The Great Gatsby Reading Schedule

Ideally, you have completed your independent reading book and have tons of leisure time to read. Please prioritize Gatsby (he deserves it, poor fellow).

READ
Chapter   1 for Thursday, May 23rd
Chapters 2-4 for Tuesday, May 28th
Chapters 5&6 for Wednesday, May 29th
Chapter   7 for Friday, May 31st
Chapter   8 for Monday, June 3rd
Chapter   9 for Tuesday, June 4th

You will be expected to participate in our seminar-style discussion at least 4 times over 9 days.  You can earn participation points by introducing, clarifying, elaborating, disagreeing, questioning, connecting, etc.  If you don't speak, I will have to assume that you haven't read; hence, you will not earn credit for something you did not do. One can always earn up to 1 extra credit point if they participate more than once on a given day.

4x5=20/20     Credit to Classwork Grade.
3x5=15/20
2x5=10/20
1x5=5/20

Weekly Agenda 5.20-5.24

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5.20 MONDAY
Final discussion on The Things They Carried
-"Ambush"
-Linda (the role of women/females in the text); 2nd excerpt from Pamela Smiley's "The Role of the Ideal Female Reader"
GET BOOKS?
HW See Reading Schedule: GG, Ch 1 for Thursday

5.21 TUESDAY
Journal #21: TIMED WRITING-Gendered Subtext literary analysis of The Things They Carried

5.22 WEDNESDAY
See GG Reading Guide
Read Chapter 1 of GG
-while you read take landmark marginalia of important motifs
-Journal #22: Independent Reading Format (concentrate on Fitzgerald's style, 1b)
HW See Reading Schedule: GG, Ch 2-4 for Tuesday

5.23-5.24 THURSDAY-FRIDAY
RESEARCH PAPER DUE TO TURNITIN.com
Background on Fitzgerald and the 20s (T.S. Eliot)
Credit for marginalia
Chapter 1 Discussion:
-Setting: visuals
-The Secret Society
-:the valley of ashes"
-language, imagery, color symbolism, motifs
HW See Reading Schedule: GG 2-4 for Tuesday (reading quiz Tuesday)

Weekly Agenda 5.13-5.17

The Things They Carried

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Historical Background
Discuss ambivalence and apathy in characters: examples.
-what is ambiguity in writing
Excerpts from "The Song of Tra Bong"
-read criticism, annotate
Handout: Criticism --the feminist lens.  Style and symbolism.  What is O'Brien trying to prove through Mary Anne.
3-Chair: Changing roles of women in war (and homefront).

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
Group Work
-check outline

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Ambush"
-realism vs. romanticism

Journal # ___ : Things Carried response
HW Finish Things Carried for MONDAY; work on research paper, due MAY 24th to turnitin.com.

Practice and Review

PRACTICE
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-english-language-and-composition/exam-practice

REVIEW
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-english-language-and-composition/exam-practice
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-english-language-and-composition/writing-study-skills