Weekly Agenda 9.15-9.18

CANDIDE

Tuesday-Wednesday

Narrative Writing Criteria Chart

-questions

Consider long definition of SATIRE

-tone, irony, sarcasm, etc

-annotate, unpack, and apply

-what features of the Hogarth piece "Gin Lane" suit the definition

Review Journal Entry #3: Swift

-vocabulary list LINK

LINK-Worksheet: Journal Entry #4:   s/m/t; bridge "Genesis: Fall" to Candide; DUE THURSDAY.

HW Above Worksheet; 

AND, hard copy of College Essay by FRIDAY.

Thursday-Friday

Share out excerpts from #4

Introduce Candide essay prompt and scoring guide.  

-review model paragraph

ESSAY DUE to turnitin.com by FRIDAY SEPT. 25th for credit in grading period 1.  

Intro to Poetry

GET Sound and Sense poetry anthologies.  

-pp4-5, "The Eagle" by Tennyson; TPS-FAST; RRR; Glossary and essential terms

-"Love Poem"

--working with sound

HW Candide essay due next Friday, bring in working thesis MONDAY.  

AND, READING JOURNAL ENTRY (Letters): Independent Reading Book due TUESDAY.

Weekly Agenda 9.8-9.11

Short Week: Tues-Fri

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Review UC versus Common App prompts
-graphic organizer
-do and don'ts list
--taking the AP Lit exam
Assignment DUE: turn in College Essay, MLA, with prompt for next TUESDAY.

Bridge between the Bible and Candide (#2, pd 4)
-Unit Handout, PPT Handout
--PPT: History, Philosophies, Application

Reading Journal Vocabulary Section (use provided tabs)
HW College Essay due TUESDAY, typed, MLA
AND due FRIDAY, Reading Journal Entry(Letters) #3: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Record Independent Title

...continue PPT

LINK: Swift vocabulary
-add to section
Review entry #3, review key vocabulary
-introduce literary definition of satire (tone, sarcasm, irony, etc)
--unpack definition, clarify and such,...

Visual: Hogarth's "Gin Lane"

-OPTIC



NEXT
HW Reading Journal Entry #4:Compare and Contrast Genesis to Candide: 

AND, Complete an s/m/t chart of all symbols related to Candide.
Review parallel characteristics of Genesis' "Fall" to Candide; How does Voltaire make a list of horrors add up to comedy?  What kind of laughter does his comedy produce?  

Rousseau excerpt

Candide essay assignment, due SEPT 25th. (end of GP1)

Weekly Agenda 8.31-9.4

The Bible/College Writing

MONDAY and TUESDAY
DUE: Typed-MLA Memory Rant
Quaker Share: Memory Rant

Discuss Remaining Chapter 7
-how does the author use various examples?
For literary purposes: reread Tower of Babel.  Look at the unifying principal of the story.  Discuss etiology.

Independent Book Talk: Make a list, be prepared to commit to 1-2 for next week.

DUE TUESDAY-New Testament

Review Reading Journal Entries

3-Q Swap: Chapter 14 "Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too"
HW CANDIDE QUIZ THURSDAY; Finish Reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal" for Friday.

WEDNESDAY
Concept Circles demonstration
(concepts are ideas you can link together by some reasonable connection)
-group/organize Bible terms into Concept Circles

Identify and discuss universal archetypes in the Bible.  What popular high school books contain examples of these archetypes.  What might be an authors purpose in including such archetypes?

Consider New Testament images of Christ; analyze how the artist portrays him.  In your analysis include language from the "recommended terms."

Journal Entry #2: Find evidence for 3 "Thoughtful Questions" for Thursday.

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Review Entry #2

Bridge between The Bible and Candide
Candide Unit Handout/Vocabulary List
PPT: Historical Context
-17th Century, Enlightenment, Voltaire
--share Pope and Swift Quotations
---explicate Pope poem for style, meaning, effect

PPT: Philosophies: deism, determinism, optimism/skepticism, rationalism

Assign different philosophies to different characters or events in Candide.
HW In your Reading Journal, mark off a section for collected VOCABULARY: start collecting with words from the Candide list.
AND, READ "A MODEST PROPOSAL" by SWIFT: see Vocabulary List LINK
AND, consider the UC Prompt and the Common App. prompt; complete Graphic Organizer for TUESDAY.  
AND, know what title you will read by WEDNESDAY, as well.

8.26-8.28

Bible as Literature

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
Reading Journal Entry #1: Bible as Lit.; focus on 1-2 stories from the Old Testament.  Complete A1 and A2, and 2 other options.
-share
-self-grade guide

Bible as Literature PPT
-notes
-unit handout


HW for MONDAY, write a 1 page (12 pt font) memory rant.  And, finish reading Chapter 7 from "How to Read like a Professor."
  

