Ms. Bridges' AP English

MAY 3, 2010 – MAY 7, 2010 WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, May 3rd: Today your Free Response Essay and your "Birthday Party" essay are due today. Another Free Response Essay will be assigned to you today and will be due at the end of the period. The topic of this free response is on the character who outwardly conforms but inwardly questions. A few good novels which you have read and would provide a good source for this prompt would be: A HANDMAID'S TALE; 1984; BRAVE NEW WORLD; INVISIBLE MAN; THE CRUCIBLE; THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, ETC. Tonight, please do the excerpt on pages 114, 115, 116, and 117 in the yellow and black book, CLIFF'S ENGLISH LITERATURE and COMPOSITION. For tomorrow, please bring the CLIFF'S ENGLISH LITERATURE and COMPOSITION. Please continue reading CRIME and PUNISHMENT Read Part 3, Chapter 1 and answer the questions on the weblog. Tuesday, May 4th: Shortened day Excerpt and Multiple Choice questions in the yellow and black C...

MARY BARTON By Elizabeth Gaskells Set in the mid 19th Century town of Manchester, England. The excerpt follows the lives of the working class. The servants are not slaves. The language they speak is lower class or working class English. The writer uses third person pronouns: he, she, etc. The excerpt is written from the 3rd person limited point of view. We know what Wilson is thinking (“…but then he thought it would be disrespectful…”) and perhaps the servants in the kitchen. Wilson is NOT the narrator, but it is told from his point of view. We see what he sees and we are allowed to hear what he is thinking, but he is not telling the story. The writer is using this device to better see the social stratification in this society. In the dialogue, the speakers use “I” or “me” or “my” but that doesn’t mean there is a shift in point of view. You need to begin commenting from the very beginning on what is going on in the excerpt. Wilson is walking early in the mo...

April 26, 2010 - April 30, 2010 Weekly Agenda for AP English Literature Monday, April 26th: Timed essay: "A Woman's World" Handout: Twenty Sentence Patterns For homework, please read Crime + Punishment; Part 2, Chapter 3, and please answer the questions on the weblog. Tuesday, April 27th: Multiple choice questions on excerpt by Joseph Conrad For homework, please read Crime + Punishment; Part 2, Chapter 4, and please answer the questions on the weblog. Wednesday, April 28th: Timed essay: "The Birthday Party" For homework, please read Crime + Punishment; chapter 5, and please answer the questions on the weblog. Thursday, April 29th: Discuss essay writing techniques. Multiple choice questions For homework, please read Crime + Punishment; chapter 6, and please answer the questions on the weblog. Friday, April 30th: Discuss Crime + Punishment For homework, please read Crime + Punishment, chapter 7, and please answer the questions on the weblog. Also, for homework, y...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Questions Part 1 (Chapter 1) 1. Describe the setting: the time of year, the weather, the emotional temperature of the first chapter. 2. Describe the young man. What is he seemingly preoccupied about? 3. Describe the old woman. What is her profession? What color predominates in the scene? 4. What does the young man want the old woman to do? How does she insult the young man? (Chapter 2) 1. Where does the young man go after the transaction? Describe the environment and the inhabitants or denizens of this establishment. 2. What do you think the young man is contemplating? 3. Who does he meet in this environment? Describe this person. What is his uncontrollable vice? 4. How does this vice affect his family, particularly his daughter Sonia? 5. Who is Katerina? Describe her past. 6. What did Katerina's rage force Sonia to do? 7. To what heartbreaking allusion or symbol do the thirty pieces of silver that Sonia gives to Katerina refer? 8. What new theory is now popula...

CRIME and PUNISHMENT Part 2, Chapter 3 1. Describe Raskolnikov's emotional and mental state when he wakes up at ten that morning. 2. What type of dreams is he experiencing? 3. Who is in the room with him when he awakens? 4. What happy and unexpected news awaits him? 5. Describe Razumikhin. Is he a good friend to Raskolnikov? Give two examples which show what kind of friend he is. 6. What kind of deal did Raskolnikov have with the landlady regarding her daughter and his rent? 7. How did Razumikhin help Raskolnikov deal with his landlady and the back rent?

