Monday 1/9

Today you need to choose your poem for POETRY OUT LOUD.  

The POL competition is on Wednesday 1/19 at 6 pm on the school stage.  This is a requirement.  You must have a poem memorized and ready to perform.  This is also an easy grade:

50 points for the memorization
30 points for showing up to the performance
20 points for the acting of the poem.

The winner of POL receives a $50 gift certificate to Radio Shack and has a chance to go the State Championship in March.

Here is a link to the POL judging guidelines
This rubric is also how you will be graded on the "acting" portion.

Poetry Out Loud website can be found here

Tips for performance can be found here

AP TEST

Possible AP "Open" Questions for FINAL

1980
1984
1987
1999
2016

Wednesday

Today, we are going to start looking at Theories of Criticism. 

We will look at NEW CRITICISM - which is the criticism the AP test is mostly based on.

Also there's link to a feminist essay on Anna Karenina

Tuesday

Today we are going to talk about your essays and then move on to talking about PART II.  How it is organized, how to think about potential sections that might appear on the test, and then symbolic moments that perhaps create longer meaning.

Please take notes. 

Anna Kareninia Part II

Today - I'm going to give you about 25-30 minutes to either work on your blogs or to read, and then we will look at Shmoop and the AP multiple choice questions I have assigned to you.

Note, most of you are behind on your journal postings.  Use this time wisely. 

TUESDAY

Today we will discuss your quizzes from yesterday, discuss PART I of the novel, and begin to outline the following:

Choose 1 theme and discuss how it is reflected in the book.

List 4-5 characters and discuss how they make/create meaning in the text.  Also list who there are and what they are about.  You might also connect these characters to theme.

List 2-3 devices (irony, symbols, foreshadowing) and discuss how they create meaning in the text.  Connect to Part I as a whole.

PART I - discuss how Part I functions as an individual unit.  What happens?  What does it suggest with happen later?  Discuss why it begins and ends where it does? 

Reading Schedule

12/5 Part I XXIV - XXVIII

12/6 Part I XXIX - XXXIII

12/7 Part I XXXIV - End of PART I

12/8 Part 2 I-V

12/9 Part 2 VI - VIII

12/10 Part 2 IX - XIV

12/11 Part 2 XV - XVII

12/12 Part 2 XVIII - XXII

12/13  Part 2 XXIII - XXV

12/14 Part 2 XXVI - XXX

12/15 Part 2 XXXI - XXXIV

12/16 Part 2 XXXV - End of Part 2

12/17 Part 3 I - IV

12/18 Review/Study for FINA