Today, I need to give you 10 - 15 minutes to write a paragraph comparing "Notes of A Native Son" (James Baldwin) with Malcolm X. Then we need to discuss the last few chapters of Malcolm X and finally we need to read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (MLK) on page 329.
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Monday, 18 December 2017
Monday
Today we need to take a quiz over "SATAN", discuss Malcolm X, finish James Baldwin's "Notes of A Native Son" and work with appositives.
You'll need to do Exercise 2 questions 1-5 on page 171. When we are done with James Baldwin you will also need to write a paragraph comparing/contrasting "Notes of A Native Son" with Malcolm X.
Remember tomorrow - SYNTHESIS ESSAY - look over your handouts from Friday. Remember you can use the outline/graphic organizer that I gave you.
You'll need to do Exercise 2 questions 1-5 on page 171. When we are done with James Baldwin you will also need to write a paragraph comparing/contrasting "Notes of A Native Son" with Malcolm X.
Remember tomorrow - SYNTHESIS ESSAY - look over your handouts from Friday. Remember you can use the outline/graphic organizer that I gave you.
Friday, 15 December 2017
Friday
Note, today we are going to go over some steps for the Synthesis Essay, and finish reading James Baldwin.
NOTE - your final (which will really be more like a "Practice" AP response questions) will be on a Synthesis Essay. You should have picked up that one thing were are doing with Malcolm X is reading materials that could be used with it in a type of Synthesis Essay (note - January, hint hint).
SYNTHESIS
Paragraph 1
1) Hook (something that is engaging both also relates to your topic and ideally you can return to at the end of the essay).
2) Identify, clarify, explain the issue.
3) Clear, direct thesis statement. This is a position for or against (usually) the prompt. You can also have an order of development if you need it. Just remember that sometimes these appear really mechanical, and if you present one you need to follow it in the order that you give.
Body Paragraphs
You can have as many body paragraphs as possible. This is not a 5-part essay. Actually it will look better if you don't write a 5-part essay.
In your body paragraphs you need a topic sentence.
Explanation of topic sentence (generalizations). An transition or introduction to your specific evidence. Source citation. And you'll need to explain the significance of the supporting evidence.
NOTE - you need to analysis the evidence not just present it or summarize it. What does the evidence me and how does the evidence back up your position.
Technically, you should annotate the sources as you read them and write a short main idea of each.
Concluding Paragraph
Return to your thesis statement (reword it), return to your hook, perhaps significance from the reasons and evidence presented, and bring the paper to a thoughtful ending.
NOTE - your final (which will really be more like a "Practice" AP response questions) will be on a Synthesis Essay. You should have picked up that one thing were are doing with Malcolm X is reading materials that could be used with it in a type of Synthesis Essay (note - January, hint hint).
SYNTHESIS
Paragraph 1
1) Hook (something that is engaging both also relates to your topic and ideally you can return to at the end of the essay).
2) Identify, clarify, explain the issue.
3) Clear, direct thesis statement. This is a position for or against (usually) the prompt. You can also have an order of development if you need it. Just remember that sometimes these appear really mechanical, and if you present one you need to follow it in the order that you give.
Body Paragraphs
You can have as many body paragraphs as possible. This is not a 5-part essay. Actually it will look better if you don't write a 5-part essay.
In your body paragraphs you need a topic sentence.
Explanation of topic sentence (generalizations). An transition or introduction to your specific evidence. Source citation. And you'll need to explain the significance of the supporting evidence.
NOTE - you need to analysis the evidence not just present it or summarize it. What does the evidence me and how does the evidence back up your position.
Technically, you should annotate the sources as you read them and write a short main idea of each.
Concluding Paragraph
Return to your thesis statement (reword it), return to your hook, perhaps significance from the reasons and evidence presented, and bring the paper to a thoughtful ending.
