TODAY IN CLASS
Short classes.  Even shorter in 5th, which unaccountably left at 2:05.  Today's schedule had said 2:10.

So the most important thing to go over is the overnight homework for Crime and Punishment, for which 5th period was only told, "Check the blog!"

First, then, you know that you should be finished with the book, including the Epilogues.  Tomorrow you will receive a written assignment on the epilogues that will be due on Monday night via turnitin.com.  So if you are behind on your reading, obviously catch up ASAP.

FOR TOMORROW
1) Start studying both sides of the Crime and Punishment hand-out you received in class. It is preparation for both the in-class timed write which will form your final assessment for C & P as well as for making use of this text on the free response Question 3.  (See below for links)

2) Specifically in writing for tomorrow--
Develop more detailed notes (brief comments plus relevant page numbers for your edition) for SUFFERING as well as for two other elements listed on the "Patterns" side of the hand-out. 1st period students, note that I am clarifying one important aspect of the "page number" part of the written work:  you need to have at least two quotations for each category.  Not two for each bulleted point or person, but a mere two per "pattern."  Those quotations need the correct page number for your edition.

• For the required-of-everyone "suffering," the tips you are given mention characters beyond the more obvious choices.  You need to start with the obvious choices!   List WHO, briefly account in bulleted form for the nature of their suffering.  For the ones listed on the hand-out, you need to supplement the evidence with the particulars.  [Go for reasonable thoroughness here; please, those several of you likely to try to be exhaustive, do not try to provide Every. Single. One.]
• Now pick TWO others (any two).  There are head-starts provided for most of these as well; clarify them, and add anyone / anything else that seems especially relevant.  

You may type this assignment of course, or you may write by hand.

What students received in class was a two-sided hand-out; each side is linked separately here:
Patterns in Crime and Punishment
C & P--Basic Themes and Problems

Bring Perrine and Crime and Punishment

1) Poem hand-out from yesterday/at-home timed write collected today; Late papers accepted tomorrow.  But you will get something that will make further late papers impossible to accept.  Alternate assignment provided for people with extenuating absence situations only.

2) Studied "Meeting at Night" (713) for its sensory imagery; also looked at companion "Parting at Morning" (714) and associated questions.

3) 1st period needs to evaluate the "Storm Warnings" essays based on the rubric AND the overhead.  5th period will see the overhead tomorrow.

4) IF you are taking the AP test, be sure to read and thoughtfully consider the questions pertaining to two more poems that focus on imagery:
Frost's "After Apple-Picking" (720-721)
Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" (721-722) 

FOR TOMORROW
Bring. Both. Books.

You should have finished reading Crime and Punishment.  No written homework for Wednesday, but clear knowledge of Parts VII and VII is expected.

Yes, you should also have finished the Epilogues.  But truth be told, nothing tomorrow will involve the epilogues. 

BRING PERRINE!

TODAY IN CLASS

• Elizabeth Bishop "One Art" exercise.  Not collected, but I'll be cruising the room tomorrow, and we'll have a bit of final wrap-up in 1st and somewhat more completion in 5th (still brief). See p. 709 and study this poem if you were absent.
• Connected with the idea of a villanelle, read about the form and study the Dylan Thomas poem (pp. 905-907)

FOR TOMORROW

Yes, you should have been reading VI-VII of C and P.  You still should. The Epilogues are still due on Wednesday.  But they are short, and if necessary, you can double-up FOR Wednesday.

For tomorrow, your first priority is the hand-out you received at the end of class today. For the side with two poems and the AP prompt, spend 40 minutes writing a legit AP poetry essay.  Hand-written.  Ink. Staple together in the usual way.  Due promptly at the start of class.

Do this in good faith.  Set your phone or the oven timer, don't multi-task, and do your best.

• No looking anything up (actually, don't even use a dictionary, because you won't be able to use one on the AP exam)
• Adhere to the 40 minutes, +/- five minutes.  (You will have 120 minutes to write three essays, and you are advised to spend minutes each.  It is okay to shift 5 minutes:  one 40 minute essay, a 45, and a 35, for example.  No one keeps track of this.  It's unwise to deviate more than this, however, because no matter how smart/good you are, one essay will be getting short shrift.)

