Livy Eng IV/AP Lit
August
19
26
First Day – class
introduction
Turn in and discuss
annotated poems
20
27
Discuss RP/Change paper
21
28
Summer reading
presentations
22
29
Summer reading
presentations
Summer reading
presentations
23
30
Diagnostic Test
HW: Read Preface of
Perrine’s and takes notes
on each section
Point of annotation –
notes and handout
September
2
Labor Day
3
How to write about
Literature –Grouped
discussion of Perrine’s
4
Review AP essay rubrics
Read and grade sample
essays
Discuss Product and
Mentor for GP – show
links of website
5
Continue discussion of
sample essays
Go over diagnostic test –
students grade their own
essays and compare to
teacher grade
6
Change paper due
3 notes on Perrine’s
reading
Read “Beowulf” excerpts
Discussion on POV
Product Proposal given
9
3 notes on Perrine’s
10
Discuss Product Search
Frame story definition
Finish “Prologue”
11
Jigsaw on POV, structure,
and characterization
HW: Read Perrine’s of 238245 in Point of view –
annotate
Read background on
“Beowulf”
12
3 notes on Perrine’s
Product Proposal feedback
HW: Perrine’s pgs 107-115
and pgs 169-173 annotate
13
Product Proposal Due
“Desiree’s Baby” – close
Chaucer’s “Prologue”
Two groups- analyze
structure/frame story and
characterization
HW: “Wife of Bath’s Tale”annotate for POV,
structure, and
characterization
Timed essay on “Wife of
Bath” – 40 minutes
HW: Perrine’s pgs 337-342
– annotate
Grouped reading:
Gulliver’s Travels excerpts
and “The Guest”- annotate
for irony and humor
18
Class discussion of theme
on “Eveline”
16
E-portfolio Discussion
17
3 notes on Perrine’s
Product Plan and Mentor
Contract
Read “Eveline” pgs 218222
HW: Perrine’s pgs 203-210
Answer #1, 3, and 8 on pg
222
HW: Read “Araby” by
Joyce and create 3
questions by assigned
element in order to find
theme
23
24 – laptops
Shakespeare’s Othello
Introduction – research
25
Notes on Formalist and
Structuralism literary
theory
HW: Background on
Othello and drama terms
defined
Give Othello question
handout
Discuss Product Plan
Shakespeare’s Othello Act I
HW: Read Act One
Scene analysis
HW: Read Act II and III
30
Discussion of Act II and III
reading
Grouped discussions on
reading
Fishbowl Discussions
HW: Product Proposal
19
Socratic Seminar on
“Araby”- 2 cents worth
HW: Read Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis”
26
Shakespearean Sonnets
20
Test on literary terms
Obstacles and Success of
Product
27 – ER
Share and grade
Shakespearean sonnets –
turn in
in groups
HW: Read Act IV-V
October
1
Othello scene cut handout
2
Finish Scenes from
yesterday
3
Discuss literary theories
Play summary
Discussion of Act IV and V
in groups
7
Finish the Fishbowl
discussion
8
Grad Project check –
product/mentor
log/pictures
9
Othello Test
10
Peer edit and revise
College essay 1
College Essay 1
4
Analyzing through literary
theory – half the class will
look at Act V and analyze
from a Formalist theory
and the other half with
view from a Structuralist
theory
11
Peer Edit College Essay 2
Revise and rewrite essay 2
HW: Write college essay 2
Resume
HW: Post on E-Portfolio
Read “Myth of
Prometheus”
14
“Rime of the Ancient
Mariner” – analyze for
theme, figurative language
HW: Download and
annotate Frankenstein
powerpoint
15
“RIME OF THE ANCIENT
MARINER”
16– library
Check out Frankenstein
and get reading schedule
Study questions for Mary
Shelley f13
Frankenstein Historical
17- laptops
18 – Homecoming
Frankenstein Historical
