April 10th Weekly Schedule
for
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE

Monday, April 10th:

The tempo quickens! WE HAVE LESS THAN A MONTH BEFORE
THE AP EXAM!

You need to finish CRIME AND PUNISHMENT! You need to turn in the long form
for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

SERIOUSLY.

If you do not turn in this assignment, then you will receive an F on the midterm.

On a more pleasant topic, please read and answer the questions on William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. We will briefly go over William Blake and his poetry.

We will then go over the released student essays on last year’s AP compare and contrast prompts on William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence.”

We will also go over some essay writing tips.



Tuesday, April 11th:

Shortened day today!

Your Vocabulary Unit 6 is due today. We will briefly go over the answers. Because we are so pressed for time, we don’t have time to take the vocabulary test; therefore, your homework assignment will count as the test.

You will be given an in-class open book test over the Romantic poets and poetry terms.

Tonight, for homework you will be assigned - you’re on the honor system here - seriously! - a forty-minute, timed essay on a previous AP essay prompt. This essay will be due tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12th.


Wednesday, April 12th:

Collect last night’s essay. Briefly go over it.

We will also begin analyzing some previous prompts and student responses.

Please bring your Warners Grammar book. We will go over our perpetual and perennial favorite, the participial phrase. This will be due on Monday, April 17th.

We will begin Madame Bovary today. Please read the first thirty pages. I am going to give you a format to follow which you will turn in after you have finished reading Madame Bovary - which will be in about two weeks - seriously.




Thursday, April 13th:

Today, we will do another in-class, forty-minute, timed essay, and finish with a multiple choice question.

Please read the next thirty pages of Madame Bovary.

Friday, April 14th:

We will go over unfinished business - the Romantic poets, poetry terms, the perennial favorite - Crime and Punishment - AP essay writing, released student essays, the prompts, writing and grammar problems, etc.

Then, we will begin discussing Madame Bovary, determinism and free will. Please have the first 100 pages of the book read by Monday.

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