October 10, 2016 - October 14, 2016 Weekly Agenda for A. P. English













Looking Ahead: 
Due Tuesday, October 11th: 
Grammar
Writer’s Choice
Active and Passive Voice
Pages 587, 588 and 589
Exercises 21, 22, 23, and 24

Perrine’s Literature
"The Guest" by Albert Camus
Pages 371 - 383 
Questions 1 - 9; pages 383 - 384.

Due Thursday, October 12th: 
Vocabulary
Unit 2
The first ten words

Please bring your Hamlet  and Perrine's 

Monday, October 10th: 
Mercurial:  describes who is volatile, erratic in behavior; like the mercury in a thermometer, a mercurial person will go up and down, etc. 

 Pass out the three verisons of the Andrey Voznesensky Poem "First Ice"
With a partner, analyze the three versions of the poem
Then select the best word choice from each line of the three poems and construct a fourth poem. This poem should have what you consider to be the best lines from the three poems. 
Then, write your own twelve line poem but change the season to summer and  entitle it "First Fire". 
This will be due on Thursday, October 13th. 

Tuesday, October 11th: 

 Brief class discussion of last night’s reading of Albert Camus’ “The Guest”
Collected the grammar homework: Active/Passive Voice

Collected the questions, #1 – 9 for “The Guest” by Albert Camus in Perrine’s Literature

Watched Ted.ed.com

“Shakespeare and Hip-Hop” – Akala

Passed out the handout on the structure of Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet

Passed out the multiple choice questions on “That time of year thou mayst in me behold….”
Briefly went over soapstone for the sonnet.

 Wednesday, October 12th: 
No school today! 

 
Thursday, October 13th:

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”

What is the first thing you notice in the first line of this sonnet?
Time
May/December marriages
He is in the springtime of his life.
He is in the autumn of his life.
He is in the twilight of his life.
Reorder the word order into contemporary English.
Fall/Winter Imagery
Yellow leaves do hang upon the boughs (tree branches)
Which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs – the ruins of a church
Death’s second self – sleep
Continue analysis
Finish the multiple choice questions for this sonnet tonight

Watch Act 1, Scene 1 of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet
For tonight: Please read Act 1, Scene 1 and write down any questions or observations you may have about the scene. This is filled with important exposition so pay attention!

Friday, October 14th: 
 

Passed back and went over the multiple choice questions for “The Imaginary Iceberg”
Went over the multiple choice questions over Sonnet 73
Brief discussion of Act 1, Scene 1



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