Matched with an aged husband
I am no longer beautiful.
He thought I was a goddess once,
I smile because I know
He deluded himself,
Men are dull.
I am nothing more than a shadow,
When he told me he was leaving --
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GRADING:
Participation = 30%
Assignments (two parts of grade)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests = 15%
AP Portfolio essay grades = 15%
Exams = 10% Grammar, key terminology, and vocabulary items that we have discussed in class are on the AP Vocabulary Archive. The sooner you get started, the sooner (comparative degree) you will know all your terms.
An explanation of the assignment grades at right. The grade you see is an average of the CONTENT grades you have received over an average of the EFFORT grades you have received. We will have this on hand in class as a graph, which I expect to see rise over the course of the year. There will, of course, be dips, too...During the first semester, the effort grade will be weighted more; during the Spring semester, I will look at the content average as the more signifiicant part of your grade.
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Gerrit
1000-word essay: Ulysses & Curiosity
Bennet
1000-word essay: Ulysses & Curiosity
Mary
poem: symbol/allusion
Madi
green poetry section (handouts)
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AP Literature & Composition
2011-2012Penelope
by Bennet Roper
who hates your guts:
now that is a waste!
"Off again I see."
"I'll not miss you," he says.
That, I can live with.
Webbed cracks frame my eyes,
my skin droops, my hair mousy, silver-flecked.
worth all the bullshit he went through...
I was never beautiful.
Just an empty space
for his magnificence to be reflected.
Just a gilt-framed mirror.
got caught up in a life that seemed a map
to walk across, still believing
I was worth coming back for...
Even those men who stayed home from battle
only wanted me, so they could best him.
yet I control their world.
Twenty years on my own: not too shabby...
I knew
Ulis' had finally realized I am
imperfect: lame, old, tired...
I shall let him run his own ship aground.
And let lesser men's
echoes tell our story.
(purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
2nd Semester EFFORT = 10%; CONTENT = 20%
1st Semester Unfinished Pieces
Assignments: 88 [E]/85 [C}
AP essays = 7.5
Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 74%
Exam = 5
Beowulf outline
Hollow Men group project
14-line poem collages (3)
Art of Darkness
Dubliners presentations (4 stories)
Dubliners chart of motifs
Assignments: 90 [E]/90 [C]
AP essays = 5.8
Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 60%
Exam = 4
Hollow Men group project
14-line poem collages (3)
Art of Darkness
Dubliners presentations (4 stories)
Dubliners chart of motifs
Assignments: 90 [E]/91 [C]
AP essays = 8.5
Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 76%
Exam = 5
1000-word essay: Ulysses & Curiosity
Beowulf outline
business letter with request for "pay"
Hollow Men group project
14-line poem collages (3)
Art of Darkness
Assignments: 91 [E]/88 [C]
AP essays = 5
Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 57%
Exam = 3
poem: symbol/allusion
1000-word essay: Ulysses & Curiosity
brag sheet
descriptive paragraph (Frankenstein)
Hollow Men group project
14-line poem collages (3)
Art of Darkness
Dubliners presentations (4 stories)
Dubliners chart of motifs
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