Ms. Bridges' AP English

Monday, October 24th: Review the weekend's homework: Pair up and share your analysis of Laertes' speech to Ophelia Identify and analyze how the extended metaphors reveal Laertes' attitude towards Ophelia Then analyze Polonius' speech to Ophelia Identify and analyze how the extended metaphors reveal Polonius' attitude towards Ophelia Share with class Review the following scenes and monologues from Act 1: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude: Scene 2: Pages 25 - 29; lines 67-131 Find the lines that reveal his attitude towards his mother. Find Hamlet's puns in this scene. What do his puns reveal about his state of mind? What advice does Claudius give Hamlet regarding his father's death? Scene 3: Pages 43 - 44; lines 60 - 87 Paraphrase Polonious' words of advice to his son, Laertes. Which words of advice were helpful and actually wise? Scene 5: Pages 57 - 61 According to the ghost, how did he die? What does the ghost say regarding Hamlet's...

Monday, October 17th:  Please bring Hamlet  to class with you. We will read selected passages in class You will pair up,  be assigned passages to explicate, and to identify and explain the figurative language used. Pass out the Hamlet Act 1 Open Book Test. This will be due when we finish Act 1. Assign in the Perrine's Literature  Pages 885 - 886, "My Mistress' Eyes"  Questions 1, 2, and 3  Due on Tuesday, October 18th For tonight:  Read Act 1, Scene 2  Explicate  Claudius' opening speech: "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death..."to  "So much for him"  Explicate Hamlet's soliloquy:  "Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt..."to "...But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue." In Class Work:  jkatbridge2004@gmail.com Pair up!   Read pages 13 – 17 (end at the entrance of the ghost) Starts on Marcellus’ line (line 81) Identify the figurati...

Looking Ahead:  Due Tuesday, October 11th:  Grammar Writer’s Choice Active and Passive Voice Pages 587, 588 and 589 Exercises 21, 22, 23, and 24 Perrine’s Literature "The Guest" by Albert Camus Pages 371 - 383  Questions 1 - 9; pages 383 - 384. Due Thursday, October 12th:  Vocabulary Unit 2 The first ten words Please bring your Hamlet  and Perrine's  Monday, October 10th:  Mercurial:  describes who is volatile, erratic in behavior; like the mercury in a thermometer, a mercurial person will go up and down, etc.  Pass out the three verisons of the Andrey Voznesensky Poem "First Ice" With a partner, analyze the three versions of the poem Then select the best word choice from each line of the three poems and construct a fourth poem. This poem should have what you consider to be the best lines from the three poems.  Then, write your own twelve line poem but change the seaso...

Monday, October 3rd: No school today! Tuesday, October 4th: Perrine's; "You're Ugly, Too";  pages 370 - 371; questions 1 - 7 due today Two handouts from Voice Lessons on "Selection of Detail" will be assigned. Wednesday, October 5th: The essay"Eleven" from Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street   is due today. Pass out excerpt from The Things They Carried for selection of detail Read, discuss, change the items the soldiers carry, discuss how changing the items the soldiers carry change our perception of the soldiers A volunteer will empty the contents of her/his backpack and the class will discuss how the contents reveal the person's character, personality. For homework: Create a brief description (minimum of one paragraph each, half a page each) of two characters (the characters can be students, professionals, a music star, a hired assassin, your call)  based on what s/he carries. This will be due on Thursday,...

Monday, September 26th:   Perrine's "Literature", "The Drunkard"   Show how Frank O’Connor’s use of irony heightens the humor in “The Drunkard”. Does the humor heighten the pathos in the story as well? You have ten minutes to write one to two paragraphs. You must turn both the paragraph(s) and the homework from Perrine’s   “The Drunkard”, page 342 – 352; questions 1 – 8, in at 9:40. Check points: Did you include the author’s full name? Did you include the title of the piece? Did you include a brief back story or exposition? Did you include examples from the story as evidence to support your argument? Are there any run-ons or sentence fragments? Examples of sentence fragments: During the class time. What happened during the class time. Even though I set my alarm. Students who read their one paragraph of “The Drunkard”: Cruz Kelly Pass out the Sandra Cisnero’s excerpt “Eleven” from her book House on Mango Street.  ...

--> Go over annotation of "Eleven" Body paragraph Structure Chronological Age - immaturity Intelligence Evidence - quotations diction imagery polysyndeton Anaphora - repetition of words occurring at the beginning of sentences. Anacoluthon - syntactical break. A sentence that is interrupted midway with a shift in its structure or syntax Intro paragraph Tuesday - for homework, write a two page essay on "Eleven" Perrine's Literature "You're Ugly, Too" - Laurie Morris Camus Make packet of literary terms   and tone words for AP Lit. Use the translations of the Russian poem for diction. Use the The Things They Carried for syntax. Use the excerpt from The Things They Carried selection of details. Use the Snake “Metaphors for Tone” packet. Active and Passive Voice Run-ons Sentence Fragments Adverbial clauses Adjective clauses Sonnets HAMLET

Monday, September 19th: Discussion of Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX Divide into groups of three in a competition to see who can most quickly and correctly produce the following information: Six lines from OEDIPUS REX which illustrate the following: 1. Foreshadowing 2. Conflict 3. Characterization 4. Behavior 5. Exposition 6. Sage advice 7. Irony Discussion: Irony, Reversals, Recognition, Signs and symbols Class Notes from Monday, September 19th: Jorge answered the question "what is Deus ex Machina?" : Deus ex Machina: Latin for “machines of the gods” Brief discussion of the end of Oedipus Rex Pages 55 – 78 Reversal Irony Character Behavior Plot Break into teams of three to find lines, which exemplify the following: Foreshadowing Conflict Character’s personality Character’s behavior Events from the past Sage Advice Irony Oedipus: Again, The pain of the spikes where I had sight, The flooding pain Of memory, ...