AP English – Literature and Composition
Miss Sloan
December 2 – December 6, 2013
Monday:
*Distribute syllabus, Hamlet vocab 2
* allusions/terms
*Check Quiz on The Awakening, ending chapters
*Discuss Awakening
*Final assessment on The Awakening, explained – due next Monday.
*Intro to Cuckoo’s Nest – chapter 1, discussion
HOMEWORK: Sentences due Friday, vocab quiz Friday. Reading in
Cuckoo, chapters 1-3 for Friday. Reading in the Norton; select one of
three stories for Wednesday: “Young Goodman Brown,” “A Hunger Artist,”
or “A Wall of Fire Rising” - reader response. Always be looking ahead
to your short story project!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read The Awakening;
explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from text and other research on
the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Tuesday:
*lit terms/allusions
*Finish chapter 1 of Cuckoo
*Quick poem in the Norton – discuss/analyze
*Reading in Hamlet
HOMEWORK: Vocab. Sentences and quiz Friday. Reading
in Cuckoo for Friday. Reading in Norton/reader responses for
tomorrow. Short story project – pick 3 stories by Dec. 20th – copies to me if needed.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of Shakespeare’s choices regarding how to develop and relate
elements of Hamlet (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and
developed).
Wednesday:
*lit terms/allusions
*Collect reader responses
*Class discussion on one of 3 for symbol
HOMEWORK: Quiz/sentences due Friday. Reading in Cuckoo.
Short story choices! Reading in Norton for next week:
Expository text on Theme (carefully!!), and “Interpreter of Maladies,” pg. 296-298, then
pg. 325.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read one of the short stories;
explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from text and other research on
the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Thursday:
*lit terms/allusions
*Reading in Hamlet
HOMEWORK: Sentences & Quiz tomorrow. Reading in Cuckoo. Norton
reading for next Wednesday!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of Shakespeare’s choices regarding how to develop and relate
elements of Hamlet (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and
developed).
Friday:
*lit terms/allusions
*Vocab quiz, Hamlet unit 2
*Check Quiz on Cuckoo
*Discuss chapters Cuckoo, for Monday, 4-9. RR and reading in Norton for Wed.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read Cuckoo’s Nest;
explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from text and other research on
the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.