Ms. Bridges' AP English

APRIL 27th - MAY 1st WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, April 27th: Please answer the five questions over CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Finish the Nietzsche presentations. Today PHILOSOPHY and LITERATURE will be checked out to you. We will read in class. Read Ernest Hemingway’s “Another Country”. For homework, write two paragraphs analyzing Hemingway’s use of imagery and metaphor to convey mood. This assignment is due on Tuesday. Tuesday, April 28th: Using Hemingway’s style as a model, write two paragraphs describing the mood of a scene through the use of imagery and metaphor. This will be due by 11 am. Begin reading the selection by Jean Paul Sartre and the selection by Reinhold Niebuhr. For homework, do the multiple choice questions. For homework, please read the first thirty pages of THE STRANGER, Wednesday, April 29th: Timed essay on “It’s a Woman’s World”. Due at the end of the period. For homework, multiple choice questions. For homework, please read pages 31 through ...

APRIL 20th - APRIL 24th WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH Monday, APRIL 20th: Please answer the five questions over CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Please be sure to bring your Nietzsche handout with you today. We will break into groups, read the assigned section of the excerpts and then present your section to the class. Tuesday, April 21st: Shortened day! Your essay on CRIME and PUNISHMENT is due today. Please answer the five questions over CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Brief discussion of CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Writing exercise: Read “Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway in PHILOSOPHY and LITERATURE and then using his style of writing, write two paragraphs analyzing Hemingway’s use of imagery to convey mood. This will be due on Thursday, April 23rd. Wednesday, April 22nd: Please answer the five questions over Crime and Punishment. Brief discussion of CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Multiple Choice questions today. Thursday, April 23rd: Writing exercise: Using Ernest Hemingway as a model, write one paragraph describ...

APRIL 13th - APRIL 17TH AP ENGLISH Monday, April 13th: Discuss and turn in your multiple choice answers. Turn in your CRIME and PUNISHMENT essay. Go over CRIME and PUNISHMENT readings (pages 130 to 230). Read an additional fifteen pages in CRIME and PUNISHMENT tonight. Don’t forget to work on your Cornell Notes. Tuesday, April 14th: Today we will analyze a prompt from Henry James’ THE PUPIL. The essay for THE PUPIL will be due on Thursday, April 16th. Read and discuss CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Read an additional fifteen pages in CRIME and PUNISHMENT tonight. Don’t forget to work on your Cornell Notes. Wednesday, April 15th: Today Mr. Goldyn, Mr. Itkin and I will be taking our acting classes to the Pasadena Playhouse. Today will be a “make-up” day for you where you will be able to work on any outstanding work (in both meanings of the word) for this class. Thursday, April 16th: Your essay over Henry James’ THE PUPIL is due today. Read and discuss CRIME and PUNISHMENT. We will read some wri...

SPRING BREAK ASSIGNMENT FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Please read up to page 230 in CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Please be sure to do Cornell notes on your reading. Please do the following five multiple choice questions in the yellow and black book, CLIFFSAP: ENGLISH LITERATURE and COMPOSITION: Pages 39 - 41; Set 1: “Leisure is gone -” ADAM BEDE by George Eliot Pages 43 - 46; Set 2: “Captain MacWhirter” TYPHOON by Joseph Conrad Pages 118 - 120: “A Description of the Morning” by Jonathan Swift Pages 150 - 152; “Dombey and Son” by Charles Dickens Pages 152 - 155; “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” by Thomas Gray If you feel so inclined, check out the rest of the book; it’s an excellent resource. Finally, please read the accompanying excerpt from CRIME and PUNISHMENT, and write a minimum two page essay.

MARCH 30th - APRIL 3rd WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH Monday, March 30th: Multiple choice questions: Emily Dickinson’s “The Habit of Perfection” Go over essay writing techniques. Discuss pages 70 - 100 in CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Please be sure to do Cornell notes. Tuesday, March 31st: Shortened day! Your compare and contrast essay on William Blake’s two poems, “The Chimney Sweep” from “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” is due. Today the infamous “Is It a Rock Star or a Romantic Poet?” test will be given. Continue discussing CRIME and PUNISHMENT (pages 70 - 100). Please be sure to do Cornell notes. The next fifteen pages will be assigned for tonight’s reading. Remember that random Cornell Note checks will be - well - randomly conducted. Wednesday, April 1st: Warm-ups: Using your Unit 5 vocabulary words please write five sentences. Each sentence should have either an adverbial clause, an adverbial clause, a participial clause or an appositive clause. A packet of Dostoevsky's...

MARCH 23rd - 27th WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, March 23rd: First twenty minutes of class will be devoted to answering questions over the weekend reading up to page 67 in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Due today: Questions over “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; page 517; “Think and Discuss: Understanding”: questions 1, 2, and 3; “Analyzing”: questions 4 - 10; “Extending”: question 11; and “Reviewing: Symbols”: questions 1 and 2. Go over Unit Five Vocabulary. Remember: Once we go over it in class you cannot turn it in! For homework: Read the next fifteen pages of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and do your Cornell notes. Tuesday, March 24th: Shortened day! In class forty minute timed essay on Raskolnikov’s dream of the beating of the mare. For homework: Read the next fifteen pages of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and do your Cornell notes. Wednesday, March 25: Warm up: Using five of your vocabulary words write one sentence using: complex, compound structure; one sentence beginning with a gerund, one sentenc...

MARCH 16th - 20TH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE 
Monday, March 16th: Twenty minute warm-up: Analyze Shelley’s use of enjambment, caesura, metaphor and imagery to convey theme in “Ode to the West Wind”. Questions to “Ode to a Nightingale” are due today: page 517; “Understanding”: questions 1, 2, 3, and 4; “Analyzing”: questions 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; “Extending”: question 10; “Applying: Onomatopoeia”: questions 1, 2, and 3. Briefly go over “Ode to a Nightingale”. Read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; please do Cornell notes. Handouts: Nietzsche and the Ubermensche. Tuesday, March 17th: Shortened day! Your contrast and compare essay on John Keat’s “Bright Star” and Robert Burns’ “Something like a Star” is due today. Read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; please do Cornell notes. Handouts: Nietzsche and the Ubermensche. Wednesday, March 18th: Go over Vocabulary Unit 5 today. Assignment: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; page 517; “Think and Discuss: Understanding”: questions 1,2, and 3; “Analyzing”: questions 4 - ...