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 grammar homework, Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition; “Verbals and Verbal Phrases,” pages 64 - 68; exercises 6, 7, and 8; it will be due today on Wednesday. We will briefly don our armour and do battle with the ancient Beowulf. I hope we survive.


Thursday, November 18th:

We will again don our armour and do battle with the ancient Geoffrey Chaucer and Canterbury Tales.


Friday, November 19th:

Remember that vocabulary review units 1 - 3? Well, I hope not, because we are having a wee small test over it. Then we will finish up any outstanding work - as in work left over - that we haven’t gotten to yet.

Please remember that your third installment for your literary terms is due today!

On Monday, I hope to start Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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