Welcome to AP English Language and Composition, and a lil Journalism!
Final Exams will be held final exam week, be there!
Weekly Homework Schedule:
Read each selection’s preceding information in your Glencoe Lit book, and respond to the Reading Focus. Then, read the selection and answer all the Responding to Literature questions and Literary Elements questions that follow. Each assignment will be due the Friday of the assigned week.
4/13-4/17: “Speech to the Second Virginia Conference,” Patrick Henry: pg 147
4/20-4/2: “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman: pg 410
4/27-5/1: “Nineteen Thirty-Seven,” Edwidge Danticat: pg 999
5/4-5/8: “Prime Time,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: pg 1087
Gattaca extra credit assignment: Discuss your positionof the stem cell/embryonic cloning debate. Make sure to reference Rifkin, Barglow, and Gattaca.
Wall.e Extra Credit Discussion Questions:
1. Find the thesis and explain its derivation.
2. Discuss how the director uses imagery and detail to support the thesis.
3. Tie this in to the other themes we've been working on.
For funsies: discuss the symbolism/irony of the cockroach-buddy
The link to our short story, "The Veldt," is attached above. We were journaling imagery and words with strong connotations, and most importantly, finding the thesis! *pop quiz on "The Veldt" on 9/19 and 9/22!*
HW due 10/22-10/23: Read "the Pit and the Pendulum" on pg 292 of your Glencoe Lit book, and journal all the literary devices you (should) find, and their effect on the text.
10/27-10/28: Read "There Will Come Soft Rains," link posted below. As you read journal the literary devices and their effects on the text.
10/29-10/30: Answer discussion questions for "There WillCome Soft Rains."
1. Why the repetition of the dates (not just for “memory’s sake, and include the ending)?
2. If the house is so “smart,” why does it not realize the family isn’t there?
3. What is the irony surrounding the mice?
4. Discuss the imagery in the last paragraph on pg 323.
5. Significance of “mechanical paranoia,” pg 324?
6. “Angry at inconvenience,” pg 324, implies what?
7. Based on the implications from the text, what can we infer happened to the family and city, why, and how do we know?
8. Point of the poem? Think deep!
9. Why would the house try to save itself? Consider dual meanings…
10. *pg 327, para 6: Significance?
11. Why the personification in para 2, pg 328?
12. Significance of final image?
13. Would you want a smart house, wown?
FYI!
Take-home midterm, due Jan 8th/9th: Explain the parallels between the relationships between man, himself, and technology in The Cuckoo’s Egg and War Games, and what was learned. Your paper should be around 500 words, typed, and in MLA format.
12/1-12/2, "I, Robot" Pt 1 questions (pg 0-8):
1. What’s the UNATS? What does that mean?
2. Is it okay for parents to wiretap their kids, wown? What about police officers?
3. Why is it a “parody of obedience”?
4. What is Social Harmony? What is it close to in real life? What does the name change mean?
5. Why are the Eurasian robots “loathsome”?
6. What is CAFTA?
7. What does “second law it into letting her go” mean?
8. Why does Arturo treat the robot so disrespectfully?
9. What is the controversy surrounding the grey-market component parts? Why is this significant?
10. Conflicts so far? Take a stab at the thesis.
"I, Robot" pt 2, pg 8-13#
1. Why is the efficiency of the Peed units a problem for Arturo?
2. What is “infowar” and how does it work?
3. How do Doctorow’s descriptions of the security guard and other mall employees convey his attitude toward them?
4. What does “comfortably low-tech” mean?
5. What is ironic about Arturo feeling “useless” because the robots were all broken?
6. What contrast is Doctorow setting up with the imagery in paragraph 5, pg 13?
7. New thoughts on the thesis?
"I, Robot questions", pt 3, pg 13-19
1. Why were the lab-rats excited about being “finally called back into service”? Explain.
2. What are the implications of machines designed to kill other machines?
3. What is the gist of the infowar device’s propaganda?
4. What is the significance of the R Peed unit’s involvement in Arturo’s questioning of Liam?
5. How was Ada involved in ExcuseClub?
6. What are “phonebooks” for?
7. Explain Liam’s sweatshirt.
8. What are “second-law-proof aides to the robotic security system?”
Midterm Questions:
1. Macaulay: What about Samuel Johnson does Macaulay want us to know, and how does he show it? (Look beyond surface level characteristics)
2. Churchill: Explain why the order of details is important in Churchill's "King Henry VIII."
3. Okada: How does Okada's choice of detail reveal his attitude toward money?
4. Coleridge: Compare and contrast the Mariner's attitudes toward the sea creatures, and support your answer.
5. Eliot: How does Eliot create mood? Be specific.
3/2 4a homework redo: Does Douglass feel fit to address the nations liberties?
HW DUE 3/5-3/6:
Read "The Gettysburg Address" pg 385, answer questions 1-12, omit 9.
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