*****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 Monday 9 April: AP timed essays due; Introduction to Brideshead Revisited
Tuesday 10 April: Reading 1 due Wednesday 11 April: No class; Gala practice Thursday 12 April: Reading 2 due Friday 13 April: Jane Austen Day Monday 16 April: Reading 3 due Tuesday 17 April: Reading 4 due Wednesday 18 April: No class; Gala rehearsal Thursday 19 April: School canceled for Jimmy Davern funeral Friday 20 April: No class; All-Day Gala Practice Monday 23 April: No Classes; Gala Recovery Tuesday 24 April: (AP OOCM: Be prepared with books and notes); Reading 5 due Wednesday 25 April: Reading 6 due Thursday 26 April: Reading 7 due Friday 27 April: Reading 8 due Monday 30 April: Reading 9 due Tuesday 1 May: Reading 10 due Wednesday 2 May: Review: Brideshead Revisited Thursday 3 May: In-class writing: Brideshead Revisited; Last Day of Classes (Grandparents' Day affects second period only) Friday 4 May: Medieval Day Readings Reading 1: Prologue Reading 2: Book One: Chapters 1 and 2 Reading 3: Chapters 3 and 4 Reading 4: Chapter 5 Reading 5: Book Two: Chapter 1 Reading 6: Chapters 2 and 3 Reading 7: Book Three: Chapter 1 Reading 8: Chapters 2 and 3 Reading 9: Chapters 4 and through p. 376 Reading 10: p. 376 through Epilogue Friday 23 February: Modernism, Stream of Consciousness: "The Mark on the Wall"
Monday 26 February: Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 1-20; background presentations assigned Tuesday 27 February: Hot seat closes for AK sourced argument paper; Mrs. Dalloway, pp. 21-40 Wednesday 28 February: Hot seat slip produced in class (required); AK sourced argument paper due (with works-cited page); upload paper to the Jupiter assignment established for this purpose Thursday 1 March: Mrs. Dalloway 41-60; AP OOCM 3-5 p.m., bring your 5 Steps book Friday 2 March: Mrs. Dalloway 61-80 Monday 5 March: Mrs. Dalloway continued Tuesday 6 March: Mrs. Dalloway 81-100 Wednesday 7 March: Mrs. Dalloway 101-120 Thursday 8 March: Mrs. Dalloway 121-140 Friday 9 March: Mrs. Dalloway imitative writing task Monday 12 March: Mrs. Dalloway 140-160; Impressionism tie-in Tuesday 13 March: Mrs. Dalloway 160-180 Wednesday 14 March: Mrs. Dalloway 180-end; Impressionist music Thursday 15 March: Mrs. Walsh on field trip; prep for in-class writing on Mrs. Dalloway Friday 16 March: In-class writing, Mrs. Dalloway; Modernism project assigned Monday 19 March: Workday to get started on modernism project Tuesday 20 March: AP Lit OOCM 3:15-5:15 (Show evidence of having completed one full AP exam) Wednesday 21 March: No class; seniors on field trip to Holocaust Museum Thursday 22 March: Workday for modernism project; conferences available Friday 23 March: Workday for modernism project; conferences available Monday 26 March: Modernism project due; presentations (2-3 minutes) Tuesday 27 March: Any remaining presentations; penultimate OOCM for AP students; workday for Q3 reflective memo Wednesday 28 March: Q3 reflective memo due by the end of class Easter Break! (AP Students: Complete a second full exam--from the two online exams, submit one essay for marking) , Monday 29 January: Narrative vs. Lyric; the sonnet; gestural structure
Tuesday 30 January: Snow Delay Wednesday 31 January: More with poems in play: "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Thursday 1 February: Relationships of various elements to overall emotional effect Friday 2 February: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Monday 5 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Informal Outline and Draft of Sourced Argument due as PDF to Jupiter, double spaced, with a title and a heading. Submit both items as one file, please. Draft of paper should include works-cited page. In class: More with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; here is that sound trope handout Wednesday 7 February: Snow Day Thursday 8 February: Field Trip to see Hamlet at Shakespeare Theatre Friday 9 February: Comprehensive review: meter, line, form; Cold poem exercise Monday 12 February: Device review: image, symbol, metaphor and simile, metonymy and synecdoche; 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 