AP Eng Lit 2011: A Wheel of Fire for Witty Fools: (A Sampling of) (Shorter) (English-Language) Poems (from the English Renaissance to American Modernism)

Wednesday, January 5, 2010
1. An Introduction to Sonnets by William Shakespeare (England in the1590s)
Click here for Dr. Fike's notes for ENGL 203 at Winthrop University

2. Read and (as a class) analyze Sonnet 130.

Paraphrase the poem's content. Put it in your own words. Get the gist without missing the twists.
What else do you notice and how is it significant?
* Think about TPCAST+Theme; c (connotation), a (attitude/tone), s (shift), & theme are especially relevant here.
* Think about SOAPSTone + Theme; s (speaker), o (occasion/situation: especially what we know about the speaker and the "dark lady" from other sonnets in the sequence), p (purpose), tone & theme are especially relevant, I think.
* Think about Say-Play-Imply: what does the poem literally say? How does Shakespeare play with language? What is implying about conventional love poems and the nature of true love?)

Thursday, January 6 (The Epiphany), 2010
* Read and analyze "Dim Lady" by Harryette Mullen
* Read, analyze, and discuss more of Shakespeare's Sonnets: 12, 18, 42, 73, 116, [130], 134, 138, 143, 144, 152.

Friday, January 7, 2010
* Some "Metaphysical Poets" J. Donne (Holy Sonnet 10 "Death Be Not Proud" and "The Flea"), G. Herbert ("Virtue" and "Easter Wings"), A. Marvell ("To His Coy Mistress")

Monday, January 10, 2010
* William Blake ("London," "The Sick Rose," "Ah! Sunflower")
* "Sunflower Sutra" by Allen Ginsberg

Tuesday, January 11, 2010
* English Romantic Poets P Shelley ("Oxymandias" and "Sonnet: England 1819"), J Keats ("Bright star..."), [W Wordsworth ("The World is too much with us")]

Wednesday, January 12, 2010
* Walt Whitman ("A Noiseless Patient Spider" & "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer") & Emily Dickinson ("Much madness is divinest sense," "The soul selects her own society," and "I dwell in possibility")
* "A Supermarket in California" and "Kaddish, Part I" by Allen Ginsberg

Thursday, January 13, 2010
* Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Pied Beauty," "God's Grandeur," "The Windhover," "As kingfishers catch fire...")

Friday, January 14, 2010
* e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Ted Berrigan

For Your Consideration

Jessica Hovey, a middle school teacher in Kobe, Japan, posted this on Facebook:

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." MLK Jr.

Here is a column explaining how the Facebook posting got disseminated across the internet without the quotation marks that distinguish between what Hovey wrote and what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote. (The excerpt is from a book called Strength to Love.) Have any of you seen the quotation posted on Facebook by friends?

The quotation and its dissemination are important for two reasons. I think at this moment Hovey's post is important to consider and I think we can learn something about how inaccurate information can spread quickly on the internet.

Summer Schedule

ASSIGNMENTS

Here's a list of all the summer work:

1. Invisible Cities quotation response journal (due July 6)
2. Invisible Cities "quotation" essay (due July 19)
3. Response to choice of AP Summer Anthology readings for Invisible Cities (due in the 7/6 comment box by July 12)

4. Invisible Man (Prologue through chapter 11) quotation response journal (due July 19)
5. Invisible Man (Prologue through chapter 11) part to the whole essay (due in the 7/19 comment box by August 2 if you did not attend session 2 or 3)
6. Invisible Man (chapter 12 through Epilogue) quotation response journal (due August 2)
7. Invisible Man Parts to Whole Web (due first day of class August 31)

8. Wide Sargasso Sea quotation response journal^ (due at or by session #4 August 16)
9. Five statements insightfully comparing and/or contrasting Invisible Man and Wide Sargasso Sea (due by Thursday, September 2)

10. Quotation response journal on something else you read this summer (due by Thursday, September 2)

^ Directions for the quotation response journal:

You are required to have at least ten (10) passages quoted from the book with corresponding responses.
Be sure the ten passages are representative of the entire book. In other words, ten passages taken only from the first few chapters or even the last few chapters will not be acceptable. As you read the book you have chosen, identify certain passages that cause you to stop and respond to what you are reading.
The goal of this assignment is to be actively engaged in the reading process and to make inferences rather than summarize.
Students should divide their paper into two columns.

Find a rubric and partial example here. (Side note: according to the rubric the example responses would fall in the "B" range.)

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