Ms. Bridges' AP English

AP English Literature September 5, 2006 Tuesday, September 5th: Good morning, scholars. Hope you are rested from your three day weekend! Let’s begin! We will read and analyze a brief excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s A HANDMAID’S TALE. You will then be assigned a prompt. The essay will be due this Friday, September 8th. The prompt will be “How does Atwood use figurative language to convey the balance of power in this excerpt from A HANDMAID’S TALE?” A list of literary terms will be handed out to the class. You will team up with a partner, select two literary terms and a date - which will be in the very near future - on which you will present your two literary terms. This is of course, a major grade. Have fun! Wednesday, September 6th: We will continue working on the essay format of HANDMAID’S TALE as needed. We will then move backwards in time to the Ancient Greeks, and wrestle with Aristotle’s POETICS. We will break into groups, read, analyze, come up with cool posters, exa...

Fall Semester AP English Literature Hello scholars! I hope you have had a wonderful and restful vacation and are ready to get to back to work. The books we will be using are: 1. Vocabulary Workshop Level F 2. Warriner’s Grammar Book 3. British Literature Anthology In addition to the above books, we will be using excerpts from Voice Lessons, Sound and Sense, and Philosophy and Literature, and AP English Literature. We will start off this semester with Sophocles’ The Oedipal Cycle, with additional background readings in Plato and Aristotle. We will cover the following books in class by the end of the semester: 1. The Oedipal Cycle 2. Excerpts from Beowulf 3. Hamlet 5. Crime and Punishment 6. Frankenstein In addition to the above books, we will also be reading and analyzing, and of course, writing about poetry, essays, short stories and excerpts by writers around the world and down through the ages. To help us understand the literature we will be reading, we will also study...

AP ENGLISH WEEK OF MAY 29TH Tuesday, May 30th: Final culminating assignment for All Quiet on the Western Front. Wednesday, May 31st: Begin work on Heart of Darkness; show Francis Ford Coppolas’ Apocalypse Now. Thursday, June 1st: Apocalypse Now; continue reading and discussing Heart of Darkness. Friday, June 2nd: Apocalypse Now; continue reading and discussing Heart of Darkness.

May 22, 2006 Weekly Agenda for AP English Monday, May 22nd: Finish reading excerpt from The Things They Carried. We will then read some WWl poetry in the textbook, England in Literature. And then of course, plunge into All Quiet on the Western Front. Tuesday, May 23rd: If I can get the DVD we will watch a little of A Very Long Engagement. And of course, read and discuss All Quiet on the Western Front. Please bring your vocabulary book to class today. We will go over some words from the book. Wednesday, May 24th: Continue reading and discussing All Quiet on the Western Front. We may do “hot seat” as a culminating assignment for the novel so start writing questions and answers for the main characters. Please bring your grammar book so that we can go over some problem areas in our writing. I may assign some of you additional work in the grammar book. Thursday, May 25th: Hot seat for All Quiet on the Western Front when we finish the novel. Friday, May 26th: The next novel we will d...

Weekly Schedule for AP English Literature May 15, 2006 Monday, May 15th: Discussion of Albert Camus’ The Stranger; then you will create ten questions and answers for: Meursault and Albert Camus, and five questions and answers for Raymond, the Arab, and the judge. In lieu of an essay we will do “Hot Seat!” Tuesday, May 16th: No class today! Wednesday, May 17th: 3rd Period will meet today at 2:25. Finish “Hot Seat”! Please bring your purple and gold book today - and this time, I mean it! We will begin reading some beautiful World War 1 poems today. Thursday, May 18th: Third period will meet today at 2:25. We will read and discuss All Quiet on the Western Front and read selections from The Things They Carried. If I feel up to it, I will scout around for a copy of the film A Very Long Engagement, which is very long and not particularly engaging. Friday, May 19th: No class today! Third period does not meet today due to CST!

AP English Weekly Schedule for May 8, 2006 Monday, May 8th: Enough resting! Today we will read W.T. Stace’s “Man Against the Darkness” and Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”. Tuesday, May 9th: We will read and discuss Albert Camus’ THE STRANGER. If everyone is finished with the book, as I sincerely hope is the case, we will begin reading ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Wednesday, May 10th: Please be sure to bring your purple and gold textbook - you know the one, the big, heavy one you’ve been toting around all semester in your backpack. We will be reading some brilliant and deeply moving poetry from WW1 - all of which was written by young men serving in a war they all believed in initially but later came to realize that the “War to end all wars” was really all about making money. Many of the poets died in combat. We will continue reading and discussing ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Thursday, May 11th: I will give you some excerpts from Tim O’Briens’ THE THINGS THEY CARRIED whi...

May 1st AP English Literature Monday, May 1st: Go over the multiple choice selections: “On Joan of Arc” and “On My Husband’s Absence." Go over essay writing techniques; go over released student essays on “The Pupil” and the open response essay question. Continue reading The Stranger. Pass out the prompt for The Stranger. This will be due on Friday, May 5th. Pass out All Quiet on the Western Front. If you are finished with The Stranger, then begin working on All Quiet on the Western Front. Tuesday, May 2nd: Another timed essay. For homework, more multiple choice selections: Emily Dickinson’s “The Habit of Perfection.” We will go over this multiple choice selection on Wednesday, May 3rd. Continue reading The Stranger. Wednesday, May 3rd: Final discussion on essay writing techniques and multiple choice questions. If you made below a “B” on your essays, please rewrite them, incorporating the corrections on your revised essay and the strategies you have learned in class on essay...