Beginning of the year

1. Beginning of the year British Literature 2013-2014

2. Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 • Today’s Goals: • Familiarize ourselves with Ms. Gelso’s English 131 syllabus and expectations. • Complete a student survey. • DO NOW: • Begin to read the syllabus that has been handed to you.

3. Introductions

4. Course objectives • To gain an appreciation of British literature and an understanding of the link between British literature and culture. • To explore how British literature, including its themes, characters, conflicts, allegories, and language, relates to works of literature in other times and other parts of the world. • To examine how recurring themes, characters, and conflicts in British literature relate to students’ own lives and experiences. • To strengthen students’ understanding of the structure and correct usage of language in addition to accuracy in the mechanics of writing. • To increase students’ understanding of the use of technology in literary study. • To improve clarity and confidence in oral presentation skills. • To grow students’ reading abilities, particularly in terms of close-reading. • To further develop composition skills; specifically, the ability to organize ideas effectively and write essays and commentaries with clarity, unity, and logical development. • To build students’ research skills. • To help students expand their use of vocabulary. • To reinforce sound study skills.

5. Major Resources this year • Pymalion: George Bernard Shaw. Free version via iBooks. • The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde. Barnes and Noble Classics, 2004, via iBooks. • Taming of the Shrew: William Shakespeare. • 1984: George Orwell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, via iBooks. • Macbeth: William Shakespeare. “The Shakesperience,” Sourcebooks, Inc, via iBooks. • St. John’s British Literature: Use the link on Homework Central to download this text.

6. Class Expectations • Show respect for people, spaces, and ideas. • Come to class on time and prepared with all required and requested materials. • Participate in class activities and discussions. • Hold yourself accountable for your learning, your assignments, your classroom responsibilities, and ultimately your grade.

7. Important Policies and procedures • Attendance • Punctuality and Preparedness • Deadlines • Accommodations • Homework Central • Office • Email

8. Grade Breakdown • Your grade will be calculated using your total points earned. • Classwork and homework will range from 5 to 15 points. • Major assignments will range from 10 to 150 points. Within this category, quizzes will range from 10 to 40 points; Tests will range from 50 to 100 points; Essays and commentaries will range from 50 to 100 points; Projects will range from 75 to 150 points. • Your grade for the year will be calculated in the standard St. John’s formula. Each quarter is worth 20%, and the semester and final exams are worth 10% each.

9. Required materials • Please make sure you also come prepared with: • 1 notebook (spiral or composition) for class notes and reading responses • Several Black/blue pens and/pencils • iPad with required materials and the following apps (note that this list of apps will grow as the year continues): • Notability by Ginger Labs • iBooks by Apple (with aforementioned books and novels) • Keynote by Apple • Pages by Apple • Dropboxby Dropbox • Student Clicker - Socrativeby Socrative • Literary Analysis Guide by Gatsby’s Light • British Literature Guide by Gatsby’s Light • I also recommend that you get a USB drive/key to store and save documents.

10. iPad Use • iPads are a privilege! • Misuse includes: • Playing games during class. • Surfing the internet during class. • Sending messages to classmates or using other social media during class. • Purchasing a version of class materials other than the versions required by the teacher. • Using the iPad to access online forums or sites such as SparkNotes, Shmoop, Wikipedia, Book Rags, and so forth that may hinder your own analysis or conclusions. • Completing work for another course during class. • Copying information or text from the internet and claiming it as your own (plagiarism!). • Taking photographs, videos, or other recordings of people or another person’s property without explicit permission. • Using the iPad or any of its applications to hurt or bully another person. • Using the iPad or any of its applications in a way that goes against St. John’s mission, vision, or expectations. • If you engage in any of the above misuses, you will receive a consequence. Consequences include contacting your parent/guardian, referring you to the Administration, confiscating your iPad, and/or serving detention.

11. Academic dishonesty • Plagiarism is the ultimate academic offense! • All typed work, whether a small homework assignment or extensive research paper, must be turned in on time through www.turnitin.com to receive credit. • Any work that has been plagiarized in any way will automatically receive a zero without the option to redo the assignment.

12. Class activity • Please complete the student survey before class is over. • DONE EARLY? Raise your hand to turn in your survey. Complete the letter activity given to you. • If and when the bell rings, wait until the TEACHER dismisses you—NOT THE BELL!

