English Lit Experienced
Day 1
- Overview
- Introductions
- Agenda
- Seinfeld
- Induction
- Historical items
- It’s a Mystery
- Norman Rockwell
- House structure
- Commentary versus phrasing
- Reading
- Levels of Questioning
- Dialectical Journals
- Close reading
- “The Imagery of Passion in Romeo and Juliet”
- “Hotel California”
- Analysis
- Textual
- Archetypal
- Sociological
- Psychological
- Thinking skills
- A Continuum of Comparison
- Metaphysical conceits
- “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
- “The Great Explosion”
Homework:
- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Day 2
- Discussion
- Discussion format
- Roles
- Harkness Discussion
- Analysis
- Discuss “Prufrock”
- AP English Lit Poetry Question
- Overview of AP grading
- Samples
- Writing
- Gathering Types
- Memory
- Observation
- Experience
- Interview
- Recorded sources
- Writing Components
- Anecdote
- Speech
- Details
- Facts
- Blue Car excerpt
- Student samples
- Gathering Types
Homework:
- “Araby” by James Joyce
- Discussion question
- Magazines
Day 3
- Discussion: Questions and “Araby”
- AP Lit Prose Passage
- Organizing
- Golden Thread
- Thesis
- Focus
- Proposal
- Tone/mood/atmosphere
- Reflection
- Structure: Reading and Writing
- Magazines, songs, malls, stores, and architecture
- Structuring types
- Chronologic
- Dialectic
- Spatial
- Associative
- Compare/Contrast
- Continuum
- Fragmented
- Pastiche
- Analytic essay structure
- Projects
- Museum project
- Grapes of Wrath website
- Golden Thread
Homework:
- “Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
- Discussion question
Day 4
- Group Discussion: “Garden Party”
- AP question #3
- Rhetoric
- Intros and Anecdotes
- Literary Faux Pas
- Sentence patterns
- Reading for Punctuation
- “In Praise of the Humble Comma”
- Grammar Gallimaufry
