Friday

 Today you have time to work on essays. We will also talk about chapters 11-20.

Thursday

 We will finish our reading/discussion of New Criticism and talk about essays that you will write next week.

Wednesday

 We will continue our discuss of New Criticism. You will be writing an essay using New Criticism and Anna Karenina next week.

HW: chapters 5-10

Good luck!

Monday

 Students should be working on journals for Anna Karenina. If they want to read ahead they can. We will need to get though Part III and Part IV by the time they return from POW and will need to write an essay on the book following the theory of New Criticism. 

Friday

Read part 2 of Anna Karenina and wrote on journals.

Tuesday

 Assignment for Part I:

Choose 1 theme and discuss how it is reflected in the book.

List 4-5 characters and discuss how they make/create meaning in the text.  Also list who there are and what they are about.  You might also connect these characters to theme.

List 2-3 devices (irony, symbols, foreshadowing) and discuss how they create meaning in the text.  Connect to Part I as a whole.

PART I - discuss how Part I functions as an individual unit.  What happens?  What does it suggest with happen later?  Discuss why it begins and ends where it does?  

THEMES:

Love
Family
Russian Politics
Religion/Faith
Gender Roles
Social Class

Friday

 Today,  I'm going to give you the class to read and work on journals. You will probably have some sort of quiz on Part I on Tuesday.

Anna Karenina

 Please finish part 1 by Tuesday.

Stepan Arkadyich Oblonsky (chapters 1-5)
Darya Alexandrovna Oblonsky (Dolly 2-3)

Levin - (one of the main characters) 5-9
Kozishev (Levin's brother or half-brother)
Nikolai (or Nicholas) (Levin's other brother)

Kitty - sister of Dolly (other sister is Natalie)

Anna Karenina (sister of Stepan)

Vronsky - yes

THEMES:

Love
Family
Russian Politics
Religion/Faith
Gender Roles
Social Class

Symbolism - trains, peasants.

Chapter 1 - Stepan has been having an affair and has been caught (poor boy).  THEMES: Family/Gender Roles/Love

Chapter 2 - Stepan believes he has the right to have an affair since he is a man, handsome, and his wife is getting old.  Why is she even mad at him?  THEMES: Same as above

Chapter 3: Stepan reading papers/business THEMES: Social Class

Chapter 4: Dolly and Stepan talk.  Dolly is packing.  Themes: See chapter 1

Chapter 5: Stepan at work.  Learn that he got his job through family connections.  This is how Russian society works.  We also learn why people like Stepan.  THEMES: Politics/Social Class
Enter: Levin

Chapter 6: Discussion of Oblonsky's in-laws (the Shcherbatskys - Dolly, Natalie, and Kitty).   Levin has come to Moscow to see Kitty. 

Chapter 7: Debate between Kozishev and a professor about how people understand the world.

Chapter 8: Russian Politics - Kozishev doesn't believe that Russians can ever use government right or well.

Chapter 9: Levin and Kitty.  Learn that Levin is a good skater.  Kitty doesn't want to give Levin the wrong impression.  Levin gets the cold shoulder.  Kitty's mother says, "On Thursday we are home, as always."  Also learn that Levin enjoys living in the country.  

Examples from Zoe's blog:

CHAPTER 31

Back in those days, people would die from any old infection, like pink eye or the common cold. They didn’t know how it spread, whether it be through touch, air, or contact with blood. When Charley gets sick, Esther offers to take care of her one-on-one not letting anyone else come in contact with her, which is all the more heroic because she will almost inevitably become sick as well. Basically, this is a strange offer to make, and it supports the theme of Duty as it pertains to Esther and her need to take care of Charley.

CHAPTER 32

Krook spontaneously combusts at the end of this chapter. This is terrible because Krook was supposed to hand over the letters Snagsby is supposed to give to Lady Dedlock over to Weevle, from whom Guppy will steal them. Back when this book came out, Dickens was mocked for his use of combustion because it seemed so improbable, but his only defense was that he thought it could happen.

CHAPTER 33

Krook, the storeowner who combusted was actually Mrs. Smallweed’s brother! This means the Smallweeds will inherit all of Krook’s property, since he has no other living relations. But in addition to the property, they will also inherit all of the documents in Krook’s office (which might include the letters).

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 When I get to class we will discuss the first 20 chapters of Anna Karenina. Please read through chapter 26 for Wednesday. It's possible that I will be a few minutes late to class, so please read until I arrive.

Monday

Email me your reading logs for Anna Karenina.

Please finish reading the Poetry Packet – choose one poem and answer questions on the POETRY ANALYSIS WORKSHEET at the end of the packet.

 

HW: Read through chapter 20

 

 

Thursday

Today we will read your poetry packet (3 & 4), discuss what your outline yesterday,  and look at the video below. We will also decide on a book.

You will have to read this weekend. We will discuss in class.

Tuesday

 Today we are going to go over your AP tests from December and discuss them.

This week we will be working on AP multiple choice questions and the Prose Question.

We will also choose your next book.

HW: AP MC questions - assigned.