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A. The Literary Canon Question: Why have so called "canonical" books been replaced by "marginal" authors/artists in the past generation?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A. The Literary Canon Question: Why have so called "canonical" books been replaced by "marginal" authors/artists in the past generation?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
The Third Quarter Essay
Down the stretch! Congratulations on climbing Mount Huck, and finishing your journey through the English country side with Stevens!
To give corporeal form to your excellent reading, consider the myriad prompts we have come up with, including:
1. Compare and Contrast the journey's taken by Huck and Stevens, and what they mean.
2. Consider applying the 2007 prompt: In many works of literature, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present activities, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose a novel or play in which a character must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal. Then write an essay in which you show how the character’s relationship to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
3. Consider any of the type 3 questions from the below post.
4. Formulate a question using your supplemental reading in relation to Huckleberry Finn or Remains of the Day.
Then respond in a well developed essay of at least 500 words. The essay will be scored on a 9 point scale.
Due Friday, March
To give corporeal form to your excellent reading, consider the myriad prompts we have come up with, including:
1. Compare and Contrast the journey's taken by Huck and Stevens, and what they mean.
2. Consider applying the 2007 prompt: In many works of literature, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present activities, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose a novel or play in which a character must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal. Then write an essay in which you show how the character’s relationship to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
3. Consider any of the type 3 questions from the below post.
4. Formulate a question using your supplemental reading in relation to Huckleberry Finn or Remains of the Day.
Then respond in a well developed essay of at least 500 words. The essay will be scored on a 9 point scale.
Due Friday, March
The Surreal Cafe
Gotta tell you, these are excellent.
Now who dares to take one -- or more! -- and use it as the start, or an end of a story or essay???
The Language All People Can Understand
Now who dares to take one -- or more! -- and use it as the start, or an end of a story or essay???
The Language All People Can Understand
Biting Satire:
The final of a seven paragraph story entitled the War Prayer, by Mark Twain.
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with hurricanes of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with hurricanes of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
Writer's Notebook, 3rd Quarter
For a writer's notebook: watch the videos below, and answer the questions:
1. Characterize the difference between Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens(min 1-3min)
2. According to historian Harlin Hill, how did Twain "begin American literature?"(4:40)
3. According to Jocelyn Chadwick and Gregory Hill, how did Twain's Jim "demythologize" slavery?(6-8)
4. William Styron calls the book a "metaphor for the tragiccomedy of life." (9 min of pt I to part II). What did he mean?
5. According to the commentators, what climactic line of the novel signals Huck's transformation? (4-6)
1. Characterize the difference between Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens(min 1-3min)
2. According to historian Harlin Hill, how did Twain "begin American literature?"(4:40)
3. According to Jocelyn Chadwick and Gregory Hill, how did Twain's Jim "demythologize" slavery?(6-8)
4. William Styron calls the book a "metaphor for the tragiccomedy of life." (9 min of pt I to part II). What did he mean?
5. According to the commentators, what climactic line of the novel signals Huck's transformation? (4-6)
Twain Reading Schedule
I. The objective is to create a test ourselves that will help us think critically about the book. On the following dates, we will have an open forum discussion which aims to collect 10 questions that pertain to plot, literary devices, and themes.
By Friday, January 28, be through chapter 7
By Friday, February 4, be through chapter 16
By Friday, February 11, be through chapter 28
by Friday, February 18, be through chapter 37
By Tuesday February 22, be finished!
II. Recommended title for Third Quarter: Cather in the Rye, The Odyssey, The Crying of Lot 49
By Friday, January 28, be through chapter 7
By Friday, February 4, be through chapter 16
By Friday, February 11, be through chapter 28
by Friday, February 18, be through chapter 37
By Tuesday February 22, be finished!
II. Recommended title for Third Quarter: Cather in the Rye, The Odyssey, The Crying of Lot 49
Third Quarter Run Down
Third Quarter Rundown
January-March
Unit 1: Review of AP test, cont: Multiple Choice Review
Question 2: rhetorical analysis
Unit 2: Mark Twain’s America
Unit Readings:
Twain: James Fennimore Coopers Literary Offenses,
The War Prayer, Message to Graduates
Complete Huckleberry Finn by February 22
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Unit 3: What Remains?
Unit Readings:
Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
The Novel as allegory
What is Englishness?
Barry Lewis: Remains of the Day
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Literature and Film: Remains of the Day(Ivory,1993)
Writers Notebooks:
**poetry can be wonderful, but not something to turn in for writer's notebooks**
1. Pick a Free Response Question
2. Pick a free Response Question
3. Pick a free Response Question
4. SOAPStone
5. TPCAST
6. The 12 sentence paragraph
7. Compare/Contrast
8. Question # 2 practice
9. First person, unreliable narrator
January-March
Unit 1: Review of AP test, cont: Multiple Choice Review
Question 2: rhetorical analysis
Unit 2: Mark Twain’s America
Unit Readings:
Twain: James Fennimore Coopers Literary Offenses,
The War Prayer, Message to Graduates
Complete Huckleberry Finn by February 22
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Unit 3: What Remains?
Unit Readings:
Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
The Novel as allegory
What is Englishness?
Barry Lewis: Remains of the Day
Unit Writing:
The essential question essay
Literature and Film: Remains of the Day(Ivory,1993)
Writers Notebooks:
**poetry can be wonderful, but not something to turn in for writer's notebooks**
1. Pick a Free Response Question
2. Pick a free Response Question
3. Pick a free Response Question
4. SOAPStone
5. TPCAST
6. The 12 sentence paragraph
7. Compare/Contrast
8. Question # 2 practice
9. First person, unreliable narrator
The Mid Term Exam
part I: 15 questions covering all literary terms.
part II: Hamlet. Answer 7 objective questions and one AP style question from the play. The prompt includes a passage from the play, and asks the WHAT--what the passage means within the context of the play--and the HOW--how literary devices, images, or allusions create meaning.
part III: I will select ONE of the essays from the 2009 Test.
part II: Hamlet. Answer 7 objective questions and one AP style question from the play. The prompt includes a passage from the play, and asks the WHAT--what the passage means within the context of the play--and the HOW--how literary devices, images, or allusions create meaning.
part III: I will select ONE of the essays from the 2009 Test.
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