This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, May 6, 2013

Focus: Building your confidence for the AP Literature Exam

1. Announcements!

2. Introduction to today's stations:

Station 1: Victorian-style prose, multiple choice

Station 2: Victorian-style prose, syntax practice

Station 3: Victorian-style prose, essay prompt

Station 4: Bedside stacks

Station 5: Feel good about yourself

You will select 2-3 stations and spend about 20-25 minutes at each station.  The first 10 minutes will be spent in mandatory silence so that you may read in peace.  The second 10-15 minutes can be spent in whatever way your group feels is most beneficial to your style of review (independent work, group discussion, etc.).

If you need all 5 review stations, don't worry; these stations and many more will still be available tomorrow.

HW:
1. Bedside stack.
2. AP Lit review book (target your least confident areas).

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, May 3, 2013

Focus: Preparing for the AP Lit Exam!

1. Announcements! Any revisions to turn in?

2. Finishing the last ten minutes of R&G and exploring related AP prompts

3. Returning and reviewing your timed writings

• Patting yourself on the back for THREE strengths you have as a timed writer, and giving yourself ONE goal for timed writing improvement.

• S-5 and Portrait groups of expertise

4. Dear Ms. Leclaire,

             Here are my dream review stations for next week:

5. If time allows, working on bedside stacks

HW:
1. Performing the nightly ritual of your bedside stack.
2. Working through "problem areas" using your Barron's AP review book (bring it to class next week).

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, May 2, 2013

Focus: Synthesizing larger ideas about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

1. Announcements!

2. Viewing the film version of R & G Are Dead

What's the bigger story here, and how is it being told?

3. Speed dating while forming thesis statements and outlines for various open prompts that reference R & G

HW:
1. If you are revising your critical review or your poetry essay, please do so by tomorrow.
2. If you have an AP Lit review book at home, please bring it to class tomorrow.

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, May 1, 2013

Focus: Starting to synthesize larger ideas about R&G Are Dead

1. Announcements!  And snack!

2. Warm-up: Singling out the most important passage from your section

As you listen to others' lines, think about how to finish this statement: R&G Are Dead is about...

3. Watching part of an interview with Tom Stoppard to see what he thinks this play is about

4. Viewing a few key scenes from the film version of R & G Are Dead

HW:
1. Keeping up with your bedside stack (remember that it should be a nightly ritual--repetition is key).

2. Remember that if you plan to revise your critical review or your poetry essay, please do so by FRIDAY.  Remember to highlight all changes on your new draft, compose a brief paragraph explaining what you chose to revise and why, and staple everything to your original draft with my comments.

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, April 30, 2013

Focus: Analyzing the ending of R&G Are Dead

1. Announcements!

2. Warm-up:  A little visual help from Ms. Leclaire on R & G Are Dead

3. As you watch the final performance, please take note of the following:

Given the Player's description of a tragedy in Act Two, is Stoppard's play a tragedy ("The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily")? (2.316)

Does Stoppard's play pay homage to Hamlet or does it ridicule it?

Pose one important question about the play's ending.

4. Acting Company #5: Final warm-up, performance, and discussion of R & G Are Dead

HW:
1. Keeping up with your bedside stack (remember that it should be a nightly ritual--repetition is key).

2. Remember that if you plan to revise your critical review or your poetry essay, please do so by FRIDAY.  Remember to highlight all changes on your new draft, compose a brief paragraph explaining what you chose to revise and why, and staple everything to your original draft with my comments.

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, April 29, 2013

Focus: Performance and discussion of the fourth section of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

1. Announcements! And filling in the map...

2. Overview of the bedside stack

2. Today's R & G lesson brought to you by Acting Co #4!

a. Warm-up

b. Performance and passage marking

c. Question-developing and follow-up Socratic seminar

HW:
1. Guess who doesn't have to work on his/her culminating essay anymore?  That's right: YOU!
2. If you are revising your critical essay or poetry essay, please do so by FRIDAY.
3. Begin working on your bedside stack; form due WEDNESDAY.

Click HERE for a film version of R&G Are Dead.

This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, April 26, 2013

Focus: Performance and discussion of the third section of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Class ends at 10:02 am today (spring assembly).

1. Announcements!

2. Today's R & G lesson brought to you by Acting Co #3!

a. Warm-up

b. Performance and passage marking

c. Question-developing and follow-up Socratic seminar

HW:
1.Finish your culminating essays (due Monday). Click HERE for the "Night-Before Checklist."

Staple your question/booklist to the front of your essay.
Include an MLA heading.
Include a header (Your last name   Page #) in the upper right corner of each page.
Cite each quotation properly.
Attach a properly formatted Works Cited page that includes all works referenced in your essay.

2. If you are revising your critical essay or poetry essay, please do so by the end of April.