Assignment: AP12 Alice Chap 5-6 Date:Wed, Sep 30, 2009
Eng11Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Reading ScheduleYou need to be familiar with the readings on the days listed.
Monday, Sep 28 Chapter 1-2
Tuesday Sep 29 Chapter 3-4
Wed Sep 30 Chapter 5-6
Thurs Oct 1 Chapter 7-8
Fri Oct 2 Chapter 9-10
Mon Oct 5 Chapter 11-12
Assignment: Eng11 Study Guide: The Chosen Date:Wed, Sep 30, 2009
AP LitYou should have finished the novel.
Objective: select specific sensory details to communicate important information about yourself
Go over writing a “Where I’m From” poem by following the steps in this worksheet. Work on the poem when you finish the test over the Chosen. tomorrow. This poem should be finished and placed in your profile on your OurSpace page.
Objective: Review the way theme emerges from plot
We will discuss any questions you have from your reading or from the study guide for the final test, which will be Wednesday.
Assignment: Adv11 Desperate Crossing Date:Wed, Sep 30, 2009
AP LangObjective:
Annotating from video and text, interpreting notes in support of a theme
Continue Cornell notetaking on video Desperate Crossing.
Focus on one aspect of the “puritan mind” in preparation to write an essay on that topic drawing on both the video and William Bradford’s text.
Assignment: AP12 Alice Chap 3-4 Date:Tue, Sep 29, 2009
AP LitObjective: Practice analyzing symbolism and story structure.
Continue viewing Shane. First, pick an image from the first 10 minutes of the film and write about it as though it is a symbol. Keeping in mind the film was made in 1952, what does it appear the director may be doing with one of these: fences, gardens, landscape, buckskin clothing, guns?
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Reading ScheduleYou need to be familiar with the readings on the days listed.
Monday, Sep 28 Chapter 1-2
Tuesday Sep 29 Chapter 3-4
Wed Sep 30 Chapter 5-6
Thurs Oct 1 Chapter 7-8
Fri Oct 2 Chapter 9-10
Mon Oct 5 Chapter 11-12
Assignment: Adv11: Continue Desparate Crossing Date:Tue, Sep 29, 2009
AP LangObjective 1: Understand how literature relates to various cultures. Understand why the Puritans still matter.
Nation’s question: how will studying the Puritans help us with the AP exam? One answer: The “puritan” mind is one vivid historical example of the “Christian mind,” which permeates European culture in the 16th-19th century and is still one of the world’s major cultures.
Objective 2: Practice Cornell note-taking with the AIM model in mind: Annotate, Interpret, Main Idea. The script for the video Desperate Crossing is based on William Bradford’s text, which you are also reading. Take notes focused on the aspect of Puritan thought you want to write about. You’ll do an in-class essay based on those notes when we finish the video.
Assignment: AP12 Alice Chap 1-2 Date:Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Eng11Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Reading ScheduleYou need to be familiar with the readings on the days listed.
Monday, Sep 28 Chapter 1-2
Tuesday Sep 29 Chapter 3-4
Wed Sep 30 Chapter 5-6
Thurs Oct 1 Chapter 7-8
Fri Oct 2 Chapter 9-10
Mon Oct 5 Chapter 11-12Class Discussion: The Hollywood Formula for a Romance (Six stages of story)
Assignment: Eng11 Review Blog Posts Date:Mon, Sep 28, 2009
AP LitReview samples of errors from blog posts on Facebook.
For tomorrow, finish The Chosen.
Assignment: Finish Desperate Crossing Date:Mon, Sep 28, 2009
AP LitHand out Analyzing a Story worksheet. Fill this out for William Bradford’s “History of Plymouth Plantation”
Finish Desperate Crossing video (Pilgrims). Take careful notes as you will need lots of information to complete your 1000-word research essay on “The Puritan Mind”
Assignment: Adv11: Finish Desperate Crossing Date:Fri, Sep 25, 2009
Eng11Test over William Bradford Monday
Assignment: Chpater 17: The Chosen Date:Fri, Sep 25, 2009
AP LangWeekly Blog Post
http://flatheadreservation.org/images/uploads/Facebook_users_have_poor_grades.pdf">“Facebook Users Get Worse Grades” Reflect on this article and Chapter 14 (Reuven’s recital in Rav Gershenson’s class)
Read Chapter 18 for Monday
Assignment: AP12: Flannery O’Connor Date:Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Eng11Read “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” page 674
Debate: Is Shiflet an evil character?
Explain the four “modes” of fiction: comedy, tragedy, romance, and irony. (683). Explain how O’Connor uses stock elements of a romance, such as the nurturing mother, the beautiful damsel, the hero on a quest, and the “fairy tale” setting to create an ironic tale.
