Homework from Q1 2011
Friday 1/28 Read aloud in class p. 383 ff. "The Telltale Heart." Have you turned in all test essays?
HW: Read text 2130-2146 (about literary essays over short stories). Read "Greasy Lake," p. 143."
Monday, 1/31 - Wednesday 2-2 School cancelled
Wednesday, 2-3 -- Skim ch. 12 of The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing. Discuss the the text's literary essays about "The Tell-tale Heart." Discuss "Greasy Lake." (Reference Bruce Springsteen's Spririt in the Night and this blog that attempts to explain Springsteen's lyrics. Start work on the Greasy Lake Interpretive Questions.
HW: Finish the Greasy Lake Interpretive Questions. Read Michael Walker's literary criticism "Boyle's "Greasy Lake" and the moral failure of postmodernism"
Read "Where are you Going; Where have you Been?" (654 ff)
Friday, 2-4 NO SCHOOL
Monday 2-7 Discuss Greasy Lake Interpretive Questions. View selections from the movie "Smooth Talk."
HW: Read "Where Are You Going; Where have you Been?" (654 ff)
Tuesday, 2-8 and Wednesday, 2-9 - Snow cancellations
Thursday 2-10 PT conferences - No school
Friday, 2-11 No school
Monday, 2-14 Discuss 1st semester portfolios. Quiz, then discuss "Where are you Going..." Continue viewing segments of "Smooth Talk." Read and discuss Joyce Carol Oates' "Smooth Talk" essay about the movie. Hear Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and see the lyrics here. Read this blog which provides various ways to interpret the story. Connect all to story.
Start reading "Cathedral (p. 109) in class.
HW: Finish Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" (p. 109). Read "Cathedral" student essays here or at the main advanced lit page. Find the exercise relating to those essays here and do it.
Tuesday, 2-15 Discuss 1st semester portfolios. See plans and homework for Monday, 2-7. Dual credit students: Visit with me about your final KSU-required project.
Wednesday, 2-16 Tie up loose ends for all stories Cathedral and prior. Finish viewing segments of "Smooth Talk."Turn in "Cathedral" exercise mentioned in Wednesday's homework. Cathedral blindness activity.Turn in the exercise relating to the "Cathedral" essays. Quiz Cathedral. Skim Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing ch. 12. Hand out literary essay guide sheet.
HW: Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." (p. 94 ff.) Choose a story and interpretive question for your literary essay by Friday, 2-18.
Thursday, 2-17 - See plans and homework for Monday, 2-14.
Friday, 2-18 Block 1 - Discuss. and quiz "Granny Weatherall." Turn in your paragraph that indicates the story, interpretive question and thesis for your literary essay.
Block 6 - Quiz "Where are you Going." Finish and turn in Cathedral exercise by end of class.
HW: Finish reading "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." (p. 94 ff.) Show me your plan for your literary essay Tuesday. The plan should be one paragraph that includes your chosen story, the interpretive question, your thesis and a few details about how you will support that thesis.
Monday, 2-21 Quiz and discuss "The Jilting..." Start LOR.; Fill in character archetypes handout.
HW: Continue work on literary essay over short story; rough due 2-28. Read "To Build a Fire." (132)
Wednesday, 2-23 Edit sophomore literary essays. Complete this take-home quiz about "To Build a Fire." Include the page numbers where you found the answers. Then view this Powerpoint about naturalism.
HW: Literary essay rough due Monday/Tuesday. Minimum of 4 pages and at least 3 external sources.
Friday, 2-25 Discuss naturalism in "To Build a Fire." Work on literary essay in class.
Monday, 2-28 Turn in literary essay rough. Peer edit with this peer editing form. View LOR.
Wednesday, March 2 Read "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (174) together in class. Discuss "A Clean Well-Lighted Place." See world views Powerpoint and existentialism Powerpoint.
Friday, 3-4 LOR all block.
