SCHEDULE FOR THE
WEEK OF
OCTOBER 25TH, 2004
FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25TH:
Good morning, scholars! Today your first literary term analysis is due. You remember that one - where you find an example of a literary term (for example: extended metaphor, synecdoche, etc.) and write a one to two paragraph analysis on it. I’ll give you a couple of hints: for stream-of-conscious, look at Molly Bloom’s speech in ULYSSES, or for an example of litotes or understatement check out Joseph Heller’s CATCH-22; for synecdoche look at the carriage scene in MADAME BOVARY. Happy hunting!
We are just going to read OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, and we will continue reading until we finish it. Then we will discuss the nine essay questions and you will then choose one which will probably - realistically - be due on Monday, November 1st.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26TH:
The Unit Three Vocabulary test will be given when we finish reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. I hope that it will be on Tuesday; at any rate, don’t forget about it and be sure to study for it.
We will do some fun multiple choice questions over a Richard Wilbur poem entitIed “The Writer” which I will give you after the test.
Please bring your grammar book. We will do some fun work on parallelism, which will strengthen and clarify your writing.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27TH:
We will do an analysis of a Sharon Olds poem entitled “The Subway”.
And for some fun, we’ll take a look at chiasmus - a literary term that isn’t terribly important but does crop occasionally and does provide a few laughs. An example of a chiasmus is the famous Mae West line:“It’s not the men in my life, but the life in my men....” Chiasmus is Greek for cross and we will find out what that means.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH:
MINIMUM DAY! OPEN HOUSE FROM 6 TO 8 PM WHERE I GET TO MEET YOUR PARENTS!
We will either finish up the left over work from the previous days or we will analyze a Langston Hughes’ poem.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29TH:
I will bore you today with a lecture on the history of the English language.
WEEK OF
OCTOBER 25TH, 2004
FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25TH:
Good morning, scholars! Today your first literary term analysis is due. You remember that one - where you find an example of a literary term (for example: extended metaphor, synecdoche, etc.) and write a one to two paragraph analysis on it. I’ll give you a couple of hints: for stream-of-conscious, look at Molly Bloom’s speech in ULYSSES, or for an example of litotes or understatement check out Joseph Heller’s CATCH-22; for synecdoche look at the carriage scene in MADAME BOVARY. Happy hunting!
We are just going to read OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, and we will continue reading until we finish it. Then we will discuss the nine essay questions and you will then choose one which will probably - realistically - be due on Monday, November 1st.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26TH:
The Unit Three Vocabulary test will be given when we finish reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. I hope that it will be on Tuesday; at any rate, don’t forget about it and be sure to study for it.
We will do some fun multiple choice questions over a Richard Wilbur poem entitIed “The Writer” which I will give you after the test.
Please bring your grammar book. We will do some fun work on parallelism, which will strengthen and clarify your writing.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27TH:
We will do an analysis of a Sharon Olds poem entitled “The Subway”.
And for some fun, we’ll take a look at chiasmus - a literary term that isn’t terribly important but does crop occasionally and does provide a few laughs. An example of a chiasmus is the famous Mae West line:“It’s not the men in my life, but the life in my men....” Chiasmus is Greek for cross and we will find out what that means.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH:
MINIMUM DAY! OPEN HOUSE FROM 6 TO 8 PM WHERE I GET TO MEET YOUR PARENTS!
We will either finish up the left over work from the previous days or we will analyze a Langston Hughes’ poem.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29TH:
I will bore you today with a lecture on the history of the English language.
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