Readers Response

 2/25    653-676

2/28    676-697
3/1    697-729

3/2   Work on Essay #2

3/3   729-753

3/4    753-780

Week of 3/7 FINISH NOVEL

Week of 3/14 Essay #3 and Two tests

Friday

 We will talk about Mr. Tulkinghorn and then get into writing your READER RESPONSE essays.

Readers Response Theory

2/22  594-614

2/23    614-636
2/24    637-653
2/25    653-676

2/28    676-697
3/1    697-729

3/2   Work on Essay #2

3/3   729-753

3/4    753-780

Week of 3/7 FINISH NOVEL

Week of 3/14 Essay #3 and Two tests

Friday

 Read and work on journals.

2/17 564-594

2/18 Work on journals  

If you are completely caught up please let me know via email or text. 

Thursday

 Work on catching up on BLOGS

Wednesday

 So, if you haven't finished your New Criticism essay, you do have the class to work on it. If you have finished you can work on journals and/or get caught up on reading.

Blahahahah.

Week of 2/14

 2/14       536-564
2/15       564-579

2/16 Essays due.  WORK ON JOURNALS

2/17 564-594

2/18 Work on journals 

Thursday

 We will be talking about your reading and then writing your "New Criticism" essays. These should be 2-3 pages and they should be about only one thing. You don't have time to explore more than that.

2/9       492-509
2/10       No reading. Work on Essays.
2/11       509-536
2/14       536-564
2/15       564-579

2/16 Essays due. 

2/17 564-594

2/18 Work on journals 

Wednesday

 Today we will continue with the overview of "New Criticism". 

You will be writing a "New Criticism" essays of 2-3 pages tomorrow, Friday, and Monday in class. Tuesday you will need to analyze the paragraph at the bottom of this page.

Remember - theme and how that theme is development. Also look at some of the questions "New Critics" ask. Note, remember this is the easiest of the lit theories that we will be covering, but it is the theory that AP Lit expects you to know and perform.

 Here are some, not all, themes to consider for BLEAK HOUSE

Poverty

Reputation 

Class Structure and Lineage

Power and moral principles

Appearances and Identity

Law vs Justice

Duty or Social Responsibility (Philanthrophy)

Family

Passion and Madness 

“Plenty will come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellor of that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.”

Tuesday - THEMES

 Here are some, not all, themes to consider for BLEAK HOUSE

Poverty

Reputation 

Class Structure and Lineage

Power and moral principles

Appearances and Identity

Law vs Justice

Duty or Social Responsibility (Philanthrophy)

Family

Passion and Madness 

“Plenty will come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellor of that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.”

 

Analyze the above quote (what does it mean?) and connect it to a major theme in the novel.

Friday

 There has been a lot of complaining about BLEAK HOUSE, so we are going to start writing essays next week. Please get catch up on the reading.

2/4       404-434
2/7       435-463
2/8       463-492
2/9       492-509
2/10       Catch-up
2/11       509-536
2/14       536-564
2/15       564-579

Essays on 2/8 and the week of 2/13.

There will probably be a MC test on Bleak House as well. 

Wednesday

 We need to go over your poetry out loud poems today and then give you some time to read in class. You need to be on page 383 by the end of the day. We will talk about those pages tomorrow.

2/2  358-383

2/3       383-404
2/4       404-434
2/7       435-463
2/8       463-492
2/9       492-509
2/10       Catch-up
2/11       509-536
2/14       536-564
2/15       564-579