Ms. Bridges' AP English

Monday, March 2nd: Finish reading Byron's "DON JUAN" Your analytical essay on FRANKENSTEIN is due today. FRANKENSTEIN PROMPT: Please read pages 149 - 150 and then write an essay of a minimum of two pages analyzing Shelley's use of figurative language and how it relates to the Romantic Era's philosophy. Your reading log for FRANKENSTEIN is due today. Go over "She Walks in Beauty" and Sonnet 130" comparison packet. Tuesday, March 3rd: Shortened Day! Read pages 502 - 505; biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To Wordsworth", "England in 1819", "Ozymandias", and "Ode to the West Wind." For homework: please work on the packet for Shelley's "Ode to the Wes Wind". Wednesday, March 4th: Read pages 508 - 515; the biography of John Keats; "When I have Fears", "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a...

AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23RD - 27TH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD: Twenty minute timed writing: Analysis of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”. Analyze Coleridge’s use of imagery and paradox to convey mood in “Kubla Khan”. This is the first of many timed writings and will be due at 10:10 am. Read pages 490 - 491; biography of George Gordon (Lord Byron) and “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”. Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + literary tropes + vocabulary + examples of the philosophy of the Romantic Era and of Romantic literature. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH: Go over Unit Four from your vocabulary homework. Read pages 502 - 505; biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To Wordsworth”, “England in 1819”, “Ozymandias”, “Ode to the West Wind”. What we do not finish in class today, we will finish tomorrow. Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + literary tropes + vocabulary + examples of the philosophy of the Romantic Era and of Romantic literature. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2...

WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH FEBRUARY 16TH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH: DAY OFF! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH: SHORTENED DAY! Vindication of the Rights of Women questions are due. Please bring Vocabulary Workshop; Unit 4 will be assigned today and will be due on Friday, February 20th. Read: Page 449: "Biography of William Wordsworth" Page 454: "My Heart Leaps Up "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" "It is a Beauteous Evening" Page 456: THEMES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE: The Countryside Page 457: "The World is Too Much with Us" "London, 1802" Read FRANKENSTEIN and write a brief summary + figurative tropes + vocabulary + examples of Romantic literature. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH: Page 463: Biography: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Page 464: "Kubla Khan" Page 465: "Comment" Pages 490: Biography:George Gordon, Lord Byron Pages 491: "She Walks in Beauty" "When We Two Parted" Read FRANKENSTEIN and write...

Ms. Bridges' AP English Monday, February 9, 2009 Topics to Be Aware of While Reading Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN Taking into account the philosophy of the time, think about the role of the creator, Victor Frankenstein, with the role of a divine creator (God, if you wish) and how one might see the disastrous effects that occur when man attempts to usurp God’s perceived role as creator. You don't have to agree or disagree with the premise - just be aware of how a 19th Century reader may interpret Victor Frankenstein's wanderings onto the hallowed grounds of creation. Analyze the warning Mary Shelley implicitly gives regarding out of control scientific discovery and the havoc it may wreak in nature. Analyze the significance of the subtitle of Frankenstein and the symbol- ism of the Prometheus myth as it pertains to Victor and his creation of the monster. Consider Gothic literature and analyze how Shelley’s novel is a classic example of Gothic literature. Taking a feminist ...

AP Assignments and Due Dates Final Week of the Fall Semester, February 2nd - 6th Hamlet “Hot Seat” questions and answers are due on Monday, February 2nd. All Hamlet Open Book Tests are due on Tuesday, February 3rd The Hamlet Reading Logs are due on Tuesday, February 3rd The Hamlet essay is due on Tuesday, February 3rd. The grading period closes for this class on Wednesday, February 4th so anything turned in after will not count. On Tuesday, you will receive a copy of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN which we will start reading this week.

AP ENGLISH WINTER BREAK SCHEDULE FROM THE PACKET: Please read: page 268: “Carpe Diem” page 269: Ben Jonson page 270: “Still to Be Neat”, “Song to Celia” and “On My First Son” page 271; “Comment: Ben Jonson’s Vision of His Son” Please answer: page 272: “Still to be Neat”: Analyzing: #2 and 3; “Song, to Celia”: Understanding: #1; “On My First Son”: Analyzing: #5. Please read: page 275: Robert Herrick; “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time Please answer: page 277: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”: Analyzing: #2. Please read: page 278: John Donne page 282: “Sonnet 10” page 283: “Meditation 17” Please answer: page 285: “Holy Sonnet 10”: Understanding: #1; Analyzing: #2 and #3; “Meditation 17”: Analyzing: #2 and #3; APPLYING: SYNECDOCHE: #1 and #2. (I KNOW I DIDN’T ASSIGN THIS INITIALLY, BUT COULD YOU ANSWER THIS AS WELL.) Please read: page 288: Andrew Marvell page 289: “To His Coy Mistress”; page 290: Reader’s Note: “To His Coy Mistress”. Please answer: page 291: “To His Coy Mistress...

DECEMBER 15th - 19th AP English Weekly Agenda Monday, December 15th: Work on the Tableaux for the first ten minutes of class and then present. Please read Act Three over the weekend. Discussion of Act Three. Please keep reading log which should include a brief summary, literary devices, motifs, themes and character analysis you may notice. Please remember to work on your Theme Wheel. Tuesday, December 16th: Shortened Day. Break into groups of three or four, choose a scene from Act Three; you will present to the class a tableau from your scene and then a brief summary; presentation of literary devices (including motifs and themes) and character analysis you may notice in your particular scene. Wednesday, December 17th: Continue presenting. Brief discussions following each presentations. Watch movie. Your Act Three Open Book Test will be due today. Please read Act Four tonight. Your Act Four Open Book Test will be given to you today. Thursday, December 18th: Begin working on Act Four o...