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APRIL 21ST
WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE


MONDAY, APRIL 21ST:

Hey Guys! This is existential week in room 508!

Go over Albert Camus’ THE STRANGER and discuss. Collect your reading logs for The Stranger.

We will read Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” and discuss. What we do not finish, we will read tonight and take notes.

We will discuss Hemingway’s “In Another Country” and discuss some writing tips for better essays. You will take home your two paragraph essay on “In Another Country” and work on it, improving and expanding it to a full essay.
It will be due on Tuesday, April 22nd.


TUESDAY, APRIL 22ND:

Your VOCABULARY WORKSHOP: Level F or G; Unit 5 will be due today.

Your “In Another Country” essay is due today. You will break into groups of three and peer edit each other’s work. You will then take it home for further revision. This will be due on Wednesday, April 23rd.

There will be a discussion of Albert Camus, his novel, THE STRANGER and his essay, “The Myth of Sisyphus”.

An essay from the novel, MARY BARTON (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell, and a selection with multiple choice questions on John Keats’ “On the Sonnet” will be given to you tonight for homework. This will be due on Thursday, April 24th.


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23RD:

Your essay on Ernest Hemingway’s “In Another Country” is due today.

Samuel Becket’s WAITING FOR GODOT will be passed out to you today. Don’t despair! I made xeroxed copies for you. As a sort of introduction to you, we will do a fun little exercise which I’ve been teasing you with for quite some time. It’s sort of like a typical day in high school.

Your assignment is to read and do a reading log on WAITING FOR GODOT much like we’ve been doing with THE METAMORPHOSIS and THE STRANGER.





THURSDAY, APRIL 24TH:

The essay on MARY BARTON plus the multiple choice questions on John Keat’s
”On the Sonnet” is due today.

Read passages from WAITING FOR GODOT and discuss.


FRIDAY, APRIL 25TH:

A timed forty-minute compare and contrast essay will be given to you today on two poems, one by Robert Frost and the other by Emily Dickinson.

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