Now Is Your Time--Don't Miss It: March 31, 2020

Focus: What are you wondering about online A.P. Literature?

1. Warming up:

Today, Sam rode a bike without training wheels for the first time. Because of his heart condition and his open-heart surgeries, he wasn't allowed anywhere near a bike for many summers of his life. But today, Sam rode a bike.

I think now is the time to do the thing you think you cannot do. Don't miss it.

2. Entertaining our curiosity with an optional Q&A session at 1:30 (there's a Zoom invitation in your school e-mail)

3. Working on your culminating essay prompt and book list (20 minutes)

• If you need some help, check out the one I did by clicking HERE!

• Also, take another look at the guidelines (in your blue folder and linked here). This assignment will be significantly modified (instead of a giant, formal essay, it will be a series of still-intense-but-less-formal blog entries), but the first step remains the same.

HW:
1. For TONIGHT: 

• Post your culminating essay prompt and booklist on your blog before you go to bed tonight.

2. For Thursday: 

• Complete your timed writing on "The Landlady." Preferably, please type it and share it with me. If that's not possible, you can send me a photo, but my feedback won't be as detailed.

• Join our live workshop on Thursday from 1:30-2:00. If you can't make the live session, please watch the recorded session.

3. For Friday: 

• Fall back in love with you book club book! Skim back through the parts that you've already read, and make sure you're caught up with the reading and syllabus you originally assigned for Book Club Meeting #3.

• Find a 30-minute time (and online platform) to meet with your book club. 

• Make sure your syllabus is in your shared folder, and keep notes on it during your meeting.

You Know I'm Back, Like I Never Left: March 30, 2020

Focus: What is mental fitness without witness?

1. Warming up with three good things (please send yours to me right now!)

2. Watching my very first "Welcome To Your Week"

3. Working on your culminating essay prompt and book list (20 minutes)

• If you need some help, check out the one I did by clicking HERE!

• Also, take another look at the guidelines (in your blue folder and linked here). This assignment will be significantly modified (instead of a giant, formal essay, it will be a series of still-intense-but-less-formal blog entries), but the first step remains the same.

HW:
1. For Tuesday: 

• Post your culminating essay prompt and booklist on your blog before you go to bed on Tuesday, March 31.

• Consider joining our live Q&A session tomorrow at 1:30 (you should have received a Zoom invitation in your school e-mail, but let me know if you did not).

2. For Thursday: 

• Complete your timed writing on "The Landlady." Preferably, please type it and share it with me. If that's not possible, you can send me a photo, but my feedback won't be as detailed.

• Join our live workshop on Thursday from 1:30-2:00. If you can't make the live session, please watch the recorded session.

3. For Friday: 

• Fall back in love with you book club book! Skim back through the parts that you've already read, and make sure you're caught up with the reading and syllabus you originally assigned for Book Club Meeting #3.

• Find a 30-minute time (and online platform) to meet with your book club. 

• Make sure your syllabus is in your shared folder, and keep notes on it during your meeting.

At Home Fun! March 19, 2020

Missing A.P. Lit? I got you!

Prepping for Independent Work: March 13, 2020

Focus: How do we continue A.P. Literature at home?

1. Warming up with your folders--what's inside them and how to use them

2. Thinking about point of view and narrative perspective with Back to Basics, Part 3

3. Introducing to you the culminating essay and taking a field trip to the book room; click HERE for the timeline.

HW:
Follow the schedule in your blue folder.

That First Robin (MC Practice): March 12, 2020

Focus: How can an MMM reading of imagery and verbs unlock meaning in poetry?

1. Warming up with "In Other News..."

2. Briefly introducing you to the culminating essay

3. Predicting the types of questions the MC poetry passages will ask of you

4. Close reading a Dickinson poem, predicting the question stems, and answering some MC questions

M (Moments)

• What images are you noticing?
• What verbs strike you?

M (Movements)

• What do the images all have in common?
• What do the verbs all have in common?

M (Meanings)

• What is the speaker's attitude towards ________? What's the tone of this poem?

REVISED PLAN:

1. Warming up with Q&A

2. Writing to calm down the spinning

3. Trying out an anxiety meditation together

4. Figuring out what we can control: Coming up with a book club plan

• What can you work into your meetings to mitigate anxiety?

• If your book club needs to be virtual, what would be the best platform for you guys?

