Ms. Bridges' AP English

October 26th Weekly Agenda for AP English Literature Monday, October 26th: Warm-ups: Write five sentences using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 2. Your outline for Aristotle’s POETICS is due today. Begin reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Please look for themes, motifs and character development as you read OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. Tuesday, October 27th: Warm-ups: Write five sentences using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 2. Your Unit 2 vocabulary is due today Continue reading and discussing OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Wednesday, October 28th: Warm-ups: No, I haven’t forgotten the literary terms. Today you will be given a poem, “Pink Dog” by Elizabeth Bishop from Perrine’s literature book (page 798), to read and to answer questions about. The poem is filled with rich imagery which will help you in writing about this literary term in your literary analysis. Continue reading and discussing OEDIPUS AT COLONUS When we finish the play, you will select one of the prompts for your essay topic. Thurs...

OCTOBER 19TH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, October 19th: Finish reading OEDIPUS REX Tuesday, October 20th: Your OEDIPUS REX essay is due today. Essay Prompt: Does Sophocles’ OEDIPUS REX satisfy the requirements of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy? Why or why not? Discussion Tableaux Wednesday, October 21st: Warm-ups: Literary terms Begin reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Assign Vocabulary Unit 2 in VOCABULARY WORKSHOP; this assignment will be due on Tuesday, October 27th. For homework: read OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Thursday October 22nd: Warm-ups: Literary terms Discussion of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Continue reading OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Assign grammar on adverbial clauses. This assignment will be due on Monday, October 26th. Friday, October 23rd: Warm-ups: Literary terms Discussion of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Tableaux Assign essay topic:

OCTOBER 12TH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, October 12th: Begin our literary terms presentations today: 1st group: Johnisha, Amina and Dajina 2nd group: Sharon, Karisa, and Alex Break into our groups and begin exploring Aristotle’s POETICS. Tuesday, October 13th: Shortened day! Literary terms presentations: 3rd Literary Terms group: Glenda, Walber, Melissa and Yenory 4th Literary Terms group: Kinaya, Solany, Gina, Elizabeth Break into our groups and continue exploring Aristotle’s POETICS. Wednesday, October 14th: Literary terms presentations: 5th Literary Terms group: Nicole, Adriana, Ariana 6th Literary Terms group: Daijanae, Adia, Stephanie Break into our groups and continue exploring Aristotle’s POETICS. Thursday, October 15th: Literary terms presentations: 7th Literary Terms group: Sheila, Maya, Jennifer Break into groups and continue exploring Aristotle’s POETICS. Friday, October 16th: Begin reading OEDIPUS REX. Monday, October 17th: Continue reading OEDIPUS ...

OCTOBER 5TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Monday, October 5th: Brief discussion of the Fibonacci number series Read and discuss “The Myth of the Cave” (Allegory of the Cave) Read and discuss Aristotle: What is Being? Read and discuss “The Four Becauses” Tuesday, October 6th: Shortened day! Continue our investigation into Aristotle. Wednesday, October 7th: For the first ten minutes of the class we will break into our lit term teams and work on our literary terms presentations. We will also be assigned times to present. The presentations will begin when we finish Aristotle’s Poetics. Break into another group, choose a segment of Aristotle’s Poetics and prepare a presentation to teach the rest of the class. We will begin the presentations on Friday, October 9th. Thursday, October 8th: Same as Wednesday, October 7th. Friday, October 9th: Begin our Aristotle’s Poetics presentations. Mystery question: What are we presenting on Friday, October 9th?

Literary Term Teams and Literary Terms: Maya, Jennifer, Sheila: Foreshadowing Onomatopoeia Tragedy Solany, Gina, Kinaya, Elizabeth: Alliteration Conflict Archetype Yenory, Melissa, Walbert, Glenda: Ellipsis Diction Humor Ariana, Adriana, Nicole: Climax Flashback Satire Robert, Hayden: Imagery Symbol Allusion Adia, Stephanie, Daijanae: Antagonist Protagonist Irony: Verbal/Situational Amina, Johneisha, Dajine, Fernanda: Oxymoron Syntax hubris Karisa, Alex, Sharon: Catharsis Personification Irony: Dramatic Mystery Question: What are we going to start studying on Thursday, October 1st in class?

SEPTEMBER 29TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE Tuesday, September 29th: Shortened day! Warm-up: A selection from the book VOICES on selection of detail. DAYBREAK: Critical Reading and Writing: pages 25-26; “Nature of Symbolic Fire” and “First Frost”. TRIPTYCH/PASTICHE ASSIGNMENT: A triptych is an artistic creation (painting or photographs) consisting of three panels exploring a subject. A pastiche is an artistic creation composed of bits, pieces and snippets from other sources, usually creative (visual medium - paintings, photos, film; or literary - poems, novels, etc; or music - snippets, etc.) but can also be from “found sources” - i.e. junk, trash, household objects, etc. The assignment: Break into groups, analyze the three poems from “First Frost” and select the best lines from each poem to create a new poem. This “triptych/pastiche” poem will be due on Thursday, September 23rd which your group will share with the class. Now you do it. For homework: “Your First Time”:...

THE HANDMAID’S TALE PROMPT Using your matrix, choose one of the major themes or topics (the ones you put at the top of the page: sex, fertility, power, etc) and then choose three or four of the figurative language (the ones along the left margin of your paper) to create your own prompt. Example: How does Margaret Atwood use such figurative language devices as symbolism, metaphor and imagery to convey tone and theme in THE HANDMAID’S TALE? How does Margaret Atwood use such figurative language devices as ____________, __________________ and _______________ to convey ________________ and ______________ in THE HAND MAID’S TALE? The essay should be a minimum of two pages, preferably typed and is due on Tuesday, 29th.