* Pray: Happy All Saint's Day!
Grammar: Bedford 18d, idiom
1) Read 18d
2) Do ex. 18-4 letters and numbers
* Check J13
HW: Read Act II
Card Quiz For "The Knight's Tale" and your outside reading
1. List the the title and author.
2. List two major themes for each card.
3. List two literary devices for each text with examples for each device from the texts (it doesn't not have be a quoted example; an explanation is fine).
4. Give two quotations for each text.
2. List two major themes for each card.
3. List two literary devices for each text with examples for each device from the texts (it doesn't not have be a quoted example; an explanation is fine).
4. Give two quotations for each text.
Monday, 10/31: Lear
* Pray
* Video.
Per 1 from 21 min.
Per 3 from 19:15
Per 6 begin.
* Continue J17 (finish Act I)
HW: Finish J17; begin reading Act II
* Video.
Per 1 from 21 min.
Per 3 from 19:15
Per 6 begin.
* Continue J17 (finish Act I)
HW: Finish J17; begin reading Act II
Thursday, 10/27: Block Day, Week 11
* Pray
* AP M.C. (A.P. M.C. 2009 11-21 for Week 11 Block Day PDF document ) We will do this section together (it will not count as a quiz grade).
- Notice the traps set in the questions (surrealism, etc.)
* Lear Video
* Lear Reading Guide (see Focus; King Lear Reading Questions PDF document ): J17 Act I Reading Questions (as far as you have watched in the video per. 1 to the letter; per. 3; per. 6 ).
* 5 min. to review
* Card Quiz
HW: J17
Wednesday, 10/26: AP Writing
* Pray
* Grammar Corrected
* Blake AP Writing Rubrics
* Note on our Block Day: We will do some class work and take the card quiz later in the period. We may have visitors for 10-15 min. during class.
HW: Study Cards, make sure your vocabulary is done
* Grammar Corrected
* Blake AP Writing Rubrics
* Note on our Block Day: We will do some class work and take the card quiz later in the period. We may have visitors for 10-15 min. during class.
HW: Study Cards, make sure your vocabulary is done
Tuesday, 10/25: Grammar, Vocab
* Pray
* Review the ways to read King Lear (see below).
* Grammar: Read 18a,b, and c. Do ex. 18-3 letters and numbers.
* Check J16.
* Vocabulary 51-60 (see list in labels)
HW: Vocabulary 51-60 (any time this week); finish reading Act I if you have not
* Review the ways to read King Lear (see below).
* Grammar: Read 18a,b, and c. Do ex. 18-3 letters and numbers.
* Check J16.
* Vocabulary 51-60 (see list in labels)
HW: Vocabulary 51-60 (any time this week); finish reading Act I if you have not
Monday, 10/24: Lear
* Pray
* Check J15
* Introduce The Tragedy of King Lear
Best electronic edition for you:
*In iBooks, Look up "King Lear." Download the free version that his a picture of a man with a headache on a white background. This one seems like it has the best layout (if you view it as a portrait).
* The other free editions look fine but aren't as nicely set up for the iPad scree; they are from the Gutenberg project.
Others:
If it's good enough for MIT, perhaps it's good enough for me.
Open Source Shakespeare
* Work on J16: Last class-based college drafting assignment.
HW: J16, Read Act I
* Check J15
* Introduce The Tragedy of King Lear
Best electronic edition for you:
*In iBooks, Look up "King Lear." Download the free version that his a picture of a man with a headache on a white background. This one seems like it has the best layout (if you view it as a portrait).
* The other free editions look fine but aren't as nicely set up for the iPad scree; they are from the Gutenberg project.
Others:
If it's good enough for MIT, perhaps it's good enough for me.
Open Source Shakespeare
* Work on J16: Last class-based college drafting assignment.
