Ms. Bridges' AP English

April 24th Weekly Schedule for AP English Literature Monday, April 24th: We’ll go over the answers to “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat”. Collect the “Open Ended Prompt” and discuss. Discuss the Mary Barton excerpt. Discuss Madame Bovary. For tonight: read up to page 222. Tuesday, April 25th: Vocabulary Unit 7 (or 6) will be due today. Multiple Choice question over literary excerpt Discussion of Madame Bovary; for tonight: read up to page 245. Wednesday, April 26th: Ye Gads! Yet another timed essay! This one is on “It’s a Woman’s World”. Multiple choice questions over “Sestina” English Workshop: The Complete Course; pages175-176; “Adjective Clauses”; exercise 2 is due today! Madame Bovary: read up to page 276. Thursday, April 27th: Analyze the student responses to the AP excerpts for “It’s a Woman’s World”. Discussion of Madame Bovary; for tonight: read up to 303. Friday, April 28th: Another timed essay! This one is from Carmac McCarthy’s The Crossing. This essay will be due on

April 18th Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, April 18th: Go over the weekend’s reading of MADAME BOVARY (up to page 106). Discussion of determinism. Analysis of and discussion of student response essays to Henry James’ WASHINGTON SQUARE. Go over handout on Friday. Read and analyze the excerpt in terms of the prompt. English Workshop: The Complete Course; “Adverbial Clauses”; pages 177-178; exercise 4. This will be due on Wednesday, April 20th. Tuesday, April 19th: Shortened day! Read up to page 130 for Tuesday, April 19th, in MADAME BOVARY. Discussion of writing techniques, historical background, societal influences, determinism. Let’s skip the vocabulary tests until after the AP test in May. But your homework will be worth two grades rather than one. Let’s move on to Unit 7 in the vocabulary book. Those of you who did Unit 7 rather than Unit 6, please do Unit 6 this week. This will be due on Tuesday, April 26th. Wednesday, April 20th: Read up to page 165 for Wednesday, April

April 11, 2005 Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, April 11th: Good morning, scholars! The multiple choice questions over “Love’s Diet’ is due today. We will briefly go over it. VERY briefly go over gerunds from the gerund homework from last week. Please bring your grammar book, ENGLISH WORKSHOP: The Complete Course; we are going to do pages 109 - 112; exercises 14, “Chapter Review: exercises a, b, c and d.” This will be due on Thursday, April 14th. Your vocabulary unit 6 will be due today. Check out MADAME BOVARY and I hope we have time to start reading today. Be mindful that we are only going to spend about two weeks on this book. I really want us to get to ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. So start reading! Tuesday, April 12th: Shortened day and earthquake drill! We will probably just read today! Be aware that you will be expected to do outside reading in this book every night! So start reading! Wednesday, April 13th: Continue reading and discussing MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaub

Schedule for Week of April 4th AP Literature Class Good morning scholars! Hope you’re ready for yet another intense week! Monday, April 4th: Continue doing the hot seats for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT! Briefly go over some essay writing points such as: sentence fragments and run-ons, etc. Check out the vocabulary book AND the grammar book! Yippee! Assign Unit 7 (or whichever it was that we left off at) and briefly go over the vocabulary. This will be due on Monday, April 11th. Tuesday, April 5th: Shortened day! Finish up the hot seats for Crime and Punishment. And finish up any loose ends with Raskolnikov and the gang. Your Crime and Punishment essays are due today. I will assign gerunds for homework in your ENGLISH WORKSHOP, THE COMPLETE COURSE, which we will briefly go over. The homework will be due on Friday, April 8th. Wednesday, April 6th: Again, if there are any groups that haven’t sat on the “hot seat” or if there are any aspects about Raskolnikov that remain unexplored, we will