Aug 25

1. Homework Packets, 3 x 5 cards,

2. Autor cards:Author, ano, lugar, propsito del autor genero, tema, periodo, tono, titulo de obra, arte con el mismo tema

3. assign teaching, students work on it using book information, will create a short presentation due Aug 2930 minutes

Students will teach class about different literary movements in groups of 3:

To include: history, characteristics, date, main author

1. Edad Media

2. Renacimiento

3. Siglo de Oro

4. Comedia del Siglo de Oro

5. Barroco

6. Epoca Moderna

7. Romanticismo

8. Realismo y Naturalismo

9. Generacion del 98

10. Las vanguardias

11. Criollismo e Indigenismo

12. Modernismo

13. Siglo XX

Tienen que explicar Que es, tipos, y como se analiza?

14. poesia

15. Teatro

16. Narrativa

17.Ensayo

4. literary techniques: look up lists using packet rest of class. Due: Aug 29

Aug 27

Work on teaching literary movements

Computer Lab

Aug 29

Teach

Sep 3

1. Define the Middle Ages in Spain (coexistence of 3 major religions, sharing of information)

2. Explain the literary development in Spain during this time. (epic poem, jarchas)

3. Define the beginning of the Renaissance.( the marriage of Fernando and Isabella, discovery of America, expulsion of Muslims from Spain)

4. Describe Spain during the Renaissance.

5. Define the following of the literature in Spain: Siglo de Oro, poesia, novela picaresca, Cervantes, comedia, el Barroco.

6. Describe be the Spanish Colonies

7. Explain the literature during the colonization. (journals, poetry)

8. Contrast the history from Spain and from Latin America during the Modern time period.

9. Explain Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Generation de 98, and Vanguardias in Spain.

10. Explain Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Criollism, Indigenism, Modernism, in the New World.

Define the literary genres of Poetry, Theatre, Narrative, and Essay. Include the different types of each genre and how you analyze each genre.

Sep 5

review for exam

Sep 9

Exam on teaching, Discuss who we blame for what goes wrong?

Explain how we interact with people of different races and religions other than our own.

Identify time period of poem, discuss the Reconquista

Make a chart of the characteristics of a Romance.

Identify stories, poems, movies that would be considered a Romance.

Read Romance del rey moro que perdio de Alhama. HW

Sep 11

Analyze vocabulary for time period.

Identify the characteristics of a romance in this poem.

Define an estribillo

What effect does the estribillo in the poem create?

Illustrate the types of rhyme in a poem using ABBA, ect

Define consonant and assonant rhyme.

Identify the type of rhyme in the poem.

Look up the painting by Francisco Padilla Ortiz called La rendicion de Granada. Identify the Catholic King and Queen, and Abu Abdullah. What is the building that you can see in the distance?

Look up the painting by Velasquez called La rendicion de Breda. Compare and contrast with La rendicion de Granada

Read aloud the story El Conde Lucanor Hw

Sep 15

Answer: who was Juan Manuel? When did he live? What type of literature did he write?

Define what marriage is? Do you believe in equality between a man and a woman in marriage? Explain. What are traditional roles in a marriage? Do you know anyone who married for money? Would you?

Discuss the characters. Who are they? Are they all part of the same story? Who was the story meant for?

Draw a picture of the wife and the husband. Describe them as you see them in your mind.

What is the moral of the story?

Discuss the narrator of the story. Who starts the story? Who is the narrator that ends the story? Are they the same one?

Look up and define author implicito and author explicito Why would the author use this in the story?

List the humor in the story. How is the humor used to describe the honeymoon night, and the characters?

What is apologo? What is hyperbole in this story?

READ the poem En tanto que de rosa y azucena.

Sep 15

Examine the author Garcilaso de la Vega Include when he lived, time period and the type of literature created.

Talk about Carpe Diem. Is it better for youth to enjoy life, or for adults? Discuss the pros and cons of each using a Venn Diagram.

Define a sonnet. List the characteristics of a sonnet.

List the images of a beautiful woman included in the poem En tanto de rosa y azucena

Define apostrophe.

Discuss the images of death in the poem.

What is the difference between spring and winter as mentioned in the poem?

Write your own sonnet to someone you love.

Look up painting by Sandro Botticelli El nacimiento de Venus. Compare the painting to the sonnet. Do you think that Garcilaso de la Vega had seen the painting before he wrote the sonnet? Would this painting be considered erotic?

Listen to sonnet Mientras por competir con tu cabello HW

Read the poem Mire los muros de la patria mia by Francisco de Quevedo.

