OCTOBER 13TH - OCTOBER 17TH
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
AP ENGLISH

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13TH:

Camille, Malik and Felicia will give their presentations today.

During their preparation time, we will be reading Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral in My Brain” for imagery in Perrine’s LIterature; page 776.

We will finish discussing OEDIPUS AT COLONUS and then begin discussing ANTIGONE.


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH:

Shortened day today.

Last night's homework from PERRINE LITERATURE is due today, questions 1-4 on Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain".

Today during Karen, Cindy and Daniela's preparation we will read Countee Cullen's "Incident" and answer the question on page 833.

Continue with presentations: Today Karen, Cindy and Daniela will give theirs on irony, exposition and oxymoron.

Continue discussing ANTIGONE.


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH:

Presentations today: Miranda and Elizabeth will give their presentations on metaphor, simile and blank verse.

During their prep time, we will explore metaphors in Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"; page 798 in PERRINE'S LITERATURE.

The test over the literary terms will be on Wednesday, October 22nd.

Break into groups and do three tableaux for each play in the trilogy.

An essay will be assigned today and will be due on Friday, October 17th:

Choose one of the following characters: Oedipus, Creon or Antigone.

Your assignment is to chart the change, the development of the character as s/he first appears in one of the plays and how the character changes (or doesn’t)
during the course of the trilogy. How does the character change? What aspect of the character does not change? Does the character remain steadfast to an ideal or cause? Why or why not? Are there elements of the character’s personality that remain steadfast? What are they? Are these elements muted or do theses elements still flare up when the character is provoked? Think of Oedipus and notice that even as an old man he still flies into rages against his sons. Has he changed significantly from the time he was a young man and flew into a rage against Teiresias?


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16TH:

For a warm-up we will read "The Sun Rising" by John Donne on page 832 in PERRINE'S LITERATURE and discuss and answer the questions 1-6. The questions will be due tomorrow on Friday, October 17th.

Today you will be given a handout on Plato's and Aristotle's differing philosophies on the nature of the world. We will break into groups to read, analyze and outlinethe selection. This will be important in the reading of HAMLET. Your outline will be due on Monday, October 20th.



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17TH:

I will not be here today so you have permission to work on your essay which you will turn in today. The literary terms test will be on Wednesday, October 22nd of next week.

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