The notes from our discussion today have been shared with you in our Google Docs “Notes” folder. Do please be sure to be learning the Fiction Lit Terms and considering the feedback on your iPod descriptive paragraph.
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A friend has introduced me to fiction podcasts from the New Yorker, and they are incredible. Up this month, David Means reads and discusses epochal American short story writer Raymond Carver’s quiet and powerful “Chef’s House.” With these podcasts, you can freely stream them online and/or download them for listening. In each podcast from this important . . . → Read More: AP Literature: Amazing Fiction Learning Opportunity Please find the notes attached below for the Short Story Writer’s Workshop and revision below. Your groups are the last two pages of the document, should you have forgotten. Keep in mind that everyone is expected to read and comment on each story by a group member, shooting for 6 comments per piece focused on . . . → Read More: English 10 C & E Homework – Short Story Writer’s Workshop Please find the Cornerstone Assessment document at the link below. This is due at the beginning of your final class period of next week. English 10 Creative Writing – Short Story Assessment Your story will be graded on the ZIS English Department Writing Rubric, which is linked below. Be sure to make yourself familiar with . . . → Read More: English 10 – Cornerstone Assessment Unit 1 I love it when I leave a class excited about a literature discussion! I’m very pleased with the depth and breadth of your discussion, and especially excited about the widespread use of literary terms in your discussion. These are the keys to understanding literature! Anyway, keep up the close readings and vibrant discussions. TMIK Discussion . . . → Read More: English 10 E – TMIK Discussion Notes For this first of three creative assignments in this unit you will create an artistic portrait of a character from “The Man I Killed.” Logical choices include Kiowa, Tim, or the dead soldier. Should you wish to focus on another character, speak with me first. The due date will be decided upon in class. Download . . . → Read More: English 10 Short Story Creative Assignment 1 – Character Portrait We covered a good bit of ground in a short discussion today, and we are poised to jump into Heart of Darkness on Monday. In particular, it was good to see you finding details in text to support your ideas and to hear you employing a few literary terms in discussing the text. You need . . . → Read More: AP Lit C “YGB” Notes A strong discussion, with the beginnings of the use of details to support your ideas scattered regularly throughout the lesson, characterized our Monday class. Please find the notes from our discussion linked below, including the writing topic for tomorrow. Once again, refer to the generic essay rubric in the syllabus if you’d like a scoring . . . → Read More: AP Lit F – “YGB” Discussion Notes & Assignment EDIT: Don’t worry about preparing this story for next week. Skip it for now. If you have already read it, great – we’ll come back to it during the next unit. If not, take a pass and concentrate your efforts on “Young Goodman Brown.” We will read the classic Victorian short story by Charlotte Perkins . . . → Read More: Late Victorian Period Short Story Reading We had the beginnings of a good discussion going, with some well-identified pieces of the plot – particularly exposition and rising action. Also, the connection between the details of the setting that you identified and the mood was becoming particularly clear. Once we complete the discussion on Monday, I’ll follow up this post with a . . . → Read More: English 10 E Short Story Discussion Pt. 1 – “The Lemon Orchard” |
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