8/29/07

English 3 & 4

Aim
1. What are the requirements for this class?
2. How will you be successful in it?

Launch: Based on the syllabus you received yesterday, what do you think you will need to do in order to be successful in this class? (Write at least one paragraph in response.)

Agenda
1. Get textbooks.
2. Tea Party.
3. Class list.
4. Go over class calendar.

Homework: None.

AP

Aim
1. What will be expected of you on the AP English Literature exam?

Launch: Read the following poem and write down your initial response to it. (This can be in paragraph or brainstorm format.)

The Secret

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

~ Denise Levertov ~

(Selected Poems)

Agenda

1. Get textbooks.
2. Review AP exam passages to identify vocabulary list. Quiz next Wednesday.

Homework: Finalize your summer reading journals.

SSR/CAHSEE prep.

This week, we will be doing SSR. For today, please select a book from the table to read. You may also read one of your textbooks if you already have assigned reading in one of your classes. Tomorrow, be sure to bring your own book if you prefer, or you may continue reading the book you chose from the table.