Updates and a look ahead at the week of 12/12-12/16

12/9 or 12/12:

• Review clauses, phrases and their significance.
• Discuss "The Market Place"
• Homework: Read chapters 5 and 6. Pay particular attention to characterization of Hester and Pearl as you read.
• We handed in book reviews

Updates for the week of 12/6-12-10

Blocks 2 and 5-

On Monday we will work on how to revise book reviews. We will also review the Poetry Outloud rubric.

Wednesday- We will present our poems to the class. Please bring 2 copies of your tone-mapped poem to class. We will not have time for you to leave class to make copies.

Friday-  We will learn how to analyze for style. Revised book reviews are due, and chapters 2, 3 and 4 of The Scarlet Letter are due.


Block 5-

Tuesday- we will work on how to revise book reviews. We will also review the Poetry Outloud rubric.

Thursday-We will present our poems to the class. Please bring 2 copies of your tone-mapped poem to class. We will not have time for you to leave class to make copies.

Monday- Revised book reviews are due, and chapters 2, 3 and 4 of The Scarlet Letter are due.

Updates for the week of 11/28

11/28 and 11/29:
Today in class we practiced your poem.
 We read chapter one of The Scarlet Letter, and we practiced notice and focus techniques in order to predict what the novel would be about.
We reviewed how to write a review.

Due on 11/30 or 12/1 3 copies of the rough draft of your book review.

Poetry Outloud poems will be performed on 12/8 and 12/9.

Keep Practicing!

Homework over Thanksgiving Break

• If you haven't completed your outside reading book yet, please make sure that you have read it by 11/28.
• Practice your Poetry Out loud poem at least once each day.
• There is extra credit available for second quarter. See the previous post on The Great Thanksgiving Listen.

Have a great week!

11/17

Today in class we:

Practiced your poem with the tones you discovered in the poem.
Read your outside reading book.
Reviewed a model Frederick Douglass paper to compare with your own.

Homework: Poem to be delivered 12/2
Outside reading book due 11/28
Optional extra credit assignment!

Updates and due dates!

You should continue to memorize your poem. Remember poems completely memorized are due on 11/14 or 11/15. You should also be reading your outside reading books, which are due when you return from Thanksgiving break.
 
Happy Veteran's Day! Hug a veteran.

Extra Credit Opportunity: The Great Thanksgiving Listen

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10/31 and 11/1

In class today, we:

• Used the Vendler chart to analyze either "Spelling" or "On the Subway"
• We read our outside reading book for 30 minutes

The homework is to go to the Poetry Outloud website and choose three poems who have "news" that you think is important. Please print a copy of each of these three poems and bring them to class next time. Happy Halloween!

Homework for class 10/25 and 10/26

Read the Atwood poem below for homework. Once you have read the poem annotate the poem for its argument about reading and writing. Then compare and contrast the argument this poem makes about reading and writing to Douglass' argument and to Malcolm X's argument.

Bring all of the pieces to class on the next class.

Spelling      by   Margaret Atwood

 

My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling, how to make spells. I wonder how many women denied themselves daughters, closed themselves in rooms, drew the curtains so they could mainline words. A child is not a poem, a poem is not a child. there is no either/or. However. I return to the story of the woman caught in the war & in labour, her thighs tied together by the enemy so she could not give birth. Ancestress: the burning witch, her mouth covered by leather to strangle words. A word after a word after a word is power. At the point where language falls away from the hot bones, at the point where the rock breaks open and darkness flows out of it like blood, at the melting point of granite when the bones know they are hollow & the word splits & doubles & speaks the truth & the body itself becomes a mouth. This is a metaphor. How do you learn to spell? Blood, sky & the sun, your own name first, your first naming, your first name, your first word.

Due on 10/21 or 10/24

Please make sure you have read chapters X and XI in Douglass. You should bring your books and notes to class for the in class analysis work.

10/14 Blocks 3 and 5

Today in class:

• We read the except from "Aunt Phyllis' Cabin", which you can find linked in earlier blog entries.
• We completed the chart reproduced in the earlier blog entry.
• I assigned chapters VIII and IX for homework for Tuesday.

Have a nice weekend!

Block 2 10/13 Homework

For homework please print and complete the chart in preparation for class on Monday. Have a nice weekend!

Advanced Placement Language and Composition                                Name

Douglass/Easton Argumentation in Fiction

 

 

Proslavery Argument from Aunt Phyllis’ Cabin. Be sure to include quotations and page numbers.	Corresponding Antislavery Argument from Douglass. Be sure to include key phrases in Narrative of the Life of a Slave.	What are the strategies (characterization, symbolism, theme, conflict etc..) for creating the argument?
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10/13 and 10/14

Today in class:

• We read an excerpt from Aunt Phyllis' Cabin, an example of Anti-Tom literature from 1852. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/proslav/prfimhea2t.html
• We discussed and articulated in our notebooks the proslavery arguments that Mary Easton makes in the reading.
• We began thinking about how Douglass counters the pro-slavery argument in his Narrative.