March 5, 2018 - March 9, 2018 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature

Monday, March 5th:
Assign grammar - due Wednesday, March 7th
Assign Vocabulary Unit #3, #1 - 10 - due Friday, March 9th

Divide class into groups
Students will read from Chapter 1 - Chapter 5
They will analyze the plot, characters, theme, figurative language, Romantic motifs
Students will present their analysis of Chapters 1 - 5 to the class.
The presentation will include a power point and will cover the following:
plot, characters, theme, figurative language, Romantic Era motifs


Watch video on Frankenstein 
Take notes as you watch the video on "Crash Course on Frankenstein" and answer the following questions: 
Who were Mary Shelley’s parents?
How did she and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet?
What was the slight issue Percy Shelley had in marrying Mary? 
How did Percy Shelley die? 
What was his funeral like? 
What was the weird thing that was found out about Percy Shelley after he died?
How did the book Frankenstein come into being? 
What are some of the major themes of Frankenstein?
What was Shelley’s reasons for writing Frankenstein? 
Why is the subtitle for Frankenstein Prometheus Unbound? 
Why does Shelley use  Walton’s Arctic adventure as a framing device? 
How are Paradise Lost  and Frankenstein similar in terms of the creation myth?

Pass out handouts on Frankenstein 
Mary Shelley’s biography
The Romantic Era – read
Prometheus Unbound – read
If you click on "labels" to the left of the AP blog page and scroll down, you will come across lots of information on Crime and Punishment and Dostoevsky, including the essay topics for Crime and Punishment. The first essay is the "Nowhere to Turn" essay, which is due March 15th. 


 Tuesday, March 6th: 
Grammar handout - run-ons: passed out on Monday, due Wednesday, March 7th
Vocabulary Unit 3, #3, #1 - 10; due on Friday, March 9th
Hand out and read the biography of John Keats

Read “On the Sonnet”; multiple choice questions on “On the Sonnet”- go over the answers tomorrow.


Wednesday, March 7th: 
Analyze "Bright Star" by John Keats
Timed writing of "Bright Star" 

Thursday, March 8th: 
Went over the answers to the multiple choice questions to "On the Sonnet" by John Keats, 

Work on their analysis of chapters 1 - 5 of Frankenstein 

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Students will read from Chapter 1 - Chapter 5
They will analyze the plot, characters, theme, figurative language, Romantic motifs
Students will present their analysis of Chapters 1 - 5 to the class.
The presentation will include a power point and will cover the following:
plot, characters, theme, figurative language, Romantic Era motifs

Slides should have:
A picture that is relative to the topic
Bullet points

Title Slide
Plot –
Characters: analysis – protagonist, antagonist, flat, round, conflicts, desires, social class
Pay attention to the tropes in Romantic Literature – exotic people, children, the afflicted, the poor, the tortured soul
Themes: there may be more than one theme; themes are stated as a sentence – with a subject, a verb, and expressing a complete thought. You might want to address the subtitle of the book – Prometheus Unbound (reference the Greek myth)
Figurative Language – reference the imagery to nature and the Romantics’ love of nature
Romantic Era Motifs – their love of the exotic, the romanticizing and the sentimentalizing of the poor and the afflicted, nature
Each person should do two slides each. Write your name on the slides you do.
Email your slides by Saturday

Group 1
Carter Demus, Danya Duarte, Angela Friedman, Matteo Gironda
Group 2
Jefferson Barrera, Oscar Gutierrez, Roland Kalo, Alexis Martinez, William Minor
Group 3
Manuel Campos, Kais Karram, Zane Karram, Luis Mauricio, Emily Salazar

Group 4
Leslie Caballero, Ronald Canton, Monce Cruz, Alejandro Ignacio, Brandy Mendoza

Group 5
Sandra Bautista, Cristina Gamez, Daireen Garcia, Allison Chirino, Sydney Ross

Group 6
Elizabeth Chan, Jennifer Fadersaer, Blanca Huerta, Aliyyah Joseph, Andrea Morales


Friday, March 9th:
Passed out "Aristotle and the Four Causes"  "Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Magnus in Frankenstein" 
Break into groups to work on presentations on Monday and Tuesday. 

Looking ahead: 
Students will present their analysis of Chapters 1 - 5 to the class.
The presentation will include a power point and will cover the following:
plot, characters, theme, figurative language, Romantic Era motifs


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