13. Summer reading project: Period 2 • Turn in via www.turnitin.com: • Class name: ENGL 131 Pd 2 • Class ID: 6870448 • Enrollment password: Gelso131_2

14. Summer reading project: Period 3 • Turn in via www.turnitin.com: • Class name: ENGL 131 Pd 3 • Class ID: 6870462 • Enrollment password: Gelso131_3

15. Summer reading project: Period 6 • Turn in via www.turnitin.com: • Class name: ENGL 131 Pd 6 • Class ID: 6872738 • Enrollment password: Gelso131_6

16. Summer reading project: Period 7 • Turn in via www.turnitin.com: • Class name: ENGL 131 Pd7 • Class ID: 6872899 • Enrollment password: Gelso131_7

17. Summer reading project: Period 8 • Turn in via www.turnitin.com: • Class name: ENGL 131 Pd 8 • Class ID: 6872934 • Enrollment password: Gelso131_8

18. Closing • Thursday, August 29th • IN CLASS: Summer reading activity, hand out essay assignment • HOMEWORK DUE: Bring in summer reading novel, summer reading project • Friday, August 30th • IN CLASS: Summer reading activity (outlining) • HOMEWORK DUE: (all school) Make sure your acceptable use policy has been completed and turned in! Bring in summer reading novel • Tuesday, September 3rd • IN CLASS: Go over class note-taking procedures • HOMEWORK DUE: Turn in signed syllabus sheet • Wednesday, September 4th • IN CLASS: Closed-book in-class essay on summer reading • HOMEWORK DUE: outline for first paper

19. Thursday, August 29th • Today’s Goals: • Summer reading activity: close reading • Assign summer reading essay • DO NOW: • Complete student survey. • Write the following information on the card that has been given to you: • Name • Favorite color • Favorite food • Most exotic place you’ve travelled • An interesting fact about yourself that you would feel comfortable sharing with the class

20. What is close reading? • Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. PARCC model content frameworks: English language arts/literacy grades 3–11. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. 2011. Web. 20 Aug. 2013.

21. Summer reading activity • While the attached extracts may be related, reading them side-by-side highlights how different the two authors are stylistically and how language and structure can affect meaning. • Read and annotate both texts, noting language and structural elements that strike you as important or interesting. • In pairs, compare your annotations. • Be ready to share with the rest of the class! • Consider the excerpt from Roddy Doyle’s 1993 novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. How has the author used structure or style to affect readers?

22. Sources for today’s presentation • Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. Print. • Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. New York: Penguin Group, 1993. Print. • PARCC model content frameworks: English language arts/literacy grades 3–11. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. 2011. Web. 20 Aug. 2013.

23. Closing • Friday, August 30th • IN CLASS: Summer reading activity (outlining) • HOMEWORK DUE: (all school) Make sure your acceptable use policy has been completed and turned in! Bring in summer reading novel, review essay rubric posted on Homework Central • Tuesday, September 3rd • IN CLASS: Go over class note-taking procedures • HOMEWORK DUE: Turn in signed syllabus sheet, bring in summer reading novel • Wednesday, September 4th • IN CLASS: Closed-book in-class essay on summer reading • HOMEWORK DUE: outline for first paper • Thursday, September 5th • IN CLASS: Learn how to use Socrative, summer reading activity • HOMEWORK DUE: bring in summer reading novel • Friday, September 6th • IN CLASS: Introduction to British literature • HOMEWORK DUE: Summer reading essay should be turned in via www.turnitin.com

24. Friday, August 30th • Today’s Goals: • Take a POP QUIZ based on yesterday’s activity!  • Review outlining for essays using the Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha essay prompts handed out yesterday. • DO NOW: • Take out the close reading passages from yesterday’s class. • Review the significance of what you believe to be the two or three most important lines of the Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha passage. You may discuss in pairs.

25. Assessment Expectations An assessment could be a quiz, test, essay, or commentary. • Work silently. • “Bless you” and “thank you” are the only exceptions to the rule! • Work independently. • Use blue/black pen or pencil for anything handwritten. • Follow directions. • Raise your hand if you have a question. Not abiding by these expectations will result in a 0! Following directions is simply a part of life.

26. Follow-up to yesterday’s lesson • How was the quiz? • Has engaging in close-reading helped in understanding some of the author’s choices any better? • What questions have we still got?

27. Take-Home essay: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha • Compose an essay analyzing Roddy Doyle’s 1993 novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha that responds to one of the following questions. Your essay is due on Friday, September 6th via www.turnitin.com. You are not expected to consult any secondary sources in the completion of this essay. • How does author Roddy Doyle celebrate Ireland and Irish culture throughout the novel? • To what extent does the structure of Doyle’s novel hinder or enhance a reader’s understanding of its main themes and messages? • To what extent could Doyle’s 1993 novel be considered a bildungsroman? • Why is Paddy's desire to be like St. Damien ironic? • This novel won The Booker Prize in 1993, essentially earning the title of best novel of the year. Does this surprise you? Does this novel deserve to be called one of the finest novels ever?

28. What is the basis of any high-quality essay?

29. Work Time! • Begin writing your outline: • Choose which question you would like to answer. • Determine the demands of the question. • Compose a thesis statement. • Discuss your thesis statement with a friend or your teacher. • Begin to write your outline using Pages on your iPad.

