Agenda 1/5

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Agenda 1/5

• Focus Welcoming you back revisiting the past
  and looking ahead to the future
• My winter break and yours
• A glimpse of your future in A.P. Literature
• Battling out the answers to the multiple choice
  questions on your final exam
• HW Start reading Metamorphosis purchase books
  if youd like your own copies (especially
  Metamorphosis). ?

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What will we read this semester?

• MetamorphosisKafka
• The StrangerCamus
• BelovedMorrison
• Slaughterhouse-FiveVonnegut
• Waiting for GodotBeckett
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are DeadStoppard
• Modern book of your choice (must be a work of
  fiction, not a memoir, and it must have been
  published within last five yearsnothing older
  than 2005).

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Good News!

• You only have three big writings this semester,
  and only one of those is a formal literary essay
• Critical Review
• Creative Poetry Project
• Culminating Essay (involves your big question)

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Warming Back Up to the Multiple Choice Section

• Skim back through the passages and identify the
  type of each passage as closely as you can.
• Ex 17th century sonnet, or modern essay
• Identify which one was the easiest for you, and
  which one was the hardest.

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Agenda 1/6

• Focus Figuring out how to pick the right answer
• During announcements A Pop Quiz pop Quiz pop
  quiz Pop quiz (just give it your best effort and
  finish as much as you can by the end of
  announcements)
• Augmenting your vocabularies through the fun and
  intellectual stimulation that ispictionary!
• Finish strategizing how to answer multiple choice
  ?s
• Tomorrow Frost/Dickinson timed writings
• HW Start reading Metamorphosis (finish by
  Monday) think about what book youd like to read
  for your critical review. ?

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The Rules and Regulations of Pictionary

• The class will be divided into two teams.
• Each artist will get one minute at a time to
  get his or her team to guess the definitions of
  the words assigned.
• Each correct definition guessed will earn that
  team one point.
• Artists may use symbols, but they may not use
  words, make sounds, use the technique of sounds
  like
• The winning team will receive a warm plate full
  of homemade cookies at some point this week.

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What have we figured out about multiple choice so
far?
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Agenda 1/7

• Focus How to become an even better timed writer
• During announcements An actual pop quiz, but you
  only need to half of them right in order to pass.
• Dickinson vs. Frost Dont get left in the dark!
• TIGHT points of comparison
• Look over sample essays on Dickinson and Frost
  and get yours back
• Norming your grading with sample essays on the
  prose passage fast circle assessments of your
  essays
• HW Read Metamorphosis by Monday make a decision
  about your critical review book and email me the
  title, author, and year of publication. ?

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Tight Points of Comparison

• We vs. I (point of view)

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Agenda 1/8

• Focus Assessing your final two timed essays
• During announcements Look back to yesterdays
  samples write one sentence of defense for each
  grade you assigned
• Is it a 1? Is it a 6? Sharing your grading from
  yesterday on The Street and circle grading your
  essays on The Street
• Quick norming with the open prompt and circle
  grading of your open prompt essays
• Calculating your actual score, if time
• HW Read Metamorphosis in all its glory and
  create a reading ticket that addresses the first
  third of the book email me the title, author,
  and year of publication of your critical review
  book if you have not yet done so. ?

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Agenda 1/11

• Focus Questioning Kafkas The Metamorphosis
• During announcements Figure out your 2 timed
  writing grades by calculating the average score
  on each. Ex If your graders gave you a 4, 5,
  and 6 on your second timed writing, your grade
  would be a 5.
• What did you get on your midterm? Calculating
  your A.P. score and setting goals for yourself
• Unleashing the monster of Kafkas
  Metamorphosis Small group Q A
• HW If you havent emailed me your reading
  proposal yet (author, title, and year of
  publication), please do so tonight look over
  your vocabulary before you go to bed see website
  calendar for discussion schedule of The
  Metamorphosis. ?

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A.P. Scoring How To Decipher the Chart

• If you get 20 of the MC questions right, you
  need to get 6s and 7s on the essays to get a 3,
  and 8s and 9s to get a 4. A 5 is not feasible.
• If you get 30 of the MC questions right, you
  need 5s and 6s to get a 3, 7s and 8s to get a
  4, and all 9s to get a 5.

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Kafka Groups

• With your group, please discuss the first 3rd of
  Metamorphosis. Here are a few guidelines
• Share and discuss your reading tickets.
• As a group, create five good discussion questions
  and write each one on a separate card.
• Try to include at least three passage-based
  questions, and include the passage on the card.
• When you finish your questions, place them in the
  bin of knowledge and take out two new ones.
• When you finish discussing your two questions,
  exchange them for two new ones.
• The quantity of notes you take is up to you, but
  you should be jotting down ideas and questions to
  share with the class (and to keep for yourself).

