Now the class can begin!
Mozel Tov, all, for your tenacity, your endurance, and your brilliance on the AP Test.
Notes for MAY:
Writer's Notebooks:
1.The Cole Essay (x3)
2.The AP test
3.The AP Language and Comp Essay
4.The Graduation Speech
5. The City of Glass test(mult choice questions, and one essay)(5/19,5/20)
6. The postmodern questions
A. The Literary Canon Question: Why have so called "canonical" books been replaced by "marginal" authors/artists in the past generation? Please articulate your argument as to why we should or should not open the canon.
B. Explain how the political implications of any aspect of postmodern theory.
C. Using an example, define simulacra. Explain its implications.
D. Pick a "postmodern trend"(fact/fiction; parody/pastiche; self-referentiality; the use of irony), and explain how the trend connects to postmodern theory.
7. Photograph annotation: choose an advertisement, place it in the center of the page, then write a number of short annotations that analyze and deconstruct the image.
Readings:
1. City of Glass
2. Grendel/Mrs. Dalloway/Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead/Crying of Lot 49
3. Additional title(perhaps the other titles in the City of Glass Trilogy
Notes for MAY:
Writer's Notebooks:
1.The Cole Essay (x3)
2.The AP test
3.The AP Language and Comp Essay
4.The Graduation Speech
5. The City of Glass test(mult choice questions, and one essay)(5/19,5/20)
6. The postmodern questions
A. The Literary Canon Question: Why have so called "canonical" books been replaced by "marginal" authors/artists in the past generation? Please articulate your argument as to why we should or should not open the canon.
B. Explain how the political implications of any aspect of postmodern theory.
C. Using an example, define simulacra. Explain its implications.
D. Pick a "postmodern trend"(fact/fiction; parody/pastiche; self-referentiality; the use of irony), and explain how the trend connects to postmodern theory.
7. Photograph annotation: choose an advertisement, place it in the center of the page, then write a number of short annotations that analyze and deconstruct the image.
Readings:
1. City of Glass
2. Grendel/Mrs. Dalloway/Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead/Crying of Lot 49
3. Additional title(perhaps the other titles in the City of Glass Trilogy
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