Lesson Plans, Notes, and Schedule for AP English


Readings:
Hamlet
Collect Act Three test - Scene 1
Make copies of Hamlet - Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, 4 and give to students on Tuesday, January 16th
Collect on Monday, January 22nd.
Give Act 4 on Monday,  January 22nd and collect on Friday, January 26th
Pass out Act 5 on Friday, January 26 and collect on January 21st.

Prep for Tuesday, January 16th:
Revise Test  for Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, and 4
Make copies
Make copies of "When men shall find thy flower, thy glory gone...."


January 15th - January 19th:
Tuesday, January 16th:
Multiple Choice Test:
"When men shall find thy flower, thy glory gone..."
Assign Vocabulary Unit 4, #1 - #10

Wednesday, January 17th: 
In-class writing prompt - 2016 Poetry Selection
Collect Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
Pass out Hamlet, Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, and 4

Thursday, January 18th:
Go over the rubric
Go over the released student A.P. papers

Friday, January 19th:
Hamlet - read, write a brief mini-essay on Hamlet
Vocabulary Unit 4, #1 - #10 due

January 22nd - January 26th:
Monday, January 22nd:
Collect Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, and 4
Pass out Act 4 Hamlet Open Book Test


Go over reading twice a week
Monday - Friday
Do outside readings - students must also do reading log for outside reading.
tests, multiple choice test on the outside reading
writing on certain selections, excerpts from the outside reading.
Friday - Vocabulary homework is due

Tuesday:
Multiple Choice Selection
Assign Vocabulary #1 - 10
Assign readings from Perrine's

Wednesday - Thursday
Wednesday - Do an in-class writing prompt
Thursday - Go over the rubric
Read the student released A.P. papers
Questions from Perrine's assignments will be due

Multiple Choice Tests:
"When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass...."
John Donne
(Make copies, find answers)

"Meditation" - John Donne
(Make copies, find answers)

Readings from Perrine's 
Eudora Welty - "A Worn Path"-  page 223
Katherine Anne Porter - "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - page 272
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown" - page 316
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" - page 329
Frank O'Connor - "The Drunkard" - page 342
Albert Camus -  "The Guest" - page 371 (Read with The Stranger)

 Poetry:
Emily Dickinson - "There's Been a Death, in the  Opposite House" - page 748
Sylvia Plath - "Mirror" - page 749
Emily Dickinson - "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" - page 776
World War 1 Poets





Tentative January Calendar

January Sunday Monday Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday








8
 9
Analysis of Middlemarch 		 10
Timed Writing of Middlemarch		 11
Analyzed “To be or not to be” soliloquy
Discussion of Act 3, Scene 2		 12
Winter Break Assignments due today
Vocabulary Unit 4, #1 - #10 due today 



16
“When men shall find thy beauty spent, thy glory pass”
Multiple Choice Test		 17
2016 In-class Timed Writing/ 
Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1 Test is due/ 
Pass out Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2,3, and 4 test - due Monday, January 23		 18 
Go over rubric 
Read released student papers 
Vocabulary Unit 4, #11 - 20 assigned 		 19 
Hamlet Discussion
The Mouse Trap/ 
Horatio/Hamlet as foil/Gertrude and Hamlet bedchamber scene/the murder of Polonius/the ghost of Hamlet’s father   


22 
Hamlet Act 3 Test will be due 
Pass out Hamlet Act 4 Test 

 23 
2016 Multiple Choice Test/
Assign “The Sun is Rising”; page 830/ 
Vocabulary Unit 4, #11 - 20 is due /		 24
2016 In-class Timed Writing		 25 
Go over rubric/
Read released student papers 

 26 
Hamlet Act 4 Discussion: Death of Ophelia; the manipulation of Laertes; the Gravedigger’s scene 
“The Sun is Rising”; pages 830 


29
Hamlet Act 4 Test is due;  Pass out Hamlet Act 5 Test		 30
2016 Multiple Choice Test

 31
2015 In-class Timed Writing 		 February 1
Go over rubric/Read released student papers 		 February  2
Hamlet Act 5 is due today; Culminating Hamlet essay 




Tentative February Calendar

February Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday



Go over rubric and student released A.P. papers 

 Begin reading Frankenstein 
Bio of Mary Shelly 
Reading log
Romanticism - lecture/youtube
Go over philosophy behind Frankenstain; youtube video about philosophy  2015 Multiple Choice Selection 
Assign Vocabulary Unit 5, Unit #1 - #10 
Assign Perrine’s “To His Coy Mistress”, page 803
“To the Virgins”, page 815		 7 
In-class writing assignment 2015 Poetry 

 8
Go over the rubric 
Read the student released A.P. papers 
“To His Coy Mistress”, page 803
“To the Virgins”. page 815 due today 		 9
Vocabulary Unit 5, Unit #1 - #10 due today
Prestwick Multiple Choice Questions/Essay over Frankenstein
12
Prestwick 
Multiple Choice questions over Frankenstein  

 13 
2015 Multiple Choice Selection 
Assign Vocabulary Unit 5, #11 - #20
Perrine’s “Bright Star”, page 792
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”		 14 In-Class writing assignment “Bright Star”  15 Go over the rubric 
Read the student released A.P. papers 
Perrine’s “Bright Star”, page 792 and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” are due today		 16 Vocabulary Unit 5, #11 - #20
Prestwick Multiple Choice Questions over Frankenstein 
19
Prestwick 
Multiple Choice questions over Frankenstein 

 20
2014 Multiple Choice Selection 
Assign Vocabulary Unit 6, #1 - #10
Perrine’s “Ozymandias”
page 838 and “The Chimney Sweep”, page 837

 21
In-class writing assignment
Open Response - Frankenstein 		 22 Perrine’s “Ozymandias”, page 838 and “The Chimney Sweep”, page 837 are due today  23
Notes from Underground 
Read Dostoevksy’s bio
Vocabulary Unit 6; #1 - 10 due today
26
Read analysis of Notes from the Underground
Assign philosophy paper on Nietzsche 
27
2014 Multiple Choice Selection
Assign Vocabulary Unit 6, #11 - 20 
28
In-class writing assignment 
March 1
Go over the rubric
Read the released student papers 
March 2
Discussion of Notes from the Underground
Vocabulary Unit 6, #11 - 20 is due today




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