HW: J16, Read Act I
Scholarship Help
Because I'm a senior teacher, outside groups occassionally ask for my input finding certain students for scholarships. They will do this for multiple schools, etc., so there is no guarantee that my suggestion will go anywhere with them. With that said, I would appreciate your comments when I ask for help (just comment to the blog or tell me personally). I need your help because (1) they may ask about qualities that I would have a difficult time observing in a few short months of class, and (2) I only teach the AP Literature seniors.
From all the young ladies in your senior class, who would you say clearly exhibits patriotism (family, school, culture, nation) and dependability?
Thank you,
Mr. S
From all the young ladies in your senior class, who would you say clearly exhibits patriotism (family, school, culture, nation) and dependability?
Thank you,
Mr. S
College Recommendations: Activities Overview
ACTIVITIES SECTION
Please provide specific details of your particular activity. Be sure to list positions of leadership that you have held.
Write clearly and feel free to use whatever space you need to give the appropriate information.
Thursday 10/20: Vocabulary Quiz
* Pray
* Vocabulary Quiz
Follow Schwager's Instructions. Define the first five. Give sentences for the next five.
* Cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)
* J15: Activities Overview Sheet
For J14-16, you may choose where to spend your writing time. If you will not have recommendations as a part of your work, if you have already filled out the forms, or if you want to do so later, you may write a personal statement, college essay, or scholarship essay. If you want to go over any with me, please bring it to advisory as J14-16 are just checked for completion and are meant to make college application readiness less stressful.
* Vocabulary 51-60 (due Tuesday)
51.adulation
52.censure
53.dissemble
54.dissimulation
55.droll
56.expectorate
57.palpate
58.peremptory
59.pusillanimous
60.surfeit
HW: J15; Finish your outside reading cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)
* Vocabulary Quiz
Follow Schwager's Instructions. Define the first five. Give sentences for the next five.
* Cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)
* J15: Activities Overview Sheet
For J14-16, you may choose where to spend your writing time. If you will not have recommendations as a part of your work, if you have already filled out the forms, or if you want to do so later, you may write a personal statement, college essay, or scholarship essay. If you want to go over any with me, please bring it to advisory as J14-16 are just checked for completion and are meant to make college application readiness less stressful.
* Vocabulary 51-60 (due Tuesday)
51.adulation
52.censure
53.dissemble
54.dissimulation
55.droll
56.expectorate
57.palpate
58.peremptory
59.pusillanimous
60.surfeit
HW: J15; Finish your outside reading cards (outside reading and The Knight's Tale)
Congratulations MVC Equestrian!
They won first place in a regional championship. Come and support them Nov. 5-6.
Wednesday, 10/19: College
* Pray
* General reminders
1. The blue bin recycles; the beige bin trashes.
2. Please don't put your backpacks on your desktop.
3. If you have emailed a paper to me because a printer has failed, etc., you still need to turn in a paper copy if you intend to receive a grade for it.
* Grammar reviewed.
* J14: Fill Out Your Senior Profile (also send this in to your adviser in Student Services if you need a recommendation). You could copy/paste into pages, etc.
HW: J14
* General reminders
1. The blue bin recycles; the beige bin trashes.
2. Please don't put your backpacks on your desktop.
3. If you have emailed a paper to me because a printer has failed, etc., you still need to turn in a paper copy if you intend to receive a grade for it.
* Grammar reviewed.
* J14: Fill Out Your Senior Profile (also send this in to your adviser in Student Services if you need a recommendation). You could copy/paste into pages, etc.
HW: J14
College Recommendations: Student Services Senior Profile
Please complete the student section and have your parent(s) complete the Parent Brag Sheet.
Note: The senior profile is primarily for advisors. For teacher recommendations, college admissions reviewers recommend teachers provide specific information relevant to the classroom experience you have shared. Please assist your teachers by providing them details of your classroom experiences. Anecdotes, projects, or special moments that help your teachers to remember you are crucial for a more effective teacher recommendation.
Tuesday, 10/18/11: Grammar
* Pray
* Check J 13
* Bedford 16c, d, and e. Do 16-1 and 16-2 letters and numbers.
* Work on your note cards (due Monday)
Note that we have a vocab. quiz on your block day.
