Ms. Bridges' AP English

Monday, January 30th: Went over the answers to "The Race" Analyzed strategies in answering questions Work on Crime and Punishment essays Tuesday, January 31st:  Read and discuss Mary Shelley's biography For homework: Read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein  Work on Crime and Punishment essays Wednesday, February 1st:    Passed out the Romantics Packet Went over “Things to Consider When Reading Frankenstein” Discussion of Gothic and Romantic Literature Read the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley For tonight: Read Frankenstein, the Letters, up to Chapter One. Write down on a sheet of a paper 1.      What I Know About Gothic Literature 2.      What I Don’t know About Gothic Literature 3.      What I Would Like to Know About Gothic Literature   (“I don’t want to know anything about Gothic Literature” or “I Don’t Care” – is not an option) Thursday, February 2nd:  Read "Ozymandias" Analyzed  Read the biography of Lord

Turnitin.com January: Winter Break Assignment: Crime and Punishment: Essays Due: Essays #1 - 4 due January 13th Essay #1 "No Place to Turn" Essay #2  "The Motif of Yellow" Essay #3  "The Beating of the Mare" Essay #4   "The Soldier and the Student" Due: Essays #5 - 8 due January 20th Essay #5 "Delirium" Essay #6 "Katerina" Essay #7 "The Cross" Essay #8  "Epilogue" Essay "The Suicide of Svidrigaylov" Cavalier Poets Packet: - due on January 9th Sir Walter Raleigh Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson Thomas Herrick Essay: Metaphor and Tone Group Work: "Snakes" Packet Prompt:  Prompt:  Write a well organized essay analyzing the writers' use of metaphors to describe one of the most fascinating, worshipped, and reviled creatures, man's most time honored enemy - the snake - and how the metaphors used reveal the writers' reveal tone.  Minimum 500 words Essay