APRIL 30TH
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE

MONDAY, APRIL 30TH:

Go over the 2006 poetry prompt, “The Hawk”.

Go over the multiple choice test: John Keats’ “On the Sonnet” and discuss sonnet formats.

Read Lord Byron’s Bio (and this time, I really mean it!) and “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”.

Take home prompt for Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS.

I will check out ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT to you as soon as the books arrive from the bookroom (I’ve already placed the order). For those of you finished with THE METAMORPHOSIS please start reading ALL QUIET as soon as you receive it.


TUESDAY, MAY 1ST:

Shortened day!

Heads up! Nine Days to the AP Test!

Discussion of last night’s prompt on Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS. Collect last night’s essays.

Read William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “London in 1819” and “To Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”.

Take home multiple choice test: TBA


WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND:

Quickly go over last night’s multiple choice test.

Timed essay on excerpt from MARY BURTON (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Take home essay on Franz Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS.

Prompt: How does THE METAPMORPHOSIS 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?



THURSDAY, MAY 3RD:

Collect last night’s essay on THE METAMORPHOSIS.

Mini-essay on Ernest Hemingway’s “Another Country” exploring his use of imagery, tone, point of view, and diction.

Discussion of “Another Country”.

Discussion of Kafka and THE METAMORPHOSIS.

Check out ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

FRIDAY, MAY 4TH:

Mini Romantic vs. Rock-n-Roll Stars quiz.

Go over poetry terms: sonnets, iambs, pentameter, spondees, trochaic, dactylic.

Read and discuss ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

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