Ms. Bridges' AP English

APRIL 30TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE MONDAY, APRIL 30TH: Go over the 2006 poetry prompt, “The Hawk”. Go over the multiple choice test: John Keats’ “On the Sonnet” and discuss sonnet formats. Read Lord Byron’s Bio (and this time, I really mean it!) and “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”. Take home prompt for Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS. I will check out ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT to you as soon as the books arrive from the bookroom (I’ve already placed the order). For those of you finished with THE METAMORPHOSIS please start reading ALL QUIET as soon as you receive it. TUESDAY, MAY 1ST: Shortened day! Heads up! Nine Days to the AP Test! Discussion of last night’s prompt on Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS. Collect last night’s essays. Read William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “London in 1819” and “To Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”. Take home multiple choice...

AP English Literature Weekly Schedule for April 23rd Monday, April 23rd: Analyze the prompts given to you last week on the Robert Frost and John Keats’ poems. You will then take the prompt home, work on it and turn it in on Tuesday, April 24th. Since we are working on a John Keats’ poem, we might as well read his biography and several more of his poetry - which is exquisite! (And which we didn’t have time for last week!) We will read “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. I will give you a wee small open book “quiz” that you can do whilst you are reading the poems. Keep working on: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT or start reading Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS. Tuesday, April 24th: Your Contrast/Comparison essay on the poems by Robert Frost and John Keats is due today. Turn in your multiple choice questions given to you last week, Samuel Johnson on Alexander Pope from his “Lives of the Poets”. I will go over the Unit 5 vocabulary words with you today. This will b...

APRIL 16, 2007 WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH MONDAY, APRIL 16TH: Collect homework assignment for Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ode to the West Wind”. Read another example of “terza rima”: Robert Frost’s“Acquainted with the Night”. Read Lord Byron’s biography, “When We Two Parted” and “She Walks in Beauty”. Read excerpts from Nietzsche’s Will to Power, and excerpts on the lives of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. What we don’t finish in class, you MUST read at home. TUESDAY, APRIL 17TH: Please bring your vocabulary book today. Unit Five will be assigned today. This will be due on Friday, April 20th. Short writing warm-up (two paragraphs) based on CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Go over John Keat’s biography, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. What we don’t finish in class, you MUST read at home. A brief open book, take home test will be passed out over the Romantic poets. This will be due on Monday, April 23rd. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH: Timed essay on comparison of ...

APRIL 9TH, 2007 WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH MONDAY, APRIL 9TH: Warm-up exercise: Write five sentences beginning with gerund phrases using your Unit Four vocabulary words. Share with class. Wrapping up of CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Analyze Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”. Go over answers to last week’s multiple choice questions of “Love’s Diet”. TUESDAY, APRIL 10TH: Shortened day! PLEASE BRING YOUR ENGLAND IN LITERATURE to class the rest of this week. Brief Discussion of CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Readings of selections from Friedrich Nietzsche’s WILL TO POWER. Read Lord Byron’s biography and analyze “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11TH: Timed writing essay: “A Woman’s World”. THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH: Go over “A Woman’s World” poem. Read John Keats’ biography and analyze “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH: Warm-up exercise: Write five compound sentences using your Unit Four vocabulary w...

April 2, 2007 AP Literature Schedule Monday, April 2nd: Multiple Choice Test: "Love's Diet" or prose selection from Jane Austen. Analyze excerpt from Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD Discuss Crime and Punishment Your rewrite of Henry James’ “The Pupil” is due today. Tuesday, April 3rd: Shortened day! Analyze “Ode to the West Wind” Wednesday, April 4th: Timed essay today: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing. Pass out excerpt from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Will to Power. Go over discuss. Thursday, April 5th: Voice Lessons: “Tone” Analyze yesterday’s timed essay: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing. Discuss Crime and Punishment Friday, April 6th: Your short form of Crime and Punishment is due today. Discussion of Crime and Punishment. Analysis of except from the novel MARY BARTON by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, March 26th: Mulitple Choice Test: Go over “First Paragraph” packet. Examine an AP prompt, Cormac MacCarthy’s THE CROSSING and the student responses. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT discussion over Part lV. Tuesday, March 27th: Go over some poetry terms: meter, foot, spondee, iamb, dactyl, trochee. Go over “Integrating Quotations” packet. Examine another AP prompt, Henry James’ THE PUPIL and the student responses. CRIME and PUNISHMENT discussion over Part V, chapters 5 and 6. Break into groups and analyze section for character, theme, motif and symbol. For tonight, please read CRIME and PUNISHMENT, and finish Chapter V. Wednesday, March 28th: Timed essay today! Thursday, March 29th: A dactylic puzzle as a warm-up exercise. Discuss poetry terms: sonnets, rhyme scheme, couplet. Discuss some aspects of essay writing. Examine more AP prompts and the student responses. Discuss CRIME and PUNISHMENT. For tonight, please read Part Vl, chapters one and two. Frida...

March 19th, 2007 Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, March 19th: Pass out and assign poetry terms. Get into teams of three and select the three to five poetry terms you would like to present. Warm-up activity: Write one periodic sentence using one word from your unit 4 vocabulary; write one loose sentence using a different word from your unit 4 vocabulary; write one interrupted sentence with another word, and finally write one balanced sentence with yet another word from your unit 4 vocabulary. We will discuss the weekend’s reading of Chapters 6 and 7 in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Tonight’s reading will be over Part lll, Chapters 1 and 2. Tuesday, March 20th: Your Unit 4 Vocabulary is due today. Today we will do the first of many timed essays. The prompt will be given to you on Tuesday and will be over a passage from CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Tonight please read Part lll, Chapters 3 and 4. Wednesday, March 21st: I’m going to change the due date for your English grammar homework in WARR...