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 Here is the flyer for Poetry OutLoud.
Thursday 5 November: Begin Anna Karenina in class Friday 6 November: Rewrite of one of the two poetry in-class writings due; AP Multiple Choice practice set in class Monday 9 November: Hot seat for Hamlet writing closes; AK Reading 1 due; study questions are for your reference; here is an encouraging handout from brilliant alumna Sophia Sorensen Tuesday 10 November: Hamlet writing due; celebratory reading; bring to class all old, marked writings (or a laptop/tablet if your graded work is electronic) to write in class your Q1 Reflective Memo Wednesday 11 November: AK Reading 2 due; topic threads assigned Thursday 12 November: AK translation exercise; here's Rosamund Bartlett on translation; thesis statement discussion Friday 13 November: No class; half day Monday 16 November: No school; Mrs. Shirvanian's funeral Tuesday 17 November: AK Reading 3 due Wednesday 18 November: AK Reading 4 due Thursday 19 November: Comparative translation in-class writing Friday 20 November: Poetry OutLoud classroom competition Monday 23 November: AK Reading 5 due Tuesday 24 November: AK Reading 6 due Thanksgiving Break Monday 30 November: Extra day off! Tuesday 1 December: Extra day off! (Reading schedule below is tighter than I would like--please read ahead) Wednesday 2 December: AP Review: History of Literature Thursday 3 December: AK Reading 7 due; Topic thread update Friday 4 December:AK Reading 8 due; here is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow Monday 7 December: AK Reading 9 due; psychological realism beginning discussion Tuesday 8 December: AK Reading 10 due; student sample of comparative translation writing Wednesday 9 December: Comparison/contrast cold writing (prep by looking over your returned comparative trans writing and rewriting sentences that promote argument and link multiple texts) Thursday 10 December: AK Reading 11 due; characterization exercise Friday 11 December: AK Reading 12 due Monday 14 December: AK Reading 13 due; AK Parts 1-4 paper assigned Tuesday 15 December: Thesis workshop Wednesday 16 December: Snow day! Thursday 17 December: Snow day; AK Reading 14 due Friday 18 December: No class; Half Day Christmas Break Winter Reading: Readings 15, 16, 17 (instead of How to Read Lit, which we will pick up in the spring) Monday 4 January: Readings (14)-17 due; AK Rdgs 14-17 review activity; hot seat opens for AK 1-4 paper Tuesday 5 January: AK Reading 18 due; Here's the handout from class Wednesday 6 January: AK Reading 19 due; Activity (basis for seminar) Thursday 7 January: AK Reading 20 due; Activity Friday 8 January: AP Prep: Prose Passage review; bring comparative in-class essay and 5 Steps ***** 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 hot seats are available as a special bonus this year. 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 hot seat is Tuesday, January 26. 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 11 January: AK Reading 21 due Tuesday 12 January: AK Reading 22 due; AK characters for review Wednesday 13 January: AK Reading 23; questions for discussion; AK passages for review Thursday 14 January: Reading 24 due; AK discussion questions for review Friday 15 January: AK test During Midterm week, we will have specific midterm review instruction. While there is a lot going on for AP Lit, the 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 Q3 (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. Monday 18 January: MLK Day; no classes Paper due Thursday 28 January 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 is the overview of a style guide I am writing. 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 Wednesday 23 September: Begin in class 1.1, read first explore the opening, then watch opening in Branagh's Hamlet for comparison/contrast Thursday 24 September: Reading 2 (see reading list below) in class Friday 25 September: No class; half day Here are the Hamlet SQs. Monday 28 September: Reading 2 due, along with one SQ Tuesday 29 September: Word of Advice In-Class Writing (no prep other than Reading 2) Wednesday 30 September: Hamlet Reading 3 due; here is 2.2 from Digital Theatre Plus (login using information in the materials for the class in Jupiter, use buttons to get to 2.2; if needed, the scene begins at 43:00); read over SQs to be ready for seminar Thursday 1 October: Hamlet Reading 4; read over SQs Friday 2 October: Hamlet Reading in class Monday 5 October: Hamlet reading 5 due; read over SQs to be ready for seminar; Vocabulary assigned; Soliloquy recitation assigned Tuesday 6 October: Vocabulary (one word) due to Discussion Forum before class; Hamlet Reading 6 due; look over SQs Wednesday 7 October: Vocabulary discussion Thursday 8 October: Hamlet Reading 7 due; Soliloquy Close Reading in class Friday 9 October: Act IV Activity (long quotation) in class; Hamlet Reading 8 due Monday 12 October: No class; Columbus Day Tuesday 13 October: Hamlet 10 to 1; Hamlet review Wednesday 14 October: SAT day; no classes--college counseling day for anyone not taking the SAT Thursday 15 October: C&P revisions/expansions due; more Hamlet review (requests from study questions and work with quotations) Friday 16 October: No class; festival for OLOR Monday 19 October: Hamlet test, receive "Hamlet and His Problems" Tuesday 20 October: Soliloquy recitation due Wednesday 21 October: Begin Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in class, up to p. 17 (entrance of Player) Thursday 22 October: "Hamlet and His Problems" due; Choose a Hamlet paper topic Friday 23 October: Hamlet vocab quiz; we will read R&G in class while you write at home 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 26 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Tuesday 27 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Wednesday 28 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Thursday 29 October: No class; Half day; College essay hot seat closes (College counseling day) Friday 30 October: No school Monday 2 November: No class; Halloween Festival; Hot seat opens for Hamlet writing; closes November 9; paper due Tuesday, November 10 Tuesday 3 November: Discussion of themes and ideas: R&G Wednesday 4 November: In-class writing: R&G; College essay collected 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. 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) Here is my screencast that introduces you to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Here is the handout that accompanies the screencast; you need to listen to the screencast for the important bit about Russian names. You need to listen to the screencast before you start the novel.
Here are study questions to help you navigate more closely. They contain spoilers, so you might want to wait until you have read a section before you read the questions for that section, and you might want to read Oliver Ready's introduction to the novel after you have read the whole novel. AP English Review Zoom calls and practices
AP Portfolio due Friday, May 8, before class; here is the updated handout; here is a second handout; here is a screencast that brings the two handouts together. It seems some students may have trouble with getting to materials. Here is 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. AP Review Friday, May 8, 10:15-12, 1-2:30 (Zoom at 10:15) •You must be visible and audible throughout the review; unless you are battling screaming siblings or live on a construction site, please stay unmuted so that you may participate more spontaneously; please participate avidly for the benefit of all •In the review, you should have in front of you your portfolio and your 5 Steps to a 5 book •During the review I will direct you to this prompt (Lawrence) and this prompt (Viramontes); when the time comes, you will need to be able to access them AP English Literature Exam: Wednesday, May 13, 2pm Eastern Time Honors Exam The prompt for this exam will open on Friday, May 8, at 1:30pm and close at 3pm. Students who are eligible for extra time are welcome to take it. The prompt is attached to the assignment in Jupiter. Before the exam, please review notes and book annotations. You will want to make a study sheet for each text, focusing on the elements of fiction (character, setting, plot, theme, style, symbol, conflict, point of view). Be careful to be able to root your ideas in the texts themselves. Be careful not to copy out into your notes any language from online study guides. Here is a handout to help you prepare. After opening the prompt, please use these materials to prepare your answer. Week 3
