AP Literature and Composition 2015-2016 lesson plan Betteridge

Aug. 24 Collect Novel Notes for King Lear and A Thousand Acres Pass out Aug/Sept Syllabus - discuss Pass out class guidelines and policies HO – discuss Go over class expectations 25 Pass out lit terms - know for use on tests, in papers, in discussion, etc.

These need to be a part of your everyday English vocabulary – study them on your own! Pass out Cheating Policy – discuss Assign First Quarter Novel Notes – Due 10/23 (We’ll adjust them to fit the books you read) 26 Pretest King Lear/A Thousand Acres After Reading Tests (quickly) Discuss answers if time (finish in a few days if no time) 27 Go over KL and 1000 Acres Post Reading Tests Pass out Mythology books – Edith Hamilton Mythology How to Read Literature like a Professor Pass out notes – read on own Pass back chapter charts Discuss ch. 1-9

Discuss chapter charts – add to them and improve them as we discuss the novels throughout the year (doing this will provide ideas for the AP test essays)

HW – Mythology Pass out mythology gods/goddesses chart

Edith Hamilton Mythology p 1 - 313 - due 9/17 p 314 – 330 due with Beowulf 9/28

Study the chart at the end – there are many allusions to Greek Mythology. You need to know the gods and goddesses!

28 Pass out Beowulf books, HOs, Novel Notes– due 9/28 How to Read Literature Like a Professor Discuss ch. 10-17

Discuss chapter charts – add to them and improve them as we discuss 31 How to Read Literature Like a Professor Discuss ch. 18-27

Discuss chapter charts – add to them and improve them as we discuss Pass back KL and A Thousand Acres post reading tests and finish going over

Sept. 1 Pass back King Lear essays Discuss KL Summer Reading Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples 2 King Lear AP Multiple Choice Test –( #1-30 p 24+ KL AP unit)

Pass out KL Power Point Hos and Intro Hos – read on own for reference HW – Read Edith Hamilton Mythology due 9/17

Beowulf and Novel Notes – due 9/28 Read Beowulf notes Complete the Literary Devices HO Complete the Monster/Hero HO

3 King Lear Discuss AP objectives 4 #1 King Lear AP Free Response Essay Question – (FR #5 from KL AP unit) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 8 Pass back King Lear essays from last Friday (FR #5 from KL AP unit) Discuss KL Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples When done, begin going over KL AP MC Test AP Practice Quiz if time 9 King Lear Discuss AP objectives Pass back KL AP MC Test and go over HW – pass out the sample AP essays - read 10 Pass back King Lear essays from Sept. (FR #5 from KL AP unit) – finish if not done Finish Discuss KL Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples

Finish going over the King Lear AP MC Test if needed AP Practice Quiz if time 11 #2 Sample Free Response Question #1 from the AP Course Description (Henry IV Pt II) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 14 King Lear Discuss AP Objectives – finish if needed Sample AP Essays Discuss the qualities of the good essays AP Terms – begin practicing if time 15 Pass back Sample Free Response Question #1 from the AP Course Description (Henry IV Pt II)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples

Go over first quarter novel notes assignment – make groups – due 10/23 16 A Thousand Acres Pass out Intro Hos- read for reference Discuss novel Compare to KL Discuss AP Objectives HW – Edith Hamilton Mythology p 1 - 313 - due 9/17

p 314 – 330 due with Beowulf 9/28 Beowulf and Novel Notes– due 9/28

17 Edith Hamilton Mythology

Test Discuss mythology

18 #3 Sample Free Response Question #2 from the AP Course Description (Ann Bradstreet) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 21 Edith Hamilton Mythology Go over test Discuss mythology

Collect Edith Hamilton Mythology books AP Terms – Quizlet.com Play AP terms games 22 Pass back Sample Free Response Question #2 from the AP Course Description (Ann Bradstreet)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples Review Literary Terms AP Practice Quiz if time 23 Senior Stuff with Ms. Mermis or Access with Ms. Steele Date may vary even into mid Oct. Terms practice if we have time. 24 Anglo-Saxon Poetry - Unit 1 Legend to History AD 449-1485 Intro Anglo Saxon Poetry – Pass out notes Read together and discuss

“The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” “The Wife’s Lament” (p 17-26) HW –Celtic Poetry HO p 33-37 (Brit Lit 1) Finish Beowulf Study Island ACT Verbal due Jan. 12, 7:00 A.M.; AP due test day. Macbeth and Hamlet sections due the day of those tests.

