Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Notebook Arrangement

You will need a FIVE SUBJECT SPIRAL notebook for our class.
You will need a pen or pencil daily.
You will need a printed copy of all text for each class!

Notebook Requirements:

AP Literature Red Group
1. Red Five Subject Spiral Notebook
2. Cover: Name & Class Period on upper left hand side
3. 5x7 colored picture of you printed on regular print paper and tapped/glued to the front cover
4. Inside Cover: Parent/Guardian's name and their current/working number & email address
5. Sections 1-3 All work done in and outside of class
6. Section 4 Poetry Journal & Winter Novel Guide Assignments
7. Section 5 (Leave for Second Semester Projects)

Have Notebooks by August 17, 2015
Have Song of Solomon by August 17, 2015

Novel Guide for Winter Break Novel

Name ______________________________

AP English Literature & Composition with Mrs. Moore-Webb

Close Reading Novels with Your AP Journal

Annotating the text at will—in the novel

Highlight and make any notes in the margins that question, clarify, summarize, connect, infer, and define unfamiliar words/phrases as you read.

Annotating the text at the end of each chapter (required)—in the novel (so purchase or print it out)

1. Briefly summarize the chapter in your own words only!!!!

2. Make lists of new characters, new or significant settings, possible symbols, significant patterns, key words & phrases, page & paragraph numbers of notable quotes.

3. Note any plot devices (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, etc.) used in the chapter.

Probing Deeper at the end of each chapter (required)

1. Update your minor character analysis chart. Your chart must include at least two minor characters that are round enough to be analyzed in a meaningful way. Prove your analysis by citing the page & paragraph numbers.

2. In your journal select a minimum of seven quotes from the current reading assignment and write a thoughtful and meaningful response to each quote. You must also note the page and paragraph numbers for each quote.

3. List and define seven unfamiliar words from the current reading assignment. Cite the pages & paragraphs containing the words.

4. Update your main character analysis chart. Prove your analysis by citing the page & paragraph numbers. You will complete the chart when you complete your reading.

Tentative Schedule for the School Year

AP Literature

Tentative Plan for the Year

Daily Agenda:

1. Opening: Motivational “Voice Lessons,” “Read Literature Like a Professor Review”

2. Lesson: Varies depending on objectives

3. Closing (last 10 – 15 minutes of Class): Test Prep/Formative Assessment/Homework/Blog Check

Blog Address: http://moorewebbaplit.blogspot.com/

August 10^th – 14^th

· Syllabus Review

· Summer Assignment Discussion, Due Date, Assignments, Diagnostic Assessments

August 17^th – 21^st

· Begin reading Song of Solomon (Chapters 1-2)

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Diction Activities: Strategy A, Strategy B, Pre-20^th Century Poetry/Passages, Their Eyes…,

c. Colloquialism, Dialect, Slang, Concrete Diction, & Abstract Diction

d. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

e. First Passage Analysis

August 24^th – 28^th

· Continue Reading Song of Solomon (Chapters 3-5)

a. Voice Lessons

b. Syntax: Activity on Parallelism, Poem using Antithesis and Parallelism, Rewrite of various sentences, Student Presentations

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Fryer Model with terms in notebook

e. Second Passage Analysis

August 31^st – September 1^st

· Continue Reading Song of Solomon (Chapters 6-8)

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Syntax Continued…

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Fryer Model with terms in notebook

e. Third Passage Analysis

September 7^th – 11^th

· Continue Reading Song of Solomon (Chapters 8-11)

a. Voice Lessons

b. Symbolism: Power Point Break Down Strategy

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Music Video Creation assignment/Class Discussion

e. Fourth Passage Analysis

September 14^th – 18^th

· Continue Reading Song of Solomon (Chapters 12-14)

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Imagery: Power Point Break Down, Song of Solomon Imagery Analysis,

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Fifth Passage Analysis

September 21^st – 25^th

· Continue reading Song of Solomon (Chapter 15)

a. Voice Lessons

b. Tone/Mood: Student Handout C, Stations: Activities Ranking Tone Words, The Paint Chip, Tone Power points, Building Tone Vocab with Similar Short Works

