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Book Recommendation List 2017

A Brave New World and Literary Criticism

EXAMPLE Marxist/Deconstructionist Lit. Crit. Response (5-26)
Critical Literary Approaches (Handout from St. Martins) (5-22)
Lit Crit "Help" (5-24)
Lit. Crit. Application Assignment & EXAMPLE (due 5-26)
Found Poem Directions (5-19, due 5-31)
HANDOUT: Dystopian Characteristics (5-17)
BNW Journal Entries (5-12/5-17)
Scientific Allusions in BNW (if absent, write in journal) (5-12)
Stability discussion (if absent, write in journal) (5-12)
BNW Journal Entries (5-10)
Practicing General Lit Crit with Cinderella (5-8)
Lit Criticism General Categories (5-8)

Modernism: short story unit

SHORT STORY: "Cathedral" by Carver (5-1)
Modern epiphany comparison and TIMED WRITE (4-26)
Meiosisand Litotes DEFINITION (4-26)
SHORT STORY: "A & P" by Updike (4-24)
SHORT STORY: "Araby" by Joyce (4-24)
NOTES: Modernism (and Post-modernism) (4-21/4-24))
Modernism DEFINITION (4-21)
"Soldier's Home" questions for DISCUSSION (4-21)
SHORT STORY: "Soldier's Home" by Hemingway (4-21)

Frankenstein Unit

Socratic Seminar PREWRITING/question guide (4-17 & 4-19)
ARTICLE: "Romanticism and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley" (4-17)
Lit. influence and Frankenstein t-chart req. (due 4-14)
"The Monster Reads Milton" article link (4-7)
Paradise Lost connections in Frankenstein (4-7)
Prometheus summary version (4-7)
Prometheus myth (Bulfinch's version) (4-7)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner and background (4-7)
Lord Byron's poetry and influence (4-7)
NOTES: Romanticism vs. Enlightenment Ideals (4-5)
HANDOUT: Is it Romantic? (4-5 in class activity)
HANDOUT: 5 characteristics of Romanticism (4-5)
Mary Shelley Biography and text overview (4-3)

FLASHCARD RESOURCES (AP Lit terms)

REMINDER: 50 flashcards DUE Apr. 3
HANDOUT: Literary Rhetorical Schemes (3-8)
HANDOUT: Literary Tropes (3-8)

Victorian and Regency Novels Unit

Satire and Satirical Devices HANDOUT (3-13 must have example on 3-17)
ARTICLE: Romanticism and Wuthering Heights (2-24)
ARTICLE excerpt: "Jane Eyre and the 19th-century woman" (2-24)
ARTICLE: Historical Context of Pride and Prejudice (2-24)

Hamlet

Essay TOPICS for Hamlet (in-class, 2-24)
3 models of tragedy for Hamlet NOTES (2-22)
Close reading TERMS brainstorming (2-15)
Close Reading in-class PRACTICE Act II, scene ii (2-15)
EXAMPLE Biblical Allusion in Act II, scene ii (2-15)
Act II in-class notes (2-13)
NOTES: the 4 humours and character traits (2-13)
NOTES: the 4 elements (2-13)
Supplemental Notes on RENAISSANCE terms as related to Hamlet (2-10)
NOTES on Act I (general) (2-10)
TERM: Aposiopesis (2-10)
TERM: Hendiadys (2-10)
SAMPLE: Close reading of the doubling in Act I, scene ii (2-8)
NOTES on Act I, scene i (2-8)

Poetry Explications--Sonnets and Metaphysicals

Poetry Lit Terms (#1-5 DUE 2-10, #6-10 due 2-17)
Poetry Movement PRESENTATION RUBRIC (Assigned 2-3, Due 2-22)
Sonnet "Checklist" for Revision (2-6)
DEFINITION: Chiasmus (fr. Wheeler's website) (2-3)
DEFINITION: Apostrophe (fr. Wheeler's website) (2-3)
DEFINITION: Alliteration (fr. Wheeler's website) (2-3)
DEFINITION: Conceit (from Wheeler's website) (2-3)
Practice explication #1 "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" (2-3)
Practice explication #2 "Death Be Not Proud" (2-3)
Practice explication #3 "To Sleep" (2-3)
Practice explication #4 "Because I Am Furniture" (2-3)
Link to poetry movements info (2-3)
Potential Poetry Movement Research Topics (sign-up 2-3)
Poetry Schools and Movements LIST (2-3)
Sonnet Explication Assignment (Due Feb.6)
Sonnet 30 and EXAMPLE explication format (1-30)

LBCC Credit Documents

LINK for online transcript requests from LBCC
LBCC Directions for transfer of credits (via transcripts)

AP Syllabus and Handouts

AP score "calculator" LINK
AP Score-to-Points/Grade CONVERSION CHART
Style Analysis Handout
AP Full-year SYLLABUS and course plan
"How to Mark a Book" Handout
Close Reading Handout #1
Close Reading Handout #2
Poetry Explication Strategies Handout
Poetry Technical Terms list

