Week 10 Day 1 Monday, April 8, 2019

 

Welcome Back from Spring Break!!!

and

Acts 4 and 5 of Hamlet

          

  

David Tennant  (Dr. Who) as Hamlet

1. The entire RSC’s latest production of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart is online!  Check it out periodically to see some of the scenes:

   http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2wyITj/www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/shakespeare-three-tragedies/hamlet-full-performance-video

   Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 production of Hamlet with David Tennant as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius–Click HERE for more pictures!

 

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  WANT TO KNOW AN UNUSUAL WAY TO ASK SOMEONE TO PROM?

“MAGGIE, WILT THOU GO TO PROM WITH ME?”

(highlighted in her Hamlet book!)

(SHE ACCEPTED!!!)  ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

COMING UP NEXT WEEK . . . OLSON-LAND!

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Literary Theories

Frankenstein!!

 

Today’s FORGOTTEN ENGLISH

 Word of the Day:

 pribbling = vainly chattering

Today’s Forgotten Shakespeare Insult of the Day:

“You pribbling, tickle-brained dewberry!”  means  “You vainly chattering, liquor supplying, low-growing species of fruit!

Today’s Allusion:

 15 minutes of fame . . .

“Let the cat out of the bag /

don’t buy a pig in a poke!”

Group Check-in:

1. Highlights of break
2. compare and contrast Act 3 pink quiz

1.   DICE DISCUSSION
   

Class Plan:

1. 1. ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
      
   2. ANNOUNCEMENTS
      
   3. Discuss end of Act 2

 

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

1. none

HOMEWORK TONIGHT:

1.   Do HAMLET ASSIGNMENT H 15 # 1-4:  #1  Read pages 106-118 (finish Act 4).   #2–Finish the purple Act 4 quiz #21-40.   Click Hamlet.Act.4.purple.quiz.Scan001 for a copy.   #3  Do AP Q’s 54-68                 #4 Do WA 17 Act 4 Topics  (one side minimum). NOTE!  This will be an open PEER RESPONSE as usual.
   

   Read carefully over the following topics after finishing Act 4.  Choose one or more upon which to write at least a full page of discussion/analysis, etc.  Let your ideas run wild, but ground them in examples/proof from the text.  List page numbers to help remind you where you got the ideas.  We will use these questions as a springboard for small or large-group discussion.  Be sure to write/summarize the question at the front end of your discussion so than anyone reading it can recognize to which question you’re responding right away.

   HERE ARE THE TOPICS (A-D) FOR THIS ACT 4 JOURNAL ENTRY (which will be a peer exchange journal):

   1. Agree or disagree with this statement:  Claudius has the “stuff”–the character and abilities– of which truly effective leaders /kings are made.  He is a more formidable leader than Hamlet could be.

   2. Agree or disagree with this statement:  Ophelia’s outcome was, indeed, to be expected.  It is consistent with her temperament and character as revealed earlier in the play.

   3. Hamlet again fails to follow through on his plan for revenge.  Is Hamlet seriously flawed or superlatively civilized?  If custom and honor demand he avenge his father, why does he continue to hesitate when “golden opportunity” presents itself?  Does he believe that all order in his universe would shatter should he kill his uncle?  Or is he, as he has stated in his soliloquies, a coward, unable to steel himself to the deed?  If so, why does he decide so early on in the play that he must avenge his father’s death by murder?  Why has he not instead used his popularity with the people to enlist their aid and depose his uncle?  Depending on your view of Hamlet at this point, what resolution do you foresee in the final act?

   4. Early in the play, Marcellus cried out prophetically, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” implying that the destruction of the people comes from within.  In this act, many of the characters are described as inwardly “sick” as if they have been afflicted with a disease.  Claudius tells us his “soul is full of discord and dismay,” that Hamlet is a “hectic” (fever) in his blood that must be cured for him to be happy again.  Gertrude refuses at first to see Ophelia because, to her “sick soul,” the deranged girl is a painful reminder of her sins.  Laertes refers to a “sickness” in his heart.  Discuss how each of these three characters have become morally corrupted from within themselves.

   Click HERE for a copy of the PURPLE HAMLET ASSIGNMENT PACKET. Click HERE for a copy of the ivory HAMLET PACKET.

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   By Friday, finish Things Fall Apart.  There is no HW except to read it.  Know that Mr. Olson plans a test on it the first day with him–Monday, April 15th.

 

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WEEK 18 June 9, 2020

CONGRATS CLASS OF 2020!

