Ms. Bridges' AP English

April 3rd Weekly Schedule for AP Literature Monday, April 3rd: Grades must be turned in tomorrow so if you have not turned in either long forms for Frankenstein or for Crime and Punishment, then you will receive an “F” for this grading period. If you have only turned in one long form you will receive a “D”. Sorry, guys, but you knew about these books since December, 05. Today we will discuss Crime and Punishment: the plot points, characters, literary devices, and the philosophical and historical contexts of the book. We will also read and discuss the Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and of course, John Keats. So please be sure to bring your books today and for the rest of the week. Tuesday, April 4th: More of the same. Discussion of Crime and Punishment; readings of the Romantic Poets. When we have finished reading and discussing Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, we will have a small quiz which will include the poetry terms, and the poems an...

April 3rd Weekly Schedule for AP Literature Monday, April 3rd: Grades must be turned in tomorrow so if you have not turned in either long forms for Frankenstein or for Crime and Punishment, then you will receive an “F” for this grading period. If you have only turned in one long form you will receive a “D”. Sorry, guys, but you knew about these books since December, 05. Today we will discuss Crime and Punishment: the plot points, characters, literary devices, and the philosophical and historical contexts of the book. We will also read and discuss the Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and of course, John Keats. So please be sure to bring your books today and for the rest of the week. Tuesday, April 4th: More of the same. Discussion of Crime and Punishment; readings of the Romantic Poets. When we have finished reading and discussing Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, we will have a small quiz which will include the poetry terms, and the poems an...

IS IT A ROMANTIC POET OR A 1960’S ROCK STAR? 1. What two creative partners forged a close bond when they both lost their mothers during adolescence? a. Lennon and McCartney b. Percy Shelley and John Keats 2. What artist created one of his most famous works under the haze of opium? a. Jim Morrison b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge c. Lord Byron 3. Who abandoned his wife and child for an avant-garde artist? a. John Lennon b. Lord Byron c. Percy Bysshe Shelley 4. Who became a political activist, journeyed to a foreign country to help in its struggle for independence, contracted a disease while traveling to the country and subsequently died, and whose death was met by cries of anguish from hordes of distraught women? a. John Lennon b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. Lord Byron 5. Which artist scandalized society by abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with a sixteen year old girl? a. Jerry Lee Lewis b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. John Keats 6. ...

MARCH 27TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH Monday, March 27th: I hope you had a productive, fun-filled weekend! Dylan will do his presentation today on elegy and Nick will do his presentation on odes. Your grammar is due today; Warriner’s English Grammar; pages 245 - 246; “Varying Sentence Beginnings” Finish going over the two wee, small tests on the 1600’s - 1700’s and the “Age of Reason”. Discuss the reading which I assigned last week and which we didn’t have time to get to - Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”, Samuel Johnson’s “London” and Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year. Tuesday, March 28th: Megan will present on lyric poetry, and Irina will present on the poetic foot. Your two paragraph essay on Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” is due today. The prompt is: To what effect does Shelley use organization and figurative language in his “Ode to the West Wind”. We will discuss William Blake’s two poems from “Age of Innocence” which were used for last year’s prompt. We wi...

AP WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR MARCH 20TH Monday, March 20th (first day of Spring!) Presentations start today! Eric will do the honors with his presentation on sonnets! We will start off with your favorite - multiple choice questions. We will then read Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock; We probably will not finish it, so you need to finish it at home tonight! Tuesday, March 21st: Another fun presentation today! This time it will be Bhavana who will do rhyme. And for even more fun, another multiple choice test! Today, your “Age of Reason, Wee-Little-Take-Home-Open-Book-Test” is due today! Depending upon how we are doing for time, we may go over it in class. We will go over The Rape of the Lock, and then we will read Samuel Johnson’s poem, “London” and Daniel Defoe’s A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR. Wednesday, March 22nd: More Presentations! Joseph will do terza rima for us today. Journal: Write sentences using ten of your unit 5 vocabulary words. Make sure that you are using the words correc...

AP SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 13TH Good morning, scholars and artists! I hope you had a wonderful fun-filled weekend! Now, back to work! Monday, March 13th: We are going to read John Donne’s “Meditations” and do a multiple choice question excerpt over the reading. I am also going to check out your vocabulary and grammar books to you - sorry, I know they’re not fun, but they are necessary! - I’m going to assign Unit 4 to you in your vocabulary books. Please be aware that the new books I am giving you are different from the old books some of you have kept from last year. The words are the same; however, the format is different. The homework will be due on Friday, March 17th. I will also pass out your grammar book to you and assign pages 189 - 190; “Dangling Modifiers”; exercises 6 and 7. This will be due on Thursday, March 16th. Tuesday, March 14th: Your wee little open-book test over the 1600’s -1700’s will be due today, which we will go over. We will also go over Andrew Marvell ...