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Assignments for February 2020

 

Date Class Work Homework Due Today

Week 2 (21)

Mon

02/03

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Keat's Phrase" by Albert Goldbarth in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Aliya, Scar, Sebastian

    • Period 4: Alexandra T and Hannah C

    • Period 5: Chloe S. and Austin G.

  • Unit 6 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

 

Tues

02/04

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Distribute prompt for out of class essay on Ros and Guild

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Keat's Phrase" by Albert Goldbarth in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Aliya, Scar, Sebastian

    • Period 4: Alexandra T and Hannah C

    • Period 5: Chloe S. and Austin G.

  • Unit 6 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

 

Weds

02/05

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Keat's Phrase" by Albert Goldbarth in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Aliya, Scar, Sebastian

    • Period 4: Alexandra T and Hannah C

    • Period 5: Chloe S. and Austin G.

  • Unit 6 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

 

Thurs

02/06

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Keat's Phrase" by Albert Goldbarth in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Aliya, Scar, Sebastian

    • Period 4: Alexandra T and Hannah C

    • Period 5: Chloe S. and Austin G.

  • Unit 6 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

 

Fri

02/07

Review Unit Test Progress Check from Study Guide

Poetry Socratic Seminar: "Keat's Phrase" by Albert Goldbard

  • Unit 6 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

Rubrics at end of period

Week 3 (22)

Mon

02/10

President's Day

No Students

 

 

Tues

02/11

Stories of Nothingness: "A Clean Well Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Why I am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Elise R. and Sydney C.

    • Period 4: Ryan W. and Lauren D.

    • Period 5: Fiona E. and Rihana N.

  • Unit 7 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

 

Wed

02/12

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Why I am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Elise R. and Sydney C.

    • Period 4: Ryan W. and Lauren D.

    • Period 5: Fiona E. and Rihana N.

  • Unit 7 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

 

Thurs

02/13

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • In preparation for Friday's Socratic Seminar, please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Why I am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara in the Poetry Packet.  Come prepared with your pre-presentation thoughts on the Seminar Rubric.  Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Elise R. and Sydney C.

    • Period 4: Ryan W. and Lauren D.

    • Period 5: Fiona E. and Rihana N.

  • Unit 7 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

 

Fri

02/14

Review Unit Test Progress Check from Study Guide

Poetry Socratic Seminar:

  • Unit 7 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 27 questions in 80 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Maintain Major Data Worksheet for featured work.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

 

Week 4 (23)

Mon

02/17

President's Day

No Students

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

 

Tues

02/18

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

 

 

  • Note: Socratic Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 2/25.  Please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Advent 66" by Denise Levertov in the Poetry Packet.   Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Casey L. and Jess C.

    • Period 4: Daniel S. and Piper S.

    • Period 5: Delaney J. and Kim M.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

  • Unit 8 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 18 questions in 65 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

 

Weds

02/19

Last Review of

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • Note: Socratic Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 2/25.  Please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Advent 66" by Denise Levertov in the Poetry Packet.   Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Casey L. and Jess C.

    • Period 4: Daniel S. and Piper S.

    • Period 5: Delaney J. and Kim M.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

  • Unit 8 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 18 questions in 65 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

 

Thurs

02/20

Thesis review for Ros and Guild essay. 

  • Note: Socratic Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 2/25.  Please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Advent 66" by Denise Levertov in the Poetry Packet.   Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Casey L. and Jess C.

    • Period 4: Daniel S. and Piper S.

    • Period 5: Delaney J. and Kim M.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

  • Unit 8 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 18 questions in 65 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

 

Fri

02/21

Inc-class essay

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

  • Note: Socratic Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 2/25.  Please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Advent 66" by Denise Levertov in the Poetry Packet.   Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Casey L. and Jess C.

    • Period 4: Daniel S. and Piper S.

    • Period 5: Delaney J. and Kim M.

  • Ros and Guil essay due Monday, Feb. 24, start of class.  Absolutely no late work.

  • Unit 8 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note: 18 questions in 65 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

  • Some assistance with your essay formatting:

Thoreau, Henry David. "Why I Went Into the Woods." United States in Literature. Eds. James E.
Miller, Jr. et. al.1st ed. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1979. 232-233. Print.

 

Week 5 (24)

Mon

02/24

Review most missed questions from AP Progress checks.  I will provide the study guide for your annotations.

  • Note: Socratic Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, 2/25.  Please read and annotate this week's assigned poem, "Advent 66" by Denise Levertov in the Poetry Packet.   Be ready to share your own thoughts and provide the presenters with your feedback.  This week's presenters:

    • Period 2: Casey L. and Jess C.

    • Period 4: Daniel S. and Piper S.

    • Period 5: Delaney J. and Kim M.

  • Unit 9 Progress Check is open now through 11:45 Sunday night.  This check is an 18 question multiple choice quiz covering poetry and prose  Note:  65 minutes.  Plan accordingly.

Ros and Guil essay due

Tues

02/25

Socratic Seminar
  • Outside of class reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.  Please purchase or download a copy for Friday, March 6.  Audible does count.  This is a very weighty, large novel so let's get cracking.

 

Weds

02/26

Review new AP Rubrics for Poetry, Prose and Open Ended Question

Lots of handouts

  • Outside of class reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.  Please purchase or download a copy for Friday, March 6.  Audible does count.  This is a very weighty, large novel so let's get cracking.

 

Thurs

02/27

Review nuance of multiple choice questions - work with partner and annotate

Billy Collins Poem: "Death of Allegory"

Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"

  • Outside of class reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.  Please purchase or download a copy for Friday, March 6.  Audible does count.  This is a very weighty, large novel so let's get cracking.

 

Fri

02/28

Continue breakdown of Progress Check 8 Multiple Choice Quiz

Develop strategies to approach the quiz: 3 bullets per section

  • Outside of class reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.  Please purchase or download a copy for Friday, March 6.  Audible does count.  This is a very weighty, large novel so let's get cracking.

Rubrics at end of period