Sep 17

Research the author Luis de Gongora. Include when he lived, type of literature that he wrote, and time period. What is he Baroque time period?

Compare the description of a beautiful woman in this poem to Garcilaso de la Vegas using a Venn Diagram. Has the definition of beauty changed? Why or why not?

Compare the descriptions of death in the two poems.

Explain what the theme is for the two poems. How can we apply this theme today?

Explain the meter in the poem.

Describe what occurs in the quartets and the tercets of the poems.

Define anaphora. List examples of this in the poem.

Illustrate your interpretation of Gongora.

Gongora was painted by the artist Diego Velasquez. Look up this painting on the Internet. List the characteristics in the painting that show that this is a Baroque painting. Are any of these characteristics included in the poem that we just read? List them.

Sep 19

Describe the author Francisco de Quevedo. Include where and when he lived, the time period and type of writing.

Describe the theme of the poem by Quevedo.

List the parts of a sonnet in this poem.

Whose death is the poem talking about? When does the idea change?

Confirm that this is a Baroque poem. List the reasons that it is, both with ideas and structure.

What does memento mori mean? Show ways that this is shown in this poem. How does this differ from Carpe Diem?

Look up a painting by Velasquez about God Mars (Marte). What could he symbolize in the paintings.

Sep 23

Exam on poetry and readings

Who is Miguel de Cervantes? When did he live, what type of writing did he create? Why is he famous?

What is your passion? How can that affect your life? Can passion for something be a negative or a positive thing? Explain.

Discuss the historical context of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Why is knowing when the story occurred important?

Define knights. Include who they were and what their purpose in life was.

Read Chapter 1 of Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Define hidalgo. What were his responsibilities? What happened to him and why?

Discuss the irony contained in this first chapter.

Consider the names used in this first chapter. Why did Cervantes name his characters these names? Why are the names important to people and things?

Read Chapter 2, 3 in Don Quixote de la Mancha. HW

Chapter 1 and 2, answer questions.

Sep 25

What is Don Quijotes purpose in being a knight?

List the characters, and items in the chapter and what they represent and what Quijote thinks they are?

Add to the list of humorous things that happen in this chapter.

Why does Quijote insist on going through the rite of initiation?

Add to the humor after each chapter.

Define charity: caridad. What is expected when you help someone?

Draw a timeline of the story. Include the characters and what happens. Add to the timeline after each chapter.

Summarize Chapter 4 of Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Read Chapter 5 of Don Quijote de la Mancha.

HW Read Chapter 8 Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Reading Chapter 3

Sep 29

Retell the story in modern language and modern time period.

What do you do to distract yourself when you are sad or hurt?

What does literature represent to Quijote?

Add humor and timeline.

Start timeline.

Read Chapter 4 in class/questions.

Who represents reality and who represents fantasy in this story?

Why didnt the narrator finish the story?

Describe the qualities of a good historian. What is the difference between a novelist and a historian?

Read Chapter 74 Don Quijote de la Mancha. HW

Read Chapter 5, questions.

Finish timeline and list of humor.

Review for exam.

Oct 1

List the characteristics that make this a Baroque work of literature.

Is the Quijote a humorous or a serious novel? Write 3 paragraphs explaining your position with examples from the story.

Review for exam.

Book 8 questions-overhead. 9 pages 566-

Chapter 9 and 74 in class.

Turn timeline in and list of humor.

Oct 3

Discuss who writes history? How does that affect what we learn about what happened? What would change if we were reading the British version of the American Revolution, or the Mexican version of the Texas Alamo.

Listen and read the poem: : Se ha perdido el pueblo mexicatl.

Discuss what was Mexico City like after the conquest.

What is the tone of the poem?

How would the tone be different if it had been written by a European civilization who had been conquered? What does this say about human nature?

Debate whether or not a nation has the right to take over another nation and destroy their culture. Decide why this still is happening today and give examples of where.

Discuss why the structure of the poem Se ha perdido el pueblo mexicatl is the way it is. Could that be because it was translated? Do we lose original meaning when we translate?

Look up images on the internet under Florentine codex. Have each student pick a different image and explain this image to the class.

Read the Segunda carta by Hernan Cortes. HW

Oct 7

Create a conversation between Spaniards of the Middle Ages discussing religion, politics, or family or a party that they will attend. Ensure that at least two of the participants belong to one of the three religions. (The society in the Middle Ages in Spain was a mixture of Christians, Jews and Moors. They lived together for almost 1,000 years.)

