Enamored with English

Monday, 5/23 - Ch. 18-22
Tuesday, 5/24 - Ch. 23-26
Wednesday, 5/25 - ch. 27-30
Thursday, 5/26 - ch. 31 -37
Friday, 5/27 - Ch. 38 - end

Please keep up with the reading.  Your test will still be on Tuesday, May 31st.

Tuesday - Thursday we will start class in the library.  We will spend only the first half of class there and the second half of class talking about The Handmaid's Tale.

1)  3 Word Cluster Letter:

YOUR ESSAY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS EXERCISE IS AS FOLLOWS:

Write a letter to me in which you explain what three adjectives you feel best describe who you are and what you are all about. This part of the assignment should be formatted as a letter, and you may use informal English.

2) Independent Reading Book Proposal.  The assignment is attached below.

No reading this weekend.

Read to page 99 in The Handmaid's Tale
Complete the 3-word cluster diagram.
 

Independent Reading Book Exhibition Assignment sheet is attached here.
In the above attachment you will find a calendar that outlines all of the assignments for the rest of the year.  Please reference this calendar so that you know when I am collecting papers and when assignments are due.

Read pages 3-30 in The Handmaid's Tale. (the first five chapters)

 

Dear AP Literature & Composition Students,

 

Congratulations on surviving Week 1 of AP exams and for a lot of you Saturday SATS!!!! This is a HUGE accomplishment and you should all be very proud.

 

I will not be in class today or tomorrow.  Today, I have a professional development meeting in the public library all day, and tomorrow, I am taking a class on a field trip to Harvard to hear lectures on the ethical dilemmas presented in Hamlet.  (I would have loved to take you, but it is closed to a pilot group of classes.)  If you have any questions or need anything I will be back in the classroom at 2:30 each day.

 

Over the next two days in class you will be watching Apocalypse Now as promised.  (Please help the substitute cue the movie to the proper place.)  Please watch the movie, it is excellent, and be respectful and attentive.  If I find out that you are not watching or being disruptive you may have a quiz on the film.

 

Your independent reading book data sheet was due today as well, so you should pass that in.  All data sheets should go in my silver inbox at the front of the room. 

 

I’ll see you on Wednesday!

 

Take care,

Ms. LeeKeenan

Good Luck on your APs this week!!!

Announcements:
There will not be any vocabulary quiz or poetry response this week.
On Tuesday, May 3rd I will hold a prep session in the Rindge room of the public library at 7PM.
Independent Reading Data Sheets are due on Monday, May 9th.  The data sheet is attached here.

Write a 500-600 word essay on the excerpt from Obasan by Joy Kogawa.  The passage is attached here.
This essay will not count towards your grade, but will be given feedback in class on Monday.  You will be marked down if you don't do it though.  You will end up rewriting it in a couple of weeks.

You should also be reading your independent reading book.  Remember that your data sheet is due on May 9th.  It is in your best interest to finish your book before the AP exam on Thursday.

 

Comparative Poetry Explication

Both Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphor” and Philip Larkin’s “Toads” use an extended metaphor that dominates the poem.  Write an essay that discusses how the poets use a pair of objects and/or concepts to communicate an idea.  Furthermore, discuss how the figurative language helps to communicate this idea with greater vividness or force than an ordinary, prosaic description could have achieved.

Writing Guidelines

§  Type.

§  Focus on answering the chosen topic clearly and succinctly.

§  Avoid mere plot summary.

§  Organize your essay effectively.

§  Support your ideas with textual evidence from both poems.

§  Your essay should be approximately 500-600 words

**Aidan, Freeland, and Rosii - prepare poetry assignment for tomorrow.

Study for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.  The sentence structure is ANAPHORA.