April 19, 2010 – April 23, 2010 Weekly Agenda for AP LITERATURE Monday, April 19th: Timed essay on Mary Barton Over the weekend you should have read up to Part 1, Chapter lll in CRIME and PUNISHMENT Answer questions posted on weblog for Part 1, Chapters 1 through ll For tonight read Part 1, Chapter lll in CRIME and PUNISHMENT Answer questions posted on weblog for Part 1, Chapter lll Tuesday, April 20th: Multiple Choice Questions on Excerpt For tonight read Part 1, Chapter lV in CRIME and PUNISHMENT Answer questions posted on weblog for Part 1, Chapter lV Wednesday, April 21st: Timed essay on Cormac McCarthy passage For tonight read Chapter V in CRIME and PUNISHMENT Answer questions posted on weblog for Part 1, Chapter V Thursday, April 22nd: Discussion on Crime and Punishment For tonight read Chapter Vl in CRIME and PUNISHMENT Answer questions posted on weblog for Chapter Vl Friday, April 23rd: Discussion on Crime and Punishment For the weekend please read Crime and Punishment, Part 1...

CRIME and PUNISHMENT Part 2, Chapter 4 1. Who is Zosimov? Describe him. 2. What do Zosimov and Razumikhin begin to discuss in front of Raskolnikov? 3. Who was questioned by the police about the murders? 4. What incriminating evidence links this man to the murders? 5. Who is Dushkin and what role did he play in the events involving the painter, Mikolay, and the jewelry? 6. How does Razumikhin know that the two painters are innocent? 7. Where did Nikolay pick up the jeweled earrings? 8. According to Razumikhin what is the chain of events that led to the successful escape of the real murderer?

Crime and Punishment Part 2; Chapter 5 1. Who enters Raskolnikov's wretched apartment? Describe his entrance. 2. Where did Luzhin seek lodgings for his fiancee and his future mother-in-law? What does this choice of lodging for his future family say about Luzhin's character? 3. What does Razumikhin say in rebuttal to Luzhin's excitement over the ideas put forth by youth? Why is Razumikhin's rebuttal ironic? What does Luzhin's excitement seem to suggest about himself? 4. Some of Luzhin's "new ideas" sound like the "trickle down economic theory" of the 1980's - or "Reaganomics". What are some of the ideas promulgated by Luzhin? 5. What do we learn about the police investigation of the pawnbroker's murder? 6. What contradiction does Raskolnikov hear in what Luzhin is saying about the rash of upper class people killing for money and what Luzhin said earlier about economic truths - the more "whole cloaks" there ...

WEEKLY AGENDA FOR APRIL 12, 2010 - APRIL 16, 2010 FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 12th: Go over Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” Go over essays and prompt for John Keats’ and William Longfellow’s poems. Pass out handout on existentialism. Your FRANKENSTEIN essay is due today. Your FRANKENSTEIN journal is due today. Tuesday, April 13th: Shortened day. Excerpt and multiple choice questions Wednesday, April 14th: I will not be here today. Timed essay today. Thursday, April 15th: Discuss Crime and Punishment Discuss existentialism Friday, April 16th: Timed essay today.

Crime and Punishment Part 2; Chapter 6 1. What does Raskolnikov do after everyone leaves his apartment? 2. In what mental state does he find himself? 3. What point do you think Dostoevsky is making in the street singing scene when the young girl breaks off singing after she receives some money from Raskolnikov? 4. Describe the women in the throng Raskolnikov encounters. What point is Dostoevsky making about the women and the relationship they have with their husbands? 5. What does Raskolnikov think to himself about man's desire to live at all cost? 7. Who does he encounter in the tavern? 8. How does Raskolnikov behave in front of this man? What does it seem as if he wants to have happen? 9. Explain the metaphor Dostoevsky uses comparing Raskolnikov's lips to the door of the pawnbroker's flat. 10. What disturbing incident does Raskolnikov see regarding a woman near one of the canals? 11. Describe the woman at the canal. What colors predominate on her face? 12. Who ...