Create a conversation between the father and the mother in El Conde Lucanor about their daughter getting married.

Write a conversation between the characters that took place in Chapter 5 Don Quijote.

Write a conversation between a Spaniard and an Aztec at the time of the conquest.

Who was Hernan Cortes? Explain how he could have written about the culture in the New World. Why was he so successful in the conquest?

Define circumlocution. What word is Cortes trying to say in the paragraph beginning with Que a ocho leguas de esta cuidad?

What society does Cortes compare the Aztec world to? Explain and give examples of the society that Cortes compared the Aztec world.

Consider if there could be mistakes in this translation. Decide if this affects how seriously we take this manuscript.

Read and listen to the song by Ruben Blades called Conmemorado. This was written in 1992 at the commemoration of the 500th celebration of Columbus. Why doesnt Blades use the word celebrate in his song? Why wouldnt this be a time to celebrate?

Read Los Presagios HW

Oct 9

Describe Bernardino de Sahagun? Why did he learn nahuatl?

What is an omen? (presagio)Are they real and can they come true?

List in order of occurrence the omens that signaled the arrival of the Spaniards and what happened after.

How do they use the periphrasis or circumlocution in the 1st and 4th omen?

Look up presagios de Sahagun and interpret some of them, share these interpretations with the class.

Compare this story about the conquest with the letter by Cortes.

The llorona is a legend that appears in folklore in many countries. Look up Lila Downs singing La llorona on Youtube and Juana Alicias mural in San Francisco. Why is this story so popular with the Mexican people? Explain the meaning of the story with a partner.

Preview exam on soneto- Edmodo

Read 2nd carta

Oct 13

Exam on soneto, romance, conde/ discuss 2nd carta, poesia

Oct 15

Present conversations.

Read los presagios.

Oct 17

Review exam on Quijote, 2nd; Presagios

9 weeks exam

Oct 21

Read the Prologue to Lazarillo de Tormes

Why did the author write Lazarillo de Tormes?

Describe who he wrote the story to.

Describe the style he wrote the story in.

Survey the class to see who is a child of mixed races. Discuss the possible discrimination that occurs because of this.

Discuss what it means to be a single mom today and compare it to what it would have been like in the 16th century.

Define a picaresque novel. What type of Spain does Lazarillo project to the rest of the world? Prologo

Tema

Read Tratado 1 in Lazarillo de Tormes.

Start a timeline of Lazarillo, add to it after each Tratado. Sinopsis

Discuss what Lazarillo learned from his mother, and the blind man.

This section has a lot of opposites. As a group discuss the meaning to these: For example: Line 52 Y asi le commence a servir [] a mi Nuevo y Viejo amo. Others might be: good and bad, robbery for necessity and robbing for greed, innocence and cunning, mischievous and malice, laughter and tears.

Illustrate what it means to be religious. List characteristics of people that are religious.

Oct 23

Read Tratado 2 in Lazarillo de Tormes 310-333

Add to the timeline cronologia

Add to your list of what Lazarillo learned from the clergyman

Consider what peoples death meant to Lazarillo.

Discuss with the group what bread means religiously.

List the humor in the work. Compare it with Don Quijote and the type of humor found there.

Do people sometimes project a false personality to the world? Why would they do that? What are some examples from people today?

Quiz on T2

Oct 27

Read Tratado 3 in Lazarillo de Tormes

Define honor. Compare it to what we think of it today and what it meant in Lazarillos time. Why has it changed?

Add to timeline and what Lazarillo learned from his new master.

Argue that it is bad to cheat on your spouse in a marriage.

Oct 29

Read Tratado 7 in Lazarillo de Tormes.

Add to the timeline and what Lazarillo has learned from the Arcipreste, his final master.

Hypothesize why Lazarillo doesnt care about what is happening between his master and his wife. Explain what you would do.

Pick a scene from this play and write a dialogue and present it to the class.

Look up Europa en los tiempos de Carlos V on YouTube to see what life was like for Lazarillo. Compare it to your own.

Look up paintings by Esteban Murillo, searching Murillo picaros. Present your findings to the class.

Compare and contrast Lazarillos life to the life of the homeless today. Give specific examples from both time periods.

Oct 31

Describe Tirso de Molina? What type of literature did he write?

Define a Don Juan. Why was he such a sinner?

Define deathbed repentance.

Define tan largo me lo fiais

Discuss honor during the Siglo de Oro

Define purity of blood.

Define in media res

Read 8-17- El Burlador

Create a character map of two of the main characters. Add to it as we read and learn about each character. Names are drawn at random to assign people.