HW: Work on cards
* Check J 13
* Bedford 16c, d, and e. Do 16-1 and 16-2 letters and numbers.
* Work on your note cards (due Monday)
Note that we have a vocab. quiz on your block day.
HW: Work on cards
A Sweet Homecoming
Reading That Hideous Strength clearly gave Taylor Cohen, Eric Griffin, and Jordan De Los Santos the persistence, imagination, and courage under pressure necessary to create that final triumph of good over goodbye. Can't deny it.
Sentinel Article
Highlights Video
Sentinel Article
Highlights Video
Monday, 10/17: The Elizabethan Age
* Pray
* Review Q2
* Read Literature of the World "The Period of the Renaissance" (the .pdf in iBooks) pp. 366/381 to 379/394. If it is not in your .pdf collecion of iBooks, you will find a link to the book on your syllabus.
J 13: Answer the reading questions.
People:
1. Which kings and queens rule in this period?
2. Who is the poet's poet?
3. Who is the greatest sonnet writer in the English language?
4. Who is the most important prose writer of the Elizabethan Age?
5. Who is, perhaps, the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan Age?
6. What is interesting about the dates of Shakespeare's birth and death?
7. What is Shakespeare's "stock" (the culture of his parentage)?
8. What are some of Shakespeare's greatest works?
9. How does Shakespeare's work differ from both Classical and Modern drama?
9. Did Shakespeare's work improve or decline over the course of his career?
10. What, in Shakespeare, is "little short of miraculous"?
Terms
1. Define lyric.
2. Define euphuistic style. Where does the word come from?
3. What are mystery, morality, and Everyman plays?
4. Define problem play.
HW: J13
* Review Q2
* Read Literature of the World "The Period of the Renaissance" (the .pdf in iBooks) pp. 366/381 to 379/394. If it is not in your .pdf collecion of iBooks, you will find a link to the book on your syllabus.
J 13: Answer the reading questions.
People:
1. Which kings and queens rule in this period?
2. Who is the poet's poet?
3. Who is the greatest sonnet writer in the English language?
4. Who is the most important prose writer of the Elizabethan Age?
5. Who is, perhaps, the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan Age?
6. What is interesting about the dates of Shakespeare's birth and death?
7. What is Shakespeare's "stock" (the culture of his parentage)?
8. What are some of Shakespeare's greatest works?
9. How does Shakespeare's work differ from both Classical and Modern drama?
9. Did Shakespeare's work improve or decline over the course of his career?
10. What, in Shakespeare, is "little short of miraculous"?
Terms
1. Define lyric.
2. Define euphuistic style. Where does the word come from?
3. What are mystery, morality, and Everyman plays?
4. Define problem play.
HW: J13
AP Literature Course Plan
Summer Reading: C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength (or, for regular students, The Great Divorce)
Some quarter reading and notes may extend into the quarter following.
Q1: Anglo-Saxon to Early Renaissance (500-1500)
- Reading
- That Hideous Strength
- Caedmon
- Beowulf
- Chaucer
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Spencer
- Writing: Narrative, College Application Essay, Q1 THE, CWP #1
- Grammar: Course Ethics (plagiarism, devices, sharing, etc.), Punctuation, MLA
- Notes: Anglo-Saxon, Middle Ages, Literary Timelines, College Application Essay Writing
- Reading:
- Shakespeare (one comedy, one tragedy: King Lear or Hamlet or Othello, The Tempest)
- John Milton
- John Donne
- Robert Herrick
- Andrew Marvell
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Bunyan
- Writing: Descriptive CWP (Christmas Blessing), Contest Writing, Scholarships, Semester I Final ICE
- Grammar: Punctuation; rewriting techniques
- Notes: Beautiful, Good, and True Reading Questions; Shakespeare; Renaissance and following
- Reading:
- Francis Bacon
- Jonathan Swift
- Samuel Johnson
- William Blake, S.T. Coleridge (The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner), Wordsworth
- Byron, Shelley, Keats
- Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
- Grammar: Usage
- Notes: Augustan, Neoclassical, Romantic, The Birth of the Novel, poetry forms
- Reading:
- Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
- Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
- John Ruskin
- Chesterton (Tales of the Long Bow)
- Tolkien
- C.S. Lewis (That Hideous Strength or The Great Divorce)
- T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, "Journey of the Magi")
- Paul Muldoon
- Seamus Heaney
- Esolen (Quo Vadis).
