Extra Credit Assignment

You are a theater critic for the NY Times. Write a review of Lowcountry Shakespeare's performance of Twelfth Night. Make sure you focus on the adaptatation of Shakespeare's original script as well as the effectiveness of the acting and staging of the play.

Due Monday 10/25.

Sonnet Assignment

Due Friday October 29 - Your assignment is to compose an original sonnet. It can be Petrarchan, English (Spenserian or Shakespearian), or a hybrid version. Along with your sonnet you need to write a narrative explication containing the following information:

- What is the occasion for your sonnet? (i.e., is it a love poem? a prayer? a question/answer? a problem/solution? Etc.)

- Why did you choose the particular sonnet form that you used?

- What rhyme scheme have you employed? Have you used perfect iambic pentameter or are there any metric variations? If so, why?

Anlgo-Saxon Poetry Itinerary

Wednesday 9/15 -
"Prepare to Read" pp 14-15 and "The Seafarer " pp 17-20.
HW: Answer questions 2, 5, and 6 on p. 20

Thursday 9/16 -
Read "The Wanderer" pp 21-24 and answer questions 2 & 3 on p. 24.
Discuss poems/answers.
HW: "The Wife's Lament" pp 25-26 and answer question 1 & 2 on p. 26.

Friday 9/17 -
Discuss "The Wife's Lament"
HW: Answer questions 1-5, 8, and 9 on p. 27...I will collect these on Monday (25 pts.)

Monday 9/20 -
Quiz: Anglo-Saxon Poem Analysis (50 pts.)
HW: Beowulf, pp 36-46

Modernism Mini-Unit: Itinerary I

Thursday 5/6 - CPS Quiz over Literary Period Introduction
HW: Dulce et Decorum Est questions.

Friday 5/7 - Discuss WWI Poems
No HW

Monday 5/10 - MC Practice Day
HW: Practice AP Essay

Tuesday 5/11 - Essay Prep Day
No HW

Wednesday 5/12 - AP Language & Comp. Exam!
No HW

Thursday 5/13 - The Hollow Men
HW: Three poems by W.B. Yeats (pp 1163-1170)

Friday 5/14 - Discuss Yeats poems
HW: Araby by James Joyce (1174-1179 & 1180-81)

Tess Itinerary

You will have reading questions and vocab for each of the phases of the novel. Class discussion and reading days are below...as far as homework is concerned, you need to have the phases read and questions and vocab done for each of the respective discussion days. (It goes without saying that you will need to bring the book to class everyday!) I will take-up your answers/notes for ALL of the phases at the end of the final discussion period.

Thursday 4/15 - Discuss Phase I

Friday 4/16 - Discuss Phase II

Monday 4/19 - Discuss Phase III

Tuesday 4/20 - Reading day

Wednesday 4/21 - Discuss Phase IV

Thursday 4/22 - Reading day

Friday 4/23 - Discuss Phase V

Monday 4/26 - Discuss Phase VI

Tuesday 4/27 - Reading day

Wednesday 4/28 - Discuss Phase VII

Thursday 4/29 - Final Discussion Day; Reading Questions Due

Friday 4/30 - Review Day

Monday 5/3 - Tesst (Get it??!!)

Week 30 Schedule

Monday 3/22 - Frankenstein reading questions due; work on discussion questions. HW: finish DQs for Paideia seminar Tuesday.

Tuesday 3/23 - Paideia Seminar
No HW

Wednesday 3/24 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: "The Victorian Period", pp 874-893

Thursday 3/25 - 10-point CPS quiz over reading; Houseman
HW: Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" pp 894-901

Friday 3/26 - Discuss Tennyson
HW for SB: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Frankenstein Reading Schedule

For Friday 3/12 – Read Mary Shelley’s Intro. and Letters I-V.

For Monday 3/15 – Read chapters 1-8 (pp 14-61). Come to class prepared with a narrative summary of the reading (does NOT have to be in complete sentences) and a list of any unfamiliar words defined in context.

