UNIT 2:
Manipulation and Betrayal
Extended Texts:
Essential Questions:
- How and why do human beings manipulate others for their own gain?
- How does an antagonist devise the manipulation and downfall of a tragic figure?
- How do writers in different genres and literary time periods reveal the effects of betrayal and manipulation on the individual?
- How do literary works reflect complexity of tone through their textual detail, literary devices, and overall structure?
Week of 15 October
Week of 22 October
- M 10/22/12 As I Lay Dying pages 3-52 DUE (last line: "Addie Bundren is dead"); tone vocabulary group 9
- Tu 10/23/12 viewing and discussion of Act 2 (1995 Fishburne & Branaugh Othello Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
- W 10/24/12 AP Exam multiple-choice poetry questions (from 1991 and 1994 exams); class time to work on poetry portfolio project (instructions)
- F 10/26/12 Assessment 1 DUE at end of class: poetry FRQ in-class timed essay
Week of 29 October
Week of 5 November
Week of 12 November
- M 11/12/12 As I Lay Dying pages 100-151 DUE (last line: "I began to run along the bank, watching the mules dive up slow again and then down again."); tone vocabulary group 12
- Tu 11/13/12 viewing and discussion of Acts 4 & 5 (1995 Fishburne & Branaugh Othello)
- W 11/14/12 class time to work on poetry portfolio project (instructions, rubric)
- F 11/16/12 Assessment 2 DUE: poetry portfolio project (instructions, rubric); practice for final exam part 1
Week of 19 November
Week of 26 November
- M 11/26/12 BONUS FRQ DUE (instructions); As I Lay Dying pages 152-205 DUE (last line: "'That's a fact,' he said."); tone vocabulary group 13; discussion of Othello motif project instructions and rubric (instructions, rubric)
- Tu 11/27/12 class time to work on Othello motif project (instructions, rubric)
- W 11/28/12 class time to work on Othello motif project (instructions, rubric)
- F 11/30/12 Assessment 3 DUE: Othello motif project (instructions, rubric); archetype self-test; discussion of As I Lay Dying characters as archetypes
Week of 3 December
- M 12/03/12 As I Lay Dying pages 206-262 DUE (last line: ""'Meet Mrs. Bundren,' he says.); activities and discussion of As I Lay Dying as a comedy
- Tu 12/04/12 tone vocabulary group 14; As I Lay Dying multiple-choice questions small-group analysis (Applied Practice passages 11 and 12); lesson on archetypes and connections to As I Lay Dying (hero archetypes, notes on archetypes)
- W 12/05/12 As I Lay Dying multiple-choice questions (Applied Practice passages 9 and 10); time to work on As I Lay Dying Epic Comic Journey project (instructions, rubric, alternative Addie's Coffin rubric, topic sentence template, hero archetypes)
- F 12/07/12 REVISIONS DUE; AP Exam open FRQ practice in preparation for final exam (prompts)
Week of 10 December
- M 12/10/12 As I Lay Dying multiple-choice questions (Applied Practice passages 1 and 5); class time to work on As I Lay Dying Epic Comic Journey project (instructions, rubric, alternative Addie's Coffin rubric, topic sentence template, hero archetypes); tone vocabulary group 15
- Tu 12/11/12 As I Lay Dying multiple-choice questions (Applied Practice passages 6, 7, 8); class time to work on As I Lay Dying Epic Comic Journey project (instructions, rubric, alternative Addie's Coffin rubric, topic sentence template, hero archetypes)
- W 12/12/12 As I Lay Dying multiple-choice questions (Applied Practice passages 2, 3, 4); class time to work on As I Lay Dying Epic Comic Journey project (instructions, rubric, alternative Addie's Coffin rubric, topic sentence template, hero archetypes)
- F 12/13/12 Assessment 4 DUE: As I Lay Dying Epic Comic Journey project (instructions, rubric, alternative Addie's Coffin rubric, topic sentence template, hero archetypes); AP Exam open FRQ practice in preparation for final exam (prompts)
Week of 17 December
- M 12/17/12 preparation and review for final exam (small-group work on AP Exam FRQ open prompts and tone vocabulary)
- FINAL EXAMS