Read Act 1, El burlador de Sevilla. HM 17-34

Describe Don Juan. What kind of person he is?

How does Juan get away with all of the things that he does?

Describe the irony in Tisbeas soliloguy?

V 438-580. Look at the structure and the rhyme in these verses.

Pick a scene from Act 1, and act it out in your group. Present play, 2 minutes.

Nov 4

Act 1 Tirso de Molina

HM 15 of act 1

Make a list of Don Juans sins. Compare these sins that we see today in the movies and TV programs.

Exam on Lazarillo de Tormes

Read Act 2 83-94

Nov 6

Read Act 3, El burlador de Sevilla

Discuss what happens to women after Juan seduces them. Is this what would happen today?

Describe the women in this play. List their characteristics and compare them to women of today.

Describe Don Juan in an essay. Include: Is Don Juan naturally bad? Is he immature? Is he smart? What privileges does he have? Do we have people today that commit crimes and assume that privilege will protect them? Do you think that Don Juan is a sex addict? In Juan insecure?

What characteristics make him human?

In the Burlador de Sevilla, the concept of family is very important. Using a Venn Diagram, compare the idea of family during this time period and today. Would Don Juan be as terrible today as he was then? Include how women were/are treated.

In small groups, look up other Works that have been based on Don Juan. Make a list of a) music and opera, b) poetry, c) theater, d) the movies.

Timeline on Burlador. - 10 things per Act.

Look up the painting by Ford Madox Brown about Don Juan. List what characteristics of Don Juan you see in this painting.

Nov 10

Explain who Sor Juana was. List where she lived, and why she wrote the type of literature she wrote.

Examine how women are treated different than men in todays society.

When a woman got married in the past, they were expected to come to the marriage pure and chaste. Is that still the case?

Listen to and read Hombres necios que acusais p.378

Discuss the irony in this poem. Share your favorite example with the class and explain why.

Define redondillas? Count the number of syllables in each verse.

Figure out the rhyme in the poem. Is it assonant or consonant?

List the opposites in the poem.

Explain how Sor Juana defines men. Define a feminist.

Look up images on the internet about retablos barrocos mexicanos.

Explain your feelings about looking at Baroque pictures.

Watch parts of the movie on YouTube about Sor Juana called Yo la peor de todas by Maria Luisa Bemberg. Write an essay about meeting Sor Juana.

Exam on El Burlador.

Nov 13

Timeline on Burlador

Read Sor Juana

Read Act 3

Venn Diagram of family.

Explain who Emilia Pardo Bazan is. What did she write and why?

Classify abuse. Is it ever justified?

Read and discuss Las Medias Rojas. P.69

Explain what the red hose represents for Ildara and for her father.

Decide why Ildara stayed with her father.

Define naturalism.

Discuss the reasons for going to a new country or staying to take care of your father.

Propose why some immigrate to a new country and leave their family behind them.

Nov 17

Describe Jose Marti. List his reasons for writing

Rate our government in the United States. Debate if other countries should adopt our form of government.

Read Nuestra America by Jose Marti

Paint a picture of the type of government that Marti is describing.

Explain Martis opinion of criollos, Indians, the church, European laws, dictators, mestizos, reason, the United States, and the future of Latin America.

Describe who Marti was condemning in this essay. Compare it to todays society.

1. Exam on Burlador

2. Quiz on Medias Rojas

Nov 19

Compare Dario and Marti using a T-chart

Hypothesize what other countries think about the United States. Has this changed through history? Read A Roosevelt by Ruben Dario. Investigate why this poem is considered free verse

Compare Darios opinion about the United States to Martis opinion.

Define Modernism. List the qualities that should exist in a Modern work.

Look up images under the topic of US imperialism. Bring one to class to share.

Nov 21

Describe Jose Maria Heredia. What type of literature does he write?

Read and listen to En una tempestad

Define silva. How does this add to the chaos created by the storm?

Define apostrophe. Explain the function in this poem.

With a partner, in columns, list the auditory techniques that are found in the poem. Use alliteration, onomatopoeia, cdacophony

Explain the tone in the poem. List any changes in the poem.

Define metonymic. Show the signs of manto, vestidura, and brazos

Explain what a romance is. List the characteristics found in the poem that make it a romance.

Analyze paintings by William Turner. Find the painting that best represents this poem by Heredia. Explain why you think that storms are used by romantics.

Nov 24-28

Dec 2

Describe Becquer.

