Ms. Bridges' AP English

The following terms will be found on the literary terms test which will be given on Friday, October 6th: Apostrophe Aside Chiasmus Climax Conceit Denouement Exposition Falling Action Haiku Hyperbole Imagery Irony Litotes Local Color Metaphor Metonymy Motif Myth Oxymoron Paradox Parody Personification Satire Simile Symbol Synecdoche

OCTOBER 2ND WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, October 2nd: Your Unit Two is due today from your vocabulary book. We must finish Aristotle’s Poetics today! So that means that you each get ten minutes to present. That also means that you will not have time to work on it in class because you need to listen and take notes on the presentations. You also need to write/type/whatever - but neatly and completely! - an outline of your section and give to me after your presentations. And congratulations to Ti’Onae and Charisma on their presentations! They did an excellent and thorough job on their section! Brava! Tuesday, October 3rd: We will spend half of the period discussing our writing assignment on James Joyce’s “The Dead”. I will make this assignment due on Thursday. We will begin reading OEDIPUS REX today. You will be assigned twenty pages to read each night and you will be expected to take notes and prepare questions over the reading. Don’t despair! It’s a short play

September 25th, 2006 Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, September 25th: Good morning, fellow scholars and artists! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. Today you will be given an ongoing assignment that will last the duration of the semester. You will find examples of literary terms in literature which you will then analyze and turn in at two week intervals. The first one will be due on October 13, 2006. You will be given a paper today that will explain how to do it. Finally, Sophocles’ THE OEDIPAL CYCLE will be checked out to you. Today, we will continue reading and discussing Aristotle’s POETICS. Then we will break into groups, read, analyze, outline the reading and then make posters, etc., and present your section of the POETICS to the class. WE HAVE GOT TO GET STARTED ON THE GREEKS!!! SERIOUSLY!!! Now that I said that....as soon as we finish the POETICS, then we will begin reading Sophocles’ THE OEDIPAL CYCLE. Enjoy! Tuesday, September 26th: Today is another shortened da

Monday, September 18, 2006 Greetings, Seniors! Hope you had a great weekend! Today your "Complements" handout is due. You remember the one - I gave it to you on Thursday and we went over it. It has to do with subjects, verbs and....complements. In other words, GRAMMAR. We also have presentations today. Today, we will have Sydnni and Jessica presenting on myth and requiem. I also hope you brought five things (objects, photo of objects, or video of objects) to class today. We are going to analyze them and write about how these objects make us feel and in some cases we are going to come up with a "movement" that symbolizes how these objects make us feel. I know, you're thinking,"This isn't a dance class or even an acting class, so waddup, Ms. Bridges?" We are going to write a paragraph or two or three about these objects in terms of figurative language. After all, that's what we're doing when we analyze literature - we are analyzing h

Weekly AP Schedule for September 11, 2006 Monday, September 11, 2006: You will have about ten minutes of class time to work together in your groups on the figurative language assignment. We will then briefly go over some aspects of the Handmaid’s Tale prompt and essay - if needed. The essay will be due on Tuesday, September 12th. We will then break into groups and begin reading and working on Aristotle’s Poetics. Tuesday, September 12, 2006: Today is not a shortened day. Again, you will have about ten minutes of class time to work together in your groups on the figurative language assignment. Remember: make it good, make it educational and make it interesting. DON’T BORE US - only I get to do that. Your essay on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is due today. We will then break into groups and continue reading and working on Aristotle’s Poetics. Wednesday, September 13, 2006: We will begin with our first figurative language presentation today: Wilton and Chrystal will do haiku

Syllabus for AP English We will be covering the following material in the AP English Literature Class: The Oedipal Cycle Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” Excerpts from Aristotle’s The Poetics Excerpts from Beowulf Excerpts from The Canterbury Tales We will also extensively review literary terms and tropes and how they relate to theme and characterization in the literature. Hamlet Various Elizabethan poems by the following poets: 1. Sir Thomas Wyatt 2. Edmund Spenser 3. Christopher Marlowe 4. William Shakespeare Various Jacobean poems by the following poets: 1. John Donne 2. Andrew Marvelle 3. Ben Jonson 4. Robert Herrick Petrarchan Sonnets We will also cover the historical and philosophical contexts of the following periods: 1. The Puritan Age 2. The Restoration 3. The Age of Pope 4. The Age of Johnson The Romantic Period: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Poets: 1. William Blake 2. Lord Byron 3. John Keats 4. Percy Shelley Crime and Punishment by Fyodor