Advanced Placement Literature

Modified Class Syllabus March 9, 2012 – April 18, 2012 ADVANCED PLACEMENT LITERATURE

Weekly  Discussion Board – Each student must post a response weekly to a discussion strand on line.  Poetry Responses – Each student must submit a written one page response to a poem of choice. Poems posted weekly on my teacher webpage.

March 9 THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Critical Approaches to Reading the Novel – psychoanalytic, feminist, biographical, etc. Annotated Bibliography Assignment – Analyze five sources that critique the novel from your selected perspective. Final product must expound on the perspective by selecting excerpts from the novel that expound on your perspective. Due Monday, March 19, 2012.

Vocabulary Test/2nd novel selected for Independent Novel project due March 30, 2012.

Continue working on Accordion Book Project – The last panel with Tea Cake March 12 THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Chapters 9 – 12 March 13 Writing an In Class Essay – Claim, concrete detail, commentary) March 14 Major Works Data Sheet for THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD March 15 THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Chapters 12 – 20 March 16 Complete Annotations and finalize Presentation during Lab time/Vocabulary Test March 19 Presentations March 20 Final Discussions on the Novel/Final Exam March 21 Elements of Poetry pg. 633 – 641/Reading Notes March 22 “The World is too Much With Us” Wordworth; “A Hymn to God the Father” Donne; “One Art” Elizabeth Bishop; “Barbie Doll” – TPCASTTS Completed before class. March 23 Teacher Work Day March 26 Close Reading Passage/TPCASTT March 27 In-Class Essays March 28 Poetry Presentation – Teach a poem to the class March 29 Poetry Assessment March 30 Independent Novel Assignments #2 April 2 “Hamlet” Introduction – Notes on Shakespeare April 3 “Hamlet” Act I/Shakespearean Webquest April 4 “Hamlet” Act II/Webquest April 5 “Hamlet” Act III/Webquest April 6 -13 No School/Spring Break – Finish Hamlet/Discussion Board April 16 “Hamlet” Review April 17 “Hamlet” Test Modified Class Syllabus March 9, 2012 – April 18, 2012 April 18 Formal Essay – Hamlet’s tragic flaw – Argumentative paper on tragic flaw and how it is crucial to the development of the revenge tragedy.