Today we discuss the year thus far, exploring the ideas with which we've been grappling and the manners in which we've been grappling with them.
A great day for constructive criticism and adjustments we can make to the class to improve moving forward.
HOMEWORK.
Indie Book Discussion: Next Class!
Due: Tuesday, November 4
Indie Book Projects: No More Dumpster Projects! Woot!
Due: Thursday, November 6
Complete: Design thinking process packet (don't wait until the end! That defeats the point! It becomes busy work!)
DT Packet: Look for the packet in the AP Lit 2014 OUT folder
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
AP Lit 2B/3B: Questions & Prufrock
We'll start class with an affinity mapping exercise to prime our brains for a graded class discussion Tuesday. (Yes, this day.) It will take about twenty minutes.
It will involve sorting our Lot Jot questions and trying to find common qualities amongst the questions we ask.
Our goal: to determine the qualities that make up effective, meaningful questions. Thus, we'll start by sorting our questions into categories and threads that make sense to us. And then we'll describe them.
And THEN... the discussion. Look to the right. There's our discussion rubric. We'll be following that grading criteria. Prepare your quotes!
Homework
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd: Post 3 images/symbols that represent the 1st quarter for you; after posting the images, write a single paragraph of explanation
Due: Friday, Nov. 1
Read & Annotate: Excerpts from The Flamethrowers and Bleeding Edge
Due: Thursday, Oct 31
Read & Complete: Award Winning/Finalist Book Project
Due: Wednesday, Nov. 6
Prepare for Gallery Walk & Optional Choice to Present
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
AP Lit 3G: College Essay Tips & Dallowinian Discussions & Ideas
We'll start class with a few general suggestions about college essays and what I think helps students write effective, meaningful, powerful and relatively succinct pieces that get the desired results.
We'll take five minutes to check out http://kaizena.com/docs as well and see how that tool can help us.
Then we return to a new Mrs. Dalloway discussion.
Last class focused on plot and then veered into technique and form. I'd like the class to start with discussing techniques and form Woolf uses, seeking to uncover the how and the why, and then move on to the necessary what and who.
We will have a new backchannel here for these two days of discussion between the classes.
We would do well to create a list of character types we should be considering now, even having not read The Hours yet. Five to ten minutes at the end of class should suffice for that.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Tuesday 10/8
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Thursday 10/17
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
We'll take five minutes to check out http://kaizena.com/docs as well and see how that tool can help us.
Then we return to a new Mrs. Dalloway discussion.
Last class focused on plot and then veered into technique and form. I'd like the class to start with discussing techniques and form Woolf uses, seeking to uncover the how and the why, and then move on to the necessary what and who.
We will have a new backchannel here for these two days of discussion between the classes.
We would do well to create a list of character types we should be considering now, even having not read The Hours yet. Five to ten minutes at the end of class should suffice for that.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Tuesday 10/8
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Thursday 10/17
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
AP Lit 2B/3B: Dalloway Discussion & Introducing The Party
Today marks our first formally graded class discussion.
We have a new rubric for blogging starting with this week, Q1 Week 3.
The rubric is below.
Today we also start using our discussion rubric.
Today's back channel is here.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Tuesday 10/8
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Friday 10/18
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
We have a new rubric for blogging starting with this week, Q1 Week 3.
The rubric is below.
Today we also start using our discussion rubric.
Today's back channel is here.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Tuesday 10/8
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Friday 10/18
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
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