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AP English Language and Composition
Strengthening college readiness skills
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Session 1
Click here for Manhattan for AP Lang on November 17, 2018 — Manhattan ( I’ll be there at the study session but not teaching just observing)
October 27, 2018 — Bronx
December 1,2018 — Brooklyn
Lesson Plan on The Glass Menagerie
Objectives: Students will be able to respond critically to the play, The Glass Menagerie, by identifying a specific moment, line or object (motif ) through which they create a personal memoir, or a narrative that uses an object or imagery as motif.
CCS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.A
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D
Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
Differentiation:
Content: Students with various writing abilities can select a technique or idea from the menu provided to write a narrative. Each student draws materials from his/her personal experiences for the writing task. Students’ topic is of personal interests and choice. Pair share and class discussion will also provide further assistance to students’ understanding of using narrative techniques to describe a memory.
Grouping rationale: Students will be grouped based on their strengths and weaknesses as a reader and writer to complete the task.
Do Now: Close your eyes and refresh your memory about the play, The Glass Menagerie. Is there anything that stands out to you, repeatedly? A sound, image, word or phrase, an object, a line etc.? Pick out one moment or imagery or object (motif) and describe it: How is it represented? How is it connected to the character or theme of the play? Is there any other significance for the playwright to include it in the play? Why does it stand out to you? Write about 7-8 minutes.
Teaching Points:
According to Miller and Paola, in their book Tell it Slant, “The memories that can have the most emotional impact for the writer are those who don’t really understand, the images that rise up before us quite without our volition…These are the ‘river teeth’, or the moments of being, the ones that suck your breath away.”
Metaphorical memory:
Think back on that early morning of yours, the one that came to mind instantly. Illuminate the details, shine a spot on them until they begin to yield a sense of truth revealed. Where is your body in this memory? What kind of language does it speak? What metaphor does it offer for you to puzzle out in writing?
Muscle memory:
The body, memory, and mind exist in sublime interdependence, each part wholly twined with the others. These memories will have resonance precisely because they have not been forced into being by a mind insistent on fixed meanings. It is the body’s story and so one that resonates with a sense of an inadvertent truth revealed. Sometimes, what matters to us most is what has mattered to the body. Memory may pretend to live in the cerebral cortex, but it requires real muscle to animate it again for the page.
The five senses of memory
By paying attention to the sensory gateways of the body, you also begin to write in a way that naturally embodies experience, making it tactile for the reader. Readers tend to care deeply only about those things they feel in the body at a visceral level. And so as a writer, consider your vocation as that of a translator: one who renders the abstract into the concrete. We experience the world through our senses. WE MUST TANSLATE THAT EXPEIENCE INTO LANGUAGE OF THE SENSES AS WELL.
Student Independent Practice
From the exercises above, select a motif that can BEST represent your memory. Write a narrative that either incorporates or evolves around the motif to reveal a part of your past that sheds light on you or your relationship with people you care about in your life. The narrative should be between 500-700 words in lengths.
Exit Slip: Share the “river teeth” of your memory.
Homework Assignment: Complete the personal narrative and turn it in on Monday.
AP English Literature and AP English Language |
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AP Calculus, AP Statistics and AP United States History |
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AP English Literature and AP English Language
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April 1, 2017
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Manhattan
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April 22, 2017
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Brooklyn
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April 29, 2017
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AP Environmental Science and AP Biology
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Manhattan
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April 1, 2017
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Brooklyn
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April 22, 2017
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Bronx
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April 29, 2017
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AP Calculus, AP Statistics and AP United States History
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Brooklyn
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April 1, 2017
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Bronx
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April 22, 2017
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Manhattan
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April 29, 2017
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