AP Literature

Wednesday, March 11th

3/9/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!

1. Multiple Choice Tips

2. Multiple Choice Test
Self-Score
Reflection Questions:
Which type of question was more challenging for you?
Did it feel like you had enough time?
What strategies did you use that you thought were helpful?
What do you need to work on for this type of task?

3. AP Tri 2 Survey

Monday, March 9th

3/6/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest or other options, multiple choice check-in (Wednesday).

1. Multiple Choice practice (Go over 2 sections)

2. Multiple Choice Tips

3. FRQ 2/Workshop Time

Friday, March 6th

3/5/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest or other options, multiple choice check-in (Wednesday).
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th (today)
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Test Prep Thursday: Multiple Choice practice (2 sections)

2. Finish Act 3

3. Work on Final Portfolios

Thursday, March 5th

3/4/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Test Prep Thursday: Multiple Choice practice (2 sections)

2. Finish Act 2

3. Write a discussion question from Act 2.

4. Musical Chairs with our classmate's questions

Wednesday, March 4th

3/3/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Contemporary Satire

2. Question examples as discussion starters

3. Read Act 2

4. Write a discussion question from Act 2.

Tuesday, March 3rd

3/2/2020

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

4. Finish Act 1

Act One Review
Scene 1
Scene 2

2. Act 1 Analysis

Musical Chairs analysis
- Find a free spot.
- Answer the question
  - Add on to a previous comment
  - Push back on a previous comment
  - Add examples and analysis from the text.
  - Put your initials next to each comment you make.
  - Pick up ONE of the questions and write a complete answer with textual evidence.

3. Begin Act 2

Monday, March 2nd

2/28/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Contemporary Satire
2. Background information (50 Things by Topic)

Look over your research and circle what is most important to our background knowledge of the play. Present.

2. Video

3. Incongruity Game

Everyone stands in a circle. One person begins by doing an everyday activity, such as combing her hair. The person to her right asks, “What are you doing?” She then continues to comb her hair but says she is doing something completely different, such as giving her cat a bath. the person who asks must now spontaneously begin to pantomime giving a cat a bath.. Thenext person asks, “What are you doing?” The game continues around the circle until everyone has had an opportunity to pantomime an activity.
- What was the most humorous moments?
- Was it the ridiculousness of hearing and seeing two completely incongruous things?
- Were situations that were more exaggerated or extravagant than real-life, everyday activities more comical?

4. Read Act 1

5. Act 1: Writer's Notebook
What is being targeted? What satire techniques are being used here? How do the techniques contribute to meaning?

Friday, Feb. 28th

2/25/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Test Prep/Poetry Friday

2. Background information (50 Things by Topic)

4. Video

5. Victorian Manners Quiz

Tuesday, Feb. 25th

2/24/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Finish Elements of Satire

Apply the elements of Satire to one of the pieces we viewed today.
- Write an analysis paragraph about how the satirical elements work to create the meaning of the text.
- Tik Tok
- Modern Warfare
- Papa John

Monday, Feb. 24th

2/23/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Final Drafts due today to Google Classroom: Monday, Feb. 24th
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Elements of Satire

Apply the elements of Satire to the video at the end. Write a paragraph about which elements you see and share.

2. Revise/Edit Papers

Signal in/announce author and text
- Book Title
- "Chapter or article title"
Check MLA format
- Works Cited
- In-text citations
Edit for fluency & wordiness.
Answer reflection questions attached to the document and submit.