Blog Archives - Literature with Leonetti

September 30, 2019

9/30/2019

Objective: I can develop a writing goal based on my current understanding of how I need to write for AP Literature utilizing the feedback I received from the AP scoring guidelines on my first essay (W11-12.5).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Write the title of the book you used in your essay on the board~sit at the group table assigned to you. Please leave folders in the file until I ask you to get them out.
- What does our class list reflect?
Read "Defining Moments"
What constitutes a "work of equal literary merit"?
- With your group, share your titles and explain to each other why you chose the book you did.
As a group, create a list of 5 criteria that make a book worth choosing for Open Choice.
- Turn in your list.
Review your essay comments; underline your meaning, and highlight the key words (2015 Prompt: cruelty, victim, or perpetrator) throughout your writing . . . did you AP (answer the prompt)?
- Share some of your comments with your group (not your score).
- Review the group triangle on the Pardoner’s Tale; underline your meaning, and highlight the words journey or framed narrative.
Discuss: What did you do well individually?
- What did the group do well?
- What do you need to work on?
Create a list of 5 group goals on your group folder.
- Use the essay graphic for goal wording (ie. more explicit analysis, use trigger phrases, etc.)

Exit Task: Complete your individual growth chart and first question, staple it in to your folder; keep all of your writing in the folder provided, so you can see your growth throughout the year! Keep your essay graphic in your writing folder as well.

September 27, 2019

9/27/2019

Objective: I can discuss my book club book with my group selecting a prompt that is meaningful to our book and record our ideas in an opening sentence as well as in My Essential Lit. to hold our thinking (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get comfy! Get your book club folder, snack, and books out to get ready to discuss
- Select one of the two prompts from slide #18 of the prezi to discuss
- When you feel you have expressed all you can regarding the prompt, together, write an opening sentence that fits WHERE YOU ARE AT in the book; if you want life to be easier later, look to the outline for how to frame ideas for what you might write.
  - Make sure you have the names of members who are present on the top of your paper and today’s date
  - Raise your hand when you are ready to share your opening sentence

Exit Task: Complete at least one section in your own My Essential Literature

September 26, 2019

9/26/2019

Objective: I can listen to the counselors share their information regarding my junior/senior year in order to make sure I am prepared to graduate on time.
Agenda:

Please listen attentively and ask questions.
This is your opportunity to get prepared for what's to come outside of this class!
If we have time, discuss scoring of "Pardoner's Tale" triangles.

September 25, 2019

9/25/2019

Objective: I can begin to comprehend how the MOWAW fits into an Opening Sentence and helps me begin my writing process for AP-Style essays (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Sit with your 6 o'clock partner. Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question. Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer.
- Join another pair, so you have a group of 4.
- Finish "The Pardoner's Tale"
  - Finish The Pardoner's Tale Questions
  - Review the Essay Graphic provided last week, focusing on the opening sentence and thesis statement
    - Notice that both should address the prompt
    - Practice writing an Opening Sentence and Thesis for "The Pardoner's Tale" and one body section for the prompt in the triangle provided.
Trade your work with another group and grade using the AP Holistic Grading Rubric--make comments on their work and select a score as an AP reader would.
- Turn in the triangle and the rubric to the teacher.

Exit Task: In your notebook, explain how this process of determining theme/mowaw to developing a full body paragraph is helping you to grasp how to read and write for this class.

September 24, 2019

9/24/2019

Objective: I can see the framed narrative of The Canterbury Tales and investigate its meaning to uncover a MOWAW through reading "The Pardoner's Tale" (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Grab a Green Textbook from Bookshelf behind white table. Sit with your 1 o’clock partner. Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question. Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer.
Review Framed Narrative of The Canterbury Tales from your notes
- As a class answer:
  - What is happening in the frame of the story?
  - Where are the pilgrims going?
  - Why are they telling stories?
- The pardoner will tell his story in our reading. He is speaking directly to the host when the reading begins, then his tale follows, and it ends with him speaking to the host again.
Review The Pardoner's Tale Questions
- Begin reading

Exit Task: Work with 1 o'clock partner to answer questions addressed so far in your journal. Be prepared to share out one of your responses.

