American Literature Lesson
4 December 2019
Objective: To
continue our study of Transcendentalism with poetry by Dickinson and Whitman,
focusing on iambic tetrameter, personification, and style. (STANDARD
RL.4, RL.5, RL.9)
Success Criteria: Students
will show mastery by defining, locating, and analyzing the use of iambic
tetrameter, personification, and style in
Dickinson’s and Whitman’s poetry.
Agenda:
1.
Read Emily Dickinson
Poetry – 30 min
2.
Read Walt Whitman
Poetry – 20 min
a.
Oral Question and
Answer: p. 276 #5: In what ways are Whitman’s poems similar in style and in
theme? P. 284 Literary Concept: Personification & Concept Review: Speaker
3.
Argument Essay - Argument
Article #2
a.
Highlight the claim
b.
Highlight the best
evidence to support the claim
c.
Write about how you
stand on the topic today
d.
Fill in the
Note-catcher
Assessment: Oral
Question and Answer: p. 276 #5: In what ways are Whitman’s poems similar in
style and in theme? P. 284 Literary Concept: Personification & Concept
Review: Speaker
Homework: Choice Book #4
AP English Literature Lesson
4 December 2019
Student Learning Objective: (1) To identify the
many tools that Dickens uses to create suspense. (2) To
discuss the M.V.P.s (Most Valuable Passages) from Chapters 2-7. (STANDARD
RL.4)
Success Criteria: Students will
show mastery by making a list with a table partner of Dickens’ numerous uses of
author’s craft in this section of the novel.
Agenda:
1.
Discuss Book the Third, Chapters 2-7
a.
Ch 2 Kaylee
b.
Ch 3 Patricia
c.
Ch 4 Emily
d.
Ch 5 Zac
e.
Ch 6 Lauren
f.
Ch 7 Ryan
2.
Literary Device: Satire
3.
Discuss “A Modest Proposal”
Assessment: Class Discussion
Questions, BTT, Chapters 2-7
1.
III, 2: How is Lorry’s exclamation, “Thank God that no one near
and dear to me is in this dreadful town tonight” (264) ironic?
2.
III, 2: How does the scene with the grindstone considerably
heighten the suspense?
3.
III, 3: Mr. Lorry explains Madame Defarge to Lucie: “There are
frequent risings in the streets; and although it is not likely they will ever
trouble you, Madame Defarge wishes to see those whom she has the power to
protect at such times, to the end that she may know them – that she may
identify them” (272). Do you think Madame Defarge will be protecting Lucie and
her family? Why or why not?
4.
III, 4: In the past, stressful events would have put Dr. Manette
into a relapse. Why doesn’t he relapse in this very stressful
situation/environment?
5.
III, 4: Dickens repeatedly uses personification and imagery to
show how violent the revolution has become: “Above all, one hideous figure grew
as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of
the world—the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. . . . it was the
best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey… and
it was bowed down to and believed in…. It sheared off heads so many, that it,
and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red” (Dickens 278). Why does
Dickens interrupt his narration about Charles Darnay with this paragraph
(paragraphs)? What is the effect on the reader when La Guillotine surrounds
Charles Darnay?
6.
III, 5: What is coincidental about the wood-sawyer who lives in
the vicinity of La Force?
7.
III, 5: Dickens includes the Carmagnole into this chapter of his
historical fiction novel. Why did this dance scare Lucie?
8.
III, 5: The suspense increases at the end of this chapter: “Who
could that be with Mr. Lorry—the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair—who
must not be seen? From whom newly arrived, did he come out, agitated and
surprised, to take his favourite in his arms?” (Dickens 285). With so much
foreshadowing surrounding La Guillotine, how does Dickens introduce this new
mysterious character at the end of the chapter in a way that makes the reader
even more concerned for Charles Darnay’s safety?
9.
III, 6: Why does Dickens summarize the questions asked of Darnay
and his responses rather than write the dialogue? What is the effect on the
reader?
10. III, 6: As a
discerning reader, do you find Charles’ exoneration unsatisfying?
11. III, 7: What is
foreshadowed in the first two paragraphs of Chapter 7?
12. III, 7:
Predictions?
Homework: A
Tale of Two Cities, Book the Third Chapters 8-10 p. 298-338 (40
pages)