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Sixth Passage Analysis

September 28^th – October 2^nd

· Song of Solomon Independent Project

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Figurative Language: Student Led Presentations

c. Project due by the end of the week with a Socratic Seminar (50/50)

d. Seventh Passage Analysis

October 5^th – 9^th

· Outside reading “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

a. Voice Lessons

b. Figurative Language Continued…

c. Other Terms: Magical Realism, Aphorism, Bildungsroman, Double Entendre, etc…

d. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

e. Eighth Passage Analysis

October 12^th – 16^th

· Outside reading A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Begin Essay Composition: Introduction: HIMPET (Teacher writing conferences & Peer Editing)

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Ninth Passage Analysis

October 19^th – 23^rd

· Continue reading A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen

a. Voice Lessons

b. Continue Essay Composition: Body Paragraphs (Claim/Opinion, Evidence/Data, Analysis/Commentary)

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Tenth Passage Analysis

October 26^th – 30^th

· Continue reading A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Continue Essay Composition: Conclusion Paragraphs (TBTC: Thesis, Bodies, Theme, Connection)

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. Eleventh Passage Analysis

November 2^nd – 6^th

· Continue reading A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen

a. Voice Lessons

b. Timed Writing (Twice)

c. Reading Check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. 12^th Reading Passage

November 9^th – 13^th

· Begin reading Story of an Hour

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Begin teaching the comparison and contrast essay with A Dolls House and Awakending

c. Reading check due at the end of the week: Guide, Quiz, Socratic, Silent Walk, etc…

d. 13^th Reading Passage

November 16^th – 20^th

· Begin reading your novel from the Winter Break List

a. Voice Lessons

b. Continue teaching and working on the comparison and contrast essay (due at the end of the week)

c. First Hour Long Multiple Choice Test

d. Begin preparing for first major multiple choice test

e. 14^th Reading Passage

THANKSGIVING BREAK

November 30^th – December 4^th

· Continue reading your novel from the Winter Break List

a. Read Lit Like…

b. Study of Poetry Begins: Diction, Imagery, Symbolism, Tone, Narrative, Lyrical, Dramtic, Sonnets, Haiku, Free Verse, Pre-20^th Century, Modern, Contemporary, African American,

c. Begin Poetry Journal Study (In folder to be placed in Notebook)

d. 15^th Reading Passage

December 7^th – 11^th

· Continue reading your novel from the Winter Break List

a. Voice Lessons

b. Study of Poetry Continues…

c. Continue on Poetry Journal

d. 16^th Reading Passage

December 14^th – 18^th

^{Final Exams (Poetry Journals Due)}

January 6^th – 8^th

· Novel Talks

January 11^th – 15^th

· Begin reading Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in class

a. Test Prep: Multiple Choice 1

b. Shakespeare In-Class Activities

c. Reading focus: Diction

January 18^th – 22^nd

· Continue reading Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

a. Test Prep: Timed Writing 1

b. Shakespeare Class Activity: Character Sketch Begins in Notebook

c. Reading focus: Symbolism

January 25^th – 29^th

· Continue reading Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

a. Test Prep: Multiple Choice 2

b. Shakespeare’s Class Activity: Continue Character Sketch

c. Reading focus: Imagery

d. Activity Continued…Present a debate on this topic: “Americans should return to the custom of arranged marriages.”* Or debate this question as characters in the play, Create a video of a scene, Act, or a 15 minute summation of the entire play, Feminist framework analysis, Create a Game: Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy, Family Feud, etc…, Create an album of songs that represent the play or aspects of the play,