Read and listen to the poem Volveran las oscuras golondrinas

List the musicality of the verses.

Describe the anadiplosis in this poem.

Explain the simile in line 4.

Draw the circle of nature in the poem and include the meaning of love that Becquer includes.

Find an interpretation of the poem on YouTube that you like and share it with the class.

Compose a love poem.

Dec 4

Review for exam

Dec 8

Edmodo exam

Dec 10

Practice AP test

Dec 12

Practice AP test

Dec 14

Practice AP test

Dec 18

End of semester

Author database 3 days, card game

Jan 6

Federico Garcia Lorca: Prendimiento de Antoito p. 111

Describe all the things that Garcia Lorca knew how to do.

List the different prejudices that we encounter in todays society

Compare them to what Garcia Lorca might have gone through

Describe the meter and the rhyme of the poem.

Locate the periphrasis, sinecdoque, and metonymy in the poem.

List the characteristics of the gypsies in the poem.

Name some positive stereotypes that exist. Defend your opinion.

Look up images of Garcia Lorca painted by Salvador Dali. Define what you think their relationship was.

Look up Lorcas drawing about Antonito el Camborio. Decide if it looks like what you imagined.

1. Periphrasis: uses a lot of words to describe one thing ex: El rey de los animals = leon

2. Sinecdoque: Ex: una parte de algo que se usa para representar el todo

3. Metonimia: calling something by its function or artista: Look at this Picasso

Jan 8

Federico Garcia Lorca: La casa de Bernarda Alba

Add more information to Lorcas biography.

Compare the way boys and girls are treated in your families.

List traditions that are in your family or culture. Explain if any of them should be changed

Read Act 1

Discuss what it means to mourn someone. Compare the way they mourned someone in Spain to the way that we mourn someone today. Use a Venn diagram.

Describe the main characters. List their qualities and what you think they look like.

Compare Bernardas view of men and women. Is there any truth to her opinions?

List symbolism in Act 1: Include the stains on the floor, Bernardas cane,Adela;s green dress, locking up Maria Josefa, Fan, Black and White, Heat

Create a timeline of BA, include 5 actions in Act 1

Jan 12

Read Act 2

Discuss the symbol of embroidering and explain what it means.

Add to your relationship family tree

List the irony in the play

List the feminism viewpoint in the play

Timeline 5 actions in Act 2

1. Burla disimulada-contrario

2. Theme: tragedy, oppression of women, tradition, class prejudice, reputation, authoritarianism, beauty

Jan 14

Read Act 3

What is climax of the story? What is the ending?

Define arquetype. List the arquetypes that are changed in the story.

Explain how this is a play with the setting in Andalucia, but has a universal theme.

List characteristics of a Greek tragedy. In partners, explain how each is applied in BA. (hubris, hamartia, pathos, catharsis, mimeses, anagnorisis, peripeteia)

Define antagonist and protagonist. Explain who each one is in the story, and why.

Spanish traditions restrict the woman. Explain what you thin the author thins about these traditions.

Bernarda feels that the most important thing is honor and that her daughters remain virgins. Compare this sentiment with the idea in either El burlador de Sevilla or Lazarillo de Tormes. Use a Venn diagram

Jan 16

Examen de Federico Garcia Lorca

Guillen, Nicolas Balada de los dos abuelos: p. 119

Add information about Guillen to your list of authors. Include his time period and why he is important.

Take a survey of how many students in the class are considered mestizo. Consider if someday in the United States there will only be mestizos. Illustrate a society in which racism is eliminated. Use words or pictures.

Read and listen to Balada de los dos abuelos

Using a T-chart, compare both Grandpas in the poem. How are they different and how are they the same? Include the signs that show one as a conqueror and the other as a slave.

Explain the type of verse in the poem.

Look up examples of alliteration, euphony, anaphora and anadiplosis.

Look up the painting by Agustin Calvino, known as Golgota about this poem. Explain if he captured the essence of the poem. Illustrate the poem with your own interpretation.

Jan 21

Dragun, Osvaldo; Historia del hombre p. 126

Include information about Osvaldo Dragun in your list of authors.

Read about what the voseo I and how and where it is used.

Read the play Historia

List the characters in the play. Explain who each one is and why they are in the play.

Explain how the economy affects us. Compare what happened in the play with what is happening in todays society.

Explain the difference between a narrative and a theatrical piece.

Using an idea web, show all the ways that humor is used in this play.

Describe the setting of the play and how it is different from a traditional play.

