APRIL 17TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
Monday, April 17th:
Turn in your long form for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, and if you haven’t turned in your FRANKENSTEIN long form, please do so. If you don’t turn in either, then you will receive an “F” on the midterm.
You also need to turn in your open book test over the Romantic Poets. The book in question is ENGLAND IN LITERATURE - you know that huge purple and gold two-ton book you’ve been carrying around in your backpack? Yeah, that one. The answers (with the page numbers thoughtfully placed on the test) are to be found in that book. You need to turn the test in this week.
If you haven’t located a copy of METAMORPHOSIS, then I will check out a copy to you. R. Crumb’s cartoon version of Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS will be passed out because - well, because it’s kind of fun and trippy. Two essays will also be passed out regarding Kafka and we will briefly go over them.
We will also go over some essay writing techniques, particularly those techniques pertaining to the essays we have written so far, and we will peruse some released student essays on the prompts we have read. You already have the student essays in the “I Stand Here Ironing” packet. It might be helpful if you read those essays this weekend.
We will also look at a handout on sentence structure to get rid of those pesky run-on’s, sentence fragments and comma splices. Don’t forget your “participial phrase handouts” will be due on Monday, and for those of you who had Ms. Fried, your Warriner’s Grammar assignment over participial phrases will be due.
For homework read - seriously - the first thirty pages of METAMORPHOSIS.
Tuesday, April 18th:
Another in-class forty-minute timed writing assignment will be given on an excerpt from Carmac McCarthy’s CROSSINGS. After you finish you will be given some multiple choice questions to answer.
For home work finish reading METAMORPHOSIS
Wednesday, April 19th:
You need to be finished with Metamorphosis by today. We will then have a fun discussion on Kafka and Nietzsche. We will also read two essays, one by Sartre and the other by Niebuhr to be found in your green book, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, on existentialism.
Thursday, April 20th:
Ye gads! Another forty-minute timed writing assignment! This time it will be an open prompt which can be found on the back of your “The Birthday Party” prompt - provided you haven't thrown it out already. You will choose a book or play to base your prompt on.
For homework you will be given a short form to do on Metamorphosis. This will be due on Friday, April the 28th.
Don’t forget your literary assignments. Some of you haven’t turned in any of them and that will affect your grade.
Friday, April 21:
Another timed essay; this time it will be a compare and contrast essay prompt on Robert Frost’s “I Am Acquainted with the Night” and Emily Dickinson's “Accustomed to the Night”.
For homework, please start reading All Quiet on the Western Front.
We only have about two and a half weeks before the AP test. Don't despair! YOU ALL CAN AND WILL PASS THIS TEST!
J.B. Bridges
FOR
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
Monday, April 17th:
Turn in your long form for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, and if you haven’t turned in your FRANKENSTEIN long form, please do so. If you don’t turn in either, then you will receive an “F” on the midterm.
You also need to turn in your open book test over the Romantic Poets. The book in question is ENGLAND IN LITERATURE - you know that huge purple and gold two-ton book you’ve been carrying around in your backpack? Yeah, that one. The answers (with the page numbers thoughtfully placed on the test) are to be found in that book. You need to turn the test in this week.
If you haven’t located a copy of METAMORPHOSIS, then I will check out a copy to you. R. Crumb’s cartoon version of Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS will be passed out because - well, because it’s kind of fun and trippy. Two essays will also be passed out regarding Kafka and we will briefly go over them.
We will also go over some essay writing techniques, particularly those techniques pertaining to the essays we have written so far, and we will peruse some released student essays on the prompts we have read. You already have the student essays in the “I Stand Here Ironing” packet. It might be helpful if you read those essays this weekend.
We will also look at a handout on sentence structure to get rid of those pesky run-on’s, sentence fragments and comma splices. Don’t forget your “participial phrase handouts” will be due on Monday, and for those of you who had Ms. Fried, your Warriner’s Grammar assignment over participial phrases will be due.
For homework read - seriously - the first thirty pages of METAMORPHOSIS.
Tuesday, April 18th:
Another in-class forty-minute timed writing assignment will be given on an excerpt from Carmac McCarthy’s CROSSINGS. After you finish you will be given some multiple choice questions to answer.
For home work finish reading METAMORPHOSIS
Wednesday, April 19th:
You need to be finished with Metamorphosis by today. We will then have a fun discussion on Kafka and Nietzsche. We will also read two essays, one by Sartre and the other by Niebuhr to be found in your green book, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, on existentialism.
Thursday, April 20th:
Ye gads! Another forty-minute timed writing assignment! This time it will be an open prompt which can be found on the back of your “The Birthday Party” prompt - provided you haven't thrown it out already. You will choose a book or play to base your prompt on.
For homework you will be given a short form to do on Metamorphosis. This will be due on Friday, April the 28th.
Don’t forget your literary assignments. Some of you haven’t turned in any of them and that will affect your grade.
Friday, April 21:
Another timed essay; this time it will be a compare and contrast essay prompt on Robert Frost’s “I Am Acquainted with the Night” and Emily Dickinson's “Accustomed to the Night”.
For homework, please start reading All Quiet on the Western Front.
We only have about two and a half weeks before the AP test. Don't despair! YOU ALL CAN AND WILL PASS THIS TEST!
J.B. Bridges
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