AP English 12 Course Information and Documents:
- Course description, College Board standards, and syllabi
- Vocabulary: tone words and QUIA review games
- Poetry notes: Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, theme statements, tonal scale, scansion, rhythm & meter, imagery examples, ballad, common meter, ode, sonnet, villanelle, other poetry concepts
- Literary terminology: Bedford/St. Martin's glossary, Dr. Kip Wheeler's literary vocabulary
- Literary analysis: literary analysis basics, evidence triangle, using quotations as evidence
- AP Exam information: exam basics & MC strategy; timed-writing basics; timed-writing tips; Ten Commandments of the AP Examination
- Feedback: Boyd's writing marks, rubric for literary analysis, rubric for timed AP essays
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Summer Reading 2009 (instructions) What is concealed beneath the facade of perfection?
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Completed Assignments during Fall Semester:
- 8/18-19/08 Emma chapters 1-14 analysis assignment (instructions)
- 8/22&25/08 Socratic seminar (basic instructions, organizer, rubric)
Topic: summer reading novels; Essential Question: What is concealed beneath the facade of perfection?
- 8/26-27/08 Emma chapters 15-28 analysis assignment (instructions; literary anaylsis basics)
- 8/28-29/08 summer reading timed in-class essays
- 9/4-5/08 Emma chapters 29-42 analysis assignment (instructions; literary anaylsis basics)
- 9/10-17/08 conferencing on personal narrative draft (prompt)
- 9/16-17/08 small group sonnet assignment (instructions, Bloom's Taxonomy)
- 9/16-17/08 Emma chapters 43-55 analysis assignment (instructions; literary anaylsis basics)
- 9/18-19/08 AP exam practice multiple-choice best-answer defenses (two-sentence explanations for 20 questions)
- 9/18-19/08 introduction to The Taming of the Shrew (online text; characters; Elizabethan theater conventions; literary terminology; thematic concepts)
- 9/22-19/23 in-class pre-reading writing prompt for The Taming of the Shrew: "People can become--or, indeed, are--what others think they are or treat them as being." (H. J. Oliver)
- 10/1-2/08 personal narrative peer review (rubric)
- 10/1-2/08 Song of Solomon chapters 1-6 discussion (characters & allusions, quotations for discussion)
- 10/13-14/08 in-class writing prompt for The Taming of the Shrew: "Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding." (Emerson, "Worship" from The Conduct of Life, 1860)
- 10/13-14/08 introduction to pastoral poetry and imitation assignment (poems, pastoral elements, tonal scale, imitation instructions, sample)
- 10/13-14/08 Song of Solomon chapters 7-11 discussion (characters & allusions, quotations for discussion)
- 10/15-16/08 The Misanthrope fall break BONUS assignment (instructions; online text)
- 10/15-16/08 The Taming of the Shrew take-home essays (prompts; online text; characters; Elizabethan theater conventions; literary terminology; thematic concepts)
- 10/20-21/08 QUIZ: tone vocabulary lists 1-6 (QUIA review games)
- 10/22-23/08 magical realism group activity (definition, chart, assignment instructions)
- 10/23-24/08 Song of Solomon chapters 12-15 discussion (characters & allusions, quotations for discussion)
- 10/27-28/08 poetry analysis (Bruegel's painting, "Musee de Beaux Arts", "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Annotating a Poem)
- 10/30-31/08 peer review of pastoral poetry imitation assignment (imitation instructions, RhymeZone)
- 10/29-30/08 Song of Solomon protagonist & motif analysis assignment (instructions)
- 10/31/08 & 11/03/08 in-class Song of Solomon theme & book cover design
- 11/3&5/08 pastoral poetry imitation assignment (poems, pastoral elements, tonal scale, imitation instructions, sample)
- 11/7/08 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 literary analysis (assignment instructions, character chart, submit assignment via EPals)
- 11/7/08 TEST: in-class essays on Song of Solomon
- 11/16/08 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 literary analysis (assignment instructions, character chart, submit assignment via EPals by 6:00 pm)
- 11/14&17/08 AP tone vocabulary lists 1-10 syntax activities (instructions)
- 11/20-21/08 AP exam timed-writing lesson (basics, top ten tips, organizer)
- 11/23/08 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 literary analysis (assignment instructions, character chart, submit assignment via EPals by 6:00 pm)
- 11/24-25/08 Wuthering Heights Socratic seminar (basic instructions, organizer, rubric)
Essential Question: How does environment shape character and identity?
