Culminating Essay Prompt

Please post the prompt you have created for your Culminating Essay. Also include the list of works that you might address in the essay.

Finally, please read and comment on other students' prompts. Offer constructive criticism and and suggest additional literary works that we have read this year.

Slaughterhouse-Five and Tortilla Curtain Book Circles

Please have at least two members of your book circle comment here about your latest meeting. You should report on the ideas your group discussed, as well as on the quality of your group process. Feel free to record questions your group was unable to answer, as students from the other AP Lit classes will be reading and responding to your comments. When you comment, please include both the title of your book and the pages you read for your last discussion. Please post your comments withing 24 hours after the book circle meeting.

In addition, at least two members of your book circle should visit the blogs of the other AP Lit classes and respond to their comments. Please complete this within 24 hours after the other students post.

http://lkleeman.blogspot.com
http://sale4th.blogspot.com

Thesis Statement--Optional Post

Post your tentative thesis statement for the literary essay that is due Monday, October 23. Be sure to indicate the title and author of the book that you are analyzing.

Feel free to comment on each other's thesis statements!

Reactions to the Henry IV unit

1. What person in the play do you know best?
2. With whom do you identify?
3. What did you learn about yourself in doing Henry IV, Part 1?
4. What do you think of this play in comparison with other Shakespeare plays you have read?
5. What did you think of the way we studied this play?
6. What did you think of doing the reading journal on the blog? (Keep in mind that you still would have done a reading journal if we hadn’t used the blog – you just would have done it on paper.)
7. What suggestions would you make for this unit?

Henry IV, Act V, scene 1 and Directions

Rebels and Pub-Crawlers, post your comment about this scene below.

Act V Instructions:

All 3 comments must be posted to the blog by Friday, October 6.

• Courtiers: Read and think about how to perform 5.1, 5.3, and 5.4. Post comments about 5.2 and 5.5.
• Rebels: Read and think about how to perform 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4. Post comments about 5.1 and 5.5.
• Pub-Crawlers: Read and think about how to perform 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. Post comments about 5.1 and 5.2.
• All groups: Post a comment to someone in Mr. Sale's class or in Mrs. Makovsky's class. (Find the link to Mr. Sale's blog in the Act IV, scene 1 blog.)

Henry IV, Act V, scene 2

Courtiers and Pub-Crawlers: Post a comment about this scene. See the Act V scene 1 post for detailed instructions

Henry IV, Act V, scene 5

Courtiers and Rebels: Post a comment about this scene. See the Act V scene 1 post for detailed instructions.

Henry IV, Act IV, Scene 1 and Instructions

Pub Crawlers and Courtiers: Please post your comment about Act IV scene 1 here.

Directions for Act IV posts. All three posts are due Friday, September 29.

Rebels: Read and think about how to perform 4.1. Read and comment on 4.2 and 4.3. Read 4.4, but no need to post a comment about that scene.
Pub Crawlers: Read and think about how to perform 4.2. Read and comment on 4.1 and 4.3. Read 4.4, but no need to post a comment about that scene.
Courtiers (You will perform a rebel scene): Read and think about how to perform 4.3. Read and comment on 4.1 and 4.2. Read 4.4, but no need to post a comment about that scene.

All groups: Read the comments on Mr. Sale’s class blog, Act IV. Post one comment to a student in that class: http://sale4th.blogspot.com/

Henry IV, Act IV, scene 2

Rebels and Courtiers, please comment on Act 4, scene 2. For detailed directions, read the Act 4, scene 1 post. When you finish commenting on this blog, go to Mr. Sale's class blog and post a comment to someone in that class.

http://sale4th.blogspot.com/

Henry IV, Act IV, scene 3

Rebels and Pub Crawlers, post your comment about Act 4 scene 3. See the directions under Act 4, scene 1 for details. When you finish commenting on this page, post a comment to someone on Mr. Sale's class blog.

http://sale4th.blogspot.com/

Henry IV, Act III, scene 1, lines 1-197 and Instructions

Please post your comments for Scene 1, lines 1-197 of Act 3 of Henry IV, Part 1 here.

Instructions for Act 3 comments:

Rebels:
Comment on the last half of Scene 1 (lines 198-276) or Scene 2.
Comment on Scene 3.

Courtiers:
Comment on the first half of Scene 1 (lines 1-197).
Comment on Scene 3.

Pub Crawlers:
Comment on the first half of Scene 1 (lines 1-197).
Comment on the last half of Scene 1 (lines 198-276) or Scene 2.

Please complete your first 2 comments by Friday, September 22.

All Groups:
Put your third comment on Mr. Kleeman's class blog (http://www.lkleeman.blogspot.com/). You will be responding to one of his students’ comments. Please complete your third comment by Tuesday, September 26.

Blog comment prompts:
1. Summarize the action of the scene.
2. Comment in one sentence on what you think is the significance of this scene. What would the play be like without it?
3. Ask questions about the scene. Has anything in the scene caused you confusion? Ask one of the characters in the scene a question—or ask me a question.
4. Quote lines from the scene that you enjoyed and comment on them.
5. Describe your reactions to a character, action, or idea you confronted in the scene.
6. Talk about the relationships characters have to one another, quoting specific words or phrases to give evidence for your opinion.
7. Pretend you are an actor playing one of the characters in the scene. Get inside that character’s mind. Tell how the character feels about herself, about other characters, about the situation of the scene.
8. Trace a set of images. Do you notice certain images—like night or moon or food or fat—coming up time and time again? Produce a list of citations—every time that your word appears. Then look for patterns. Are the images associated with certain people or places or events? Discuss the impact of your image on the play.
9. Discuss the motifs of robbery and rebellion, or honor and courage, or wholeness (both individual and national) in each “world” of the play.
10. Discuss Hal’s search for role models; how do his companions educate him about his country? How do the three worlds of the play—Court, Rebel, Tavern—converge in him?

Henry IV, Act III, scene 1, lines 198-276 and scene 2

Please post your comments for Scene 1, lines 198-276, and Scene 2 of Act 3 of Henry IV, Part 1 here. (See instructions under the post for Scene 1, lines 1-197.)

Henry IV, Act III, scene 3

Please post your comments for Scene 3 of Act 3 of Henry IV, Part 1 here. (See instructions under the post for "Scene 1, lines 1-197.")