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Agenda 1/12

• Focus A more structured look at Metamorphosis
  overview of the critical review
• During announcements Vocab. fun!
• Reading ticket quickwrites and give-aways!
• Whats a critical review? Samples of style,
  structure, and substance
• HW Create reading ticket for second half of
  Metamorphosis based on one of todays statements.
  ?

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Agenda 1/13

• Focus Turning your Kafka questions into Kafka
  responses
• During announcements Vocab. pop quiz 3
• Warm-up Gallery walk of reading tickets
• Whats bugging you about The Metamorphosis?
  Exterminating your Kafka issues, fishbowl-style
• HW Read your critical review book start your
  final reading ticket for Friday. For that final
  reading ticket, use Galenet to find an article on
  The Metamorphosis print it and read it, then
  type a half-page to a page summary and opinion of
  it. ?

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Best Metamorphosis Questions

• Why doesnt anyone question his transformation?
• What is the metamorphosis other than physical?
• Is the metamorphosis exemplifying Gregor or his
  family?
• What is the significance of Grete in the story?
  Why does she leave?
• What is the central conflict?

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Agenda 1/15

• Focus Analyzing The Metamorphosis
• During announcements What happened to Ms.
  Leclaire?
• Character dance-off
• Socratic seminar The Metamorphosis
• Goal 1 100 participation
• Goal 2 Share ideas from your articles
• HW Incorporate The Metamorphosis into your big
  question blog/wiki read your critical review
  book poetry response due next week. ?

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Character Dance-Off

• 1st step Get into character by brainstorming
  everything you know about the character on your
  card.
• 2nd step Think about how this character would
  act, say, move, etc.
• 3rd step As the music plays, wander/dance around
  the room. When it stops, grab a partner.
• 4th step I will post a question on the overhead,
  and you must discuss it with your dance partner
  for 2 minutes IN CHARACTER.

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What do you do for fun?
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What has been your greatest struggle?
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What is the greatest tragedy that can befall a
person?
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What has been your greatest accomplishment?
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What is the most significant change you have
undergone?
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What should we value above all else?
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Agenda 1/19

• Focus Seeing Kafkas bigger picture
• During announcements Hows your memory? Vocab.
  list 1, revisited
• Snack time!
• Remember your initial Metamorphosis questions?
  How well can you answer them now?
• Tuesday Writing 1 Open prompt
• HW Bring Metamorphosis to turn in tomorrow read
  your critical review book. ?

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Agenda 1/20

• Focus Sharing final thoughts on The
  Metamorphosis and exploring background to The
  Stranger
• During announcements Quietly enjoy a cookie bar
  from Ms. Leclaire
• What killed Gregor? An MMM approach
• Pre-reading questions for The Stranger
• Distribute copies of The Stranger
• HW Read through Ch. 4 of The Stranger for
  Friday, using one of todays questions as the
  basis for your reading ticket poetry response. ?

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Agenda 1/21

• Focus Addressing our social cravings
• During announcements Quietly respond to the
  quick survey on the overhead.
• Is a cockroach sometimes just a cockroach?
  Discussing The Meaning of No Meaning
• Prereading questions for The Stranger
  Brainstorming and discussion
• HW Read through Ch. 3 of The Stranger for
  tomorrow, using one of todays questions as the
  basis for your reading ticket poetry response. ?

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Please have this finished in your notebook by the
end of announcements.

• Do you think that analyzing a text detracts from
  the texts beauty and/or power?
• Absolutely Kind of Not at all
• Do you think that a piece of literature must have
  a deeper significance in order to be worthy of
  reading?
• Absolutely Kind of Not at all
• Please explain your two responses.

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Conformity

• How is conformity encouraged, even mandated, in
  our society?
• What are the consequences of being non-conformist?

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The Lie

• How is lying a part of being social?
• What are socially acceptable lies?
• Which is more expensivethe truth or the lie?

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Purpose

• What matters?
• According to whom?
• Why?

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Action vs. Non-Action

• Which is an ethically-correct choice given a life
  and death situation? Explain.

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The Excluded

• When does the socially marginal become
  criminal? Explain.
• Is this right?

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Agenda 1/22 (Shortened Class)

• Focus Addressing literary distortion and reality
• Any last poetry responses out there?
• Discussion of The Stranger, Chs. 1-3
• Writing Workshop Tuesday writing on The
  Metamorphosis
• Sample essay and rubric
• Peer editing
• HW Read chapters 4 through 6 for Monday
  critical review book. ?