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