25 #4 Sample Free Response Question #3 from the AP Course Description (Hawthorne)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period Pass out textbooks while the students are writing – Cover your book and bring to class on Monday (If you cover them, we’ll store them in the room.) 28 NHS Blood drive Collect Novel Notes and Literary Devices and Monsters/Hero HO Collect Celtic Poetry HO

Beowulf Quiz (2013 Check on 13 Q quiz in PDF) Pass back and quickly check Celtic Poetry HO Beowulf Show Map of area Discuss HW – read Canterbury Tales - due 10/5 Pass out books and introductory notes (fabliaux power point) “Prologue” Character Chart 29 Pass back Sample Free Response Question #3 from the AP Course Description (Hawthorne)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples HW – read Canterbury Tales 30 Sample AP Multiple Choice Test – Questions 1-23 from the AP Course Description HW – read Canterbury Tales Oct. 1 Pass back MC tests – quickly discuss answers Beowulf Finish discussing Begin discussing Canterbury Tales “Prologue” 2 #5 2010 Free Response Question #1 (Century Quilt) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period HW – read Canterbury Tales 5 Canterbury Tales Discuss “Prologue” and “Knight’s Tale” Add to character chart as we discuss Character chart due at the end of the period

6 Canterbury Tales Discuss “Miller’s Tale” and “Wife of Bath’s Tale” 7 Canterbury Tales Discuss “Pardoner’s Tale” and “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” HW -Gawain and the Green Knight text p 162 Morte d Arthur – text p 176 8 Canterbury Tales Watch Canterbury Tales I and start Canterbury Tales II 9 #6 2010 Free Response Question #2 (Belinda) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 12 Canterbury Tales Watch Canterbury Tales II and start Canterbury Tales III 13 Pass back Sample Free Response Question 2010 Q #1 (Century Quilt)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples 14 Medieval Poetry

Read together - Four Ballads: “Two Corbies,” “Lord Randall,” “Get Up and Bar the Door,” “Barbara Allen” p 194- 200

Discuss questions p 195,197, 200-201 Hamlet Intro HW – Hamlet Pass out books and intro notes – Due 10/22 Novel Notes Act I character chart and other HOs (Hamlet Activity Pack) Power point notes – Intro 15 Arthurian Tales

Discuss Gawain and the Green Knight text p 162 Morte d Arthur – text p 176 HW – Single Topic Analysis Essay - Choose a single literary technique in one of the selections and explain how that one

technique contributes to theme or tone of the work as a whole – due 10/22

Include a PW, RD (must show revisions), FC – NO INTERNET – use your own knowledge!

19 The English Renaissance (1485-1625) Poetry

Sydney & Spenser Pass out intro notes (unit 2)

“Sonnet 1”, “Sonnet 35,” “Sonnet 75,” “Sonnet 1,” “Sonnet 39” Read together Discuss questions p 238 & 240-241 Marlowe & Raleigh

“The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” Read together

Discuss 20 Pass back 2010 Free Response Q #2 (Belinda)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples AP Practice Quiz if time 21 Finish Marlowe and Raleigh poems Shakespearean Sonnets Pass out intro notes What is a Shakesperean Sonnet Overhead “Sonnet 29”, “Sonnet 106,” “Sonnet 116,” “Sonnet 130” Read together Put up Paraphrases Discuss questions p 254 & 256-7 HW – Metaphorical Minds HO – due in two days 22 Collect Single-Topic Analysis Essay Hamlet Collect Novel Notes Hamlet Test – use one for Regular 12 Act I Pass out completed simile and personification charts (Hamlet Activity Pack)– go over Pass out motif HO – complete as we discuss Discuss Collect Character charts HW – Macbeth - due 11/11 Novel Notes due 11/11 Tragic Hero Notes Fate, Symbol, and Metaphor Charts – Read the completed ones. You don’t have to write anymore. 23 Collect First Quarter Novel Notes #7 2010 Free Response Question #3 (Exile) Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 26 Trade, check, collect Metaphorical Minds HO Hamlet Act I & II

