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Block Day, Week 28: Two ICE's
* Pray
* ICE #1: Austen: Passage-based format
* ICE #2: Austen: Open-prompt format
Per. 1 and 3 will start 5 min. after the tardy bell. Per. 6 may start before the tardy bell but not before the first bell.
How do I get a higher score? For most, provide ample
1. Textual support. Your statements are probably correct, but does each have a specific support from an event or conversation? Let, "for insance," be your motto, even though we won't write those words so often.
2. Development. If you don't get much down on paper, there's less room for you to make a good case.
3. Intelligent word choices and phrases.
4. Sentence variety.
5. Slip in literary elements connected to your thesis and text whenever possible.
Format:
- Pen
- Single space
- Write on the front of each paper
- Plan for 2-4 minutes before your write the essay
- Don't forget your thesis (first sentence or last sentence of first paragraph)
HW: CWP Due on your Next Block Day
* ICE #1: Austen: Passage-based format
* ICE #2: Austen: Open-prompt format
Per. 1 and 3 will start 5 min. after the tardy bell. Per. 6 may start before the tardy bell but not before the first bell.
How do I get a higher score? For most, provide ample
1. Textual support. Your statements are probably correct, but does each have a specific support from an event or conversation? Let, "for insance," be your motto, even though we won't write those words so often.
2. Development. If you don't get much down on paper, there's less room for you to make a good case.
3. Intelligent word choices and phrases.
4. Sentence variety.
5. Slip in literary elements connected to your thesis and text whenever possible.
Format:
- Pen
- Single space
- Write on the front of each paper
- Plan for 2-4 minutes before your write the essay
- Don't forget your thesis (first sentence or last sentence of first paragraph)
HW: CWP Due on your Next Block Day
Tuesday, 2/14: Grammar
* Pray
*St. Valentine:
Feastday: February 14
Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
Died: 269
"Valentinus was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II]. Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]" (Catholic.org/saints).
* Collect Quiz corrections
* Writing Reminders
It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster:
- "view of _________" (not view on)
- the semicolon is lonely and in the cold; let him in now and then
- If you chose the Perrine prompt and you didn't focus on figurative language (like irony), you could not have done well. That was the point of the prompt.
- If you chose Austen did not give specific textual support, you could not have done well. There is no other way to support an AP lit. essay.
- For many, you would have done well to ease up on Charlotte a tad and recognize that Elizabeth's perspective isn't faultless.
- Beware projecting our modern, enlightened, view of ourselves over those bedimmed dark ages of five minutes ago. Women have sung out for love in marriage since the days of Sarah and Abraham, since the days of Abigail and David, since the Shulamite sang to Solomon. Elizabeth may represent the "new woman" to a modern feminist but wouldn't have to Austen. It has always taken more than money to make the world go round.
* Questions?
* Work on your Journal (handwritten) and Cards
HW: Continue J34
*St. Valentine:
Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
Died: 269
"Valentinus was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II]. Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]" (Catholic.org/saints).
* Collect Quiz corrections
* Writing Reminders
It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster:
- "view of _________" (not view on)
- the semicolon is lonely and in the cold; let him in now and then
- If you chose the Perrine prompt and you didn't focus on figurative language (like irony), you could not have done well. That was the point of the prompt.
- If you chose Austen did not give specific textual support, you could not have done well. There is no other way to support an AP lit. essay.
- For many, you would have done well to ease up on Charlotte a tad and recognize that Elizabeth's perspective isn't faultless.
- Beware projecting our modern, enlightened, view of ourselves over those bedimmed dark ages of five minutes ago. Women have sung out for love in marriage since the days of Sarah and Abraham, since the days of Abigail and David, since the Shulamite sang to Solomon. Elizabeth may represent the "new woman" to a modern feminist but wouldn't have to Austen. It has always taken more than money to make the world go round.
* Questions?
* Work on your Journal (handwritten) and Cards
HW: Continue J34
Wednesday, 11/9: Lear Essay
AP Lear Essay
Choose one from the three below. Be sure to respond to the prompt and not merely summarize the plot. Be sure to take a position and defend it using specific examples.
1. Trace the theme of sight and insight, blindness and vision in King Lear. Consider how this theme relates to the idea of reality and appearance.
2. Trace the theme of "nothing" in King Lear.
3. Evaluate the following statement from Lear. Take a position and defend it: "I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning" (III.ii).
Single space.
Write in pen.
