Focus: What do early chapters of our book club books reveal?
During class today, please sign up for a writing conference. This will translate into a grade, so please make sure you copy your conference date carefully into your calendar.
1. Warming up with ratifying the Big Question Blog Amendment
2. Meeting with book clubs to work through your opening activities, questions, and closing activities
3. Enjoying an enlightening clip on "Word Bending" with the King of Assonance (5:00)
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Monday.
2. Next poetry response due Monday.
3. Work on your poetry papers and projects, due March 9. Project people: your proposals are due Wednesday.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
A.P Lit Is Forming Poetry Projects and Papers: February 26, 2015
Focus: How do we turn our metacognitives into papers and projects?
1. Warming up by putting your poem to the test: SOAPSTONE
a. Trying out SOAPSTONE with prisoner's poem of the week: "Southern Cop"
b. Using SOAPSTONE to explicate your paper/project poem
2. Offering a few words of advice to the poetry essay people (see website for overview and samples)
3. Explaining the project proposal and rubric
4. Working and conferencing on papers and projects
HW:
1. Papers and projects are due Monday, March ?
Project people: Proposals and rubrics due Wednesday, March 4
2. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Friday.
3. Poetry responses due Monday.
1. Warming up by putting your poem to the test: SOAPSTONE
a. Trying out SOAPSTONE with prisoner's poem of the week: "Southern Cop"
b. Using SOAPSTONE to explicate your paper/project poem
2. Offering a few words of advice to the poetry essay people (see website for overview and samples)
3. Explaining the project proposal and rubric
4. Working and conferencing on papers and projects
HW:
1. Papers and projects are due Monday, March ?
Project people: Proposals and rubrics due Wednesday, March 4
2. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Friday.
3. Poetry responses due Monday.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
A.P. Lit Is Book Clubbing: February 25, 2015
Focus: How are we approaching the early chapters of our book club books?
PLC: Shortened Class
If you are reading Atonement and have not yet turned in your signature, please do so now.
1. Warming up with your book club opening activities
2. Enjoying discussions of the early chapters of your book club books
3. Wrapping up with a quick debriefing of what went well and what your goals are for next time
HW:
1. Tomorrow will be a poetry paper/project work day.
2. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Friday.
3. Next poetry response due Monday; if you have been absent, please make sure your response for this week has been turned in.
PLC: Shortened Class
If you are reading Atonement and have not yet turned in your signature, please do so now.
1. Warming up with your book club opening activities
2. Enjoying discussions of the early chapters of your book club books
3. Wrapping up with a quick debriefing of what went well and what your goals are for next time
HW:
1. Tomorrow will be a poetry paper/project work day.
2. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Friday.
3. Next poetry response due Monday; if you have been absent, please make sure your response for this week has been turned in.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
A.P. Lit Discovers Anaphora, A.P. Lit Discovers the Meaning of Life: February 24, 2015
Focus: What is anaphora, and how does it help us understand poetry?
1. Warming up with a little Mumford & Sons: Why might they repeat "I will wait" so many times?
2. Understanding what anaphora is...and how being repetitive can be powerful when its poetically intentional
3. Applying anaphora to some old friends (Billy Collins and Robert Frost), and then to some new friends (Laura Kasischke, Joanna Klink, Uncle Walt, and William Blake)
4. Trying out your own poetic hand at anaphora by composing an imitation poem
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus
2. Next poetry response due Monday.
3. This Thursday will be a day to start composing your poetry essays and working on poetry projects.
1. Warming up with a little Mumford & Sons: Why might they repeat "I will wait" so many times?
2. Understanding what anaphora is...and how being repetitive can be powerful when its poetically intentional
3. Applying anaphora to some old friends (Billy Collins and Robert Frost), and then to some new friends (Laura Kasischke, Joanna Klink, Uncle Walt, and William Blake)
4. Trying out your own poetic hand at anaphora by composing an imitation poem
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus
2. Next poetry response due Monday.
3. This Thursday will be a day to start composing your poetry essays and working on poetry projects.
Monday, February 23, 2015
A.P. Lit Is Book Clubbing: February 23, 2015
Focus: What do we need to do to embark upon a new unit?
Please turn in your poetry responses and help yourself to a new packet.
1. Warming up with happy Monday thoughts and tone words that span an entire spectrum of emotions
2. Reflecting on the year thus far with a little blogging
3. Entering the world of your book club; making sure the chapters match up with the reading assignments you decided on
4. Wrapping up
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus making for Wednesday.
2. New poetry response due next Monday.
Please turn in your poetry responses and help yourself to a new packet.
