Monday, May 18, 2015

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,... :-}---

Saturday, May 2, 2015

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

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Two Week Agenda 4.20-5.4



April 20–May 1, 2015
Block Schedule
Mondays & Thursdays - ODD
Tuesday & Friday - EVEN

April 20–May 1, 2015
Block Schedule
Wednesdays - LATE START

Period A
Period 1/2
Break
Period 3/4

7:12-8:08 AM
8:15-10:15 AM
10:15-10:24 AM
10:34 AM-12:34 PM
LUNCH
Period 5/6

12:34-1:09 PM
1:16-3:16 PM


Period A
Period 1
Period 2
Period 3

8:45-9:30 AM
9:36-10:21 AM
10:28-11:13 AM
11:20 AM-12:05 PM
LUNCH
Period 4
Period 5
Period 6

12:05-12:40 PM
12:47-1:32 PM
1:39-2:24 PM
2:31-3:16 PM



WEEK 4.20-4.24
MONDAY
Review 100 Years of Solitude
-review handout
MR Elements
-Binary Opposition
-Hybridity
Read excerpts
-the banana plantation build up
--timeline
the massacre
-pitch the scene (film-wise)
HW  finish novel for THURSDAY (Monday would be the latest)
JOURNAL #11: Answer the 3 questions posted on the board. Record evidence. Prepare to tie to the "Time is Cyclical" element of Magical Realism
1. What similarities or differences are related to the types of solitude? What circumstances produce them?
2. What varieties of love occur in the novel? Does any kind of love transcend or transform the ravages of everyday life, politics and war, history, and time itself?
3. Is the sixth-generation incest of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Ursula inevitable? What foreshadows the end?

WEDNESDAY
CLASS FINAL: Magical Realism Project: Presentations due beginning May 18th
-brainstorm options
-clarify questions
-m/c review

THURSDAY/FRIDAY
Share evidence for end of 100 Years discussion
-archetypes?

Journal Entry #12 Passage Analysis (AP Style)
-Fernanda's Rant-



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


WEEK 4.27-5.1


MONDAY/TUESDAY
Review Practice Passage (Funny in Farsi) #1
-reader's response

Review Passage Prompt #2
HW Add to Graphic Organizer, Journal Entry #13
Journal Entry #13
-graphic organizer

--3x3: Columns: Passage Analysis/Open Q/Poem Analysis; Rows: Analysis (see breakdown)/evidence/organization/style


WEDNESDAY
Review Practice AP Open Question Essay
-add to #13
rewrite portion, share changes
HW Write Reader's Response #2 for Thursday.


THURSDAY/FRIDAY
New Short Story, #2
-story elements

select passages for AP Practice
--highlight devices

Short Story #3
HW Finish Reader's Response #3 for MONDAY


NEXT
MAY 6th-AP Exam

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Essay Handouts and Information

MLA In-Text Citation Guide

Poet Study Synthesis Assignment and Rubric

SAMPLE ESSAY and Writing Checklist (please check back by 3.30)
-see in-class handout

Recommended Terms (Define and organize into concept circles)
stanza assonance haiku
refrain slant rhyme sestina
lyric onomatopoeia free verse
narrative alliteration heroic couplet
villanelle line sonnet
limerick feminine rhyme iambic
consonance narrative enjambment
light verse ode internal rhyme
euphony trochaic diction
sibilance turn/volta paradox
ambiguity Petrarchan/Italian Elizabethan
fixed form personification connotation
euphony metonymy caesura
stanza simile stress
masculine rhyme rhythm sestet
octave tercet synecdoche
epic epigram cacophony
others...?