Leaning Literary

B.G.T. Analysis Reminders

Hi friends,

Don't forget to add three personal vocabulary words to your B.G.T. (it was last Tuesday night's homework...but I'm sure many of you were putting off the assignment and didn't pay attention to that).

* Work on BGT

Printed, MLA Format
Turnitin.com also (not in the place of printing)
Do not simply do a plot summary.
Do you have 2-3 literary elements that show up in each analysis paragraph?
Did you incorporate three vocabulary words from your personal list, underlined?
Do you tie your work back to your theme in each paragraph?
Do you have two sentences of commentary after each quotation?
Did you arrive at your own interesting theme, noticing supporting literary devices that you understand...or are you practicing to fail the AP exam, reinforcing weak, superficial thought processes, by shortcutting your education through Sparknotes/Schmoop/etc.?

Block Day, Week 12

* Open

Turn in your B.G.T. Analysis to the appropriate green file folder. If you did not include three personal vocabulary examples in your writing, please compose three sentences on the back of your work, illustrating any three words.
Please take an online survey of my teaching and this course.

The survey will go to my overseers (Mr. Davis and all other head administration), so I will not see your name associated with any of this. They will use it to give me feedback about my teaching.
Here is the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/1sbfVFL8Ne.
Thank you!

* Part I: A.P. M. C. (60 min.)

* Part II: Monday

* Card for Mrs. Price

HW: Card for Mrs. Price

Punctuation, please.

Wednesday, 11/4/15: BGT

Open

Scintillate (v.): emit flashes of light; sparkle

Latin: scintilla "spark"
Chesterton's idea makes my soul scintillate: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." (Per MLA, you wouldn't have that comma after "thought" because a dependent clause follows, but the Brits sprinkle their sentences with greater liberality than we Americans do, and it does help distinguish the two ideas from one another, so we'll leave it under the "add commas when needed for clarity" rule.)

* Review Prompts

* Work on BGT

Printed, MLA Format
Turnitin.com also (not in the place of printing)
Do not simply do a plot summary.
Do you have 2-3 literary elements that show up in each analysis paragraph?
Did you incorporate three vocabulary words from your personal list, underlined?
Do you tie your work back to your theme in each paragraph?
Do you have two sentences of commentary after each quotation?
Did you arrive at your own interesting theme, noticing supporting literary devices that you understand...or are you practicing to fail the AP exam, reinforcing weak, superficial thought processes, by shortcutting your education through Sparknotes/Schmoop/etc.?