AP Literature Quarter 2 Week 1

Monday 10/25

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business
Reminder: Read The Metamorphosis by Wednesday.
3. Thinker's Workshop: Mock Trial
Begin Trial
4. HW: Reading.

Tuesday 10/26

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business
Reminder: Read The Metamorphosis by Wednesday.
3. Thinker's Workshop: Mock Trial
Continue Trial.
4. HW: Reading.

Wednesday 10/27

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business: nothing new
3. Thinker's Workshop: Mock Trial
    a. Finish Trial and Announce Verdict.
    b. Debrief.
4. Reader's Workshop
    Opening Discussion: The Metamorphosis.
5. HW: none

Thursday 10/28

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business:
    a. Distribute Grades & Graded Work
    b. Assign: Read etexts by Monday: A Hunger Artist, Before the Law, An Imperial Message
3. Reader Workshop
    a. Draw Gregor and journal on the back as to why you drew him the way you did - share with class.
    b. Some interesting background
        1) It would have turned out much better if I had not been interrupted at the time by a business trip. -Franz Kafka on writing The Metamorphosis
        2) Setting: probably an apartment in Prague
        3) 94% speak Czech ,95% Christian
        4) Kafka’s family were German speaking Jews. How might this have shaped his perspective?
    c. Kafka's letter to his father - pass around, read passages, and comment:
        1) What does this tell you about Kafka?
        2) How might it explain the content of his novella?
4. HW: Read Kafka etexts by Monday.

Friday 10/29

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2. Business: Reminder: Read etexts for Monday
3. Writer Workshop: Symbol Writing
a. Form groups (pairs).
b. Commence with the assignment.
4. HW: Read Kafka etexts by Monday.