Introduction to the Course
Congratulations on selecting to take a challenging, yet rewarding English class during your senior year. If you need to contact me please go to the "Contact" page to email me.
Google Classroom
We will begin using Google Classroom to attempt a paperless classroom (have you seen my desk AP students?) Please use the following guide to help you get set up. Join code will be given out in class.
Search in Chrome for google classroom,
Login: [email protected]
Password: district password
enter join code
Search in Chrome for google classroom,
Login: [email protected]
Password: district password
enter join code
Class Notes
Each month I will post notes from all periods of AP Lit below. Make sure to also look at the "Calendar" page for homework updates.
Sept. Class Notes
October Class Notes
November Class Notes
December Class Notes
January Class Notes
February Class Notes
Sept. Class Notes
October Class Notes
November Class Notes
December Class Notes
January Class Notes
February Class Notes
Winter Break Assignment
Over winter break you will need to read a novel from the "Recommended Reading AP list" provided to you in class. You will need to choose a book to read with a partner from the following list. Once you make a decision, on this spreadsheet, please write your name(s) next to the text and under the class period column. Delete your name next to any book that is NOT what you are reading. Check here for a list of class sets of book we have at Morse. If the book is not on this list you would also want to search for the books on destiny.sandi.net. If you want to read a book that is not available at school, search for it at the public library or go buy it from a bookstore, amazon, or barnes and noble.
Because this is an independent project it would help you if you had at least one person to study with over break either virtually through a chat page, on the phone, Face Time, etc. or in person. The following are the objectives I would like to accomplish over break:
Because this is an independent project it would help you if you had at least one person to study with over break either virtually through a chat page, on the phone, Face Time, etc. or in person. The following are the objectives I would like to accomplish over break:
- Collaborate with at least one other person from the same class and meet with them at least twice per week in person or through online collaboration. Provide written evidence of your meeting.
- Make an educated decision about a book you want to read from the “Recommended AP Reading List”. Evidence of this decision.
- Think deeply and analytically about major themes/ universal truths in the novel. Provide evidence.
- Annotate on paper or on post-its. Focus on tone, character development and theme. Bring this to class as evidence.
Summer Reading Assignments
Assignment #1 Read at least one Novel and at least one Play
1. If you bought the novel and/or play annotate in the book: write comments, questions and ideas to help you make sense of the work. If you are borrowing the novel and/or play keep a dialectical journal on the novel and/or play by writing entries for every 50 pages of the novel and one entry for every 10 pages of a play, this includes if you choose to read the plays online. Please use these directions if you going to keep a dialectical journal: here are the directions for the dialectical journal.
Novels (read a review of the novel on amazon.com or goodreads.com)Americanah or Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Kite Runner or A Hundred Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Plague by Albert Camus Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bluest Eye, Sula or Beloved by Toni Morrison The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Color Purple by Alice Walker Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood |
Plays (PDF's of all plays are underlined)Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ACT I and ACT II No Exit by John Paul Sartre |
Assignment #2 One Pager on the novel and the play
Create two one-pagers after having read the novel and the play (create one for the novel and one for the play). This is an assignment you will have throughout the year to visually display your thinking during and after reading texts.
DESCRIPTION: A One-Pager is a written and graphic interpretation on a single sheet of paper of what you have just read. It may be literal or it may be a symbolic representation of the piece. The one-pager will help you visualize what you are reading and help prepare you for other activities that we may complete using this reading assignment.
PURPOSE: The purpose of a One-Pager is to own what you are reading. We think about what we see and read differently when we are asked to do something with what we have seen or read. We learn best when we create our own ideas. The One-pager will help you visualize what you are reading and help prepare you for other activities that we will complete related to this reading assignment.
CONNECTIONS: A One-Pager connects the verbal and visual. It connects the author’s, filmmaker’s, artist’s, or culture’s thoughts to your thoughts. It makes connections between words and images.
WHAT TO DO:
DESCRIPTION: A One-Pager is a written and graphic interpretation on a single sheet of paper of what you have just read. It may be literal or it may be a symbolic representation of the piece. The one-pager will help you visualize what you are reading and help prepare you for other activities that we may complete using this reading assignment.
PURPOSE: The purpose of a One-Pager is to own what you are reading. We think about what we see and read differently when we are asked to do something with what we have seen or read. We learn best when we create our own ideas. The One-pager will help you visualize what you are reading and help prepare you for other activities that we will complete related to this reading assignment.
CONNECTIONS: A One-Pager connects the verbal and visual. It connects the author’s, filmmaker’s, artist’s, or culture’s thoughts to your thoughts. It makes connections between words and images.
WHAT TO DO:
- Use standard (8.5 by 11) unlined paper
- Fill the entire page
- Written work must be in ink or typed (no pencils)
- Use color as much as possible
- Include all of the following (arranged on the page any way you choose): Title and Author, Three or more excerpts from the reading (passages you like or think are especially important), A personal response to each passage you select (this may be a personal response, summary or interpretive depending on the assignment), Add a border or any other decorations and you’re done!
- Be prepared to give an oral “tour” of your One-pager
Assignment #3 Literary Term Notecards
Create one note card per literary term listed on the Literary Term handout. On each note card write the word on one side and the definition and an example from the summer reading on the other side. These will be used throughout the year so make them nice and neat.
Assignment #4 Tech- Blogging
For the tech assignment you will go to morseaplit.wordpress.com and comment on the two posts: "Summer Reading" and also "Hello World". Directions are on the wordpress site for how to comment and reply.
1. For the "Summer Reading" post: over the course of the summer you will comment on your novel or play at least three times and reply to other students' comments at least two times.
2. For the "Hello World" post: please respond by introducing yourself to your classmates.
1. For the "Summer Reading" post: over the course of the summer you will comment on your novel or play at least three times and reply to other students' comments at least two times.
2. For the "Hello World" post: please respond by introducing yourself to your classmates.