Unit 4: Veracity and Duplicity

Wednesday 3/22/17

• UNIT INTRODUCTION: analysis and discussion of Socratic Seminar topic and texts
• PRE-READING ACTIVITY for The Misanthrope: Four Humors personality test (Four Temperaments Calculator, Open Four Temperaments Scale, Passions & Tempers Quiz;  background notes: the Four Humors PPT, Four Temperaments via Wikipedia, Four Human Temperaments by D. W. Ekstrand
• SELF-REFLECTION: GoogleForm
• ANALYSIS: The Misanthrope Act 1 (plot, theme, character, satire chart)  

Friday 3/24/17

• ANALYSIS: The Misanthrope Acts 2 & 3  (plot, theme, character, satire chart)

Tuesday 3/28/17

• SELF-REFLECTION: Heart of Darkness pre-reading response (Pearl S. Buck quotation) 
• GUIDED READING: Heart of Darkness chapter 1
• ANALYSIS: The Misanthrope Act 4 (plot, theme, character, satire chart) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: theme statement workshop with film clips [theme statement template; "The Truth is the Truth" (Ghandi, 1982), "You Can't Handle the Truth" (A Few Good Men, 1992), "Why Do People Tell Lies?" (Charade, 1963), "Harper Valley PTA" (Jeannie C. Riley, 1968) & Harper Valley PTA (Barbara Eden, 1978), "Oh, the Whomanity!" (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000)]   

Thursday 3/30/17

• ANALYSIS: The Misanthrope Acts 4 & 5 (plot, theme, character, satire chart)
• MINI-LESSON: Heart of Darkness background (introduction notes, Imperialism notes, maps and geographical images PPT) 
• INDEPENDENT & SMALL-GROUP WORK:  Heart of Darkness chapter 1 multiple-choice practice 
• SELF-REFLECTION: AP Exam testing strategies

4/3/17-4/7/17

• Henry County Schools SPRING BREAK 

Monday 4/10/17

• FINAL EXAM PART 1: AP Exam FRQ 1 (poetry-analysis essay) & FRQ 3 (theme-analysis essay)
• VOCABULARY MINUTES DUE at midnight: 180 minutes (4 weeks) minimum via Membean.com   

Wednesday 4/12/17

• FINAL EXAM PART 1: AP Exam FRQ 2 (prose-analysis essay)
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: individualized quiz via Membean.com     
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: AP Exam MC practice 

Friday 4/14/17

• FINAL EXAM PART 2: AP Exam MC 

Tuesday 4/18/17

• GUIDED ANALYSIS: Heart of Darkness chapter 1  & Imperialism cartoons (images; literal, close-reading, interpretive, synthesis) 
• HOMEWORK:  Heart of Darkness chapter 1, passage 3 multiple-choice practice  
• HOMEWORK:  Complete reading of Heart of Darkness chapter 1

Thursday 4/20/17

• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" (Lawrence) and depiction of the Company's chief accountant in Heart of Darkness chapter 1  
• PROMPT: Consider the significance of point of view as you contemplate that the older, wiser Marlow is narrating the tale about his younger, naive self in your analysis of Marlow's complex attitude towards the Company's chief accountant in Chapter 1 of Heart of Darkness. 
• INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS: William Hogarth's 1743 satirical series Marriage a la Mode (The National Gallery) and "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" (Johnson)
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: preparation for Socratic Seminar on The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)  
• HOMEWORK:  Heart of Darkness passage 4 (chapter 1) and passage 8 (chapter 2) multiple-choice practice  
• HOMEWORK:  reading of Heart of Darkness chapter 2 

Monday 4/24/17 

• SELF-REFLECTION: log of 2009 AP Exam multiple-choice questions [(a) why is the best answer best with textual evidence, (b) why did you choose the wrong answer]
• DISCUSSION:  Heart of Darkness chapter 2, passage 4 (chapter 1) and passage 8 (chapter 2) multiple-choice questions 
• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION:  William Hogarth's 1743 satirical series Marriage a la Mode (The National Gallery) and "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" (Johnson)
• HOMEWORK: prompt & poem analysis/outline for William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us" (outline organizer) 
• HOMEWORK:  reading of Heart of Darkness chapter 3 

Wednesday 4/26/17

• SELF-REFLECTION: analysis of AP practice exam FRQs, comparing to College Board samples
• INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS: William Hogarth's 1743 satirical series Marriage a la Mode (The National Gallery) and "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" (Johnson)
• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us" (outline organizer)   
• HOMEWORK:  reading of Heart of Darkness chapter 3
• HOMEWORK:  annotation of  “Richard Cory” (Robinson) and “Billiards” (Gibson)
• HOMEWORK:  Heart of Darkness passage 10 (chapter 3) and passage 12 (chapter 3) multiple-choice practice   

Friday 4/28/17

• AP EXAM REVIEW ACTIVITIES
• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS: “Richard Cory” (Robinson) and “Billiards” (Gibson)
• DISCUSSION:  Heart of Darkness chapter 3
• GUIDED ANALYSIS: Heart of Darkness chapter 3 multiple choice analysis   

Tuesday 5/2/17

• AP EXAM REVIEW ACTIVITIES
• ASSESSMENT (for those NOT taking the AP Exam): FRQ 2 prose analysis essay & FRQ 3 theme analysis essay for Heart of Darkness  

Wednesday 5/3/17

• AP ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM  

Thursday 5/4/17

• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES 
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)

Monday 5/8/17

• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)

Wednesday 5/10/17

• RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES 
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)

Friday 5/12/17

• FINAL DAY for RE-ASSESSMENT OPPORTUNITIES 
• INDEPENDENT and/or SMALL-GROUP WORK: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric) 

Tuesday 5/16/17

• FINAL EXAM PART 3: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)

Wednesday 5/17/17

• VOCABULARY MINUTES DUE at midnight: 180 minutes (4 weeks) minimum via Membean.com   
• VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: individualized quiz via Membean.com    

Thursday 5/18/17

• FINAL EXAM PART 3: Socratic Seminar about civilization in The Misanthrope, Marriage a la Mode, Heart of Darkness, Imperialism cartoons images, and 'civilization' poetry (organizer, self-reflection, rubric)