Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
War and Fragmentation - Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATES
VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)
RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- Monday 3/16
- Tuesday 3/17
- Wednesday 3/18
- Thursday 3/19
- Friday 3/20
- Monday 3/23
- Tuesday 3/24
- Wednesday 3/25
- Monday 3/30
- Tuesday 3/31
- Wednesday 4/1
- Thursday 4/2
- Monday 4/13
- Thursday 4/16
- Tuesday 4/22
- Monday 5/4
VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)
RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- Reading Schedule
- The Weight of War in Chapter 1
- How to Tell a True War Story
- Chart
- Discussion Guide
- Nihilism, Postmodernism, Metafiction,
- Oh my - one of the most difficult aspects of O'Brien's secondary argument is the broken nature of communication after the traumas of war coupled with the possibility for storytelling as healing.
- The ambiguity of this argument is only furthered by the tool of argumentation - metafiction. As O'Brien blurs the line between fact and fiction, between truth and exaggeration, between happening-truth and story-truth, he calls attention to the stories as a construct in order to help us recognize other constructs related to war and post-war trauma.
- Here is some background information on nihilism, fragmentation, ambiguity, metafiction
- Modernism - nihilism and fragmentation - between WWI and WWII
- Postmodernism - ambiguity, deconstruction, metafiction - after WWII
Monday, January 27, 2020
Unit 6 - American Voices Research Project
DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATES
VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)
AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)
AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- 1 - Project Overview
- Calendar
- Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
- Malcolm Gladwell's article "Examined Life" (Stanley Kaplan) as model
- Overview of Project with StoryCorps (PPT)
- StoryCorps channel for fun
- Model essay based on Rocco's story
- Cover stories in American media to generate topic ideas
- 2 - Project Proposal
- 3 - Interview Plan and Questions (a resource not an assignment)
- 4 - Interview Recording and Transcript
- 5 - Secondary Research Plan
- 6 - Annotated Bib Assignment
- Collecting Secondary Sources with Synthesis in Mind - Annotated Bib Requirements (PPT)
- Model Annotated Bib
- Annotated Bib Graphic Organizer
- Working Outline
- Synthesizing Research
- Chart Method Sample Chart - feel free to make your own
- Model Outline 1
- Model Outline 2
- Rough Draft
- Revision
- Revision PowerPoint
- Requirements and Revision Checklist
- Peer Revision
- Paragraphing Logic from Purdue Owl
- Lead-Ins and Citations
- Conciseness
- To Be Verbs
- Works Cited formatting
- MLA formatting
- Crash Course series on Navigating Digital Information - This series is so good and necessary - not just for school but for life in our echo chamber of online lives!
CALENDAR (click here for larger view):
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Spring 2020! Unit 5 - Huck Finn's and America's Coming of Age; Unit 6 - American Voices Research Project
HUCKLEBERRY FINN RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Reading Schedule
- River Map
- "A True Story Repeated Word for Word, As I Heard It"
- Malcolm Gladwell's "The Paradox of Satire"
- Satire Definitions and Quotes
- Faces of Pap Analysis of Twain's Satirical Arc
- Realism and Regionalism
- Naturalism in Huck Finn
- Chimamanda Adichie's "Dangers of a Single Story"
- Replacing the "n-word" with "robot" in Huck Finn
- 1 - Project Overview
- Calendar
- Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
- StoryCorps channel for fun
- Model essay based on Rocco's story
- Cover stories in American media to generate topic ideas
- 2 - Project Proposal
- 3 - Interview Plan and Questions (a resource not an assignment)
- 4 - Interview Recording and Transcript
- 5 - Secondary Research Plan
- 6 - Annotated Bib Assignment
- Working Outline
- Rough Draft
- Revision
- Revision PowerPoint
- Requirements and Revision Checklist
- Peer Revision
- Paragraphing Logic from Purdue Owl
- Lead-Ins and Citations
- Conciseness
- To Be Verbs
- Works Cited formatting
- MLA formatting
- Crash Course series on Navigating Digital Information - This series is so good and necessary - not just for school but for life in our echo chamber of online lives!
CALENDAR (click here for larger view):
Monday, December 16, 2019
Final Exam Review - December 2019
- Final Exam Study Guide
- Frederick Douglass PDF
- Scarlet Letter PDF
- Gatsby PDF
- Rhetorical Terms Quizlet from James
- Rhetorical Terms Quizlet from Layan
- There are practice modules posted for you on AP Classroom. Here are join codes
- 3rd period - YKD7X3
- 6th period - 26VGNP
- 7th period - J4QQ43
Monday, November 4, 2019
Unit 4 - Rhetoric and Frederick Douglass - Writing for a More Perfect Union, take 2
CLASS RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass reading schedule and rhetorical tracker instructions
- Catalog of Owner Cruelty
- Reading Questions - not for a grade, just for comprehension check
- Rhetorical Devices Tracker Assignment - some resources to help with these terms
- ThoughtCo
- UK Glossary of Rhetorical Devices
- Great article on Irony
- Quizlet - Rhetorical Terms to Definitions (courtesy of Kelsey, from last year!)
- Quizlet - Rhetorical Terms to Examples (in progress)
- Kahoot Review Quiz
- How does Douglass warrant his claim given the illogical and fallacious justifications for slavery?
- Rhetorical Analysis Essay
- Assignment Overview
- STEP 1 - Planning Sheet
- STEP 2 - Organizing and Chunking
- Revision Exercises - intro, title, conclusion, to be verbs
- Model Using Chapter 1
- STEP 1 - Planning Model using Chapter 1
- STEP 2 - Organizing Model using Chapter 1
- STEP 3 - Paragraph Draft using Chapter 1
Monthly Calendar (click here for larger view):
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Unit 3 - The Scarlet Letter
CLASS RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- AP CLASSROOM JOIN CODES
- 3rd period - YKD7X3
- 6th period - 26VGNP
- 7th period - J4QQ43
- The Scarlet Letter reading schedule
- Introduction and Discussion PowerPoint
- 'A,' according to whom? Quote Collection for analyzing the Scarlet Letter
- Primary sources of the Puritan Childhood -- for your comparative pleasure (no "one fish, two fish" in sight 😏)
Monthly Calendar (click here for larger view):
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