CRIME and PUNISHMENT PART 2, CHAPTER 7 1. Raskolnilov is about to do something that will irrevocably altar his life, but before he can do this, his destination is interrupted by what terrible incident in the street? 2. Why was the coachman seemingly not distressed about this incident? 3. What role does Raskolnikov take in aftermath of this terrible incident? 4. What does Dostoevsky say about human nature? There is a German word for it which is schadenfreude. What does that mean? How is it shown in this scene? 5. At Marmeladov’s apartment we meet someone for the first time. Who is that person? Describe her and describe the contrast between her and the surrounding people as she enters. 6. Why do the priest’s words fail to comfort Katerina? 7. What does Nikodim Fomich say to Raskolnikov that is particularly ironic? 8. What does Raskolnikov ask Katerina’s daughter to do for him? What effect does that have on him? 9. Where does Raskolnilov go afterwards? What interesting fact does he learn...

CRIME and PUNISHMENT PART 2, CHAPTER 7 1. Raskolnilov is about to do something that will irrevocably altar his life, but before he can do this, his destination is interrupted by what terrible incident in the street? 2. Why was the coachman seemingly not distressed about this incident? 3. What role does Raskolnikov take in the aftermath of this terrible incident? 4. What does Dostoevsky say about human nature? There is a German word for it which is schadenfreude. What does that mean? How is it shown in this scene? 5. At Marmeladov’s apartment we meet someone for the first time. Who is that person? Describe her and describe the contrast between her and the surrounding people as she enters. 6. Why do the priest’s words fail to comfort Katerina? 7. What does Nikodim Fomich say to Raskolnikov that is particularly ironic? 8. What does Raskolnikov ask Katerina’s daughter to do for him? What effect does that have on him? 9. Where does Raskolnilov go afterwards? What interesting fact does he le...

Essay for Frankenstein: Analyzing Shelley’s use of characterization, setting and theme, give specific examples from the novel, FRANKENSTEIN, which demonstrate aspects of the Romantic and Gothic genre. The essay should be typed, double spaced in 12 font, and three to four pages in length. The essay must give specific examples from the text to support your claims. This essay will be due on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE APRIL 5, 2010 – APRIL 9, 2010 Monday, April 5th: Brief discussion of changes made on the AP blog Read and discuss Lord Byron’s bio Read and analyze Lord Byron’s “When We Two Parted” Soapstones Read and discuss John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” For homework reread “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, looking for pov and soapstones Pass out Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” Brief discussion of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN Discussion of Alberto Magnus; Paracelsus Tuesday, April 6th: Shortened Day Discussion of last night’s homework: the reading of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Comprehension; vocabulary; shift of point of view; narrator Read “Ode to a Nightingale”; analyze for imagery FRANKENSTEIN prompt handed out. The essay should be three to four pages in length and provide specific examples from the text. This essay will be due on Monday, April 12th. The Prompt: Analyzing Shelley’s use of characterization, setting and theme, give specific examples from the nov...

NOTES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Page 1: End of an afternoon in July in St. Petersberg. Young man unnamed in isolation. The ubermensch does not need people. What terrible act is he contemplating? Page 2: Conflict of thought vs. action. Example of Hegelian Theory of Synthesis. “Can I really be capable of that?” Root of the name Raskolnikov is Raskol which means schism in Russian. Page 3: Contemplating an unspeakable, but at this point to the reader, unknown act. Raskolnikov is concerned with the conspicuousness of his hat. He is a young man strikingly good looking: taller than average; darkly handsome, but dressed in rags and wearing a ridiculous hat. Pages 4-5: Description of the pawnbroker, Alena Ivanovna. The color yellow motif is introduced: the walls of the pawnbroker’s apartment; her fur, her skin. Alena refers to Raskolnikov’s family heirloom as trash and undervalues the worth of Raskolnikov’s father’s silver watch. Page 7: He goes to a tavern for be...