of repetition as we see them in the Mass) Tuesday 13 February: Devices: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox (Hot seat opens for AK sourced argument paper) Wednesday 14 February: Sound tropes; other devices Thursday 15 February: Closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet) Friday 16 February: Shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Cold poem practice sequence (speed analysis); absent students should make up by Wednesday: here is the answer sheet (you will need 2 of those) and the poems are in the same document; AP students should do 4 poems in 20 minutes, while grade-level students should do three poems in that time. Time yourself, please. Wednesday 21 February: Test: Poetry devices and principles Thursday 22 February: In-class writing: Cold poem exercise Wednesday, January 3: Continue "The Dead"; Review guidelines for AK research paper; proposal ideas
Thursday, January 4: “The Dead” through p. 136 Friday, January 5: Two-topic proposal for AK paper due; John Huston’s The Dead; James Joyce and epiphanies Monday, January 8: Remainder of "The Dead" due Tuesday, January 9: Prep for field trip to library; how to use UMD databases Wednesday, January 10: Field trip to McKeldin Library, UMD Thursday, January 11: Prep for "The Dead" in-class writing; prompt; sample pages from 5 Steps to a 5 Friday, January 12: "The Dead" in-class writing ***** Midterm prep Here are study guides for the midterm: This one is for Grade-level English IV. Here's that list of passages from Hamlet we used in class on Friday; Here is a third study guide, which gives you an example of a long passage. This one is for AP Lit. Here is a new page of prompts for the free-response question, prompts specific to Hamlet and Anna Karenina, and thus directly relevant to the exam. ***** Monday, January 15: No school; MLK Day Tuesday, January 16: Sources due (AP: 3–4 scholarly; grade-level: 2 sources, 1+ scholarly): Include tentative thesis statement and bibliography in MLA style along with any questions, concerns, or other notes for me; here is the Gibian source I mentioned in class; it's from this book. Wednesday, January 17: Review for Midterm; AP should bring 5 Steps book to class Thursday, January 18: Review for Midterm; model midterm free-response question for AP; model quotation IDs for grade-level Friday, January 19: March for Life Monday, January 22: Midterm prep Tuesday, January 23–Friday, January 26: Midterms Monday, January 29: OOCM #4: Gatsby; history of literature Thursday, October 12: Introduction to Anna Karenina: How To Read a Long, Russian Novel and Why Anna Karenina is a Brilliant, Brilliant Piece of Literature
Friday, October 13: Reading 1 due; here are the Anna Karenina study questions; discussion of how to use the SQs Monday, October 16: Reading 2 due; individual tracking assignments made Tuesday, October 17: Reading 3 due Wednesday, October 18: Reading 4 due Thursday, October 19: English workday: College essay meetings; AK or M reading catch-up; writing for AP Hamlet paper Friday, October 20: Hot seat opens for AP Hamlet writing; you should have your stamp for your college essay by this point Monday, October 23: AP OOCM #2 at Sophia S's house (Metamorphosis due); presentations by Gillian and Lily Tuesday, October 24: Reading 5 due Wednesday, October 25: Reading 6 due Thursday, October 26: Reading 7 due Friday, October 27: No school; Archdiocesan Professional Day Monday, October 30: Reading 8 due Tuesday, October 31: Reading 9 due Wednesday, November 1: Reading 10 due Thursday, November 2: No class; seniors travel to Boston Friday, November 3: No class; seniors travel to Boston Monday, November 6: English workday: Hamlet hot seat; Reflective Memo clarified Tuesday, November 7: Reading 11 due Wednesday, November 8: In-class AK activity* Thursday, November 9: Reading 12 due Friday, November 10: End of Q1; celebratory reading of creative pieces; Reading 13 due Monday, November 13: AK Parts 1–4 round-up; Rosamund Bartlett video; paper assigned for AK parts 1-4 Tuesday, November 14: Workday for paper Wednesday, November 15: Reading 14 due Thursday, November 16: Harkness: True and False Selves