Monday, 3-7 Read "Trifles" (1305) in class. Group work to answer questions about "Trifles" (questions on page 1317 of the text). Students absent will write out their answers to the questions. Continue LOR.
Wednesday, 3-9 Revised draft of literary essay due. Review for test 2. If you miss the review of just want to see again what will be tested, click here and scroll down to "test 2." Continue LOR.
HW: Start take-home essay .
Friday, 3-11 Continue LOR
HW: Work on your poetry presentation. All poetry presentation due no later than Wednesday, 3-16. Click here for the test review.
Monday, 3-14 Finish LOR. Review. Choose poems for projects.
Wednesday, 3-16 TEST 2; Turn in take-home essay via EdModo.
Miss Brill and Young Goodman Brown will be dropped from our syllabus to redeem snow cancellation time.
March 18 - 25 Spring Break
March 26 - Poetry presentations. Begin Hamlet
Previous homework from test 1
1/4/11 -- 1-7-11 Writing Assessment
* HW:
1. Read "Appointment in Samara," (p.4-), "Godfather Death," (p.9-), "Independence," (p.8-), and "A & P," ( p. 15-) before Monday, 1-10.
2. Complete the handouts on lit terms and "A & P."
See Advanced Lit main page and click on "Lit text (Kennedy)" for handouts for above materials if you are not in class to get them.
1/10/11 -- Check the A&P/Literary terms handout; discuss the first two interpretive questions from the handout -- McMahon and anti-establishment. See first portion of Barnburning film.
* HW: Read the Updike background and the A&P literary essays attached on the advanced lit main page. Start reading "Barnburning."
1/12/11 Continue A & P discussion. View part 1 of video 1 of "Hero with 1,000 Faces." Hand out and discuss archetypes handout.
* HW: Read "Barnburning" (page 178 and following); complete the "Barnburning" worksheet.
1/14/11 Discuss "Barnburning" interpretive questions.
Monday, 1/17/11 No School - staff in-service
Tuesday 1/18/11 Barnburning worksheet due beginning of class. (If you've misplaced the "Barnburning" paper, you can find it on the Advanced Literature main page.) Prepare interpretive questions for Barnburning (15 minutes). View "Barnburning" movie.
* HW: Re-read "A Rose for Emily." Read this Barnburning criticism. Also read thisbiographical info on William Faulkner.
Thursday, 1/20 -- "A Rose for Emily" open-book quiz. Discuss interpretive questions on Barnburning. View segment of "A Hero with 1,000 Faces." Begin test review.
*HW- Read this information on archetypes.
Reminder: Test questions will assume your knowledge of A&P and Barnburning "handouts" on the adv lit - textbook page of this web site.
Monday/Tuesday, 1/24 and 1/25 View first segment of "A Hero with 1,000 Faces." Test review; hand out essay questions for test. Begin essay.
*HW -- See the review for test 1 here. Work on your essay questions. You won't have enough time in class to finish all of them.
Wednesday/Thursday 1/27 and 1/27 TEST- "Barnburning" and prior (Be sure to review notes on "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" as well as the stories read. See the adv. lit. main page for more details.) Essays are due end of block with test.
Homework from 2010
MATERIAL FOR TEST 1
1/5/10 -- See syllabus for week 1. See Advanced Lit main page for handouts.
1/7/10 -- Check the A&P/Literary terms handout; discuss the first two interpretive questions from the handout -- McMahon and anti-establishment; Read "Barnburning" (page 178 and following)
1/11-1/15 -- Writing assessment due Friday. (See the "Advanced Literature" page for the prompts.) You'll write in class. Outside of class, read the Updike background and the A&P literary essays attached on the advanced lit main page.
Friday 1/15 -- "A Rose for Emily" take-home quiz due; "Barnburning" worksheet due. If you've misplaced the "Barnburning" paper, you can find it on the Advanced Literature main page. In class, we'll finish the A&P discussion, check and discuss the Barnburning worksheet together, and begin working on the Barnburning interpretive questions, which will be handed out Friday and will be due Monday.
