Ms. Bridges' AP English

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR 9TH GRADE HONORS CLASS NOVEMBER 29TH Good morning, scholars! Hope your Thanksgiving vacation was fun, frolicsome and festive. Now back to work! Monday, November 29th: 1st Period: We will set sail today and begin The Trojan War Adventure, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. Your exercise 2 on your verb handouts is due. Please go on to exercise 3 in the same handout. 6th Period: I will give you back your rough drafts. Your final drafts with your reading logs will be due on Wednesday, December 1st. Tuesday, November 30th: 1st Period: We will continue working on The Trojan War, parts 1, 2. 3, and 4. 1st and 6th Period: Please bring your English Workshop. I will assign page 167 - 168; the oh so fun ”Noun Clauses”. This thrilling assignment will be due on Thursday, December 2nd. 6th Period: We will set sail for Troy today and begin the Trojan Adventure! Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4! Wednesday, December 1st! The Homestretch! 1...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR BEGINNING ACTING CLASS NOVEMBER 29TH Monday, November 29th: Continue working on the “People, Place and Thing” assignment on your character. Vocal warm-ups, sense and emotion memory exercises. The following student will share about his/her favorite actor: Julian Alvarez Volunteers are greatly appreciated and get bonus points! The following lucky people will work today with me on their scenes! Melisha Corbett Britney Escobedo Tuesday, November 30th: Vocal warm-ups, sense and emotion memory exercises. The following student will share about her/his favorite actor: Samantha Camara Jerry Clemente The following lucky people will work today with me on their scenes! Valerie Evans Leslie Flores Wednesday, December 1st: Mirror exercise and “The Counting Game” The following students will share about their favorite actor: Melisha Corbett De’Jong Cockrell The following students will work on...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE NOVEMBER 29TH Good morning, Scholars! I hope your Thanksgiving celebration was festive and fun! Now back to work! We are heading down the homestretch now! Monday, November 29th: Unit 5 in your beloved Vocabulary Workshop will be due today! The test will be this Friday, December 3rd. We will finish reading The Crucible. We will do a hot seat so get your questions ready. Tuesday, November 30th: Today we will meet in the library so that you can meet with your counselor. Finishing up The Crucible. We will go over the compare and contrast essay over a character of your choosing and her/his foil in the story. This fun little assignment will be due on Tuesday, December 7th. It should be typed and must have a rough draft attached. English Workshop; pages 153 - 154, “Participles and Participial Phrases”; exercises 5 and 6 will be due for those of you who have not done it before. Wednesday, December 1st: ...

AP ENGLISH SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 29 Good morning, Scholars! Hope you are rested from your Thanksgiving celebrations! Monday, November 29th: Today I will be given - well, actually both of us will be given - a respite because the lovely Ms. Judy Campbell will be walking you through the steps of the all important financial aide applications. In this time of budget cutbacks this is REALLY important to you so please show up and be attentive! I, however, will be feverishly at work grading papers and writing letters of recommendations. Unit 4 in your beloved Vocabulary book will be assigned. Do we really have to go over it in class? Well, bring the book on Tuesday and we’ll go over it really fast. It will be due on Monday, December 6th. Your exercise in parallelism will be due. Tuesday, November 30th: We will give our presentations over Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. I hope we can get through this as expeditiously as possible because I really wa...

BEGINNING ACTING WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 22ND MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND: Journal: Describe a typical day in the life of your character. Should be two pages long. Vocal warm-ups; sense memory and emotion memory exercises. Work with: Julian Alvarez Jerry Clemente Laura Diaz TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD: The following students will share about their favorite actors: Alisa Alayan Rejesh Batchu Kelvin Batiste Vocal warm-ups; sense memory and emotion memory exercises. Will work with: Melisha Corbett Britney Escobedo WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH: The following students will perform their monologues and/or scenes: De’Jong Cockrell Luis Flores Sydnii Olah Dasha Plagova Theatre games!

