AP Archive  Home

1-1 to 1-5 No school No school This week
STW??
Hand back research papers
Choose poem
Prep for poem explications
Intro to BNW
HW Foreward to BNW
End of 1st semester
Discuss Foreward
Read opening of BNW together
Poem explications in this order: Jacob, Axel, Rylie, Violet, Alex, James
HW Ch 1
1/2 day plus PIR 1/2 day for grading
Explications cont. if we have class (change--explications begin Mon. 1/8)
HW Ch 2
1-8 to 1-12 This week
Look at two examples of AP test essay answers while expl. are happening

Poem explications
HW Ch 3
Poem explications cont.
If time, discuss AP essays

HW Ch 4
STW
HW Ch 5
Discussion--student led (James, Alex, Axel)
HW Ch 6
Position paper due
Discussion--student led (Violet and Rylie)
HW Ch 7-8
1-15 to 1-19 This week
Reading qz
Discuss
HW Ch 9-10
Group question--How would you ensure stability in a society?
HW Ch 11-12
STW
HW 13-14
Analyze two poems--my choice
Discuss reading
HW 15-16
Position paper due
Analyze two poems--student choice
HW 17
1-22 to 1-26 This week
Look at Axel's poem
Discuss BNW
Pass out 1984
Intro to 1984
HW Finish BNW
Group discussion on BNW for a grade
Bring two discussion questions to class
HW Foreward to BNW (re-read)
STW
HW Ch 1-2
Look at poem together
Discuss 1984 and comparison to BNW
Read together
HW 3-4
Look at poem together
Position paper on BNW and Foreward due at beginning of class
Share
HW 5-6
1-29 to 2-2 PIR--no school
HW 7-8
This week
Qz on 1984
Discuss
HW Part 2 1-2
STW
HW 3-4
Sample multiple choice AP test work together
Answers to test
HW 5-6
Mr. Snape gone
Sample multiple choice AP test work together--answers on Monday
Position paper due by midnight tonight
HW 7-8
2-5 to 2-9 This week
Midterm
Go over answers to Fri. multiple choice
HW Part 2 1-2
Qz on 1984
Discuss
Look at poem together
HW 3-4
STW
HW 5-6
Watch scenes from 1984 movie
Trailer for BNW
Part of interview with Aldous Huxley
HW 7-8
Look at poem together
Position paper due by midnight
HW 148-165
2-5 to 2-9 This week
Midterm
Go over answers to Fri. multiple choice
HW 148-165
No school
HW 166-179
STW
HW 179-197
Qz on 1984
Discuss
Look at poem together
HW 198-215
Look at poem together
Position paper due by midnight
HW 215-226
2-12 to 2-16 This week
AP multiple choice test in groups
Look at answers
HW 226-236
Qz on 1984
Look at good/bad AP essays
Discuss
HW Finish book
STW
HW Afterword 257-267
Mr. Snape gone
Students lead discussion--bring three discussion questions to class--Axel will moderate
Position paper due by midnight on BNW vs. 1984
HW Principles of Newspeak 246-256
No school
No HW
2-19 to 2-23 No school This week
Rev. literary romanticism PPT--take notes
Intro to Frank. PPT
Epistolary novel
Read together
HW Letters and Ch 1
STW
HW Ch 2-5
Quiz on intro and reading--use your notes
Discuss
Look at poem together
HW Ch 6-7
Position paper due at beginning of period--about Frankenstein--share and discuss
HW Ch 8-9
2-26 to 3-1 This week
Music and "isms"
Listen and react
And look at famous pichers
HW 10-11
Qz--Reading and vocab
Class discussion about novel
Everyone hand in two discussion questions
HW 12-13
STW
HW 14-15
Watch a clip of "Young Frankenstein"
Look at poem together
HW 16-17
Create an essay answer together
Position paper due by midnight
HW 18-19
3-4 to 3-8 This week
Free response rubric
Write free response essay
Share and discuss
HW 20-21
Qz--Reading and vocab
Discuss qz
Finish sharing essays
HW 22-23
End of 3rd Q
STW
No position paper
HW Finish book and read afterword
Ski/swim--no school No school
3-11 to 3-15
This week
Finish essays
Check Frank. annotations (100 pts)
Review of Frank.
Hand out Hamlet
Shakespeare background (ppt)
Hand out play
Intro to Hamlet
Hamlet ppt
Begin reading together
HW I,i and evaluate your essay
Qz on I, i
Verify tests
Class discussion of Frank. for a grade--you can use notes and novel for reference
HW I, ii
STW--last one
HW I, iii and I, iv
Discuss Hamlet
Watch opening scene--2 verions--Mel Gibson and Kenneth Branaugh
Read together
HW Finish Act I
Qz
Discuss Act I
Characteristics of a classical tragedy
Position paper due by midnight
HW II, i
3-18 to 3-22 This week
Discuss II, i
Read together
MCT this week--times TBD. Rehearsals may affect class time, but HW will still be assigned.
It looks like no class will be happening this week. Be ready for reading qz if something changes.

Unless the schedule changes, we should have class from 11-11:32 M-Th. Be ready for the quizzes on Tu and We.

HW II, ii lines 1-234
Qz
Discuss reading
Read together
HW Finish II, ii
Qz
Discuss reading
Read together
HW III, i
Watch a little more Hamlet
Practice "To Be..." together
Read together
HW III, ii lines 1-242
Practice "To Be..." together
Read together
Position paper due by midnight
MCT performance
HW Finish III. ii

Probably in MCT rehearsal today.
3-25 to 3-29 This week
Left over stuff from last week
Begin reviewing lit. terms
Read together
HW III, iii
Senior trip--no seniors
ACT--7:55 to 12:15
No class today

Discuss Hamlet--student led
Lit. terms
HW Finish Act III
Hamlet qz
Lit. terms
No position paper
Senior trip--no seniors
No HW
No school No school
4-1 to 4-5 No school This week
Lit. terms
Types of lit. critic.
Look at handout
Make up qz if time
HW IV, i and ii
Qz
Decode Shakespeare in small groups
Types of lit. critic. cont.
HW IV, iii and iv
Decode Shakespeare and apply lit. terms to Hamlet
Yet more types of lit. critic.
HW IV, v and vi
Position paper due by midnight tonight
Finish types of lit. critic. and qz
HW Finish IV
4-8 to 4-12 This week
Quiz me on Act IV
Read together
HW V, i
Midterm
HW V, ii lines 1-222 Bring fat lit. book tomorrow
Intro to modern drama
Intro to LDJN
HW Finish Hamlet
Discuss Hamlet
Soliloquy test
HW 1291- 1294 and Act I
Position paper due--using one of the types of lit. crit., discuss Hamlet
Look at tips for AP test
HW II, i
4-15 to 4-19 This week
Qz on Act I
Sample AP test--multiple choice
Take it, discuss answers (14 minutes to read selection and answer questions)
HW II, ii
Discuss LDJN
Sample AP test--multiple choice
HW III
Sample AP test--multiple choice
Take it, discuss answers
HW IV, first half
Sample AP test--multiple choice
Take it, discuss answers
No position paper
HW Finish Play
No school