Assignment: Adv11: Wind From an Enemy Sky Date:Fri, Oct 30, 2009
AP LangAssignment sheet and study questions
Watch Part 3, The Place of Falling Waters
and complete the worksheet
Assignment: AP12 Writing Prompt Date:Thu, Oct 29, 2009
AP LitQ2 style prompt on a passage from Snow Falling on Cedars.
Assignment: Adv11: Wind From an Enemy Sky Date:Thu, Oct 29, 2009
AP LangAssignment sheet and study questions
Watch Part 2, The Place of Falling Waters
and complete the worksheet
Assignment: AP12: Reading Like a Professor Date:Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Eng11Read chapters 1-3 of Reading Literature Like a Professor on Moodle.
Assignment: Eng11: Thomas Paine Date:Wed, Oct 28, 2009
AP LitObjectives:
1. Analyze the author’s style
2. Recognize modes of persuasion
3. Understand and use new wordsGo over vocabulary for Paine and Henry
Read pages 106-112, taking notes
Assignment: Adv11: Wind From an Enemy Sky Date:Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Eng11Assignment sheet and study questions
In class, watch Part 1, The Place of Falling Waters
and complete the worksheet
Assignment: Eng11: Thomas Paine Date:Tue, Oct 27, 2009
AP LitObjectives:
1. Analyze the author’s style
2. Recognize modes of persuasion
3. Understand and use new wordsPrompt
Read pages 106-112
Assignment: Adv11: Wind From an Enemy Sky Date:Tue, Oct 27, 2009
AP Lang
Assignment: AP12: Thinking like a Literature Professor Date:Tue, Oct 27, 2009
Eng11On Moodle, read the book excerpt How to Read Literature Like a Professor. It’s a 12-page PDF. It’s up near the top of the page, under the heading “Help with Reading.”
As you read, think about Ishmael and Hatsue, digging clams, talking about whether oceans are the same or different. . .What’s going on in that scene?
You should be to page 214 in Snow Falling on Cedars by tomorrow.
Assignment: Eng11: Patrick Henry Date:Mon, Oct 26, 2009
AP LangObjectives:
1. Analyze persuasive techniques
2. Recognize modes of persuasionRead “Speech to the Virginia Convention” p. 100-104
There will be a test tomorrow, including vocabulary. You may use your notes (though not on the vocabulary section).
Extra Credit: By Wednesday, memorize the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Assignment: AP12: Timed Essay Date:Mon, Oct 26, 2009
AP LitToday you will do a timed essay in the Q2 format from the AP Exam. This gives a section of prose, and you write an essay analyzing and interpreting that passage. The passage will be drawn from Snow Falling on Cedars.
I’m not at school, but I’ll be available via OurSpace if you have questions.
Nicole: Please review the Using Quotations slideshow on Moodle before you turn in another literary technique assignment.
Assignment: Adv11 Wind from an Enemy Sky Date:Mon, Oct 26, 2009
AP LitAssignment sheet and study questions
There will be a test tomorrow (Tuesday) over Chapters 1-6. This will include questions from the historical background I presented in class. This information is also on the study guide on my website (follow the link above).
Assignment: Adv11 Wind from an Enemy Sky Date:Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Eng11
Assignment: Eng11: Work on weekly blog post: Virtues and “The Laws of Life” Date:Fri, Oct 23, 2009
AP LangPost a brief essay on your OurSpace blog.
First, list 5 virtues that you think are important in your life.
Second, write a brief essay about one of them. Explain what you mean, perhaps including a brief story that makes it clear what the virtue looks like in action and why it is important.
1. Spell check.
2. Proofread.
3. Make sure all your sentences are complete. Make sure you use apostrophes and capitals correctly.This handout on virtues and “the laws of life” might be useful.
Assignment: AP12: Literary Techniques Date:Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Eng11Work on your literary technique entries for next week.
Be sure to have read through chapter 11 of Cedars by Monday.
Assignment: Eng11: Benjamin Franklin Date:Thu, Oct 22, 2009
AP LitIn what ways is Franklin’s thinking similar to that of the Puritans? In what ways is it different?
Review vocabulary and list of virtues from Franklin autobiography.
Take test over Benjamin Franklin selection. This is timed--30 minutes.
Assignment: AP12: Darkness and Metaphor Date:Thu, Oct 22, 2009
AP LitReview essay question answers. Samples here.
re: Laura’s comment that Frost’s poem is only about a moth being eaten by a spider, and that’s just the way the world is.
Frost said that a poem was metaphor or it was nothing.
If metaphor works, this suggests that patterns of meaning exist in reality and that these matter. Can you see a relation between this and Puritan typology? Or can you contemplate it in Pablo Neruda’s refusal to use metaphor:
the blood of the children ran in the street like
the blood of the children.Some modernist poets refuse to use metaphor and other figurative language because they feel these literary devices suggest false relationships that do not actually exist.
So.
For Frost, the poem is not merely about a spider eating a moth. What is it about?
Assignment: Adv11 Begin Wind from an Enemy Sky Date:Thu, Oct 22, 2009
AP LitThinking about writing an essay for the AP Exam
AP Prompts
Discussing an AP PromptWind from an Enemy Sky
Assignment sheet and study questions
Assignment: Adv11 Editing sentences Date:Wed, Oct 21, 2009
AP Lang1. Proofread your essay looking for these sorts of errors:
Dangling modifiers
Parallel structure
Active and passive voice2. Move the finished draft of your essay to your WordPress Blog. (information)
3. Paste the URL of your WordPress blog into the appropriate discussion forum on OurSpace (it’s in the Advanced 11 Group, and the Forum is named “WordPress Blogs")
4. You will need to log on to your Diigo account before you will be able to see my comments on your essay. I created a group on diigo which includes you, so you need to get your user name and password from me. These are ugly passwords, so you may want a Basecamp page online to save such things.
Assignment: AP12 Date:Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Eng11Read Robert Frost’s “Design” (the poems handout)
If the universe is meaningful, is that meaning good? Or is it appalling?
By Monday, have read to page 169 of Snow Falling on Cedars.
Assignment: Eng11 Revolutionary Minds Date:Wed, Oct 21, 2009
AP LangPrompt: What three character traits are most important to you? (Think of such things as curiosity, friendliness, courage, obedience, strength, patience, etc. . .)
America’s first “self improvement” guru: Benjamin Franklin.
Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 8 of his autobiography. (slide show)
Homework: p. 84-95 in anthology.
Assignment: AP12 Symbolism of snow? Date:Wed, Oct 21, 2009
AP LitReview answers from the Chapter 1-3 quiz here.
By Monday, have the reading done through Chapter 11 (page 169)
Assignment: Adv11: Utopian Visions Date:Tue, Oct 20, 2009
AP Lang1. Revise your essay
2. Watch Annenberg Video: Utopian Visions3. Get a “wordpress” or “blogger” blog. Put your revised essay there.
Assignment: AP12: Snow Falling on Cedars Date:Tue, Oct 20, 2009
Eng11Snow as symbol: read Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man,” Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” and “Design.”
Read to page 169, through chapter 11, by Monday. Reading quiz on Monday.
Assignment: Eng11: Mary Rowlandson Date:Tue, Oct 20, 2009
Understand the “pre-modern self” as it relates to Puritan typology.
Finish reading the “captivity narrative” for test tomorrow.
In class: watch Utopian Visions video