AP English Literature
Weekly Schedule
for
April 23rd


Monday, April 23rd:

Analyze the prompts given to you last week on the Robert Frost and John Keats’ poems. You will then take the prompt home, work on it and turn it in on Tuesday, April 24th.

Since we are working on a John Keats’ poem, we might as well read his biography and several more of his poetry - which is exquisite! (And which we didn’t have time for last week!) We will read “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. I will give you a wee small open book “quiz” that you can do whilst you are reading the poems.

Keep working on: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
or
start reading Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS.


Tuesday, April 24th:

Your Contrast/Comparison essay on the poems by Robert Frost and John Keats is due today.

Turn in your multiple choice questions given to you last week, Samuel Johnson on Alexander Pope from his “Lives of the Poets”.

I will go over the Unit 5 vocabulary words with you today. This will be due on Friday, April 27th.

Continue the Romantic Poets: John Keats and Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”. We will read in class and you will answer the questions over the poems at home on your wee small open book “quiz”.

Take-home mini-essay on CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (minimum two body paragraphs or full length essay for extra credit.) This will be the last essay prompt on CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, I promise! The next ones will be over Kafka! The mini-essay will be due the next day on Wendesday, April 25th.

Keep working on: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
or
start reading Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS.



Wednesday, April 25th:

Timed essay on 2006 poetry selection.
Multiple choice excerpt from John Keats’ “On the Sonnet”.



Thursday, April 26th:

Short essay prompt on Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS (twenty minutes.)

Continue reading and discussing the Romantic poets and poetry terms.



Friday, April 27th:

Your Unit 5 vocabulary is due today.

Timed essay: Compare and contrast poetry essay on the topic of “Eros”.

Take-home timed essay prompt on Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS. This will be due on Tuesday, May 1st. This is on the honor system, okay? No more than forty minutes for this one, you guys!

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