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 try to finish them up today.

Pass out MADAME BOVARY. Brief discussion of Gustave Flaubert and determinist theory. I will assign some home reading.


Thursday, April 7th:

In-class essay writing on poetry by Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.


Friday, April 8th:

Your grammar homework on gerunds in the ENGLISH WORKSHOP: THE COMPLETE COURSE will be due today. Briefly go over.

Today, we will get back to doing multiple-choice questions on a selection of poetry.

Continue working on MADAME BOVARY. We will do some reading in class, but most of the reading you will have to do at home. Remember, this is how it’s done in college!

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