Archived Homework

Assignments for October 2020

Mon

09/28

Minimum Day Schedule

Review answers for Rhetoric Test.

Can you attach any of these rhetorical elements to your frame sentence?

Breakout groups: 2-3 rhetorical elements and how they support your abstract noun.

In Schoology Discussion Board by1:59 tonight.

• A note about applications and the standardized tests: Most application platforms include a box or area for you to identify yourself as a California resident and exempt from the test requirement.  Here you can check and explain.  These boxes appear on UC Apply, CalState Apply, and the Common App.  If you have independent college apps, contact out-of-state schools to ensure they know that you are from California and have been excused from the ACT/SAT requirement.
• Schoology Discussion Board by 11:59 tonight.  Provide a detailed and thorough response, and provide ONE response to a classmate.

Tues

09/29

Allusion: Myth, the Bible, and the Arthurian Legend.

• Allusion Assignment: Upload to Schoology by 11:59 PM on Thursday night. 
• A note about applications and the standardized tests: Most application platforms include a box or area for you to identify yourself as a California resident and exempt from the test requirement.  Here you can check and explain.  These boxes appear on UC Apply, CalState Apply, and the Common App.  If you have independent college apps, contact out-of-state schools to ensure they know that you are from California and have been excused from the ACT/SAT requirement.

Wed

09/30 

Clarification from Discussion Board: Lit. Devices, Rhetorical Devices, Poet Devices, Figurative Language are used interchangeably (referencing the non-literal language of literature) BUT Literary Elements are the Building Blocks (can be interpreted as non-literal language)

Let's get that FAFSA ID: Complete all SEVEN STEPS (use personal email)

Allusion: Myth, the Bible, and the Arthurian Legend.  Objective: Create a reference for our future readings.

• Allusion Assignment: Upload to Schoology by 11:59 PM on Thursday night. 
• A note about applications and the standardized tests: Most application platforms include a box or area for you to identify yourself as a California resident and exempt from the test requirement.  Here you can check and explain.  These boxes appear on UC Apply, CalState Apply, and the Common App.  If you have independent college apps, contact out-of-state schools to ensure they know that you are from California and have been excused from the ACT/SAT requirement.

• Let's talk college money:

  FAFSA Overview

  Types of Federal Student Aid

  How to Fill Out the FAFSA

  After the FAFSA: What Happens Next

• Homework: Create a FAFSA ID , Take a screen shot and upload both to  Schoology by 11.59 PM, Friday, Oct. 25.

Thurs

10/01

Last day to work on Allusion Assignment

• Allusion Assignment: Upload to Schoology by 11:59 PM on Thursday night. 
• A note about applications and the standardized tests: Most application platforms include a box or area for you to identify yourself as a California resident and exempt from the test requirement.  Here you can check and explain.  These boxes appear on UC Apply, CalState Apply, and the Common App.  If you have independent college apps, contact out-of-state schools to ensure they know that you are from California and have been excused from the ACT/SAT requirement.
• Homework: Create a FAFSA ID , Take a screen shot and upload both to  Schoology by 11.59 PM, Friday, Oct. 25.

Fri

10/02

• A note about applications and the standardized tests: Most application platforms include a box or area for you to identify yourself as a California resident and exempt from the test requirement.  Here you can check and explain.  These boxes appear on UC Apply, CalState Apply, and the Common App.  If you have independent college apps, contact out-of-state schools to ensure they know that you are from California and have been excused from the ACT/SAT requirement.
• Homework: Create a FAFSA ID , Take a screen shot and upload both to  Schoology by 11.59 PM, Friday, Sept. 25.

Mon

10/05

Minimum Day Schedule

Review: MLA/College Essay

Continue our allusions.

Cal State Apply: Open Oct. 1 - November 30

Complete UC application: submit Nov. 1 - 30

Complete Common App.

Complete Coalition App. Complete FAFSA

Naviance for transcripts: check for errors.

Tues

10/06

College essay feedback

Continue to share

Cal State Apply: Open Oct. 1 - November 30

Complete UC application: submit Nov. 1 - 30

Complete Common App.

Complete Coalition App. Complete FAFSA

Naviance for transcripts: check for errors.