NEXT WEEK
Concept Circles demonstration
(concepts are ideas you can link together by some reasonable connection)
-group/organize Bible terms into Concept Circles

For literary purposes: reread Tower of Babel.  Look at the unifying principal of the story.  Discuss etiology.

Identify and discuss universal archetypes in the Bible.  What popular high school books contain examples of these archetypes.  What might be the authors purpose in including such archetypes?

Consider New Testament images of Christ; analyze how the artist portrays him.  In your analysis include language from the "recommended terms."

Journal Entry #2: Find evidence for 3 "Thoughtful Questions" for TUESDAY.

Share connections between Bible and Candide (cite sources).
Fine-tune "memory rant."

College Essays...

Independent Reading Book Talk (limited)

Welcome! 8.24-8.25 Turnitin.com Information

Welcome Back to School for the 2015-2016 year!

This is where you will find information for weekly agenda and homework assignments. Last week we practiced 3-levels of questions with our school summer reading book, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline.  We also looked at defining vocabulary within context, and symbolism.

MONDAY and TUESDAY 8.24
HW Due: Course Outline Signatures
We will continue working with Ready Player One by identifying and defining more vocabulary within the context of the text;
as well as, by tracing the symbolism of Halliday's "Easter Egg," we will generate a pathway to one of Cline's critical themes using a "symbol-motif-theme" chart.

Next, we will create a t-graph, wherein, we collect evidence from the text, and make connections to our personal lives, popular culture, and other books we have read.
Finally, we will explore the "Glossary Entry" with literary devices from Ready Player One.

HW due WEDNESDAY: Bring your Single Subject Spiral or Composition Book dedicated as your READING JOURNAL.  BRING The Bible, as well.
AND, create a turnitin.com user profile and log into my class:

TURNITIN.COM

Class Id #: 10460114

Password: Stevens (case sensitive)

Then, email me your turnitin.com password with the email you used to create your turnitin.com account.

Email mstevens@smmusd.org

Reading Journal GP5-6 are due now!

GP #5-6
#7: Chronicle Questions  5pts
#8: 100 Years Glossary   5pts
#9: 100 Years s/m/t or Collect and Connect  5pts
10: 100 Years Magical Realism Worksheet   5pts
11: 100 Years/ MR 3 Qs  5pts
12: 100 Years Passage Analysis  10pts
13: AP Practice Graphic Org (or, Rewrite paragraph)  5pts       Total 40pts

AND, Please check Illuminate;  

• Many of you are missing items.
• The last day to turn in late work, like Reader's Responses, is this Friday, May 22nd.  
• Grades will be finalized by May27th.

Then, and only then,... :-}---

May Agenda and Remaining Assignments

MAY AGENDA DOC.

SHORT STORY: Women’s Voices, Fantasy, and an Imagined Future

May 4th-May 8th Monday -Finish Graphic Organizer #13: add to Open Question and Poetry Essay Types; Rewrite 1 paragraph of one essay. -Quick re-review of Lahiri’s “...Mr Pirzada” Tuesday -AP Practice M/C review: Determine overall practice grade with “calculators” -Introduce Cisneros’ short-story: “Never Marry a Mexican” Wednesday -AP EXAM: be at the South Gym early!  They want you there at 7:15, bring pens, pencils, and a snack.   Thursday -Back to Cisneros: map out Character Arc Friday -introduce Viramontes’ “The Moths,” and Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables HW Choose 2-3 of the short stories, written by female authors, to compare and contrast in a Reader’s Response, due May 18th.

May 11-May 15 Monday Collect Journal  through #13 (10pts). -Review “The Moths,” and “Seventeen Syllables.” -Sign up for One Hundred Years of Solitude Magical Realism Presentations (beginning the 18, next Monday) Tuesday -Transition to fantasy -Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Wednesday -Transition to role of women -Shirley Jackson’s “The Beautiful Stranger” Thursday -Back to Ghost Story -Edith Wharton’s “Afterward” Friday -fantasy, role of women -Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” HW Don’t forget, Reader’s Response, due May 18th.

May 18th-May 22nd: M.R. PRESENTATIONS Monday -presentations Review Reader’s Response -H.P. Lovecraft’s “Call of Cthulhu” Tuesday -presentations -Ray Bradbury title? Wednesday -presentations Thursday -presentations -multiple short stories by Philip Dick: “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts,” “Service Call,” “The Days of Perky Pat” Friday FILM: Animatrix, Brazil, or Blade Runner excerpts.

May 26th-29th May 25th is Memorial Day Tuesday-Friday Remaining Final Presentations and Final Grade Entry.

Short Story Reader's Response (see sample)
--must be MLA, typed, 2 paragraphs only: summary and analysis