Ms. Bridges' AP English

FEBRUARY 28, 2011 - MARCH 4, 2011 WEEKLY AGENDA FOR A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, February 28th: Read the following in the packet Ben Jonson’s biography “Still to Be Neat” “Song to Celia” “On My First Son” “Ben Jonson’s Vision of His Son” Please do soapstones on the above poems Please answer the circled questions on the above poems Please read the following in the packet Robert Herrick’s biography “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” “Upon Julia’s Clothes” “Delight in Disorder” Please do soapstone on the above poems Please answer the following questions on the above poems Analyzing: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”; question 2 Applying: Symbol; questions 1 and 2 Think and Discuss; Analyzing:“Upon Julia’s Clothes”; questions 1 and 2 Delight in Disorder: Understanding; Analyzing and Extending; all the questions Tuesday, March 1st: We will go over the above poems today. We will act out “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” Your adjective clause handout is due today. For homewo...

WEEKLY AGENDA FOR A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE February 22, 2011 - February 25, 2011 Christopher Marlowe says, "There's no school on Monday! Yay!" Tuesday, February 22nd: Read "Carpe Diem" in packet Read bio of Christopher Marlowe Read "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Read bio of Sir Walter Raleigh Read "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Answer all the questions on page 267 in handout. Go over Soapstone! Pass out lesson plans on 33 Variations Assign Vocabulary Unit 2; this will be due on Tuesday, March 1st. Wednesday, February 23rd: Field Trip to the Ahmanson's to see 33 Variations. Thursday, February 24th: Read bio of Ben Jonson in packet Read "Still to Be Neat", "Song, to Celia", "On My First Son" in packet Read "To My Daughter" Answer questions on page 272; "Still to be Neat"; Analyzing: questions 2 and 3; "Song, to Celia"; Understanding: question 1; "On My First So...

WEEKLY AGENDA FOR A.P. ENGLISH FEBRUARY 14, 2011 - FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Monday, February 14th: Discussion of HAMLET, Act 4 What does the gentleman say about what the people may construe from Ophelia's psychotic speech? Analyze Gertrude's speech "There is a willow grows a skant a brook...." Assign performance art piece based on one of the following: Act Three: Claudius' confession: "My words fly up; my thoughts remain below" Act Four: Ophelia's first mad scene Ophelia's second mad scene with Laertes Claudius' manipulation of and plotting with Laertes Gertrude's monologe: "There is a willow grows askant a brook..." Tuesday, February 15th: Watch HAMLET Work on Performance Art Pieces Wednesday, February 16th: Work on HAMLET Performance Art Pieces Thursday, February 17th: Present the HAMLET Performance Art Pieces Present the tableaux Friday, February 18th: Finish the HAMLET Performance Art Pieces Present the tableaux Finish watching HAM...

February 7, 2011 - February 11, 2011 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, February 7th: Go over notes for HAMLET Summary; vocabulary; figurative and rhetorical devices and analysis Assignment: Break into groups of four, choose one of the following scenes and create a performance art piece with dance, movement, music and spoken word. Claudius and Gertrude calming Laertes Act 4, Scene 5; pages 213 – 219; lines 122 – 245 (Include Ophelia’s mad scene) Ophelia’s first “mad scene” Act 4, Scene 5; pages 207 - 209; lines 26 - 78 Or Ophelia’s second “mad scene” Act 4, Scene 5; pages 215 – 219; lines 178 - 224 Or Claudius contriving a plot with Laertes. Act 4, Scene 7; pages 225 – 233; lines 60 - 185 Or Gertrude’s speech: “There is a willow grows askant the brook Act 4; Scene 7; pages 233 – 235; lines 190 - 208 For those of you who are not performers, you can do a story board for Gertrude’s speech. Please divide the monologue into five parts and storyboard for each part. Wednesd...

HAMLET; Act Four Notes Notice that Claudius uses the royal “We” when he refers to himself. Ruling monarchs refer to themselves in the plural for they and the nation are considered as part of the other. The king or the queen embody the nation and its component parts. His entire speech to Gertrude after he hears the troubling news of Polonius’ murder is filled with verbal irony. “….so much of our love….” Does Claudius love Hamlet? Again notice the recurring motif of disease: “But like the owner of a foul disease…..” A theme must be expressed in a sentence. It must have a character or a characteristic; it must have an action and it must express a result which is the effect of that action. Themes of Hamlet: Those who hesitate will cause more disaster than those who take action. Regardless of one’s actions we will all wind up as dust. Regardless of one’s triumphs we will all – kings, beggars, all – wind up as dust; therefore, all action is pointless and futile. Pith: the essential part ...