February 1^st – 5^th

· Continue reading Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

a. Test Prep: Timed Writing 2

b. Shakespeare’s Class Activity: Continue Character Sketch

c. Reading focus: Figurative Language

e. Begin teaching research assignment Activity 1-2

February 8^th – 12^th

· Finish reading Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

a. Test Prep: Multiple Choice 3

b. Shakespeare’s Class Activity: Continue Character Sketch

c. Reading focus: Syntax

e. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 3- 4

February 22^nd – 26^th

· Begin reading a previous book read from the Literary Cannon

a. Test Prep: Timed Writing 3

b. Shakespeare’s Class Activity: Continue Character Sketch Talks and Group Analysis Project

c. Reading focus:

e. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 5

February 29^th – March 4^th

· Continue reading a previous book read from the Literary Cannon and complete novel guide

a. Shakespeare’s Class Activity: Continue Character Sketch Talks and Group Analysis Project

b. Present Group Character Analysis Projects

c. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 5 and Documentation/Citation Skills

d. Show the Citation Machine and Easy Bib

March 7^th – 11^th

· Continue reading a previous book read from the literary cannon and complete novel guide

a. Work on research composition—Introduction

b. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 2 Close reading of documents

c. Student led test prep: Games, Presentations, Videos, and Activities: Breaking down and connecting diction, imagery, symbolism, syntax, figurative language. Also review terminology

March 14^th – 18^th

· Continue reading a previous book read from the literary cannon and complete novel guide

a. Work on research composition—Writing the Argumentative vs. Explanatory Synthesis Essay—page 68 (Goals, Method, Focus) Introduction, Incorporation of quotes, paraphrase, and summary

b. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 2 Close reading of documents

d. Student led test prep: Games, Presentations, Videos, and Activities: Breaking down and connecting diction, imagery, symbolism, syntax, figurative language. Also review terminology

March 21^st – March 25th

· Continue reading a previous book read from the literary cannon and complete novel guide

a. Work on research composition—Body/Transitions/Claim/Evidence/Commentary

b. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 2 Evaluating Sources (AAOCC)

e. Student led test prep: Games, Presentations, Videos, and Activities: Breaking down and connecting diction, imagery, symbolism, syntax, figurative language. Also review terminology

March 28^th – April 1^st

· Continue reading a previous book read from the literary cannon and complete novel guide

a. Work on research composition—Body/Transitions/Claim/Evidence/Commentary

b. Continue teaching research assignment—Activity 2 Evaluating Sources

f. Student led test prep: Games, Presentations, Videos, and Activities: Breaking down and connecting diction, imagery, symbolism, syntax, figurative language. Also review terminology

Winter Break Novel Choice List & Help Websites

WINTER BREAK READING CHOICE LIST

Most Frequently Cited 1970-2015

27 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
21 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
19 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
17 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17 King Lear by William Shakespeare
16 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
16 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
14 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
14 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
13 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
13 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11 Beloved by Toni Morrison
11 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11 Light in August by William Faulkner
11 Othello by William Shakespeare
10 Antigone by Sophocles
10 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10 Native Son by Richard Wright
10 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
10 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
9 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
9 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
8 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
8 Candide by Voltaire
8 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
8 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
8 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
8 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
8 Sula by Toni Morrison
8 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
7 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
7 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
7 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
7 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
7 Medea by Euripides
7 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
7 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
7 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
7 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
7 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
6 Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
6 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
6 An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
6 Equus by Peter Shaffer
6 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
6 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
6 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
6 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
6 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
6 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
6 Obasan by Joy Kogawa
6 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
6 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
5 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chkhov
5 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
5 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5 Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
5 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
5 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
5 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

WEBSITES:

http://www.litcharts.com/

PDF's to Online Text Needed for Class

I WOULD PREFER YOU GET THE ACTUAL BOOK. HOWEVER, IN THE MEANTIME...

Heart of Darkness

https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cvsp/Documents/reading_selections/204/Spring%202013/CS-204-ReadingSelections-Conrad-HeartDarknestDarkness.pdf

Song of Solomon

http://www.alanreinstein.com/site/Song_of_Solomon_files/Song%20of%20Solomon%20-%20Toni%20Morrison.pdf

A Dolls House

https://myetudes.org/access/content/user/mazu48009/PDF%20Files/DollsHouse_full01.pdf

The Awakening

http://westernhs.bcps.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_4204286/Image/Grade12%20TheAwakening.pdf

Story of an Hour

http://my.hrw.com/support/hos/hostpdf/host_text_219.pdf

Passage and Poetry Analysis Guide: Must complete with every reading passage or poem!

