Moving into 124: January 15, 2020

Focus: What does the exposition of Beloved look like?

1. Warming up with an Academic Vocabulary Quiz: List 1: Please close your other tabs and click HERE when you're ready to take the quiz.

2. Taking 40 minutes to read Beloved; passing around the Serial Reading sheet

3. Signing off on the Senior Contract

HW:

1. For FRIDAY: Read the first four chapters of Beloved and create your first reading ticket.

• Click HERE for the Beloved reading schedule.

• Click HERE for Beloved reading ticket possibilities.

2. ONGOING: Spend 5-10 minutes Serial Reading each day.

3. BY MONDAY, FEB 3: Decide on your poetry paper/project poem and bring it to class. Remember that it should be from a different genre / time period than your 1st poem.

Camping with Dad: January 14, 2020

Focus: What are we doing well in our prose timed writings, and how can we improve?

1. Warming up with a little Quizlet Live review of Academic Vocabulary, List 1

2. In Question #2: Johnny Got His Gun, considering the first inch, the last inch, and the concrete details and devices in between

• A quick creative writing / tone exercise: Rewrite the first inch or the last inch to change the tone.

• Making a group how and why chart for close reading practice

3. Perusing two sample essays on Q2 with a focus on Row 2 of the rubric

4. Peer workshopping each other's essays by applying Row 2 to them

HW:

1. For WEDNESDAY: Study Academic Vocabulary, List 1 for a short quiz.

2. For FRIDAY: Read the first four chapters of Beloved and create your first reading ticket.

• Click HERE for the Beloved reading schedule.

• Click HERE for Beloved reading ticket possibilities.

3. ONGOING: Spend 5-10 minutes Serial Reading each day.

Two Quarters Left: January 13, 2020

Focus: How do want our last two quarters of high school to go?

1. Warming up with three good things and 10 minutes of Serial Reading

2. Signing the Sparknotes oath and the Senior Contract

3. Finishing our MC discussion of the sonnet and attempting to calculate your overall score 

• Click HERE for a helpful conversion website.

HW:

1. For WEDNESDAY: Study Academic Vocabulary, List 1 for a short quiz.

2. For FRIDAY: Read the first four chapters of Beloved and create your first reading ticket.

• Click HERE for the Beloved reading schedule.

• Click HERE for Beloved reading ticket possibilities.

3. ONGOING: Spend 5-10 minutes Serial Reading each day.

Haunted: January 10, 2020

Focus: How do we enter the disturbingly haunted world of Beloved?

1. Warming up with high velocity freewriting on where we're journeying to in Beloved

(Click here for the music.)

2. Facing some difficult images and reading some important lines to prepare for Beloved

3. Entering 124 together

HW:
1. TONIGHT: 

• Take on 10-20 minutes of Serial Reader (hopefully you're at least a few issues in).

• Look over Academic Vocabulary, List 1 (mini quiz next week on Jan 15).

2. Next WEDNESDAY you will have a short quiz on Academic Vocabulary, List 1.

3. For NEXT WEEK: Consider purchasing your own copy of Beloved. Our school copies look like this: 

Words, Words, Words (MC Poetry Workshop): January 9, 2019

Focus: How can we improve our understanding of denotations and connotations?

*Please turn in your signed class syllabus/expectations.*

1. Warming with Academic Vocabulary: List 1; transitioning into MC vocabulary

2. Performing a quick connotative brainstorms on charged words from the Norma Millay Ellis poem

3. Working through the multiple choice together

HW:
1. TONIGHT: 

• Take on 20 minutes of Serial Reader.

• Look over Academic Vocabulary, List 1 (mini quiz next week on Jan 15).

2. Next WEDNESDAY you will have a short quiz on Academic Vocabulary, List 1.

3. For NEXT WEEK: Consider purchasing your own copy of Beloved. Our school copies look like this: 

Q1 Workshop: Focus on Close Readings: January 8, 2020

Focus: How can we improved our close readings in poetry timed writing?

1. Warming up with Serial Reader

2. Considering the nature of the soliloquy

• Offering you the 21st century, TV-version of the soliloquy (opening and 2:34)

• Who's involved in a soliloquy?

• What happens during a soliloquy that can't happen when other characters are on stage?

• What's the relationship between the character and audience during a soliloquy? (

• How does the soliloquy "break the fourth wall"?

2. Performing a dual reading of Henry's sleep soliloquy to shake out the complexities

3. Perusing your own timed writings and mapping out on the white board the what, how, and why of close reading (aka, Row 2 on the rubric)

HW:
1. TONIGHT: 

• Take on 20 minutes of Serial Reader.

• Look over Academic Vocabulary, List 1 (mini quiz next week on Jan 15).

2. FOR TOMORROW: Ask your parents/guardians to sign our class syllabus.

It's a New Year! January 7, 2020

Focus: How does A.P. Literature get even better in 2020?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Indulging in some excellent New Year's poetry

• Round Robin, stanza-by-stanza reading of the first three poems.

• Perusing the rest at your own pace

• Responding in one of two ways (10-15 minutes):

• Find one or two lines that capture your thoughts about 2019/2020. Write them out and respond to them.

• Find one poem that speaks to you. Perform a mini metacognitive of it.

• Sharing beautiful words, questions, and epiphanies

3. Taking a look at what's new in A.P. Lit this semester

HW:
1. TONIGHT: 

• Take on 20 minutes of Serial Reader.

• Look over Academic Vocabulary, List 1 (mini quiz next week on Jan 15).

2. FOR THURSDAY: Ask your parents/guardians to sign our class syllabus.