Oh, we have definitely crossed the Rubicon now . . .  or at least seen a great view of the Mississippi!

(Yes, Whole Foods does sell Rubicon Cupcakes!)

 

 

Welcome, high-flyin’ APES–

the class of 2020 semester 2!

Click HERE for our Class of 2020 Semester 2

Flickr album!

Do you believe you were fated to be here?

If you are taking AP Lit (a.k.a. Varsity English), you are crossing the Rubicon!

 

What would Jane do?

  UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS! 

Click 2020 SPRING 2nd sem. FIELD TRIP PERMIT FORMS for permission forms!  DUE Monday, Feb. 3rd by 3:00.

Click 2020 sem 2 AP Lit Parent Letter 2 Field trips for information letter!

SAVE THESE DATES:

• Wednesday, March 4 to the Guthrie to see Twelfth Night

•  Friday, April 24 to see Romeo and Juliet at Park Square Theatre including interactive Immersion Day workshops!
  

 

 

 

 

 

Click 2020 AP sem 2 CALENDAR for a copy of the 2020 blank AP Lit. HW Calendar.  

Click HERE for our Flickr Album Slideshow

 

Linda Wallenberg (Wally)

Wally’s e-mail lwallenberg@edenpr.org 

or voice mail 952 975-4303 (rarely used!)  

              

                          Wally 

 

 

Summer Homework for Class of 2020:

3 Novels Annotated, WA 1 Quote Pondering, Info Packet

 Now, about that AP Summer Homework

(Due Friday, Sept. 6, 2019–regardless of the semester you have class)  

    NOTE:  Summer homework includes the following:  1.) annotated 3 novels and student-filled-out rubric, 2.)  journal WA1 Quote Pondering as well as 3.)the AP Lit 12 Info Packet (short answer and essay)

Here are the 3 required novels:

·        A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

·        ·        Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens    

·           Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austen

OPTIONAL–not required for the class of 2020

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  

HOW DOES ONE “ANNOTATE/ACTIVELY READ” A TEXT BY “AP LIT STANDARDS”?

We REQUIRE that along with your reading, particularly if you read these texts long before the term starts, that you “actively” read all FOUR texts take separate “reading notes” which might include some or all of the following:  recording questions, making connections, looking for symbols, tracking plot structure and character development, as well as identifying major themes in the texts.  Be sure to bring your marked-up texts to class!  NOTE!

Click HERE for a reminder on how to “actively read.”  Here are some examples of what this “active reading” should look like:

      

1. Click 2020 3 novel AP SUMMER READING & RUBRICS for the Summer Reading 2020 Info and grading rubrics.

2. Click HERE for the explanation of the first journal WA 1: QUOTE PONDERING (2 sides minimum) This journal entry must be at least two double-spaced typed pages (or two single-spaced pages of notebook paper).   I highly recommend your typing your journals.  Start a file for them on your computer.   Label this first journal “WA 1 QUOTE PONDERING.”  For just the particulars of this assignment, click 2014 OJ 1 QUOTE PONDERING REQUIREMENTSx.  NOTE:  However, call is WA 1 Quote Pondering, not OJ 1 Quote Pondering.

3. Click 2020 AP Lit 12 Info Packet (Word doc–you can type but must print it out turn in!) for a copy of the AP Lit INFO PACKET.  Click 2020 AP Lit 12 Info Packet for the pdf version.

  For questions during the summer, email Wally at lwallenberg@edenpr.org   I will be checking my email periodically.

 

Hamlet and Six in Chicago!

Check out the  Hamlet trailer Click HERE.

and

the trailer for Six (the 6 wives of Henry 8th get their say! Click HERE. 

 

 

EPHS AP LITERATURE ARCHIVES BELOW:

History of  AP Lit. Lit!

The Teachers:

Linda Wallenberg (Wally)

Wally’s e-mail lwallenberg@edenpr.org 

or voice mail 952 975-4303

Rolf Olson (Olson)

    

   

                                               

A teacher who is attempting to teach,

without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn,

is hammering on a cold iron.

-Horace Mann, educational reformer (4 May 1796-1859)

“The role of education is to prepare students to face complexity and not

freak out.” – Dr David Cohen, Professor of Mathematics, Smith College

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” ― Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

BLAST FROM THE PAST . . .

Check out the AP Class of 1977.

Recognize anyone?

How about the two people below?

What did Olson and Wally look like at your age?