Monday 30 March: AP students synchronous Zoom call for IP imitative writing or explication 10am; honors students, project update due. See assignment directions in Jupiter. English 12H's update is due by 6pm today. Tuesday 31 March: Finish IP project; In Parenthesis project due to Dropbox by midnight Wednesday 1 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 2 April: Introductory screencast for Brideshead Revisted; Read Prologue Friday 3 April: Read Chapter 1 Synchronous class via Zoom at 10am; here is link to blog to help you with references *************************************************** Week 4 Monday 6 April: Read Chapter 2; respond on Discussion Forum (AP=2 responses; H=1 response) by 6pm Tuesday 7 April: Read Chapter 3; Synchronous class via Zoom; 2 groups Group 1 9:45-10:30: Belency, Grace C., Vanessa, Elizabeth, Julia, Josephine, Ariana, Gillian, Tifford (AP Bio students will be done easily in time for AP Bio sync) Group 2 10:30-11:15: Grace B., Olivia, Kateri, Marisol, Katie, Thu, Linda, Gabby, Claire Wednesday 8 April: Wonder Wednesday Rest of the week off for Holy Week Wednesday 15 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 16 April: Read Chapter 4 Friday 17 April: AP Practice due by midnight (Prose passage only). Link is to the whole packet. Do Q2 only. *************************************************** Week 5 Monday 20 April: Read Chapter 5; Zoom call (everyone) 2-3pm Tuesday 21 April: Read Part Two, Chapter 1 Wednesday 22 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 23 April: Read Part Two, Chapter 2; Discussion Forum, due midnight Friday 24 April: Read Part Two, Chapter 3; AP practice essay due by midnight; link is to the whole question packet--just complete question 2 (Silas Lapham) for this assignment *************************************************** Week 6 Monday 27 April: Read Part Three, Chapter 1; Zoom call (everyone) (read before call) 11:45am-12:45pm; here is the handout for today's class Tuesday 28 April: Read Part Three, Chapters 2 and 3; Discussion Forum, due 6pm Wednesday 29 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 30 April: Chapter 4 and through p. 376 Friday 1 May: Read p. 376 through Epilogue; Zoom call (everyone) 10-11am *************************************************** Week 7 Monday 4 May: Timed writing: Brideshead Revisited; review, based on notes from our last Zoom call; prompt opens 2pm, closes at 3:30pm (upload work to the assignment in Jupiter); any extra credit essays should be uploaded by 6pm today English 12 H exam (and also for any AP student electing not to take the exam) due May 8. This exam will consist of one essay. I will attach the on the Jupiter assignment on the exam day. Review the readings and your notes to prepare. You should have all of your books and notes/handouts at the ready, and you will spend 45 minutes preparing and then 45 minutes writing the essay you choose from among the 2 or 3 prompts. (You'll see why it's "2 or 3" when you open the exam). Begin, please, by reading my letter. Certainly, if there is illness in your household or other stressors that are affecting your life significantly, know that I will be reasonable about load and deadlines.
The hot seat for the AK sourced argument will be open through Monday 23 March, with the paper due on Tuesday 24 March to the Dropbox by 8:30am. This is a slight extension from the published deadlines on the assignment sheet. *Please include in the same document: your works cited page and a note detailing your hot-seat visits. *Be sure your paper has a heading and your file indicates that this is the final version of the AK sourced paper. Not following these simple directions (which have been in place since 2018) impedes teaching and learning--I will deduct points accordingly. You must turn in a paper for this deadline, even if you have a stamp. For a hot seat, please send your draft paper clearly labeled as a draft; please include a heading on your paper and include your works cited page in the same document. Each student may have up to two hot seats for this paper, and the draft should be as free of usage errors as possible. If the paper isn't reasonably clean, I will end the hot seat. For your meeting, I will find it easiest and best to make a screencast in which I give you feedback (a wish come true, Vanessa). That way you can listen as many times as desired to make sure you understand and then follow up with emailed or texted specific questions. If you would prefer to do a FaceTime call with the document on Pages collaboratively, I can do that easily. If you want