IN CLASS ON FRIDAY
There were two fairly fast-paced pieces of written work, one on poetry, the other on Crime and Punishment.  

*To absent people:

• The poetry portion needs to be done at school, and will take 28 minutes to complete.  If you can do this after school on Monday, you'll do the same thing as the rest of the class.  After Monday, you'll do a substitute poem.
• For Crime and Punishment, I will give you a hand-out tomorrow and complete instructions for my out-of-class expectations; it will be due on Tuesday.  

FOR EVERYONE, LOOKING TO MONDAY

Bring Perrine.  It will be a poetry day, completely.  

In preparation, look over the front sections of several chapters:

• Chapter 10 on Tone:  Remember that tone is essentially a product/result of language use and specific literary devices, not a "device" in and of itself.
• Also review the devices treated in the three chapters on Figurative Language:
• Ch. 5--Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy
• Ch. 6--Symbol (don't worry about Allegory)
• Ch. 7--Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony

You're not expected to explore the many poems that follow the intro matter, but DO trace through the authors' discussion of the poems treated in the front sections of these chapters.  I am not requiring writing on this reading, but you owe it to yourself to study this material thoughfully and carefully.

Re: Crime and Punishment--

I'm sliding the originally assigned dates by one day each:

By Tuesday--Be finished reading Parts VI and VII

By Wednesday--Be finished with the Epilogues

There will be a written assignment related to the epilogues assigned on Tuesday that will be due on Thursday. So don't expect further "catch-up time" on Dostoesvsky.  Finish this out promptly.

TODAY IN CLASS
Mostly we discussed the first chapter of Part IV--Svidrigailov's conversation with Raskolnikov.  Please look over the rest of the questions on the document linked to yesterday's blog, and be able to pitch in quickly tomorrow on the first three chapters.

So yes, FOR TOMORROW--besides making sure you're up to speed on IV 1-3, 5th period people need to augment your understanding of IV-4 by reviewing the questions from yesterday that your class did closed-book yesterday.

Be reading V--you can take until Friday, assuming you follow the schedule (April 1 blog) for next week.

Tuesday Classwork

For now, during class time, please print only one set of questions per table.  Please DO print one of your own at home; the idea is not to record detailed responses, but find, mark, and take notes on the gist of these questions.  Be able to find the passages in your own book quickly and easily.

For today, I'm just linking questions to the first three chapters as sort of "backfill" for the Ch. 4 material you just finished. Reading Guide: Part IV, Chapters 1-3

Be sure to bring C & P on Tuesday. Essential.

AP Paperwork Sessions--You should have received an email reminder this week.  The lists are alphabetical by session--really tedious to search.  If you did not receive your own email, find your name here:   Pre-Exam Sessions

TODAY IN CLASS
Crime and Punishment Part III "open book" quiz stamped; some responses discussed at the table; turned in by table groups.

Look up "Columbo" by Thursday.

Some final discussion of "Naming of Parts"--special focus on theme.

FOR TOMORROW
As always, keep reading C & P. 
But for TOMORROW, there is a poetry assignment using TPCASTT. 

• Read the hand-out poem "Judging Distances"
• Mark it up pretty thoroughly--the "usual suspects"
• ON SEPARATE PAPER--organize written responses (complete "data"/support, but you can use short-hand writing style, bullets, organized lists, etc.) under the proper headings for the hand-out.  Consider both versions (front/back) on the first piece of paper.  Do what works best. 
• For the "Paraphrase" section.  You don't need to do that verbatim.  Operate in the general field of "summa-phrase."

Quickly noted:

1) Forgot to collect last night's homework today.  Will do so first thing on Friday.
2) Bring Crime and Punishment to class for sure on Friday.

