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AP Lit 3G: Chess is Literary

Exploring literature as chess.

AP Lit 3G: Chess, Strategy & Literature

We begin by submitting our synthesis essays.  Create a Google Drive folder called "[First & Last Names] AP Lit 2013 IN," make me an editor of that folder.  Finally, put a Google Doc version of your essay in that folder.

Note: It has to be a Google doc, not just a Pages document uploaded.  I need to be able to comment on it using Google, not Pages.

This should only take a few moments.

Then . . .

Chess.

Why chess?

We'll discuss at length in class.

And speaking of discussions . . .

We will practice using a class discussion protocol that we will use next week for our first formally assessed class discussion.

Homework

Write: Work on your college essay.  (If no school chosen yet, go w/ the common app prompt.  You can find that all over the interwebs.)  Your submission draft is due next Thursday or Friday, depending on which class you are in.
Due: Thursday, 8/3, Friday, 8/4

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.

PACE: Working on Being Heroes

Thursday will begin in The Forum.  We'll be looking at some work the  teachers did on Wednesday afternoon regarding how to make the school a more welcoming, engaging place that gets more students to want to BE HERE.  I'm curious to see what you think of the results.

I then need to show you how to complete the project proposal form for the I Am Hero Project.  I'll do that by making a fake one right in front of your very eyes.  The actual form lives on its own page right here on the blog.

I only received a little feedback the other day (7 out of 17) about how class went, but I'm applying it.

So I'll stop as close to 30 minutes as possible today, though it may go a little over.  You will certainly have over half of the class to work.

And that work will include working by yourself or with your Student PACE reading groups on any of the following.

Homework

Reading

Student PACE: Whatever reading comes next for your group

Teacher PACE: Finish book by 9/30

Graphic Organizers

I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #1

Due Friday 9/20 -- Will Take Up to Wednesday 9/25 & Not Be Late

I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #2 (In the PACE 2013 OUT folder on Google Drive)

Due Monday 9/30

Blog

3+ Blog Posts Due Each Week (A Week is Monday to Friday)

1 Post Is Required (It Will Always Be a Creative Post), Others Are Anything You Want to Post Related to Class

Creative Req. Post: Write your own song or poem that tells JUST the story of your protagonist’s call to adventure and/or crossing of the threshold.  It may take any poetic form you like -- it does not need to be an epic poem -- and there isn’t a particular length requirement so long as it fits a poetic form and tells that part of the story. (Note: This is also part of your graphic organizer Week #2 -- it counts for both! That’s one way to look at using your blog. A place to do your work.)

Due Friday 9/27

I Am Hero Project

The rubric is on the blog as well as here.

You should start your planning ASAP.  There will be a proposal form that will be due next Monday 9/30 in class.

Proposal & Conf Due Monday, 9/30

Due Wednesday, 10/9

Humanities: Mas Cardboard Challenge!

More building on the Mt Blue Campus

Humanities: Symbaloo (for LoNGview work)

AP Lit: Synthesis Essay Rubric