Complete and review your exam prep outline.
Bring your outline, vocab game (if you have it) and a small breakfast item (think high protein and low carb) to share in Ms. Stafford's bungalow at 7 AM for a pre-exam stock-up/potluck.
For your information, here are some articles on brain foods:
Salmon, Green Tea, Acai and Coffee Beans
Best and Worst Brain Foods
Then ace the exam!
Tuesday, May 12 - Thursday, May 14, 2009:
Meet in the computer lab (J187) for the rest of the movie and the assignment of research projects.
Friday, May 15, 2009:
Take a 36-question multiple-choice mini AP exam. This won't be based on the reading. It will be self-contained. No preparation is needed. If you will be absent on Friday due to AP testing, come in either Thursday after school (during Period 6 is OK) to take the quiz or at any point during the day on Friday. Report cards will be diabolically schemed over the weekend.
For Thursday, May 28, 2009:
Feel free to bring your research paper and project materials, including your laptop, if desired. You will be given some time to work in class.
Due Friday, May 29, 2009:
Research paper due via turnitin.com by 6 AM and MLA format at the start of class. No late papers will be accepted, even if absent.
Due Monday, June 1, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Carin Kellzi - The Renaissance
Robert Manukyan - The Age of Reason
Andrew Thompson - The Romantics
Due Tuesday, June 2, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Maria Robelo - Gothic Literature
Sarah Silverstein - The Victorians
Gohar Kheckumyan - Turn of the 20th Century
Due Wednesday, June 3, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Dominique Fuster - Realism
Lily Sassone - Surrealism
Jennifer Movsessian - Multiculturalism in Art, Culture and Literature
Due Monday, June 8, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Han Sol Choi - Deconstructionism
Vanuhi Karapetian - Feminist Criticism
Aram Hakpian - Marxist Criticism
Three research project presentations:
Joseph Choi - Psychoanalytic Criticism
Eun Sun Cho - Northrop Frye
Annalou Lingat - Camille Paglia
Due Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Suren Aydinyan - Monsters in Art, Culture and Literature "Then" and "Now"
Jessie Van Amburg - The Bible and/in Literature
Kirsten Cangco - Specific Greek Tragedies and Later Literature
Due Thursday, June 11, 2009:
Three research project presentations:
Edward Babakhani - Aristotle's Poetics and Tragedy
Katerina Karavodin - Mythology and/in Literature
Veronica Stoever - The American Dream and/in Literature
Due Friday, June 12, 2009:
One research project presentation:
Carin Wong - Modern Literature of the English-speaking Diaspora.
IMPORTANT: If you are absent on the day of your presentation, you will receive a zero.
During the two weeks of research-project preparation, we will read aloud and discuss plays. We will begin on Monday, May 18 with Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.