- Writing: Argumentative (Persuasive), Résumé, Contest Writing, Semester II Final ICE
- Grammar: College Forms
- Notes: Victorian, Modern, poetry forms, The Modern Problem, The Christian Answer
Friday, 10/14: Vocabulary, Work on Your Cards
* Senior Quote Deadline is Today: Send it in today.
* Learn your next 10 vocabulary words:
41. affront
42. blasé
43. cajole
44. choleric
45. encumber
46. feckless
47. impasse
48. indolent
49. lugubrious
50. ribald
* Work on your note cards
HW: Vocabulary - 50; Complete Most of Outside Reading and Knight's Tale Cards
Schwager's Music Today:
The Psalms of David, Day 14, Morning Prayer, Psalm 71.
* Learn your next 10 vocabulary words:
41. affront
42. blasé
43. cajole
44. choleric
45. encumber
46. feckless
47. impasse
48. indolent
49. lugubrious
50. ribald
* Work on your note cards
HW: Vocabulary - 50; Complete Most of Outside Reading and Knight's Tale Cards
Schwager's Music Today:
The Psalms of David, Day 14, Morning Prayer, Psalm 71.
In te, Domine, speravi
In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion : but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness, incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
2 Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort : thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and my castle.
3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly : out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for : thou art my hope, even from my youth.
5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born : thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be always of thee.
6 I am become as it were a monster unto many : but my sure trust is in thee.
7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise : that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long.
8 Cast me not away in the time of age : forsake me not when my strength faileth me.
9 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together, saying : God hath forsaken him; persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him.
10 Go not far from me, O God : my God, haste thee to help me.
11 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul : let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to do me evil.
12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway : and will praise thee more and more.
13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation : for I know no end thereof.
14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righteousness only.
15 Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth
up until now : therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.
16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed : until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
17 Thy righteousness, O God, is very high : and great things are they that thou hast done; O God, who is like unto thee?
18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me, and yet didst thou turn and refresh me : yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.
19 Thou hast brought me to great honour : and comforted me on every side.
20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an instrument of musick : unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee : and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered.
22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long : for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil.
Wednesday, 10/12: College Day
* Your morning will be full of college goodness.
* 23 min. classes
* J12: Work on your third comparison.
Tidy them up. Be sure you have a good thesis for each theme comparison.
HW: J12; Binder
* 23 min. classes
* J12: Work on your third comparison.
Tidy them up. Be sure you have a good thesis for each theme comparison.
HW: J12; Binder
Tuesday, 10/11: Journal 12 part II
* News: Baby picture and senior quote due this week.
* Note: I added up the journals incorrectly yesterday. We're actually working on journal 12; my apologies.
* Discussion
* Work in class on comparison #2.
* Note: I added up the journals incorrectly yesterday. We're actually working on journal 12; my apologies.
* Discussion
* Work in class on comparison #2.
Monday, 10/10: Outside Reading
* Vocabulary checked on our binder check day.
* One change. I had assumed our days were of the same length next week, but Wednesday is too short to accommodate an in-class essay. So, we'll do it on Thursday.
* Work on your Journal 12 (apologies, I had put journal 11; please change the number)
HW: Journal 12: Find support for a major theme in your outside reading to compare with these works: _That Hideous Strength_, _Beowulf_, and _The Knight's Tale_. You need to have one comparison done for Tuesday. You will work through the others in class on Tuesday.
* One change. I had assumed our days were of the same length next week, but Wednesday is too short to accommodate an in-class essay. So, we'll do it on Thursday.