BOOKS RECOMMENDED TO PURCHASE (Semester 1/2)

SEMESTER 1
How To Read Literature Like A Professor (Foster)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
A Dry White Season (Brink)
SEMESTER 2
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Frankenstein (Shelley)

BOOKS REQUIRED, BUT CHECKED OUT

SEMESTER 1
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Oedipus Rex OR Medea
SEMESTER 2
Jane Eyre (Bronte)/Wuthering Heights (Bronte)/Pride & Prejudice (Austen)
Brave New World (Huxley)

African American Poets Unit

Langston Hughes poems for FINAL (1-23)
Two sample TOPIC SENTENCES for explication paragraphs (1-20)
SAMPLE explication paragraph for "An Hymn to the Evening" (1-20)
Phillis Wheatley: 3 poems (1-3, 1-18 and 1-20)
Explication Handout (1-18/1-20)
Helpful questions to ask when analyzing poems (1-13)
Paul Laurence Dunbar: 3 poems (1-6 through 1-13)

African-American Women's Voices UNIT

Presentation RUBRIC for 12-14
EXAMPLE paragraph for the LIT TERMS assignments (12-7)
Lit. definitions LINK #3
Lit. Definitions LINK #2
Literary Terms help: Dr. Wheeler's website LINK
Literary Terms Assignment (Due 12-9, 12-16 AND 1-6
Novel CHOICES (need book by Monday, Dec 5)

A Dry White Season assignments

Socratic Seminar MAKEUP assignment (due by 12-5)
3 20th century African poetry examples (11-28/11-30)
FanFiction Poem Extra Credit EXAMPLE (10+ quality lines--Due 11/16)
DWS Part 1 Themes--Per. 6
DWS Part 1 Themes--Per.5
DWS Part 1 Ideas (prior to connections) Per. 5
DWS Quote requirements (on-going, due 11-30)

DWS Reading Schedule

Foreword and Part 1 (done by 11-7)
Part 2 (done by 11-11)
Part 3 (done by 11-18)
Part 4 and Epilogue (done by 11-22)

MIDTERM

"Invictus" by Henley
Midterm assignment (due 11-28, typed, beginning of class)

Writer's Workshop Resources

Quote Enclosure (red) and Textual Rendering Activity (11-14)
Released essay examples

Poetry Interlude

EXAMPLE of an informal poetry analysis (11-2)
Yeat's "The Second Coming" (from which TFA title comes)
"Ozymandias" by Shelley (11-2)

TFA Handouts and Assignments

Essay choices for TFA (in-class MONDAY, Oct. 31)
Aristotle's Tragic Hero Traits
Timed Writes #1 and #2
Foreshadowing Assignment (on-going)
Guided Questions Ch. 1-5

TFA Reading Schedule

Done Book 1 (10-19)
Done Book 2 (10-26)
Done Book 3 (10-28)

PWB Assignments

In-class ESSAY prompt for PWB (10-7)
Bel and the Dragon (Book 4) connection (9-28)
Death in the Congo class discussion (9-28)
Heart of Darkness video summary for discussion/connection to PWB (9-26)
PWB: "heart of light" and Heart of Darkness connection (9-23)
Things they DIDN'T know discussion Per 6 (9-23)
Things they DIDN'T know discussion Per 5 (9-23)
Literary allusions from Adah's independence day experience (9-21)
End of Book 2 flight-freedom-death discussion (9-21)
Things They Learned Discussion (9-21)
Character Analysis Discussion Book 1 Per. 5 (9-16)
Character Analysis Discussion Book 1 Per.6 (9-16)
In-class ACTIVITY for Book 2 (9-19 & 9-21)
GROUP DISCUSSION: First impressions worksheet (9-14))
Biblical Allusions HANDOUT (9-14))

Poisonwood Bible Reading Schedule

Book 1 complete by Sept. 14
Book 2 complete by Sept.19
Book 3 complete by Sept 23
Book 4 complete by Sept 28
Book 5 complete by Oct 3
Books 6-7 complete by Oct 5 (end of book)

African Lit. Intro Resources

Historical Context of the Congo HANDOUT (9-12)

Allusions SOURCES project

Project ASSIGNMENT (assigned 9-9, due 9-30 or 10-5)
EXAMPLE powerpoint ("A" grade project)
EXAMPLE video (a bit too short)

Foster Classwork/Journals

In-class GROUP ACTIVITY on Foster's major points (9-7)
Foster JOURNAL entry on common symbols (9-9)

2016-17 INCOMING AP STUDENT LINKS

2016 Summer Assignment (DUE Sept 7)
Appendix: Works referenced in "How to Read Literature Like a Professor"
2016-17 AP Student/Parent Letter (sent out 5-26-16)

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