Samples of AP Lit Shakespeare’s B’day Cakes from Years Gone By:
Happy Birthday, Will! Here’s Wally celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday seeing Hamlet, too, in 2010 at the Folger Library in Washington, DC:
COMING UP . . . Frankenstein!
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Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
DiNiro as the creature and Branagh as Victor
James Whale’s 1936 Frankenstein
Today’s Quote of the Day:
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. –Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
Today’s Kafka Quotes:
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Religions get lost as people do.
Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Today’s Allusion:
Kafkaesque
FRANZ KAFKA
(1883-1924) Jewish Czech-born Writer
Franz Kafka is considered to be one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.
His work, most of which was published posthumously, continues to be a source of research,
scholarship and philosophical discussion in diverse academic, literary and popular arenas.
To learn more about Kafka, check out the following sites:
http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/kafka.shtml
http://www.themodernword.com/kafka/kafka_biography.html
http://www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-Biography.htm
To read “Metamorphosis,” click
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/stories/kafka-E.htm
and
Tower of Babel
Words of the Day
vacuous
stentorian
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mercurial
metonymy
Draconian
disdain
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Words from science fiction
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Words from Harry Potter
Today’s Miscellaneous Words of the Day
Group Check-in:
- Eh, what old chap?
- How is the literary theories paper going?
Class Plan:
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- ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
- Take questions on the lit. theory paper.
- Prepare and do presentations of background information on Frankenstein topics. Here they are: Frankenstein Background Group Notes
- ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:
- Digital day!
HOMEWORK TONIGHT:
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Lit. Theories Paper Planning Sheet: Use the following document to identify your book/folktale, literary theory, and any questions you have. For the pink slip on ideas/plan for Lit theory paper topic–click HERE.
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LIT THEORY PAPER DUE _______
PINK SUBMISSION SLIP IS DUE ______
For the pink slip on ideas/plan for Lit theory paper topic–click HERE.
To print out a copy of the purple Lit. Theory packet, click HERE.
To print out a copy of the Lit. Theory paper packet, click HERE.
To read a sample paper, click HERE.
To read a sampling of the articles available for each of the theories (you can get the rest from Wally’s room in the bins), click on the theory: formalism, reader response, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist (gender) criticism, Marxism, deconstruction, new historicism.
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ORDER TO TURN IN THE PAPER:
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everything goes in folder (if partners, put both folders inside each other)
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grading sheet with comment box filled out
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the paper
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works cited
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source(s) from class used (photocopy pages used & highlight)
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all other sources (highlight)
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the folk/fairy tale (no need to highlight)
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LIT THEORY PAPER RED REMINDERS (rev. 03.26.12):
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1. NOTE ABOUT THE SOURCES WE PROVIDED: the Bressler, Appleman, and Dobie TITLED articles are from books on literary theory. The TITLED articles by Smith and Murfin appear in the back of either Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Follow the format in the Survival Manual pp. WC 17-18 for “When you use only a titled chapter or titled article in a book or pamphlet.”
Mary Shelley’s name and William Shakespeare’s name will appear on your works-cited page but NOT in any parenthetical references. By the way, her name is spelled SHELLEY.
2. Stories in anthologies are in quotation marks. ex. “Cinderella” Stories that are published as books are italicized. ex. Cinderella
3. For a copy of how the paper should be organized, click HERE.
4. If you do the paper with a partner, turn in one copy of the paper, with both names listed in the heading. For the pagination, type both last names with an “and” in between them. Turn in one grading sheet, but make sure both of you have put your comments in the comment box. The paper should be slipped into both folders.
5. Here’s how you write the following: PhD or master’s degree or MA.
6. Be consistent with capitalization. Either use “Reader Response” or “reader response” or as an adjective “reader-response theory.” Pay attention to how your sources capitalize the theories. Pick a style and be consistent.
7. ABOUT HIGHLIGHTING ON PAPER AND SOURCES (updated 03.26.2012)
- the paper: be sure to highlight–in THREE different colors– your 3 doc. checks– #1 from body section 1 (explaining the theory) #2 from section 2 (retelling story) and doc. check #3 from section 3 (analysis)
- works cited: be sure to highlight each doc. check.
- source(s) from class used (OPTIONAL: highlight any doc. checks and label #)
- all other sources (highlight any doc. checks and label #)
- the folk/fairy tale (no need to highlight)
If the folk/fairy tales are not paginated, please do so in pencil on the pages OR use post-its.☺
8. Make sure you punctuate dialogue and any stage directions correctly. Make sure you use the Survival Manual pages GRS 11-13 to help you do this.
9. Be sure you document the storyline frequently in the section where you are retelling the story. Unless you have a direct quote, it is best to do it episodically.
10. Read the GRADING SHEET carefully, so you don’t miss anything required. Be sure to establish credibility–both for your narrator as well as the REAL sources you use.
11. E-mail or voice mail Wally () if you have any questions.
12. The paper must be turned in by 3:00 on the due date or it’s late (-10% per day late)!
13. Including THOUGHTS can be tricky. The thoughts are indicated in BLUE (IF YOU LOOK AT THIS ON IN THE DOCUMENT ON THE PULL-DOWN PAPERS–LIT THEORY PAPER MENU.
Example writing the paper in 1st person:
I walk into the classroom really excited about the hour I am about to spend with the students in Ms. Anderson’s Literary Theory 101 class. I hope they will enjoy hearing about Thumbelina through feminist perspective and maybe will want to take my own online course as a result.
I clear my throat and say, “Good morning, class.” I wonder if anyone is listening. I yell, “Hello! My name is Sara Madison.” They are still talking! Is there no discipline in the college classrooms today? I’ll try again. “Quiet!” I screamed. Finally, I get their attention.
Example writing the paper in 3rd person:
The professor thought, “I wonder if he is actually going to ask that question.”
Then Professor Madison asked, “How many of you have read the story?” She speculated that no one had. Then she added, “Let me phrase it another way, then.” She wondered if the hour would ever end and whether teaching was really her calling after all.
14. NOTE: Be careful with tense! Are you going to write the paper as the hour enfolds? If so, you will be writing primarily in the present tense when it comes to the classroom events. You can also choose to write the paper as if the event has already transpired; you would be reflecting back on how the events unfolded. In that case, you would write primarily in the past tense.
15. Pay special attention to stories that are “compiled by” or “retold by” or “adapted by.” They require special treatment for works cited and parenthetical documentation. See page WC 12 for how to do a translator, editor, compiler, or adapter.
Check out the section WITH EDITOR or TRANSLATOR or COMPILER in the PDQ section of the Survival Manual. Click HERE for the PDQ (Parenthetical Documentation and Quotes) section–green (rev. 11.22.09)
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