Friday, November 17: Reading 15 due Monday, November 20: Reading 16 due; Hot seat opens for AK 1–4 paper Tuesday, November 21: Workday for AK 1-4 paper; hot seat meetings Thanksgiving Break Monday, November 27: Reading 17 due; reading for overall emotional effect (VI, 1); explication begun Tuesday, November 28: Reading 17 explications, continued Wednesday, November 29: Reading 18 due Thursday, November 30: In-class Poetry Out Loud competition Friday, December 1: Reading 19 due Monday, December 4: Update on assigned characters, themes, or other elements due; AP OOCM at Sophia's (Lit Crit lecture) Tuesday, December 5: In-class close reading of a passage Wednesday, December 6: Reading 20 due Thursday, December 7: Schools of Literary Criticism in-class activity Friday, December 8: Reading 21 due Monday, December 11: Reading 22 due; hot seat closes for AK 1-4 paper Tueday, December 12: AK 1-4 paper due Wednesday, December 13: No class; seniors on field trip Thursday, December 14: Reading 23 due Friday, December 15: Reading 24 due Monday, December 18: Review Tuesday, December 19: Test, Anna Karenina; AK paper assigned Wednesday, December 20: (Art Appreciation Field Trip) Thursday, December 21: Intro to AK research paper; begin reading "The Dead" *Christmas Break* 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. 380–416 Reading 13: pp. 417–438 **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 Schedule: Hamlet unit
Welcome to English 12/AP Literature and Composition! Please look to this blog for updated schedules. If you miss class, you can find the homework here–but consulting the blog is, of course, no substitute for getting the notes from a friend and checking in with me. Find the Hamlet SQs here. Week 1 Wednesday, September 6: Set up, AP summer reading (options for OOCM 1), portfolio, Hamlet sqs, policies; hot seat sign-up for college essay; roster to disclose AP summer reading choices Thursday, September 7: Policy sheet signed*, Reading 1 due, distribute poem checklist, Hamlet opening scenes Friday, September 8: Poem review, poem response assigned Week 2 Monday, September 11: Poem due, Poem response* begun in class (may be handed in anytime between Tuesday and close of business on Friday) Tuesday, September 12: Reading 2 due Wednesday, September 13: Word of Advice activity in class* Thursday, September 14: No class (but complete Reading 3): Summer Reading groups Friday, September 15: Skills: personification, simile, metaphor/ Literary terms, Readings 1–3; Poem response due Week 3 Monday, September 18: Reading 4 due Tuesday, September 19: Reading 5 due Wednesday, September 20: Vocabulary presentations in pairs—context cues and etymology Thursday, September 21: Reading 6 due Friday, September 22: Soliloquy close-reading activity* First OOCM for AP: Overview of the test, the rubric song, some sample questions Week 4 This week: Lunchtime screening of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Monday, September 25: Reading 7 due; Acts 3 and 4 quiz Tuesday, September 26: Reading 8 due Wednesday, September 27: Hamlet 10 to 1* Thursday, September 28: Set-up for Acts 4 and 5 group work Friday, September 29: no class, Field Day Week 5 Monday, October 2: R&G quiz; Acts 4 and 5 group scene performance work Tuesday, October 3: Review of Hamlet, Hamlet and tragedy; AP only: Hamlet writing topics distributed Wednesday, October 4: Hamlet test (Reading test, reasonable quotation ID) Thursday, October 5: Vocabulary quiz; Portfolio review and hot-seat advice; prep during class for R&G in-class writing Friday, October 6: R&G in-class writing Monday, October 9: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday, October 10: "Hamlet and His Problems" essay and in-class exercise Wednesday, October 11: No class; College Counseling Day Thursday, October 12: Introduction to Anna Karenina Coming Up: AP OOCM #2, October 23rd, 6:30-8:30 at Sophia S.'s house. Reading due: Kafka's Metamorphosis (a novella), presentation by Gillian and Lily. Book copies to be distributed by Wed., October 4. ***** 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. Please see the policy sheet for guidance about homework. * Portfolio item |