AP ENGLISH WINTER BREAK SCHEDULE FROM THE PACKET: Please read: page 268: “Carpe Diem” page 269: Ben Jonson page 270: “Still to Be Neat”, “Song to Celia” and “On My First Son” page 271; “Comment: Ben Jonson’s Vision of His Son” Please answer: page 272: “Still to be Neat”: Analyzing: #2 and 3; “Song, to Celia”: Understanding: #1; “On My First Son”: Analyzing: #5. Please read: page 275: Robert Herrick; “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time Please answer: page 277: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”: Analyzing: #2. Please read: page 278: John Donne page 282: “Sonnet 10” page 283: “Meditation 17” Please answer: page 285: “Holy Sonnet 10”: Understanding: #1; Analyzing: #2 and #3; “Meditation 17”: Analyzing: #2 and #3; APPLYING: SYNECDOCHE: #1 and #2. (I KNOW I DIDN’T ASSIGN THIS INITIALLY, BUT COULD YOU ANSWER THIS AS WELL.) Please read: page 288: Andrew Marvell page 289: “To His Coy Mistress”; page 290: Reader’s Note: “To His Coy Mistress”. Please answer: page 291: “To His Coy Mistress...
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DECEMBER 15th - 19th AP English Weekly Agenda Monday, December 15th: Work on the Tableaux for the first ten minutes of class and then present. Please read Act Three over the weekend. Discussion of Act Three. Please keep reading log which should include a brief summary, literary devices, motifs, themes and character analysis you may notice. Please remember to work on your Theme Wheel. Tuesday, December 16th: Shortened Day. Break into groups of three or four, choose a scene from Act Three; you will present to the class a tableau from your scene and then a brief summary; presentation of literary devices (including motifs and themes) and character analysis you may notice in your particular scene. Wednesday, December 17th: Continue presenting. Brief discussions following each presentations. Watch movie. Your Act Three Open Book Test will be due today. Please read Act Four tonight. Your Act Four Open Book Test will be given to you today. Thursday, December 18th: Begin working on Act Four o...
December 8th - 12th Weekly Agenda for AP English Literature Monday, December 8th: Warm-up: Using your vocabulary words from Unit 3, write two sentences with periodic sentence structure; two sentences with loose sentence structure and one with a balanced sentence structure. Briefly go over. Finish discussing Act 1, Scene 3. Your HAMLET Act 1 open book test is due today. Begin reading Act 2. Tuesday, December 9th: Your Unit Three Vocabulary homework is due today. HAMLET Act 2 open book test will be passed out. The test will be due when we finish Act 2. Read and discuss Act Two of HAMLET. Watch Act Two of Kenneth Branagh’s HAMLET. Wednesday, December 10th: Assign gerund phrases today, WARRINER’S ENGLISH GRAMMAR; pages 70 - 72; exercises 11 and 13. This will be due on Friday, December 12th. Read and discuss Act Two of HAMLET. Thursday, December 11th: Warm-up: Using your vocabulary words from Unit Three, write two sentences with participial phrases, two with gerunds and one with balanced ...
AP ENGLISH WEEKLY AGENDA FOR DECEMBER 1st - DECEMBER 5th Monday, December 1st: I hope you had a wonderfully fun-filled and relaxing Thanksgiving break. Now, back to work! Go over Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALE. The following will be due on Friday, December 5th: Page 112; THINK and DISCUSS; UNDERSTANDING: questions 1 and 2. ANALYZING: questions 5 and 6. Page 121; THINK and DISCUSS; ANALYZING: questions 4, 5, and 6. APPLYING: Irony: questions 1, 2, and 3. Page 137; THINK and DISCUSS; UNDERSTANDING: question 1. APPLYING: Allusion: questions 1, 2, and 3. Tuesday, December 2nd: Grammar: ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION: pages 64 - 70; exercises 6, 7, 9 and 10. “Participles” is due today. Begin HAMLET. Please keep a reading journal. Pass out “Figurative Language Wheel”. Wednesday, December 3rd: Vocabulary: Unit 3 will be assigned today. This will be due on Tuesday, December 9th. Read and discuss Hamlet. Please keep a reading journal. Thursday, December 4th: Warm-up: “Loose sentence”. Wr...
November 24th - November 26th AP English Weekly Agenda Monday, November 24th: Watch tape of last year’s vocabulary projects. (Yes, I found them!) Warm-ups: Write five sentences, each using one word from Unit 2 and employing the adverbial clause. Do brief postmortem of BEOWULF. Read Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALE, pages 97 - 112. Please keep a reading journal. Please read the next five pages from where we stopped in class. Tuesday, November 25th: Warm-ups: Write five sentences, each using one word from Unit and employing loose sentence structure. Continue reading THE CANTERBURY TALE; pages 97 - 112. Please keep a reading journal. Please read the next five pages from where we stopped in class. Wednesday, November 26th: Read an excerpt from James Joyce’s THE DEAD and begin working on the prompt. This analytic essay will be due on Tuesday, December 2nd. Please finish reading THE CANTERBURY TALE by Monday, December 1st. Your reading journal will be due on Monday, December 1st. On Mo...
November 17th - November 21st AP English Monday, November 17th: Review writing principles: essay structure Brief discussion of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog” and some final thoughts on OEDIPUS. Pass out “Unscrambling Adverbial Clauses”. This will be due on Wednesday, November 19th. Read ENGLAND IN LITERATURE: Christopher Marlowe; pages 265 and 266. Tuesday, November 18th: Shortened Day! Break into groups of four, choose five vocabulary words from Unit 2, create a song and dance number or a skit using the words and conveying the meaning of the words. You will have about fifteen minutes of class time to work on this with your group. These will be presented on Friday, November 21st. Continue reading and studying Marlowe, using booklet from the Mark Taper Forum. Wednesday, November 19th: Marlowe Your “Unscrambling Adverbial Clauses” is due today! Thursday, November 20th: Field trip to see THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT at the Mark Taper Forum Friday, November 21st: Present your choreographed song a...
November 10th - 14th AP ENGLISH AGENDA Monday, November 10th: Please bring your vocabulary book to class today. Unit 2 will be assigned and will be due on Friday, November 14th. Please write the words, the definitions, the synonyms and antonyms. You only have to write the correct words for “Completing the Sentence” and “Choosing the Right Words”, but please write out the synonyms and antonyms, underline the italicized words and write the vocabulary words. Break into groups of three and read the four translated passages from BEOWULF. Choose the one your group likes the best and storyboard it: illustrate it and write the passage underneath the illustration. Tuesday, November 11th: No school today in observance of Veterans’ Day. Wednesday, November 12th: Warm-up: In order to maximize the limited time we have in class, during “dead time” (for example, when I am taking roll, etc.) please write five sentences using your vocabulary words from Unit Two and for bonus points, write two with ...