to use FaceTime or an audio call along with a collaborative Google Doc, I am game to give that a try. Overall deadlines (tentative, to give you and idea and allow you to pace yourself): ***All materials are due to the Dropbox*** Everyone: AK final due Tuesday 24 March by 8:30am Everyone: In Parenthesis imitative writing (with writer's statement) or explication due Wednesday 1 April by 8:30am AP: 2nd full practice test due (indicate best essay to grade) due Wednesday 15 April by 8:30am AP: "Book reports" due Wednesday 22 April AP: Portfolio due 29 April AP: Review skills whether or not there is an AP exam, so you are ready for excellent college writing or for the delayed exam; review is by Zoom call Tuesday 5 May from 12-3pm. *************************************************** Week 1 Wednesday 18 March: Begin distance learning; see my letter to start; work on AK paper; hot seat (6 spots total): Grace C., Grace T. Thursday 19 March: Work on AK paper; hot seat (6 spots total): Kateri Friday 20 March: Work on AK paper; hot seat (6 spots total): Gillian, Claire, Belency, Thu, Linda, Elizabeth Weekend hot seats are possible for people coming back a second time (12 spots available for 2nd visits): *************************************************** Week 2 Monday 23 March: Hot seat for AK sourced paper closes (6 spots total for anyone): Olivia, Julia, Belency, Claire Tuesday 24 March: Final version of AK sourced paper due to Dropbox, see above and assignment sheet for advice and admonitions •Your paper itself should start on p. 2; the first page should be a short note about your visits to the hot seat. You may estimate dates if you are not sure. •Your paper should be clean of the Unlucky 13 usage errors. Read it through one more time. •Your paper's last page should be the Works Cited (or Works Consulted page if you have one). Thanks as always for your good work! Wednesday 25 March: Work on In Parenthesis project; here is the assignment sheet again; here is a screencast in which I go over the assignment sheet Thursday 26 March: Work on In Parenthesis project Friday 27 March: End of third marking period; Work on In Parenthesis project *************************************************** Week 3 Monday 30 March: AP students synchronous Zoom call for IP imitative writing or explication 10am; honors students, project update due. See assignment directions in Jupiter. English 12H's update is due by 6pm today. Tuesday 31 March: Finish IP project; In Parenthesis project due to Dropbox by midnight Wednesday 1 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 2 April: Introductory screencast for Brideshead Revisted; Read Prologue Friday 3 April: Read Chapter 1 Synchronous class via Zoom at 10am *************************************************** Week 4 Monday 6 April: Read Chapter 2 Tuesday 7 April: Read Chapter 3; Synchronous class via Zoom at 10am Wednesday 8 April: Wonder Wednesday Rest of the week off for Holy Week *************************************************** Wednesday 19 February: Introduction to David Jones; begin In Parenthesis in class
Thursday 20 February: Full draft of AK sourced paper due by class time; HW: Part 1 of In Parenthesis Friday 21 February: Discussion of Part 1 Monday 24 February: Part 2 of In Parenthesis in class Tuesday 25 February: Part 2 of In Parenthesis Wednesday 26 February: Part 3 of In Parenthesis, through p. 37 Thursday 27 February: Remainder of Part 3 of In Parenthesis Friday 28 February: Part 4 of In Parenthesis through Dai Greatcoat's boast, p. 84; AP: last day to submit evidence of full AP test Monday 2 March: Remainder of Part 4; anamnesis and other ideas Tuesday 3 March: Part 5 through p. 118 Wednesday 4 March: Remainder of Part 5; HW: Excerpt from The Things They Carried Thursday 5 March: No class; Gala Practice; HW: In Parenthesis Part 6 Friday 6 March: Discussion of O'Brien and Jones, with reference to Shakespeare and Hemingway; HW: Part 7 to p. 171 Monday 9 March: Part 7 to p. 171; Jones reads In Parenthesis Tuesday 10 March: Finish In Parenthesis; Writing assignment, creative or academic, given Wednesday 11 March: No class; Field Trip to the Phillips Collection (Art History class) HW: Work on AK paper Thursday 12 March: Workday in class for In Parenthesis project; AP meets at lunch to talk about poetry (mandatory) Friday 13 March: Workday in class for In Parenthesis project ***School closed for coronavirus*** |