Discuss Review motifs Discuss AP Objectives Work on Study Island – Due AP test day in May 27 Pass back 2010 Free Response Q #3 (Exile)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples Study Island ACT Verbal due Jan. 12, 7:00 A.M.; AP due test day. Macbeth and Hamlet sections due the day of those tests. 28 Second Quarter Novel Notes – Group – due Jan. 8 Hamlet Act II & III Discuss Discuss AP Objectives 29(Due to short periods tomorrow, we’ll write today) #8 Hamlet AP Unit Free Response Q 1 (Setting the tone)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 30 Hamlet Act III & IV Pass out completed alliteration HO (Hamlet Activity Pack) Discuss Review motifs Discuss AP Objectives Nov. 2 American Legion Americanism Test (Date may vary) 3 Hamlet

Act IV & V Pass out completed metaphor HO (Hamlet Activity Pack) Pass out completed foreshadowing HO (Hamlet Activity Pack) Discuss Review motifs Discuss AP Objectives HW – Paraphrase Hamlet’s Soliloquy (Hamlet Activity Pack) 4 Hamlet Study Island due

Hamlet AP Unit Practice Multiple Choice Test Q 1-50 5 Finish Hamlet AP Unit Practice Multiple Choice Test Q 1-50 6 #9 Hamlet AP Unit Free Response Q 7 (Tragedy)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 9 Go over answers to Hamlet MC test Pass back Hamlet AP Unit Free Response Q 1 (Setting the tone)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples Pass back Hamlet AP Unit Free Response Q 7 (Tragedy)

Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples 10 AP Terms Review 11 Macbeth Study Island Due Macbeth Collect Novel Notes Macbeth Test – Textbook test Act I, II,& III Discuss 12 #10 Macbeth AP Practice Free Response Q (Ben Jonson quote) It’s not Friday, but we need to get this in!

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 16 Macbeth Act IV & V Discuss 17 Macbeth Themes and Motifs Discuss 18 Macbeth AP Objectives Discuss

In most cases, snow days do not change due dates – plan accordingly based on the weather. Do not put assignments off until the night before it is due. 19 Utopia Pass out intro notes on Sir Thomas More Read together and discuss p 266 The King James Bible Pass out intro notes on KJB Read together and discuss “Psalm 23” p 276 “The Sermon on the Mount” p 278 “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” p 279 (If we run out of time or if we have early snow days, this is something we’ll cut.) 20 Introduce novel and essay HW – Read Frankenstein – due 12/10 Novel Notes Pass out intro notes Essays - pick five – each essay is to be on its own piece of paper with the prompt and proper heading copied on the top of the paper. Choose from five different sections. Type (DS) or print in blue or black ink (do not write on the back). Explain each answer fully. Use quotations and in-text citations as needed. Remember to include the author and title in your intro. HW – Synthesis Paper – Shakespearean Plays – due 12/15 Chose a motif that runs through multiple Shakespearean plays. Identify and explain the motif and its purpose in the plays. How and what does it add to the play? Quote examples. Remember to use in-text citations. Don’t forget your works cited. ( You’ve read Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Midsummers Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet. You may also read additional plays. Use several in your paper – at least 3.) Cite your sources including the plays you used. PW, RD (must show revisions), FC – normal FC rules 23 Sample AP Multiple Choice Test – Questions 24-46 from the AP Course Description Study Island ACT Verbal due Jan. 12, 7:00 A.M.; AP due test day. 24 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries John Donne Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “Song” p 422 “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” p 424 “Holy Sonnet 10” p 426 “Meditation 17” p 428 HW – Meditation XVII and Holy Sonnet X HO, Modes of Discourse HO (Do Med 17 and HS X as HW – we’ll do Modes of D together.) 25 Trade, Check, Collect Meditation XVII and Holy Sonnet X HO, Modes of Discourse HO Ben Johnson

Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “On My First Son” p 436 “Still to be Neat” p 438 “Song: To Celia” p 440 AP Poetry MC test Set 1 HW – Read Paradise Lost p 468-476 Dec. 1 Go over AP Poetry MC test Set 1 John Milton Pass out intro notes Paradise Lost Discuss (look at ARC for notes) Read together and discuss “Sonnett VII” p 464 “Sonnett XIX” p 466 HW – Paradise Lost HO 2 Trade, Check, Collect Paradise Lost HO Go over AP Style Multiple Choice Test (AP Course Desc. #24+) Pass back Macbeth AP Practice Free Response Q (Ben Jonson quote) Briefly discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples Introduce Satire HW – Read Gulliver’s Travels p 514-524 and “The Journal of the Plague Year” p 503 due – 12/3 “A Modest Proposal” HO due – 12/7 Handout Swift Satire “The Rape of the Lock” p 532 (just read the version on the HO) due 12/9 Handout “Rape of the Lock” and The Prose of the Poem HO Pass out intro notes on Swift and Pope (If snow days, cut Defoe) 3 Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift Pass out intro notes – beginning of realistic fiction “The Journal of the Plague Year” p 503- Discuss “Gulliver’s Travels” p 514-524 Discuss HW – Read “A Modest Proposal” 4 Flip Flop Satire selections – Do #12 now and #11 next time #12 Satire AP Free Response Essay Question – (Satire Selections Question 2 p 63-64, “The War Prayer”)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 7 Jonathan Swift Trade and Check - Swift Satire “A Modest Proposal” HO

Discuss Pass out notes AFTER discussion 8 General/short comments on AP Satire Essay #1 Pass back essays AP MP Satire Test Q 1-38 9 Alexander Pope “An Essay on Man” p 530 Read together and discuss “The Rape of the Lock” p 532 in text, but just read the HO Discuss – Trade, check and collect the handouts – use them not text book HW – Finish Shakespearean Synthesis Paper HW – Pride and Prejudice due 1/25 Novel Notes

Discussion Questions (from AP unit) – all - write at least a paragraph response for each. Type or print in ink; don’t write on the back. Put all prompts on the papers!

(If snow days, cut Gray) 10 Collect Frankenstein Novel Notes and Essays Frankenstein Test (15Q – alternative test if needed: 20Q in Prestwick House AP unit) Thomas Gray Pass out intro notes “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” p 570 Read together and discuss 11 Flip Flop Satire selections – Do #11 now and #12 last time #11 Satire AP Free Response Essay Question – (Satire Selections Question 1 p 62)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 14 Frankenstein Discuss the novel (Use the novel unit questions) Review Romantic period – pass out Romantic notes 15 Collect Shakespearean Synthesis Paper Frankenstein Discuss the novel Discuss AP Objectives 16 Pass back Satire AP Free Response Essay Question– (Satire Selections Question 2 p 63-64, “The War Prayer”) Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples AP Practice Quiz if time Terminology Practice

17 Library Study Island (Cut if snow days) 18 Library Study Island (Cut if snow days)

In most cases, snow days do not change due dates – plan accordingly based on the weather. Do not put assignments off until the night before it is due. Study Island ACT Verbal due Jan. 12, 7:00 A.M.; AP due test day. Jan. 4 Alumni Day (Date may vary) Pass back Satire AP Free Response Essay Question– (Satire Selections Question 2 p 63-64, “The War Prayer”) Discuss Essays – use the Elmo to demonstrate good/average/poor examples AP Practice Quiz if time Terminology Practice 5 The Romantic Period

Pass out A Guide to Tonal Analysis Pass out Romantic Introduction HO Go over the worksheets

Go over Satire Test from before break Read or practice terms AP Practice Quiz if time HW- complete the HOs 6 Collect HOs Robert Burns Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “To a Mouse” p 626 “To a Louse” p 629 “Auld Lang Syne” from computer (only if we have time) William Blake Pass out intro notes “The Lamb” p 640 “The Tyger” p 641 “The Chimney Sweeper” p 643 “Infant Sorrow” p 644 HW - “Afton Waters” (Burns) HO “Lamb” & “Tyger” (Blake) HO 7 Go over Burns and Blake HO William Wordsworth Pass out intro notes “Lines . . . Abbey” p 666 (Use the ARC HO from the Regulars instead of text)

