Assignment for Monday, Oct. 1

Complete Reading Oedipus Rex, pp. 84 - 91.  (Oedipus Rex, Robert Fagles translation, Part 2 (begin on page 82))

Use Kami to create 5 annotations for the pages above.

Things Fall Apart Essay Due Thursday, Sept. 27.

We will set aside some time tomorrow for peer editing and final teacher feedback.

Oedipus Rex Resources

The Riddle of the Sphinx:
The Sphinx stopped travelers on the road to Thebes and posed them a riddle. If they answered wrong, they died. The hero Oedipus was asked the following question: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three at close of day?"  Click here for the answer.

Oedipus Rex, Robert Fagles, translation Part 1
Oedipus Rex, Robert Fagles translation, Part 2 (begin on page 82)

Oedipus Tyrannus, modern translation

Greek Theatre (slideshow)

The Theater of Ancient Greece -- An Intro. to Oedipus Rex (slideshow)

The Story of Oedipus (Animated cartoon)

Tragedy Unit Overview & Expectations

TFA Interpretive Essay: Getting Started and Timetable for Completion

Write a draft introductory paragraph and a body paragraph for your Things Fall Apart Interpretive Essay.

• Your thesis should appear as the last sentence of your first paragraph.  
• The lead sentences of your first paragraph should introduce your topic in a general way.
• The next few sentences should gradually narrow toward the thesis.
• Your first body paragraph should consist of:
• a topic sentence that includes key words from your thesis.
• one or more quotes 
• specific detail as evidence
• analysis of the quotes and evidence
• transitions that help link the above

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During Class:  Open the Google Classroom TFA Essay Template.  Personalize the header information and remove the works cited section at the end.  Paste in what you have written so  far.  Then continue drafting your essay.

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Things Fall Apart  Interpretive Essay Timetable

--prior to Wednesday:  read and collect quotes

--Thursday

• Create outline
• Revise working thesis (if needed)
• Check, reflect on, and revise first 2 paragraphs
• Draft additional body paragraphs 2, 3, 4

--Friday

• Draft additional body paragraphs (if needed)
• Write closing paragraph
• Self-evaluation

--Monday

• Revise essay
• Peer conferences
• Further revisions & teacher conferences

--Tuesday, Sept. 25

• Outside of class teacher conferences as needed.

--Thursday, Sept. 26 -- TFA Interpretive Essay Due

• quotes/double-entry journal
• rough draft including evidence of peer conference
• final draft

TFA Interpretive Essay Resources

Essay Guidelines

Writing an Interpretive Essay / Literary Analysis -- General Resources
Purdue Owl, Writing a Literary Analysis (slideshow)
Roane State Owl, Literary Analysis
Bucks.edu, How to Write an Analysis

Assignment for Friday, Sept. 14
Choose a topic for your essay.  Identify and label at least 3 d-e quotes that fit your topic.

Assignment:for Tuesday, Sept. 18
-Complete reading Things Fall Apart.
--Add 6 more entries to your double-entry journal.  Ideally, most or all with fit with your focus.

--Pretest yourself on basic AP English vocabulary by practicing the Vocabulary.com activity here.  A second list is here.
--First reading of the Yeats poem, "Second Coming"
--More on Things Fall Apart Interpretive Essay.
--Discussion based on D-E Journals.
--Mini-Research:  West African food, music, and culture.

Assignment:
1. Complete TFA, Part 1 (to page 125) for Thursday.
2. Complete 3 more double-entries.  (Total of 11 double-entries)

Things Fall Apart Resources

Things Fall Apart online

Chinua Achebe biography

Chinua Achebe on Nigeria & Africa 50 years later (video)

Premium Times Nigeria (Nigerian newspaper online)
The Guardian (Nigerian newspaper online)

William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"  (poem)

Gender Role Test (Take the test once for yourself.  If you have time, take it again for Okonkwo).
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . . "

                        --from Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Anthem Resources

Anthem (online version)

Online lectures about Anthem

Interpretive Strategies
Another briefer explanation of interpretive strategies is here.

Online children's stories for practice with interpretive strategies:

• "The Wiener Dog Magnet"
• "Invisible Alligators"

World's Shortest Political Quiz
Are You a Capitalist or Socialist Quiz

Assignment for Thursday, Sept. 6:
--Complete reading Anthem for Thursday's class.
To be completed in-class on Thursday:
--Write a one-paragraph interpretation of Anthem using the interpretive strategy of your choice.  Begin your paragraph with a one-sentence statement about the meaning of Anthem.  Then support your statement with evidence from the text and/or from outside research. (Biographical and historical strategies often require outside research).  Include at least one page number as a parenthetical reference.  (If you use an outside source, also provide an informal reference [author and title] for that.)  Be sure to select evidence appropriate to the interpretative strategy you have chosen.

Welcome to Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition

About AP and About the Course:

The College Board:  Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition

• Reasons to Take AP
• Course Description
• Course Overview