MARCH 31ST WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH MONDAY, MARCH 31ST: Discuss CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Part 1. Read Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism”, W.T. Stace and “Man Against the Dark” . TUESDAY, APRIL 1ST: Discuss CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Part 2. Finish reading and discussing Sartre, Stace and Buber. Today, you will be given the second prompt from CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. This will be due on Thursday, April 3rd. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2ND: Using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 4, write five sentences with verbals. Pass out grammar book and assign grammar work covering verbals. Page numbers to be announced. This will be due on Tuesday, April 8th. Discuss CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Part 3. THURSDAY, APRIL 3RD: Using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 4, write five sentences with verbals. Your Unit 4 vocabulary homework is due today. Finish discussing CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Your second prompt from CRIME AND PUNISHMENT will be due today. FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH: You will be given a third prompt fro
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MARCH 24TH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH MONDAY, MARCH 24TH: Good news! According to Fred Aurriemo, the school’s fund for “Gifted and Talented” will pay for our tickets to the Hollywood Actors’ Co-op production of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. So save Friday night, April 11th. Everyone who goes will receive an “A” worth 10 points (a little less than the value of an essay) in the roll book. Go over writing techniques for AP essays. Your William Blake compare and contrast essays will be returned to you. If you made lower than a "B", you should redo the essay employing some of the techniques we will go over today. IF YOU MAKE LOWER THAN A “B” YOU SHOULD ALWAYS REDO THE TEST OR THE ESSAY FOR A HIGHER GRADE. You will also receive some handouts - which I believe were given to you last semester - regarding writing techniques, i.e., sentence structure, different ways to begin sentences, etc. We will briefly go over these in class for you to start using in your essays. Begin discussing
IS IT A ROMANTIC POET OR A 20TH CENTURY ROCK STAR? 1. Which two creative partners forged a close bond after they both lost their mothers during adolescence? a. Lennon and McCartney b. Percy Shelley and John Keats 2. Which artist created one of his most famous works under the haze of opium? a. Jim Morrison b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge c. Lord Byron 3. Who abandoned his wife and child for an avant-garde artist? a. Kurt Cobain b. John Lennon c. Percy Bysshe Shelley 4. Who became a political activist after a series of scandals, and while journeying to a foreign country to help in its struggle for independence, contracted a deadly disease? The news of this artist’s death was met by cries of anguish from hordes of distraught women. a. John Lennon b Lord Byron c. Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Which artist scandalized society by abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with a sixteen year old girl? a. Jerry Lee Lewis b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. John Keats 6. After being
March 17, 2008 Weekly Agenda for AP English Monday, March 17, 2008: Your “Compare and Contrast William Blake” essay is due today. If we are finished up with the Romantic poets then I will give you a fun little test entitled “Rock Star or Romantic Poet?” This will test your pop culture knowledge and your Romantic Era knowledge. Have fun with it! We will - finally- discuss CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Please bring to class your book and the huge pile of handouts you’ve been given. We will read some scenes and discuss the philosophical and literary aspects of Dostoevsky’s novel. (This is a friendly reminder that you are responsible for reading the ENTIRE book.) Your beloved grammar and vocabulary books will be given back to you like the old friends they are. Tuesday, March 18, 2008: Continue discussing and reading selections from CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Today you will be given an excerpt from the novel to write an AP style essay on. The prompt will ask you to analyze the literary trope
Hi you guys! I am getting a little nervous about the essays, so I am going to give you a compare and contrast essay on Wednesday to take home. It will be due on Friday, March 14th. The essay will be on two poems by William Blake (we just read some of his poems today) which were on the AP test about two or three years ago (boy, does time fly!) So this is a heads up and I will alert you to the news tomorrow (Tuesday, March 11th) in class. Ms. Bridges
Agenda for AP English Literature for the week of March 10, 2008 Monday, March 10: Read the biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (page 443) Read "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (pages 444-446) Read the biography of William Wordsworth "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (pages 456 - 461). Read "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (pages 450 - 452). For homework, please read the biography of William Blake and the poems, "The Lamb" and "The Tyger". We were to have read them on Friday, but we ran out of time. Tuesday, March 11: Read the biography of Lord Byron; (pages 490) Read "She Walks in Beauty", ""When We Two Parted" (pages 491 - 492). Read the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley; (page 502). Read "To Wordsworth", "England in 1819", "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind" (pages 503 - 506). (Remember the poetry packet you were
Monday, March 3rd: Collect the homework which was assigned over the winter break. It is due now. It includes the short forms for FRANKENSTEIN and for CRIME and PUNISHMENT, plus the answers for the questions over the "Age of Reason", the Cavalier poets, and the Romantic poets. Pass out the multiple choice questions over Samuel Daniels' poem. Tuesday, March 4th: Go over the multiple choice questions for Samuel Daniels' poem. Assign the multiple choice questions over John Donne's "Meditations". Discussed: Christopher Marlowe's biography; page 265;"The Passionate Shepherd to His love"; page 266 Sir Walter Raleigh; "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"; pages 266-267. Discussed "Carpe Diem"; page 268. Read and discussed Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; pages 275 - 276. Wednesday, March 5th: Go over John Donne's "Meditations" multiple choice questions Read and discuss A
Syllabus for AP Englislh
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