3rd Trimester Overview


I wanted to give you an overview of 3rd Trimester to assuage some of your fears of the "new week, new text+Friday exam" schedule that we encountered during 1st Trimester.
This trimester has us encountering 5 major themes plus a group video project to wrap up the class. This trimester also has about 1/2 the grades than the 1st trimester. Like first trimester, I will post the next major theme's schedule and detail a week in advance.
We've got some incredible stories to look at and talk about and I am looking forward to being back together (with a few additional faces) in a week and a half.
Good luck on the end of your 2nd trimester classes!

AP English 3
Spring 2004
Course Overview
Mr. Judson
Room 138

Course Philosophy
As an AP course, this is a rigorous college-level course. The reading is challenging; the writing is frequent and requires an independent mind. We will function as a community of learners. If you are committed to the work as well as to listening and learning from each other, this class will ultimately become one in which we are all teachers and students.

Course Focus
The primary tenor of this section of AP English is the concept of Story.

Grading
Essays will be graded using the 6/4 rubric and/or the AP Essay rubric philosophies. The primary grades consist of 4 papers (with 2 papers being presented in symposiums), 3 Exams, 2 memory packages and a Latin Phrase exam.

40% Essays and quizzes
40% Papers
20% Course-end exam (for those who are exempt, you then have a 50/50 split on the categories).

Materials
All texts will be available to you. In a composition book, record your thoughts, reflections, responses to exams and notes from the course. I will be collecting these periodically throughout the trimester.

Tentative Schedule

Week 1: Scope of course; Story paper (5-8 pages) Concept of Story; Rushkoff and Martone readings.
Week 2: The Story of The Life of Pi (Martel); Exam
Weeks 3-5: The Story of Hamlet; View/Read play; Hamlet Symposiums (5-8 page analysis paper+presentation); Memory (To Be or Not to Be); Exam
Weeks 6-8: The Stories of Poetry: Poetry Symposiums (4-6 page analysis paper); Exam
Weeks 9-10: The Story of Family: View Avalon, The Glass Menagerie, A Raisin in the Sun; "Family" paper (4-6 pages)
Week 11: The Story of Henry V: View/Read; memory (O for a Muse of Fire; Once more unto the breech; St. Crispens Day)
Week 12: Docudrama Premieres (group videos)
Final Cumulative Exam

Websites/Email
The current home of the class site is:http://homepage.mac.com/cjudson/vergil/ . If you are up for a chess game, my member name is vergil66 at www.itsyourturn.com .
Late papers
None.

Revised: 18 Feb 04

Posted: Wed - February 18, 2004 at 07:46 PM        

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