Week of August 31

Hopefully, this week's grading coupled with last week's writing will give you a real taste for what the AP test essay portion is going to feel like. Just based on the self-assessment and the Chaucer essays, I am feeling pretty good about your writing thus far.

Monday, 8/31
Lit Terms 1 Quiz
Finish any essays
Interview skills, resume, etc
Assign College App Essay

Tuesday, 9/1
Group AP Grading

Wednesday, 9/2
Group AP Grading
(SUB)

Thursday, 9/3
1- AP Practice
2- TT

Friday, 9/4
Peer read college app essay
Archetypes packet
SUB

Lit Terms 1

Easy, easy, easy... This week's (and really the whole semester's) terms are so easy. Remember the format of the quiz for Friday is that you will be quizzed over ONE of these (randomly) and you won't know which one until you get the quiz. You will need to be able to define and answer an application questions.

Form
Tone
Imagery
Essay
Onomatopoeia
Static Character
Metaphor
Rhythm
Cliche
Ambiguity (in literature)

Week of August 24

This entire week (almost) consists of practice AP Essay testing. I KNOW that it is going to get tiring and maybe even boring, but it is important for us to keep our goals in mind and to practice, just as you would with any sport or skill. 

Monday, 8/24

Lit Terms 1 on blog

PROLOGUE MEMORIZATION/RECITATION DUE

Say/Mean/Satire during recitations

Tuesday, 8/25

Poetry Practice Question

Wednesday, 8/26

Prose Practice Question

Thursday, 8/27

1-TT

2-AP Practice

Friday, 8/28

Open Essay Practice Question

Lit Terms 1 Quiz

Week of August 17

I seriously cannot believe we are in week three of this school year. I would like to say, specifically to you, that I appreciate the way you are getting more comfortable in class discussion and being willing to speak up. Please continue to work toward that. I know that you have the information and have read carefully because I see your post-it notes and annotations! Now use it with your voice! :)

Monday, 8/17
Part I discussion
"Pardoner's Tale" for homework

Tuesday, 8/18
PT Discussion
"Wife of Bath's Tale" for homework

Wednesday, 8/19
WOB discussion

Thursday, 8/20
1- AP pract
2-TT

Friday, 8/21
JOURNALS DUE
Open question character essay in class

*** Prologue is due Monday! Be ready!

AP Resources

Below are some awesome AP resources for those scholars who want to go above and beyond...


Frequency of Titles on Question 3

Great AP Blog with witty study tips

Free Response Study Aids

Great List of Lit Terms

AP Lit Terms Flash Cards

AP Question 3 Prompts

A few tidbits

Here is the link to the Prologue audio file!

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gp.htm

Also, here are the things you need to watch for when reading your assignment:

Socioeconomic status- can be determined by the type of horses they ride, color of clothing, etc

Chaucer's opinion of them

Categorize them into one of three categories-- feudal (land), church, or city (merchant/professional)


Make sure that you use post its and make plenty of annotations in your text so that you will have lots of fodder for discussion!

:)

Week of August 10

Welcome to the first full week of class! I'm excited to get to know you this week and especially excited about our time together.

Monday, 8/10
Classics discussion
Assign Alchemist
Assign Self-Assessment

Tuesday, 8/11
Intro to Search for Identity

Wednesday, 8/12
C-T Notes
Assign Part I of Prologue

Thursday, 8/13
1- TT
2- AP Prac

Friday, 8/14
C-T Part I discussion
Read Part 2 for h/w

Prologue in Middle English

Canterbury Tales Prologue, Middle English


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote 1
The droghte 2 of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich 3 licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth	5
Inspired hath in every holt 4 and heeth
The tendre croppes, 5 and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, 6
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,	10
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages: 7
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes, 8
To ferne halwes, 9 couthe 10 in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende	15
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. http://www.bartleby.com/40/0101.html