Ms. Bridges' AP English

Hamlet December 10th - 14th Weekly Schedule for AP English Language Monday, December 10th: Your Hamlet essay topics will be given to you today and will be due on the day of the final. You should be finished with the reading of Act 3 of HAMLET. Your test will be due on Wednesday, December 12th. You should also be writing a reading log for Hamlet. This will help you understand the text. Today I will pass out Barron’s SIDE BY SIDE. You are still expected to read the original text in your Folger’s edition, however. We will begin discussing Act 3, particularly the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy and the scene between Hamlet and Ophelia. After the discussion, we will watch Kenneth Branagh’s video. Tuesday, December 11th: Today we will go over Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet in which Hamlet plots with Horatio to spy on the king during the play, his instructions to the players, the play-within-the-play, and Hamlet’s argument with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. We will watch the video of ...

DO YOUR READING LOG FOR HAMLET! How to Do the Reading Log for HAMLET In an attempt to help you understand your nightly readings I am asking that you please do a reading log. You will read about five pages past the point we leave off each day in class. The reading log should include the date, the act, the scene and the page numbers; a brief synopsis of that section of the play; unfamiliar words and phrases; any metaphor or literary tropes you notice and anything interesting you notice regarding plot, characters, theme, etc. Example of a Good Reading Log: Sunday, December 2nd: Act 2, Sc.2; (pages 81 - 87): Claudius and Gertrude welcome ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN (Hamlet’s childhood friends) to court to spy on Hamlet. Polonius enters and announces to the King and Queen that he has found the reason for Hamlet’s strange behavior. Voltemand returns from Norway with the report that the Norwegian king (Old Norway/ Fortinbras’ uncle) investigated Fortinbras’ war preparations and discov...

December 3rd - December 7th Weekly Schedule for AP English Literature Monday, December 3rd: Good morning, artists and scholars! Vocabulary: Today you might want to bring your VOCABULARY WORKSHOP book; Unit 3 was assigned on Friday and will be due on Thursday. The warm-up exercise is to write five sentences with adjective clauses using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 3 (Level F or Level G). Grammar: Pages 153-157, exercise 19,"active/passive voice", in your WARRINER’S (complete course) was assigned on Thursday (November 29th) and will be due on Tuesday, December 4th. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. We have read Act 2, Sc. 1 on Friday; today we will read Scene 2 - which is a long scene. Remember, the Act 2 OPEN BOOK TEST will be due when we finish the act. For tonight: read the next five pages starting from where we left off in our reading in class; please write down a brief summary of what you have read; unfamiliar words/phrases and their meanin...