September 23, 2019

9/23/2019

Objective: I understand what it means to find theme in a work, and I can identify one for "Death and the Miser" to reveal Meaning of the Work as a Whole (MOWAW) (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Sit with your 4 o'clock partner. Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question. Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer.
In your notebook, in your own words define theme.
- Class to share out three ideas of theme and add to your own definition
- Watch How to Find a Theme (to 5:05 min.) and jot down any new insights

Getting to Theme
- Pair up with another set of partners, as a small group complete “How to Determine Theme” steps 1-4 by making notes on the laminated copy of the painting
  - In this case the “book” is the painting which you have spent time reading over the last couple of days
  - Use your notes on the painting and from the interactive to help your group come up with a theme statement
Once you are sure of your theme, write it on the poster, point to the elements in the painting that reveal your MOWAW*.
- *AP Open Choice essays always ask for the Meaning of the Work as a Whole; this is the same as theme. From here on out, we will refer to theme as the MOWAW.
Review possible themes presented as a class.

Exit Task: Make sure you have a theme/mowaw next to your picture in your notebook. Erase your notes off the color picture for the next class please.

September 20, 2019

9/20/2019

Objective: I can discuss my first impressions of our Book Club with my group members and keep track of my thoughts by working to fill in My Essential Literature .
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get comfy! Get your book club folder, snack, and books out to get ready to discuss
- Select one of the two prompts from slide #14 of the prezi to discuss
- When you feel you have expressed all you can regarding the prompt, together, write an opening sentence that fits WHERE YOU ARE AT in the book; if you want life to be easier later, look to the outline for how to frame ideas for what you might write.
  - Make sure you have the names of members who are present on the top of your paper and today’s date
  - Raise your hand when you are ready to share your opening sentence

Exit Task: Complete at least one section in your own My Essential Literature

September 19, 2019

9/18/2019

Objective: I can "read" Death and the Miser by completing the interactive and practice not "reading with my eyes” (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: One of you log in to the computer for you and your 2 o'clock partner; instead of multiple choice practice today, (Thursday) turn in your first essay with the prompt and scoring guide
- Complete the Death and the Miser interactive together, clicking on parts of the painting to reveal the questions (Wright).
- Answer at least 2 questions per part, you do not have to answer them all; keep an eye on time.
- You must answer the question regarding the poem by Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

Exit Task: Print your answers--one copy for each of your notebooks; show me when it is in your notebook for participation points. Also make sure you have a copy of Emily Dickinson's poem in your notebook.

September 17-18, 2019

9/17/2019

Objective: I can apply what I know about Geoffrey Chaucer and the Middle Ages to be able to read "Death and the Miser” to learn to identify theme (RL11-12.2)
Agenda:

Entry Task: SIT WITH YOUR 7 o'clock partner. Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question. Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer.
Continue along with Chaucer and Middle Ages prezi from slide 24 to finish notes.
- Review your notes and highlight or box 5 "big ideas" that people of the Middle Ages would have been more concerned with than we are.
With your 7 o’clock partner, utilize notes to make educated guesses about what is happening in "Death and the Miser"
Share out what you see in the painting; then review what the artist intended.
See the Pardoner’s Tale Quizlet Set; you can download the app and signup for our class. Memorizing these terms is not required, but it is beneficial. You will earn participation points for doing so. You will not be penalized if you choose not to do so.
- Each set is worth it's weight in optional participation points. To earn the points, you must print your 100% test score WITH YOUR NAME on it and bring it in to me. You can do this at anytime in the semester.
Exit Task: Make sure your notes are organized into you notebook, including the painting of “Death and the Miser” (Wright).

September 16, 2019

9/16/2019

Objective: I know who Geoffrey Chaucer was and can imagine what it would have been like to live during the Middle Ages to be able to read "Death and the Miser" and "The Pardoner's Tale."
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question. Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer.
Follow along to Chaucer and Middle Ages prezi
- Taking notes to fill the space (1/2 page author; 1/2 page time) with the information that you would like to remember about the author and time period

Exit Task: Make sure your notes are organized into you notebook and labeled with Geoffrey Chaucer and Middle Ages