AP ENGLISH LITERATURE

Week of September 27th:

Monday, September 27th:

First group: Harlem Renaissance
Jacqueline Whatley
Taqueta Haywood

Unit Two Vocabulary due.
Read “The Problem of the Other” handout.


Tuesday, September 28th:

Shortened day!

Second Group: Epic, Tragedy, Foreshadowing
Neyla Ramirez
Eric Hagel

Collect exercise 4 on page 34 in Warriner’s grammar book. Go over in class.
Continue reading “The Problem of the Other”


Wednesday, September 29th:

I will not be here today. I have a staff development I have to go to sooooo......the third group will do theirs on Thursday with the fourth group.

Read and analyze James Joyce’s “The Dead” in class.


Thursday, September 30th:

Third Group: Rhyme, Point of View, Symbol, Symbolism, Myth
Honeycell Medrano
Marjorie Almazan

Fourth Group: Understatement, Metonymy, Epithet
Emily Oum
Melisha Corbitt

Go over the analysis of James Joyce’s “The Dead” in class.
Begin Antigone in class. Assign readings at night.
Bring Warriner’s grammar book; pages 39 - 41; exercise 11; “Complements”. Due Monday, October 4th.

Friday, October 1st:

Fifth Group: Elegy, Ode, Lyric
Sabrina Escobedo
Kelsey Perkins

Unit Two Vocabulary Test
Continue reading Antigone. Assign reading in Antigone for the weekend.

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