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!