AP Lit Midterm Exam – Thursday 1/17/19
Midterm Study Guide – AP Lit – Midterm Exam Study Guide
AP Lit Final Exam – TBD
Final Exam Study Guide –
Weekly Reading Practice:
Directions: Assigned every Monday and due every Friday – 10 points
- Take background notes on the author – Pay close attention to writing styles – 2 points
- Read & Annotate the piece – 2 points
- Complete a TPCASTT/TSPFASTT (POEMS ONLY) – 2 points
- Answer the M/C questions and label each question style – 4 points
Darwin – Due Friday, – Darwin – On the Origin of Species
Dostoyevsky – Due Monday, – Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
Hawthorne – Due Friday, – Weekly Reading – Scarlet Letter 1
Chopin – Due Friday, – Weekly Reading – Chopin – The Kiss
Swift – Due Friday 2/1/19, – Swift Gullivers Travels
Jayadeva – Due Friday 12/14/18, – Jayadeva – Gita Govinda – Weekly Practice
Gibran – Due Friday 12/7/18, – Gibran – Defeat – Weekly Practice
Whitman – Due Friday 11/30/18, – Whitman – O Captain My Captain
Eliot – Due Friday 11/16/18, – Eliot – Morning at the Window
Dickinson – Due Friday 11/9/18, – Dickinson – Success is Counted Sweetest
Bradstreet – Due Friday 11/2/18, – Bradstreet
Yeats – Due Friday 10/26/18 – Yeats – That the Night Come
Wordsworth – Due Friday 10/19/18, – Wordsworth – The World is Too Much With Us
Marvell – Due Friday 10/11/18, – Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Hopkins – Due Friday 10/5/18, – Hopkins – Gods Grandeur – Weekly Practice
Herrick – Due Friday 9/28 – Herrick – To the Virgins To Make Much of Time
Hardy – Due Friday 9/21 – Thomas Hardy – Nobody Comes
“A Raisin in the Sun”
Act 1 – a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_pdf
Act 2 – a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_iipdf
Act 3 – a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_iiipdf
“This Is Me” Project: Due Sunday, May 5th
Directions Handout – _This Is Me_ Project Directions & Rubric
Video Example – https://youtu.be/WbnY-aE_5-8
Unit 5 – Literature Circles – Final Project Due Monday, 5/13
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Unit 4 – Short Stories (Student Lessons)
Presentation Calendar – 2019 Calendar of Lesson Presentations
Assigned Stories:
Group 1 – “A Rose For Emily” William Faulkner – A Rose for Emily pdf
Companion Piece – Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Socratic Seminar Handout – Socratic Seminar_ A Rose For Emily
Jeopardy Game – https://jeopardylabs.com/play/a-rose-for-emily-46
Group 2 – “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried
Companion Piece – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44329/the-man-he-killed
Handout for TTTC – Things They Carried excerpt
Group 3 – “Young Goodman Browne” Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown
Companion Piece – king_the_man_in_the_black_suit
Class Discussion PPT & Notes Organizer – Young Goodman Brown (1) Young Goodman Brown Packet (1)
Group 4 – “A Hunger Artist” Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist
Companion Piece – https://www.shia-maktab.info/index.php/en/library/books/english?format=raw&task=download&fid=280 Directions: Read pages 39-50 only
Class Discussion PPT – A Hunger Artist By Franz Kafka
Class Discussion PPT – “God’s Emissaries” GOD’S EMISSARIES Pages (39-50) Shaykh rizwan arastu
Group 5 – “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings
Companion Piece – https://youtu.be/z9GwIeh5FIY
Class Discussion PPT – A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Notes (1)
Assignment Rubric – AVOMWEW Rubric
Group 6 – “The Chrysanthemums” John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums
Companion Piece – https://ebooknoid.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo.pdf Directions: Read pgs 278-291
Class Discussion PPT – The Chrysanthemums
Group 7 – “Sonny’s Blues” James Baldwin – Sonnys Blues
Group 8 – “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
Companion Piece – https://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/hungergames-chapter1.pdf Directions: Read pages 15 to 19 only.
“Heart of Darkness”
PDF of novel – https://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm
HOD Novella Explained – HOD Reduction Notes
Background Notes Handout – Due TBD HOD Background Notes
Take Home Exam – Due TBD HOD Take Home Exam
Unit 3 – Poetry
Elements of Poetry notes – Elements of Poetry – AP Lit
Romanticism Poets – Romantic Poetry Notes
Poems Analyzed:
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth
Keats & Shelley – Due TBD – Ode to a Nightingale and Ozymandias
Unit 2: Feminism
“The Awakening” Overview (Reduction Notes) – “The Awakening” Overview
Feminist Web Explore Assignment – Due Friday, 12/14 by 11:59pm – Feminist Author WebExplore Directions
TED Talk – Justin Baldoni – https://www.ted.com/talks/justin_baldoni_why_i_m_done_trying_to_be_man_enough
“The Vindication of the Rights of Women” PDF – Wollstencraft – Vindication
“Vindication” – Reading Assignment – Due 12/12/18 – Wollstonecraft – Vindication – Reading Assignment
“Vindication” Reading Assignment Group Chapters – Wollstencraft – Ch. Assignments
“The Awakening” PDF – The Awakening pdf
“The Awakening” Reading Questions – Awakening – Reading Questions
“The Yellow Wallpaper” PDF – The-Yellow-Wall-Paper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Reading Guide – The Yellow Wallpaper Reading Guide
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Biography Video – https://youtu.be/uRZCv7gshNo
Unit 1: Shakespeare – Drama
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
- “Hamlet” Response Assignment – Due TBD – Hamlet Final Writing Project
- “Hamlet” Reading Guide – Hamlet Student Reading Guide
- “Hamlet” Notes ppt – Hamlet-Act IV
- “Hamlet” Notes ppt – Hamlet Act 1-3 Notes and Discussion Questions
“Rape of the Lock” Alexander Pope –
Lyrics Analysis (Poetry Introduction)
Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding) Lyrics (1)
- Music Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM
Childish Gambino – “This is America” Childish Gambino
- Music Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
- Hidden Meanings Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ZfJRiuuss
Micro Literary Analysis Directions – “It’s Alright Ma” & “This is America” Micro Analysis Directions
- Due Monday 9/10 – Written or Typed (Your choice)
AP Lit Class Essentials:
Literary Analysis PPT Notes – WritingtheLiteraryAnalysis
TP-CASTT & TSP-FASTT Charts: TPCASTT TSPFASTT
Reduction Directions, Example & Blank Chart – APLIT-ReductionOrganizer
AP Lit – Syllabus – Hadous – AP Lit Syllabus – FHS – Short Version
- Follow the directions as given in the syllabus
- Email me if you have any questions – hadousm@dearbornschools.org – I will be responding to emails during the summer.
- Summer work is worth 400 summative points and is due on the first day of school.