Ms. Bridges' AP English

Daily Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, March 26th Quick one page analysis of a passage from FRANKENSTEIN Due by 11 a.m. Continue discussion of John Keat's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" For homework: Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN Write a brief summary, vocabulary and literary tropes and themes related to the Romantic Era Also for homework: Reread "Ode to the West Wind"; answer the questions 1 - 9 on page 507 under "Ode of the West Wind" Tuesday, March 27th: Pair up and work on analytical handout on "Ode to the West Wind" Twenty minute mini essay on "Ode to the West Wind" Essay Prompt: Analyze Shelley's use of figurative language, imagery, structure and theme, and relate them to themes found in the Romantic philosophy, such as love of nature, love of the untamed and emotionality. FRANKENSTEIN discussion FRANKENSTEIN homework due: Reading log: brief summary, vocabulary words with definitions, figurative language and Romantic...

MARCH 19, 2012 - MARCH 23, 2012 WEEKLY AGENDA for A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, March 19th: Break into groups and analyze Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" Analyze the poem in terms of "soapstones". Analyze and discuss Shelley's use of enjambment, caesura, the terza rima, metaphor, imagery and symbolism. Tuesday, March 20th: Discuss "Ode to the West Wind" Read the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley Read "To Wordsworth", "England in 1819" and "Ozymandias" Check out Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN Read the first chapter of FRANKENSTEIN Keep a reading log: brief summary; vocabulary; literary tropes; Romantic Era themes Wednesday, March 21st: Read the biography of John Keats Read "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" Analyze "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" for shift of point of view and narrator, imagery and soapstones. For homework tonight: you will be given a short passage from...

Prompt: Read the prompt carefully. The write a well-developed essay in which you analyze HOW Eliot PORTRAYS these two characters and their COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP as HUSBAND and WIFE. You may wish to consider such literary devices as NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE and SELECTION of DETAIL. 1. Find at least three quotations from the prompt which show character. It can be: Diction: “odious tradesmen” (line 68) Dialogue which reveals attitude: “Your friends would not wish us to be without money, and certainly these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that…” (lines 67 – 68) “You can send the men away….” (line 56) “Shall we go without spoons and forks then?” (line 84) “I insist upon it that your father shall not know unless I choose to tell him,” added Lydgate with a more peremptory emphasis. (lines 10 – 13) “It is I who have been at fault….you are so clever that you turn your mind to managing you will school me into carefulness. I have been a thoughtless rasca...

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 ...

March 12, 2012 - March 16, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, March 12th: Discuss essays on MIDDLEMARCCH Begin THE ROMANTIC POETS Read the Bio of Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted” Analyze both poems for structure and imagery Tuesday, March 13th: Read the bio of Percy Bysshe Shelley, page 502 Read “To Wordsworth”, “England in 1819”, “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind”, pages 503 - 506. Analyze the poems in terms of "soapstones". Analyze and discuss "Ode to the West Wind": analyze Shelley’s use of enjambment, caesura, the terza rima, metaphor and imagery. Analyze the poem in terms of soapstones. Wednesday, March 14th: Read the bio of John Keats Read “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Analyze “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” for shift of point of view and narrator, imagery and soapstones Thursday, March 15th: In class writing assignment: Compare and Contrast essay on “Bright Star” by John Keats and “Something Like a Star” by Robert Fro...

March 5, 2012 - March 9, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, March 5th: Collect your essay on "A Modest Proposal" Pass out Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; read and discuss. For homework, answer questions 1- 10 under "Understanding", "Analyzing" and "Extending" on page 447. Tuesday, March 6th: Read and analyze the student released essays on George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH Wednesday, March 7th: Forty-minute timed essay on MIDDLEMARCH Thursday, March 8th: Discussion of essays on MIDDLEMARCH Begin THE ROMANTIC POETS Read the bio of George Gordon, Lord Byron, page 490 "She Walks in Beauty"; "When We Two Parted"; pages 491 - 492 Analyze and discuss the two poems Friday, March 9th: Read the bio of Percy Bysshe Shelley, page 502 "To Wordsworth"; "England in 1819"; "Ozymandias" and "Ode to the West Wind"; pages 503 - 506; analyze and ...