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 given on Friday? Well, please bring it today!)

Assignment: You will use the packet you were given on Friday to analyze "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley.

Wednesday, March 12th:

Read the biography of John Keats (page 508).
Read "When I have Fears", "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer",
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Ode to a Nightingale" (pages 509 - 513).

Thursday, March 13th:

The first of many timed forty minute essays on a contrast and comparison of John Keats "Bright Star" and Robert Frost's "Something Like a Star".

Friday, March 14th:

Begin discussing CRIME and PUNISHMENT. You will be given about four timed essays over selections from CRIME and Punishment.

There is a change that we may be able to see a production of CRIME AND PUNISHEMNT at the Hollywood Co-Op Theatre at the Hollywood Episcopalian Church on Gower (and Yucca, I think). Serious extra credit to anyone who goes. I will investigate and see if we can get group tickets.

Don't forget: All make-up work is due on Thursday, March 20th.

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