Happy Monday, Seniors!

I have posted a brief survey regarding the Prose Analysis Essay and Wuthering Heights on Google Classroom that I'd like you to complete by Wednesday  It is not graded so don't panic if you do yours late, but I really need to see student responses from all of you this week before we go "live" with our distance learning next week.  It's a good opportunity to work out any hitches we might have with the technology.  

Google Classroom is going to become the main way of conveying information to you, so please make sure that you have notifications "on" so that you know when a new assignment or material is posted.  For a while, I will continue to post on my blog, but we may end up transitioning away from that entirely in an attempt to streamline the number of places you have to check for your work.

Looking forward to getting back to our learning!

McE

March 26 Updates!

Hello Seniors!

I miss you all and hope that you and your loved ones are doing okay!

This is still Spring Break, so for now you're just doing a little Wuthering Heights reading. 

Teachers begin working from home on Monday, March 30th.  There are still some questions about how that will look, but that's what I will consider our "return to learning" date.  So, I will be making available some learning opportunities for you starting then. 

AP Test Updates:

The current information seems to indicate that your AP test in Literature will consist of a 45 minute free response question.  More information is supposed to be coming at the beginning of April.  The College Board explains their current thinking and is providing links to online courses here.  However, remember this is still your Spring Break, so you should not feel obligated to do any of the online learning today or tomorrow.  Next week, however, we can use their lessons along with our own to help get us prepared for the AP test.

Obviously, there are still questions:  Will the 45 minute question be poetry?  prose?  open ended?   your choice of three options?  Stay tuned!

March 20 Updates

Hi, Seniors!

Thanks to those of you who responded to the audio test.  It seems like that format may be viable, so that's good to know.

Our district and our school are in discussions about how to best handle learning during our hiatus.  I do not want to accidentally overstep what may end up being a formal policy, so I am holding off on posting any "official" assignments during this time, because frankly, I don't know yet what can be an official assignment.

It would not hurt to continue to read Wuthering Heights, however.  I was going to assign a chunk of that over Spring Break regardless.

I will release some AP classroom practice materials.  These are not required, but they are available if you're bored and looking for something to do.

I miss you all!

Audio Test and information

So, the quest to post some audio Wuthering Heights information has proven difficult from a technology standpoint.  I've posted an audio test (pretty much just me saying "testing") to see if this format works.  I also have enabled comments below, so if you can hear me, post that you were able to.

Also, please make sure to keep all comments appropriate, and I apologize in advance if internet people get a hold of the comments and post random stuff.  That's why I normally have comments disabled, but these are strange times.

Also, no promises that I will actually end up using this format.  I'm just curious to see if it will work.


The AP people have said that they are looking into online testing options if necessary, so it looks like we are still operating as if AP testing is on.

Stay posted.

Audio Test

March 13th Update-Virus Hiatus

The AP people have released the following statement regarding testing.  You can read it here.

The good news is that it currently looks like AP testing will continue with the possibility of test dates pushed later as appropriate.

For us, this means we will continue to prep for our AP test. 

Check back in the next few days as you continue your work with Wuthering Heights. 

In the meantime, work on reading Chapters 10-12.  There will be a "discussion" after Chapter 12 to make sure we are understanding the significance of what's going on.

Victorian Prose Passage Assignment

Due Monday

We will be doing a study of four 19th century prose passages to get us ready for Victorian Era passages. Please  complete these through Google classroom. This packet what you will use for marking the text, but it should be accessible through the Google classroom assignment.


1.  Please write a "know ya boo" style fill in the blank statement for each prompt at the top of the document.


2. Read all passages and mark the text writing down insights into character, inferences, identifying quotations, or anything that would help you develop a complex response to the prompt.

3. Re-read the passage that you are to become an expert on. (Listed by alpha below). Expect that you will be asked to make a comment about your focus passage in class, so make sure you have extra fancy insights for this one. You will need to write down one turn-in-able insight about your passage. (Take me through your claim(s),the quotation(s) that support this, and, why this is interesting.

4. Be prepared to turn your all 4 marked texts in for points.

A-H: Passage 1
I-M: Passage 2
N-R: Passage 3
S-Z: Passage 4

Due Tuesday or Wednesday

Please read through this introduction slideshow on Wuthering Heights.

Then, read chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights.

Due Mon/Tues

Please finish your reading of Ros and Guil for Monday or Tuesday.

We are planning on our Drama test on Wed/Thurs of this week.  Approximate question breakdown is available below.

Works covered:  Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 Authors of all of the plays

 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony, stichomythia


 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings, foil, blank verse, prose

Test format:

100 Questions (Multiple Choice! Can you believe it?)

 23 True/False Questions
 5 event timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification
 Author Identification
 Character Identification

Practice Quotation ID's below:

1. Almost everyone who goes bad in early in life has a mother who’s a chronic liar.

2. My, my, what lovely lacework on your dress!
The workmanship’s miraculous, no less.
I’ve not seen anything to equal it.

3. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.

5. Tomorrow I’m going home—I mean, home where I came from. It’ll be easier up there to find something to do.

6. It’s hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort,
And he who gives his daughter to a man she hates
Must answer for her sins at Heaven’s gates.

7. If he doesn’t buckle down, he’ll flunk math!

8. Set your mind at rest.
If it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you
That you will find no man whose craft gives knowledge
Of the unknowable.

9. If only we two shipwrecked people could reach across to each other.

10. There’s a vast difference, so it seems to me,
Between true piety and hypocrisy:
How do you fail to see it, may I ask?
Is not a face quite different from a mask?


12. …I oughta be makin’ my future. That’s when I come running home. And now, I get here, and I don’t know what to do with myself.