Another Literary Essay Model

Read Mariana's excellent literary essay about the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 

Next Friday's Summative Multiple Choice

Next Friday we'll have another full-length multiple choice (summative). It will last sixty minutes. 

The following works and terms will appear:
Chapter III Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
"The North Star"
"Their Lonely Betters" W.H Auden
Pages 156-158 from Uncle Tom's Cabin
"The Triple Fool" by John Donne

Terms:
euphemism
hyperbole
personification
parallel structure
imagery
epithet 
hyperbole
paradox
synecdoche
metaphor
blank verse
heroic couplets
Iambic Tetrameter
Trochaic Pentameter
Alternating Iambic Trimeter and Hexameter
onomatopoeia
alliteration
caesura
irregular rhyme
internal rhyme
broken rhyme
rhymed couplets
alternately-rhymed quatrains
ode
satire
plea

The week you come back we'll have a summative prose analysis timed writing. 

This will be in stead of a mock exam. 

Model Author Study Papers?

Here's one model we'll examine together today.

Student Samples and Scoring Guide

Here are some student samples of the timed writing that we completed last class. Let's get an idea of what the AP readers will be looking for.

Homework for Monday

For next Monday, you are to meet your established challenging but realistic reading goal. 

Today's Revise Now

Here's the link to today's warm-up exercise.

Today´s Plan

I´m in an English Department training session today.



In my absence, you must complete the following:

1 - In preparation for our Mock Exam let´s practice one timed writing exercise and compare it to College Board examples (with scores). You´ll also be receiving a formative grade based on peer review (with my oversight). Today you must leave your completed essay in the AP Lit Inbox when finished. You have 50 minutes to complete the task. Remember: at least ten minutes for reading the work, then writing. 

2- When finished, you meet with your reading group and together use three post-its to foment conversation about your text. Paste photos of the post-its on your blogs.

Good news: no homework - except for continue to think about and work on your sound poems.

By the way, this is a pic of Jose Garcia Villa. He's looking quite the "emperor"!

Poetry Lab #3

After thinking long and hard about our three sound poem examples, create your own sound poem.

It can be whatever you want, only it must have a title. We'll finish them in class on Thursday.

Weekend Reading

Read at least the first thirty pages of your Pre-20th Century Text by our next class.

Use post-its to aid your comprehension (inferences, predictions, questions, vocab). 

Homework Hyperlink Fixed

I fixed the hyperlink. If it does not work, just go to iTunes podcast section and search for PoemTalk. Download Podcast #6 - it's from several years ago.

A Henri Chopin Sound Poem

Henry Chopin in his own words from ubuweb.com:



Short extract about my working method using my voice, without any words or letters; only my voice and of course my mouth are used:

To make an example that I know well, since it is about my work, it is now thirty years that I do not write any scores before assembling an audio-poem. It is just by heart and using only my memory that I conceive the expressions of my body. basically through my mouth with its breathing etc., which become my only solid score. There, I discover a world without limits, from prattles to phonic lacerations. All this happens on, and with the help of, a Revox tape machine, with the addition of sound effects like echoes, changes of speed, larsen effects, until the final editing through sound collages.

In this way, what for someone was nothing but an absurd form of avant-garde with no way out is no more reduced to a mere research of vocal perspectives, but it becomes an experimentation with the voice considered as a new musical instrument with its boundless variations.... The composer Marc Battier understood this very well and, without betraying my first works, he is going to expand them, reaching territories that were unknown to me. Thus my researches with no aprioristic result enriched the voice and the body on one side, and on the other they discovered both voice and music.

Listen to some of ¨Throat Power¨. How does this widen your definition of poetry? What sounds might you use in your own poetry?

Stop Motion Animation Poems

Please have these posted to all of your blogs before we meet on Friday. 

Wednesday Homework

After our discussion in class, listen to this discussion (Poem Talk Podcast #6 titled "Hold Your Breath and Gag" 2008) about Jaap Blonk's "What the President Will Say and Do". In a brief blog entry respond to the commentators and reflect on your original understanding of the poem.

Trailer for Tomorrow's Class

Literary Essay Clarification

Have your paper uploaded - latest - by tomorrow night. Upload it to turnitin.com.

Literary Essay Reminder

Be sure to upload your literary essays on Wednesday, March 22nd to turnitin.com.

Enroll in turnitin.com.

The Class Code is: 14966984

The password is: caesura

Literary Essay Rubric

Contribute to our Literary Essay rubric here.

It will be locked in by tomorrow.

MLA Citation

Your paper should follow the MLA guidelines, as explained here.  In addition, the essay about Toni Morrison as was in MLA format. 

Today make revisions for MLA style guidlines. 

Inspiration for Animating Poems

Out of ideas? Try some of these out! There are dozens of great ones here. 

How to end my paper?

Read this brief presentation from UNC about concluding college-level papers.

Choose any of the samples we´ve read so far. Which did that writer opt for?

We´ll try drafting one of these strategies. If we´ve already employed one, we´ll try another.

Another Literary Essay Exemplar

Here´s another successful literary essay, this one about the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Those That Did Not Attend Poetry Lab #2

If you did not attend yesterday, you must listen to this soundcloud track. Complete the exercises as we did. Then post all of your responses in addition to a reflection about the activity as a whole. Post all of these to your blog.

Film-making Friday

Apologies for the cheap alliteration.

Choose a poem that we've read in class over the course of the year - because we're going to animate it!

You might also think about bringing in any objects that you think might be useful.

Exemplar literary analysis paper from another AP Eng Lit

Read this paper together with your group.

How does this writer approach contextualizing the reader? Compare this to the paper we read last week.

Identify examples of close reading. What makes these close readings particularly effective?