February 20, 2012 - February 24, 2010
Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature

Monday, February 20th:
No school in observance of President’s Day

Tuesday, February 21st:
Field Trip: See CLYBOURNE PARK at The Mark Taper Forum

Wednesday, February 22nd:
Go over the multiple choice questions on the John Donne poem.

Mara, Luisa:
Ben Jonson: “Still to Be Neat”, “Song, to Celia” and “On My First Son”

Dinasti, Anastasia, Jasmine:
Robert Herrick: “To the Virgins: to Make Much of Time”, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”, “Delight in Disorder”

Adriana, Helen, Cindy, Martha:
John Donne: “Song”, “The Bait”, “A Valediction”,


Thursday, February 23rd:
Jazmyne, Asia, Tyrone:
John Donne: “Sonnet 10”, “Meditation 17”

Steven, Shayanne, Romina, Trevor:
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”

DeAnthony, Raygena, Jamaul:
Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Walter Raleigh: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”

Mae, Tara, Chris:
John Milton: “On His Having Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three”, “On His Blindness”

For homework:
The Age of Reason
Read and outline pages 315 - 319; “The Age of Reason”
Due Friday, February 24th





Friday, February 24th:
The packet will be due when we finish the presentations.

Read and analyze “Of Superstition” by Francis Bacon”; work on the multiple choice questions.

For homework:
Read “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
Page 343; THINK and DISCUSS; ANALYZING: questions 3, 4, 5, and 6
REVIEWING: IRONY; questions 1, 2, and 3
Composition: Writing a Modern Satire
This will be due on Tuesday, February 28th.

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