April 16, 2018 - April 20, 2018 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English

Monday, April 16th: 


Went over adverbial clause handout
Assigned for homework: Construct five sentences – two clauses from the list on the handout under Exercise B -  and connect the two clauses with a common subordinating conjunction.

Read Lord Byron’s biography 
Discussion 
Read and analyze Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
Who is speaking?
Who is he speaking to?
Is there a framing device? If so, what is it?
Underline any imagery, allusions, figurative language.  What effect does each have?
Why does the poet use these particular examples of figurative language?
Where is the volta? What is the volta? What effect does this shift in perspective have on the poem?
How do all these devices carry the theme of the poem?
What is the theme of the poem?


 
Tuesday, April 17th:

Multiple-Choice questions today - The Mill on the Floss

#20 was not copied out:

20. Mr. Tulliver could find no comfort in his daughter’s developing qualities because
(A) he feared her growing independence
(B) he recognized her naivete
(C) her goodness accentuated his feelings of despair
(D) she remained to timid to explain her motivation
(E) she could not understand his need for revenge


Wednesday, April 18th:
In-class timed-essay on Frankenstein 
Choose a novel or a play in which a minor character serves as a foil to a main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work. 

Thursday, April 19th: 
Existentialism:
Read and discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay, “Existentialism”, W.T. Stace’s essay, “Man Against the Darkness”, and Reinhold Niebuhr’s essay, “The Christian Commitment”.
Friday, April 20th: 
Video: Existentialism
"Crash Course: Existentialism"
"Sartre"
Discussion:
Read "Existentialism" - Jean Paul Sartre



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