WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR AP ENGLISH
FEBRUARY 16TH


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH:

DAY OFF!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH:

SHORTENED DAY!

Vindication of the Rights of Women questions are due.
Please bring Vocabulary Workshop; Unit 4 will be assigned today and will be due on Friday, February 20th.

Read:
Page 449: "Biography of William Wordsworth"
Page 454:
"My Heart Leaps Up
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"It is a Beauteous Evening"
Page 456: THEMES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE: The Countryside
Page 457:
"The World is Too Much with Us"
"London, 1802"

Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + figurative tropes + vocabulary + examples of Romantic literature.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH:

Page 463: Biography: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Page 464: "Kubla Khan"
Page 465: "Comment"
Pages 490: Biography:George Gordon, Lord Byron
Pages 491:
"She Walks in Beauty"
"When We Two Parted"

Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + figurative tropes + vocabulary + examples of Romantic literature.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH:

Page 502: BIOGRAPHY:Percy Bysshe Shelley
Page 503: "To Wordsworth"; "England in 1819"
Page 504: "Ozymandias"
Page 505: "Ode to the West End";
HOMEWORK: "Ode to the West Wind" Analytical Packet.

Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + figurative tropes + vocabulary + examples of Romantic literature.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH:

Unit Four is due today.

Page 508: BIOGRAPHY: John Keats
Page 509: "When I Have Fears" "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Page 510: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Pages 511 - 513: "Ode to a Nightingale"
Page 514: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Page 515 - 516: "To Autumn"

Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + figurative tropes + vocabulary + examples of Romantic literature.

LOOKING AHEAD:

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd:
Multiple Choice Questions on John Keats' "On the Sonnet"
Comparison Essay on two poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th:
Fun test on the Romantic Poets

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th:
TIMED ESSAY ON A SELECTION FROM FRANKENSTEIN

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