Ms. Bridges' AP English

Monday, April 24th: "Advice to a Prophet" multiple choice questions Read Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Christian Commitment" Answer the questions one through five in complete sentences incorporating the questions in the answers. Tuesday, April 25th:   Multiple Choice questions “Maud Martha” Went over yesterday’s multiple choice questions on “Advice to a Prophet” Answers to “Advice to a Prophet” 12. D 13. E 14. C 15. E 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. B 21. E 22. D 23. E Went over the answers, figurative language, vocabulary, syntax, and test-taking strategies. Read “A.P. Thesis Paragraph” Wednesday, April 26th: In-class writing assignment - "It's a Woman's World" Assign: Perrine's: pages 976 - 977; Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" Questions 1 - 4; due Monday, May 1st Perrine's: pages 967 - 969; Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Que...

Monday, April 17th:  All late work and revisions are due tonight at midnight! No exceptions! There are no revisions on late work. Tomorrow, the following are due: A Streetcar Named Desire multiple choice questions and essay are due. Please turn A Streetcar Named Desire essay into turnitin.com. Please submit the analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire into turnitin.com Tomorrow, please bring your book A Streetcar Named Desire. We will start reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger this week, along with essays on existentialism.  How to embed quotations in essays. George Eliot’s Middlemarch excerpt Do not quote too much nor too little! Use the most important part of the quotation in the essay. Then paraphrase the rest or write in your own words the rest of the quotation. Please take a look at line 49, “Lydgate was bowing his neck….” Trying to be reasonable, Lydgate feels as if he is “bowing his neck under the yoke l...

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Ernest Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises Which did Hemingway prefer - the city or the country?  2. Why did Hemingway prefer the one over the other?  3. What kind of writer was Hemingway at the beginning of his career? 4. Is The Sun Also Rises based on real people - is it a roman a clef?  5. Who was Harold Loeb?  6. What two communities did Harold Loeb’s character bridge?  7. What was Harold Loeb’s reaction to Hemingway’s depiction of him in the book? 8. Who was Lady Brett Ashley based on?  9. Who was the male counterpart to Lady Brett Ashely?  10. Who was Bill Gorton based on? 11. What did Donald Ogden Stewart do to anger Hemingway? 12. How did Hemingway get back at Donald Ogden Stewart? 13. What did Donald Ogden Smith confess to years later which left him shamefaced?  14. Whose story is The Sun Also Rise - Jake’s or Lady Brett Ash...

Monday, April 3rd: Multiple Choice Questions over the poem "S.I.W."  by the W.W. 1 poet Wilfred Owen A little refresher on some terms that appear on the multiple choice questions for "S.I.W." Feminine rhyme: a rhyme that matches two or more syllables occurring at the end of a line, and the second syllable is not stressed. The following words are examples of feminine rhyme: `Dan-cing and `Pran-cing Examples from poetry:    Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: .           England hath need of thee: she is a fen .           Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, .           Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,  - examples of feminine rhyme .           Have forfeited their ancient English dower - examples of feminine rhyme ....