- 12/1-2/08 TEST: Wuthering Heights in-class essays
- 12/8/08 poetry explication of 250-500 words (helpful hints, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale)
- 12/8/08 personal essay (Life of Pi prompt OR one of these topics, rubric)
- 12/12/08 poetry explication of 250-500 words (helpful hints, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale)
- 12/12/08 personal essay (topics, rubric)
- 12/15/08 Atonement point of view & style analysis BONUS assignment (instructions, point of view notes)
- 12/17/08 FINAL EXAM for 7th period (review sheet, take-home essay due at beginning of exam)
- 12/18/08 FINAL EXAM for 6th period (review sheet, take-home essay due at beginning of exam)
Completed Assignments during Spring Semester:
- Tu & W 1/6-7/09 introduction to Conrad's Heart of Darkness (introduction notes, reading guide, map of Congo River, Freudian psyche, Imperialism & Colonialism, vocabulary assignment, close-reading & analysis assignment)
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Th & F 1/8-9/09 pre-reading writing prompt: “I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since ... I could never belong entirely to one side of any question.” (Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, 1954)
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Th & F 1/8-9/09 introduction to literary impressionism (PowerPoint for concept definition task)
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F 1/9/09 Heart of Darkness vocabulary for chapter 1 (assignment instructions, Merriam-Webster online, submit assignment via EPals)
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M & Tu 1/12-13/09 introduction to allusion presentation assignment (instructions, rubric, Bloom's Taxonomy, examples for Garden of Eden and Icarus & Daedalus, list of choices)
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Tu 1/13/09 review of major literary work of choice (instructions, literary anaylsis basics, submit assignment via EPals)
- W & Th 1/14-15/09 reading and work on Heart of Darkness vocabulary and close reading assignments (vocabulary assignment, close-reading & analysis assignment); work on allusion presentation (instructions, rubric, Bloom's Taxonomy, examples for Garden of Eden and Icarus & Daedalus, searchable Bible, mythology online, Bulfinch's mythology)
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F 1/16/09 Heart of Darkness vocabulary for chapter 2 (assignment instructions, Merriam-Webster online, submit assignment via EPals)
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F & Tu 1/16 & 20/09 introduction to poetry explication and recitation (assignment instructions, Poetry Out Loud, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale)
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F & Tu 1/16 & 20/09 work on allusion presentation (instructions, rubric, Bloom's Taxonomy, examples for Garden of Eden and Icarus & Daedalus, searchable Bible, mythology online, Bulfinch's mythology)
- W & Th 1/21-22/09 work on poetry explications (assignment instructions, Poetry Out Loud, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale); work on allusion presentation (instructions, rubric, Bloom's Taxonomy, examples for Garden of Eden and Icarus & Daedalus, searchable Bible, mythology online, Bulfinch's mythology)
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W & Th 1/21-22/09 close reading of poetry thematically linked to Heart of Darkness ("The world is too much with us", "Billiards", "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is", "The Darkling Thrush")
- F 1/23/09 Young Georgia Authors competition entries due (parent permission signature required)
- Su 1/25/09 Heart of Darkness vocabulary for chapter 3 (assignment instructions, Merriam-Webster online, submit assignment via EPals)
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F 1/23/09 & M 1/26/09 allusions presentations (instructions, rubric, examples for Garden of Eden and Icarus & Daedalus, submit notes for classmates via EPals)
- Tu & W 1/27-28/09 Heart of Darkness Socratic seminar (organizer, questions to consider, "The world is too much with us", "Billiards", "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is", "The Darkling Thrush")
- Tu & W 1/27-28/09 allusions presentations completed (instructions, rubric); work on poetry explications and recitations (assignment instructions, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale)
- Th & F 1/29-30/09 introduction to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (Bundren family tree, significance of names, novel structure, terminology)
- Th & F 1/29-30/09 work on poetry explications and recitations (instructions, Poetry Out Loud, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale); reading and work on As I Lay Dying literary analysis (assignment instructions)
- F 1/30/09 Heart of Darkness close reading and analysis activities (assignment instructions, submit assignment via EPals)
- M & Tu 2/2-3/09 TEST: Heart of Darkness in-class timed essays
- W & Th 2/4-5/09 bonus poetry recitations (assignment instructions, Poetry Out Loud); complete allusions presentations
- F 2/6/09 As I Lay Dying literary analysis for section 1, pages 3-84 (assignment instructions, submit assignment via EPals)
- F 2/6/09 & M 2/9/09 complete vocabulary & allusions assignment (instructions); work on poetry explications and recitations (instructions, Poetry Out Loud, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale); reading and work on As I Lay Dying literary analysis (assignment instructions)
- Tu & W 2/10-11/09 reading and analysis of Swift's satire "A Modest Proposal" (online text, analysis questions, satire PPT); introduction of imitation project (assignment instructions, rubric); work on poetry explications
