AP Literature (Period 4) Assignments

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2010-2011 School Year
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You can download the syllabus for this class below. Please be aware that it is subject to change.

The AP Reader is available for download onto your computer. You may also access all readings on line by downloading the reading schedule and clicking on the URL for the specific text.

Turn in your summer essay ASAP.   The turnitin.com class number is 3371062
Password is Levine4

A must-read for any student embarking on the journey of writing the "Personal Statement" for college applications: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18turnitin-t.html



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Please return your text book to me as soon as possible. I'm certain you can think of better ways to spend the 80 or so dollars the school will charge for an unreturned text.

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Turn this in before SUNDAY, MIDNIGHT: Three questions about Fences that I could put on a test. Turn the questions in to turnitin.com

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Read Scene One of Fences  by August Wilson, if you were not in class on Wednesday. It's in Perrines, or you can read it on-line @ Google Books:

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Attached are the AP prompts along with sample essays for the two selections we looked at in class today: "The Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher" compare/contrast; and Lady Windermere's Fan -- analyzing how the playwright reveals the values of the characters and the nature of their society.

See what you got & what you missed. How can you apply what you learn to the essay questions on the test?

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Answer the AP Prompt in an essay that you turn in to turnitin.com & bring to class for a review session. 

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Read through the Romantic poems listed below and pick the one that most resonates with you. Write at least two paragraphs about why you either like the poem, connect with the poem, or maybe why you hate the poem. Turn your response in to turnitin.com.

William Blake

“The Chimney Sweeper” 763

“The Lamb” 946

"The Tiger” 947

 

John Keats

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” 918

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” 886

“To Autumn” 711

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley 

 "Ozymandias" 764

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Kubla Khan” 951

 

William Wordsworth

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” 1019 

“The world is too much with us” 694

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Read Chapter 10 of Song of Solomon.

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Read Chapters 7 & 8 of Song of Solomon. Presenters of poems 4, 5, 6 (Shakespearean sonnets) will present.

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Read Chapters 5 & 6 of Song of Solomon.
Poetry presenters prepare!

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Read Chapter 4 of Song of Solomon.

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Read Chapter 3 of Song of Solomon.  For sure quiz on chapters 1-3.

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Read the first two chapters of Song of Solomon. Begin filling out the graphic organizer and family tree so you can keep the Dead family straight in your minds. 

If you missed class on Thursday, as seven of you did, come & see me for a book!

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Submit five ORIGINAL questions about Othello that we can discuss in a Socratic Seminar. Remember Costa's Levels of Questions and formulate either level 2 or level 3 questions:
Level 2: analyze, compare, contrast, group, infer, sequence, synthesize
Level 3: apply, evaluate, hypothesize, imagine, judge, predict, speculate

Remember, there will be an in-class essay about the play on Wednesday.

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Finish reading Othello and answer 6 of the following questions from Perrine's.

PICK SIX: 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 

Turn your answers in to turnitin.com. I will NOT accept homework not submitted to turnitin.

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Read Act IV (4) of Othello.
Complete the "Iago's Beastiary" graphic organizer. Continue through Acts 3 & 4. Note any animal imagery or references spoken by Othello.

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Read Act 3, Scene 4 of Othello. Expect a quiz.

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Read Othello, Act 3, Scenes 1, 2, 3.

If you were absent, you need to complete the classwork. The sheet is below. To paraphrase is to put something in your own words.

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Read ACT II of Othello.

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Read Act I, Scene 3 of Othello and answer the close reading questions that pertain to the end of the scene. Then use the chart to find references to animals that appear in the text.

HEADS UP: The Research Presentations are due -- if you were scheduled for Wednesday, you'll go Friday 2/25. If you're scheduled for 2/25, you will go 2/25.

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Read Othello Act I, Scenes 1 & 2. There will be a test!

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Make sure to bring your Perrine's textbook to class.

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Read pages 1209 - 1216 in Perrines and answer the four questions "Reviewing Chapter Three." Turn your answers in to turnitin.com.

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Read Oedipus Rex by Sophocles -- on page 1216 in Perrine's. Answer 10 of the 16 questions.

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Find a poem either in the Perrine's text, or on line, that relates to our thematic unit -- Alienation, the Outsider and the Other.

Bring the poem to class & be prepared to read it and discuss it with the class.

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Finish reading The Glass Menagerie and answer questions 9-13. Turn them in to turnitin.com

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Read Scenes 1-5 of The Glass Menagerie (in your Perrines text). Page: 1143-1169.
Answer questions 1-8 on page 1195, and submit your answers to turnitin.com

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Read "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner -- in your Perrine's textbook: page 556.

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Read "Interpreter of Maladies" on page 141 in Perrine's and do the questions at the end of the story (page 159). Turn your answers in to turnitin.com BEFORE class.

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Finish The Stranger.
Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (page 925, Perrines) and answer the questions at the end of the poem. If you were absent, turn the questions in on line (turnitin.com).

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Read the next two chapters of The Stranger -- through page 107.
Bring your text book to class

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Finish Part One of The Stranger and read Chapters 1 & 2 of Part Two (through page 81).

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Read Chapters 1 - 3 in The Stranger.  A copy of the book is attached below.

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Finish The Things They Carried.

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Read through page 88 of The Things They Carried.

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Read "Spin" and "On the Rainy River" from The Things They Carried. There will be a quiz~!

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Read the stories "The Things They Carried" and "Love" in the book The Things They Carried. Chart the soldiers and what they carry; write notes for yourself so you can remember who is who.

