Ms. Bridges' AP English

AP English Literature September 5, 2006 Tuesday, September 5th: Good morning, scholars. Hope you are rested from your three day weekend! Let’s begin! We will read and analyze a brief excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s A HANDMAID’S TALE. You will then be assigned a prompt. The essay will be due this Friday, September 8th. The prompt will be “How does Atwood use figurative language to convey the balance of power in this excerpt from A HANDMAID’S TALE?” A list of literary terms will be handed out to the class. You will team up with a partner, select two literary terms and a date - which will be in the very near future - on which you will present your two literary terms. This is of course, a major grade. Have fun! Wednesday, September 6th: We will continue working on the essay format of HANDMAID’S TALE as needed. We will then move backwards in time to the Ancient Greeks, and wrestle with Aristotle’s POETICS. We will break into groups, read, analyze, come up with cool posters, exa...

Fall Semester AP English Literature Hello scholars! I hope you have had a wonderful and restful vacation and are ready to get to back to work. The books we will be using are: 1. Vocabulary Workshop Level F 2. Warriner’s Grammar Book 3. British Literature Anthology In addition to the above books, we will be using excerpts from Voice Lessons, Sound and Sense, and Philosophy and Literature, and AP English Literature. We will start off this semester with Sophocles’ The Oedipal Cycle, with additional background readings in Plato and Aristotle. We will cover the following books in class by the end of the semester: 1. The Oedipal Cycle 2. Excerpts from Beowulf 3. Hamlet 5. Crime and Punishment 6. Frankenstein In addition to the above books, we will also be reading and analyzing, and of course, writing about poetry, essays, short stories and excerpts by writers around the world and down through the ages. To help us understand the literature we will be reading, we will also study...