Tuesday 1/19 -- Discuss "Barnburning" interpretive questions. View "Barnburning." Reminder to read A&P handouts on the adv lit page of this web site.
Thursay, 1/21 -- Test review; hand out essay questions for test
Monday/Tuesday, 1/25 and 1/26 TEST- "Barnburning" and prior (Be sure to review notes on "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" as well as the stories read. See the adv. lit. main page for more details.) Essays are due end of block with test.
MATERIAL FOR TEST 2
Wednesday/Thursday, 1/27 and 1/28 Read aloud in class "The Telltale Heart." Assign text 2130-2146 (about literary essays over short stories). Read "Greasy Lake," p. 143."Friday, 1/29 Discuss the the text's literary essays about "The Tell-tale Heart." Discuss "Greasy Lake." Read "Where are you Going; Where have you Been?" (143 ff) Assign literary essay.
Monday, 2/1 Quiz, then discuss "Where Are You Going; Where have you Been?" (143 ff); see segments of "Smooth Talk" movie; begin viewing "The Fellowship of the Ring." See the main page for the LOR handout. Read "Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" (p. 109) for next class.
Wednesday, 2-3 Finish viewing "Smooth Talk." Read and discuss Joyce Carol Oates' essay about the movie. Hear Bob Dylan's "It's all over now, Baby Blue." Connect all to story. read "Cathedral" student essays here or at the main advanced lit page. Find the exercise relating to those essays here and do it.
Friday, 2-5 Turn in "Cathedral" exercise mentioned in Wednesday's homework. Quiz "Cathedral" Cathedral blindness activity. Begin "Lord of the Rings."??
Monday, 2-8 Edit sophomore literary essays. (40 minutes) Start LOR.
Wednesday, 2-10 Continue LOR; Fill in character archetypes handout. Homework: Continue work on the literary essay over a short story; rough due on Monday, 2-15. Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." (p. 94 ff.)
Monday, 2-15 Rough literary essay due. Quiz and discuss "The Jilting..." Review "To Build a Fire." (132)
Wednesday, 2-17 Peer edit lit essays. LOR; Read "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (174) for Monday. Discuss naturalism in "To Build a Fire." If you were absent, complete this take-home quiz about "To Build a Fire." Include the page numbers where you found the answers. Then view this Powerpoint about naturalism. Find a peer editor for your literary essay, and ask that editor to mark suggestions your paper and fill in this peer editing form.
Friday, 2-19 Revised draft of literary essay due. LOR all block. Reminder: Read "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" for Monday.
Monday, 2-22 Discuss "A Clean Well-Lighted Place." See world views Powerpoint and existentialism Powerpoint. Read "Trifles" (1305) in class. Continue LOR. Read "Miss Brill" (639)
Wednesday, 2-24 Group discussion with secretary for "Trifles" (questions on page 1317 of the text). Students absent will write out their answers to the questions. Discuss and then quiz "Miss Brill"; continue LOR if time permits.
Friday, 2-26 LOR; for Monday, read "Young Goodman Brown." (584)
Monday, 3-1 Quiz "Brown." Continue LOR; final draft of literary essays due
Wednesday, 3-3 Review for test; finish LOR
Friday, 3-5 TEST LOR and short stories noted on the main Adv. Lit. page.
Monday, 3-8 Turn in take-home essay for Friday's test. Work on your poetry presentation. Poetry presentation due Wednesday.
Wednesday, 3-10 Presentations. If you will be absent Wednesday/Thursday, video your presentation, post it on Youtube, and send me an e-mail with the link OR send me a readable video file. If you have to send audio only (MP3 OR WAV), do that.
Friday, 3-12 Last of poetry presentations.
After spring break - Begin Hamlet; introduce final project (literary essay, point of view movie "essay", song, or other approved project)
Monday, 3-22 Explore the Hamlet link on the Adv Lit main page. Read Act 1 of Hamlet at No Fear Shakespeare.
