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UPDATED 11.14.08 10:57AM: Complete Act II of Macbeth and the two handouts. I have copied one (see below: lesson #10) here for your convenience. The other assignment: List examples of disorder reported by The Old Man, Ross, and Macduff in Act II, Scene 4 (sorry the handout was not an original that I developed so I cannot put it on the webpage). ALL DUE MONDAY 11.17.08
Have a safe weekend. LESSON #10 “There’s Daggers in Men’s Smiles” Character Committees Understanding Character: Collect from Act II lines said by or about the character. Deal with each of the three witches, between the two brothers, and between the two soldiers. Look for things that reveal something about the appearance or personality of the character. Discussion of ambiguity may result.
UPDATED 11.07.08 1:38PM: Please read Macbeth for as long as you like...several hours and annotate the text. I hope to have a reading schedule for you next week but you should just read, read, read, (annotate, annotate, annotate). Thanks.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 11.03.08 11:08am: PPC due for both classes on Friday 11.7. Select one idea/thing to discuss with the poem "Partita for Sparrows" by Brenda Hillman. Use single space for your prompt. Double space your answer. Do not put name on front. Try not to go over one page. These will be workshopped using the overhead on Monday 11.10.
UPDATED 10.31.08 12:37PM: Homework for the weekend is the same for both classes. Complete the "Sample Prompts for the Open Question" handout. Be prepared to discuss your answers at the next class meeting.
Please purchase a copy of Shakespeare's Macbeth we will begin this play next week.
Check out the webpage on Monday (c.o.b.) to find out about the PPC even if your class does not meet on Monday.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 10.21.08 4:57PM: The current lesson plan follows:
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Monday, October 13 – Friday, October 17
Special Reminder: We continue and complete chapter presentations with Frankenstein.
Monday, October 13 = HOLIDAY Tuesday, October 14 Fday · Chapter presentations · Provide individual grade for work thus far with Frankenstein Wednesday, October 15 TESTING DAY Thursday, October 16 Gday · Chapter presentations Friday, October 17 Aday · Chapter presentations WEEKEND HOMEWORK: Vocabulary #4 31-40 + narrative techniques, omniscient point of view, point of view: QUIZ: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
A look ahead to the Week of the Spirit!
Monday, October 20 Bday · Newspaper activity with Frankenstein Tuesday, October 21 Cday · EEA with Frankenstein Wednesday, October 22 Dday P04 does not meet · Work with Kees/Dunn PPC Thursday, October 23 Eday P03 does not meet · Work with Carruth PPC Friday, October 24 Fday · Vocabulary #4 Quiz · Portfolio get/file/put PPC papers in · Develop as many discussion questions as possible for Frankenstein; complete for homework A look ahead to November: · PPC for P03 due: 11.5 · Check out 40+ discussion questions developed by AP teachers for Frankenstein · Discuss Open Question #3 on AP Exam and Outside Reading Project · What are we reading next? Macbeth · Work with “The Unknown Citizen” & “Autumn Refrain” –I have this covered
UPDATED 10.10.08 2:36PM: Weekend homework for both classes is the same: Be on schedule with the Frank reading. Be prepared if you are presenting.
I will ask you to give yourself a reading grade based on:
when we meet class on Tuesday.
Have a safe long weekend.
UPDATED 10.07.08 8:50AM: This current lesson plan and last weeks lesson plans follow:
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Monday, September 29-Friday, October 3 10.3.08
Here is a recap of what we did this week.
Monday, September 29 Cday · P03 PPC with Kees & distributed poem prompts list · P04 Completed Jane Eyre piece · P04 Spanish Dancer read aloud Tuesday, September 30 Dday (P04 does not meet) · P03 Read aloud with “The Birthmark” Wednesday, October 1 Eday (P03 does not meet) · P04 Read aloud with “The Birthmark” Thursday, October 2 Fday · P03 PPC due Stephen Dunn · P03 & P04 mega out on phil fieldtrip open study day for students here Friday, October 3 Gday · Vocabulary #3 Quiz · Discussion with “The Birthmark” questions
****things pending**** · Portfolio preparation · Dead words
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Monday, October 6 – Friday, October 10
This week and next week we devote to Frankenstein. We will follow the reading and presentation schedule. If you have a sporting event or miss class on the day of “your” presentation day you must write a two-page paper that details your pre-presentation role and what role you would have had in the presentation. The two-page paper is due the next time you meet the class. Then you will meet with me (as soon as possible following the absence; either before school or after school) to present your paper and chapter work.
