"Our revels are now ended."

Here is an overview of requirements for the final days of class. Check emails for document with pretty fonts!

“Our revels now are ended.” (Almost ended, anyway!)

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“The time 'twixt [May-Day] and now/Must by us [all] be spent most preciously.”
Your tasks

1. Each night (working alone or with a partner), twixt now and May-Day,
prepare an open ended question as follows:

· Select one of the works read in or for class.
§ Note title, author, most significant characters
· Write a clear and concise meaning of the work as a whole
· Write an appropriate thesis statement connecting your work, meaning, and prompt element.
· Connect this expressed meaning to one of the prompts. Use one from any of your old essay sheets, or use one from the list I included at http://www.hoffmanapenglish.blogspot.com
· Describe at least three (3) very specific details from the work that support your thesis.

2. a. Post your work on TUMBLR.
b. Comment on one other posting, making suggestions for modification, addition, or improvement.
· Be sure to sign both posting and comment.

3. Complete all Multiple Choice selections I give you in class, and give me your answer sheet
as you enter class the next day.

4. Complete homework assignments for all poem or prose passages, and give me a copy of your brief outline sheet as you enter class the next day.

For Both 3 and 4 above:
If I have to wait, I will not accept your work.
If you are absent the day before, find a copy of the assignment.
If you are absent the day something is due, get it to me before the end of your class.
If you miss anything at all, you must make arrangements to do a make-up.
I will NOT accept ANY AP review work after May 1st.

For 1, 2, 3 and 4 above:
No Whining.

(Very mini-Extra Credit—Find the source of my quotations.)

In case you were absent when I gave out books and assignments, here's the assignment.(No pretty fonts available in Blogger :-(
FYI--The cleverness of the instructions was totally lost when the BELOVED's did not arrive in time for me to distribute them. We're reading SULA, a different Toni Morrison book.
If you did not get the book in class, you'll have to get the book on your own if you want to start reading during vacation.
Have fun--but finish HEART/Darkness if you haven't done so yet.

Dearly Beloved . . .We are gathered together here in the face of this class to begin our exploration of our final work of the year, Beloved. Join together with one other young man or young woman in a cooperative work team, which is commended to be honorable among all the school; and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or . . . blah, blah, blah . . .
With your partner, or solo if you prefer, keep a” double-entry journal.”Format a divided page on the computer--create two columns. I’m not making a model for you because your rows will change size according to the length of your quotations and responses.
For approximately every ten pages, select one significant quotation. In Beloved, that would mean 25 to 27entries.
For each quotation, do the following:
In the left column: • Write the sentence(s) exactly.• Write the page(s) on which it appears• Identify the speaker (narrator or other character)• Very briefly identify to whom and/or about what
In the right column, do one of the following responses:
1. Make connections To situation and/or character and/or plot development To the meaning of the book as a whole
2. Consider the implied statement on society Race or Ethnic commentaries Gender or orientation commentaries Socio-economic concerns
3. Discuss resources of language  Identify techniques and devices and explain how they are used effectively Keep track of themes, motifs, symbols
4. Get imitatively creative Rewrite the passage in the style of one of our other authors
5. Respond directly Make predictions Note confusions Lodge complaints and argue with the author and/or character(s)
6. Something else? Check with me before you do it.Conclusion: Convince me to keep your book on the AP list for next year or to remove it. To aid your argument, include ideas from at least one critical review of the work.
Submit this work to me by the Monday after AP Exams—our last day together (Feel free to review the book with me BEFORE the exam! )