Compare this play with the story las medias rojas by Pardo Bazan with social classes. Hypothesize the elimination of different social classes. Venn Diagram

Jan 23

Rivera, Tomas: y no se lo trago la tierra y La Noche Buena p. 133

Add Tomas Rivera to your list of authors. Include what influenced his writing.

Look up the Bracero program. Explain to your partner what life would be like as one of these immigrants. Compare it to your own life.

Read y no se trago la tierra

Predict what situation would make you turn to God in your life.

Compare this to what happened in the reading.

Describe the narrative voice in this reading.

Compare your family dynamics with the dynamics in this family.

List the different religious practices that are described.

Look at the painting by Joseph Sheppard, about migrants. List all the details of the painting that show the sad reality of the life of these workers.

Jan 27

Report on Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Share with the class what you learned about theme, and why they are important to this theme.

Define agoraphobia. Explain if you know anyone that suffers from this condition.

Read La noche Buena

Explain what the toys in the story represent.

Compare your life living in the US with the children in the story.

Explain the irony in the title of this story.

With a partner, list the problems that might occur to Mexican families living in the US because they do not know the culture or the language. Then show which of these problems are reflected in this story.

List the Spanglish words you know and use here in El Paso. Are any of them used in this story?

Jan 29

Storni, Alfonsina Peso Ancestral p. 213

Add Alfonsina Storni to the autor list and include what makes her a femisnist.

Read and listen to Peso Ancestral

Explain why it is wrong for men to cry. Describe how many syllables are in each verse. What do you call these verses? (endecasilaba)

Classify the rhyme in the poem.

Compare the first verse and the third verse. Compare the ideas about men and women.

Compare the opposites in the poem

Comment on the literary techniques: anaphora, hyperbaton, and alliteration.

In groups, list other examples in literature where women suffer and explain what causes their suffering.

Look up the song about Alfonsina Stornis suicide called Alfonsina y el mar by Mercedes Sosa. What could the Dolores viejos que callo tu voz be?

Feb 2

Examen de Guillen, Dragun, Rivera, Storni

Allende Isabel Dos palabras p. 238

Add Isabel Allende to your list of authors.

Explain the saying the pen is mightier than the sword. Explain why it is true or false. Give specific examples.

Read Dos Palabras

Discuss the symbolism in the story. Include the mains characters last name, machismo, feminism.

List the humor in the story

Write the speech that Belisa wrote for the Coronel. Ensure that the Coronel will get elected.

Explain how this is a love story and write another ending.

Feb 4

Borges, Jorge Luis, El sur p. 271

Describe the father of Boom. Define Boom.

Read El Sur

Explain why Johannes Dahlmanns ancestors are important.

List the ways that Juan Dahlmann wants to live his life.

Using a Venn diagram, compare the two versions of Juans life.

List your heritage. Are you a mixture of any different heritages? How do they work together? Are they ever in conflict?

List the examples of Argentina found in the story. Explain what a gaucho is.

Feb 6

Borges, Jorge Luis, Borges y yo p. 525

Add information to your biography of Borges

Define paradox

Read and listen to Borges y yo

Explain the paradox in the story. Paradoja: contradiccion en termas

List the characters and describe who they are

Tchart List characteristics

Picasso :two faces feelings

Answer questions

Describe two identities that we all have based on different roles we play in our lives

Feb 10

Cortazar, Julio La noche boca arriba p. 288

Compare Cortazar to Borges

Add Cortazar to your list of authors biography.

Define dj vu. Can we come back in another life?

Create a timeline of both lifetimes.

Define tropos.

List examples of tropos

Learn about the author by searching entrevista al enormisimo cronopio on YouTube Add to your biography.

Working in pairs, explain how La noche boca arriba is an example of Boom, including the theme, the style, and techniques.

(interest in history, parallel and alternative, time as non-linear, neologisms, (new words) Cubist supposition of different Poverty)

Feb 12

Morejon, Nancy Mujer Negra p. 295

Brainstorm the life of a slave

Include Morejon in the author biographies.

Read and listen to Mujer negra

Explain the type of versification in the poem.

List the signs of life in line 30

According to the poet, describe what communism hasa done for Cuba and for the black woman.

Debate the following: Racism has been completely erased from the United States

Compare and contrast Mujer Negra to Balada de los dos abuelos.