Passage and Poetry Analysis Guide

1. Read the prompt. Underline the important words. What can we predict the passage or poem will be about, based on the information within the prompt? (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT)

2. Read anything else that accompanies the passage or poem. (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT)

3. Read the passage or poem: Chunk it by shifts and/or lines or paraphrase it (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT)

a. identify thesis

b. locate shifts

c. Determine an overall theme (something that can be said, learned, and understood by all—Message about life)

4. Circle difficult vocabulary: Determine if the words are positive or negative, verb, noun, or adjective, look at prefixes/suffixes, and use context clues. (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT and YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

5. SOAP it! (YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

a. What do you know about the speaker/s? Gender, Age, Emotions, Background, Biases,

b. Point of View: 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd Limited, 3^rd Omniscient, Stream of Consciousness, Internal Monologue…How do you know? What’s the point? Revisit bias and reliability…How do you know? Examine the claim!!!!

6. Tone: (a) Pick out words that stand out/reoccur (b) what are the connotations of the words (c) find synonyms for the words (d) pick out images that stand out/reoccur (e) identify symbols that stand out/reoccur (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT and YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

7. Symbols and Imagery: Go from concrete to abstract, and then apply to overall meaning

8. See if the following apply (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT and YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

1. Comparison and Contrast: What’s the same? What is different? How does that help me get a better grasp of the theme?

2. Allusions

3. Irony/Paradox/Ambiguity/Juxtaposition

4. Syntax: Periodic Sentence, Telegraphic, Parallelism, Antithesis, Rhetorical Questions, Repetition, Capitalization, Punctuation (semicolons, parenthesis, exclamations, dashes, etc…)

9. Sylistic Devices: Identify them and think about how they add meaning and then connect to the theme. (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT and YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

Analogy, anecdote, direct comparison, dramatic monologue, allegorical, ambiguous, impressionistic and/or descriptive writing, onomatopoeia, euphemisim, allusion, paradox, elaborately structured metaphors, extended metaphors, hyperbole, understatement [meiosis}, overstatement, personification, sarcasm, satire, simile, irony

10. Organization: Describe the pattern of development of the passage. (ON ACTUAL DOCUMENT and YOUR OWN SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER)

Examples:

A. Shift in point of view

B. Cause and effect relationship

C. Extended metaphor

D. Intentional shift in diction

E. Intentional use of 1^st person to create immediacy

F. Order to disorder

G. Disorder to order

H. Strangeness to beauty to ugliness

I. Remoteness to familiarity to remoteness

J. Compare/Contrast: How are they passages/paragraphs/stanzas related; First implies a question and the second implies and answer; first is humorous and the second is serious; first presents factual information and the second exposes opinions

Address the following…

1. SPEAKER:

a. ________________ an acquaintance of ______________

b. ________________ a chronicler of past events, an impartial observer, an uninvolved

c. narrator, critical of ______________, skeptical of _______________, respectful of ________________

2. MEANING: INFERENCE:

a. The paradox caused by the fact that __________________ in lines ___ - ___ creates

b. The irony caused by the fact that ______________ in lines/when such and such says or does ____________ creates________________

c. The juxtaposition caused by __________________ in lines/when such and such says or does ____________ creates________________

d. The ambiguity cause by ______________________ in lines/when such and such says or does ____________ creates_______________

3. MEANING: PURPOSE: Examples

a. The purpose is to…enlarge one’s deep sympathy with truth

b. To teach one how to recognize

c. To provide instruction about the nature of

d. To speak to one’s broader understanding

e. To inform

f. To inspire

http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/twenty-one-poems-ap-literature-and-composition