October 29th - November 2nd
Weekly Agenda
for AP English

Monday, October 29th:

Please bring your Vocabulary Workshop book, Level F, or Level G, if you had Mr. Carmichael last year. Unit Two will be assigned. This will be due on Monday, November 5th.

We will read pages 26 - 25 in our BEOWULF handout and a brief in-class writing assignment will be given comparing and contrasting two of the four translations of the description of Grendel’s home.

Tuesday, October 30th:

Warm-up Journal:
Write five parallel sentences using five of your Unit 2 vocabulary words.

Your discussion questions, #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, “Think and Discuss: Understanding” , and “Composition: Explaining Beowulf’s Motives” are due today.

Read pages 28 - 35 of BEOWULF. What we don’t read in class, please read at home.

For homework: answer the following questions under “Think and Discuss: Analyzing”, numbers 4 and 5, and please answer the following question under “Extending”, number 9. Please do “Applying: Metaphor”, numbers 1, 2, and 3 and “Composition: Describing a Monster’s Lair.”

For extra credit, dress up as one of the characters from BEOWULF tomorrow for HALLOWEEN!


Wednesday, October 31st:

Warm-up Journal:

Write five more parallel sentences using five of your Unit 2 vocabulary words.

Your Warriner’s homework is due today: “Parallelism”: pages 239 - 244; exercises 1 and 2.

Discussion of last night’s homework.

Read pages 36 - 48 in BEOWULF. What we don’t complete in class, please finish at home.






Thursday, November 1st:

Discussion of last night’s reading.

For homework please answer number 9 under “Analyzing” on page 48; on page 49 under “Foreshadowing”, answer questions 1 and 2; questions 1, 2, and 3 under “Reading Literature Skillfully”, and “Etymology” .


Friday, November 2nd:

For today, a fun in-class writing assignment. You will be given an excerpt from BEOWULF and you will write a forty minute essay on the excerpt analyzing it for its use of literary tropes to convey the heroic epic.

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