Monday, October 6 Aday · Complete discussion with “The Birthmark” · Lecture about the context for Frankenstein · Distribute reading schedule and chapter presentations
Tuesday, October 7 Bday · Newspaper activity with Frank
Wednesday, October 8 Cday · P04 PPC due · Presentations begin for Frank
Thursday, October 9 Dday P04 does not meet · Presentations for Frank
Friday, October 10 Eday P03 does not meet
**************************************************************************** A look ahead. Scheduled work with Frankenstein
Monday, October 13 = HOLIDAY Tuesday, October 14 Fday Wednesday, October 15 TESTING DAY Thursday, October 16 Gday Friday, October 17 Aday
UPDATED 10.03.08 2:02pm: P04 should check out the PPC on Sunday. We will then take a break from PPC because each class will have done two. The reading schedule for Frankenstein follows: Reading Guide for Frankenstein I have chunked the novel into 30 +/- page sections. Your goal is to finish the novel by Tuesday, October 14.
Each student will be a discussion leader for chapters. I will have a signup sheet and discussion leader guidelines for you on Monday. Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 09.26.08 3:07PM: No weekend homework. But...you should be reading Frank; P03 check out Sunday PPC; Vocab Quiz #3 Friday.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 09.24.08 3:47PM: New (Kinda) Lesson Plan Follows:
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Monday , September 22-Friday, September 24
Reminders: · Jane Eyre reading, annotate, answer questions due 9/23 · P04 PPC due 9/24 · P03 check out Sunday 9/28 PPC for assignment due 10/2 Thursday · Do you have Frankenstein? Are you reading? Are you annotating in text? · Anticipate Vocabulary Quiz #3 + imagery; irony; metaphor 10/3
Monday, September 22 Eday (P03 does not meet) · P04 continue WH film
Tuesday, September 23 Fday · P04 From Jane Eyre work due today w/ class discussion (participation/writing grade) · P03 finish WH begin work with Jane Erye piece
Wednesday, September 24 Gday · P03 Begin WH film · P03 Complete JE work
Thursday, September 25 Aday · P03 EEA—“Spanish Dancer” or Dead Words or How is it going with College essay? · P04 Continue Film
Friday, September 26 Bday · P03 PPC with Kees · P04 finish Film
WEEKEND HOMEWORK: t.b.d.
Looking ahead: Monday, September 29 Cday Tuesday, September 30 Dday (P04 does not meet) Wednesday, October 1 Eday (P03 does not meet) Thursday, October 2 Fday · P04 PPC due Friday, October 3 Gday · Vocabulary #3 Quiz
UPDATED 09.19.08 1:37PM: Clarification for the Bronte piece. Read, annotate, answer the 4 questions (not the essay). Must be typed. Due for both classes on Tuesday 9.23. P04 please check out the PPC and we can talk about any pertinent questions. The PPC will be due on Wednesday 9.24. P04 will finish WH film. P03 will start viewing film on Thursday 9.25 when I am working with P04 on their PPC. Whew. Probably more information than you needed.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 09.12.08 3:17PM: No homework for the weekend
Reminders: Get Frankenstein and begin reading; P03 has ppc due Wednesday.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 09.11.08 11:42 AM: LESSON PLAN: This week and a draft for next week follow:
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Monday , September 8-Friday, September 19
REMINDER: Vocabulary Quiz #2 + devices of sound; diction; figurative language
Monday, September 8 Bday (Ms. Barnes was absent) · Continue class work with TPCASTT and Bronte poems; be prepared to discuss work with class
Tuesday, September 9 Cday · Discussion of Bronte poems and how they related to WH
Wednesday, September 10 Dday (P04 does not meet) · P03 Topic: Themes in WH; partner work and present HOMEWORK: Read and annotate: “Point of View in WH” and “Psychological analysis…”; be prepared to discuss at next class meeting
Thursday, September 11 Eday (P03 does not meet) · P04 Topic: Themes in WH; partner work and present HOMEWORK: Read and annotate: “Point of View in WH” and “Psychological analysis…”; be prepared to discuss at next class meeting · Discuss PPC schedule: · P03 PPC from Sunday, 9/14 due Wednesday, 9/17 · P04 PPC from Sunday, 9/21 due Wednesday, 9/24
Friday, September 12 Fday · Vocabulary Quiz #2 · P03 Return PPC and discuss: The good, the bad, and the ugly · Complete work with themes · Discuss other handouts and WH · Discuss what else you want to do with WH · Reminder to take DEJs · Reminder that you can use the TPCASTT model on any poem
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Monday, September 15 Gday · P04 Return PPC discuss: The good, the bad, and the ugly · Handout: “…a Great College Essay” · Rilke poem: “The Spanish Dancer” read aloud · Buy (Beg, borrow, steal) Frankenstein; we will begin soon (next week; you need your own copy not a library copy) · More info/stuff about how to for poetry
Tuesday, September 16 Aday · Jane Eyre excerpt; something artsy with Ms. Dunn
Wednesday, September 17 Bday · P03 PPC due · What to do next?
