October 31st
Weekly Agenda
for
AP English

Monday, October 31st:

Happy Halloween! Your second installment of your literary terms is now due and payable!

Your vocabulary unit three is due today also.

And your adverbial clause handout is due today as well!

Busy, busy, busy!


Tuesday, November 1st:

Read page 31, “The Wife’s Lament”; pages 52 and 53, “The Ruin”; page 58, “The Violent Faces of Nature”; and page 66, “Eagle of Pengwern”. Write an elegy based on “The Wife’s Lament”, but transpose it to the present day where a woman in perhaps Iraq or India, or present day America is lamenting the loss of her beloved through war or political intrigue.

Or:

Using the small amount of information available in the poem “Eagle of Pengwern” as a starting point, imagine what may have lead up to the moment when Heledd speaks and then write a narrative describing the fall of Trenn. You may find it useful to recall details of weaponry and fighting from “Beowulf” and images of a fallen city from the “The Ruin” to give life to your own narrative.


Wednesday, November 2nd:

We will start to read Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales today. We will break into groups, read, analyze and make clever, colorful and artful presentations to the class - along with fun and highly entertaining posters that will visually demonstrate our portion of The Canterbury Tales to our classmates via graphics and fun pictures. Extra points for skits too!

Thursday, November 3rd:

As if anyone in Some Like It Hot! will be able to concentrate! See Wednesday above.

Friday, November 4th:

More of the same.

There will be a test over Unit Three on Tuesday, November 8th.

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