Weekly Agenda 1.12-1.16

Charles Dickens Introduction

MONDAY and TUESDAY
Share from Critical Annotations

College Center Presentations

Read ghost story: "The Signalman"
-Journal Entry #1: answer questions-Recalling #1; Interpreting #4; Separating Details #s 1-3; and, Fitting the Context, choose 2 of the 4. Prepare to share tomorrow.

Read through Historical Context, and Introduction to A Tale of Two Cities.
HW Finish Journal #1, begin reading Book One of Tale (book room or purchased)

WEDNESDAY
Touch base on poet search
-questions, obstacles?
Critical Annotation due Jan. 20th-21st

Review Journal #1

Begin reading through Historical Context

Conventions of Fiction terms review
See LINK for limited vocabulary list (no quiz, for your pleasure)

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
SSR
Review questions due on Book One

Timed Writing: double-poem analysis

Reading Schedule

Read Book 1 by Jan 20th

Read Book 2 by Jan 30th (but, be half way through Book 2 by Jan 26th)

Read Book 3 by Feb 6th

Prepare for key word reading quiz: you will be presented with a quotation or key phrase from your reading and have to explain its significance in the story.  

A Tale of Two Cities online

Smaller Print, no Ads
http://literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/two-cities/

Larger Print, Ads
http://www.dickens-online.info/a-tale-of-two-cities.html

SPRING SEMESTER 2015!

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Semester 1 Work Return
-comments about Journal work
-reflection due

Review Poetry M/C
Review Sound and Sense
-Chapters 11 & 12

Poet Study Research Project
-list
-choose by 2 weeks and present Critical Annotation (see Shakespeare template)

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Review Course Outline
-signatures due MONDAY

AP Passage Practice
-approaching the prompt
-creating Concept Circles for Fiction

Dickens
-get books
HW Critical Annotation due MONDAY

NEXT WEEK
AP Double Poem Timed Practice

Remaining Journals

A few remaining journal entries due Monday, Dec 15th.

#12  NY Times style book review of one of the independent books you read this semester.  10pts
#13  Revise and rewrite two paragraphs from your Candide paragraphs.                                5pts
#14  Hamlet Timed Writing                                                                                                10pts
                                                                                                                                           25pts

Weekly Agenda 12.8-12.15

Death of a Salesman

MON-WED
Book Review Excerpts

Plot Structures: 5,3,2

http://www.vcu.edu/arts/playwriting/structure.html

Beyond structures, we will approach discussing Salesman via tropes: Keep in mind the typical types of characters and features of a tragedy.  What other tropes or archetypes do you recognize?

TERMS: anachronic order, deconstruction, "broken pedestal," fatal flaw, mimesis, catharsis, staging (4th wall-voyeurism)

Characterization: temporary, measuring, subordination, volatility, exploitation, conquest, superlatives

>>purpose>>pathos>>perception

Weekly Agenda 12.1-12.5

HAMLET

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY
Parody Quaker Share
-present? perform!

Finish up Hamlet
-review acts
-watch clips

HW Read one or more of the sub-headings in a "Modern Perspective" on #307, your choice.  
AND, JOURNAL #12: write a thoughtful book review -nytimes style- of one of your independent reading books, due FRIDAY.
AND, JOURNAL #13: choose two paragraphs from your CANDIDE essays to rewrite.
AND, Read Death of a Salesman  by MONDAY;

THURSDAY
JOURNAL #14: TIMED WRITING HAMLET

FRIDAY

Turn in completed Study Guides for credit.

Review, translate, and analyze "Key Phrases and Lines" on page 339.

Share excerpts from your book review.

HW Read Death of a Salesman by MONDAY

Weekly Agenda 11.17-11.21

HAMLET/ Poetry

MONDAY
Poetry Terms Quiz
Act 2 Study Guide

TUESDAY
Review Act 2
Act 3 Study Guide
Independent Reading Check in
HW Reading Journals due tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY
Poetry Timed Writing
-tps-fast/RRR
-prompt
-analysis
-practice
HW Take home practice timed writing, due Thursday.

THURSDAY
Review practice poem --in class poem timed writing tomorrow

Branagh's Hamlet
-excerpts, ACTs 1-3

Candide essay review
-constructing a thesis
-the importance of direct evidence
HW Read ACT 4 for MONDAY

FRIDAY
Poetry Timed Writing

NEXT
MON-WED
-review acts 3-4
-dramatic reading
-analysis of character: Ophelia
-more excerpts
--some silliness?
HW finish play for MONDAY; book review of independent reading;  Hamlet -topics of interest: Poetry timed writing, in review.