MLA Heading
Choose one from the three below. Be sure to respond to the prompt and not merely summarize the plot. Be sure to take a position and defend it using specific examples.
1. Trace the theme of sight and insight, blindness and vision in King Lear. Consider how this theme relates to the idea of reality and appearance.
2. Trace the theme of "nothing" in King Lear.
3. Evaluate the following statement from Lear. Take a position and defend it: "I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning" (III.ii).
Single space.
Write in pen.
MLA Heading
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
Block Day, Week 7: More Rubrics
Reality Check from Student Services
Check J11
AP Rubric: Blake (we will simply read and briefly discuss the poems)
"The Knight's Tale"
HW: Finish Reading "The Knight's Tale"
Check J11
AP Rubric: Blake (we will simply read and briefly discuss the poems)
"The Knight's Tale"
HW: Finish Reading "The Knight's Tale"
Wednesday, 9/28: ICE Rubric
* Sweet Books: Masefield (1931), Chesterton (1932), Skeat's Translation
* Rubric
* Recent Examples
* Work in Class
HW: J11 "The Knight's Tale": Review the character of the Knight from "The Prologue." What about his tale relates to his person and personality? (1/2 page or more)
* Rubric
* Recent Examples
* Work in Class
HW: J11 "The Knight's Tale": Review the character of the Knight from "The Prologue." What about his tale relates to his person and personality? (1/2 page or more)
ICE Examples from THS
Good opening:
Another good opening:
Good thoughts on Jane:
Interesting thoughts on vision:
Another good opening:
Good thoughts on Jane:
Interesting thoughts on vision:
Monday, 9/19: The Next Step
* Check J9: RD
* Card
* World Literature: Beowulf to The Renaissance Spirit
* Choose a Work: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Pearl, or Inferno (from the course plan)
HW: Card, Reading
* Card
* World Literature: Beowulf to The Renaissance Spirit
* Choose a Work: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Pearl, or Inferno (from the course plan)
HW: Card, Reading
Tuesday, 9/13: Elements
* Leithart's Germanic Background
* Finish basic Beowulf thoughts
* The Elements of Style Part V, "An Approach to Style." This section is a newer section that is not in the free, onlined edition; therefore, you will find it on the Focus course under the Terms, Vocabulary, Rhetoric, Grammar, and Binder section. It's the last file in that section.
* J8: List the three most helpful and the three least helpful pieces of advice from this section. Briefly explain what makes each helpful or unhelpful.
HW: J8
* Finish basic Beowulf thoughts
* The Elements of Style Part V, "An Approach to Style." This section is a newer section that is not in the free, onlined edition; therefore, you will find it on the Focus course under the Terms, Vocabulary, Rhetoric, Grammar, and Binder section. It's the last file in that section.
* J8: List the three most helpful and the three least helpful pieces of advice from this section. Briefly explain what makes each helpful or unhelpful.
HW: J8
Tuesday, 9/6: Beowulf
1. Notice the Creative Writing link on the right to see some work from past years.
2. Notice the College Guide link.
3. V & T
A. Vocabulary: Look up and copy definitions for words 1-10
B. Terms: Look up definitions for scop, kenning, and alliteration.
4. College Essay Review
HW: Write a FD of College Essay #1. Beowulf: Read through the death of the next monster (I don't want to give it away).
The Basic FD Rubric (we will go into more detail with our AP rubric training in future weeks)
A = Solid content; great style; few, if any, grammatical errors
B = Solid content; good style; a few grammatical errors
C = Reasonable content; uneven style; noticeable errors
D = Poor content; many distracting errors
2. Notice the College Guide link.
3. V & T
A. Vocabulary: Look up and copy definitions for words 1-10
B. Terms: Look up definitions for scop, kenning, and alliteration.
4. College Essay Review
HW: Write a FD of College Essay #1. Beowulf: Read through the death of the next monster (I don't want to give it away).
The Basic FD Rubric (we will go into more detail with our AP rubric training in future weeks)
A = Solid content; great style; few, if any, grammatical errors
B = Solid content; good style; a few grammatical errors
C = Reasonable content; uneven style; noticeable errors
D = Poor content; many distracting errors
Note to Students on the RD College Essay
1. Be sure to include the prompt when giving me any college essay writing piece.
2. Use MLA in your heading for work turned in.
3. Consider opening in media res, like Homer (though an epic may not follow).
4. Keep the active tense. Vary your sentences (do five sentences open with "I" or "My"? Change it). Be specific, avoid general statements about yourself and others.
