Homework for 11/17: John Coltrane: The Myth of Music
Read Uses of the Blues: https://autonomies.org/2024/08/james-baldwin-the-uses-of-the-blues/. Listen to the music. Be ready to discuss!
“The Myth of Music” poetry prompt: Read, annotate, organize! What questions do …
11/3: “Sonny’s Blues”
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Grade each other’s Othello essays.
Listen to some jazz. Discuss “Sonny’s Blues.” What images were the most powerful? What symbols/sounds/silence repeat within the …
10/30: Pretend to be an AP table reader
Evaluate Othello essays. What level would yours be?
H/W: Revise essay to be a 9! Read and annotate “Sonny’s Blues.” Look for symbolic objects/sounds. What is …
10/20: Sing willow . . .
FINALLY, AP multiple choice answers?
Discuss Iago’s final words. Watch the end together?
Discuss Desdemona and Emilia — when does Emilia change?
https://vermont.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/shak15.ela.lit.desdemona/desdemona/
Case of Nottingham man: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/23/nottingham-man-david-boulter-smothered-wife-deborah-killed-himself-over-unfounded-affair-fears
How would …
10/13: The handkerchief
Critique poetry essays using AP criteria.
Read/Discuss Act III. How does Iago twist Othello? How does he contradict his words to Cassio about “reputation.” What is …
10/6: Iago sets the hook
Go over AP multiple choice
Go over essays
Drunken scene . . . (51:00ish)
Discuss Iago’s aside to audience . . . (1.06.04)
Write a paragraph that is written …
9/29: Put money in thy purse!
Share essays
Take a look at the various Othellos
AP test Othello passage (34-44)
Discuss answers
Look for rhetorical devices in Othello and Desdemona’s arguments.
Begin Act II. How is …
9/22: Jealousy: the “green-eyed monster”
Lit terms quiz
Share “The Duchess Talks Back” pieces.
Discuss the craft of “My Last Duchess” essay.
Jealousy: How to break up a couple. Revisit Don John’s manipulation …
9/15: Act One reading assignment
Because of our change of plan, please do the following before our next class on the 22nd:
Share your “The Duchess Talks Back” with me via …
9/8/24: “My Last Duchess”
Lucrezia de’ Medici by Bronzino or Alessandro Allori
Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara
Read “My Last Duchess” as prose (dramatic monologue). Discuss – what is going on? …
Summertime . . . . is almost over!!!
This summer, besides swimming, working, camping, hiking, and dreaming, please update your AP Book List : )
Look for cheap copies of these books (you will …