Weds

10/07

Literary Toolbox: Archetypes and Patterns

Hero's Journey (i.e., The Monomyth)

The hero's journey (explained).  Just as much an inner voyage as it is an external journey.

The Hero's Journey Defined

Journey Visuals

Let's see how this works: applying the hero's journey to a recent film or novel.

Why it matters to students of literature: reflection.

Cal State Apply: Open Oct. 1 - November 30

Complete UC application: submit Nov. 1 - 30

Complete Common App.

Complete Coalition App. Complete FAFSA

Naviance for transcripts: check for errors.

Thurs

10/08

Continue hero's journey project.

Hero's Journey: Popular Culture due 10/9 by 11:59 in Schoology.  Remember, one document per group.

Cal State Apply: Open Oct. 1 - November 30

Complete UC application: submit Nov. 1 - 30

Complete Common App.

Complete Coalition App. Complete FAFSA

Naviance for transcripts: check for errors.

Fri

10/09

Hero's Journey: Popular Culture due 10/9 by 11:59 in Schoology.  Remember, one document per group.

Hero's Journey: Personal Journey due 10/12 by 11:59 in Schoology. This is individual work relating to a specific epic event or personal odyssey.  Extra points for an illustration or visual presentation. (see Journey Visuals).

Works Cited Redo: If you received an 8 or below on the Allusion Project, you and your group will need to redo the Works Cited to be responsive to the protocols of MLA.  Please submit one document for the group by Sunday night, 10/11, by 11:59 PM in Schoology.

Cal State Apply: Open Oct. 1 - November 30

Complete UC application: submit Nov. 1 - 30

Complete Common App.

Complete Coalition App. Complete FAFSA

Naviance for transcripts: check for errors.

Hero's Journey: Popular Culture due 10/9 by 11:59 in Schoology.  Remember, one document per group.

Works Cited Redo: by Sunday night, 10/11, by 11:59 PM in Schoology.

Mon

10/12

Minimum Day Schedule

Short day: complete your personal hero's journey for tonight's submission in Schoology by 11:59 PM.

• Hero's Journey: Personal Journey due 10/12 by 11:59 in Schoology.  This is individual work relating to a specific epic event or personal odyssey.  Extra points for an illustration or visual presentation. (see Journey Visuals)

Tues

10/13

Short Story Unit

How do we approach literature of merit?

As we begin our study of literature, approach the following story as you have approached literature in the past.  Read as you've read in the past.

"A Worn Path" by Eurdora Welty

Weds

10/14

Short Story Unit

As You Read...

Data Work Sheet

Let's see where you took this:

_________________(name of work) is a story of _______________ (abstract noun and a what about that abstract noun).  It shows how _________ (how that abstract noun plays out in the work).

Let's reread "A Worn Path"  with a different awareness. 

• Complete the Data Work Sheet for the Story with emphasis on character

Thurs

10/15

Short Story Unit

Building Character: Techniques

Remember: Stories give artistic shape to experience.  Let's reread the story with an awareness of the environment of the story.  Read with curiosity and a reference to the antecedents of storytelling (Literary Toolbox)

Answer "A Worn Path" Reflection question in this week's Schoology folder.  Submit by 11:59 tonight.

• What elements of STEAL lead us to new understanding of character in Welty's piece?

• Answer "The Worn Path" Reflection question in this week's Schoology folder.  Submit by 11:59 tonight.

Fri

10/16

How do we approach literature of merit?

Consider approaches to consuming, processing, and articulating literature.

Context: Scene from Punch Drunk Love

Understanding how other people are.  Literary experience is experience.  Moving beyond the literal: from direct to indirect characterization.

Photo Analysis: In this week's Schoology folder, respond to the prompt about the subtleties of power suggested in the photo from Gone with the Wind.

Review the Characterization Handout

Biographical background: Rita Dove: "Hattie McDaniel at the Coconut Grove.

Week 8

Mon

10/19

Minimum Day Schedule

Review: Reading with curiosity

Review protocols for formal responses. 

Did you understand the question?  

Did you address it? 

Did you infer the subtext?

• On your own, review this week's written responses.  Do they align with our discussion points for responsive work?  Note areas for improvement (One thing, not everything).  This work is not due to me; it is an exercise for yourself.

