December 17, 2009

AP Literature

• Practice Test
• HW: Flashcards on tone words
• Over break, read The Awakening and complete three pages of Dialectical journal entries.
  

December 16, 2009

World Literature

• Poetry Out Loud
  
• Discuss chapters 2-3
• HW: Review Proverb and vocabulary handouts. Read chapters 4-7 and write a paragraph summary of each chapter. Summaries should include the main events, settings, characters, and ideas. Keep practicing active reading with post-it notes. And practice your poem for recitation on the day you return from break (January 4)!!
  

AP Literature

• Kate Chopin and the Awakening
• HW: AP Test; Flashcards on tone words due Friday

December 15, 2009

World Literature

• Check Active Reading Homework and discuss
  
• Begin Chapter 2
• HW: Finish Chapters 2 and 3; complete the same exercises you did for Chapter 1.
  

2:00
HW: Quiz

AP Literature

• "The Story of an Hour"

December 11, 2009

World Literature

• Final poetry selections due!
• Discussion of "Body Ritual of the Nacerima"
• Novel notes and novel glossary
• Distribute Things Fall Apart, vocabulary, and post-it notes
• HW: Quiz introductory information; read Chapter 1 and complete active reading

AP Literature

• Young Goodman Brown
• HW: Finish story

December 10, 2009

AP Literature

• Discussion of Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
• HW: Read and complete exercises in Workbook, Chapter 3: Irony and Tone; review tone words from handouts; read Chapter 6 in text: Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
  

December 9, 2009

World Literature

• Review Active Reading strategies
• Read "The Body Ritual of the Nacirema" and answer questions
• HW: Questions due Friday

AP Literature

• "A Good Man is Hard to Find" discussion
• HW: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
  

December 8, 2009

World Literature

• Poetry selections due
• Performances scheduled for 1/4-5
• Introductory notes for Things Fall Apart
  

AP Literature

• Othello tests returned
  
• Select poetry essay for grade and place in writing folders
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  
• Reading narrative fiction and point of view
• HW: Second reading of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
  

December 2, 2009

World Literature

• History of Punctuation
• Period Confusions
• Apostrophe Confusions

2 pm

• Memoir sharing
• Review for Monday's test
• Sentence formation and Pronoun usage
  
• Literary Terms
  
• Avoiding Wordiness
• HW: Poetry selection due Tuesday
  

AP Literature

• "Hazel Tells Laverne" and Literary Criticism
• HW: "Porphyria's Lover" short essay due Friday