Weekly Syllabus / Student Guide, Weekof 5/19/08

Period 5 – Advanced Placement English Lit & Composition – Mr. Dickstein

 

Letters to Future Self not received: Jordan, Shannon

Complete Journals not received: Emily, Erin, Shannon, Jordan

Review Packets not received: Emily

 

Monday, May 19

Critical Lens project – continue.  What can I do for you?

Critical Lens Project due Fri 6/6 or Monday 6/9, by arrangement; paper & explanation to class (plan on a ten-minute informal talk explaining what you did with this by-now-familiar text.  What theoretical approach did you attempt?  What results did you yield?  Your paper gets graded like any other AP essay, should have a Works Cited page & appropriate parenthetical citations, etc.  It is hard to envision doing an effective job at this in fewer than 4 – 5 pages, i.e. 1250 words or so.

 

Tuesday, May 20

Critical Lens project, ct’d

 

Wednesday, May 21

Absurdist Theater, just because you should have some exposure to this:  Edward Albee, The Sandbox.

Guided response, due Friday (complete it in class)

 

Friday, May 23

Critical Lenses, ct’d  --

Let’s read some criticism of a work with which we are already familiar …

 

Tuesday, May 27

More fun with outside criticism – just what do literary critics do, anyway?

 

Wednesday, May 28

The Poetree, weather permitting

 

Friday, May 30

SENIOR TRIP

 

Monday, June 2

Plan the class picnic; Poetree & shadow writing

 

Tuesday, June 3

State of the Student:  How do things look from where you now sit?

 

Wednesday, June 4

AP Class Picnic

 

Friday, June 6

Critical Lens Project due – paper & explanation to class (plan on a ten-minute informal talk explaining what you did with this by-now-familiar text.  What theoretical approach did you attempt?  What results did you yield?  Your paper gets graded like any other AP essay, should have a Works Cited page & appropriate parenthetical citations, etc.

 

Presenters today:  _________,  _________,  _________

 

Monday, June 9

Critical Lens presentations, ct’d.

Presenters today: _________,  _________,  _________

 

(OVER)

Tuesday, June 10

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, redux:  How did we do?

 

Wednesday, June 11

FINAL EXAM: ERIN, JORDAN, ARIELLE, SHANNON

 

Coming Attractions:

The Rest of Your Life.  Live well, kids.