Thursday, September 18 Cday · What to do today?
Friday, September 19 Dday (P04 does not meet) · P03 discuss PPC
Reminder: September 22 P03 does not meet
UPDATED 09.05.08 2:41pm: No weekend homework. But you might want to start your review of the next 10 vocabulary words + the three lit. terms because we will probably have a quiz on them on Friday, 9.12.
Reminder: Bring your Bronte poem and TPCASTT stuff for the next class meeting.
Have a safe weekend.
UPDATED 09.04.08 3:21PM: The lesson plan for the week follows. Sorry, I forgot to update my webpage but I did provide you all with hard copy.
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Tuesday, September 2-Friday, September 5
Tuesday, September 2 Eday P03 Does not meet · P04 Partner activity with PPC
HOMEWORK: PPC due Wednesday, 9/3 & Vocabulary Quiz 9/3
Wednesday, September 3 Fday · P04 Literary Criticism Café using your WH literary criticism · Vocabulary Quiz #1 + 3 terms · PPC due w/self evaluation HOMEWORK: Bring your copy of WH to begin discussion/activity
Thursday, September 4 Gday · WH activity HOMEWORK: Not sure yet.
Friday, September 5 Aday · Activity with WH Weekend homework: Will be update on webpage by c.o.b. 9/5.
UPDATED 08.29.08 1:16pm: HELP HELP HELP: The St. Mary's County Fair is soon (September 19). Anyone interested in participating in the speech contest please let me know right away. Topic: Anything; Length: 3-5 minutes. SMR always places high in the contest. Several of you are naturals for the contest. Please help represent our school. Thanks. If more than one of you comes forward we will have a mini-contest.
Reminders: A copy of the writing stuff that I presented on the overhead is listed below. I will put a copy of the generic rubric for journals following this update.
All reading journals are due Wednesday 9/3 with assessment. PPC due Wednesday for all.
Have a safe weekend.
GENERIC READING JOURNAL ASSESSMENT NAME:_____________________________
TITLE:_____________________________________ DATE:______________________________ TEACHER:___________________________ USE THE FOLLOWING KEY: THOUGHTFUL/COMPLETE=5 SATISFACTORY=4 NEEDS IMPROVEMENT=3
Provide a brief comment about your overall commitment to reading the work. Consider your attention to detail, understanding of content, and appreciation of the work as a whole. Provide a number grade of your assessment of your work with the text.
UPDATED 08.27.08 12:40PM: PPC writing samples follows. SPECIAL NOTE FOR P03--the homework for tonight was tongue in cheek. You cannot prepare for the writing prompt.
Writing [C 3, C4]
Students write weekly using Robert Pinsky’s “Poet’s Choice” article from The Washington Post. Pinsky’s article provides a wide variety of poetry for analysis and writing. Works range from Mark Strand’s translation of Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade to the poems of Alberto Rios or Rita Dove. These assignments can be student or teacher designed. When student designed, the student reads the article and then develops a writing prompt and answers it. When teacher designed, the student reads the article and selects one of several writing prompts to answer. Student and teacher examples follow:
Student Example 1 In a well-constructed essay, discuss Raleigh’s use of rhetorical devices in the poem “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk.”
Student Example 2 Discuss the sonnet form in each of Coetzee’s three poems. How does the form contribute to or detract from the theme of the poem? Use specific evidence from each of the three poems. Student Example 3 Using W.B. Yeats’ Poem “Meditations in Time of Civil War” write a comparison/contrast essay in which you compare/contrast any two parts of the poem and address the poets use of such specific elements as speaker and imagery.
Teacher Example 1 Three of Auden’s poems have been used as poetry prompts on the AP exam. “The Unknown Citizen” in 1972, “Law Like Love” in 1978, and “Clocks and Lovers” in 1983. Discuss how “The Fall of Rome” would never be used as a poetry prompt because, unlike the other three poems, “The Fall of Rome” is too literal and leaves little to the reader’s imagination. Certainly, the “authorities” would never select “The Fall of Rome” as a possible AP prompt. Do not paraphrase the poem. Find specific examples to support your claims.