TODAY IN CLASS

Review your Poetry Terms hand-out for following terms and

compare them to what’s in Perrine:

HAND-OUT                                     PERRINE page

Rhyme                                               856

End-stopped                                     857

Enjambment                                     “run-on” p. 857

Free verse                                          857

Meter                                                 858

Poetic foot                                        859, defn.; chart, 860

Scansion                                            See terms for number of feet,

                                                               p. 860; also defn. p. 861

Blank verse                                       870

At some point, you should also double-check the definitions

as written in the glossary at the end of the Perrine text.

Using these basic terms from the review sheet and the chapter, table groups categorized the poems listed in #1 on p. 870 as blank verse, free verse, or "other."  Results varied widely . . . TBC.

FOR TOMORROW

Continue reading Crime and Punishment.  Get as close as you can to being done with Part III as scheduled.

However, I do want you to reinforce today's work with some short homework on p. 880.  

Do #1 as stated:  choose ONE poem of the ones listed.  You will need to copy it out, find an online copy and print it out, or use a scanner to scan the poem from the book.  Then do what the directions say for that one poem.

For #2, you only need to work with TWO poems instead of all five. You shouldn't have to copy out the poems to accomplish what the directions ask you to do.  Again, you will only need to respond to two of them.

Bring Perrine on Wednesday

TODAY IN CLASS
Quick-note on a character's introductory passage (other than Raskolnikov).
Discussion of dream of the mare/murder details
Discussion of conflicting character traits for Raskolnikov--try to summarize these into a coherent idea that you could share with those who were absent.

FOR TOMORROW
1) Utilize the Part II questions to review, synthesize, and internalize more about this section.  You do not need to prepare written responses, but work through the questions, making notes to your self, putting post-its in your book, or annotating (and making some way to find such annotations quickly) that will facilitate your understanding and potential to contribute to class discussions.

2) Continue to advance your reading:  Part III is due by Thursday.

3) As noted above (and in the all-call e-mail)--bring Perrine to class tomorrow.  Substitutes (the books in the cupboard) will not be of any use.

TODAY IN CLASS
Reading check quiz over Parts I-II of Crime and Punishment.
Group charts: Coincidental Events/Actions and Consequences.
Some roaming time to mark other charts for items you had as well; questionable items; good examples you might have missed. 

FOR TOMORROW
1) Other than the initial description/introduction to Raskolnikov himself, find the introductory section on any other character from Parts I or II.  Consider physical description, attire, mannerisms, dialogue, opening actions, etc. Read and reflect; you don't need to prepare anything in writing.
2) Be reading Part III for Thursday (and for some of you that needs to be preceded by I and/or II).

TODAY IN CLASS
Completed "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" and then did "That time of year. . . " In 5th we got a start on "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," but did not do that in 1st.

FOR TOMORROW
Be reading Crime and Punishment--see schedule in yesterday's post.  Part I completed by Friday for sure.  Pace yourself.  Note that the "completed by" dates give you some night-to-night latitude.

In class on Thursday--we will start with the 2 page excerpt whose annotated self should still be floating around your backpack. 

TODAY IN CLASS
Worked together with Donne's "Batter My Heart . . " and Shakespeare's "When to the Sessions. . ."
If you have not read (thoroughly; reflected on) all of the poems in the packet, absolutely do so.
And if you were absent for all or part of the period today (Blood Drive or other reasons), make sure to seek around for guidance!   And yes, bring Perrine.

FOR TOMORROW

• Bring the Crime and Punishment sheet that was to be annotated for today. You don't need the actual book in class on Wednesday
• READ: Chapters 1-3

If you don't have a book yet, use the following e-text version to get started:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm

(I promise you you do NOT want to read the entire book online, though. A couple of people downloaded it to a Kindle last year, but they really did run into some problems in finding what they needed for various purposes.)

SCHEDULE for Crime and Punishment
There will be multi-tasking through much of this time, though, so reading ahead (esp. over break if you're not totally tied up in world travel!) is encouraged.

Part                      Completed By Date
I                            Friday, April 4
II                           Monday, April 14
III                         Thursday, April 17
IV                         Monday, April 21
V                          Thursday, April 24  
VI-VII                  Monday, April 28
Epilogues              Tuesday, April 29