Wednesday

• POW: 
• Discussion of Italian sonnet form and how it helps us understand this week's poem.
• 2A: "Read History" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 4A: Sonnet XV by John Barlas
• HW due Fri. 12/1/17: Analyze your assigned poem including: vocabulary, poet's use of figurative language, topic, poetic idea.
• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
• Assignment: On a sheet of paper, write your response to these two questions and turn in. (I'm expecting a paragraph for each.)
• Which conflict patterns are used in "A Day's Wait" and how are they evident in the story?
• What is the point of view in "A Day's Wait" and why is that significant?
• Assignment: Discussion Questions (Most groups got to question 5 or 6. We will continue with these on Friday.)

Monday

• POW: 
• HW due Wed. 11/29/17: 
• 2A: "Read History" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 4A: Sonnet XV by John Barlas
• Research the form for Italian / Petrarchan sonnet. How does this differ from the Shakespearean / English sonnet form? Apply what you learned about Italian sonnet form to this week's poem.
• HW due Fri. 12/1/17: Analyze your assigned poem including: vocabulary, poet's use of figurative language, topic, poetic idea.

• Short Fiction Analysis
• "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
1. Read the story carefully.
2. Mark the five sections of plot and make notes
3. Make marginal notes for characterization of the narrator and "Schatz".
• HW due Wed. 11/29/17: Define and give examples from the stories we have read in your notes of the fiction terms for "conflict" and "point of view", #21-37.

Thursday

• Character analysis papers turned in: 
• 1st draft with peer review pages turned in during class
• Final draft shared on Google by class time

• Poetry Analysis: Sonnet 55
• Group assignment
1. Work together to create a paraphrase of the sonnet. 
• NOTE: A paraphrase is not a summary. A summary is a shortened statement of something written. A paraphrase is a "translation" of the original text, so it should be about as long as the original.
2. Read one of the assigned articles about Sonnet 55 and agree upon a summary of the main points. 
3. Present the main points to the class.
• If you were absent, complete the paraphrase and read the articles.

• Due Mon. 11/27/17: ZERO. ZIP. NADA. Enjoy your break!

Tuesday

• Fiction Analysis: "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
• Discussion of Fiction terms: Characterization 
• Character Analysis Essay: Today we did a peer review activity to gain feedback from each other on the first drafts of the character analysis on "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde.
• Due Thurs. 11/16/17 at class time: Make a final draft of your character analysis of the nightingale or the student. Share the final online via Google. Turn in your first draft with the peer review sheets when you come to class.
• Resources for completing the final draft:
• Template for final in Google Docs
• Grammarly for proofreading
• Double check for the following since points will be taken off for each occurrence of these errors:
• Capitalization errors of any sort 
• Capitalization rules
• Not indenting the beginning of paragraphs
• Using contractions (didn’t, won’t, isn’t…)
• Not using quotation marks to indicate material taken from a source
• Proper use of quotations
• Run-on sentence
• Identifying and fixing run-on sentences
• Resources for writing character analysis:
• Character analysis tutorial page using "We Show What We Have Learned"
• How to Write a Character Analysis - Dr. Davis
• How to Write a College Character Analysis Essay (See also the references at the bottom of the page.)

Friday

• Poetry Analysis
• In-class assignment: Read and analyze a new Shakepearean sonnet in order to answer an AP-style essay question. 45 minutes. If you were absent, see me for a time to make this up.

• Fiction Analysis: "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
• Discussion of Fiction terms: Characterization 
• HW due Tues. 11/14/17: Write the 1st draft of a character analysis on either the student or the nightingale from "The Nightingale and the Rose". Bring a physical copy of your draft to class on Monday (handwritten is fine). 
• Character analysis tutorial page using "We Show What We Have Learned"
• How to Write a Character Analysis - Dr. Davis
• How to Write a College Character Analysis Essay (See also the references at the bottom of the page.)

Wednesday

ALL DRAFTS OF THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ESSAY NEED TO BE EMAILED & TIMESTAMPED TODAY IN ORDER TO AVOID A PERMANENT ZERO.

• Fiction Analysis: "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
• Discussion of plot and interpretive questions from homework
• Define Fiction terms: Characterization (#9-20) in your notes
• Literary terms dictionary: "A Literate Vocabulary" K. Wheeler
• Wikipedia glossary of literary terms
• Borrow an actual literary terms dictionary from me

• POW: This week we will complete an on-the-spot analysis of a Shakespearean sonnet. Study your notes on this type of sonnet so you have ideas about how to work with the new one.

• College Admissions Essay
• TO TURN IN YOUR DRAFT: You must email me in a separate email that a draft is ready in your folder. I will not be notified by Google Docs that you have added a document to the folder or that you are ready for me to look at it.
• I believe I am up to date with looking at 3rd drafts. If you turned in a new draft since our conference, check to see if you have comments in the doc and an email. If you don't, send me an email that your draft is ready so I know to look for it in your folder.
• All college admissions essays must be finalized (final draft graded) by Friday, Nov. 10 so the last day I will accept them is Wed. Nov. 8. 

Monday

• Fiction Analysis: "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
• In-class reading of story
• Due Wed. 11/9/17: Complete text notes on:
• Plot segments (mark where stages of plot shift)
• Characterization of nightingale and student
• Mark revealing passages
• Make marginal notes about what those passages reveal about the character
• Due Tues. 11/8/17 by 11:59 pm: Interpretive questions: Google Classroom assignment. Post one question. Answer two.

• College Admissions Essay
• TO TURN IN YOUR DRAFT: You must email me in a separate email that a draft is ready in your folder. I will not be notified by Google Docs that you have added a document to the folder or that you are ready for me to look at it.
• I believe I am up to date with looking at 3rd drafts. If you turned in a new draft since our conference, check to see if you have comments in the doc and an email. If you don't, send me an email that your draft is ready so I know to look for it in your folder.
• All college admissions essays must be finalized (final draft graded) by Friday, Nov. 10 so the last day I will accept them is Wed. Nov. 8. 

Thursday

• POW
• Discussion of the qualities of Shakespearean sonnets and how they help us get meaning from the poem. Keep poems for reference. You will need them next week.
• Want to read more Pop Sonnets? 
• @popsonnet on Twitter
• Pop Sonnet on tumblr.
• A few gems in this article (including "Bohemian Rhapsody")

• Fiction Analysis
• Due Fri. 11/3/17 @ 11pm: There are two questions from the homework ("We Show What We Have Learned" by Clare Beams) on the Google Classroom for this class. You need to access them and use your homework notes to write paragraph responses to each. Then, read through the ideas of your classmates and respond to two of them by extending the discussion.
• NOTE: I am keeping a running list of terms you are responsible for knowing and being able to apply. You can check that list here.

• College Admissions Essay
• TO TURN IN YOUR DRAFT: You must email me in a separate email that a draft is ready in your folder. I will not be notified by Google Docs that you have added a document to the folder or that you are ready for me to look at it.
• I believe I am up to date with looking at 3rd drafts. If you turned in a new draft since our conference, check to see if you have comments in the doc and an email. If you don't, send me an email that your draft is ready so I know to look for it in your folder.
• All college admissions essays must be finalized (final draft graded) by Friday, Nov. 10 so the last day I will accept them is Wed. Nov. 8. 

• Beowulf test: I will post the key to the section 3 and 4 tests once everyone has taken the test.