November 26, 2012 - November 30, 2012
Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature

Monday, November 26th:
In class timed essay: Analysis of a foil in HAMLET which serves to highlight a character or advance the theme of HAMLET.


Tuesday, November 27th:
Please bring your CLIFFNOTES paperback book (yellow and black book) to class today every day this week:
Poetry Selection; multiple choice questions

For homework; due Wednesday: Read "Carpe Diem"; biography of Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh
Poems: "The Passionate Shepard to His Love by Marlowe
and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard"

Wednesday, November 28th:
Poetry Selection; multiple choice questions

For homework, due Thursday, November 29th:

in your Cavalier Poets' Packet, please read the following: page 269: Ben Jonson;
page 270: “Still to Be Neat”, “Song to Celia” and “On My First Son”
page 271; “Comment: Ben Jonson’s Vision of His Son”
Please answer: page 272: “Still to be Neat”: Analyzing: #2 and 3; “Song, to Celia”: Understanding: #1;
“On My First Son”: Analyzing: #5. 

Thursday, November 29th: 
In class timed essay:

For homework, due Friday: 
Please read: page 275: Biography of Robert Herrick; “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Please answer: page 277: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”: Analyzing: #2.
Please read: page 278: Biography of John Donne; page 282: “Sonnet 10”; page 283; “Meditation 17”
Please answer: page 285: “Holy Sonnet 10”; Understanding: #1; Analysing: #2 and #3; “Meditation 17"; Analyzing: #2 and #3; APPLYING: SYNECDOCHE: #1 and #2

Friday, November 30th: 
Poetry Selections: Multiple Choice Questions 

For homework, due Tuesday, December 4th: 
Please read: page 288: Biography of Andrew Marvell; page 289: “To His Coy Mistress”; page 290: Reader’s Note: “To His Coy Mistress”.
Please answer: page 291: “To His Coy Mistress”; Understanding: #1; Extending: #4.
Please read: page 292: Biography of John Milton; page 293; “On His Blindness”.

The weeks of December 3, 2012 - December 11m 2012: we will read FRANKENSTEIN and read the poetry of the Romantics.  Over the Christmas break, we will read CRIME and PUNISHMENT.


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