Assignments : AP English Literature and Composition
August 25, 2007 - VOCABULARY LINK!
Monday - "Getting to know you."
Objective: Demonstrate
how learning happens. Orient students to on-line resources.
Activity : Assign groups. Check out the web site: emphasis on assignment
pages. Teacher mentions Portrait of Dorian Gray. Teacher tells a story
and learns names.
Information - Vocabualry, Course Outline, Grading
Policy reading/ lecture quiz tomorrow.
Homework: Read Course Outline, Grading Policy,
Vocabulary Overview for tomorrow. In an email to Mr. Jollymore at jollymore_tim@yahoo.com
answer this question: "What did I do or what am I going to do about
the summer assignment work?" BRING HORSES SUMMER ASSIGNMENT WEDNESDAY.
Tuesday -
Objective: "Getting
to know you, again."
Activity : Teacher demonstrates a vocabulary presentation. Teacher
demonstrates learning modalities. Check out web site again, emphasis on assignment
page again. Open quiz on "VL," "CMP."
Information - Teacher assigns Portrait
of Dorian Gray. What we want you to learn in this course: How to say something
about literature. Things you must do in this course.
Homework: Vocabulary
groups study and present three/four words from BEDFORD GLOSSARY. BRING
HORSES SUMMER ASSIGNMENT TOMORROW.
Wednesday -
Objective: Students
will become familiar with and learn the uses of setting by an author of long
and short fiction.
Activity : GROUP ONE gives a vocabulary presentation. A discussion
of All the Pretty Horses quotations. Groups will present common passages
and divergent interpretation of the summer assignment responses.
Information - Short discussion on In-class novels.
Teacher distributes Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Homework: Read Hemingway's Soldier's Home 170-175.
HW: questions 1-10 for tomorrow. (Handout)
Thursday -
Objective: Students
will become familiar with the Bedford and learn the uses of setting by an
author of long and short fiction. Students will learn new vocabulary.
Activity : GROUP TWO AND THREE give vocabulary presentations. We will
obtain The Bedford Introduction to Literature and Sound and Sense textbooks
as quickly as possible. As time allows Class
review of HW. Read ee cummings 176 in class/HW.
Information - Teacher mentions Portrait of
Dorian Gray introduction.
Homework: Qs 1,2on cummings poem; p 176; Andrea
Lee, Anthropology, 177-185. HW: qs 1-6.
Friday -
Objective: Students will
learn new vocabulary. Students will become familiar with the Bedford and learn
the uses of setting by an author of long and short fiction.
Activity : GROUP FOUR, FIVE and SIX give vocabulary presentations.
Review HW
Information - Teacher mentions Out-of-class novel
reading and project.
Homework: Fay Weldon IND AFF, 186-191; qs 1-10
for Monday 1. Get a head-start reading Portrait
of Dorian Gray. Vocabulary
Assigned - Quiz on 1st week's words before the end of lunch on Wednesday!
STUDY AND LEARN VOCABULARY.
