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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

5/28

Warm-up:  Synonym or Antonym?  Define.

1. truculent … fractious … quarrelsome

2.  unscrupulous … principled

3.  benediction … blessing … approval

4. garrulous … loquacious … verbose

5.  fortuitous .. planned

Classwork:  final quiz on novel; read chapter about politics from How to Read Literature Like a Professor, and take notes about the main points of the chapter and how your novel could be read through this political lens.  You must have at least 3 quotes/parts of the book that have political undertones and explain how.

Homework:  final projects due 6/3

5/27

Warm-up:  Synonyms or Antonyms?  Explain.

1.  acquiescence … resistance

2. cryptic … enigmatic

3.  amnesty … pardon … exoneration

4.  catharsis … release

5.  eviscerate …  disembowel

Classwork:  finish reading novel; work on project; college research/essay

Homework:  finish novel by tomorrow

5/23

Warm-up:  Synonym or Antonym?  Define.

1.  prominence … eminence

2.  ostentatious … flamboyant

3.  prostrate … prone … horizontal

4. usurp … commandeer

5.  menial … skilled

Classwork:  quiz on 2nd checkpoint of book; read and discuss books

Homework:  read novels (final checkpoint 5/28); work on final projects

5/22

Warm-up:  Synonym or Antonym?  Define.

1.  insidious … treacherous

2.  meretricious … insincere

3.  ineffable … inexpressible

4.  laudable … detestable

5.  ingratiate … alienate

Classwork:  read novels and work on final projects

Homework:  finish up to checkpoint #2 for quiz tomorrow

5/21

Warm-up:  Synonyms or Antonyms?  Define.

1. renounce … reject

2.  malevolent … benevolent

3.  malice … cruelty

4.  fathomable … intelligible

5.  suppress … stifle

Classwork:  read novels; get approval for final project proposal

Homework:  read novel; work on final project

5/20

Warm-up:  Write whether each pair of words are synonyms or antonyms and write the definitions.

1.  reticence … openness

2.  taut … slack

3.  volition … coercion

4. translucent … gleaming

5. rectitude … righteousness

Classwork: discuss novels so far; take quiz on novel; have final project proposals approved during reading time

Homework:  read novel; work on final project

5/19

Fetterolf out

Read novels and answer these questions in your notebook
1.  How does the title relate to the book? (so far)

2.  How believable are the characters? Which character do you identify with? Explain.

3.  How is the book structured? Flashbacks? Multiple points of view? Why do you think the author chose to write the book this way?

4.  What types of symbolism do you find in this novel? What do these objects really represent? How do characters react to and with these symbolic objects?

5.  How is the setting of the book important to the theme? (so far)

6.  Explain the point of view of the book.

5/16

Warm-up:  Decide whether each set are synonyms or antonyms and define each word.

11.  sodden … arid

2. expound … explain

3. remorseless … callous

4. languid … leisurely

5. desecrating … violating

Classwork:  discuss final project and ideas; read novels
First checkpoint due 5/20 - Eyes 1-6; Gatsby 1-3; Mountain Part 1; Things pg 1-85

Homework:  read novels; plan project

5/15

Warm-up:  Decide whether each pair are synonyms or antonyms and write the meanings of all words. 

1.  complacent … anxious

2.  conscientious …. meticulous

3.  contemptuous … disapproving

4.  feign … pretend

5.  fractious … even-tempered

Classwork:  reading independent novels:  First checkpoint is 5/21
Eyes - Chapter 1-6
Things - pg 1-85 (to dentist)
Gatsby - Chapter 1-3
Mountain - Part 1

Homework:  read books

5/14

Warm-up:  How is reading fiction different from reading non-fiction as we have been all year?  What do you like about fiction?

Classwork:  finish crucible and turn in questions, distribute novels

Homework:  start reading novels; seniors - bring in books

Interesting article about education

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/the-benefits-of-mixing-rich-and-poor/?smid=fb-share

5/13

Warm-up:  Now that the essay questions are posted, write a reflection about which question you felt you answered best and why, and which one challenged you most and why. 

Classwork: discuss essays on AP test; introduce 4 American Lit novels that students can chose from; watch more of the Crucible and answer questions

Homework: pick which novels you would like to read; seniors finish your final projects for presentation tomorrow