Research – finish for HW
Present Historical
Research
Research
21
“Paradise Lost”
22
Finish “Paradise Lost”
23
Grad Project check –
product/mentor
log/pictures
24 – end 9 wks
Frankenstein practice quiz
25 – Work Day
Discussion circles –
preface to ch 12
resume
28
Frankenstein practice quiz
29
Reading Frankenstein
Grad Project
30
Frankenstein practice quiz
Questions 1-10
31
Group Discussion – ending
of novel
Discussion circles – ch 13ch 24
questions 11-17
November
1
Grad Project check
4
Wuthering Heights –
background and dialectical
journal
11 – Veteran’s Day
5
Grad Project
6
Product Due
7
12
“Porphyria’s Lover”
13
Grad Project
14
Frankenstein Essay
8 – ER
Wuthering Heights
passage analysis essay
15
18
E-portfolio
19
E-portfolio Due
20
21
Wuthering Heights
socratic seminar
22
25
26
In-class Presentations
27 – Thanksgivi ng
28– Thanksgivi ng
29– Thanksgivi ng
2
In-class Presentations
3
In-class Presentations
4
In-class Presentations
5
In-class Presentations
6
In-class Presentations
9
Wuthering Heights movie
10 – Senior Board Night
11
Heart of Darkness intro
12
Heart of Darkness and
imagery
13
Applied Practice
December
Wuthering Heights movie
16
“Hollow Men”
23 - Break
30- Break
17
Literary Theory and
Heart of Darkness
Timed Essay
HW: Read Achebe essay
24- Break
31- Break
18
Heart of Darkness and
Achebe
19
Invisible Man and Poetry
Heart of Darkness and
roman a clef
20 – ER
Tragic Figure unit essay
due
HW: Get Invisible Man
and begin reading
25- Break
26- Break
27- Break
January
6
Novel Discussion
7
“Booker T” poem
1- Break
8
Group Discussions
2- Break
9
3 – Work Day
10
13
EOC
14
EOC
15
EOC
16
EOC
17 – end 2nd nine weeks
20 - MLK
21 – Work day
22– Work day
23
27
Huck Finn introduction
28
Read Twain’s “The
Damned Human Race”
29
Appositive Work
30
“Just Walk On By”
24
Finish Invisible Man essay
31
“Taboo”
Applied Practice
Appositive Work 2-3
Sentence Openers
HW: Huck Finn ch 1-8
HW: Huck Finn ch 9-13
February
3
Huck Finn – the Rive as a
character and metaphor
4
Campus Racism 101 – read
and discuss
5
Character types – identify
from Huck Finn
HW: Huck Finn ch 14-23
Applied Practice
POV Writing
10
Literary Theory and Huck
Finn
11
Timed essay
12
6
Finish POV writing and
workshop with other
students
7
Applied Practice
Connotation and
Denotation
HW: Huck Finn ch 24-32
13
Their Eyes Were Watching
God intro
14
Historical Context readings
grouped readings
HW: Huck Finn ch 33-43
17 - Workday
23
Allusions and Imagery
18
Finish historical readings
19
“How it Feels to be
Coloured Me”
20
Dialect
Connotation and
denotation
Class Discussion of novel
26
Multimedia of Significant
Scenes
21
Applied Practice
Biopoem
24
Class Discussion of novel
Timed Essay
25
27
Multimedia of Significant
Scenes
4
Present Multimedia of
Significant Scenes
11
Applied Practice
5
The Awakening intro
6
12
“The White Heron”
13 – ER
Finish “The White Heron”
7
The Awakening passage
analysis
14
The Awakening research
19
20
21
26
Unit Essay Due
27 – end 3rd nine wks
28 - Workday
March
3
10
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Compare with The
Awakening
17
24
Essay Workshop
31
Poetry Unit
April
Conference on essay
18
25
7
14 – Spring Break
21– Spring Break
28
1
8
15– Spring Break
22
29
2
9
16– Spring Break
23
30
3
10
17– Spring Break
24
4
11
18– Spring Break
25
1
8
AP LIT EXAM
15
22
29
2
9
May
5
6
7
12
19
26 – Memorial Day
13
20
27
14
21
28
16
23
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