Assignment: Chosen: Chapter 15-16 Date:Thu, Sep 24, 2009
AP LitQuiz on Wednesday: The Chosen: Chapters 7-14
“Facebook Users Get Worse Grades”
1. Annotate this article: underline key points, make comments in margin.
2. At bottom, write a thesis statement for it.Writing: Capitalization Rules, Apostrophe Rules, Complete Sentences
Be ready for discussions/quizzes on the following days:
Tues September 22: Chap 13
Wed September 23: Chap 14
Thurs September 24: Chap 15-16
Fri September 25: Chap 17
Assignment: Adv11: The Pilgrim’s story Date:Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Eng11Continue Desperate Crossing
Assignment: Quiz: Chosen: Chapter 7-14 Date:Wed, Sep 23, 2009
AP LitQuiz on Wednesday: The Chosen: Chapters 7-14
Be ready for discussions/quizzes on the following days:
Tues September 22: Chap 13
Wed September 23: Chap 14
Thurs September 24: Chap 15-16
Fri September 25: Chap 17
Assignment: Adv11: Read William Bradford Date:Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Eng11Discuss Puritan concepts: Handout
Read Oliver poem, Page 19
Read “A History of Plymouth Plantation” pages 26-35Readings in Adventures in American Literature
Assignment: Chosen: Chapter 13 Date:Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Eng11Quiz on Wednesday: The Chosen: Chapters 7-14
Be ready for discussions/quizzes on the following days:
Tues September 22: Chap 13
Wed September 23: Chap 14
Thurs September 24: Chap 15-16
Fri September 25: Chap 17
Assignment: Eng11: The Chosen, Chapter 12 Date:Mon, Sep 21, 2009
AP LitDiscuss weekly blog posts
Your weekly blog post
These are things you need to have in mind when you write. You have all week to be thinking about this, and to be working on it during your daily writing time.
1. A good piece of writing needs to have a purpose–this might be to make the reader laugh or to record an important insight or to make a point–but without a purpose there will be no way to organize the writing, or to know how to begin or to know when to stop. Reading it will tend to be a waste of time.
2. It needs to be interesting. It is always a writer’s responsibility to be interesting.
3. It needs to be at least 400 words long.
4. It should show evidence of reflection about what is happening in the course. You can refer to insights from the readings or from the class discussions.
5. It needs to be written in standard English, including complete sentences, no run-on sentences, correct capitalization, and correct use of apostrophes. It should be spell checked.Discuss The Chosen: Chapter 12.
Quiz on Wednesday: The Chosen: Chapters 7-14
Be ready for discussions/quizzes on the following days:
Tues September 22: Chap 13
Wed September 23: Chap 14
Thurs September 24: Chap 15-16
Fri September 25: Chap 17
Assignment: Adv11: The Puritan Mind: Introduction Date:Mon, Sep 21, 2009
AP LangTurn in copies of Snow Falling on Cedars and The Chosen
We will use binders in Class. Here is a PDF copy of the texts.
Assignment: AP12 Date:Mon, Sep 21, 2009
AP Lang1. Finish Bean Trees study guide. Each group pick 3 most interesting questions from their chapter to “report out” to full class.
2. Make decision on copies of Alice in Wonderland
3. Test tomorrow over Bean Trees.
Assignment: AP12: Finish study guide over Bean Trees Date:Thu, Sep 17, 2009
Eng11Finish Bean Trees study guide. Test over Bean Trees on Monday.
Assignment: Eng11 Chapter 11 Date:Thu, Sep 17, 2009
AP LitMove one of your journal entries to your blog on OurSpace. Correct it and revise it as you go. Be sure to spell check (you can copy it into Word and spell check it, then paste it back into your blog if your browser doesn’t support spell check). Be sure all your sentences begin with capitals. Be sure you capitalize the pronoun “I” and proper nouns. Be sure to write in complete sentences. Failure to do these things is a “fatal error” and will result in a zero for the assignment.
Read Chapter 11 before Monday.
Assignment: Adv11: Test over Chosen Date:Thu, Sep 17, 2009
AP LangAnswer remaining questions over The Chosen.
What does the final image signify?
Contrast the vision of the cosmos in The Chosen with the vision in Snow Falling on Cedars. Chance or Providence?
Assignment: AP12: Discuss study guide: Bean Trees Date:Wed, Sep 16, 2009
AP LitContinue study guide reports for the Bean Trees.
Assignment: Adv11: Chosen Discussion questiosn Date:Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Eng11Continue discussion of the Chosen.
Handout of Discussion Questions
Assignment: Eng11 Continue discussion: Chosen Date:Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Bellwork: If you could have design a new dollar bill, what famous American would you put on it and why?
Discussion questions:
1. What circumstances led to the destruction of the great Jewish community in Poland?
2. Explain the teachings of Israel (Besht’s) known as Hasidism?
3. Explain two ways that the Talmud can be studied. Which way does Reuven’s father prefer?
4. Why do you believe is Reb Saunders raising Danny in silence?
5. In what way is Reuven a buffer between Danny and his father. What lesson from Jewish history lets you know that Reuven is in a dangerous situation?Homework: read Chapter 9, The Chosen