Wally graduated 1971 from

Evanston Township High School

Class size of 1500.  School size of 6,000!

Olson graduated from

Madison High School in Minnesota

Class size of ??

AP Literature PHOTO ARCHIVES! 

Click HERE for PHOTO GALLERY ARCHIVES of our previous AP classes–2004-2010!

Click https://picasaweb.google.com/103391408735368780157/2011APLitClassPix?authkey=Gv1sRgCIre876Uxtrs2wE to see Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2011.

Click  https://picasaweb.google.com/103391408735368780157/2012APLITPIX?authkey=Gv1sRgCIiupsTFg63I6wE to see Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2012.

 To see the Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2013 1st Semester, clickhttps://picasaweb.google.com/103391408735368780157/2013APLit1stSemester?authkey=Gv1sRgCOL6srrP8affhAE

To see the Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2013 2nd Semester, click HERE.

To see the Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2014 1st Semester, click https://picasaweb.google.com/103391408735368780157/2014APLit1stSemester?authkey=Gv1sRgCODumoC429PoGw#.

 

To see the Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2014 2nd Semester, click HERE.

 

Photo Gallery Archives of the class of 2015:

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE PICTURES FROM THE CLASS OF 2015–1st semester!

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THE PICTURES OF THE CLASS OF 2015–2nd semester!

For our AP CLASS of 2015 2nd semester PHOTO ALBUM, click https://plus.google.com/photos/103391408735368780157/albums/6110043292448379905?authkey=CJO1gM2Y7cSIBA  

Class of 2016 semester 2

Click HERE to see all the

Class of 2016 2nd semester pictures!

Class of 2016 1st semester

What a journey!

Click HERE to see all the 1st semester Class of 2016 pictures!

1. 1. Class of 2016 2nd semester

      Click  HERE  to see all the 1st semester pictures!

      

      

      AP LIT. CLASS OF 2017

      

      Class of 2017 1st semester

      

      AP LIT. CLASS OF 2017–2nd semester

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3. CONGRATULATIONS, APES of 2017!

   

   

   CLASS OF 2017 ROCKS!

   

     

    

   

   

   AP Lit. FALL SEMESTER 2018

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

   

   

   

   AP Class of 2019

   Click HERE for our 2018 Flickr Album Slideshow

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

   PICTURES FROM AP Class of 2019 MEETING OF THE MINDS and GRADUATION!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   Once an APE, always an APE?

   Click

   2019 ap lit calendar for our 2019 calendar.

   

   

   

   

   You did it!

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

   Congrats, Mr. Olson!

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   AP Literature Class of 2020                     Fall Semester!

   Click HERE for our AP Lit semester 1 Flickr album!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   Our Amazing AP Lit Girl Gang 2020!

   

    

   

   What would Jane do?

   

4. 

   This is it!  The finale . . .  

   

   Proof that we have been there:

   

   

   

   

   

   

Enjoy your “wild and precious life”!

Packets of Light

These are little packets of light & you need to plant them early in the year & remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning & it’s not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

FINAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

– Marianne Williamson (Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech)

 

The Journey  by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – – –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.

You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations – – –
though their melancholy
was terrible. It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.

But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do – – – determined to save
the only life you could save.

When Death Comes  by Mary Oliver

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

for more Mary Oliver poems, click here:

http://www.allspirit.co.uk/maryoliver.html

 

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Week 20 Day 1 Monday

Week 20 Day 1 Monday

Done

Week 20 Day 3 Wednesday

Week 20 Wednesday

CLASS PLAN:

1. Group Check-in–weekend, exchange back WA 23 Gender Roles

2. Announcements

3. Dress Rehearsal for Meeting of the Minds (30 min.)
   

4. Pardoner’s Tale–Would you ever want to cheat death?  How would you do it?  “to talk the talk, you must also walk the walk,” is there anything redeeming in the character of the pardoner, and what do you think are the universal questions and themes in this tale Flanders, what a pardoner did, indulgences and relics, 7 deadly sins (old German woodcut), any sin worst?, artwork of Pardoner, hypocrisy, is there anything redeeming about him, ref. in A Knight’s Tale, the “Wandering Jew,” being “above the law,”  Green Mile and Franklin–happy tale?  true love?  sacrifice?  what goes around comes around?     Manciple–danger of rumors?  truth at what expense?  gossip

5. “Canon Yeoman’s Tale”
   