Feb 17

Finish cards, Review part 1 exam, lab for illustrations Sect 1 B

Feb 19

Test on Allende, Borges, Cortazar, Read Dragun Sect 1 AB

Feb 23

Part 2 test Guillen, Storni, Morejon. Read Rivera, tarjetas, look up Chavez

Feb 25

Piece of art compare, multiple choice on REadings

Feb 27

Exam on Dragun Rivera

Mar 3

Repaso para el examen (text and art)

Mar 5

Montero, Rosa Como la vida misma p. 299

Add Rosa Montero to the list of authors. Include what type of literature she writes.

Read Como la vida misma

Define Hyperbole. Find examples of hyperbole in the story.

Explain the concept of time as it applies in the story.

List examples of colloquialisms in the story.

Explain the irony at the end of the story

Listen to an interview on YouTube titled, Rosa Montero, esqueleto dle escrito. Explain about her literary dreams and discuss her theory on creativity.

Mar 9-13

Spring Break

Mar 16

Quiroga, Horacio, El Hijo p. 332

Add Quiroga to your autor list. Explain why he mostly wrote tragedies.

Read el hijo

Point out the examples of prediction (prefiguracion) of the death of the boy.

Recdognize why the father reacts the way he does to his sons death.

Explain the fathers actions at the end of the story.

Compare Quiroga with Edgar Allen Poe. Report why Quiroga admired Poe so much.

Mar 18

Rulfo, Juan No oyes ladrar p. 382

Add Juan Rulfo to the list of authors.

Read No oyes ladrar los perros?

Explain what the moon would represent in the story.

Explain the narrators voice in the story. Why dont we understand what happened at the end.

Write a paragraph in which you explain your opinion of what happened at the end of the story.

Explain the Boom generation. Why is this story and example of Boom?

In a group, discuss what causes the most effect on an individual, genetics, family environment, or luck.

Compare the fathers in Las medias rojas, el hijo, and No oyes ladrar

Mar 20

9 weeks exam

4th 9 weeks

Mar 24

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, La siesta del martes p. 405

Add GGM to your list of authors. List his style of writing

Read la siesta de martes

Imagine the mothers feelings write a monologue as if you were the mother.

Tell who is the narrator.

Consider the heat in the story. How does it add to the mood of the story?

Judge why you think that Carlos was a thief or why he was stealing. Write a letter to your mother from the grave to explain what happened.

Analyze if this story should be part of the Boom generation. List the reasons why or why not.

Tuesday in some Hispanic countries are considered bad luck. Draw different things that you consider bad luck. Explain why you considered bad luck.

Report on causes of poverty in the world. Solve these problems with ideas of your own.

Compare the robbery in this story with the robbery in Lasarillo de Tormes.

Compare what you would do if you found a stranger in your house to what Rebbeca did. Was she justified?

Mar 26

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: El ahogado mas hermoso p. 538

Add information to the biography of GGM

Discuss as a class what causes us to transform our lives

Read El ahogado

Create a timeline of the story and explain cause and effect of each action.

Describe the different things that could be considered Realismo magico

Find one hyperbole in the story. What function does this have in the story?

Propose what the ahogado could represent in the story

Compare this story to another story that we have read with realism magico.

(Dos palabras, Continuidad de los parques, or one by Borges)

Relate how Esteban changed the village.

Mar 30

Unamuno, Miguel, San Manuel p. 430

Add information about Miguel de Unamuno to the biography list. What type of literature does he create?

Explain what an existentialism is. After reading Unamuno, why would he be considered an existentialist?

Explain what is more important in life, practice a religion and follow all the rules, or do good works? Why?

Hypothesize when would be an ok time to lie.

Read San Manuel Bueno, martir

Identify each character in the story, and summarize what each one did.

Define flashback How does this work in the story?

Turn in a philosophical quote from the story

Apr 1

Write a journal entry as if you were Angela, and are confesing

One memorable quote in the story is when Angela says that don Manuel and Lazaro died creyendo no creerpero sin creer creerlo Analyze the quote with the irony as an epiphora, and its phonic value.

Separate the two roles that don Manuel lives. Analyze if this is healthy or is a form of hypocrisy.

Look up the painting by Joaquin Sorolla of Unamuno. Did he look like you thought he would? Explain

Apr 6

Machado, Antoio; He andado muchos caminos p. 455

Add Antonio Machado to your list of authors. Include vilat information and why his poetry is loved by Spaniards.

Explain what it means to enjoy life? What makes someone happy?

Read He andado muchos caminos

List the particulars of the mala gente

List the particulars of the gente pobre

How does the narrator express his preference for the gente pobre?

Count the syllables in the poem. Explain what this is called.

Define the rhyme: consonant or assonant.

Show the pattern of the rhyme.