9TH GRADE HONORS ENGLISH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 22ND MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND: First Period: Hand back persuasive essays. Go over the first paragraph. Begin the Trojan War. Go over handouts, parts one and two. 6th Period: Go over the fourth and concluding paragraphs for the literary analysis. Begin the Trojan War. Go over handouts, part one and two. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD: First Period: We will go over the second paragraph of the persuasive essay. We will go over citing sources, concessions and rebuttals. (Don’t worry, 6th Period, we will be going over our persuasive essays too, just as soon as we are finished with the literary analysis!) We will continue our foray into the misty past of The Trojan War. We will go over parts three and four. 6th Period: We will finish working on the literary analysis today. I hope to be finished with your rough drafts, which I will return to you as soon as possible. As soon as your essays ...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE NOVEMBER 22ND Monday, November 22nd: Unit Five in Vocabulary will be assigned. It will be due on Monday, November 29th. Grammar handout on verb tenses will be passed out. It will be due on Wednesday, November 24th. Journal: Continue working on “The Hand!” Share your “hand” with a friend. We will continue reading about the devilish doings of Abigail in The Crucible. We are now on Act lll. Don’t forget the reading log. Start writing down some questions you want to ask the characters from The Crucible. Tuesday, November 23rd: Please bring your English Workshop; we are going over the delightful world of “Verbals”. (Don’t have the page number so I’ll have to get back to you on that one.) Continue reading The Crucible. Don’t forget the reading log! Continue writing some questions down for the characters from The Characters. Wednesday, November 24th: Finish reading The Crucible. Hot seats! Posi...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE NOVEMBER 22ND Monday, November 22nd: Finish reading Beowulf. “The Battle with Grendel’s Mother”, “The Fight with the Fire Dragon”, and “The Burning of Beowulf’s Body”, pages 27 - 29 in Adventures in English Literature. Perhaps read a brief excerpt from the “The Battle with Grendel’s Mom.” Briefly go over fun grammar homework! (Warriner’s Grammar; “Verbals”, pages 64 - 68.) Vocabulary test, Units 1 - 3 Review. Tuesday, November 23rd: Brief over view of Geoffrey Chaucer, his life, and the medieval period. We will read “The Canterbury Tales” (pages 57 to 86). Handout on parallelism. This will be due on Monday, November 29th. Wednesday, November 24th: Finish reading (I hope!) Chaucer and perhaps read a few sweet poems from the 8th Century, A.D. Your homework assignment is to help your family and friends with Thanksgiving dinner and to eat a lot of pumpkin pie. Have a great time and come back on Monday ...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR 9TH GRADE HONORS NOVEMBER 15TH Monday, November 15th: 1st Period: Good morning and afternoon, scholars! We will finish up “The Cask of Amontillado” - remember that? Please be sure to bring your vocabulary and “ironic” handouts. We will do a quick review and then a wee small test! 6th Period: We will begin working on the dreaded literary analysis! We will go over the introductory and the second paragraph today. Tuesday, November 16th: I won’t be here today! But don’t get too excited - I’ll be back on Wednesday! You will watch the film The Odyssey today! Yeah! Wednesday, November 17th: 1st Period: We will start reading about the Trojan War and what started the whole thing - I’ll give you a hint: it has to do with a beautiful woman, a playboy and the goddess of love! 6th Period: Don’t fret! You’ll get to read about the beautiful woman, the playboy and the goddess of love too just as soon as you finish your lit...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR BEGINNING ACTING WEEK OF NOVEMBER 15TH Monday, November 15th: Please turn in your “favorite actor” homework. If we have time, we will share a few of these - maybe three or four. Vocal warm-ups and emotion and memory exercises. Work with your partner today. You now need to move around as your character and to come up with some blocking on your own. You need to run through your scene in its entirety four times with your partner with movement. I will work with: De’Jong Cockrell Alisa Alayan Tuesday, November 16th: I will not be here today, but before you get too excited, I am putting you on notice that if you behave the way you did the last time with the substitute, there will be SERIOUS consequences! You will watch a video which you will have to take notes on and which will be collected at the end of the period. if you do not turn in adequate notes, then you will receive an “F” for the day. If the substitute gives me your na...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE NOVEMBER 15TH, 2004 Monday, November 15th: Good morning, scholars! I have finished grading your persuasive essays. I will briefly go over some basic concepts in writing, and then I will return your essays. If you scored a “C” or lower on your essay, then you must rewrite it. We will then finish reading the second act of Arthur MIller’s The Crucible. Be aware that grades are due at 7:30 Tuesday morning. If you have not taken the Unit Four Vocabulary test then you need to take it today! So study for it so you will get a good grade! Tuesday, November 16th: Don’t be too happy, but I, along with a few other English teachers, won’t be here today, soooo that means you get to watch the video of The Crucible. Take notes regarding the differences between the play and the film! Wednesday, November 17th: I’m back! You will answer a few questions over Act ll of The Crucible and then we will proceed to read Act lll a...

