Periods 5, 6, and 7 Hamlet 1.1, 1.2 due 2/2

Homework 

Read and complete logs for Act 1 scene1 and Act 1 scene 2 (1.1, 1.2).

Compile any questions you may have.  What complications do you antipate for Hamlet.

Periods 2 and 3

1.Attend: CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL (you'll need a break after the Sat Calculus Prep session)

The Crow Collection of Asian Art will celebrate spectacularly at the all-day Chinese New Year Festival on Saturday, Jan 28, from 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Held inside the Crow Collection of Asian Art and outdoors on Flora and Harwood Streets in the Dallas Arts District, highlights include lion and dragon dances, family-fun art-making activities, calligraphy demonstrations, face painting, face changers, fortune telling, kung fu and breaking demos, Beijing Opera renditions, musical performances, traditional Chinese dances and more, plus a fantastic fireworks finale to close the evening! The event is free and open to the public.

Get Directions

Crow Collection of Asian Art 
2010 Flora St.
Dallas, TX 75201 
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2. Complete the Deconstructing Student Essays Assignment and the "She being Brand / new" Text Rendering Due Monday

Periods 5,6, and 7

Please Remember To:

1.Attend: CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL (you'll need a break after the Sat Calculus Prep session)

The Crow Collection of Asian Art will celebrate spectacularly at the all-day Chinese New Year Festival on Saturday, Jan 28, from 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Held inside the Crow Collection of Asian Art and outdoors on Flora and Harwood Streets in the Dallas Arts District, highlights include lion and dragon dances, family-fun art-making activities, calligraphy demonstrations, face painting, face changers, fortune telling, kung fu and breaking demos, Beijing Opera renditions, musical performances, traditional Chinese dances and more, plus a fantastic fireworks finale to close the evening! The event is free and open to the public.

Get Directions

Crow Collection of Asian Art 
2010 Flora St.
Dallas, TX 75201 
Map It

 

2. Complete the Deconstructing Student Essays Assignment and the "She being Brand / new" Text Rendering Due Monday

Substitute Assignment 1.25.17

AP English 4 –  Periods 5, 6, and 7:

Deconstructing Student Writing Template:

Part 1: Having Scored Essays with AP Rubric and composed critiques, SW work with partner to complete deconstruction of student essays for 2012 Question 2 - Under the Feet of Jesus using the Deconstructing Student Writing Essay. (please see student handout that is in drive folder – link is on the Blog). By the end of the Period students will submit analysis of each student essay scored a 5 or higher. Each student should turn in her/his own copy of the assignment and their rubric scores.

Part 2: Please work with a student partner to render the poem “she being Brand / -new” by e.e. cummings. Remember, as with the assignment for “The Flea”, students will select one word, one phrase, and one sentence from the text. In each instance unpack all the connotative meanings of the WORD; then do the same with the PHRASE, and the SENTENCE. When you are finished put the three together into a one page (college ruled) analysis of the poem paying particular attention to how double entendre and verbal ironies establish nuance and multiple meanings in the text. WHY DO YOU THINK CUMMINGS CHOSE THIS KIND OF SYNTAX FOR THE POEM?

Submit completed assignments to the class box at period's end. If you are working digitally/electronically submit typed assignments as two separate shared Google Docs. Share with jessupsenglish@gmail.com

Streetcar Project Drive - Please submit NOW

Streetcar Project

If you have not submitted your project, please share it to this Link: Streetcar Project Drive

I'll be posting grades this week.

STREETCAR POSTCARDS

Streetcar Postcards Exam

Remember that you are recreating  scenes to show everything you know about the scene from the perspective of one who has seen EVERYTHING. Try to capture everything you think a character/or audience should know about the scene in your photo from omens, to warnings, to changing moods. Your perspective can take into account ALL action and ALL motives as you present it in a single shot. The handout is available in the Drive folder (click link below).

Upload your projects to: (yes, click the link)  STREETCAR POSTCARDS DRIVE folder that has your period number. Due by 12/21/2017

Ma Rainey's Monologue Project Due: 11/28 B or 11/29 A

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Character Monologue

 I have placed templates for the monologues, the handout below, and a template for your CHARACTER MAPS in DRIVE

Please Remember to use the templates I've provided. They'll make life easier for this work and for those in the future. THANKS!!!

Assignment: Submit to Turnitin.com:  11/28 B or 11/29 A (300 points – 200 project, 100 test)

1.       Choose one character from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Levee, Ma, Cutler, or Toledo) and create a dramatic monologue/soliloquy from only/mostly that character’s lines that capture h/her values, desires, life experience, and loss. The piece may be poetry, prose, and/or something in between and should be at least one page typed and formatted. To help you, refer to the “questions for consideration” on the Blog.

2.       At the end and on a separate typed page please compose a 1^st person two paragraph reflection/analysis of your monologue. Please explain your process for selecting particular lines and how they reflect the character traits you wanted to capture. Similarly, how do these lines and this character speak to the central idea of the play: that the interaction between African American and dominant white culture in America not only damages African Americans, but leaves them with scars that often influence the other aspects (if not all aspects) of their lives? Or, how do these lines and this character represent (like the blues) the African American experience in America?

Just as August Wilson used the blues to establish rhythms and patterns of speech in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, try to think of this monologue as a blues variation. To this end and if you choose, you may record your monologue as a video with or without music, with or without images, or perform the piece in class with or without music. For an extra credit grade category of your choice (except semester exam). If you choose to video/record please share your project to the appropriate DRIVE folder

Please remember, you are student writers and performers in a public space and as such should not take the same liberties with language (profanity) that Wilson takes to heighten readers’ senses or denote a hierarchy.  Similarly, as Dr. Lundeana Thomas documented, “raced” words are intimate, cultural, sacred expressions that denote an exclusivity of ownership.  They do not belong to those outside of the culture and are to be respected and left alone.