AGENDA 9/28

College Essay Drafting and Revision

Use this link to schedule an appointment to meet with Pust about your essays!

Circle discussion over All the Pretty Horses, pages 202-241

HW: Continue to follow our reading schedule, working on 3-2-1s for All the Pretty Horses and our rhetorical assignment. Submit typed 3-2-1 for your assigned discussion day and your rhetorical analysis mini-essay when completed to Turnitin.com (enroll password can be found on course syllabus!).

AGENDA 9/27

Circle discussion on All the Pretty Horses, pages 183-202

College essays - Read and discuss tips from experts
"The ---- That Changed My Life" by Glenn Altschuler
"A Plea to Those Helping Students with College Application Essays" by Rebecca Joseph

HW: Continue to follow our reading schedule, working on 3-2-1s for All the Pretty Horses and our rhetorical assignment.

AGENDA 9/21

Review 3-2-1s at tables to discuss last night's reading, pages 97-121
Set up Discussion Calendar
Introduce Discussion Assignments for All the Pretty Horses
Pass out rhetorical passages and models

HW: Catch up on reading and complete 3-2-1 for pages 121-131 tonight.

AGENDA 9/16

Please find your post-it from your parent!

Stamp 3-2-1 prep (collect as a packet when we finish Part 1) and discuss pages 31-52

Film clip

HW: For Monday, read pages 52-85 and complete a 3-2-1 Reading Prep

AGENDA 9/15

Please sign the Class Norms poster if you were absent!

Stamp 3-2-1 prep (collect as a packet when we finish Part 1) and discuss pages 1-30

Push-pull factors that serve as John Grady Cole’s call to adventure

Rhetorical analysis of page 30

HW: For Friday, read pages 31-52 and complete a 3-2-1 Reading Prep

AGENDA 9/13

Sign norms posters
Analyze page 1 of All the Pretty Horses together
Go to textbook room

Discuss a few elements of the book:
Hero's Journey
Bildungsroman
untranslated Spanish: Here's A translation of all of the Spanish in the book
no quotation marks and few attributions: read dialogue like a screenplay
polysyndeton -

• from LiteraryDevices.net: Polysyndeton is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.Polysyndeton examples are found in literature and in day-to-day conversations. The term polysyndeton comes from a Greek wordmeaning “bound together”.

Other Resources:

Interview with Cormac McCarthy on Oprah Winfrey's show

Explanations from Wikipedia on horse tack (all of the saddle/bridle/reins parts, etc.)
Lyrics to the lullaby that gives the novel its title
An introduction to Modernism and Postmodernism
A crash course in Postmodernism from Wikipedia

HW: For Thursday, read pages 1-30 and complete a 3-2-1 reading prep; for Friday, read pages 31-52 and complete a 3-2-1 reading prep. Tomorrow, we'll be in the College Center for their annual presentation, but please meet here in H125 to take attendance.

AGENDA 9/12

Exploring the myth of the Hero’s Journey through artwork using OPTIC

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Discuss each painting at tables, using OPTIC, then share findings with the class. How do these paintings relate to our study of the Hero's Journey? How does studying paintings help us prepare for literary analysis?

HW: Continue to revise college essays/personal statements. Bring ID cards tomorrow-textbook room!

AGENDA 9/8

Discuss and review last night's reading "...Or the Bible" and additions to our maps/annotations we made

Close reading: Gen 4:1-16 and Mark 1:1-43

HW: Create a circle map for the Hero's Journey and add information gleaned from one or more of the following videos:

"What Makes a Hero?" TED talk by Matthew Winkler
Pat Soloman, "What is the Hero's Journey?" TED Talk
Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero's Journey" by the Academy of Ideas
"The Hero's Journey: Monomyth" posted by CornerTalker
"Hero's Journey Explained" by Mr. Wood

AGENDA 9/7

Answer any questions about reading journals for How It Went Down and Bible: due Friday to Pust!

Introduce Bible as Literature / Discuss, What is Literature?

Circle Map from period 5: What is Literature?
Circle Map from period 6: What is Literature?

HW: Continue to revise reading journals and college essays/personal statements. Read/annotate “...Or the Bible” and add to today’s notes.

WHY THIS MATTERS:

Reading journals will be a way to analyze fiction, drama, and poetry deeply. Biblical allusions are used heavily in Western literature and knowing them can help you find deeper meaning in texts.

AGENDA 9/6

Review reading journals for How It Went Down and Bible: check for clarity, completion, and quality Introduce Bible as Literature using Circle maps for defining in context Guest Speaker: Dr. Regina Zurbano HW: Continue to revise reading journals and college essays/personal statements.

AGENDA 9/2

Work on Reading Journal for How It Went Down (A1, A2, two options from B-H) in class

HW: Complete any parts of the Reading Journal #1 for How It Went Down. Then, complete Reading Journal #2 for Bible selections: you can mix-and-match from different parts of our Bible reading (for example, take a vocabulary word from Exodus, a literary device from Song of Solomon, your first option B-H from Ruth, and your final option B-H from Genesis), OR you can focus simply on one portion of the reading and do all of the journal on one "book" (e.g., from Genesis). Your choice!

AGENDA 9/1

Finish analyzing "The Boy Died in My Alley" using TPS-FAST
Introduce Reading Journal assignment and model with How It Went Down

HW: Continue to work on reading journal entry for How It Went Down and continue to revise college essays/personal statements.