HW Due Wed. 3/1

Follow directions on LensPaperNotes document. By tomorrow (Wed.) you should:
1. Create accounts on as many scholarly websites as necessary.
2. Research your lens - gather as much background info as necessary to understand the lens. Do not read criticism of Jane Eyre. You are gathering info on the lens and the school of criticism to help give you context and help you plan your paper.
3. Complete the notes section. Include citation info (you can format into MLA style later). You will be inserting more detailed notes into the evidence organizer later.

Please make sure your document is titled properly and is shared with me BEFORE period 2 tomorrow. I will be checking your documents. Allow me to "comment".

Lens Paper Writing Guide

On Tuesday, we will use laptops in class to begin the Charlotte Bronte/Jane Eyre literary lens papers.
Copy the document, LensPaperNotes to your Google Drive and share it with me (shari.marks@wjps.org). Please allow me to "comment".

Call for Student Poetry and Art ($$$ involved)

Seeking Submissions of Student Art and Poems We're looking for art and poems by our Fellows' students to publish in our May 2nd "Show Teachers the Love!" program. We'll pay students $25 for accepted work. Extra points if the art or poem relates to teachers or school, but that's not necessary. Artwork black and white only drawings, portraits, abstracts, photos, cartoons submit as a JPG, PNG, or TIFF file (must be at least 300 dpi) Poetry poems should be no more than 25 lines you must submit as Microsoft Word document Submit artwork or poetry here. The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 13th . If your student's work is selected, you will be invited as our guest to "Show Teachers the Love!"

The Lenses of Literature; HW Due 2/27

Choose your lens by tomorrow start of class by posting your name on one of the LIT CRIT charts. Find instances of your lens in your past readings (chapters 1-19).

Biographical Criticism: Considering literature in light of its author’s life. There is an implied truth that there is a direct relationship between the author’s life and his or her writing. Authors embed their own experiences into their plots and characters. If readers understand an author deeply, then they can understand their products deeply. (Gillesspie 2010)

Historical Criticism: Literature is a product of the author’s historical circumstances. Readers who look at text through an historical lens are considering the times in which the author lived and wrote - politically, socially, economically, military, scientific, intellectual.  (Gillesspie 2010)

Psychological Criticism: Analyzing the human mind and behavior of literary characters and/or their author. (Gillesspie 2010)

Feminist Criticism: A close, critical look at the female experience - characters and authors - in a patriarchal society. (Gillesspie 2010)

Formalist Criticism: A critical investigation into the formal elements of literature - diction, syntax, literary techniques with an eye on assessing how the work of literature achieves the noted effects. (Gillesspie 2010)

Marxist Criticism: Based on the theories of Karl Marx and philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, this school concerns itself with class differences, economic and otherwise, as well as the implications and complications of the capitalist system: "Marxism attempts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience" (Tyson 277).

Due Monday 2/27: Complete Jane Eyre. Minimum 20 pages of dialectical journal entries.

Plan for the week of 2/13

For Monday and Tuesday: You have to complete reading Jane Eyre through Chapter 19. Complete dialectical journal entries. They will be collected at the END of the reading. Keep up or you will be swamped. You will have additional reading to do this week and over break, with more journal entries to come.
PLEASE BRING YOUR BOOK AND ENTRIES TO CLASS EACH DAY.
Tomorrow, we will begin planning for the lens paper. You will choose a lens and sit in groups based on your lens. You will then discuss what has been read thus far and how your lens can be applied to the reading.

For Wednesday: See rubrics tab at top or see link under rubric title. Please print a copy of AP Lit & Comp Open Question 3 Generic Rubric.
If you completed your essay on a laptop, please PRINT your essay and bring it in on Wednesday. We will be reviewing the rubric, and you will use my comments and your own reflection to score your own essays, then compare your grades with mine (assume I am the "expert reader").

For Thursday and Friday: We will read and analyze a short story and make comparisons to Jane Eyre.

HW Due Mon. 2/13

Due Monday 2/13: Read and annotate Jane Eyre to end of chapter 19.
Write minimum of 5 pages in dialectical journals focusing on Bronte's use of literary techniques. Follow guidelines from 12 Steps to Explication de Texte

Jane Eyre quiz tomorrow Chapters 1-10.

UPDATE: Timed Essay Tuesday; Plan for this week

Monday: Pick your activity: read and annotate Jane Eyre, complete dialectical journals, or plan for the essay.
Tuesday: In-class essay (timed). Those who receive additional time can use it period 4 in B20.
Wednesday: Intro to Jane Eyre, discussion.
Thursday: Close reading Jane Eyre chapter to be determined.
Friday: In-class reading/dialectical journal entries.