For Tuesday 3/16 – Read chapters 9-12 (pp 61-81) Come to class prepared with a narrative summary of the reading (does NOT have to be in complete sentences) and a list of any unfamiliar words defined in context.

For Monday 3/22 – Read chapters 13-24 (pp 81-166…the rest of the book!). You will have reading questions over these chapters to complete during the college trip and weekend. I will collect these on Monday!

Poetic Devices Review Site

Visit this site to help review for Thursday's test.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

Week 27 Itinerary

Tuesday 3/2 - The Rime reading questions
HW: The Rime discussion questions

Wednesday 3/3 - Paideia discussion in TLC Conference Room
At the end of the smeinar, I will collect BOTH reading and discussion
questions...this will be the last graded assignment for the 3rd term.
HW: Byron, pp 793-798

Thursday 3/4 - TPCASTT analysis of She Walks in Beauty
HW: Shelley, pp 801-809

Friday 3/5 - Discuss Ozymandias and the ode
HW: Keats, pp 824-827 & 835-837

HW for Thursday 2/25

Read the bio/background information on Wordsworth (pp734-35) and "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (pp 736-741)

HW for Thursday 2/10

Read all of the material on Blake, as well as "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," pp 718-723, and answer questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12 on p 724.

HW for Tuesday 2/9

Read the introductory essay to the Romantic Period on pp 706-717.

Week 23 Itinerary

Class-time this week will be devoted to the film Mona Lisa smile, concluding with a Paideia seminar on Friday in the conference room.

Outside of class, you need read the remaining selections in Reflecting on the Literary Period, pp 651-681. I will collect answers to questions 1-5 on p. 682 next Monday 2/8.

HW for Thursday 1/28

Read the selections from Gulliver's Travels in our text (pp 652-662). As you read, identify and define in context at least 10 unfamiliar words.

Comparing Points of View: Women's Rights

This mini-unit covers the material on pp 643-650 in our textbook. You will have time in class to work on it today and tomorrow (Thursday 1/21 and Friday 1/22). On Monday we will discuss all three readings and any problems you may have answering questions 1-6 on p. 650.

On Tuesday I will collect CLEAN copies (preferably typed) of the following:

1. Your answer to the "Quickwrite" prompt on p. 634.
2. Your answers to question 1-6 on p. 650.

As the final assignment for this unit, you will write an in-class essay on Tuesday in response to the Defining a Philosophy prompt on p. 650.

Pope Itinerary

Thursday 1/14 - Pope bio., Heroic Couplets, and Essay on Man (pp 597-601)
HW: finish MC questions and SA question

Friday 1/15 - The Rape of the Lock. Read p. 603 and do the Quickwrite assignment on a sheet of notebook paper. Discuss responses, then take turns reading The Rape of the Lock aloud.
HW: Answer questions 1, 3, 6, and 7 on p. 612.

Revision of essay on Swfit and Boyle is due on Wednesday 1/20.

A Modest Proposal

Imitating Swift's inimitable style, begin writing your own "Modest Proposal" for a solution to a contemporary social problem or political/religious conflict. You may tackle anything from education to terrorism to NBA players pulling guns on one another.

We will be in the 500 Building computer lab Monday to work on these papers. For class Tuesday, you will need have carefully proofed and complete draft 750-1000 words long. Remember you are imitating Swift, so big words, logical argumentation, and a matter-of-fact tone will be essential.

HW for Friday 1/8

Carefully read "Top of the Food Chain" (pp 590-593). Tomorrow you will write an in-class essay comparing and contrasting the two satirical pieces, so be sure you bring your book (you may also use your outlines from "A Modest Proposal" and any notes you wish to take on "Top of the Food Chain").

HW for Thursday 1/7

Read the biography of Jonathan Swift on p. 579, the CAREFULLY read Before You Read on pp 580-81 and A Modest Proposal, pp 582-589. Come to class tomorrow with:

1. A list of at least 10 vocab words (NOT including those on p. 581) and

2. An outline of Swift's argument

HW for Wednesday 1/6

Read the introductory essay for Chapter 4 (pp 564-579) and identify and define in context all words you don't immediately recognize.