WEEKLY AP ENGLISH SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 15Th Monday, November 15th: Good morning, scholars! Your Units 1 through 3 vocabulary review is due today. We will go over the homework briefly; then I have an excerpt from Percy Shelley and some multiple choice questions to go along with it - for fun! I might start a brief - oh, so very brief - lecture over the history of the English language. I hate to be a bearer of bad tidings, but grades are due tomorrow at 7:30; that means if you have any thing you need to turn in, you should turn it into today for after tomorrow it won’t be of much help to you on this grading period. Tuesday, November 16th: Try to contain your excitement, but I and other English teachers will not be here today. So instead, you will be shown a fascinating DVD on yup, you guessed it, a brief history of the English language. Wednesday, November 17th: Since I won’t be at school on Tuesday, you will be given a one day reprieve on your gram...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 8TH ACTING CLASS Monday, November 8th: Warm ups: physical and vocal. Journal: Do a biographical sketch of your character. Write about the first five years of your character’s life. This should be at least one page. Work with your partner. Read the scene aloud at least three times completely through with your partner. Get up and move around. How would your character walk? I will work with: De’Jong Cockrell Laura Diaz Tuesday, November 9th: Warm ups: physical and vocal. Journal: Write about your character’s school life. Write at least one paragraph about your elementary school years, and at least one paragraph each about your middle school years and your high school years. Work with your partner. Read the scene aloud at least four times completely through with your partner. Get up and start moving around. Start rudimentary blocking. When, where and why would your character move? I will work with: Al...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 8TH, 2004 AP ENGLISH Monday, November 8th: I forgot to remind you but the second literary term paragraph was due on Friday, November 5th. The third one will be due on November 19th. Brief grammar review over parts of speech. I will give you a handout from English Workshop; “Subject Complements”; pages 143 - 144; exercises 9 and 10. This will be due on Tuesday, November 9th. We will also go over the prompt for the poem, “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds. The essay will be due on Friday, November 12th. We will go over the vocabulary review homework, units 1 - 3 review. This will be due on Monday, November 15th. I really will bore you today over the history of the English language. We will divide into collaborative groups, read, discuss, analyze, make posters, etc., and make presentations over the history of the English language. Tuesday, November 9th: We will continue our foray into the misty past of the English lang...

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 8TH AMERICAN LITERATURE Monday, November 8th: Vocabulary Unit 4 Test! Pass back your corrected rough drafts. The final drafts, corrected rough drafts and your reading logs will be due on Wednesday, November 10th. Begin reading The Crucible! Tuesday, November 9th: Beginning activity: Quick little review on run-ons and sentence fragments. What fun! Read The Crucible! Wednesday, November 10th: Beginning activity: Yet another quick little review on run-ons and sentence fragments. What fun! The final draft of your literary analysis, your corrected rough drafts and your reading logs are due today! I need some reading material for my day off so don’t disappoint! Read The Crucible! Thursday, November 11th, Veterans’ Day: No school today! Yeah! So spend the day in gratitude to those brave soldiers who have fought and/or still are fighting for the ideals of freedom and democracy. I will spend the day readin...