Tues

10/20

Short Story Unit

Now that we know what to be curious about...one more time on that worn path...of "A Worn Path".

But what does it mean...?

Revisiting the truth/literary codes.  Where do we see Phoenix's story in the human story?

Understanding "how other people are."

• Consider Chapter 1 ("Every Trip is a Quest") and Chapter 7 (..."Or the Bible") from How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  In what way does rereading these chapters illuminate your understanding of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"?  What connections can you make?
  • Make sure you include at least ONE SYMBOL to substantiate your claim. 
  • Please answer with a 200-300 word response that includes quotes from both the short story and from Foster's work. 
  •  Due in Schoology by Friday, 11:59 PM.  Note: MLA style please, including header and standardized heading. 

Weds

10/21

Short Story Unit

"In the particular is contained the universal." -James Joyce

Have you ever loved the idea of something more than the thing itself? Answer in Schoology discussion (this week's folder).

"Araby" (rom Dubliners 1914) by James Joyce

(Reach into your toolbox.  In what chapters of HTRLLP do you connect pattern, symbol, and memory)

• Consider Chapter 1 ("Every Trip is a Quest") and Chapter 7 (..."Or the Bible") from How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  In what way does rereading these chapters illuminate your understanding of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"?  What connections can you make?
  • Make sure you include at least ONE SYMBOL to substantiate your claim. 
  • Please answer with a 200-300 word response that includes quotes from both the short story and from Foster's work. 
  •  Due in Schoology by Friday, 11:59 PM.  Note: MLA style please, including header and standardized heading. 

Thurs

10/22

Short Story Unit

"Araby" by James Joyce

How does Joyce create meaning?

• Consider Chapter 1 ("Every Trip is a Quest") and Chapter 7 (..."Or the Bible") from How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  In what way does rereading these chapters illuminate your understanding of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"?  What connections can you make?
  • Make sure you include at least ONE SYMBOL to substantiate your claim. 
  • Please answer with a 200-300 word response that includes quotes from both the short story and from Foster's work. 
  •  Due in Schoology by Friday, 11:59 PM.  Note: MLA style please, including header and standardized heading. 

Fri

10/23

Short Story Unit

"Araby" by James Joyce

Okay, now that we've completed the journey (no hint there) of Joyce's young narrator, and after we took our emotional pulse (yesterday's discussion board), let's see if we can bead on this work. 

An overall impression:

_________________(name of work) is a story of _______________ (abstract noun and a what about that abstract noun).  It shows how _________ (how that abstract noun plays out in the work).

In the Discussion Board, please.

• Consider Chapter 1 ("Every Trip is a Quest") and Chapter 7 (..."Or the Bible") from How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  In what way does rereading these chapters illuminate your understanding of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"?  What connections can you make?
  • Make sure you include at least ONE SYMBOL to substantiate your claim. 
  • Please answer with a 200-300 word response that includes quotes from both the short story and from Foster's work. 
  •  Due in Schoology by Friday, 11:59 PM.  Note: MLA style please, including header and standardized heading. 

Week 9

Mon

10/26

Minimum Day Schedule

Short Story Unit

Continue "Araby": Looking for patterns of reference and literary code.

• Keep noting those motifs.

Tues

10/27

Short Story Unit

Review Chapters 1 (Journey)  and Chapter 12 (Symbol) HTRLLP

Discussion Question:  "Is there something more going on in the story - a richness, a resonance, a depth - than we picked up at first?"

• Discussion Question:  "Is there something more going on in the story - a richness, a resonance, a depth - than we picked up at first?"  In Schoology by 11:59 tonight.

Araby Discussion Question  in Schoology by 11:59 tonight.

Weds

10/28

Short Story Unit

What do we know about our narrator in "Araby" and how do we know it?

A different approach: "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.

Thurs

10/29

Short Story Unit

Who does the author characterize in "Girl" and how does she do this?  In what ways does this portrayal move beyond the people who populate the story?

And still a different way to characterize.  Character and symbol:  "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

Fri

10/30

Short Story Unit

A reflection on characterization and how we approach it.

See AP Classroom: watch the three videos on characterization.  Pair work: Characterization Chart.