AP Novel Portfolio and Auction
Unit Summary and Rationale: The six-month long unit plan builds a classroom novel portfolio to broaden student knowledge across multiple genres. In doing so, presentation, writing and analysis skills are enhanced and developed. The auction activity involves adding words to the minimum page and one-half paper requirement to complement the presentation and book trailer. The culmination of this activity is a wide range of novels for review and mastery in addition to short video trailers designed to encourage future students to read the same novels. Enduring Question: As we reflect upon our own process, consider the power of literacy to be both unifying and discriminating. Examine your top novel choices and what they say about your thematic preferences as a reader. Unit Connection College and Career Ready Descriptions: £ Students will demonstrate independence. £ Students will value evidence. £ Students will build strong content knowledge. £ Students will respond to the varying demands of audience, task, and discipline. £ Students will critique as well as comprehend. £ Students will use technology and digital media strategically and capably. £ Students will develop an understanding of other perspectives and cultures. NCSCOS: 11-12 Speaking and Listening 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning,alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization,development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and arange or formal and informal tasks. 5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings,reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. 11-12 Language 3. Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different context. 4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words 5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meaning. 6. Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. 11-12.RL.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. 11-12.RL.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama . 11-12.RL.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings. 11-12.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 11-12.W.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Technology HS.TT.1.3 Use appropriate technology tools to design products and information with others. The Process: Students bid in increments of 25 words to present the novel of their choice. As a result, the number of words in the final bid are added to the original requirement of one and one-half pages of the paper portion of the assignments. There is a presentation requirement, as well. Presentations will be scheduled in reverse aggregate order. For example, students with the least number of additional words will present closer to the initial start time of November and students with the larger incremental word amounts will present closer to the end date of March. Prior to Auction Teach and Learn:
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Novel Portfolio Menu
Non-Negotiable Papers
(choose any combination from each category) Papers
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Title List
1-Americanah-Adichie
2-Les Misérables, Hugo 3--A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini 4-A Separate Peace, Knowles 5-Song of Solomon, Morrison 6-Light in August, Faulkner 7-Pride and Prejudice-Austen 8-The Road, McCarthy 9-The Bluest Eye, Morrison 10-The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd 11-How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Julia Alvarez 12-The Crucible, Miller 13- One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez 14-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey 15-The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald 16-Catcher in the Rye- Salinger 17-1984, Orwell 18-All the King's Men- Warren or 19-Purple Hibiscus- Adichie 20-The Color Purple, Walker 21-All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy 22-Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky 23-A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry 24-Invisible Man, Ellison 25-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce 26-Catch-22, Heller 27-Beloved, Morrison 28-A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving 29-Lord of the Flies, Golding 30-Frankenstein, Shelley 31-16-The Awakening, Chopin 32-Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck 33- Jane Eyre, Bronte 34-Siddhartha-Hesse |
Presentation Dates: 1B, 3B, 4B 10-15 Minutes max. All work due. (3-4 Presentations per block) December 12, 16, 18 January 14, 23 February 15, 19 March 14, 18 April 2 |