6. MAYBE:  Physician’s Tale–What are the costs of purity?  What is true purity?  What about perfection?  discuss the concept of “death before dishonor.”  What do you think of Virginius, Virginia, the implications of honor/dishonor in the society of the tale and/or our society today?  Is this tale way out of date? –death before dishonor modern examples, abuse of power & positions (principles vs. personalities), Virginia’s abstinence, Virginius’ choices, portrayal of gender
7. Final thoughts on Chaucer–Debrief unit, show the CT Shrinklits, Ellesmere Manuscript, “Take the Chaucer” article, Awards for the best tale? Yale Spizznix “Canterbury Tales” song, Rob’s “Lockdown Friend”–Read TAKE THE CHAUCER or Show BABA raps–wife of Bath tale and youtube?  Which tale should win the contest and why?  Rob St. Clair–”Lockdown Friend,” Bill Salinger reads Chaucer

HOMEWORK COLLECTED:

1. OJ 26 Canon Yeoman’s Tale Response
2. WA 25 Partner Poem

 

HOMEWORK TONIGHT:

1. Work on your personal part for Meeting of the Minds!  Performances start Thursday!
   

2. AP LIT FINAL CC  (20 TEST points)–must be typed! You are required to turn in 2 copies of each of the letters.  This FINAL CC is due next Friday, January 25th!  For a copy of it inWORD document form, click 2010 AP FINAL CC. Bring an 8 1/2 x 11 envelope self-addressed envelope for us to use to send your final journals, papers, etc. in the mail to you.

3. PLEASE Bring back ALL BOOKS  and hand-outs! Hear ye!  Hear ye! ALL-CALL FOR HAND-OUTS and BOOKS (Bring your books to the ERC to check in. We need them back or NO diploma!)  “Gather ye hand-outs while ye may; Old time is still a flyin’!  For all books and hand-outs not turned in, Wally and Olson will be a cryin’!  😦

Week 20 Day 4 Thursday

Week 20  Thursday

Meeting of the Minds

CLASS PLAN:

1. Group Check-in–weekend, exchange back WA 23 Gender Roles

2. Announcements

3. Meeting of the Minds (30 min.)

4. Final thoughts on Chaucer–Debrief unit, show the CT Shrinklits, Ellesmere Manuscript, “Take the Chaucer” article, Awards for the best tale? Yale Spizznix “Canterbury Tales” song, Rob’s “Lockdown Friend”–Read TAKE THE CHAUCER or Show BABA raps–wife of Bath tale and youtube?  Which tale should win the contest and why?  Rob St. Clair–”Lockdown Friend,” Bill Salinger reads Chaucer

HOMEWORK COLLECTED:

1. nothing

 

HOMEWORK TONIGHT:

1. Work on your personal part for Meeting of the Minds if your group goes Friday.
   

2. AP LIT FINAL CC  (20 TEST points)–must be typed! You are required to turn in 2 copies of each of the letters.  This FINAL CC is due next Friday, January 25th!  For a copy of it inWORD document form, click 2010 AP FINAL CC. Bring an 8 1/2 x 11 envelope self-addressed envelope for us to use to send your final journals, papers, etc. in the mail to you.

3. PLEASE Bring back ALL BOOKS  and hand-outs! Hear ye!  Hear ye! ALL-CALL FOR HAND-OUTS and BOOKS (Bring your books to the ERC to check in. We need them back or NO diploma!)  “Gather ye hand-outs while ye may; Old time is still a flyin’!  For all books and hand-outs not turned in, Wally and Olson will be a cryin’!  😦

Week 20 Day 5 Friday AP GRADUATION!

Week 20 Day 5 Friday

AP GRADUATION!!!

MEETING OF THE MINDS

DAY #2

  

 

    

  

Wanna read the AP FAREWELL POEM?

Click HERE for a pdf. version.

Click  HERE for a WORD version.

Wanna see all 700 pictures?

Click  HERE for the CLASS OF 2011 PHOTO GALLERY.

Click the following website for the WEB ALBUM GALLERY:

Time to say Goodbye

ENJOY!

YOU DID IT!

MEETING OF THE MINDS

MEETING OF THE MINDS–day 2: Prideful Prayer

Hamlet & Frankenstein

  

    

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Packets of Light

These are little packets of light & you need to plant them early in the year & remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning & it’s not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

FINAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

– Marianne Williamson (Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech)

When Death Comes

by Mary Oliver

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

for more Mary Oliver poems, click here:

http://www.allspirit.co.uk/maryoliver.html

  

    

MEETING OF THE MINDS!!

 

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