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 …
image found at: http://bligidyblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/eugene-smith-thelonius-monk.jpg 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
This summer, besides swimming, working, camping, hiking, and dreaming, please update your AP Book List : ) Look for cheap copies of these books (you will …