Ms. Bridges' AP English

Hi you guys! First Period: Please read up to page 200 in Antigone for tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1st. I am going to check out some more books to you tomorrow as well. After the Antigone essay you will be given the opportunity to write a more personal, narrative essay - a more fun essay! You will read Annie Dillard's piece in the Advanced Composition book, pages 23 - 33; read page 32 "Techniques to Imitate" and do number 2 on page 33, which is writing a three page essay weaving together narrative as well as descriptive prose. The essay can be about an event of your choosing. Second Period: Bring your vocabulary books tomorrow for either a fun or embarrassing adventure in English. Third and Fifth Period: Bring your vocabulary books and your "Horse" packet. Friday we will have a test and essay over "A Man Called Horse". Sixth Period: Please sign the contract that you will be given on Tuesday. Continue memorizing your lines. If you are no

First Period: We will start to read ANTIGONE tomorrow. Your essay on one of the topics given to you today in class - or one of your choosing, just run it past me first - will be due on Tuesday, October 7. Unit 11 Vocabulary will be due on Friday, October 3rd. Second Period: Go over your "Through the Tunnel" handout that I gave you today. Please bring your English Workhop book and your vocabulary book tomorrow (Tuesday, September 30th). The pages in your vocabulary book are 79 - 88 and will be due on Thursday, October 2nd. Third & Fifth Period: Please work on your "A Man Called Horse" packet. Your vocabulary assignment is pages 11- 14, exercises 6 - 9, due on Thursday, October 2nd. Be sure to bring your vocabulary book tomorrow - we are going to do something fun and strange with our vocabulary words! Sixth Period: Please, continue working on your monologues. If you are dissatisfied with your monologue you may speak to me about it tomorrow (Tuesday,

First Period: Here is your list for essay topics for THE OEDIPUS TRILOGY: 1. Choose one tragedy and discuss the role of the chorus. Does the chorus change over the course of the play? How does the chorus affect the action? How does it focus and intensify the audience's responses? 2. In OEDIPUS THE KING, Jocasta, like Oedipus, sees the horror of her identity unfolding. Compare Jocasta to the tragic hero. What are her own ideas about Fate and prophecy? How does she react to her suspicions about Oedipus' birth? How does her final despair differ from Oedipus? 3. Choose a character who appears in two or more of the plays in THE OEDIPUS TRILOGY, and discuss the similarities and differences in characterization in the plays. 4. As a prophet, Teiresias speaks for the gods and for Fate. How does the character of Teiresias function dramatically in OEDIPUS THE KING AND ANTIGONE? 5.Discuss the role of Fate in THE OEDIPAL TRILOGY. Discuss the adversarial position

Hello and welcome to a new, exciting and successful semester! To my first period AP Class: Work on your Unit 10 Vocabulary (which I will give you tomorrow and which we will go over in class.) The vocabulary test will be this Friday, 9/19. Please continue reading OEDIPUS REX. We should be finishing it this week, and starting on OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, and after that, on ANTIGONE. Expect an essay very soon. We will also start working on Aristotle's POETICS which you will have the fun job to read,to analyze and to present your assigned portion to the class. I will be absent this Tuesday - I know, I know, "while the cat's away, the mice will play" - but you are still expected to read Oedipus. Have Fun!