UNIT 1:
Family Bonds and Binds
Extended Texts:
Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) [online text of Book I] AND Fences (August Wilson)
Essential Questions:
- How do individuals’ family and upbringing shape their personality?
- How are parents affected by their obligations to their children?
- How does the conflict within a family shape the characters of the individual members?
- How does a literary work reveal truths about the human condition—across cultures, time periods, and genres?
- How is theme the foundation of effective literary analysis?
- How do the details an author chooses to incorporate into a work contribute to theme?
Week of 6 August
- M 8/6/12 tone vocabulary group 1; group analysis of "Did I Miss Anything?" (poem text, TPCASTT, DIDLS)
- Tu 8/7/12 diagnostic assessment: AP English Literature exam multiple-choice and free-response essay (essay rubric); student information sheet
- W 8/8/12 theme statement workshop with "Did I Miss Anything?" (theme statement template); Colors personality assessment (instructions); drafting of personal narrative (Topic: How has your family shaped your personality?)
- F 8/10/12 introduction to The Poisonwood Bible and reading of Book I (allusion notes); discussion of Frankenstein summer reading assignment and sample analysis (instructions)
Week of 13 August
- M 8/13/12 tone vocabulary group 2; peer review and teacher conferences of summer reading assignment (instructions)
- Tu 8/14/12 return of diagnostic assessment (multiple-choice questions and poetry free-response essay); discussion of literary devices (point of view, structure, tone); reading and analysis of AP English Litertaure Exam sample essays (rubric); self-assessment and self-scoring of free-response diagnostic essay
- W 8/15/12 analysis of "Digging" and "On My First Son" (10 steps of poetry analysis, theme statement template)
- F 8/17/12 ASSESSMENT 1 Part 1 DUE (summer reading assignment instructions); ASSESSMENT 1 Part 2: SAT-style sentence-completion vocabulary quiz with Frankenstein vocabulary (flashcards)
Week of 20 August
- M 8/20/12 tone vocabulary group 3; The Poisonwood Bible Book One: Genesis DUE; The Poisonwood Bible epigraph textual evidence activity (instructions)
- Tu 8/21/12 The Poisonwood Bible multiple-choice diagnostic; The Poisonwood Bible and "The Things They Carried" (text of story) small-group close reading and analysis (instructions); "The Things They Carried" theme statements (theme statement template);
- W 8/22/12 close reading and analysis of "A Story"; close reading, literary terminology, and multiple-choice strategies with The Poisonwood Bible multiple-choice; continued analysis of "Digging" and "On My First Son" (10 steps of poetry analysis, theme statement template)
- F 8/24/12 small-group poetry analysis (thematically-linked poems selected by students); The Poinsonwood Bible multiple-choice practice
Week of 27 August
- M 8/27/12 tone vocabulary group 4 & 5; small-group choice of thematically-linked poem from class anthology AND analysis (including title, structure, shifts, figurative language, imagery, tone, and theme)
- Tu 8/28/12 AP English Literature Student Learning Objective diagnostic assessment (Henry County requirement)
- W 8/29/12 The Poisonwood Bible Book Two: The Revelation DUE; class discussion of novel; conferencing and peer review of "A Story" essay (rubric, tone vocaublary)
- F 8/31/12 ASSESSMENT 2 DUE (revision of 2011 AP Exam FRQ poetry essay: Li's "A Story"); summer reading revision assignment independent work (instructions)
Week of 4 September
- Tu 9/4/12 summer reading revision assignment DUE (instructions); AP Exam prose prompt timed essay; class discussion of prompt and rubric; small-group evaluation of sample essays; self-assessment of students' essays
- W 9/5/12 The Poisonwood Bible Book Three: Judges (through page 287) DUE; class discussion of student-created questions (levels of complex questions)
- F 9/7/12 multiple-choice questions from The Poisonwood Bible Book Three: Judges; multiple-choice questions from 1994 AP Exam prose section (James Baldwin novel)
Week of 10 September
- M 9/10/12 prose prompt from 1986 AP Exam (Dickens' Dombey and Son)
- Tu 9/11/12 multiple-choice questions about Dickens' Dombey and Son prose passage; Voice Lessons diction activities
- W 9/12/12 The Poisonwood Bible Book Four: Bel and the Serpent DUE; The Poisonwood Bible small-group character body maps (instructions); multiple-choice questions from 1994 AP Exam (Thackeray passage)
- F 9/14/12 ASSESSMENT 3: in-class comparison analysis of sisters in The Poisonwood Bible
Week of 17 September
- M 9/17/12 reading and discussion of Fences Act 1, Scene 1; "Death ain't nothing. I done seen him." with Denzel Washington as Troy (YouTube clip)
- Tu 9/18/12 tone vocabulary group 6;reading and discussion of Fences Act 1, Scenes 1 & 2; discussion of play's historical context; sentence composition with tone vocabulary group 6 and Fences characters; analysis of setting and stage directions (instructions)
- W 9/19/12 reading and discussion of Fences Act 1, Scene 3; "How come you ain't never liked me?" scene with Denzel Washington as Troy (YouTube clip) and James Earl Jones as Troy (YouTube clip); "I don't want him to be like me!" with with Denzel Washington as Troy (YouTube clip)
- F 9/21/12 reading and discussion of Fences Act 1, Scene 4; small-group analysis activity (change in tone); discussion of The Poisonwood Bible returned essays (8, 7, 6 score student sample responses; rubric)
Week of 24 September
- FALL BREAK for Luella High School students
Week of 1 October
- M 10/1/12 reading and discussion of Fences Act 2, Scene 1
- Tu 10/2/12 reading and discussion of Fences Act 2, Scenes 2-5; tone vocabulary group 7; small-group activity (play's chronology and research into Civil Rights Movement historical context)
- W 10/3/12 AP Exam open FRQ introduction paragraph (baseball or fence as symbol)
- F 10/5/12 ASSESSMENT 4: AP Exam FRQ open prompt in-class essay about Fences
Week of 8 October
- M 10/8/12 tone vocabulary group 8; explanation of FINAL assessment; The Poisonwood Bible Books Five-Seven DUE (Exodus, Song of the Three Children, The Eyes in the Trees); discussion of The Poisonwood Bible and the impact of setting on character development
- Tu 10/9/12 Voice Lessons activities; group work on FINAL ssessment
- W 10/10/12 SAT critical-reading activities; group work on FINAL assessment
- F 10/12/12 FINAL ASSESSMENT group project DUE; class time to work on revisions (Fences open FRQ sample score 8, thesis and topic sentences)
Week of 8 October
- M 10/15/12 ALL revisions due for progress reports