Discuss

Read and discuss “The Prelude” p 672 “The World is Too Much with Us” p 675 “London, 1802” p 676 HW – Paradox and Poetry (Wordsworth) HO 8 Collect 2nd Quarter Novel Notes Collect Paradox and Poetry HO (Wordsworth) Wuthering Heights HW – Read Pride and Prejudice – due 1/25 Novel Notes and Study Guide Questions (Write answers on your own paper. Make sure you answer each part of the prompt! The length of the answers will vary based on the questions. Normal FC rules.) Video Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights Pass out AP Unit Discussion/Topic Questions – pick five – each question is to be on its own piece of paper with the prompt copied on the top of the paper. Type (DS) or print in blue or black ink (do not write on the back). Explain each answer fully. Each must be a solid paragraph or more in length. Remember to include the author and title in your intro. Due Jan 13 Pass out intro notes - Entailment 11 Study Island ACT Verbal due Jan. 12, 7:00 A.M.; AP due test day. Video Wuthering Heights 12 Video Wuthering Heights 13 Collect Wuthering Heights Questions Wuthering Heights AP Wuthering Heights MC test (AP Unit Q 1-30) 14 Third Quarter Novel Notes – Group – due March 18 Go over Wuthering Heights AP MC test (Cut if snow days) AP Practice Quiz if time 15 End of 2nd 9wks #13 AP Free Response Essay Question – (WH AP Unit Q 4)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 19 Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Pass out intro notes Watch video

20 Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Finish video Discuss poem HW – Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wishes for a Son HO “Kubla Kahn” HO 21 Collect Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wishes for a Son HO & “Kubla Khan” HO George Gordon, Lord Byron Pass out intro notes & Byronic Hero Intro HO Read and Discuss together “She Walks in Beauty” p 718 from “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Apostrophe to the Sea” p 720 from ”Don Juan” p 724 HW – Byronic Hero HO 22 Collect Byronic Hero HO Pass back Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wishes for a Son HO and go over answers Percy Bysshe Shelley Pass out intro notes Read and discuss together “ Ozymandias” p 732 “Ode to the West Wind” p 734 “To a Skylark” p 737 HW – What are Patterns For? HO “Ozymandias” and “Men of England” HO 25 Trade, check and collect HW – “Ozy”, and “Men of England” HOs Pride and Prejudice Collect Novel Notes Collect Discussion Questions Quiz (From Hull’s stuff) Trade, check, collect quiz Begin discussion (use AP SG as questions) Discuss AP Objectives 26 Pride and Prejudice Discuss 27 Pride and Prejudice Finish discussing HW – Read The Importance of Being Ernest

– due 2/3 Novel/Play Notes Outline – chose one act – make a detailed outline Pass out intro notes – Victorian Period, et. al. Read on an ebook, online at www.online-literature.com, or purchase a copy of the play.

You can find free copies of this for Nook, Kindle, Kobo on the store sites. Type in “Free The Importance of Being Ernest.” Project Gutenberg has both downloadable copeis for ebooks and html to read on the computer: www.projectgutenberg.org/ebooks/844 28 Pride and Prejudice Discuss AP Objectives HW - Literature-based analysis of the values of the Victorian Age Paper

Write an expository / analytical essay demonstrating the ways in which a single work of literary merit has

embodied, exposed, or reacted to the values of the Victorian period. This essay is expected to briefly explain the essential

Victorian values addressed by the work, then demonstrate how the author has reflected, responded to, or subverted those

values using such literary devices as satire, figurative language, symbolism, imagery, structure, and diction. You may

choose to focus your writing on Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Eyre, or Wuthering Heights.

Properly credit your paper. Include a PW and RD (make sure the RD shows corrections and revisions). Normal FC rules.

– due Mar. 29?

John Keats Pass out intro notes Read and discuss together “ On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” p 746 “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” p 748

“Ode to a Nightingale” p 750 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” p 754

HW – Odes and What are Patterns For HO Collect Odes and Patterns HO Pass out Victorian Intro and Victorian Revolution HO 29 #14 AP Free Response Essay Question – (Pride and Prejudice AP Unit Q 6)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period

Feb. 1 Pride and Prejudice AP MC Test (AP P and P Unit Q 1-25) AP Poetry MC Test Set 2 Q 1-12

In most cases, snow days do not change due dates – plan accordingly based on the weather. Do not put assignments off until the night before it is due.

2 Go over answers to Pride and Prejudice AP MC Test (AP P and P Unit Q 1-25) Go over answers to AP Poetry MC Test Set 2 Q 1-12 Pass back AP Free Response Essay Question – (Pride and Prejudice AP Unit Q 6) Look at best and worst essays Work on Study Island – Due AP test day in May 3 The Importance of Being Earnest Collect Earnest Outline and novel notes