5. Look for the arc of negative to positive or positive to negative to positive. The futher the poles, the faster they arc, the stronger the feeling.
6. Colleges are more interested in you than people you'd rather talk about.
2. Use MLA in your heading for work turned in.
3. Consider opening in media res, like Homer (though an epic may not follow).
4. Keep the active tense. Vary your sentences (do five sentences open with "I" or "My"? Change it). Be specific, avoid general statements about yourself and others.
5. Look for the arc of negative to positive or positive to negative to positive. The futher the poles, the faster they arc, the stronger the feeling.
6. Colleges are more interested in you than people you'd rather talk about.
They Break Their Tools; Wednesday, 8/31: Writing, Terms;
They Break Their Tools (discussion)
1. Introduction of our Terms List and Vocabulary List.
2. College Essay Examples: See Focus
3. Work on your CWP (due near the end of the quarter)
HW: Work on your CWP
1. Introduction of our Terms List and Vocabulary List.
2. College Essay Examples: See Focus
3. Work on your CWP (due near the end of the quarter)
HW: Work on your CWP
Per. 6 ICE
Characters' views of themselves and others is a central subject in C.S. Lewis' _That Hideous Strength_. Choose a character and examine how that characer's view of self and others reinforces a major theme in the novel.
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Mark Studdock
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Mark Studdock
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
ICE: _That Hideous Strength_
1. Review Essay Structure and Style
2. "Mistakes Were Made": This American Life and the Awkward Evil of Cryonics.
3. 40 min. ICE
4. Turn in your essay and your college application RD to the table in the middle.
HW: Read _The Elements of Style_ III-IV
2. "Mistakes Were Made": This American Life and the Awkward Evil of Cryonics.
3. 40 min. ICE
4. Turn in your essay and your college application RD to the table in the middle.
HW: Read _The Elements of Style_ III-IV
Per. 1, 3 ICE
How does Jane's remark over furniture and wardrobes support a major theme in _That Hideous Strength_ that relates directly to Jane's own transformation?
End time: 11:33
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Mark and Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
End time: 11:33
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Mark and Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
Elasticity, Writing
1. J5 THS: Elasticity. Explain Jane's dilemma. How is her dilemma like many we will meet?
2. Load Bulfinch into iBooks for practice.
3. CWP Writing
4. Essay writing (Strunk and White). Examples.
5. Upcoming: ICE: Closed note, closed book.
HW: Review THS 8-11; Arthur III-IV
2. Load Bulfinch into iBooks for practice.
3. CWP Writing
4. Essay writing (Strunk and White). Examples.
5. Upcoming: ICE: Closed note, closed book.
HW: Review THS 8-11; Arthur III-IV
CWP Assignment: My Tongue is the Pen of a Ready Writer
CWP: Creative Writing Portfolio Assignment
English 2 and AP Literature and Composition
You must complete a minimum of three full pages of typed creative writing per quarter. Each quarter will feature a general theme of your choice. Each quarter's creative writing will be introduced with a short paragraph explaining how your creative writing engages the quarter's theme. Some people may find it useful to begin this paragraph like this: Our theme, the beauty of the days gone by, may be seen in my creative writing through...
English 2 and AP Literature and Composition
You must complete a minimum of three full pages of typed creative writing per quarter. Each quarter will feature a general theme of your choice. Each quarter's creative writing will be introduced with a short paragraph explaining how your creative writing engages the quarter's theme. Some people may find it useful to begin this paragraph like this: Our theme, the beauty of the days gone by, may be seen in my creative writing through...
Writing with Better Syle; Bulfinch
1. J4: Can places, materials, things be sacred? Explain.
*BCP: The Solemnization of Marriage
2. Strunk and White I-II
3. Bulfinch. Apologies; I had the short link up on accident. Here is the full link, and it should take you right to Arthur.
4. 5. Note, tomorrow is the last day for opening lateness grace. After tomorrow, see the binder policy.
HW: Review Bulfinch's Mythology: Arthur parts I-II.
*BCP: The Solemnization of Marriage
2. Strunk and White I-II
3. Bulfinch. Apologies; I had the short link up on accident. Here is the full link, and it should take you right to Arthur.
4. 5. Note, tomorrow is the last day for opening lateness grace. After tomorrow, see the binder policy.
HW: Review Bulfinch's Mythology: Arthur parts I-II.
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