Ms. Bridges' AP English

For Monday: 1st Period: Please do exercise 6 (nominative/objective case) on grammar handout. Be sure to bring your English Workshop every day to class. Madame Bovary essay is due on Monday. 2nd Period: Unit One vocabulary test on Monday. Write a one page reflective essay on a sense of loss you have experienced. Refer to the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story "Winter Dreams" as a source for your essay.

First period: Grammar homework handouts: Nominative and objective pronouns: pages 105 - 108, exercises 1 & 2, due Friday. Read "To His Coy Mistress", and Ben Johnson's "On My First Son" , "On My First Daughter", Ode to Shakespeare. Vocabulary: Units 10 - 12 Review. 2nd Period: Read F. Scott Fitzgerald"s "Winter Dreams"; Unit 1 Vocabulary; Unit One Vocabulary Test on Monday; English Workshop grammar pages 149 - 150, exercises 1 & 2, prepositional phrases. Daily journal entry on imagery, etc. 3rd & 5th Period: Read Act One, Scenes 1, 2, 3 & 4. Reading logs. Handouts on "Oxymorons", Metaphors & Similes, Vocabulary; Vocabulary pages 79 - 88. Test on Tuesday. For 5th Period: Grammar pages 107 - 108, linking verbs. Due Friday 3/26. Play Production: Please pledge the amount you are willing to pay for the discount cards. Be prepared to bring in the money by Monday. The rehearsal schedule for next week wi...

You must finish reading Madame Bovary by this weekend (March 27, 2004.) Your essay will be due on Monday, March 29th.

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE FOR GYPSY MARCH 22ND - MARCH 26TH Monday: Everyone must stay until 5pm unless otherwise notified! 6th Period: Work on all Act One, Herbie scenes: Pages 34 - 36; 38 - 39; 39 - 43; 52 - 55; 56 - 57; 60 - 63. 6th Period: Farmboys, Newsboys, Hollywood Blondes go to #601 to work on songs. Various crews will meet. TUTORING!!!!! 7th Period: 3:25 - 5:00: Act 1, Scene 2 (pages 7 - 12) Rose, Father, Louise and June; Act 1, Scene 8 (pages 46 - 51) Farmboys; Act 1, Scene 9 (pages 52 - 59) Miss Cratchitt. **************************************************************************************************** Tuesday: Shortened Day: TBA! 6th Period: Review already blocked scenes! Crews will meet. Mr. Sacks will meet with selected singers. **************************************************************************************************** Wednesday: Everyone must stay until 5pm unless otherwise notified! 6th Period: Work on all Act Two Herbie scenes: Act 2,...

1st Period: Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 23rd) your vocabulary review (units 10 - 12) will be due. Please continue reading MADAME BOVARY. I will give you the essay topics on Wednesday at the latest. Your essay will be due on Monday, March 29th. Tomorrow, we will continue discussing Madame Bovary, and start reading and analyzing some British poetry. Please bring your English Workshop book to class on Wednesday. 2nd Period: We will go over Unit One Vocabulary tomorrow. Please bring your English Workshop book to school on Wednesday. Tomorrow we will begin reading a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 3rd & 4th Period: We have gone over vocabulary pages 79 - 88 in class today. The test will probably be on Friday. Please bring your English workshop to class on Wednesday. Today we read part of Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet in 5th Period. Tomorrow we will finish reading Act 1, Scene 1 in both classes.

Good morning everyone! Monday, March 15th: GYPSY:We will have final readings today. Mr. Sacks would like to see Jill Avilez, Liz Cook, Britney Fortuna, Taquetta Haywood and Calia Johnson, and Tristian and Robert Young during 6th Period for final singing audtions. We will set the roles today during the first read-through of Gypsy. Starting on Tuesday, please bring tape and tape recorder to tape your music. Starting on Thursday, please bring dance clothes to prepare to learn dances. There will soon be posted on the weblog this week's schedule for Gypsy.

For those of you interested in theatre - and presumably most of you are or you wouldn't be at a performing arts school - please call Amanda Carter at the Actors' Gang. Actors' Gang is where we saw ORLANDO and EMBEDDED. For those of you who watched the "Oscars" last night you saw the writer/director of EMBEDDED, Tim Robbins win the "Best Supporting Actor" award for MYSTIC RIVER. He also wrote and directed DEAD MAN WALKING, the movie for which his wife, Susan Sarandon, won an "Oscar" for "Best Actress." Anyway, I am not promising anyone is going to see you at the Actors' Gang and make you a star; I am telling you this to let you know that wonderful, extraordinary, committed artists do work at this theatre. If you are sincerely interested in theatre - writing, directing, acting, whatever - please call Amanda Carter at the Actors' Gang. We are trying to set up a liaison with the theatre where you can create a play with ...