Today we will discuss approaches to the critical lens question on the Regents Comprehensive exam and practice outlining/brainstorming (prewriting) for this important question.
Extra Credit Essay:
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Major Works Data Sheet Assignments
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Period 5
The Pearl—Veronica
Of Mice and Men—Jackson
Raisin in the Sun—Aleja
Lord of the Flies—Molly
A Tale of Two Cities—Rachael, Carly
Merchant of Venice—Deanna
Night—Jaida
Things They Carried—Ethan
Slaughterhouse Five—Alyssia
Ragtime—Elizabeth
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Deja, Irene
Period 9 **IF YOU DIDN'T TELL ME WHICH WORK YOU WANTED BEFORE YOU LEFT CLASS TODAY, I ASSIGNED YOU AT RANDOM. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO THIS FOR TOMORROW'S CLASS!**
Period 9 **IF YOU DIDN'T TELL ME WHICH WORK YOU WANTED BEFORE YOU LEFT CLASS TODAY, I ASSIGNED YOU AT RANDOM. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO THIS FOR TOMORROW'S CLASS!**
Of Mice and Men--Gena
Antigone--Nicole
The Pearl—Artemis
Othello--Lillian
Hamlet—Julia, Hannah
A Raisin in the Sun—Phalyn
Lord of the Flies—Alison
Night—Laura, Quinn
A Tale of Two Cities—Enuma
A Doll’s House—Ben
The Tempest—Julie
Merchant of Venice—Nate
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Jasmyn
Things They Carried—Alice
Ragtime—Samiya
Slaughterhouse Five—Lauryl
To Kill a Mocking Bird--Duncan
A Lesson Before Dying—Kayli
1984--Concetta
The Great Gatsby—Tim, Alexis
Monday, January 13, 2014
Synthesis Essays/ Ragtime quiz
AGENDA:
1. Ragtime quiz (15 minutes)--
Take the Bookrags Ragtime quiz and see how you do!
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ragtime/free-quiz.html
2, As a group, we will group grade your synthesis essays after you take the Ragtime quiz and discuss the grading.
1. Ragtime quiz (15 minutes)--
Take the Bookrags Ragtime quiz and see how you do!
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ragtime/free-quiz.html
2, As a group, we will group grade your synthesis essays after you take the Ragtime quiz and discuss the grading.
Monday, January 6, 2014
RAGTIME
AGENDA:
1. Go over packet #3 for AP English Language practice--DUE FRIDAY!
2. Go over RAGTIME questions and observations
3. For homework: Read article about Doctorow and the Kohlhaas story (Kleist)
From Kohlhase to Kohlhaas to Coalhouse
All writing comes from other writing, and of course E.L. Doctorow was not the first writer to populate a fictional narrative with historical figures. It just seemed that way to many people when Ragtime was published, to great fanfare, in the summer of 1975.
But as Doctorow happily admitted in an interview in 1988, Ragtime sprang from a very specific source – an 1810 novella called Michael Kohlhaas by the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
The parallels between the two books are unmistakable. In Kleist’s
novella, the title character is based on an historical figure, a
16th-century horse dealer named Hans Kohlhase, who seeks justice when he is swindled out of two horses and a servant, a campaign that wins the support of Martin Luther
but eventually leads to Kohlhass’s violent death; in Doctorow’s novel,
the black musician Coalhouse Walker mounts an equally fierce campaign
for justice when his pristine Model T is desecrated by a company of
racist firemen, a campaign that wins the support of Booker T. Washington
but eventually leads to Coalhouse’s violent death.
“Kleist is a great master,” Doctorow told the interviewer. “I was first attracted to his prose, his stories, and the location of his narrative somewhere between history and fiction… Ragtime is a quite deliberate homage. You know, writers lift things from other writers all the time. I always knew I wanted to use Michael Kohlhaas in some way, but I didn’t know until my black musician was driving up the Broadview Avenue hill in his Model T Ford that the time had come to do that.”
Tuesday: continue Ragtime discussion
Wednesday: Review Synthesis essay
Thursday: In-class writing--bring pen and looseleaf paper
Friday: Packets due, quiz on Ragtime
1. Go over packet #3 for AP English Language practice--DUE FRIDAY!
2. Go over RAGTIME questions and observations
3. For homework: Read article about Doctorow and the Kohlhaas story (Kleist)
From Kohlhase to Kohlhaas to Coalhouse
All writing comes from other writing, and of course E.L. Doctorow was not the first writer to populate a fictional narrative with historical figures. It just seemed that way to many people when Ragtime was published, to great fanfare, in the summer of 1975.