Wednesday 3-24 See Act 1 in movie. Discuss selected segments of Act 1 and Act 2. Read Act 2 at No Fear Shakespeare.
Friday, 3-26 In class, read selections from Act II. View the Gibson movie to the end of Act II. Homework: Hamlet Act III.
Monday, 3-29 In class, read selections from Act III. View movie of Act III. Assign quotes to explain from the quotations worksheet. (If you are absent the days students explain the quotations, you'll be responsible for locating the quotations by yourself and writing a line by line explanation for each quotation.) Homework: Read Act IV at No Fear Shakespeare. Write a paragraph to explain your tentative plans for your final project (to be turned in Wednesday).
Long-term homework: See the final project handout on paper or on-line. It will be handed out Monday, 3-29, and it will be due in rough April 19 and in final draft April 26.
Wednesday 3-31 Turn in your final project rough plans. Present your quotation explanations. Continue Hamlet movie if time permits. Homework: Read Act V at No Fear Shakespeare.
Thursday, 4-1 No classes -- Energy presentation
Friday, 4-2 Easter vacation
Monday, 4-5 Finish student-led quotation explanations (if any students were absent). Formalize your final project proposals. (See the "final project" page for examples of previous students' project proposals.) View Act IV of Hamlet.
Wednesday, 4-7 Continue Hamlet. Finish Hamlet movie.
Friday, 4-9 Review. (See main Adv. Lit. page for review info.) Hand out Hamlet essay take-home essay test.
Monday, 4-12 Read Beowulf sections 1-3 at this site. Read the Sparknotes summaries and character lists at the Beowulf link on this website. Work on Hamlet essay and/or final project. Five bonus points for having Hamlet essay in by end of block.
Wednesday, 4-14 Hamlet objective test. Hamlet take-home essay due end of block. HW: Read sections 4-6 of Beowulf.
Friday, 4-16 Hear The Lord's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon. Hear Benjamin Bagby recite the battle of Beowulf and Grendel in Anglo-Saxon. Hear Seamus Heany's readings of Beowulf's battles. Discuss sections 1-6 of Beowulf.
Homework: Read sections 7-9 of Beowulf.
Monday, 4-19 Rough drafts of projects due. Discuss Beowulf's second battle and other Beowulf details. Assign mini-presentations on background to Beowulf and work on them for Wednesday presentation.
Wednesday, 4-21 Mini-presentations. Finish Beowulf. Work on final projects.
Friday, 4-23 Review Beowulf and work on final projects.
Monday, 4-26 Review for Beowulf test. Discuss Beowulf Handout. See Sparknotes summaries. Quiz bowl.
Wednesday 4-28 Test Beowulf.
Friday, 4-30 Work on final project. Final draft due Monday, May 3.
Monday, 5-3 Final project due HW: Read "The Gospel According to Mark" on p. 508 of the Kennedy text.
Monday, 5-3 Final project due HW: Read "The Gospel According to Mark" on p. 508 of the Kennedy text.
Wednesday, 5-5 Present your projects for the class. Quiz and discuss "Mark." Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - p. 431-442
Friday, 5-7 Quiz and discuss "Good Man." Read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." p. 262. Announce Final exam due on 5-14. See the link below.
Monday, 5-10 Quiz "The Lottery." Set up the Adv Lit display for awards night during block 5. View "The Making of Star Wars" and discuss archetypes that appear in Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and other literature, including Arthurian Legend and Greek myths.
Wednesday, 5-12 Finish viewing "The Making of Star Wars." View "The Search for Arthur and a segment of "Hamlet in New York." Begin writing the final exam?
Friday, 5-14 Written and oral versions of final exam due. Sixth block students leaving for league track will need to turn this final exam in and present the oral response on Thursday, 5-13.
Monday, 5-17 Chillax. Turn in any books not yet turned in.