January 23, 2017 - January 27, 2017 Weekly Agenda for A.P. Literature



January 23, 2017 - January 27, 2017
WEEKLY AGENDA for A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE 

Monday, January 23rd:
Looking Ahead:
The following will be due on Tuesday, January 24th
Perrine’s Literature: Chapter 3; pages 168 - 173; Characterization; Outline
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; pages 173 - 181; questions 1 – 6; pages 181 - 182
The following will be due on Friday, January 27th
Perrine’s Literature: “Miss Brill”; pages 182 – 186; questions 1-8; questions 186 - 187

The Handmaid’s Tale essay will be due on Wednesday, January 25th

We are going to push back Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Romantic Poets a few days.

For Today, Monday, January 23rd: 
Discussion of the use of color as a motif in Crime and Punishment 
Today, we will break into groups to discuss Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov, and Raskolnikov and Razumikhin
Ten minutes per character
Each person has to speak
Razumikhin:
Is he a foil? How is he different from Raskolnikov?  Is he a good friend? Why? How  does Dostoevsky use him?
Svidrigailov:
Is he an ubermensche? Is he a sociopath? Describe him? How are he and Raskolnilov similar? How are they different?

Tuesday, January 24th:
Due today:
Perrine’s Literature: Chapter 3: Characterization; pages 168 – 173; Outline
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; pages 173 – 181; questions 1 – 6


Looking Ahead:
The Handmaid’s Tale essay will be due on Wednesday, January 25th
 The following will be due on Friday, January 27th
“Perrine’s Literature: “Miss Brill”; pages 182 – 186; questions 1-8

 Writing Issues:

Wrong: Raskolnikov met Marmeladov at the tavern he was a drunk.
Raskolnikov met a drunk by the name of Marmeladov at the tavern.
At the tavern Raskolnikov met Mermeladov, who was a drunk.

Relative nouns: who, which, that, whom, whomever, where

Wrong: “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky he used the color yellow to show corruption.
Never write Dostoevsky followed by “he”
Raskolnikov he = NEVER
“Who” is used when writing about people
“That” is used when you are writing about animals or concepts or things.


“The old lady lived in an apartment where everything had a yellowish gleam. Her neck was yellowish and the furniture had been polished so that it shone with a yellowish light.” Wrong! There is no introduction! Don’t list! You need to introduce the quotation: who is the old lady? Alyona Ivanovna. What does she do? She cheats the poor out of their money. Describe her: Alyona is greedy – avaricious – dishonest, stubborn, stingy, wicked. How does Dostoevsky show this through the color yellow?

Marmeladov’s face
Who is he? Why is his face yellow? What is the significance of his yellow face?
How does this connect with his daughter’s yellow ticket?
Who is she, the possessor of this yellow ticket?

Run-on and Misplaced Modifier: 
Raskolnikov meets a guy who has a daughter she is a prostitute in the tavern he starts telling his life story and how he drinks too much and his daughter has to carry around a ticket.

Raskolnikov meets Marmeladov at a tavern, where he starts telling the young man about his life.  Marmeladov is an alcoholic whose drinking has impoverished his family.  His wife has bullied his daughter into becoming a prostitute to earn money so that the family can eat.  Sonia now must carry a yellow card which identifies her as a prostitute. 

Sentence Fragment:
 Raskolnikov is so exhausted mentally and physically. 
Corrected: 
Raskolnikov is exhausted mentally and physically. 

Fused Sentence:
The first one is when Raskolnikov sees Alyona’s apartment he describes it as a dull yellow room.

Can you correct the above sentence using a relative pronoun and an adjective clauses?
Jayla: The first one is when Raskolnilov sees Alyona’s apartment, which is described as a dull yellow room.

 Go over the prompt from The Pupil  by Henry James. 

We will do an impromptu timed writing essay on Wednesday, and a multiple choice quiz over a poem on Thursday per the A.P. Committee’s request.

The essay over the Epilogue in Crime and Punishment will be posted tonight on the blog and on turnitin.com.



Wednesday, January 25th:
Timed in-class essay
Here is the long awaited Crime and Punishment "Epilogue Prompt"
The Prompt for the Epilogue:In the epilogue of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Raskolnikov has a disturbing dream in which the worlds’ people are infected with a virus. Discuss the significance of that dream as it pertains to the theme of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Discuss also the symbolism used by Dostoevsky in the Epilogue to reveal Raskolnikov’s transformation; for example, the time of year this dream occurs, Lent and Easter, Sonia’s illness and subsequent reappearance. Could Sonia’s reappearance be analogous to Lazarus’ story in the Bible?


Thursday, January 26th:
Multi-choice questions
The Race
Prose excerpt
Drop-Cover Drill

Friday, January 27th:
Analyzed the poem "The Race" 
Write a one paragraph essay analyzing the poem in terms of how the poet uses diction, syntax, metaphor, imagery and allusion to convey movement, and urgency. 


Perrine’s Literature: “Miss Brill”; pages 182 – 186; questions 1-8; questions 186 - 187




















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