Pat Brown - Westhill High School

MAKE-UP WORK

AP 12: Check this link for the make-up assignment AND submit the typed prompt to the class Turnitin drop box

Timed Write Make-Up - Wolsey - via Turnitin

Turnitin info -- class registration numbers

The Work We Do

Summer Reading:

Themes: Read one self-selected fiction or non-fiction book and respond to 4 of the prompts listed on the Summer Reading Assignment link of the WHS main page.

AP12: There's a specific assignment re The Handmaid's Tale.

AP English Syllabus 2011-12

Themes Syllabus 2011-12

Links List

The New York Times Word of the Day

Bloom's Taxonomy stems for discussion

Using Quotations

Free Rice

Senior Speech Description & Rubric

Son of Citation Machine

Literary Devices

Plagiarism

Fernando Botero's Mona Lisa:

Parody, not plagiarism!

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Worksheet 2011

Poetry

T. S. Eliot. "the Wasteland"

T. S. Eliot "Prufrock"

Edsitement Worksheet

Prufrock - group worksheet

Robert Graves "The Persian Version"

Ekphrastic Poetry

Poets.org

Poetry 180

Richard Wilbur "Death of a Toad"

A Glossary of Poetry Terms

AP Exam - Poems and Prompts 1970-2011

Close Reading

Definition- D. G. Jerz

Critical Reading Guide - John Lye

Literary Themes slideshow

Independent Reading

Emma Donoghue The Room

Titles from past AP exams

Independent Reading Assignment

Independent Reading - Fiction

The Stranger

Chapter 1 - video

General Information

This year I teach all seniors. AP English 12 (periods 1 & 7 ) and Themes in Literature (periods 2, 3, & 5 )

I teach all my classes in room 219.

I can be reached by leaving a message on the English Department phone at (203) 977-4490. (Warning: Not Voice Mail. Someone checks the messages at the end of the day and puts notes into our department boxes.)

I check my school mail three times a day: in the morning, afternoon, and before I leave school. Contact me at pbrown4@ci.stamford.ct.us

I check my home mail between 7-9 pm. Contact me at pabrownwesthill@yahoo.com

Things Fall Apart

Map of Africa assignment

Subsaharan Background PPT

Achebe & TFA PPT

AP English 12

Be(coming) An AP Scholar

AP Student Contract - Project Opening Doors

AP Central -test date

AP Open Response List

AP Exam Questions and Scoring Guidelines

What AP Readers Long to See

CB - AP English Skills & Content Overview

AP Tone Words

Verbs to use in AP Writing

Timed Writing PPT

Roger Rosenblatt "The Man in the Water"

Who was "The Man?" Wiki article

Video of Flight 90 air crash - rescue scenes

Canterbury Tales Prologue - first 18 lines

Sample Intros & Thesis Statements - my docs

Short Passages for rhetorical analysis

Themes in Literature

Journal Topics

Quotation Sandwich

MLA formatting - sample 1

MLA Works Cited formatting - sample 2

Hamlet

Hamlet- Passage Analysis Assignment with sample annotation

Prof. Cummings Study Guide

Hamlet Imagery Essay Acts 1-3 Assignment

Analyzing & Integrating Quotations

Be(come) an AP Scholar

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood BBC interview

Margaret Atwood Charlie Rose interview

Dr. Paul Brian's Study Guide

The Handmaid's Tale

Atwood Quotations

Handmaid's Tale envelope activity

Margaret Atwood "Spelling" poem

Dystopic Utopias in Art and Fiction

YouTube Macintosh 1984 commercial

Women in Art - 500 years

Short Stories

Classic Short Stories - link

Gary Paulson. "Stop the Sun"

James Joyce "The Sisters"

James Hurst "the Scarlet Ibis"

Alice Walker "Everyday Use"

Hector Tellez "Lather and Nothing Else"

Ray Bradbury "All Summer in a Day"

Sarah Orne Jewett "A White Heron"

Langston Hughes "Thank You Ma'm"

Shirley Jackson "Charles"

Ursula Le Guin "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas"

Susan Gaspell "A Jury of Her Peers"

Sherman Alexie "Part-time Indian" image

Satire

The Satirist

Satirical Motivational Posters

A Doll's House

"the Angel in the House" - Wikipedia

"The Good Wife's Guide"

Trifles

Reading Guide Questions

Westhill Mission Statement

Westhill High School values learning because it promotes academic excellence, civic responsibility, and personal growth. Our community provides all students with opportunities to acquire, analyze, and apply knowledge.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

HOMEWORK

Hard Times Book 2

Summer Reading Assignment

Summer Reading: Annotate Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

See the short description of the annotation process as provided on the summer reading page. You will be working with this text during the first two weeks of the quarter.