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Syllabus from March 24, 2017 - May 3, 2017

March 20th  - March 24th  Monday, March 20th:   Questions on Act 1 and Act 2  Homework: Questions and reading log for Act 3 of A Doll’s House  Assigned: Vocabulary Unit 5; #1 - 10  Due Monday, 27th Tuesday, March 21st:   Finish A Doll’s House  Open Response Essay on A Doll’s House Check out The Sun Also Rises  Begin reading The Sun Also Rises  30 pages a day Brief summary Characters Analysis - minimum of two  Theme Analysis - minimum of one  Figurative language Analysis - minimum of three Wednesday, March 22nd:  Begin work on Middlemarch essay Continue reading The Sun Also Rises  30 pages a day Brief summary Characters Theme  Figurative language Thursday, March 23rd:  In-class essay on Middlemarch essay  Homework: Poem by Emily Dickinson - “I Felt a Ringing in My Brain” + questions  Continue reading The Sun Also Rises  30 pages...

2017 Spring Syllabus for AP English Literature

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...