AP Lit 3G: Sonnets & The Swimmer & Design Thinking (& Hamlet ?)

We'll start today with a deep dive into Foster's chapter on sonnets.  Woot.  We'll be doing a lot jot experience, then culling the sonnets you read for today for evidence of Foster's brilliant assertions in action.   It shall be grand and marvelous and cause people to christen ships with bottles of homemade brandy.

Then . . . design thinking.  A review of the DEEP design thinking stages and how you employed them to make meaning of Cheever's "The Swimmer."

Finally, we'll discuss your work for the weekend:  ideating & developing working prototypes of our personal analysis & writing process products.

How might we create a process of gathering evidence of our thinking/analysis & writing processes and how might we demonstrate our understanding through a product?

Document the development of your ideas on your blog so we can all see and share as we try to figure out what works best for us.

If there is time today, Hamlet!

Next class? Meet in commercial arts. 2nd floor.  boom.

HOMEWORK

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view.  Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose.  Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention.  How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6

Design THinking:
How might we create a process of gathering evidence of our thinking/analysis & writing processes and how might we demonstrate our understanding through a product?

Document the development of your ideas on your blog so we can all see and share as we try to figure out what works best for us.
Due: Monday, December 9

Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate. 
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great.  We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures.  I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page.  There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well,  ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”  
Annotate three of the above sonnets.  Your choice.  
Due: TODAY 

Read Hamlet:
Hold . . . we may be a little bit getting back to H.
Due: tBA

AP Lit 2B/3B: The Swimmer

AP Lit 3G: The Swimmer & Hamlet

You'll start class today by solving a design and literary analysis challenge.

How might we create a visual that maps the sequence of events in "The Swimmer," the change in the protagonist over the course of the narrative, and Cheever's means of  revealing truth?

Suggestion: work big.  You might use the roll paper in the closets in the hallway.  Feel free to use the back side of already used rolls.  Nothing is sacred out there.  Take advantage of LEGO bricks and any materials on the design cart or in the closets.  Use your design kits.

I strongly suggest following the DEEP process/stages here:

• Discover (what are we trying to answer? research and gather evidence from the text? how might we make this map? what might it look like?)
• Empathize (what will be useful to the viewer? how will this be presented in a way that makes sense to people looking at images of it online? what works best for the people making this? what mediums are most comfortable to those in the room?)  
• Experiment (what materials can be used? in what way?  how can this look? how might we draft it out? how can we build a prototype?)
• Produce (how do we produce a working model? how might we receive feedback on the model?  How might we create a 2nd iteration?)

Use the entire class time to do this.  If you are able to finish it, you may get rolling on more Hamlet aloud, but I've a feeling this may take the entire class to do well.

HOMEWORK

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view.  Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose.  Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention.  How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6

Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate. 
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great.  We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures.  I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page.  There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well,  ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”  
Annotate three of the above sonnets.  Your choice.  
Due: Friday, December 6 (NEXT CLASS)

Read Hamlet:
Up to Act 2
Due: Friday, December 6

AP Lit 3G: The Swimmer & Hamlet

You'll start class today by solving a design and literary analysis challenge.

How might we create a visual that maps the sequence of events in "The Swimmer," the change in the protagonist over the course of the narrative, and Cheever's means of  revealing truth?

Suggestion: work big.  You might use the roll paper in the closets in the hallway.  Feel free to use the back side of already used rolls.  Nothing is sacred out there.  Take advantage of LEGO bricks and any materials on the design cart or in the closets.  Use your design kits.

I strongly suggest following the DEEP process/stages here:

• Discover (what are we trying to answer? research and gather evidence from the text? how might we make this map? what might it look like?)
• Empathize (what will be useful to the viewer? how will this be presented in a way that makes sense to people looking at images of it online? what works best for the people making this? what mediums are most comfortable to those in the room?)  
• Experiment (what materials can be used? in what way?  how can this look? how might we draft it out? how can we build a prototype?)
• Produce (how do we produce a working model? how might we receive feedback on the model?  How might we create a 2nd iteration?)

Use the entire class time to do this.  If you are able to finish it, you may get rolling on more Hamlet aloud, but I've a feeling this may take the entire class to do well.

HOMEWORK

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view.  Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose.  Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention.  How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6

Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate. 
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great.  We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures.  I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page.  There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well,  ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”  
Annotate three of the above sonnets.  Your choice.  
Due: THURSDAY, December 5 (NEXT CLASS)

Read Hamlet:
Act 2.1
Due: Friday, December 4

AP Lit: 2B/3B A Mushy Day of Mush & An Apology

Monday had a plan.  And  . . . it did not play out as intended in either class.  Here's what would have happened in a more perfect world.

Get inspired for 10 minutes by perusing the items on the inspiration shelf.
Go for a swim through the Mt. Blue Campus, taking in observations and then applying them to a reading of Cheever's "The Swimmer."
Read and discuss Hamlet.
Peer workshop synthesis essay #2 (3B only)

Instead . . . well . . . other things happened in each.  And I set a rather crap tone to carry us into our Turkey Day break.  This is a public apology for that.  We have had a really great fall from my p.o.v. and a confluence of factors came along this morning to disrupt that greatness.  My frustration cup runneth over and I looked for blame rather than solutions.  NOT the best way to go.

One thing I love about these three classes is that each has its own identity.  Today, I disrupted both classes with ill-considered min-rants.  They came from a place of truth, but not a place of empathy and thus, they were unfair.

Moving forward.  I will blog.  Daily. And if the blog is not up when you come to class, you will have time to work, discuss, DO, while I get the blog up.   No blog, no class.  It's a reasonable expectation.

Moving forward.  Please read.  I try very hard not to overwhelm with too much work at a time.  (Sometimes I fail at this.) And the penalties for lateness are minimal in AP Lit. As a result, I know that class work for other classes can sometimes take precedent.  I'm asking everyone to be amplify the cognizance around this: If I can't be confident that the class has read, I can't be confident in planning meaningful experiences around the reading.  And that means I make gross, lame, classes.  We haven't had many of those I don't think -- at least it hasn't felt that way to me.  So . . .

Putting this on the blog in hopes that it will increase my own accountability in these regards.

Mr. Ryder

Homework
Blog: NONE!  Take the week to catch up on past entries or just plain chill.  And if you want to blog, I will read it!  Blogs continue to be a source of inspiration for me.  So much good stuff.  If you haven't read through your classmates' thoughts yet, do so post haste!

Synthesis Essay 2: Due Tuesday, November 26th.  Google Drive that sucker.

Hamlet:  We will pause until we have read in class up to where we have read outside of class.  We will be calibrated when we are back from Turkey Day.