1. Warming up with happy Monday thoughts and tone words that span an entire spectrum of emotions
2. Reflecting on the year thus far with a little blogging
3. Entering the world of your book club; making sure the chapters match up with the reading assignments you decided on
4. Wrapping up
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus making for Wednesday.
2. New poetry response due next Monday.
Friday, February 20, 2015
A.P. Lit Is Forming Book Clubs: February 20, 2015
Focus: How do AP Lit book clubs work?
1. Warming up: Listening to a page from each of the book club possibilities:
James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Albert Camus' The Stranger
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Ian McEwan's Atonement --MUST HAVE PARENT SIGNATURE
Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment
2. Taking time to peruse and form book clubs
3. Setting up the reading and syllabus calendar with your book club and establishing the means by which you will share information with me...Google folder? Google site? Blog? Good old-fashioned notebook?
You need a syllabus for each day your book club meets.
Click here for a very straightforward sample syllabus.
Click here for a well-focused opening syllabus.
Click here for an "outside the box" sample syllabus.
Book clubs will meet on the following eight days:
February 23, 25, and 27
March 2, 4, 16, 18, and 20
Note: March 20 will be your final discussion day for book clubs.
HW:
1. Your first book club meeting is this Monday; complete your assigned book club reading/syllabus. Purchase your book if need be.
2. Poetry response due this Monday.
1. Warming up: Listening to a page from each of the book club possibilities:
James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Albert Camus' The Stranger
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Ian McEwan's Atonement --MUST HAVE PARENT SIGNATURE
Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment
2. Taking time to peruse and form book clubs
3. Setting up the reading and syllabus calendar with your book club and establishing the means by which you will share information with me...Google folder? Google site? Blog? Good old-fashioned notebook?
You need a syllabus for each day your book club meets.
Click here for a very straightforward sample syllabus.
Click here for a well-focused opening syllabus.
Click here for an "outside the box" sample syllabus.
Book clubs will meet on the following eight days:
February 23, 25, and 27
March 2, 4, 16, 18, and 20
Note: March 20 will be your final discussion day for book clubs.
HW:
1. Your first book club meeting is this Monday; complete your assigned book club reading/syllabus. Purchase your book if need be.
2. Poetry response due this Monday.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
A.P. Lit Is Workshopping: February 19, 2015
Focus: How can we improve our timed writings and our understanding of Beloved?
Please turn in your purple grade sheets (and any missing assignments).
1. Warming up by watching a short interview with Toni Morrison herself!
2. Critiquing a sample essay together
3. Workshopping your essays in small groups: Past events, morally ambiguous characters, happy endings, or scenes of violence
a. Talk through the prompt...what was the heart of the prompt? What did you think the prompt meant?
b. Read through the rubric and identify the primary difference between a 4 and a 5, a 5 and a 6, a 7 and an 8/9, etc.
c. Peruse the sample essays and discuss what you think they might have received based on the rubric.
d. Pass your essay clockwise, and comment on the following:
e. Pass the essays clockwise once again, and comment on the following:
f. Pass the essays clockwise once again, and comment on the following:
g. Retrieve your own essay, and based on your editors' feedback and on the rubric, estimate what grade range you think your essay falls in. Give a brief explanation of the grade using language from the rubric.
HW:
1. Last chance: Finish your big blog question on Beloved if you have not yet done so.
2. Last chance: If you didn't finish your poetry metacognitive last Thursday, please finish.
3. New poetry responses due Monday.
Please turn in your purple grade sheets (and any missing assignments).
1. Warming up by watching a short interview with Toni Morrison herself!
2. Critiquing a sample essay together
3. Workshopping your essays in small groups: Past events, morally ambiguous characters, happy endings, or scenes of violence
a. Talk through the prompt...what was the heart of the prompt? What did you think the prompt meant?
b. Read through the rubric and identify the primary difference between a 4 and a 5, a 5 and a 6, a 7 and an 8/9, etc.
c. Peruse the sample essays and discuss what you think they might have received based on the rubric.
d. Pass your essay clockwise, and comment on the following:
- Thesis, topic sentences, and overall organization
e. Pass the essays clockwise once again, and comment on the following:
- Examples and close readings/analysis
f. Pass the essays clockwise once again, and comment on the following:
- Style (word choice, sentence fluidity, maturity, etc.)
g. Retrieve your own essay, and based on your editors' feedback and on the rubric, estimate what grade range you think your essay falls in. Give a brief explanation of the grade using language from the rubric.
HW:
1. Last chance: Finish your big blog question on Beloved if you have not yet done so.
2. Last chance: If you didn't finish your poetry metacognitive last Thursday, please finish.
3. New poetry responses due Monday.
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