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Wednesday
Today, we will work on the appositive again, write a paragraph connection between "How It Feels to be Colored Me" and Malcolm X, and finally look at James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" (One Hundred Great Essays page 62)
"The Appositive" (pages 167 - 170) - do a couple of exercises (1-5 on page 170)
12/13 pages 216-224 and blog
12/14 pages 225-244 and blog
"Notes of A Native Son" by Richard Wright
"The Appositive" (pages 167 - 170) - do a couple of exercises (1-5 on page 170)
12/13 pages 216-224 and blog
12/14 pages 225-244 and blog
"Notes of A Native Son" by Richard Wright
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Tuesday
Today, we will read about "The Appositive" (pages 167 - 170) - do a couple of exercises (1-5 on page 170), and then move onto reading Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (page 297 in One Hundred Great Essays) and connect (or contrast) it with Malcolm X. Note we will be returning to the Appositive tomorrow as well.
First we need to discuss the reading you did on Friday and Monday.
Homework:
12/12 pages 197-216 and blog
"How It Feels to be Colored Men" by Zora Neale Hurston
12/13 pages 216-224 and blog
First we need to discuss the reading you did on Friday and Monday.
Homework:
12/12 pages 197-216 and blog
"How It Feels to be Colored Men" by Zora Neale Hurston
12/13 pages 216-224 and blog
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Friday and Monday
Today and Monday you will have time read Malcolm X and work on your blogs, or rewrite your essays.
You need to have read to page 196 by the end of Monday.
You need to have read to page 196 by the end of Monday.
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Wednesday
Today, we need to discuss chapter 2 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and take a AP Timed Analysis question on Walden.
12/6 pages 121 -140 and blog
AP In-Class Timed Essay on Walden
12/7 pages 140 -170 and blog
12/6 pages 121 -140 and blog
AP In-Class Timed Essay on Walden
12/7 pages 140 -170 and blog
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Tuesday
Today we will be discuss the first chapter of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and finishing the "Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X
12/5 pages 103 - 120 and blog
"Ballot or the Bullet"
12/6 pages 121 -140 and blog
AP In-Class Timed Essay on Walden
Monday, 4 December 2017
Monday
12/4 - Today we need to go over your essays, discuss Malcolm X, and begin the "Ballot or the Bullet".
Homework: Read pages 79-102 in The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Blog Response: Analysis why the chapter is important. What did you find interesting in it.
Walden essays. Here is what you need to think about - A "3" really means that your essay displayed that you really didn't get what you read, or that there was some misinterpretations of what your read or presented or that the essay rambled (meaning it was poorly written). A "4" means that it seems you probably understood what you read, you just didn't get the to analysis part. "5" - you understood the text, but you could go deeply with the analysis. 6-7 - you got it.
Some things to consider (literary criticism movements):
Historicalism - the most important thing is the author's life and times and that is used to help interpret the book.
New Criticism - the only thing that matters is the book and it contains everything needed (it contains codes - structure, symbolism, tone, literary devices, characters, allusions) to make sense of it.
Readers Response Theory - the only thing that matters is the reader. Each reader brings his or her own "baggage" to the text and makes meaning of the text through this baggage (meaning that there could be as many interpretations as there are readers)
Deconstructionism - the only thing that matters is the critic. Every text has a set of binary operations (example good - evil) with one more dominate than the other. The critic then reverses this structure suggesting that what is absent is most important because it is absent. Example - women in Moby-Dick.
New Historicalism - the only thing that matters is society. Society recreates and reinterprets texts based on what is important or prevalent in the society/culture at the moment. Meaning the current culture uses its culture lens and applies this to Hamlet. Hamlet is interpreted differently today than it was in the Victorian Era.
Malcolm X Reading and Blog Schedule
12/4 pages 79-102 and blog
"Ballot or the Bullet"
12/5 pages 103 - 120 and blog
"Ballot or the Bullet"
12/6 pages 121 -140 and blog
AP In-Class Timed Essay on Walden
12/7 pages 140 -170 and blog
12/8 - 12/10 pages 171-196 and blog
12/11 pages 197-216 and blog
"How It Feels to be Colored Men" by Zora Neale Hurston
12/12 pages 216-224 and blog
Personal Narrative?
