Hemingway Assignments #1


Assignment Sheet
AP Voice and Vision, Period Two
August 30 – October 5, 2012

At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.

Date
Class
Homework
Thursday, August 30
Introduction. Administrative Trivia.
Paradox and Ambiguity, combined with close reading.
Log onto blog for the first time. Reconsider the summer reading to prepare for a quiz and to find 3 passages that are confusing, ambiguous or paradoxical
Friday, August 31
Summer Reading Quiz.
Write response to Empire Falls. Due Tuesday in class.
Monday,  September 3
Labor Day: NO SCHOOL
Write response to Empire Falls. Due Tuesday in class.
Tuesday, September 4
Summer Reading Response Due. Discussion: Amusing Ourselves to Death.  Introduction to Hemingway
Read AFTA to page 23.
Wednesday, September 5
Odd Wed: NO CLASS
Read AFTA to page 23.

Thursday, September 6
Close Reading: Chapter One. Exposition
Read AFTA to page 39
Friday, September 7
Games and war. Character in exposition.
Read AFTA to page 67.
Monday, September 10
Juxtaposition, objective correlative, icebergs and exposition
Read AFTA to page 101.
Tuesday, September 11
The hospital and even more juxtaposition
Read AFTA to page 140.
Wednesday, September 12
In Class Writing Assignment or Harkness
Read AFTA through page 140.
Thursday, September 13
X-Period: NO CLASS
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Friday, September 14
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One and Two
Have we really left the front?
Read AFTA to page 175.
Monday, September 17
 Rosh Hashanah: NO SCHOOL

Read AFTA through page 175.
Tuesday, September 18
Introduction to the Hemingway Parody contest.
Parody due Monday. What has changed at the front?
Read AFTA through page 201 plus manuscripts.
Wednesday, September 19
Odd Wed: NO CLASS
Read AFTA through page 201 plus manuscripts.
Thursday, September 20

Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Friday, September 21
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two and Three.
Work on Hemingway parody, due on Monday.
Monday, September 24
Hemingway parody due in class. The retreat and FH’s desertion.
Read AFTA through page 245.
Tuesday, September 25
What’s changed in Book 4?
No Homework

Wednesday, September 26
Yom Kippur:NO SCHOOL

No Homework
Thursday, September 27
X-Period: NO CLASS
Parents Night: No Homework
Friday, September 28
The end of Book Four.
Finish AFTA

Monday, October 1
Count Greffi’s “wisdom.” The Swiss mountains.
Read alternate endings.
Tuesday, October 2
The bitter end. Introduction to final essay assignment.
Begin to think about AFTA essay, so you can ask for help if necessary.
Wednesday, October 3
Odd Wed: NO CLASS

Read SHV, Chapter One.
Thursday, October 4
Slaughterhouse V, Exposition.
Study for Vocabulary Quiz, Lists One, Two, Three and Four
Friday, October 5
Vocabulary Quiz, Lists
One - Four
Work on AFTA final essay.


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