- W 2/11/09 two poetry explications (assignment instructions, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, scansion, tonal scale, submit assignment via EPals)
- F 2/13/09 As I Lay Dying literary analysis for section 2, pages 85-165 (assignment instructions, submit assignment via EPals)
- M-F 2/16-20/09 (winter break) work on "A Modest Proposal" imitation project (assignment instructions, rubric, Galileo, SIRS Knowledge Source)
- Su 2/22/09 As I Lay Dying literary analysis for section 3, pages 166-261 (assignment instructions, submit assignment via EPals)
- M & Tu 2/23-24/09 discussion of timed writing tips; analyzing comedy in As I Lay Dying group activity (instructions, literary epitaphs)
- W & Th 2/25-26/09 TEST: As I Lay Dying in-class timed essay
- F 2/27/09 & M 3/2/09 introduction to and viewing/discussion of Hamlet (character chart, literary terms, reading questions by act, discussion questions); introduction of motif project (assignment instructions, rubric)
- M 3/2/09 TEST: As I Lay Dying take-home essay
- Tu-W 3/3-4/09 work on "A Modest Proposal" imitation project (assignment instructions, rubric, Galileo, SIRS Knowledge Source, MLA citation examples, how to prepare an annotated bibliograhy from Cornell U's library, student samples: N. Worm, C. Sallas, E. Moseley)
- M & Tu 3/9-10/09 AP-exam timed writing in class; multiple-choice practice
- Tu & W 3/17-18/09 peer review of "A Modest Proposal" imitation drafts (peer review instructions, (assignment instructions, rubric, Galileo, SIRS Knowledge Source, MLA citation examples, how to prepare an annotated bibliograhy from Cornell U's library, student samples: N. Worm, C. Sallas, E. Moseley)
- Th 3/19/09 after-school Hamlet session
- Tu-M 3/3-27/09 viewing/discussion of Hamlet (character chart, literary terms, reading questions by act, discussion questions, significance of flowers); work on motif project (assignment instructions, rubric)
- W & Th 3/25-26/09 introduction to Poisonwood Bible (allusion notes, analyais activities)
- Th 3/26/09 "A Modest Proposal" imitation (assignment instructions, rubric, submit assignment via EPals)
- Th & F 3/26-27/09 analyzing syntax in Hamlet timed-writing essay (assignment instructions)
- F 3/27/09 AP Exam registration due to Ms. Dobbs (registration form and testing information)
- Sa 3/28/09 AP English Literature and Composition practice exam (9:00 am)
- F & M 3/27 & 30/09 work on Hamlet motif projects (assignment instructions, rubric)
- Tu 3/31/09 (6th period) TEST: Hamlet in-class timed essays
- W & Th 4/01-02/09 Hamlet motif presentations (assignment instructions, rubric)
- F 4/03/09 (7th period) TEST: Hamlet in-class timed essays
- M-F 4/06-12/09 (SPRING BREAK): read Poisonwood Bible; work on bonus review of major literary work for exam (assignment instructions, literary anaylsis basics, AP exam open free-response topics)
- M 4/13/09 ALL MISSING ASSIGNMENTS DUE TODAY (No late work will be accepted from this date until graduation.)
- M & Tu 4/13-14/09 "The Things They Carried" pre-reading activity, analysis questions, and imitation assignment
- Tu 4/14/09 BONUS review of major literary work for exam (assignment instructions, literary anaylsis basics, AP exam open free-response topics, submit assignment via EPals)
- W & Th 4/15 & 16/09 AP English Literature and Composition practice exam during 6th & 8th periods and 5th & 7th periods
- Th 4/16/09 Hamlet motif quotation analysis (assignment instructions, rubric)
- F 4/17/09 & W 4/22/09 AP exam review activities (literary terms & vocabulary flashcard creation, analysis of AP exam open free-response topics)
- Th & F 4/23-24/09 AP exam review (review of practice test; poetry & prose prompt analysis, AP Exam Apples to Apples lists & cards)
- M & Tu 4/27-28/09 Poisonwood Bible Socratic Seminar; AP exam review activities (mutiple-choice strategies & practice, literary terms & vocabulary)
- Tu 4/28/09 Poisonwood Bible analysis activities (assignment instructions, Letterman's Top Ten archive, literary epitaphs, submit assignment via EPals)
- W & Th 4/29-30/09 AP exam review activities (literary terms & vocabulary, Book-a-Minute, Body Map, AP Exam Apples to Apples)
- F 5/01/09 Poisonwood Bible take-home essays due
- Sa 5/02/09 AP English Literature and Composition practice exam (9:00 am)
- F 5/01/09 & M 5/04/09 AP exam review activities (AP practice test analysis, AP exam survival kit, discussion of exam strategies)
- Tu 5/5/09 review of major literary works for exam (assignment instructions, literary anaylsis basics, AP exam open free-response topics, submit assignment via EPals)
- Tu & W 5/05-06/09 AP exam review activities (AP practice test analysis; prose, poetry, and open prompt analysis practice; multiple-choice practice; literary terms & vocabulary, Book-a-Minute, Body Map, AP Exam Apples to Apples)
- Th 5/7/09 AP English Literature and Composition examination (lunch afterwards at Chili's)
- M & Tu 5/11-12/09 work on "The Things They Carried" imitation short story (instructions)
- W & Th 5/13-14/09 creation of literary ceiling tiles; introduction of final week reflection activities
- F 5/15/09 BONUS "The Things They Carried" imitation short story (instructions, submit assignment via EPals)
- W 5/20/09 final week reflection activities (assignment instructions, "If I Had My Life to Live Over", "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen" [audio file], This I Believe, "When I Was One-and-Twenty", "Ordeal by Cheque")
- Tu 5/19/09 SENIOR EXAMS (6th and 8th periods)
- W 5/20/09 SENIOR EXAMS (5th and 7th periods)
- Th 5/21/09 SENIOR EXAMS (2nd and 4th periods)
- F 5/22/09 SENIOR EXAMS (1st and 3rd periods)