Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Tuesday While you wait, please turn to a shoulder partner and discuss: • What type of reading do you like to do? • What type of reading do you have to do? • Homework: Email me or visit my SharePoint website • Tell your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her English class. [email protected][email protected]1. Your student’s name 2. Your first and last name 3. Your relationship to the student 4. Contact email 5. Contact phone numbers 6. Any other brief comment about your student that I might need to know
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Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Tuesday
While you wait, please turn to a shoulder partner and discuss:• What type of reading do you like to do? • What type of reading do you have to do?
• Homework: Email me or visit my SharePoint website• Tell your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her
English class.
[email protected][email protected] 1. Your student’s name2. Your first and last name3. Your relationship to the student4. Contact email5. Contact phone numbers6. Any other brief comment about your student that I might need to know
• General information about English 7 - 8• A.P. Literature & Composition
• Parent Conferences
Open House Tuesday
• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening
• Objective: You will be able to identify the general structure and resources of your student's English class
• Relevance: Knowing who I am and how the class is structured will help you engage in conversations with your student and enable them to be more successful
• Inquiry Question(s): Who is Ms. Durland, and what is the general structure of my student’s English Class?
Instruction: Obtain I Do Tuesday
Purpose: to familiarize you with some of the structures and resources of this English class
Tasks:1. Identify Units (see next slide)2. Identify A.P. Exam Sections & Date (see next slide)3. Visualize class work
• PPT• Make-up Work• Explore SharePoint
• http://teachers.d11.org/teachers/durlakr• Palmer Home Page – My Teacher pages – District 11 Teacher SharePoint Pages
Outcome: a better understanding of your student’s day-to-day experience and the resources that are available
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION EXAM: 3 HOURS
• The AP English Literature and Composition Exam employs multiple-choice questions and free-response prompts to test students’ skills in literary analysis of passages from prose and poetry texts.
• Students have 120 minutes to write essay responses to three free-response prompts from the following categories:
• A literary analysis of a given poem
• A literary analysis of a given passage of prose fiction
• An analysis that examines a specific concept, issue, or element in a work of literary merit selected by the student
Year-At-A-GlanceQuarter 1 AP=Applied Practice• Introduction to AP Literature • Summer Reading: short story presentations & college essay revisions• Novel: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)• Analytical Writing (self & peer assessments, revisions)• Poetry: discussions, written analysis & multiple-choice practice, research presentations Quarter 2 AP=Always Poetry• Drama: The Oedipus Cycle (Sophocles), Aristotle’s Poetics• Drama: Hamlet (Shakespeare)• Drama: Death of a Salesman (Miller)• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: introduction to long-term project• Poetry: continue research presentations Quarter 3 AP=Address the Prompt• Poetry: discussions, written analysis & multiple-choice practice• Novel: Things Fall Apart (Achebe)• Novel: The Stranger (Camus)• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: continue project• Sign-up for AP Exams Quarter 4 AP=Analysis, Please• The Importance of Being Ernest (Wilde)• Pride and Prejudice (Austen)• Poetry: analysis & discussions & multiple-choice practice• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• AP Exam (This is your final exam, so plan ahead & sign-up!) – Wednesday, May 4th• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: presentations
Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do
Open House Homework Tuesday
• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening• Objective: you will be able to share contact information with me and
identify the general structures and outline of your student's English class
• Demonstration of Learning (DOL): Tell me or your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her English class.
1. Your student’s name2. Your first and last name3. Your relationship to the student4. Contact email5. Contact phone numbers6. Any other brief comment about your student that I might need to know
• Objective: you will be able to share contact information with me and identify the general structure and resources of your student's English class
• Relevance: knowing who I am and how the class is structured will help you engage in conversations with your student and enable them to me more successful
• Essential Question(s): Who is Ms. Durland, and what is the general structure of my student’s English Class?
Instruction: Obtain I Do Tuesday
• Purpose: to familiarize you with some of the resources and structures of this English class
• Tasks:• Identify Units
• Short Stories (& poetry) Through a Critical Lens• The Novel
• Their Eyes Were Watching God• Independent novel
• Visualize class work• PPT• Composition notebook• Make-up Work
• Explore SharePoint• http://teachers.d11.org/teachers/durlakr• Palmer Home Page – My Teacher pages – District 11 Teacher SharePoint Pages
• Outcome: a better understanding of your student’s day-to-day experience and the resources that are available