April 24th Weekly Schedule
for
AP English Literature
Hello Scholars and Artists! This is to let you know that the AP test is one week from this Thursday. Yikes! You need to be finished with Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Monday, April 24th, and you need to turn in your AP prompt on Tuesday, April 25th. We are going to start reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger on Monday! We are going to devote about four days max on The Stranger - pity, because it’s a very interesting book; then we are going to whiz through Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot - yes, we have entered the fun, wonderful world of existentialism! Then, after that, we will take off our berets and our black turtle necks, go back into time - 1917 to be exact - don our gas masks, climb into the trenches and read All Quiet on the Western Front. All this before Thursday, May 4th! I don’t expect you to have finished All Quiet on the Western Front by that date, but I seriously expect you to be finished with The Metamorphosis (approximately sixty-two pages), Camus’ The Stranger (about one hundred pages), and Waiting for Godot (a play, about sixty pages), and have at least started All Quiet on the Western Front.
I have to turn in grades no later than 4 pm Thursday, April 27th. To help your grade, you must turn in the long form for Crime and Punishment - yeah, that book! It is a brilliant book! Just ask some of your classmates who have actually read it - and Frankenstein. You should also turn in your open book test over the Romantic poets (which was due about three weeks ago) which will require you to read “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - it’s not that long, Joseph! - and relatively short poems by Lord Byron, Shelley, and Keats - particularly John Keats!
Monday, April 24th:
You need to be finished with Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Your AP prompt based on the book will be due on Tuesday, April 25th. The prompt is:
How does The Metamorphosis reflect Kafka’s views (his anxieties and fears) about the human condition? How does he convey these anxieties through his use of tone, characterization, metaphor and symbolism?
Go over the released student essays on Henry James’ The Pupil. Please pay attention to those essays rated “8 and above”. If you made a “C” or lower, then I strongly advise you to study those exams rated 8 and above, to incorporate my corrections, and to rewrite your essay for a higher grade.
If we have time, and we never do, read in class W.T. Stace’s “Man Against Darkness” and an essay by Reinhold Niebuhr on existentialism.
If we get the class set of The Stranger today, then I will pass them out to you so we can get a jump on the reading.
Tuesday, April 25th:
Turn in your The Metamorphosis essay. We will do a multiple choice selection today - I know how much you like those! We will then begin reading Camus’ The Stranger.
Wednesday, April 26th:
Another timed essay today - this time will be a compare and contrast between Robert Frost’s “I am Acquainted with the Night” and Emily Dickinson's “We are Accustomed to the Night”, after which you will do a fun multiple choice selection.
Keep reading The Stranger! You will also be given the released student essays over Frost and Dickinson which you are STRONGLY encouraged to read and analyze.
Thursday, April 27th:
Yet another timed essay today! This one will be an open prompt where you will be given a question and you choose the book, play or short story to answer it.
Keep reading The Stranger! You will also be given the released student essays on this prompt which you are STRONGLY encouraged to read and analyze.
Friday, April 28th:
Discussion. We will talk about the prompts; essay writing techniques, and of course, The Stranger. I will also give some of you extra assignments on grammar to help you in some troublesome areas you may be having in your writing.
Keep reading The Stranger. You should be finished with it by Monday, May 1st.
for
AP English Literature
Hello Scholars and Artists! This is to let you know that the AP test is one week from this Thursday. Yikes! You need to be finished with Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Monday, April 24th, and you need to turn in your AP prompt on Tuesday, April 25th. We are going to start reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger on Monday! We are going to devote about four days max on The Stranger - pity, because it’s a very interesting book; then we are going to whiz through Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot - yes, we have entered the fun, wonderful world of existentialism! Then, after that, we will take off our berets and our black turtle necks, go back into time - 1917 to be exact - don our gas masks, climb into the trenches and read All Quiet on the Western Front. All this before Thursday, May 4th! I don’t expect you to have finished All Quiet on the Western Front by that date, but I seriously expect you to be finished with The Metamorphosis (approximately sixty-two pages), Camus’ The Stranger (about one hundred pages), and Waiting for Godot (a play, about sixty pages), and have at least started All Quiet on the Western Front.
I have to turn in grades no later than 4 pm Thursday, April 27th. To help your grade, you must turn in the long form for Crime and Punishment - yeah, that book! It is a brilliant book! Just ask some of your classmates who have actually read it - and Frankenstein. You should also turn in your open book test over the Romantic poets (which was due about three weeks ago) which will require you to read “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - it’s not that long, Joseph! - and relatively short poems by Lord Byron, Shelley, and Keats - particularly John Keats!
Monday, April 24th:
You need to be finished with Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Your AP prompt based on the book will be due on Tuesday, April 25th. The prompt is:
How does The Metamorphosis reflect Kafka’s views (his anxieties and fears) about the human condition? How does he convey these anxieties through his use of tone, characterization, metaphor and symbolism?
Go over the released student essays on Henry James’ The Pupil. Please pay attention to those essays rated “8 and above”. If you made a “C” or lower, then I strongly advise you to study those exams rated 8 and above, to incorporate my corrections, and to rewrite your essay for a higher grade.
If we have time, and we never do, read in class W.T. Stace’s “Man Against Darkness” and an essay by Reinhold Niebuhr on existentialism.
If we get the class set of The Stranger today, then I will pass them out to you so we can get a jump on the reading.
Tuesday, April 25th:
Turn in your The Metamorphosis essay. We will do a multiple choice selection today - I know how much you like those! We will then begin reading Camus’ The Stranger.
Wednesday, April 26th:
Another timed essay today - this time will be a compare and contrast between Robert Frost’s “I am Acquainted with the Night” and Emily Dickinson's “We are Accustomed to the Night”, after which you will do a fun multiple choice selection.
Keep reading The Stranger! You will also be given the released student essays over Frost and Dickinson which you are STRONGLY encouraged to read and analyze.
Thursday, April 27th:
Yet another timed essay today! This one will be an open prompt where you will be given a question and you choose the book, play or short story to answer it.
Keep reading The Stranger! You will also be given the released student essays on this prompt which you are STRONGLY encouraged to read and analyze.
Friday, April 28th:
Discussion. We will talk about the prompts; essay writing techniques, and of course, The Stranger. I will also give some of you extra assignments on grammar to help you in some troublesome areas you may be having in your writing.
Keep reading The Stranger. You should be finished with it by Monday, May 1st.
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