3rd+Quarter+Daily+Assignments

1/18 || //Crime and Punishment// Discussion || None || None (Participation) || 1/20 || //Crime and Punishment// Timed Writing || See Ms. Shaw for prompt || * Timed Writing || 1/24 || Writing Workshop || Revise one of the two timed writings on //Crime and Punishment.// Consider the following for your revision: 1/26 || //Crime and Punishment// Creative Project Presentations || Multiple Choice Practice Exam (See Shaw) [|Instructions for taking the multiple choice section.doc] || None || 1/30 || //Crime and Punishment// Creative Project Presentations || None || * Revised Essay || 2/1 || Exam practice: Multiple choice section || AP Lit Exam Scoring Guide (see Shaw) || None || 2/3 || //Sound and Sense// Ch. 8 Allusion Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston PBS //Zora's Roots// || Analysis of allusion in poetry (see Shaw) || * paragraph analyzing allusion in poem || 2/7 || Close Reading Reception of //Their Eyes Were Watching God// || For make-up, choose one of the following passages: [|Passages for close reading] 2/9 || Close Reading skills Historical Context--Harlem Renaissance || Harlem Renaissance connections (see Shaw) 2/13 || Timed Writing Practice: Prose Passage || **Read [|critical race theory.doc] for our next class.** || * Timed Writing || 2/15 || Critical Race Theory Discussion || Discussion of Critical Race Theory hand-out || None || 2/21 || Theoretical Lens Application to //Their Eyes Were Watching God// || Choose one of the following passages (hand-out) and apply one of the following lenses: feminist, gender, critical race, power, social-class/Marxist [|passages for close reading and theory application] || * lens application paragraph || 2/23 || //Their Eyes Were Watching God// small group discussions on-line discussion preparation || (See Shaw for on-line discussion topic) [|final discussion.docx] || * Post on-line discussion topic by Wednesday 2/29 2/27 || Literarary Device Review Poetry || [|Hughes poems and assignment] || * worksheet with annotations and paragraph || 2/29 || Timed Writing Practice (Free Response Question) || see Shaw for prompt || * Timed Writing || 3/2 || Multiple Choice Section Practice || See Shaw for Multiple Choice Test & Answers [|Instructions for answer analysis.doc] Due: 3/5, 3/6 3/6 || Tone Reading Poetry || [|mary oliver assignment on tone.doc] Tone hand-out (see Shaw) || * Worksheet on Tone in a Mary Oliver poem || 3/8 || Writing Instruction 3 free response questions || Thesis drill annotations for [|2003 mulvaneys.pdf] and [|2011 poem a story.pdf] for self evaluation on //Their Eyes// essay: [|2005 Outward Conformity Inward Questioning.pdf] [|2006 country setting.pdf] [|2008 function as a foil.pdf] || * annotations on poem and prose passage || 3/12 || Timed Writing Practice Prose Passage || See Shaw for prompt and rubric [|technicalities worksheet.docx] DUE NEXT CLASS [|Postcolonial Theoretical Lens.doc] DUE NEXT CLASS || * //Their Eyes// essay self reflection 3/14 || Post-colonial Theory Grammar and Usage || Discussion For next class: [|part I study guide.docx]; [|background knowledge.doc] || * Technicalities Worksheet 3/16 || Part I //Heart of Darkness// Historical Context || annotate Kipling's poem "White Man's Burden" For next class: [|part II study guide.docx] || * Discussion sheet for Part I || 3/20 || Impressionistic Wriring || [|impressionistic passages heart of darkness.doc] For next class: [|part III discussion.doc] || * None || 3/22 || Irony in //Heart of Darkness// || [|online discussion irony exercise.doc] Find your class's discussion on Canvas (link on Oly's website--bottom right corner; username and password same as school computers) || * Response to Impressionistic Passages || 3/27 || Historical Context || film: //King Leopold's Ghost// Due next class: Part III Study Guide || * None || 3/29 || Historical Context || film//: King Leopold's// Ghost Part II For next class: Prepare for //Heart of Darkness// finall discussion: 1) read Chinua Achebe's critical essay [|"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's //Heart of Darkness"//]. Bring a minimum of three WRITTEN observations 2) Prepare three WRITTEN thought-provoking questions for //Heart of Darkness// you'd like the class to consider 3) Bring your copy of //Heart of Darkness//, ready to refer to text! || * Part III Study Guide || 4/9 || //Heart of Darkness// || Final Discussion T.S. Eliot's poem [|Hollow Men] || None || 4/11 || Timed Writing Practice || //Heart of Darkness// Timed Writing || * //Heart of Darkness// essay ||
 * Date || Agenda || Assignments/Handouts || Assignments Collected ||
 * 1/17
 * 1/19
 * 1/23
 * apply literary theoretical lenses
 * find opportunitites to discuss literary terms
 * use transitional phrases
 * push yourself to further analyze-connect to them
 * Revised essay due: Friday (A), Monday (B)**
 * Typed, double-spaced, standard margins** || None ||
 * 1/25
 * 1/27
 * 1/31
 * 2/2
 * 2/6
 * Read Langston Hughes's //The Blues I'm Playing// for next class.** || * Paragraph on close reading exercise ||
 * 2/8
 * 2 prose passages (see Shaw); [|Strategies for Reading a Prose Passage for Meaning.docx] for next class** || * Historical Context connections ||
 * 2/10
 * 2/14
 * 2/16
 * 2/22
 * Turn in group discussion sheet 2/29 ||
 * 2/24
 * 2/28
 * 3/1
 * For next class: read //Sound and Sense// Chapter 10: Tone** || None ||
 * 3/5
 * 3/7
 * 3/9
 * Timed Writing ||
 * 3/13
 * Post-colonial Theory Worksheet ||
 * 3/15
 * 3/19
 * 3/21
 * 3/26
 * 3/28
 * 3/30
 * 4/10