Redacting: November 9, 2017

Focus: How can we use the process of redacting to better understand a text?

1. Warming up with the myth of the happy slave

• What stands out to you in each image?

• What specific myth of slavery does each image propagate, and for what purpose?

• For each slide, find one line from Beloved that undoes the myth.

2. Discovering the method and purpose of the redaction poem (and looking at two of your examples)

https://tychogirl.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/page/24/

• Using the redaction poem to understand a slave narrative

• Trying out a redaction poem on a page from Chapters 1-4 of Beloved

3. Sharing and discussing your redaction poems in a gallery walk

• What do the redaction poems help you understand better or differently?

HW:
For tomorrow:

• Please read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Beloved. Complete your next reading ticket following the new Socratic ticket guidelines. If you'd like more of a focus, trying focusing your ticket on one word you've taken notice of the in the novel so far (perhaps because it's repeated, or because Morrison's using it in a new way).

• All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.

Old and New: November 8, 2017

Focus: How do we approach prose passages in the MC section of the AP Lit test?

Please turn in printed copies of your sonnet essays with the checklist initialed and stapled to the top by 3:00 pm today.

1. Warming up with your 12-week literary term review on www.quizlet.com:

• 1st 6 weeks
• 2nd 6 weeks

2. Revisiting yesterday's prose passage by coding the types of questions and teaching each other how to figure out the tough ones

3. Trying out an older prose passage with a focus on the first inch and the last inch

HW:
1. For today: Finish and PRINT your sonnet essay (hard copy due by 3:00 pm Wednesday). Stop by for a conference if you'd like some help. Initial the checklist and staple it to the top.

2. For Friday:

• Please read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Beloved. Complete your next reading ticket following the new Socratic ticket guidelines. If you'd like more of a focus, trying focusing your ticket on one word you've taken notice of the in the novel so far (perhaps because it's repeated, or because Morrison's using it in a new way).

• All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.

So, There's Prose on the Test, Too: November 7, 2017

Focus: How do we read prose for the actual A.P. Literature test?

1. Warming up with the Night-Before Checklist

2. Trying out just the first inch and the last inch with chapters from Beloved

3. Reading "Janie starched her face..." with some MC questions

4. Speed dating with your MC responses

HW:
1. For yesterday: Make sure your Henry IV blog is posted. Bring your book to turn in.

2. For tomorrow: Finish and PRINT your sonnet essay (hard copy due by 3:00 pm Wednesday). Stop by for a conference if you'd like some help. Initial the checklist and staple it to the top.

2. For Friday:

• Please read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Beloved. Complete your next reading ticket following the new Socratic ticket guidelines. If you'd like more of a focus, trying focusing your ticket on one word you've taken notice of the in the novel so far (perhaps because it's repeated, or because Morrison's using it in a new way).

• All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.

Getting into Character: November 6, 2017

Focus: How can we better understand the characters in Beloved?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Getting to know a character better by responding to some creative writing prompts

3. Unpacking Chapters 2, 3, and 4 in our first Beloved Socratic seminar (Ms. Leclaire speaks by invite only)

4. Wrapping up with questions, epiphanies, and kudos

HW:
1. For today: Make sure your Henry IV blog is posted. Bring your book to turn in.

2. For Wednesday: Finish and PRINT your sonnet essay (hard copy due by 3:00 pm Wednesday). Stop by for a conference if you'd like some help. Initial each item on the Night-Before Checklist and staple it to the top.

2. For Friday:

• Please read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Beloved. Complete your next reading ticket following the new Socratic ticket guidelines. If you'd like more of a focus, trying focusing your ticket on one word you've taken notice of the in the novel so far (perhaps because it's repeated, or because Morrison's using it in a new way).

• All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.

Who/What is Beloved? November 3, 2017

Focus: How do we interpret the baby ghost in Beloved?

1. Warming up by generating questions about characters, plot, setting, and structure

2. Discussing your questions in a clockwork discussions

3. Offering you an overview of  Socratic tickets; if you're not quite sure where to start, try focusing your first ticket on the character who intrigues you the most

4. Wrapping up by reading Chapter 2

HW:
1. For Monday:

• Read Chapters 3, 4, and 5 in Beloved; create a Socratic reading ticket following our new guidelines.

• Finish your Henry IV big question blog; bring your book to turn in.

2. For Wednesday: Continue working on your sonnet essay; final draft is due by 3:00 pm on November 8. It must be PRINTED.

3. For Friday: All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.

Haunted: November 2, 2017

Focus: How do we enter the disturbingly haunted world of Beloved?

1. Warming up with high velocity freewriting on where we're journeying to in Beloved

(Click here for the music.)

2. Facing some difficult images and reading some important lines to prepare for Beloved

3. Entering 124 together

HW:
1. Please finish Chapters 1 and 2 for class tomorrow; click HERE for the reading schedule and HERE for the overview of Socratic tickets (they're also linked to the website). You only need to read tonight; you will compose your first ticket in class on Friday.

2. Finish your Henry IV Big Question Blog post by Monday, November 6 at the latest. Turn in your book when you're done with it.

3. All make-up work, revisions, etc. from the past 6 weeks due next Friday, November 10.

Getting Closer to Shakespeare: November 1, 2017

Focus: How do we glean complexity from close readings?

1. Warming up with a circle-the-wagon close reading of King Richard's speech

2. Offering you a sample close reading from one of your sonnet drafts

3. Composing a partial timed writing:

• Brainstorming
• Introduction: Try using it to briefly summarize the speech's key points.
• Outlining
• Thesis
• Topic sentences 
• 2-4 quotations you'd use in EACH body paragraph
• Close reading of one passage (part of a line; no longer than two lines)

HW:
1. Finish composing your Henry IV blog by Friday, November 3.

2. Continue working on editing your sonnet draft (PRINTED FINAL DRAFT due Wednesday, November 8).

3. All make-up work, revisions, etc from the past 6 weeks is due Friday, November 10.

4. If you own your own copy of Beloved, please start bringing it to class tomorrow.