HW:
1. FRIDAY: Third round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

2. Next WEDNESDAY: Cumulative test on Academic Vocab, Sets 1-7 (no new words).

3. ONGOING: Interested in revising your poetry essay? Stop in for a 60-second chat!

A Little DEAR Time: March 11, 2020

Focus: How can we prepare ourselves for the rest of the week?

Announcement: Please bring to class tomorrow the multiple choice practice we've done in class.

1. Warming up with In Other News... and a quick Quizlet Live review!

2. Taking the Set 7 Academic Vocabulary quiz

3. Reading your book club novels

HW:
1. THURSDAY: Multiple choice!

2. FRIDAY: Third round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

ONGOING: Interested in revising your poetry essay? Stop in for a 60-second chat!

Book Clubbing, Day 2: March 10, 2020

Focus: What do the external landscapes reveal about its characters' internal landscapes?

1. Warming up with our first edition of "In Other News..."

2. Enjoying Back to Basics, Lesson #2: Setting

3. Discussing your book club novels

4. Completing Exit Ticket #2

HW:
1. WEDNESDAY: Academic Vocabulary Quiz #7. Also, bring your book for reading time!

2. THURSDAY: Multiple choice!

3. FRIDAY: Third round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

Undressing the Metaphor: March 9, 2020

Focus: How can we undress challenging extended metaphors in poetry?

1. Warming up with three good things



2. Glimpsing Emily Dickinson's poetry and trying to take off Emily Dickinson's clothes with Billy Collins

• Brainstorming connotations

• What's an extended metaphor?

• What object serves as the central metaphor? (The title often gives it away.) To what/whom is that object being compared?

• What other images and verbs go along with this object? How do they contribute to / shape / extend the metaphor?

• Does the metaphor's meaning shift throughout the poem? How so?

• Try out a thesis that goes something like this: 
• John Mayer uses the extended metaphor of the paper doll in order to...

3. Uncovering the slightly less yielding extended metaphor in "They Shut Me up in Prose"

HW:
1. TUESDAY: Second round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

2. WEDNESDAY: Academic Vocabulary Quiz #7.

3. THURSDAY: Multiple choice!

4. FRIDAY: Third round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

Book Clubbing, Day 1: March 5, 2020

Focus: What are you learning about your novel's protagonist?

1. Warming up with our Valentine of the Day

2. Enjoying our first "Back to Basics" Mini Lesson (Characterization)

3. Offering your a reminder of book club expectations; enjoying British Book Clubs, Day 1

• All members participate.

• Keep phones away. I don't want to see them.

• Just like Socratic seminars, book club discussions should be text-based. Books should be open, and passages should be read aloud.

• You don't need to type away the entire time, but keep notes on your syllabus so I can see what you're understanding about your novels.

4. Wrapping up with a quick exit ticket

HW:
1. Next TUESDAY: Second round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

2. Next WEDNESDAY: Academic Vocabulary Quiz #7.

Book Club Reading Day: March 4, 2020

Focus: What we are noticing and wondering as we meet our new protagonists?

1. Warming up with our Valentine of the Day

2. Enjoying our final poetry projects

3. Offering you a few syllabus reminders and reading your book club novels




HW:
1. TOMORROW: Assigned book club reading and syllabus.

2. Next TUESDAY: Second round of assigned book club reading and syllabus.

3. Next WEDNESDAY: Academic Vocabulary Quiz #7.

The Poetry Experience, Part 2: March 3, 2020

Focus: What can we learn about poetry from each other's creative projects?

1. Warming up with  our Valentine of the Day

2. Enjoying poetry projects with follow-up questions and index card feedback

HW:

1. MONDAY, MARCH 2-TUESDAY, MARCH 3 (that's yesterday and today): Projects and papers are due. 

2. Wednesday: Academic Vocabulary Quiz on Set 7

3. Thursday: Assigned book club reading and syllabus.

The Poetry Experience, Day 1: March 2, 2020

Focus: What can we learn about poetry from each other's creative projects?

1. Warming up with  our Valentine of the Day and three good things

2. Enjoying poetry projects with follow-up questions and index card feedback

HW:

1. MONDAY, MARCH 2-TUESDAY, MARCH 3 (that's today and tomorrow): Projects and papers are due.

2. Wednesday: Academic Vocabulary Quiz on Set 7

3. Thursday: Assigned book club reading and syllabus.