Ms. Bridges' AP English

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH SEPTEMBER 29TH - OCTOBER 3RD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH: Please read by Monday OEDIPUS REX. Today we will be visited by Ruth McKee, Marcos Najero and Brent Blair who will work with us on the concept of irony in OEDIPUS REX. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH: No school today in observance of Roshashana. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST: We will analyze OEDIPUS REX in terms of Aristotle’s POETICS. A prompt will be given to you asking you to analyze how well OEDIPUS REX reflects Aristotle’s guidelines regarding tragedy. This essay will be due on Friday, October 3rd. At the beginning of the class, you will have ten minutes to work together with your partner on your presentation of the literary terms. Please make these complete, understandable, and interesting. You may use posters, sketches, skits, music, and/or dance to convey the meaning of your literary terms. And most importantly, give at least three examples from three recognized literary sources. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ND: A...

Weekly Schedule for September 22nd - 26th AP English MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND: Divide into groups and continue working on Aristotle’s Poetics. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD: Shortened day! Begin presenting Aristotle’s Poetics. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH: Your Unit One vocabulary homework is due today. We have guests today from the Mark Taper Forum/Dana Teaching Artist Institute: Marcos Najera, Lynn Clark and Brent Blair. These guest artists/teachers will be working with us today and Friday on incorporating theatre arts to the analysis and understanding of literary terms and Aristotle’s Poetics. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH: Continue presenting Aristotle’s Poetics. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH: Continue working with the guest artists Brent Blair, Lynn Clark and Marcos Najera.

AP ENGLISH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER 15 - 19TH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH: Warm-ups: Voice Lessons; Diction; pages 12 and 12; excerpts from Maya Angelou and Phillip Larkin. Read and answer the multiple choice questions over THE HANDMAID'S TALE excerpt. Continue analysis of Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE and working on the graph. Begin working on the essay for THE HANDMAID'S TALE. The Prompt: Analyze the theme of power in Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE and how it is shown through the writer’s use of diction, symbolism, metaphor and other literary terms. This essay will be due on Wednesday, September 17th. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH: Shortened day! DAYBREAK: Critical Reading and Writing: pages 25-26; “Nature of Symbolic Fire” and “First Frost”. Break into groups, analyze the three poems and select the best lines from each poem to create a new poem. This poem will be due on Thursday, September 18th. Write a poem about a traumatic event using heat as a s...

Weekly Schedule for AP English September 8 - 12th Monday, September 8th: Continue our investigations into our backpacks. Assignment: Using the style of Tim O’Brien, write a paragraph describing five high school students by the contents of their backpack. This assignment will be due on Wednesday, September 10th. Grammar: Break into pairs and on butcher paper, rewrite the unpunctuated paragraph from THE THINGS THEY CARRIED; finally, compare the pair’s punctuation with Tim O’Brien’s. Tuesday, September 9th: Read an excerpt from THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Multiple choice questions over excerpt. Analyze the excerpt from THE HAND MAID’S TALE. Please bring post-its. Assignment: Write analysis of the excerpt from THE HANDMAID’S TALE. This assignment will be due on Thursday, September 11th. Wednesday, September 10th: Warm-ups: Voice Lessons: “Selection of Detail”; page 30. Continue analysis of THE HANDMAID’S TALE if necessary. Assign literary terms and dates of presentations to groups of three...