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

References! References! References!

You are going over your draft and need to check or add a reference to a source.  Should you refer to the author, the page title, the URL or something else?  The Purdue OWL provides a clear answer:

• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears in the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.

For example if your bibliography entry looks like this:  

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*

You are required to state the last name of the author, "Lundman," in your reference, since the name of the author is what comes first in your bib. entry.  The last name of the author is then your "signal word."

If there is no author last name in your bibliography, then you will refer to the first thing provided in your correctly formatted MLA bib. entry.  In order of preference, these would typically be:

1. Author.
2. If no author:  use the title of the source. (Title of article or web page or abbreviated title)
3. If no title of source:  use the title of the "container" (Title of web site or abbreviated title.  Note this is NOT a URL)

Which brings us to another rule:

In-text citations for sources with no known author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites).

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change" ("Impact of Global Warming").

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title of the article appears in the parenthetical citation which corresponds to the full name of the article which appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

May 9, 2018 -- English 101

--Read the opinion piece, "Rap Lyrics on Trial"  Underline one sentence from each paragraph and label each as logos, pathos, or ethos.

--Write three versions of a brief letter to your parents, asking if you can swap cars for the weekend.  (Your car is not very trustworthy; the car belonging to your parents is much nicer).  Demonstrate the use of logos, pathos, or ethos in each of the three versions.

--After reviewing your responses in the  Developing Your Argument and Audience Analysis planning sheets (see Google Classroom), after reflecting on what you have learned about logos, pathos, and ethos, and after reflecting on what you have learned about appeals, write the introductory paragraph to your persuasive essay.  Be sure to target wording, subject matter, and approach to your specific audience.  End the introductory paragraph with a specific thesis statement.

--Again reviewing your responses in Developing Your Argument , construct a n informal outline that states your thesis and identifies your arguments and counter-arguments.  Temporarily place your outline just above your introduction (see document on Google Classroom).

--Begin writing your body paragraphs and doing additional research as needed.  Be sure to use authoritative sources and to use academic databases as much as possible.  A rough draft of your entire essay (Works Cited page included) is due Thursday of next week.

Monday, April 30 -- English 101

1. Complete Portfolio #2 Reflection

2. Appeals Activity & Discussion

3. Begin Portfolio #3 Pre-write (Google Classroom)

4. Read text, pp. 88 - 106. (Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, and Writing an Argumentative Essay.)

Ways to Appeal to an Audience:

-Videos:  1, 2. 3. 

Apple Pie Controversy 2.0

Apple Pie Controversy 2.0
Complete the prompt here as a way to practice and share strategies for topic sentences, clincher sentences, analysis, and transitions.

Editing Checksheet
The link is here.

Due dates

Due Friday, April 6 -- Introductory paragraphs (see outline)

Due Monday, April 9 -- First body paragraph

Due Friday, April 13 -- Rough draft of entire essay for peer review.

Due Friday, April 27 -- Portfolio 2 (final draft of essay plus all materials that document your process).

References! References! In-text Citations!

You have completed your bibliography and are writing your paper and need to refer to a source.  Should you refer to the author, the page title, the URL or something else?  The Purdue OWL provides a clear answer:

• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears in the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.

For example if your bibliography entry looks like this:  

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*

You are required to state the last name of the author, "Lundman," in your reference, since the name of the author is what comes first in your bib. entry.  The last name of the author is then your "signal word."

If there is no author last name in your bibliography, then you will refer to the first thing provided in your correctly formatted MLA bib. entry.  In order of preference, these would typically be:

1. Author.
2. If no author:  use the title of the source. (Title of article or web page or abbreviated title)
3. If no title of source:  use the title of the "container" (Title of web site or abbreviated title.  Note this is NOT a URL)

Which brings us to another rule:

In-text citations for sources with no known author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites).

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change" ("Impact of Global Warming").

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title of the article appears in the parenthetical citation which corresponds to the full name of the article which appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

In-text Citations: Fine Print

The Purdue Owl (Online Writing Lab) is a useful resource and reference tool for questions about formatting and grammar.  MLA guidelines are here.  APA format guidelines are here.

For sources with multiple authors:

For a source with two authors, list the authors’ last names in the text or in the parenthetical citation:

Best and Marcus argue that one should read a text for what it says on its surface, rather than looking for some hidden meaning (9).

The authors claim that surface reading looks at what is “evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts” (Best and Marcus 9).

For a source with three or more authors, list only the first author’s last name, and replace the additional names with et al.

According to Franck, et al, “Current agricultural policies in the U.S. are contributing to the poor health of Americans” (327).

The authors claim that one cause of obesity in the United States is government-funded farm subsidies (Franck, et al. 327).

For sources with no author available:
When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number.