Ms. Bridges' AP English Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Here is the short form I promised you. The short form is for both FRANKENSTEIN and for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. PLEASE BEGIN READING FRANKENSTEIN NOW!!! It is an easier read than CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. And please trust me on this, you need to finish reading CRIME AND PUNISHMENT while you are on vacation because it's going to be too hard to read when you're back at school taking six classes, and staying late every night for HAIRSPRAY and/or the dance show(s) and/or the vocal gigs. Short Form for A.P. TITLE:____________________________ NAME OF AUTHOR:__________________________________ Protagonist: A clear, concise description of the character, plus a quote from the book to support your description of the character. Antagonist: (See above) Other major characters: (See above) Name at least three. Minor characters: (See above) These characters should play some pivotal role in the plot or theme. MAIN SETTING: Please give a clear, ...
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Hamlet December 10th - 14th Weekly Schedule for AP English Language Monday, December 10th: Your Hamlet essay topics will be given to you today and will be due on the day of the final. You should be finished with the reading of Act 3 of HAMLET. Your test will be due on Wednesday, December 12th. You should also be writing a reading log for Hamlet. This will help you understand the text. Today I will pass out Barron’s SIDE BY SIDE. You are still expected to read the original text in your Folger’s edition, however. We will begin discussing Act 3, particularly the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy and the scene between Hamlet and Ophelia. After the discussion, we will watch Kenneth Branagh’s video. Tuesday, December 11th: Today we will go over Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet in which Hamlet plots with Horatio to spy on the king during the play, his instructions to the players, the play-within-the-play, and Hamlet’s argument with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. We will watch the video of ...
DO YOUR READING LOG FOR HAMLET! How to Do the Reading Log for HAMLET In an attempt to help you understand your nightly readings I am asking that you please do a reading log. You will read about five pages past the point we leave off each day in class. The reading log should include the date, the act, the scene and the page numbers; a brief synopsis of that section of the play; unfamiliar words and phrases; any metaphor or literary tropes you notice and anything interesting you notice regarding plot, characters, theme, etc. Example of a Good Reading Log: Sunday, December 2nd: Act 2, Sc.2; (pages 81 - 87): Claudius and Gertrude welcome ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN (Hamlet’s childhood friends) to court to spy on Hamlet. Polonius enters and announces to the King and Queen that he has found the reason for Hamlet’s strange behavior. Voltemand returns from Norway with the report that the Norwegian king (Old Norway/ Fortinbras’ uncle) investigated Fortinbras’ war preparations and discov...
December 3rd - December 7th Weekly Schedule for AP English Literature Monday, December 3rd: Good morning, artists and scholars! Vocabulary: Today you might want to bring your VOCABULARY WORKSHOP book; Unit 3 was assigned on Friday and will be due on Thursday. The warm-up exercise is to write five sentences with adjective clauses using five of your vocabulary words from Unit 3 (Level F or Level G). Grammar: Pages 153-157, exercise 19,"active/passive voice", in your WARRINER’S (complete course) was assigned on Thursday (November 29th) and will be due on Tuesday, December 4th. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. We have read Act 2, Sc. 1 on Friday; today we will read Scene 2 - which is a long scene. Remember, the Act 2 OPEN BOOK TEST will be due when we finish the act. For tonight: read the next five pages starting from where we left off in our reading in class; please write down a brief summary of what you have read; unfamiliar words/phrases and their meanin...
Links for you: HAMLET AP ENGLISH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26TH - NOVEMBER 30TH Monday, November 26th: Your Act 1 open book test is due today. We will go over the questions, and a few of the monologues in Act 1, particularly Polonius's words of advice to Laertes and his admonishment to his daughter, Ophelia. We will also discuss what the ghost told Hamlet. Should he believe the ghost? Why or why not? Plus some interesting tidbits about Shakespeare and the first productions of Hamlet. The literary tropes wheel will be given to you. The "wheel" is a handout which you will fill out with the play's themes and the literary tropes which support them. We will go over them in class today so you will know how to fill out the wheel as we read the play. Tuesday, November 27th: Your Act 2 open book test will given to you today. It will be due when we finish reading Act 2. We will begin reading Act 2 and watching the video of Kenneth Branagh's HAMLET. P...
November 19th - 21st Weekly Schedule for AP English Monday, November 19th: Today we will go over the weekend’s reading of Act 1, Scene 1, and you will be given the Act 1 open book test for HAMLET, The open book test will be due on Monday, November 26th. Then, we shall watch the most excellent video of HAMLET by Kenneth Branagh. For tonight’s homework, read Act 1, Scenes 2 and 3. Tuesday, November 20th: You’ll be given another unscrambling grammar handout on adjective clauses. This will be due on Monday, November 26th. This will actually help you decipher some of Shakespeare’s lines. We will discuss Act 1, Scenes 2 and 3 and then again dive into the most excellent Kenneth Branagh video of HAMLET. For homework, read Scenes 4 and 5. Wednesday, November 21st: A small worksheet on how to decipher Shakespeare followed by a discussion of last night’s reading of Scenes 2 and 3. Then - yippee! - watch the Kenneth Branagh’s video. For homework, please finish reading Scenes 4 and 5, and then...
NOVEMBER 13TH - 16TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR AP ENGLISH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH: After we finish our "Canterbury Tales" presentations, we will begin working on HAMLET! You will also be given a fun little packet on appositives which will be due on Friday, November 16th. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH: Today we will do a multiple choice test over an Elizabethan sonnet by Shakespeare. Then we will do a small exercise in inversion, identifying the subject and the verb in complex, compound Shakespearean sentences, and we will explore the vocabulary of the play. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH: We will continue exploring the wonderfully complex world of the Dane. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH: Your Act 1 open book test will be given to you today to work on. Your packet on "appositives" will be due today.