* Work on your Journal 12 (apologies, I had put journal 11; please change the number)
HW: Journal 12: Find support for a major theme in your outside reading to compare with these works: _That Hideous Strength_, _Beowulf_, and _The Knight's Tale_. You need to have one comparison done for Tuesday. You will work through the others in class on Tuesday.
Wednesday, 10/5: CWP Due
* Pray
* CWP
* Work on your vocabulary definitions
* Outside reading
HW: Finish your outside reading; vocabulary words 31-40
* CWP
* Work on your vocabulary definitions
* Outside reading
HW: Finish your outside reading; vocabulary words 31-40
Tuesday, 10/4: Vocabulary, CWP
* Pray
* Grammar: Section 16a and b
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--Strunk and White
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
--W. Somerset Maugham
I apologize for this long letter; I didn't have time to shorten it.
--Pliny
1. Read the sections.
2. Look through your essays and journals. Find four total examples of redundancies and repetitions. Copy them into your notes and strike out or rewrite them.
* Vocabulary words 31-40
31.akin
32.corroborate
33.inexorable
34.insipid
35.nefarious
36.physiognomy
37.retinue
38.suppliant
39.tedium
40.torrid
* CWP
HW: CWP
* Grammar: Section 16a and b
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--Strunk and White
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
--W. Somerset Maugham
I apologize for this long letter; I didn't have time to shorten it.
--Pliny
1. Read the sections.
2. Look through your essays and journals. Find four total examples of redundancies and repetitions. Copy them into your notes and strike out or rewrite them.
* Vocabulary words 31-40
31.akin
32.corroborate
33.inexorable
34.insipid
35.nefarious
36.physiognomy
37.retinue
38.suppliant
39.tedium
40.torrid
* CWP
HW: CWP
Monday, 10/3: "M.S. Found in a Bottle"; CWP
* Pray
* Preview of Upcoming Assignments
- CWP Due Wednesday, Oct. 5
- No School on Thursday or Friday
- Finish your Outside Reading for Monday, Oct. 10
- Journal 12 Comparison due Tuesday, Oct. 11
- In-class essay Wednesday, Oct. 12
- Binder check (this is going to be funky with all the different options and some having had notes crash, so I'll just be doing a quick look at your notes and basic organization).
* College Advice Notes
* Contest Review: Poe party post.
If you wish, you may take this prompt as the Q1 theme for your CWP. The limit for the contest is 750 words, so you could write a story and perhaps compose a poem or two along the same lines.
* Work on your CWP
HW: Work on your CWP
A Post Script Just for Fun:
The message in a bottle motif is still alive and well. The Police popularized it in 1979; it is said to be Sting's favorite song and one of his most covered.
Old School Improptu: He is said to have been visiting the concert and was then asked to play
More Recently
John Mayer does well
Matisyahu
But Poe's is quite another story (see the Poe post for the story link). I hope you enjoy it!
* Preview of Upcoming Assignments
- CWP Due Wednesday, Oct. 5
- No School on Thursday or Friday
- Finish your Outside Reading for Monday, Oct. 10
- Journal 12 Comparison due Tuesday, Oct. 11
- In-class essay Wednesday, Oct. 12
- Binder check (this is going to be funky with all the different options and some having had notes crash, so I'll just be doing a quick look at your notes and basic organization).
* College Advice Notes
* Contest Review: Poe party post.
If you wish, you may take this prompt as the Q1 theme for your CWP. The limit for the contest is 750 words, so you could write a story and perhaps compose a poem or two along the same lines.
* Work on your CWP
HW: Work on your CWP
A Post Script Just for Fun:
The message in a bottle motif is still alive and well. The Police popularized it in 1979; it is said to be Sting's favorite song and one of his most covered.
Old School Improptu: He is said to have been visiting the concert and was then asked to play
More Recently
John Mayer does well
Matisyahu
But Poe's is quite another story (see the Poe post for the story link). I hope you enjoy it!
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