Quiz (15Q) Discuss HW – 1984 –due 2/24 Novel Notes Pass out intro notes and AP Notes Take home quiz – on your honor to do on your own based on the novel only, not the internet! Study Guides – for your own use; I am not collecting, but these are the key ideas from the novel. 4 The Importance of Being Earnest Discuss HW – Study lit terms! 5 #15 AP Poetry Free Response Essay Question 1– (“Farmer’s Bride” in Poetry folder)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 8 AP Practice Quiz if time AP Terminology/Literary Device Review (Cut if snow days) 9 The Importance of Being Earnest Discuss AP Objectives Pass back AP Poetry Free Response Essay Question 1– (“Farmer’s Bride” in Poetry folder) Use the Elmo to go over essays 10 AP Practice Quiz if time AP Terminology/Literary Device Review (Cut if snow days) 11 #16 AP Free Response Essay Question – (The Importance of Being Earnest AP Unit Q 2 Absurdity)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 16 The Importance of Being Earnest AP MC test (IBE AP Unit Q 1-25) 17 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss from “In Memoriam, A. H. H.” p 818

“The Lady of Shalott” p 821 from “The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears” p 827 “Ulysses” p 828 18 Robert Browning Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “My Last Duchess” p 836 “Life in a Love” p 839 “Love Among the Ruins” p 840 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read together and discuss “Sonnet 43” p 844 (We might be able to do both Brownings and Tennyson in one day. If so, we will practice terms on the second day.) 19 Mathew Arnold Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “Dover Beach” p 884 Rudyard Kipling

Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “Recessional” p 886 “The Widow at Windsor” p 889 HW – Kipling HO 22 Collect Kipling HO Emily Bronte Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “Remembrance” p 918 Thomas Hardy Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “The Darkling Thrush” p 921 ‘Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave?’ p 923 23 Gerald Manley Hopkins Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “God’s Grandeur” p 930 “Spring and Fall to a Young Child” p 932 A. E. Houseman

Read together and discuss “To an Athlete Dying Young” p 933

“When I was One and Twenty” p 934 Pass back and go over Kipling HO if time 24

1984 Collect Novel Notes Trade, check, collect Quiz Discuss 25 1984 Discuss HW – finish Victorian Essay 26 #17 AP Free Response Essay Question – (1984 AP Unit Q 6 Dystopian Tone)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 29 Collect Victorian Essay 1984 AP MC Test (AP 1984 Unit Q 1-20) HW – read “The Lagoon” p 1134 “Araby” p 1147 “The Lady in the Looking Glass” p 1158 “The Rocking Horse Winner” p1176 March 1 The Modern and Postmodern Periods William Butler Yeats

Read together and discuss “When You Are Old” p 966

“The Wild Swans at Coole” p 969 “The Second Coming” p 971 “Sailing to Byzantium” p 973 (if time) HW – W. B. Yeats: Examining an Elegy HO 2 Collect W. B. Yeats: Examining an Elegy HO T. S. Eliot

Read together and discuss “Preludes” p 982

“The Journey of the Magi” p 984 Critical Commentary on the “Hollow Men” p 986 “The Hollow Men” p 989 3 Finish T.S. Eliot and “The Hollow Men” Pass back W. B. Yeats: Examining an Elegy HO and go over Go over AP MC Test (IBE AP Unit Q 1-25) AP MC Test (AP 1984 Unit Q 1-20) Discuss AP Free Response Essay Question – (The Importance of Being Earnest AP Unit Q 2 Absurdity) best papers PARCC Testing Block Schedule???????

4 #18 AP Free Response Essay Question – (Claude McKay)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period Work on Study Island – Due AP test day in May 7 Joseph Conrad “The Lagoon” p 1134 Pass out intro notes Quiz Discuss James Joyce “Araby” p 1147 Pass out intro notes

Quiz Discuss 8 Virginia Woolf “The Lady in the Looking Glass” p 1158 Pass out intro notes Quiz Discuss D. H. Lawrence “The Rocking Horse Winner” 1176 Pass out intro notes

Quiz Discuss HW – The Bluest Eye – due 3/16 Novel Notes Study Questions 9 Pass back AP Free Response Essay Question – (1984 AP Unit Q 6 Dystopian Tone) Discuss essays HW – Poetry Synthesis Paper – due 4/15

Trace a theme through at least three different poets (British and/or American) from the Modern and/or Postmodern periods. Explain how the poets develop this theme. What poetic devices are used to create the theme? Use multiple poems per poet. Properly credit your paper with in-text citations and a work cited. Include

a PW and RD (make sure the

RD shows corrections and revisions). Normal FC rules. 10 World War I Poets Pass out intro notes and Intro HO Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” p 1050

