Ms. Bridges' AP English

Monday, January 30th: Went over the answers to "The Race" Analyzed strategies in answering questions Work on Crime and Punishment essays Tuesday, January 31st:  Read and discuss Mary Shelley's biography For homework: Read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein  Work on Crime and Punishment essays Wednesday, February 1st:    Passed out the Romantics Packet Went over “Things to Consider When Reading Frankenstein” Discussion of Gothic and Romantic Literature Read the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley For tonight: Read Frankenstein, the Letters, up to Chapter One. Write down on a sheet of a paper 1.      What I Know About Gothic Literature 2.      What I Don’t know About Gothic Literature 3.      What I Would Like to Know About Gothic Literature   (“I don’t want to know anything about Gothic Literature” or “I Don’t Care” – is not an option) Thursday, February 2nd:...

Turnitin.com January: Winter Break Assignment: Crime and Punishment: Essays Due: Essays #1 - 4 due January 13th Essay #1 "No Place to Turn" Essay #2  "The Motif of Yellow" Essay #3  "The Beating of the Mare" Essay #4   "The Soldier and the Student" Due: Essays #5 - 8 due January 20th Essay #5 "Delirium" Essay #6 "Katerina" Essay #7 "The Cross" Essay #8  "Epilogue" Essay "The Suicide of Svidrigaylov" Cavalier Poets Packet: - due on January 9th Sir Walter Raleigh Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson Thomas Herrick Essay: Metaphor and Tone Group Work: "Snakes" Packet Prompt:  Prompt:  Write a well organized essay analyzing the writers' use of metaphors to describe one of the most fascinating, worshipped, and reviled creatures, man's most time honored enemy - the snake - and how the metaphors used reveal the writers' reveal tone.  Minimum 500 words Essay...

Crime and Punishment; Part 6, Chapter Svidrigailov’s suicide: The exterior of this scene reflects the desolate and despairing interior landscape of Svidrigailov. After his restless, almost hallucinogenic night spent in a sleazy hotel, Svidrigailov trudges along the river, a symbol of redemption and past the bridge, a symbol of transition and change. His path is littered by a drunken man passed out in a death-like stupor; a shivering filthy cur crosses his path. He walks past and looks with disapproval at the small, yellow houses standing, dejected, as silent witnesses to his last promenade. And he reads with studious care the signs hanging from the rundown businesses as if to imprint for the last time images from this world to carry with him into the next. Filth and despair and cold are the colors used to paint this scene. At last, the watery cold begins to penetrate him to the bone and he thinks, “Why go to Petrovsky?” This place will do and he almost smiles at the not...

January 23, 2017 - January 27, 2017 WEEKLY AGENDA for A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE  Monday, January 23rd: Looking Ahead: The following will be due on Tuesday, January 24th Perrine’s Literature: Chapter 3; pages 168 - 173; Characterization; Outline “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; pages 173 - 181; questions 1 – 6; pages 181 - 182 The following will be due on Friday, January 27th Perrine’s Literature: “Miss Brill”; pages 182 – 186; questions 1-8; questions 186 - 187 The Handmaid’s Tale essay will be due on Wednesday, January 25 th We are going to push back Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Romantic Poets a few days. For Today, Monday, January 23rd:  Discussion of the use of color as a motif in Crime and Punishment   Today, we will break into groups to discuss Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov, and Raskolnikov and Razumikhin Ten minutes per character Each person has to speak Razumikhin: Is he a foil? How is he different from Raskolnikov? ...

Class Id on turnitin.com: 13628925 Class password: APLIT Monday, January 16th:  No school! Tuesday, January 17th:  "The Snake" Essay will be due today Begin work on "Analyzing an Essay: The Handmaid's Tale"  Break into groups to read the excerpt from The Handmaid's Tale;   do multiple choice questions, and create analysis chart For homework: Perrine’s Literature; Chapter Three; Characterization; pages 168 - 173; Outline; this will be due on Tuesday, January 24th  For homework: Perrine’s Literature; 173 - 181; “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; questions 1 - 6, pages 181 - 182; this will be due on Tuesday, January 24th.  Wednesday, January 18th:  Continue working on The Handmaid's Tale  Figurative Language Chart Unpacking the Prompt Introduction Body Paragraph Conclusion Rubric The Handmaid's Tale  essay will be due on Wednesday, January 25th.   Jorge – on stage: Salma Cour...

Monday, January 16th:  No school! Tuesday, January 17th:  Due today:  Perrine’s Literature; pages 173 - 181; “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; questions 1- 6, pages 181 - 182 Break into discussion groups on Crime and Punishment Wednesday, January 18th:  The essay for The Handmaid’s Tale is due today. Break into discussion groups on Crime and Punishment  Thursday, January 19th:  Vocabulary; Unit 3, #11 - 20 will be due today.  Break into discussion groups on Crime and Punishment  Friday, January 20th:  Crime and Punishment Essays #5 - 8 will be due today.  Perrine's Literature, page 182; "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield; questions 1 - 8; you do not have to write the questions, but you must incorporate the question in your answer.  This will be due on Tuesday, January 24th. 

All of these prompts plus the A.P. prompt are mandatory. To aid you in your reading of Crime and Punishment, you might want to refer to the Crime and Punishment and Dostoevsky links on this blog. Crime and Punishment Essay #1: “No Place to Turn”; page 10 (Norton Edition) Due January 13th on turnitin.com; however, you may turn it in any time before January 13th.  On page ten in CRIME and Punishment, the motif of hopelessness, of “no place to turn” is introduced. The motif of utter spiritual loneliness tolls throughout the passage as Raskolnikov, this strange isolated youth sits in a tavern with a pathetic, broken down old drunk who pours out the sordid details of his life.  Please write a minimum 500 word analysis of how the story of Marmeladov and his daughter is an example of the Utilitarian Theory and of its failure. (Refer to the upload on the blog regarding Mills and Bentham and the “Utilitarian Theory”.) Crime and Punishment Essay #2: “The Motif of Yel...