AP Lit 2B/3B: Workshopping Synthesis & Lot Jotting Mrs. Dalloway

As we continue our work together, I continue to learn more about our various classroom dynamics and strive to find methods that gets everyone what he or she needs to feel confident with our work.  It's a challenging work in progress.  Thank you for bearing with it and engaging with the work heretofore present.

We accomplished two key goals today: workshopped synthesis thinking & discussed Mrs. Dalloway.

To be honest, the latter was mostly determining great questions for later discussion of Mrs. Dalloway, though I would argue in formulating those questions, ideas were considered.  We will have much closer textual examinations on Wednesday and Friday and next week as well.  (I had something of an a-ha! moment today.)

Here's pics and description of our modified Lot Jot work.

We also got everyone started on Google+ and nestled into his or her correct Google+ AP Lit class community.

The in-class synthesis workshops are accessible in your Google Drive.  Just look for AP Lit Synthesis Workshop inside the AP Lit 2013 OUT/Synthesis Thinking folder.  I'm making all of them visible to all  AP Lit 2013 students.  (None of us is smarter than all of us.) You can see what other folks have been doing for thesis statements and introductions.

Homework

Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27

Assigned Creative Blog Post:  Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways.  Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps  you have not.  (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.) 

Use Colourlovers.com  to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway.  You will need to name the palette and each color within it.  Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete.  (Concrete:  "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)

Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.

Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.

Read

Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st.   Gold Day classes  finish for Monday the 30th.

Write
Next working draft of synthesis for workshopping on Wednesday.  

1st Submission draft of synthesis #1 due on Friday.