Siegfried Sassoon “The Wirers” p 1052 Wilfred Owen “Anthem for Doomed Youth” p 1053 11 #22 AP Free Response Essay Question – (Justice – choose novel) (Out of order, but we can fit this in here)

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period Work on Study Island – Due AP test day in May 14 AP MC Test (DH Lawrence Q 1-20 AP Misc. Test Folder) Frost Q 1-10 – AP Poetry Folder) 15 Dylan Thomas Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” p 1206 “Fern Hill” p 1208 Ted Hughes Pass out intro notes Read together and discuss “The Horses” p 1210 HW – Dylan Thomas: Penetrating the Paradox HO 16 Collect Dylan Thomas: Penetrating the Paradox HO The Bluest Eye Collect Novel Notes and Study Questions Discuss (Use AP Study Guide) Discuss AP Objectives HW – Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness – due 4/4 Novel Notes Pass out intro notes, “The Second Coming” HO, and pronunciation guides Take Home Tests – Things Fall Apart AP MC test from Applied Practice Booklet and Heart of Darkness from AP Unit

Prestwick Answer Study Guide Questions for Heart of Darkness; the study guide for “Things Fall Apart” is optional.

(The take home tests and Heart of Darkness study guide may be completed in a small group.) Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 17 “Heart of Darkness” AP MC test (you don’t have to have read the book to take the test) Check test when done 18 Collect Third Quarter Novel Notes - Group

#19 AP The Bluest Eye (plot/history) Essay Copy the prompt on the top of the paper

Legible copy due at end of the period 21 Pass back Dylan Thomas: Penetrating the Paradox HO and go over The Bluest Eye Pass back Questions – go over answers Discuss (Use AP Study Guide) 22 Finish Bluest Eye if needed – Frost can be one day Robert Frost Pass out Robert Frost Poetry Packet – do not write on

Read together and discuss Pass out Frost intro notes HW – On the Level HO – due in 2 days 23 Emily Dickinson

Pass out Emily Dickinson Poetry Packet – do not write on Pass out Dickinson intro notes

Read together and discuss HW – Finish Third Quarter Novel Notes 24 Trade, check and collect On the Level HO Walt Whitman

Pass out Walt Whitman Poetry Packet – do not write on Pass out Whitman intro notes

Read together and discuss Langston Hughes Paul Laurence Dunbar Pass out Hughes and Dunbar Poetry Packet – do not write on Pass out Hughes and Dunbar intro notes Read together and discuss April 4 Things Fall Apart/Heart of Darkness Collect Novel Notes, Questions and Take Home Test

Discuss AP Objectives HW – The Kite Runner – due 4/18 Novel Notes Pass out intro notes and pronunciation guide 5 Fourth Quarter Novel Notes – Group – Due May 2 Things Fall Apart/Heart of Darkness Discuss study guide questions 6 Things Fall Apart/Heart of Darkness Go over answers to Take Home Tests

Discuss 7 Things Fall Apart

Finish discussing Work on Study Island – Due AP test day in May 8 Collect The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind HO #20 AP Things Fall Apart Response Essay Question 5 – (foils )

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 11 AP MC Test (AP Things Fall Apart Unit Q 1-25) HW – The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind HO 12 Gear Up Survey – Date may vary A Raisin in the Sun Play – watch video or read in class (S. Portier 1961 – 128 min) Complete study guide and novel notes for that day’s part - novel notes due at the end HW – Study Island AP Practice Test – on your honor – do alone! Due in 5 days 13 A Raisin in the Sun Play – watch video or read in class Complete study guide and novel notes for that day’s part 14 A Raisin in the Sun Play – watch video or read in class Complete study guide and novel notes for that day’s part HW – finish poetry synthesis analysis 15 Poetry Synthesis paper due A Raisin in the Sun Play – watch video or read in class Complete study guide and novel notes for that day’s part Discuss play HW – complete Novel Notes and study guide 18 Collect Raisin Novel Notes and study guide Pass back The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind HO and go over it Kite Runner Collect novel notes Discuss AP Objectives 19

Collect Take Home Study Island Practice AP Test Kite Runner Discuss 20 Kite Runner Discuss HW - Literature-based analysis of the nature of humankind

