyodor Dostoyevsky's great novel Crime and Punishment. I've handed out the Oliver Ready translation, and I have a few left in my office if you somehow missed me, or you should feel free to order it yourself.
Here is the intro handout I gave out, along with this accompanying screencast. Here are the study questions I handed out in class. Reading along with the study questions in hand will guide your reading in a way that's still pretty open. I strongly recommend you use the study questions rather than a commercial summary that will tell you what to think and otherwise overly influence your interpretations. You are not obligated to do any writing until I assign it in September. Finally, here is a screencast about the Russian names. I discussed this briefly in class but this refresher is helpful. As Brookewood continues to grow, we'll be able to offer AP Lit to seniors only in 2022-23, and juniors opting for AP will take AP English Language and Composition.
Thursday 6 May: Modernism, Stream of Consciousness: "The Mark on the Wall"; impressionism/modernism review; impressionist music; begin reading Mrs. Dalloway in class
Friday 7 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 1-20 Monday 10 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 21-50; video Tuesday 11 May: No class; Medieval Day Wednesday 12 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 50-80; activities Thursday 13 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 81-100; stream-of-consciousness project assigned Friday 14 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 101–120 Monday 17 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 121-140; imitative writing exercise #2 Tuesday 18 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 141-160 Wednesday 19 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 161-180; theme discussion Thursday 20 May: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 181-end Friday 21 May: In-class writing Mrs. Dalloway; here is the painting; here is the article The prompt is: How does Survage's cubistic project in La Ville (1911) enrich your understanding of Woolf's stylistic literary choices in Mrs. Dalloway? Monday 24 May: Workday for stream-of-consciousness project Tuesday 25 May: Juniors out for field trip! Wednesday 26 May: Workday for project Thursday 27 May: Many juniors out for field trip! Friday 28 May: Mandatory: Class meets at 12:25 for project presentations; class will end when projects have been presented, definitely no later than 1pm. Exam is for anyone who did not take the AP test only. 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. |