12/13 pages 225-244 and blog
"Notes of A Native Son" by Richard Wright
12/14 pages 244-262 and blog
"Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth
12/15 pages 263 and 287 and blog
"The Position of Poverty"
12/18 pages 288-309 and blog
Grammar and Style exercises
12/19 pages 310 - 336 and blog
Grammar and Style exercises
12/20 FINAL
12/26 pages 337-370 and blog
12/27 pages 371-395 and blog
12/28 pages 396-429 and blog
12/29 pages 430-456 and blog
1/2 pages 457-480 and blog
1/3 pages 481-501 and blog
1/4 Read Introduction
1/5 Read Introduction
1/8 First Day of 2nd Semester - Test on Malcolm X
Homework: Read pages 79-102 in The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Blog Response: Analysis why the chapter is important. What did you find interesting in it.
Walden essays. Here is what you need to think about - A "3" really means that your essay displayed that you really didn't get what you read, or that there was some misinterpretations of what your read or presented or that the essay rambled (meaning it was poorly written). A "4" means that it seems you probably understood what you read, you just didn't get the to analysis part. "5" - you understood the text, but you could go deeply with the analysis. 6-7 - you got it.
Some things to consider (literary criticism movements):
Historicalism - the most important thing is the author's life and times and that is used to help interpret the book.
New Criticism - the only thing that matters is the book and it contains everything needed (it contains codes - structure, symbolism, tone, literary devices, characters, allusions) to make sense of it.
Readers Response Theory - the only thing that matters is the reader. Each reader brings his or her own "baggage" to the text and makes meaning of the text through this baggage (meaning that there could be as many interpretations as there are readers)
Deconstructionism - the only thing that matters is the critic. Every text has a set of binary operations (example good - evil) with one more dominate than the other. The critic then reverses this structure suggesting that what is absent is most important because it is absent. Example - women in Moby-Dick.
New Historicalism - the only thing that matters is society. Society recreates and reinterprets texts based on what is important or prevalent in the society/culture at the moment. Meaning the current culture uses its culture lens and applies this to Hamlet. Hamlet is interpreted differently today than it was in the Victorian Era.
Malcolm X Reading and Blog Schedule
12/4 pages 79-102 and blog
"Ballot or the Bullet"
12/5 pages 103 - 120 and blog
"Ballot or the Bullet"
12/6 pages 121 -140 and blog
AP In-Class Timed Essay on Walden
12/7 pages 140 -170 and blog
12/8 - 12/10 pages 171-196 and blog
12/11 pages 197-216 and blog
"How It Feels to be Colored Men" by Zora Neale Hurston
12/12 pages 216-224 and blog
Personal Narrative?
12/13 pages 225-244 and blog
"Notes of A Native Son" by Richard Wright
12/14 pages 244-262 and blog
"Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth
12/15 pages 263 and 287 and blog
"The Position of Poverty"
12/18 pages 288-309 and blog
Grammar and Style exercises
12/19 pages 310 - 336 and blog
Grammar and Style exercises
12/20 FINAL
12/26 pages 337-370 and blog
12/27 pages 371-395 and blog
12/28 pages 396-429 and blog
12/29 pages 430-456 and blog
1/2 pages 457-480 and blog
1/3 pages 481-501 and blog
1/4 Read Introduction
1/5 Read Introduction
1/8 First Day of 2nd Semester - Test on Malcolm X
Friday, 1 December 2017
Friday
Today, you need to turn in your essays! Then we are going to discuss the following questions, read the final chapter "Conclusion", and if we have time play KAHOOT! On Monday we move on to Malcolm X, but we will be returning to one final AP question on WALDEN.
1.) Does Walden appeal to our "sense
of rebelliousness and individualism"? Are we "inspired by his idealistic actions
and principled and good-humored erudition"? Do we enjoy thinking about how we
might take a more "Thoreauvian approach" to our own lives?
2.) How do modern conveniences and gadgets
influence our culture? After reading Thoreau, are we now eager to give them up?
3.) Can we consider how doing and thinking
for ourselves is made possible (or impeded) by modern educational and cultural
institutions?
4.) To which "genre" (or genres) does
Walden belong?
5.) What is Thoreau's relationship to his
audience and to society as a whole? How does he situate his narrative persona?
That is, what kind of person is the "I" in the text, and how do we know?
6.) How can Walden be considered as an
application of Transcendental philosophy?
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