Summer Reading: |
How to Read Literature Like A Professor |
Thomas Foster |
*We will be discussing this novel the first week of school. Please complete a dialectical journal as you read (see below) |
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
*Dialectical journals and reading must be complete by Friday, August 26th. We will be duscussing this novel in depth the second week of school. Be prepared to be tested. |
| Dialectical Journal Instructions: |
| Copy down two passages every twenty pages that are meaningful to you. Below, or next to, each passage you copy down, write a paragraph explaining what is meaningful. Clcik here for further instructions, so long as they do not contradict what is stated here. |
| 8/22/11 - 8/26/11 - Timed writing (see me for promt). Create a Data shet poster. Take a diagnostic AP test. Discuss How to Read Literature Like a Professor. |
8/29/11 - 9/2/11 - Timed writing (see me for prompt). Revise both timed writings completed so far and choose one to edit, revise, rewrite, and turn in for a grade. Create discussion questions for Pride and Prejudice and share with small groups. Discuss as a class. |
| 9/6/11 - 9/9/11 - Timed writing practice (see me for prompt). Read excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Answer discussion questions (see me for a copy) Read Beowulf while taking notes in your dialectical journals. Focus on effects of alliteration and kennings, and find examples of characteristics of an epic. You should have 8-10 entries total. |
| *Click here for a copy of Beowulf's family tree |
| 9/12/11 - 9/16/11 - Timed writing practice (see me for prompt). Finish Beowulf. Create a character analysis of various pilgrims in Geoffery Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. |
| *Click here for a copy of The Canterbury Tales, general prologue. |
| 9/19/11 - 9/23/11 - Read scoring guide for timed writing essays. Review student samples. Revise and rewrited timed writing from last Tuesday. Present pilgrim analysis. Timed writing practice (see me for prompt). Distribute new biblical allusions. First Multiple Choice Test. Read first two acts of Hamlet while taking notes in your dialectical journals. Analyze sonnets. See me for grading rubrics for extensive sonnet analysis paper and presentation. |
| 9/26/11 - 9/30/11 - Read and analyze Hamlet's first soliloquy using the SIFT strategy. Read Acts III & IV of Hamlet while taking notes in your dialectical journals. You should have 15 total entries by Monday, 10/2. Understand the meter used in Shakespeare's writing. Write and edit first drafts of extensive sonnet analysis paper. Timed writing practice (see me for prompt). Click here for notes on satire. |
| *Click here for Candide Scavenger Hunt for Background Information |