Assignment Calendar: Student View – Unit 1: Literature and Me, Part II Name: ______

This is a draft of the assignments that will be due for the first five weeks of Unit 1. Assignments are subject to change but notice will always be given in class. Please note that the readings and assignments below are listed on the date they will be assigned in class; all assignments will be due the following day unless otherwise noted.

October 2017

2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Make edits to your “A Moment in My Literary Life” paper from today’s class. / Make edits to your “A Moment in My Literary Life” paper from today’s class.
Due Friday October 6: Draft 2 of “A Moment in my Literary Life” paper. You will need to have an electronic copy easily accessible, but you should also bring a hard copy to class. / Work on your paper and read something for fun – for real!! I’m going to ask you what you read tomorrow! / Due Friday October 6: Draft 2 of “A Moment in My Literary Life” paper. You will need to have an electronic copy easily accessible, but you should also bring a hard copy to class. / Prepare for paper conferences next week.
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
**Paper Conferences Throughout the Week**
No Classes / Reread Zora Neale Hurston’s “Spunk” and complete the questions on the left side of your Playbook. / Craft a theme statement for “Spunk” and outline relevant evidence that provides that theme statement. / Be prepared for a theme quiz on Monday.
Due Thursday, October 19: Final copies of “A Moment in My Literary Life” due. / No Classes: Interim Testing
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
Today: Theme Quiz
HW: TBD / Flex Day – Homework TBD / Due Tomorrow: Final copies of “A Moment in My Literary Life” / Due Today: “A Moment in My Literary Life” paper
Due on Monday: Read through Flannery O’Connor’s “The Teaching of Literature” and complete the questions on the left side of your Playbook. / No Classes
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Reread “The Teaching of Literature” and add to your answers from your initial reading. / Reflect on your reading of “The Teaching of Literature” on the right side of your Playbook. / Complete Prose Prompt deconstruction work. Be prepared for a Prose Prompt from an actual AP Literature exam tomorrow. / Flex Day – Homework TBD
Maybe go to the extra credit opportunity listed below! / The Quarter Ends Today
Prepare for End-of-Quarter 1 Conferences. They begin next week.
October Extra Credit Opportunity 1
Later this semester, we will be conducting an intense study of poetry. To prepare, you can attend this event for 10 points of extra credit. In order to receive credit, you must take a picture at the event with something in the background that says “The Poetry Foundation” and submit a copy of the poem you crafted with a short (100-word) explanation. /

Forms & Features: Ballad

Saturday, October 21, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Free Admission
To reserve your spot, please .
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In October, we focus on the ballad, a form derived from popular folk song that narrates a tragic, comic, or heroic story. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing an original ballad, will conclude the session.
October Extra Credit Opportunity 2
Next semester we will be studying Shakespeare’s Hamlet. To prepare for the intricacy of his language, you can attend this event for 10 points of extra credit. In order to receive credit, you must take a picture at the event with something in the background that says “Newberry Library” and complete a 200-word reflection on what you learned. / Shakespeare Project of Chicago: As You Like It
October 21, 2017: 10 AM – 12:30 PM
Newberry Library (60 W. Walton Street), Free and Open to the Public
You do NOT need to register for this event, but seating is limited.
A staged reading by professional actors fromThe Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed byJ. R. Sullivan, of the Pearl Theatre Company in New York. An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is followed by a question-and-answer session with the director and cast. The Shakespeare Project was founded in 1993 and has performed at the Newberry Library since 2003.
October Extra Credit Opportunity 3
Later this semester, we will be studying Chicago Literature. To prepare, you can attend this event for 10 points of extra credit. In order to receive credit, you must take a picture at the event with something in the background that says “Newberry Library” and complete a 200-word reflection on what you learned. / Meet the Author, Liesl Olson: Chicago Renaissance – Literature and Art in the Midwest
October 26, 2017: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Newberry Library (60 W. Walton Street), Free and Open to the Public
You must register at this link by noon on the day of the event: https://tinyurl.com/y8oump8a
Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson’s enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic “renaissance” moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women.