Write an argumentative / analytical essay in which you take a stand regarding a particular author’s view of the essential nature of mankind. This essay is expected to briefly but convincingly assert your thoughts about the author’s view of mankind, followed by specific and relevant textual support, including both paraphrasing and direct quotation. Plot summary is to be kept at a minimum. You should comment on and judge the work’s artistry and quality. You may choose to focus your writing on a contemporary novel choice from The Kite Runner, Things Fall Apart, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Bluest Eye or another piece we read from this period. Properly credit your paper. Include a PW and

RD (make sure the RD shows corrections and revisions). Normal FC rules. – Due May 5 21 Kite Runner AP MC Test (AP Kite Runner Unit Q 1-25) 22 #21 AP Kite Runner Response Essay Question 2 – (redemption )

Copy the prompt on the top of the paper Legible copy due at end of the period Print in blue or black ink – don’t write on the back Due at the end of the period 25 AP Test Review

Pass back Kite Runner, Things Fall Apart, and AP Practice tests MC Tests Go over answers

Pass back AP Things Fall Apart Response Essay Question 5 – (foils ) Discuss

26 AP Test Review AP Poetry MC Practice and Explanation Go over directions and advice

Practice Tests AP Poetry Test A Q 1-17

“Do Not Go Gentle” 5Q MC Test HW – Critical Response Model HO –due in 2 days 27 Post Test - OTES AP Review

Go over answers to AP Poetry Test “Do Not Go Gentle” Practice MC tests Practice Tests

Satire MC test Q 39-61 28 Collect Critical Response Model HO

AP Review Go over answers to Satire test Q 39-61 Practice Tests

Satire MC test Q 62-91 29 AP Review Go over answers to Critical Response Model HO

Go over answers to Satire test Q 62-91 Start reviewing Novel Notes PARCC Testing Block Schedule???? May 2 Collect 4th Quarter Novel notes AP Review

Novel Note Review Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, The Odyssey, A Midsummers Night’s Dream,

Antigone, Julius Caesar, A Separate Peace, Ethan Frome, The Catcher in the Rye, The Things They Carried, Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn

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Novel Note Review King Lear, A Thousand Acres, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, 1984, The Bluest Eye, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, Moby Dick, The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, Kite Runner

4 AP Literature and Composition Test 5 Collect Mankind Essay The senior research paper will require students to complete the following steps in the research process:

1. Select a scholarly, literary research topic

2. Pre-read source documents to ensure the topic is viable for this project

3. Narrow the topic to a manageable scope

4. Compose appropriate research questions to focus the literary research

5. Find credible, reliable scholarly research sources

6. Conduct research using a variety of sources

7. Create a MLA works-cited page

8. Outline research findings for the presentation in a formal paper

9. Write a paper that synthesizes information from various sources

10. Employ MLA parenthetical documentation within the paper

11. Format the paper correctly according to MLA guidelines

Go over directions and topics.

Go over OWL at Purdue

Look at a sample paper

Review citations and work cited

Discuss scholarly sources

Discuss Infohio

Research Due 5/18 Usually the senior Bio II trip and the Red Cross Bloodmobile are held around this time, so three days are scheduled for library prep for the research paper. We will be lucky to get one or two days in. Dates may vary based on senior schedule, class trip, etc. 6 Research – continue review, set up, topics, etc. Research Go over directions and topics.

Go over OWL at Purdue

Look at a sample paper

Review citations and work cited

Discuss scholarly sources

Discuss Infohio

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Library

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Library

Research papers

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Library

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Library

Research papers

Last chance to ask questions

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Movie – (Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw)

Take notes – view the movie as though you were reading the book

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Collect Research

Movie – (Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw)

Take notes – view the movie as though you were reading the book

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Movie – (Pygmalion-George Bernard Shaw)

Take notes – view the movie as though you were reading the book

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Review movie

Discuss Final

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Sr. Finals

Don’t put the essay on the kid’s syllabus

Essay - Choose a literary technique that is used in Pygmalion. Explain it. How does it add to the movie? What purpose

does it serve? Etc. Write a five paragraph paper. Proofread, revise, print a legible final copy in blue or black pen.

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Sr. Finals

Don’t put the essay on the kid’s syllabus

Essay - Choose a literary technique that is used in Pygmalion. Explain it. How does it add to the movie? What purpose

does it serve? Etc. Write a five paragraph paper. Proofread, revise, print a legible final copy in blue or black pen.

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Sr Trip

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Grad Practice

Baccalaureate

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Graduation