But as Doctorow happily admitted in an interview in 1988, Ragtime sprang from a very specific source – an 1810 novella called Michael Kohlhaas by the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
The parallels between the two books are unmistakable. In Kleist’s
novella, the title character is based on an historical figure, a
16th-century horse dealer named Hans Kohlhase, who seeks justice when he is swindled out of two horses and a servant, a campaign that wins the support of Martin Luther
but eventually leads to Kohlhass’s violent death; in Doctorow’s novel,
the black musician Coalhouse Walker mounts an equally fierce campaign
for justice when his pristine Model T is desecrated by a company of
racist firemen, a campaign that wins the support of Booker T. Washington
but eventually leads to Coalhouse’s violent death.“Kleist is a great master,” Doctorow told the interviewer. “I was first attracted to his prose, his stories, and the location of his narrative somewhere between history and fiction… Ragtime is a quite deliberate homage. You know, writers lift things from other writers all the time. I always knew I wanted to use Michael Kohlhaas in some way, but I didn’t know until my black musician was driving up the Broadview Avenue hill in his Model T Ford that the time had come to do that.”
Tuesday: continue Ragtime discussion
Wednesday: Review Synthesis essay
Thursday: In-class writing--bring pen and looseleaf paper
Friday: Packets due, quiz on Ragtime
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Ragtime vocabulary and background
Create a padlet for the Ragtime vocabulary
Period 5
http://padlet.com/wall/emejqbfqfs
Period 9
http://padlet.com/wall/gra3irvsae
or go to Glogster
Period 5
http://padlet.com/wall/emejqbfqfs
Period 9
http://padlet.com/wall/gra3irvsae
or go to Glogster
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Ragtime
Packet #3
Ragtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxzV7mVx4U4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHkEzsoG5A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKn2N4GRVhY&feature=related
Read to page 50 for Friday, and finish book over the break
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sweat/Ragtime/Bedford
"Sweat"
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.wsu.edu%2Fpipermail%2Fenglish%2Fattachments%2F20130206%2F4fdc96a6%2FHurstonSweat.pdf&ei=ICWvUpznHaTksATfg4CACA&usg=AFQjCNHGMrL0IWZqOvtoWWWXPWrqZWPGUQ&sig2=ne2A0oKY5yIoL0jNP6I4IQ&bvm=bv.57967247,d.cWc
Video "Spunk":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOG_fHaNb7M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ioCkW5U14
Analysis of Sweat:
http://voices.yahoo.com/zora-neale-hurstons-sweat-character-metaphor-in-428737.html?cat=38
http://www.articlemyriad.com/analysis-summary-sweat-hurston/
"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fenloehs.wcpss.net%2Fresources%2Fkingsberry%2Fpropaganda.pdf&ei=PyevUvmzCobjsASyooGIDA&usg=AFQjCNGF3LcsA7McjXlWuu0hO0YeXXausg&sig2=kptazb7odmkb_vBblhZnDw&bvm=bv.57967247,d.cWc
CONTENT
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.wsu.edu%2Fpipermail%2Fenglish%2Fattachments%2F20130206%2F4fdc96a6%2FHurstonSweat.pdf&ei=ICWvUpznHaTksATfg4CACA&usg=AFQjCNHGMrL0IWZqOvtoWWWXPWrqZWPGUQ&sig2=ne2A0oKY5yIoL0jNP6I4IQ&bvm=bv.57967247,d.cWc
Video "Spunk":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOG_fHaNb7M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ioCkW5U14
Analysis of Sweat:
http://voices.yahoo.com/zora-neale-hurstons-sweat-character-metaphor-in-428737.html?cat=38
http://www.articlemyriad.com/analysis-summary-sweat-hurston/
"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fenloehs.wcpss.net%2Fresources%2Fkingsberry%2Fpropaganda.pdf&ei=PyevUvmzCobjsASyooGIDA&usg=AFQjCNGF3LcsA7McjXlWuu0hO0YeXXausg&sig2=kptazb7odmkb_vBblhZnDw&bvm=bv.57967247,d.cWc
CONTENT
- What did the third floor of Walker's new grade school formerly house?
- Describe the relationship between Miss Mey and the author's mother.
- Who is Miss Yarborough?
- How does the author feel about being on the cover of a magazine at the time of the writing of this piece?
- Describe the author's relationship to her poetry.
- How does Rebecca react upon viewing the author's eye? How does Walker react to her reaction?
- What changes in Walker's life when she becomes eight years old?
- Explain this essay's title in light of the author's view of beauty and self-identity. How effective do you find it? Explain.
- Discuss "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" as a comparison/contrast essay. Support your answer with specifics from the text.
- Why do you think Walker repeatedly puts quotation marks around the word accident? How can you relate this punctuation to her feelings about the event?
- In the last paragraphs the author departs from her mainly chronological approach. What incidents does she recount? What would she lose if she presented these things chronologically?
- In paragraph forty-three, Walker includes one of her poems. How else could she have conveyed this information? What does the poem provide besides information? How would the essay change without it?
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