Ms. Bridges' AP English

APRIL 25, 2011 - APRIL 29, 2011 WEEKLY AGENDA FOR A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 25th: Your outline on Aristotle’s THE POETICS and essay on OEDIPUS REX are due today. The essay topic is whether the play conforms to Aristotle’s ideals of unity of time and place. Is the protagonist of sufficient magnitude? Is the plot simple or complex? Does the play have reversal and recognition? You must give evidence from the play to support each claim. Discussion of W.T. Stace’s “Man Against the Darkness” and Reinhold Niebuhr “The Christian Commitment”. Pass out and read “World War 1 and the World After”. Read the biography and poetry of Wilfred Owen. Multiple choice questions over “S.I.W.” by Wilfred Owen. Pass out the play WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett Tuesday, April 26th: Begin reading WAITING FOR GODOT Finish reading for homework Wednesday, April 27th: Timed essay: MARY BARTON by Elizabeth Gaskell For homework: Essay on THE PUPIL by Henry James which will be due on Thursday, April 28

“The Chimney Sweeper” Soapstones Speaker: a small child; in the second later poem, the speaker probably is an older child Occasion: (what’s going on) exploitation of the children; children are revealing the exploitation they are experiencing; Audience: who are they speaking to? To society; to a passerby; to you The second one might be speaking to the Church Purpose: To enlighten people about the atrocious conditions of the chimney sweepers Subject: The exploitation of the innocent These, combined with diction and imagery and metaphor, form tone. Exploitation of the children by whom? By society, by parents, by the church Imagery, Diction, Metaphor (Poetic techniques) The choice of diction: ‘weep – which is the unaspirated word “sweep” (Blake makes his point that the child is so small he has a lisp and cannot pronounce the “s” in sweep. The fact that this is uncommented on renders the effect even more devastating). Metaphor and imagery: the clothes of

April 11, 2011 – April 15, 2011 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Please note that all work for this grading period is due no later than Tuesday, April 12 th . Any work turned in after Tuesday will count for the next grading period, not the midterm. Monday, April 11 th : Go over the answers to the multiple choice questions on John Keats’ poem, “On the Sonnet”. Read and discuss William Blake’s biography and his two poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. View his amazing art work. Go over the compare and contrast essay for William Blake's two poems, "The Chimney Sweep". For homework: finish reading FRANKENSTEIN and the journal entries for the novel. Tuesday, April 12 th : Shortened day: Discuss FRANKENSTEIN Your journals are due today. Remember: All work must be turned in today to be counted for the midterm grade. For homework: Choose one of the essay topics on FRANKENSTEIN and write a minimum of a three page, typed (12 fo

APRIL 4, 2011 – APRIL 8, 2011 WEEKLY AGENDA FOR A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 4th: By today, you should have read up to page 125 of FRANKENSTEIN and have maintained a journal for those 125 pages. The journal should include a brief summary; vocabulary words plus their definitions, plus literary devices and how they are used, and elements of the Romantic genre you have found: references to nature, to the supernatural, to those things which are darkly mysterious; the idealization of the poor, to the simple, and to the triumph of emotion and passion over cold reason and intellect. Read and discuss the biography of John Keats. Perhaps watch a brief snippet of the film “Bright Star”. Read and discuss John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”; analyze the poem for comprehension, vocabulary, shift of point of view and narrator, imagery and soapstones. Read and discuss John Keat’s “Ode to a Nightingale” For homework please answer the following questions in your “Romantic Poetry” packet: p