Assignments : AP English Literature and Composition
September 8 - 12, 2008 VOCABULARY LINK!
Monday -
Objective: Students will
demonstrate facility with All the Pretty Horses and setting.
Activity : HORSES quiz followed by HORSES prompt.
Information -
Homework: Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 prepare vocabulary
from the 2nd list for presentation: Group 1 (Felicia, etc) 1st-4th; Group
2 (Marsha, etc) 5th-8th; Group 3 (Taelor, etc) 9th-12th; Group 4 (Kevin, etc)
13th-16th. Jollymore 17th-20th. Presentations: Tuesday-Friday groups 1-4,
respectively. READ Bedford, p115 - 120 to assist you in filling out the character
chart. Bring it in COMPLETE tomorrow.
Read Saving Sourdi and do the questions at the end, q.'s 1-7. Submit -
HORSES summer assignment (not Sula which I am returning).
Tuesday -
Objective: Students will
familiarize themselves with Question 1 of the AP Literature test.
Activity : QUICK VOCABULARY 1-4. Review the rubric for Question 1.
Apply the rubric to student writing from the class. Score the essays
and defend your consensus. Review character of Sourdi and the chart. Submit
chart and questions for credit.
Information - Discussion of responses
and work for the class. What is acceptable; what is productive.
Homework: Read Bartleby (135-159). Do Qs 1- 14
(159, 160)
Wednesday -
Objective: Students
will become familiar with characterization of the various types.
Activity : QUICK VOCABULARY 5-8. Discussion of free will and determinism
in relationship to Bartleby.
Information - Mention Dorian Gray.
Homework: Revise all of the paragraphs sent to
you via email today. Use the list of precepts to guide you in your revisions.
Prepare for discussion and submittal of this work tomorrow.
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 : QUICK VOCABULARY 9-12. Present your revisions of paragraphs
sent to you yesterday. Submit for credit. Bartleby and characterization
- overt, implicit.
Information - Teacher mentions Portrait of
Dorian Gray introduction.
Homework: Read Perspectives of Hawthorne and
McCall (160-162). Class debate, focusing on questions on 162, 163. Have notes
in paragraph form prepared for the discussion.
Friday -
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 : QUICK VOCABULARY 13-16. Continue to characterize Bartleby.
. Class debate, focusing on questions on 162, 163.
Information -
Homework: Prepare for a quiz on HEIGHTS and a
prompt on the same for Monday. Read Baglady (163-166); questions 1-5.
