jessup's AP English

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Fences Assignment - Due 4/21 Beginning of class AND MORE

In Dropbox ("Fences Discussion"), or in my classroom, you will find the discussion handout (ignore the SlideShare suggestion for now). Please have your text annotated and be prepared to discuss each idea.

WHAT is the cost of sacrifice in this play as a whole ? (think in terms of wants and gets)

There will be some kind of in class writing for Fences*, as well as AP MC in 5th and 8th.

**AP Major Works - Your Major Works assignment is Due 4/25 - NO EXCEPTIONS! A minimum of these 6 MAJOR Works Aside from the one I gave you on Hamlet (or your own), and two others that you may want to use.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Novel #1, Novel #2, Fences, Death of a Salesman

This is a ONE TIME project grade and you will need them for the next two weeks.

PLEASE - COME PREPARED TO CARRY THE CLASS SO I'M ABLE TO REWARD ALL OF YOU WITH HEAVY PARTICIPATION GRADES (YES, EVERYONE MUST PARTICIPATE IN EACH CLASS FOR ANY ONE TO EARN THE GRADES)

Thursday, April 14, 2016

MultiMedia Novel Presentations

PLEASE SELECT THE APPROPRIATE CLASS LINK AND UPLOAD YOUR PRESENTATION INTO THE FOLDER.

MAKE SURE YOUR FILE HAS YOUR NAME IN THE TITLE!

Friday, April 8, 2016

DOAS and Fences due 4/13

Compose Character Analyses For each of the Lomans in 1st Person.

Biff - I am.... you must address who they are to you, how they appear to others, what they think of the others, what they think about the past, and why they matter. What do we learn from them? Use all those lovely attitude words you've been given,

READ - ACT 1 of Fences - Reading Questions to follow shortly.

Multimedia Presentation of Thematic and Literary Elements in Independent Novel - Must be Uploaded by 4/15

Tools to Help

Stupeflix developer - Free video with effects

Stupeflix studio - an basic version of the above

ClipGenerator - a seamless online short video generator

Here's a tutorial for the above Clipgen

Haiku Deck - Presentations use Teacher free trial log in

SlideDog - Integrated Multimedia Presentation Platform YES it's FREE TRY IT!!!

Powtoon - Custom animations and presentations - both this and the 4ed are free

Projeqt another multimedia presenter and integrator there's also Projeqted

there are also many google apps to help you complete this as well

Remember - Have Fun and SHOW ME YOU KNOW YOUR NOVEL!

Monday, April 4, 2016

Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller by Wednesday 4/6

Please READ DEATH OF A SALESMAN Act 1 by Wednesday - Make notes about the 4 characters, but mostly have something concrete to say about Willie Lohman and his vision of the American Dream.

Text is available in DROPBOX

Sunday, April 3, 2016

FYI

If you're just starting this odds are you're really behind. The lens should've been selected when I handed out the assignment, and your article located. This said -

ESSAY FORMAT -

Calibri/Helvetica 11pt font, 1.5 spacing, 1 inch margins. Same simple Header as last time :

Introduction:

3-4 Sentences: Summarize your novel in one amazing sentence _____________ is a novel about ______ and examines the issues of _____, ______, and blank and the idea that (people, men, women)___________________. Explain what a critical lens allows a reader to do and why it's important. (Thesis) While __________ is a novel about ________'s __(adjective)___experience with ____________, by looking at it from the perspective of ____(your critical theory)__ we are able to see ____________ and understand __________ about the human experience.

Body Paragraph 1:

A succinct 2-3 sentence summary of your lens article. Summarize it, do not use a long quote to demonstrate. Your summary of the article demonstrates your understanding. Then extend the idea. HOW DO YOU SEE one pivotal incident in the novel in relation to one or two characters through the application of this theory. Answer how this establishes a new level of understanding (this is the thesis you will support for the rest of the essay).

Body Paragraph 2 and 3

Examine the incident, the character, and the ideas in context. How does this provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the character, and their life, their place in society, the world, history, culture (choose a few, right?!). Remember, support your ideas by always connecting evidence to elaboration.

Body Paragraph 4

So What? Theme. Given both levels of understanding what can you say about the novel and what are we supposed to essentially understand.