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MARCH 30th - APRIL 3rd WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH Monday, March 30th: Multiple choice questions: Emily Dickinson’s “The Habit of Perfection” Go over essay writing techniques. Discuss pages 70 - 100 in CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Please be sure to do Cornell notes. Tuesday, March 31st: Shortened day! Your compare and contrast essay on William Blake’s two poems, “The Chimney Sweep” from “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” is due. Today the infamous “Is It a Rock Star or a Romantic Poet?” test will be given. Continue discussing CRIME and PUNISHMENT (pages 70 - 100). Please be sure to do Cornell notes. The next fifteen pages will be assigned for tonight’s reading. Remember that random Cornell Note checks will be - well - randomly conducted. Wednesday, April 1st: Warm-ups: Using your Unit 5 vocabulary words please write five sentences. Each sentence should have either an adverbial clause, an adverbial clause, a participial clause or an appositive clause. A packet of Dostoevsky's
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MARCH 23rd - 27th WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, March 23rd: First twenty minutes of class will be devoted to answering questions over the weekend reading up to page 67 in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Due today: Questions over “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; page 517; “Think and Discuss: Understanding”: questions 1, 2, and 3; “Analyzing”: questions 4 - 10; “Extending”: question 11; and “Reviewing: Symbols”: questions 1 and 2. Go over Unit Five Vocabulary. Remember: Once we go over it in class you cannot turn it in! For homework: Read the next fifteen pages of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and do your Cornell notes. Tuesday, March 24th: Shortened day! In class forty minute timed essay on Raskolnikov’s dream of the beating of the mare. For homework: Read the next fifteen pages of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and do your Cornell notes. Wednesday, March 25: Warm up: Using five of your vocabulary words write one sentence using: complex, compound structure; one sentence beginning with a gerund, one sentenc
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MARCH 16th - 20TH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 
Monday, March 16th: Twenty minute warm-up: Analyze Shelley’s use of enjambment, caesura, metaphor and imagery to convey theme in “Ode to the West Wind”. Questions to “Ode to a Nightingale” are due today: page 517; “Understanding”: questions 1, 2, 3, and 4; “Analyzing”: questions 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; “Extending”: question 10; “Applying: Onomatopoeia”: questions 1, 2, and 3. Briefly go over “Ode to a Nightingale”. Read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; please do Cornell notes. Handouts: Nietzsche and the Ubermensche. Tuesday, March 17th: Shortened day! Your contrast and compare essay on John Keat’s “Bright Star” and Robert Burns’ “Something like a Star” is due today. Read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; please do Cornell notes. Handouts: Nietzsche and the Ubermensche. Wednesday, March 18th: Go over Vocabulary Unit 5 today. Assignment: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; page 517; “Think and Discuss: Understanding”: questions 1,2, and 3; “Analyzing”: questions 4 -
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Weekly Agenda for AP Literature March 9th - 13th Monday, March 9th: 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”. Tuesday, March 10th: Your Unit Five vocabulary is due today. Multiple choice questions over two sonnets by John Keats and William Wordsworth. Fun test over Rock Stars and Romantic Poets! Wednesday, March 11th: Take home “contrast and comparison essay” on two poems: “Oh, Star” by John Keats and “Something Like a Star” by Robert Frost. This will be due on Friday, Wednesday, March 12th. Begin reading CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Please work on your reading logs for this book. Thursday, March 12th: Handouts on Nietzsche and the ubermensch. Continue reading CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Please work on your reading logs for this book. Friday, March 13th: Your “Contrast and Comparison” essay on John Keats and Robert Frost is due today. Co