Week of: August 25
Teachers: DeGroodt/Falcon
Team: AP Lit
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-up: Popsicle sticks; assign seats
Activities: Distribute syllabus
Introduce course; objectives; Essential Questions/Understandings; scoring guide
Monday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Jane Eyre O-E Essay [MAJOR Timed Writing completed in class on Sept. 8]
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Jane Eyre quiz tomorrow; Key Moments or Novel Notes due Tuesday, September 2
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-up: Introduce the Open-Ended essay; complexity of the “Classic literature”
Activities: O-E quiz on Jane Eyre
Share/discuss two released O-E questions from the past decade
Introduce Key Moments/Novel Notes strategy for O-E question preparation
Tuesday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Jane Eyre O-E Essay [MAJOR Timed Writing completed in class on Sept. 8]
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Key Moments or Novel Notes due Tuesday, September 2
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Wed/Thurs
Warm-up: Grammar Review
Activities: Introduce the Prose Analysis essay
Text Rendering as a Prose Analysis Strategy
Complete text rendering using excerpt from The Bluest Eye
Upcoming Major Assessments: Jane Eyre O-E Essay [MAJOR Timed Writing completed in class on Sept. 8]
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Read “Hills Like White Elephants” for Friday; Key Moments or Novel Notes due Tuesday,
September 2
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-Up: Prose analysis of “Hills” in groups
Activities: Review personal JE annotations from a randomly selected chapter; then complete text rendering of
that chapter; compare/share
Friday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Jane Eyre O-E Essay [MAJOR Timed Writing completed in class on Sept. 8]
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Key Moments or Novel Notes due Tuesday, September 2; Read Gilbert and Gubar’s “A
Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress” from The Madwoman in the Attic for W/Th