Ms. Bridges' AP English

Week of October 1st - October 5th: Monday, October 1st - Wednesday, October 3rd: I won't be with you these three days so what I need for you to do is read Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX and the commentary in the back of the book during class. For homework, please read Aristotle's POETICS, and then on a separate sheet of paper, outline the main ideas and the supporting details. This will be due on Thursday, October 4th, when I get back. This is for a grade. Thursday, October 4th: Voices: Worksheet on Imagery Brief review of literary terms in preparation for the test during the week of October 8th. Your outline of Aristotle's POETICS will be due today. Discussion and review of OEDIPUS REX. How did OEDIPUS REX conform to Aristotle's views on great literature? Do we still adhere to them today? Begin reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. Friday, October 5th: Voices: Worksheet on Imagery Brief review of literary terms in preparation for the test during the week of October 8th. Conti...

Revised agenda for AP English: This is the agenda for the next two weeks: Your HANDMAID'S TALE essay is due on Wednesday, September 19th. Don't freak. We have been working on this essay for the past week. You can do it. Don't forget! Your Unit 1 vocabulary is due this Tuesday, September 25th. First twenty minutes of class we will be working on our Literary Terms Presentations. You will read, analyze, discuss and synthesize the information I will provide you (but don't rely on me for all the information - do some detective work on your own). Then you will write sketches, make posters, prepare mini-teaching lectures to present your literary terms to the rest of the class. These will be presented on Monday and Tuesday, September 24th and September 25th. From Wednesday, 9/19; Thursday, 9/20; Friday, 9/21; and Wednesday, 9/26 we will work the last forty minutes of class on Aristotle's POETICS. We will present them on Thursday, 9/27 and Friday, 9/28. Again, we will...

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Weekly Schedule for the week of September 17th - September 21st Good morning, scholars, intellectuals and artists! Hope you had a restful and interesting weekend! Monday, September 17th: Work on the body of the paragraph for THE HANDMAID’S TALE for about twenty minutes. The essay on THE HANDMAID’S TALE will be due on Wednesday, September 19th. We will break into cool little literary groups where we will read and annotate Aristotle’s THE POETICS. This is in preparation for our diving into the mysterious Greek world of Sophocles and his Oedipal Cycle. Tuesday, September 18th: Check out VOCABULARY WORKSHOP; level F. Go over Unit One. This will be due on Monday, September 24th. Break up into groups and continue reading and annotating THE POETICS. Wednesday, September 19th: Today, we will receive our fabulous OEDIPAL CYCLE by SOPHOCLES. Break into groups and continue reading and annotating THE POETICS. We should be making posters, etc. and preparing interesting...

SEPTEMBER 10TH - SEPTEMBER 14TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH I will not be here on Monday or Tuesday of this week. Monday, September 10th: Read the excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s novel, THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Answer as many of the questions you can from one to twenty on the excerpt. Tuesday, September 11th: Answer the multiple choice questions over THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Continuing answering the questions. Wednesday, September 12th: I’m back! We will finish assigning the literary terms today. Please bring post-its and high lighters today. We are going to do a close reading of the excerpt THE HANDMAID’S TALE in preparation for our first major essay of the semester. Thursday, September 13th: Today we will write the essay on THE HANDMAID’S TALE in class. Friday, September 14th: We will begin working on Aristotle’s POETICS which will include breaking into groups, reading annotating the text in preparation fro class presentations.

Syllabus for AP English COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this class is to enrich the students’ lives through exposure to some of the world’s greatest literature. The intention, aside from preparing the students to pass the AP tests and prepare for college level writing, is to help expand the students’ horizons intellectually and creatively through an in-depth analysis of literature and a strict yet creatively challenging response through writing. The AP class is designed to prepare the students for freshman level college work, to read, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of a literary work and to explain by speech and writing why and how the literary work is effective. To aide us in our analysis of what makes great literature great, we will follow the curricular requirements as outlined in the AP English Course Description. I view this class as a workshop in which there is opportunity to explore and to improve, which means, dear students, that you will write and then wri...

Good Morning, AP Students! The first blog of the 2007 Fall semester! Tuesday, September 4th: We will pass out an unpuctuated excerpt from THE THINGS THEY CARRIED and together you and your partner will puctuate it in the best way that captures the mood and the feel of the piece. We will then examine three English translations of the poem, "First Frost", and analyzing for diction and syntax, try to find the combination which is the most effective. For homework: Due on Thursday, September 6th: Write a poem using heat as a metaphor to describe the first time one has an unpleasant experiece. DO NOT USE THE WORDS HOT OR HEAT IN THE POEM. Try to convey heat through the use of metaphor or imagery. Wednesday, September 5th: Your THE THINGS THEY CARRIED assignment is due today. Remember: the assignment is to write one paragraph each on a character and the things they carry in their backpacks. They have to use the contents of their backpacks in some sort of conflict and the con...