MARCH 8th - MARCH 12th
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
AGENDA

Monday, March 8th:
Go over the Elizabethan sonnets #29, 39, 71 and 116.
A packet on the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet will be given to you which we will go over.
A packet on “THE AGE OF REASON” will be given to you. Your assignment is to read and outline the articles. This outline will be due on Wednesday, March 10th.

Tuesday, March 9th:
Shortened day.
Read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
If we do not finish please finish for homework tonight and outline the rest of the excerpt. The outline will be due on Thursday, March 11th.

Wednesday, March 10th:
Grammar: Participles and Participial phrases handout which will be due on Friday, March 12th.
Multiple choice questions on John Donne’s “On Superstition”.
Read biography of Mary Shelley. Begin reading FRANKENSTEIN. Please read the first twenty pages of FRANKENSTEIN tonight for homework.
As you read FRANKENSTEIN, please do the following:
Write a brief summary of the pages you have read (about ten pages)
Please note any examples of figurative language or aspects of Romantic literature found in Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. This will be due when we finish reading FRANKENSTEIN and will be a major grade.
The outline of “The Age of Reason” is due today.

Thursday, March 11th:
Read the excerpt of “The Romantic Age”
Read the bio of William Blake and the two poems,“The Lamb”, and “The Tyger”.
Tonight for homework you will be given the compare and contrast essay prompt on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. This will be due on Friday, March 12th.
For homework: please read the next ten pages of FRANKENSTEIN.
As you read FRANKENSTEIN, please do the following:
Write a brief summary of the pages you have read (about ten pages)
Please note any examples of figurative language or aspects of Romantic literature found in Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN.
The outline of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN is due today.

Friday, March 12th:
Your compare and contrast essay on William Blake’s poems of innocence and experience.
Discuss essay writing techniques.
Continue reading and discussing FRANKENSTEIN.
The grammar handout on participial phrases is due today.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Middlemarch Essay

Image
How to Approach the A.P. prompt for MIDDLEMARCH How does Eliot portray characters? How does she portray complex relationship between husband and wife? Literary devices: Narrative perspective (Pov) and selection of detail. Middlemarch: underline novels!!!!! Rosamond’s personality: She was not given to weeping and disliked it. Lines 14 – 16: Rosamond thinks….. Go through the entire prompt and find examples of pov (narrative perspective) of Rosamond. Find at least three examples. Lines 77 – 79: “The thought in her mind was if she had known what he was going to be like she would never have married him.” Lines 87 - 90: “She was determined to make no further resistance or utterance.” Lines 23 – 26: This sudden trial was to a creature who had known nothing but indulgence. 52 – 53: His self blame gave her some hope that he would attend to her opinion. Tertius: Lines 48 – 50: Lydgate was bowing his neck like a creature……” Lines 34 – 35: That she had ...
Read more

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 1

Image
Hamlet Act 2, Scene 1: In this scene Polonius is giving instructions to his servant Reynaldo to spy on Laertes, his son, in Paris. (Again, note the theme of spying) Polonius is giving Reynaldo money to give to his son, but tells him to “to make inquire of his behavior”. “Inquire me first what Danskers are in town….” This is an example of elision or omission of words (words are intentionally left out to insure the lines scan in iambic pentameter.) What word or words are left out? Dansker: Danes Polonius tells Reynaldo to inquire about Laertes’ behavior in a roundabout general way: “encompassment and drift of question” and by this way will arrive at the truth faster and more completely than by asking directly (“…come you more nearer / Than your particular demands will touch it.”) Do you think that’s true? Polonius further instructs Reynaldo, the servant, to say that he doesn’t know him well, but has some “…distant knowledge of him…” Mark: Listen well! Are ...
Read more

Oedipus Rex

Image
Oedipus Notes Act 1 There is a pestilence which has descended upon Thebes.  The people of Thebes have assembled at the front steps of Oedipus’ palace to plead with him to save them as he once did with the Sphinx. Oedipus says that he has sent Creon to ask Teiresias to come and tell them what he knows, but Creon has been gone for some time now and all anxiously wait for his return. Creon at last arrives and says he has spoken with Teiresias but first asks Oedipus if he would like to hear the news in private or in front of the people. By his comment, “I am prepared to speak, but should we not go in?” suggests that he would like to be more cautious and circumspect. Oedipus’ response is “Let them all hear it. It is for them, I suffer, more than for myself.” This is magnanimous and is suggestive of a large, generous and open heart but also one that might be foolish and a little rash.  What if the news is not good, frightening or embarrassing for him?  The crowd m...
Read more