AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23RD - 27TH

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD:
Twenty minute timed writing: Analysis of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”. Analyze Coleridge’s use of imagery and paradox to convey mood in “Kubla Khan”. This is the first of many timed writings and will be due at 10:10 am.
Read pages 490 - 491; biography of George Gordon (Lord Byron) and “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”.
Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + literary tropes + vocabulary + examples of the philosophy of the Romantic Era and of Romantic literature.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH:
Go over Unit Four from your vocabulary homework.
Read pages 502 - 505; biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To Wordsworth”, “England in 1819”, “Ozymandias”, “Ode to the West Wind”.
What we do not finish in class today, we will finish tomorrow.
Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + literary tropes + vocabulary + examples of the philosophy of the Romantic Era and of Romantic literature.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH:
Continue reading the poetry of Shelley. For homework: please work on the packet for Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”. This will be due on Friday, February 26th.
Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + literary tropes + vocabulary + examples of the philosophy of the Romantic Era and of Romantic literature.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH:
Read pages 508 - 515; the biography of John Keats; “When I Have Fears”, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “To Autumn”.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH:
FORTY MINUTE TIMED ESSAY on an excerpt from FRANKENSTEIN. This will be due at the end of the period.
Multiple choice questions on two poems, one by John Keats and one by William Wordsworth on the sonnet.
Your literary packet on Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”.
You should finish FRANKENSTEIN by this weekend. Your reading log will be due on Monday, March 1st.

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