AP English Lit Unit 3

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Unit 3

Destiny: the Individual Shaped by Heredity and Environment

Essential Questions:

Resources:

Week of 11 October

independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
tone vocabulary group 8
10/13-14/10 fall break bonus assignment DUE (instructions & rubric, AP Exam open prompts, sample analysis with commentary)
introduction to Wuthering Heights (character chart, reading & diction log assignment)
workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question

Week of 18 October

workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question
10/19-20/10 essays for Unit 1 DUE: two in-class, one take-home (instructions & prompts)
independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
tone vocabulary group 9
media center independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
10/21-22/10 assessment for The Taming of the Shrew DUE (instructions)

Week of 25 October

10/25-26/10 RCPS mock writing test (25-minute SAT prompt)
10/25-26/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
10/27-28/10 Wuthering Heightschapters 1-10 passage analysis in-class timed response
AP Exam multiple-choice poetry practice ("Sound and Sense")
sonnet lesson (poetry types to KNOW, sonnet, sonnet PPT)
independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory")

Week of 1 November

ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory")
tone vocabulary group 10
11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 passage analysis in-class timed response
vocabulary 1-10 review game: Taboo (instructions)
reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)

Week of 8 November

reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)
11/9-10/10 vocabulary 1-10 QUIZ (tone vocabulary)
11/11-12/10 poetry response 4 DUE (2010B AP Exam Poetry Prompt: "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty," instructions)

Week of 15 November

reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)
11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 passage analysis in-class timed response
analysis of college application personal narrative samples (instructions)
pre-writing of college application narrative (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
introduction to Song of Solomon (characters, motifs, quotations for discussion and analysis assignment instructions)

Week of 29 November

11/29-30/10 Song of Solomon chapters 1-6 DUE (quotations for discussion)
tone vocabulary group 11
independent work on college application narrative (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
12/01-02/10 college application narrative writers' workshop (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
12/03 & 06/10 Song of Solomon chapters 7-11 DUE (quotations for discussion)
12/03 & 06/10 college application narrative peer review

Week of 6 December

tone vocabulary group 12
12/07-08/10 college application personal narrative DUE (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
independent work on pre-final exam College Board standards self-assessment (instructions)
independent work on Song of Solomon analysis assignment DUE (analysis assignment instructions; Washington Post headlines examples)
12/9-10/10 Song of Solomon chapters 12-15 DUE (quotations for discussion)

Week of 13 December

12/13-14/10 Song of Solomon analysis assignment DUE (analysis assignment instructions; Washington Post headlines examples)
12/13-14/10 pre-final exam College Board standards self-assessment DUE (instructions)
12/15/10 4th period FINAL EXAM (review sheet)
12/16/10 5th period FINAL EXAM (review sheet)

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