Define encabalgamiento

Show where it occurs in the poem.

Explain the tone in the poem.

Listen to the poem on YouTube under Serrat, He andado muchos caminos Why has this recording gotten so famous?

Juan Antonio del Barrio has discussed the theme of this poem as looking for ones own identity and happiness. Explain in an essay why this isnt the theme. Include your own idea of the more appropriate theme.

Apr 8

Burgos, Julia de A Julia de Burgos p. 460

Add Julia de Burgos to your autor list. Explain how alcoholism added to her style of writing.

Read and listen to A Julia de Burgos

Explain the difference between yo and tu in the poem. Do they refer to the same person?

Using a Venn Diagram, compare the two characters in the poem

Explain which Julia triumphs.

Count the syllables in each line, define the rhyme and explain the poetic form used.

Classify the ideas that are feminist in this poem.

List the anaphors in the poem. Why are there so many repetitions in the poem?

Compare and contrast this poem to the poems by Storni and Sor Juana.

Show how we all have a Jekyll and Hyde as part of us using your own life as a pattern.

Apr 10

Neruda, Pablo, Walking around p. 462

Add information on Pablo Neruda as an author. Explain why he received the Nobel prize in 1971.

Explain what causes sadness in yourlife.

Read and listen to the poem Walking around You may use the song by Miguel Bose on YouTube. React to the song and his interpretation of the words.

Decide why this poem is considered surrealist. Include in your answer the definition of surrealism and specific images from the poem.

Define free verse. Why is this poem written in free verse?

Explain the tone and what causes the tone in this poem.

Identify the following literary techniques in the poem: anaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, polisindeton, and personification. Include the definition and specific examples.

Compare this poems images to a dream that you might have. Use a Venn diagram.

Study the painting by Salvador Dali named :Cisnes reflejando elefantes. Explain how the swans are related to each other and how this painting compares to the poem by Neruda.

Define vanguardism.

Explain how Pablo Neruda is considered a vanguardist in this poem.

Read the article Como leer a las vanguardias by Alberto Julian Perez where he analyzes this poem. Each student will bring a quote to class that helped them learn to analyze vanguardists.

Apr 14

Fuentes, Carlos Chac Mool p. 527

Add Carlos Fuentes to the list of authors.

Read Chac Mool

Explain how flashback works in this story.

Describe the two narrators in the story.

Create a timeline of the story. Include the different characters and their participation in the story.

Look up the ideas of the Mexican Revolution.

Compare the ideas from the Revolution and from this story. How do you know that Fuentes believed in these ideas?

Classify the reality in the story vs. the fantasy. Are the ideas coherent?

Predict what would happen after the story ends.

List the humor in the story and the symbolism.

Compare the duality of the human being in this story with either Borges (El sur), or Cortazar (La noche boca arriba). Include the theme and the literary techniques used.

Draw a picture of Chac Mool, and then look up Chac Mool on the Internet. Do they look similar or different? Why?

The conversion of the natives to Catholisism was one of the main purposes of the Conquest. Look at the painting by Salvodor Dali called El descubrimiento de America por Cristobal Colon. Interpret the painting based on this idea. Do you see a crucifixion in the painting?

Apr 16

Ulibarri, Sabine, El caballo mago p. 544

Add Sabine Ulibarri to your list of authors.

Illustrate one of your lifes dreams either with a drawing or with words.

Survey your classmates dreams. Interview one classmate on how they expect to achieve their dreams.

Define an adult. Explain when a young person is converted to an adult.

Read El caballo mago

Explain how this story is realistic or fantastical.

Show the different symbols that the horse represents.

Present a Hispanic author that lives in the US to the class. Explain how they keep in contact with their cultural roots while living in the US.

List the characteristics in this story that make it similar to other authors in the 20th century.

Apr 20

Computer lab study Quizlet

Apr 22

Exam on literary terms

Exam on Machado, Neruda, Fuentes, Burgos, Ulibarri

Apr 24

Practice exam

Apr 28

Practice exam

Apr 30

Practice exam

May 4

Practice

May 6

Practice

May 8

Practice

May 12

Practice

May 14

AP Literature exam on May 15

May 18

Make a video of one of the readings: 3 per group, 5 min, everyone talk everyone in it3 in class days to plan 1. Plan, 2. Write dialogue, 3. Write dialogue (stage direction, characters, location, info include costuming, 1 week to film (2 weekends) Watch movie from Don Quijote

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May 29

Watch videos

June 2

exemptions

June 3-9Final exams