Ms. Bridges' AP English

May 1st AP English Literature Monday, May 1st: Go over the multiple choice selections: “On Joan of Arc” and “On My Husband’s Absence." Go over essay writing techniques; go over released student essays on “The Pupil” and the open response essay question. Continue reading The Stranger. Pass out the prompt for The Stranger. This will be due on Friday, May 5th. Pass out All Quiet on the Western Front. If you are finished with The Stranger, then begin working on All Quiet on the Western Front. Tuesday, May 2nd: Another timed essay. For homework, more multiple choice selections: Emily Dickinson’s “The Habit of Perfection.” We will go over this multiple choice selection on Wednesday, May 3rd. Continue reading The Stranger. Wednesday, May 3rd: Final discussion on essay writing techniques and multiple choice questions. If you made below a “B” on your essays, please rewrite them, incorporating the corrections on your revised essay and the strategies you have learned in class on essay...

April 24th Weekly Schedule for AP English Literature Hello Scholars and Artists! This is to let you know that the AP test is one week from this Thursday. Yikes! You need to be finished with Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Monday, April 24th, and you need to turn in your AP prompt on Tuesday, April 25th. We are going to start reading Albert Camus’ The Stranger on Monday! We are going to devote about four days max on The Stranger - pity, because it’s a very interesting book; then we are going to whiz through Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot - yes, we have entered the fun, wonderful world of existentialism! Then, after that, we will take off our berets and our black turtle necks, go back into time - 1917 to be exact - don our gas masks, climb into the trenches and read All Quiet on the Western Front. All this before Thursday, May 4th! I don’t expect you to have finished All Quiet on the Western Front by that date, but I seriously expect you to be finished with The Metamorphosis (approxi...

APRIL 17TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 17th: Turn in your long form for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, and if you haven’t turned in your FRANKENSTEIN long form, please do so. If you don’t turn in either, then you will receive an “F” on the midterm. You also need to turn in your open book test over the Romantic Poets. The book in question is ENGLAND IN LITERATURE - you know that huge purple and gold two-ton book you’ve been carrying around in your backpack? Yeah, that one. The answers (with the page numbers thoughtfully placed on the test) are to be found in that book. You need to turn the test in this week. If you haven’t located a copy of METAMORPHOSIS, then I will check out a copy to you. R. Crumb’s cartoon version of Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS will be passed out because - well, because it’s kind of fun and trippy. Two essays will also be passed out regarding Kafka and we will briefly go over them. We will also go over some essay writing techniques, particula...

April 10th Weekly Schedule for AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 10th: The tempo quickens! WE HAVE LESS THAN A MONTH BEFORE THE AP EXAM! You need to finish CRIME AND PUNISHMENT! You need to turn in the long form for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. SERIOUSLY. If you do not turn in this assignment, then you will receive an F on the midterm. On a more pleasant topic, please read and answer the questions on William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. We will briefly go over William Blake and his poetry. We will then go over the released student essays on last year’s AP compare and contrast prompts on William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence.” We will also go over some essay writing tips. Tuesday, April 11th: Shortened day today! Your Vocabulary Unit 6 is due today. We will briefly go over the answers. Because we are so pressed for time, we don’t have time to take the vocabulary test; therefore, your homework assignment will count as the test. You will be giv...

April 3rd Weekly Schedule for AP Literature Monday, April 3rd: Grades must be turned in tomorrow so if you have not turned in either long forms for Frankenstein or for Crime and Punishment, then you will receive an “F” for this grading period. If you have only turned in one long form you will receive a “D”. Sorry, guys, but you knew about these books since December, 05. Today we will discuss Crime and Punishment: the plot points, characters, literary devices, and the philosophical and historical contexts of the book. We will also read and discuss the Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and of course, John Keats. So please be sure to bring your books today and for the rest of the week. Tuesday, April 4th: More of the same. Discussion of Crime and Punishment; readings of the Romantic Poets. When we have finished reading and discussing Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, we will have a small quiz which will include the poetry terms, and the poems an...

April 3rd Weekly Schedule for AP Literature Monday, April 3rd: Grades must be turned in tomorrow so if you have not turned in either long forms for Frankenstein or for Crime and Punishment, then you will receive an “F” for this grading period. If you have only turned in one long form you will receive a “D”. Sorry, guys, but you knew about these books since December, 05. Today we will discuss Crime and Punishment: the plot points, characters, literary devices, and the philosophical and historical contexts of the book. We will also read and discuss the Romantic poets: William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and of course, John Keats. So please be sure to bring your books today and for the rest of the week. Tuesday, April 4th: More of the same. Discussion of Crime and Punishment; readings of the Romantic Poets. When we have finished reading and discussing Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, we will have a small quiz which will include the poetry terms, and the poems an...

IS IT A ROMANTIC POET OR A 1960’S ROCK STAR? 1. What two creative partners forged a close bond when they both lost their mothers during adolescence? a. Lennon and McCartney b. Percy Shelley and John Keats 2. What artist created one of his most famous works under the haze of opium? a. Jim Morrison b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge c. Lord Byron 3. Who abandoned his wife and child for an avant-garde artist? a. John Lennon b. Lord Byron c. Percy Bysshe Shelley 4. Who became a political activist, journeyed to a foreign country to help in its struggle for independence, contracted a disease while traveling to the country and subsequently died, and whose death was met by cries of anguish from hordes of distraught women? a. John Lennon b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. Lord Byron 5. Which artist scandalized society by abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with a sixteen year old girl? a. Jerry Lee Lewis b. Percy Bysshe Shelley c. John Keats 6. ...