Teacher Example 2 Pinsky points to “a feeling of wry, informed and doom-ridden attentiveness” in Auden’s tone. Support this idea with specific examples from the poem. Do not paraphrase.
Teacher Example 3 Auden’s poems are noted for their societal commentary. Discuss the comments on society that Auden presents in the poem. Be very specific.
UPDATED 08.22.08 2:32PM: The lesson plan and course syllabus follow:
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION LESSON PLAN Tuesday, August 26-Friday, August 29 Tuesday, September 2-Friday, September 5
SPECIAL REMINDER: Vocabulary #1 quiz & PPC due Wednesday 9/3
Tuesday, August 26 Aday · Syllabus & lesson plan · WH Reading Journal Assessment & Journal · WH Writing Rubric & Paper + other requirements · Vocabulary (on webpage) Quiz #1 (1-20) Wednesday 9/3, plus first three “terms” (on webpage) + allusion, attitude, details (choice of details) · Terms List—Can you provide a definition and an example—ready, set, go!—you have 15 minutes · What novels did you read this summer? Mrs. Barnes will compile list. · What do you want from this class? HOMEWORK: None? Just smile.
Wednesday, August 27 Bday · All about the AP Lit Exam + overhead with three writing questions for 2008 · What’s Up With Poetry Focus? · PPC Weekly Writing, Please Let Me Explain · Partner Activity w/PPC HOMEWORK: Study, study, study—all the information you can about literature to prepare for the in class writing prompt tomorrow. Smile.
Thursday, August 28 Cday · P04 Make sure you understand weekend PPC assignment & assessment rubric · In class writing prompt HOMEWORK: Study for Vocabulary #1 quiz
Friday, August 29 Dday P04 does not meet · P03 Literary Criticism Café using your WH literary criticism HOMEWORK: PPC due Wednesday 9/3; Vocabulary Quiz #1 9/3
Tuesday, September 2-Friday, September 5
Tuesday, September 2 Eday P03 Does not meet · P04 Literary Criticism Café using your WH literary criticism HOMEWORK: PPC due Wednesday, 9/3 & Vocabulary Quiz 9/3
Wednesday, September 3 Fday · Vocabulary Quiz #1 + 3 terms · PPC due HOMEWORK: Read and annotate Emily Bronte letter; due tomorrow. Bring your copy of WH to begin discussion/activity
Thursday, September 4 Gday · Discussion rubric stuff · Discuss Bronte piece HOMEWORK: Not sure yet.
Friday, September 5 Aday · Activity with WH
2413 AP English Literature and Composition 2008-2009
Welcome to AP English. For you to have a successful year, you need to know and understand the information for this class. If you have questions, please ask.
Teacher: Mrs. Barnes Voice Mail: #402 Email: kbarnes@smrhs.org Website: http//www.smrhs.org/english/kbarnes/
Texts: The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume Two Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide St. Martin’s Handbook Washington Post: Book World section Vocabulary Packet Novels & Plays: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (summer reading) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (summer reading) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Macbeth by Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Supplies: An English notebook, pocket folder, loose-leaf paper, big brains
Special Note: Weekly syllabi are available on my SMR website. I also add special updates with time and date. Check daily for updates, great websites for your needs, words of encouragement, etc. E-mail communication is encouraged. Sense of humor appreciated. Course Mantra: Think Critically, Write Clearly, Read Closely
Course Description
Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition is a freshman college-level course designed to prepare students for the AP examination, which is given in May. The course is designed to hone students’ skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Through the teaching of close reading skills and analytical writing skills, students develop both breadth and depth of understanding toward a writer’s use of language and tone. How those elements mesh with structure, style, and theme, including cultural and historical significance, additionally illuminates the investigation of a literary work. Students are delving beyond the obvious, making connections, taking chances—with ideas and opinions and with writing—that reflects and reinforces the breadth and depth of their own reader and writer imaginations. In addition, it is hoped that the course will inspire a love for learning and a desire for more by sharing and modeling my enthusiasm for learning.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STANDARDS
· Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres for improved reading comprehension, for broadening their understanding of human experience, for gaining an appreciation of culture, for acquiring new information and for personal enjoyment. · Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts. · Students adjust their use of written language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for different purposes. · Students speak confidently and are able to adjust their techniques to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and for a variety of purposes. · Students can conduct research using a variety of technological and informational resources and can write a properly documented research paper.
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Grading
Tests/Papers 20% Quizzes 20% Homework/Preparation for class 20%
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