Read this Time Magazine article and watch the slide show. Then respond in 200+ words about the connections between the book and real life. What has changed in 30 years?

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For extra credit: write a parody of a popular children's story, nursery rhyme, or fairy tale. Keep in mind R.S. Gwynne's "Snow White & the Seven Deadly Sins" and have fun.

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There will be an in-class essay on "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope and the first part of "The Lady's Dressing Room" by Jonathan Swift. It would be a good idea to re-read both pieces.

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Your presentations are due when we get back from Thanksgiving holiday. Please plan to discuss the poem your group has been assigned using TTPCAST or any other method of analysis. You can present in any fashion you choose. Have fun; teach us something. 

“My Last Dutchess” p. 775 Garrett, Lauren, Louis

“One Art” p. 698 Kendall & Ciara

“I heard a Fly Buzz . . .” p. 871 Sarah & Kaitlin

“So much depends . . . “ & “Danse Russe” p 610/1015 Josh & Leila

“Disillusionment at 10 O’Clock” p. 1008 & Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html  Ted, Wesley, & Abraham

“War Is Kind” p. 952 Judea, Valerie, Nancy

“Dulce et Decorm Est” p. 651 Anais, Jackie, Stephanie D.

“Snow White & the Seven Deadly Sins” p. 965 Alexandra, George, Alma

“Rape of the Lock” Joseph & Stephanie Y  http://poetry.eserver.org/rape-of-the-lock.html

“The Lady’s Dressing Room” Justina, Frances, Jessie, Ian http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dressing.html


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Read James Joyce's story "Eveline" on page 442 and answer the questions at the end of the story. Turn those answers in to turnitin.com before class.

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Using the following prompts for "A Good Man is Hard to Find," develop a thesis statement and introductory paragraph for one of the prompts. Then outline three body paragraphs that would follow from your thesis.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

 

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is included in our “Humor, Irony, and Epiphany” unit. What humorous, ironic, or revelatory elements does O’Connor use in the story, and for what literary purpose? Give evidence from the text and analyze the evidence to support your position. Do not summarize the story.

 

Flannery O’Connor employs a close third person narrator to tell the story. Why does she include the grandmother’s thoughts in the narrative? Consider whether the same effect would be achieved from a 1st person narrator, or from an omniscient narrator? Give evidence from the text and analyze the evidence to support your position. Do not summarize the story.


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Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor -- page 454 in Perrine's. Answer the questions at the end of the chapter and turn them in to turnitin.com BEFORE CLASS.

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html

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FATHER-SON UNIT ESSAY: Due to Turnitin.com & bring a typed, double-spaced copy to class.


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Read Tobias Wolff's story, "Hunters in the Snow" on page 86 of Perrine's. Do the questions on pages 99-100 & turn your homework in to Turnitin.com. I won't accept late homework as we'll be discussing the story in class.

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Finish The Death of Ivan Ilyich. You will have an in-class essay to write.

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Bring a draft of your Personal Statement to class for a peer-review session. 

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Rough draft of Father-Son essay is due in class for peer editing. Make sure it is typed and double spaced. 

 

Discuss any two of the works listed to complete the prompt of your choice:

 

The Namesake by Jampa Lhairi

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller

King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

“A Kite for Michael and Christopher,” “Digging,” “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke

“The Gift” and “Mnemonic” by Li Young Lee

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

“Yesterday” by W. S. Merwin

“Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”  Nam Le

 

1. Choose at least two works  (novel, play, poem or short story) that depict a conflict between a father and a son. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary. (adapted AP Free Response)

 

2. In many works of literature, past events positively or negatively affect present actions, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose two of the works from our father-son unit in which characters must contend with some aspect of their shared past. Then write an essay in which you show how the characters’ relationships to past events contribute to the meaning of the works as a whole. Avoid plot summary. (adapted AP Free Response)

 

I will grade this essay using the AP Literature Rubric, 1-9 scoring.


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Read Chapters 5, 6, 7 (through page 105) in The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

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Read chapters 1-4 in The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.

http://www.classicallibrary.org/tolstoy/ivan/1.htm

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Read 1H4 -- Act 2, Scene 4, lines 368-468 (a play within the play, where Falstaff begins acting the part of Henry IV and Hal plays himself, imagining a conversation with his father).

Then read the actual reconciliation scene between father & son: Act 3, Scene 2, lines 1-161.

Work on the attached sheet for the first scene.

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Re-read Act I of Henry IV, part 1 for an identification/explication test.

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We're shooting for performances of Act I on Tuesday!

Court: Act I, Scene 1
Pub Crawlers: Act I, Scene 2
Rebels: Act I, Scene 3

Assignment & rubric below.

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Write a poem in villanelle form. Use Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" as a model. There is a discussion of the form on page 888 of the Perrine's textbook.

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Finish reading Death of a Salesman. Pick four out of the eight questions on page 1525 to answer. Put your answers into turnitin.com. Do this before class in order to receive credit. LATE HOMEWORK IS NOT ACCEPTED.

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Read Act I of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Page 1445-1482 in Perrine's.

There will be a quiz on the reading.

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Read the story by Nam Le and answer four of the questions on the handout below. Put your answers into Turnitin.com BEFORE  coming to class to discuss the story.

http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=305

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Sign on to turnitin.com with an e-mail address that you actively check. I may need to reach you for some good news.

Have a parent or guardian sign the Film Permission tear-off on the bottom of page two of the syllabus.

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Your Kiss & Tell summer essay is due on turnitin.com. Your class number is: 3371062. Your password is Levine4. (my name+period you have w/me)

Anyone who fails to turn in the essay will be dropped from the class.