Ms. Bridges' AP English

April 23, 2012 - April 29, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, April 23th: Adverbial Clause handout from HOLT HANDBOOK Multiple Choice Questions on poetry selection from Nora Millay Ellis Tuesday, April 24th: Review dangling modifiers Multiple Choice Questions Wednesday, April 25th: Review agenda for next two weeks Go over essay writing strategies Read and break down Mary Barton's excerpt from ELIZABETH GASKELL Thursday, April 26th: Go over multiple choice questions Pass out THE STRANGER Brief introduction to the novel and to existentialism Friday, April 27th: Pass out PHILOSOPHY and LITERATURE Assign essays by Sartre; W.T. Stace's "Man Against the Darkness" and Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Christian Commitment".  Read, outline and answer the questions.  This will be due on Tuesday, May 1st.

THE STRANGER CHAPTER ONE “Maman died today. Or yesterday, maybe. I don’t know.” These are the opening lines of THE STRANGER, which suggests that the unknown narrator is more than a little disconnected from his mother.   He is not aware that his mother has taken a boyfriend or even how old she was. The narrator goes on to say that he can take the bus for the vigil and be back tomorrow afternoon – which seems to imply that he sees his mother’s death as an inconvenience, something to be taken care of quickly and easily and then disposed of.   There are quite a few references to heat and to light (“It was very hot….” “….the glare of the sky….” and there are few descriptions at this point of the people, which contributes to a sense of isolation. The man’s inner landscape seems a little desolate.   The man takes a bus to the old age home his mother was staying at.    He meets the director who speaks for him, giving the son ready-made excuses (“You ...

April 30, 2012 – May 4, 2012 A.P. Weekly Agenda Monday, April 30 th : Discuss THE STRANGER; Go over explication of THE STRANGER Multiple Choice Questions: Excerpt from Prose Selection For homework: Please read chapters 2 – 4 in THE STRANGER; pages 19 – 40. Tuesday, May 1 st : Discuss homework over the weekend: Pages 393 – 404 in PHILOSOPHY and LITERATURE Jean-Paul Sartre; pages 393 – 397; Outline the essay and answer questions 1 – 5 W.T. Stace (Man Against the Darkness); pages 398 – 401; Outline the essay and answer questions 1 – 5 Reinhold Niebuhr (The Christian Commitment); pages 401 – 404; Outline the essay and answer questions 1 – 5 Read and analyze prompt for Henry James’ “The Pupil” Strategies in essay writing. For homework: please read chapter 5  to Part 2; pages 40 – 59, in THE STRANGER and write the explication.  If you are unclear how to do this, please check the blog. Wednesday, May 2 nd : Timed essay writing on Henry Jame...

April 16, 2012 - April 20, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, April 16th: Brief grammar lesson: Appositives and Appositive Phrases Multiple Choice Questions Read and analyze two poems, one by John Keats ("When I Have Fears") and William Wordsworth. Tuesday, April 17th: Timed compare and contrast essay on the two poems by Keats and Wordsworth. Wednesday, April 18th: Brief grammar lesson: Participial Phrases Multiple Choice Questions Read bio of William Blake and "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" Thursday, April 19th: Read and analyze two poems by William Blake from "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" Friday, April 20th: Timed compare and contrast essay on "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" Multiple Choice Questions Next week begin Existentialism!

April 9, 2012 – April 13, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, April 9 th : Analyze John Keats’ and Robert Frost’s poems Watch short video on John Keats’ “Bright Star” Tuesday, April 10 th : In class compare and contrast essay on Keats’ “Bright Star” and Frost’s “Choose Something Like a Star” Your FRANKENSTEIN reading logs are due today. Wednesday, April 11 th : In class essay on a passage from FRANKENSTEIN Thursday, April 12 th : William Blake Packet: bio; “The Lamb” from SONGS OF INNOCENCE and “The Tyger” from SONGS OF EXPERIENCE. Friday, April 13 th : Compare and contrast essay on William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper”.