Final Project

Compose a 3.5 - 4 minute multimedia essay (video, photos, graphics, drawings, paintings, dance, and text) that answers the following question: In four  years what have you learned (no, not just in school) and has the journey been worth it?

https://www.wevideo.com/

WeVideo is probably the best free online video creation platform. There are some other decent tools on your computer:
iVideo
Windows Live movie maker

Things like animoto aren't nearly as effective, nor is photo story.

I have examples posted at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUdF-IdclTb3HsfGD5U2tLvQ

Review materials for AP exam

Link to video review materials

Fences - Homework Reminder

Read Play and Complete questions handout by 4/13 (A), 4/14 (B).

Links to the videos in class:

American Masters August Wilson http://to.pbs.org/1w43AXB

watch first 4 minutes, then watch from 00.30 - 00.37

Watch:  Fences - Excerpts http://bit.ly/1I0o3Dj

Watch: August Wilson on the Blues: 1st 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgjnNaMweBw

 Listen:
Bessie Smith Nobody can bake a sweet jelly roll . . .
Jesus, be a fence . . .

Tutoring Schedule

Here is the updated tutoring schedule. In Addition, Mr. Templet (305) offers tutoring Tues: 8:25 and W/Th 4:20

Mr. Jensen's Tutoring is by appt.. If you are retaking the AP Lang Exam the AP Eng 3 Faculty are available as well.

Due Friday 4/10 (B) Monday 4/13 (A)

Read Act 2 -
Prepare discussion notes for 3 motif: Death, Blues, Baseball and how each motif drives the themes of the play.
Possible themes: The creation of Order, Freedom vs. Protection, Personal Apocalypse, the American Dream, and The African American Difference.

Be prepared to evaluate the wants and gets of each character and the cost of sacrifice in the play as a whole.

What do you think Wilson is trying to communicate to us about the 20th century African American experience? How is it unique? How is it similar to the experience of the Loman's?

Fences by August Wilson

Please read Act One of Fences (pp1594-1628) or at this link http://web.mit.edu/wpick/output.pdf  on 04/06/15 and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the condition of the marriage of Rose and Troy at the beginning of the play. What are their habits? How well meshed are they? What about their marriage has made Troy discontented?
2.What are Troy's relationships to the other characters - Bono, Lyons, Gabriel? Show how these are compounded of both conflict and congruence of feelings.
3. Define the conflicts between Cory and Troy, showing how they develop. In what ways do they resemble those between Troy and his Father? What does Troy want to protect Cory from, and what direction does he want him to take? What unspoken dangers does Cory face as a Marine in 1965?

Due beginning of Class 04/08/15

Heart of Darkness Journal

Annette Z asked for a list of assignments that should be in the journal and I am only too happy to comply.

1. Follow one motif: Hearts or Hells all the way through the novel in your journal - document the quote and your response.

2. I've pointed out passages along the way that I found interesting, you were to do the same and tell me how and why.

3. You were to check in with your response to Marlow's character every few pages - what things resonate? What's on his mind and why?

4. Quote responses from the handouts - staple quotes to journal (or scan them if your journal is digital) and then compose your responses on separate sheets.

5. Do the same with the guided reading responses.

6. A) character Webs.

6. B) symbols.

7. Final reflection.

8. Extra credit - Found Poem from the text (take a passage and arrange the words as poetry without changing their order. Remember the river I created in the trees passage? If not I'll show you Monday. I'll collect journals Wednesday.

I will be present for Saturday school from 9 - 12 if any of you need to make up work, need a place to work, or simply want to practice something as mundane as thesis writing. Yes, I will offer a full credit grade if you attend.

Du Calme, Du Calme . . .