30. Closing • Tuesday, September 3rd • IN CLASS: Go over class note-taking procedures, review thesis statements and outlines in pairs • HOMEWORK DUE: Turn in signed syllabus sheet, bring in summer reading novel • Wednesday, September 4th • IN CLASS: Closed-book in-class essay on summer reading • HOMEWORK DUE: outline for first paper • Thursday, September 5th • IN CLASS: Learn how to use Socrative, summer reading activity • HOMEWORK DUE: bring in summer reading novel • Friday, September 6th • IN CLASS: Introduction to British literature • HOMEWORK DUE: Summer reading essay should be turned in via www.turnitin.com

31. Tuesday, September 3rd • Today’s Goals: • Review thesis statements and outlines in pairs. • Learn how to use Notability for organized note-taking. • Take notes on writing great introductions! • DO NOW: • Take out and pass up syllabus signature sheets. • Take out your outlines for the essay due Friday. • Share with a partner, commenting upon what looks good and what still needs improvement.

32. What is Notability? • A note-taking application available on your iPad. • Has the capability to make dividers and folders, like a virtual binder. • Has the capability to embed pictures into your notes in addition to writing by hand or typing. • Has color-coding capabilities. • Has the capability to share notes (think.. Grading.. Absences.. Etc.) • For English, create the SUBJECT “British Literature.” We will then create DIVIDERS for each unit, using a key word from that unit for a title. For today’s notes, create a divider called “Beginning of year.” • Your notes will automatically be dated and ordered chronologically, so you just need to ensure you title and break your notes accordingly.

33. Class Notes Grading Rubric

34. DAYTCST!

35. Closing • Wednesday, September 4th • IN CLASS: Closed-book in-class essay on summer reading • HOMEWORK DUE: outline for first paper (via turnitin). If you have completed more than the outline, you may choose to include part of your draft for feedback. • Thursday, September 5th • IN CLASS: Learn how to use Socrative, summer reading activity • HOMEWORK DUE: bring in summer reading novel • Friday, September 6th • IN CLASS: Introduction to British literature • HOMEWORK DUE: Summer reading essay should be turned in via www.turnitin.com

36. Thursday, September 5th • Today’s Goals: • Review class expectations using the iPad Application Socrative. • Review procedures for using our “traditional” notebooks. • Define reading. • DO NOW • Take out iPads and open Socrative. You should have the “student” app version!

37. Class Expectations • Show respect for people, spaces, and ideas. • Come to class on time and prepared with all required and requested materials. • Participate in class activities and discussions. • Hold yourself accountable for your learning, your assignments, your classroom responsibilities, and ultimately your grade.

38. How is class participation graded?

39. Who was Socrates? • “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, • weak minds discuss people.” • Greek philosopher 469-399 BCE • Most of our knowledge of him and his teachings comes from the dialogues of his most famous pupil, PLATO. • Spent his time discussing “virtue, justice, and piety wherever his fellow citizens congregated, seeking wisdom about right conduct so that he might guide the moral and intellectual improvement of Athens.” • In 399 B.C. Socrates was tried for corrupting the morals of youth in Athens and for religious heresies; He was convicted and willingly drank the cup of poison hemlock that was given to him. The trial and death of Socrates are described by Plato. Heresy = An opinion contrary to church dogma Marvin, Chris. “Philosophers: Socrates.” Trinity College Philosophy Department. 2000. Web. 1 Sept 2013.

40. What is Socrative? • Quiz, forum, and way of virtually sharing ideas. • Everyone contributes an individual answer, then we are able to see each other’s responses. • What are some rules for using this app? • Any questions that we answer and share publically will be questions that will not embarrass anyone! • Questions regarding an activity completed in class will be kept private. • Use your full name—this information does not go beyond the walls of this app. • If you are really uncomfortable, discuss a possible pseudonym with me. • Try it out! Open it; enter the room number; begin. • Room number: 912466

41. What will use our “traditional” notebooks for? • Free-writes (we’ll do this today!) • Reading responses (we’ll do this next week!) • Quotation collection (we’ll do this next week!) • Other creative activities. • For each entry, you must include the date (either left-hand or right-hand side) and title of the activity.

42. Free-Write: what do you think? • What is reading? • Why do we read? • What do we read?

43. Today’s prayer… • Lord, give me patience and tolerance with everyone. Lead me to be kind and generous to everyone, and keep me cheerful for the sake of everyone.

47. Define Reading. • Has your definition changed? • Consider what reading is, how we read, what we read, why we read, who reads, if culture or familiarity with topic are important, and so forth. Socrative Room number: 912466

48. Closing • Friday, September 6th • IN CLASS: Introduction to British literature, new week’s worth of assignments, go over quizzes from last week, assign new writing project. • HOMEWORK DUE: Summer reading essay should be turned in via www.turnitin.com

49. Friday, September 6th, 2013 • Today’s Goals: Introduction to British literature and culture, new week’s worth of assignments, go over quizzes from last week, assign new writing project. • DO NOW: • Turn & Talk with a partner: • What cultural references must you recognize in order to understand the image? • To what extent do you believe that understanding culture is important in reading? • To what extent do you believe understanding your own background is important in reading?

50. How were the quizzes graded?