March 17, 2010

World Literature

• Work on sentence variety and short stories
• HW: Story and sentence log due on Friday

AP Literature

• Streetcar
• HW: continue working on TEWWG essays

March 16, 2010

World Literature

• Review sentence types
• Short story and sentence variety

AP Literature

• Streetcar Named Desire
• HW: Their Eyes Were Watching God Essays, draft #2 due Monday
  

March 15, 2010

Interview schedule today

World Literature

• Parallel Structure
• Phrases

AP Literature

• Workshop Draft #1
• HW: Draft #2 due Thursday

March 9, 2010

World Literature

• Phrases

AP Literature

• Grapes of Wrath!
• HW: Draft due Monday

March 8, 2010

Today and tomorrow we have a special schedule due to student interview in afternoon.

World Literature

• Appositives
• Parallelism

AP Literature

• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Grapes of Wrath
• HW: Essay, preliminary thesis statement

March 5, 2010

World Literature

• Collect essays
• Return projects
• Discussion on documentation
• Commas and Parallelism

AP Literature

• Discuss Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"
• HW: Their Eyes Were Watching God

March 3, 2010

World Literature

• Documentation reminder
• Work Cited, 4 quotations
• Commas

AP Literature

• Review poetry test

World Literature

• Documentation
• Introductions
• Individual Writing Conferences
• HW: Final essay due Monday

AP Literature

• Review poems
• HW: Study for poetry test; Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 23, 2010

World Literature

• continue peer editing
• Review 3 aspects of Literary analysis
• a works cited page
• using quotations

AP Literature

• Read and annotate 3 poems
• HW: Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 22, 2010

World Literature

• Collect drafts
• Review outline
• Review peer editing
• HW: Final draft due next Monday

AP Literature

• Socratic Discussion
• HW: Read Chapters 11-16 for next Monday and complete 2 Dialectical journal pages; test on poetry this Friday
  

February 19, 2010

World Literature

• Check evidence and outlines
• HW: Draft due Monday

WP Literature

• Discuss timed writing on carpe deim poetry
• HW: Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 17, 2010

World Literature

• Work on essays
• WH: Complete handout on evidence and significance

AP Literature

• "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
• HW: Their Eyes Were Watching God

February 16, 2010

World Literature

• Select a topic, analyze a prompt, freewrite
• HW: Draft due Monday

AP Literature

• Discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapters 1-5
• HW: Chapters 5-10 and 2 dialectical journals due Monday, 2/22

February 15, 2010

World Literature

• Introduction to Literary Analysis
• HW: Essay, draft due Friday for peer editing
  

AP Literature

• Timed Writing, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• HW: Chapters 1-5 due 2/16; Chapters 5-10 due 2/22 with 2 journal pages
  

February 12, 2010

February 11, 2010

Wow! Things have been rather chaotic with all the snow. And I'm not in the classroom Thursday or Friday! S

For World Lit students: here's a review of discussion topics we STILL need to cover in different classes, along with activities for Friday. The film Mosquito Coast is a fascinating story (based on a novel) about Allie Fox and his attempts to bring civilization to a jungle in South America. How does this relate to Things Fall Apart? We'll talk about this on Monday.

I'm in the office if you have ANY questions.

World Literature

8:00
role of Nwoye, importance of kinship, plot review; pacification, role of Okonkwo

• copy notes on board
• quiz on parts 2 and 3
• Mosquito coast clip

9:00
plot review, pacification, role of Okonkwo

• copy notes on board
• quiz on parts 2 and 3
• Mosquito coast clip

11:00
tragedy, role of Okonkwo

• continue film of Mosquito Coast

2:00
pacification

• continue film of Mosquito Coast

AP Literature

• Introduction to novel
  
• HW: Read Chapters 1-5 for Tuesday; complete 2 dialectical journal entries--if helpful, use the quotations provided on the handout
  

February 8, 2010

World Literature

• Collect travel brochures
• Check questions
• HW: Complete graphic plot organizers

AP Literature

• Review semester exam
• "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• HW: Annotation of sonnets

February 3, 2010

Welcome to Second Semester!

World Literature

• Return tests
• Writing Folders
  
• Collect and share TFA projects
• Discuss Chapters 14 and 15
• HW: Read Chapters 16-19 for Friday; Finish book by Monday and answer questions from Chapters 20-22
  

AP Literature

• Review final
• Return Awakening papers
• Titles (Masculine Inspiration: The Role of Men in Chopin's The Awakening; Intellect, Companionship, Sexual Desire: The Three Fundamental Principles of Edna Pontellier's Awakening; The Flight of Edna: Bird Symbolism in The Awakening)
  
• HW: Read "The Yellow Wallpaper"
  

January 20, 2010

World Literature

• Return papers
• Discuss project
• Discuss Chapter 13
• HW: Work on project
  

AP Literature

• Workshop of Draft 2 of The Awakening Essay

January 15, 2010

World Literature

• Hand back papers
• Proverbs
• Chapter 12
• Travel Brochure, due after Final Exam
• HW: Read Chapter 13 and complete all questions from handout

AP Literature

• Review five verbs for commentary
• Begin to review for exam
• Tone
  

January 13, 2010

World Literature

• Return summaries
  
• Return review questions 1-10 and Chapter 11
  
• Proverbs handout
• HW: Read Chapter 12 and answer questions

2pm class: Proverbs handout; Read Chapters 12 and 13 and answer all questions

AP Literature

• Work on drafts

January 12, 2010

World Literature

• Hand back papers
• Check homework
• Review Chapters 10-11
• HW Review all reading

AP Literature

• Check thesis statements
• Workshop assignments
• HW: Draft due, The Awakening

January 11, 2010

World Literature

• Review in-class essays
• Review chapters 8-10
• HW: Chapter 11 and questions from handout
  

AP Literature

• Review scores for Question 2 essay
• Review thesis statements for Awakening paper
• HW: Paper draft due Wednesday

January 8, 2010

World Literature

• In-class essay
• HW: Read chapter 10 and answer all questions on handout that apply to chapters 9 and 10

AP Literature

• Score sample essays for Question 2
• HW: Work on The Awakening essay. Draft due Wednesday

January 7, 2010

AP Literature

• In class work on The Awakening essays
• Multiple Choice practice
  

January 6, 2010

World Literature

• Quiz, Chapters 1-7
• HW: Read Chapters 8-9

AP Literature

• Discussion of The Awakening
• Review thesis statements
• HW: Begin work on essay, draft due Tuesday

January 5, 2010

World Literature

• Discuss chapters 1-7 and collect summaries.
• HW: Quiz, chapters 1-7
  

AP Literature

• Collect revised test
• Graded Discussion on The Awakening
• HW: Writing a Literary Thesis
  

January 4, 2010

World Literature

• Hand back writing test and Things Fall Apart quiz
• Collect Poetry Wheel homework
  
• Poetry Recitations
• HW: prepare for Things Fall Apart Quiz Chapters 1-7; Review vocabulary
  

AP Literature

• Hand back Othello essays and update Writing Portfolios
• Check Dialectical Journals
• Review Guidelines for Graded Discussion
• Paper Assignment
  
• HW: Graded Discussion on The Awakening