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August 26, 2014. Welcome back, new AP Lang students!

6/6

Warm-up:  Write a letter to next year’s Lang students telling them what to expect.


Classwork:  finish project presentations (pd 1); talk about college preparation; clean classroom and return books

Homework:  work on college applications and be kind to your sub next week

6/5

Warm-up:  On a sheet of looseleaf notebook paper, please write a letter to the new AP Lang teacher.  You can sign your name or not.  Please tell her what you think the goals of the class should be and what assignments or activities most helped you to become better readers or writers.  Any advice you have about how to help future students will be appreciated. 

Classwork:  discuss novels and essay prompts and write AP Lit essay; finish project presentations in pd 1; notebook check

Homework:  check schoolmax and let me know if there are any questions

6/4

Warm-up:  Which project presentations from yesterday did you enjoy and why?  What questions or comments would you have for presenters?

Classwork: final project presentations; talk about novels/essays for yesterday

Homework:  bring books for novel essay and notebooks for notebook check

6/3

Warm-up:  How does your project move beyond the obvious to show real analysis, synthesis or argumentative skill? 

Classwork:  present final projects; discuss novels/chapters from How to Read

Homework:  make sure that notebooks are up to date for notebook check

5/30

Warm-up:  Catch up on all other warm-ups because I will collect notebooks next week.

Classwork:

1.        Read Chapter 19 “Geography Matters” and take notes on the ideas of the chapter.  The way we did for “It’s All Political”.  This can be on the same paper if you have room.  After your notes, you must find at least 3 quotes (must be quoted from book with page number and written out – not just summarized or from memory) from your novel that are about geography.  For each quote explain why the setting was important to the text.  I will collect notes and quotes for both chapters on Tuesday.  If you missed Chapter 13 make it up by Tuesday.  Both chapters are online since you have to turn the print copies in at the end of class.

2.       Work on Final Project.  Remember it is DUE for everyone on Tuesday even if you don’t get to present.  For every day that it is late, you will lose 20%. 

3.       Start working on college application essays.  Create a resume.

4

Homework:   Final project due 6/3

5/29

Warm-up: copy the notes and think about how they apply to your novel
A. Red: ~immoral; the color of the life principle, blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire

B. Black: seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats

C. White: innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment

D. Green: inexperience, hope; new life, immaturity;, a combination of blue and yellow, it mediates between heat and cold and high and low; it is a comforting, refreshing human color; it is the color of plant life

E. Yellow.: rotting, heat, decay, violence, decrepitude, old age, and the approach of death

F. Blue: cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color in the real world except as translucency, the void of heavens

Classwork:  finish reading "It's All Political"  (chapter 13 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor) - now available under the classroom documents link on the blog

take notes on the chapter and then find at least 3 quotes/moments from your novel that are political and explain how (this work will be collected once we do both chapters)

Homework:  final projects due 6/3