Krause
AP Literature
Spring 2015
Mrs. Dalloway Unit Overview
Calendar:
2/23
Section 1 due
3/2
Section 2 due
Section 3-4 due
Section 5 due
Section 6-7 due
Section 8 due
3/9
3/16
NO SCHOOL
Sections 9-10 due
3/23
Annotated Bibliography due
Reading Assignments:
1. 1-29 (end @ passage break)
2. 29-48 (end @ passage break)
3. 48-64 (end @ passage break)
4. 64-94 (end @ “…looking not so kind.”)
5. 94-102 (end @ “…that it was half past one.”)
6. 102-122 (end @ “…how, every instant…”)
7. 122-139 (end @”…the Westminster omnibus.”)
8. 139-151 (end @ passage break)
9. 151-165 (end @ passage break)
10. 165-end
Annotated Bibliography:
To aid your understanding of Mrs. Dalloway, I’m assigning a range of critical
commentaries written about Virginia Woolf and her various novels, including Mrs.
Dalloway. Essays not about Mrs. Dalloway still shed light on Woolf’s political,
social, and artistic philosophies, and thus can be applied to your understanding of
Mrs. Dalloway to give you a more complex vision of this author and this text.
An annotation does more than just summarize a text. A summary simply describes the
main points of a text. An annotation, however, both describes and analyzes the text.
Typical points to consider (though not all are always relevant) when constructing your
annotations are:
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topic of the text
author’s main focus/thesis
author’s method of arguing/nature of the evidence provided
text’s strengths and weaknesses:
o does the item offer a good introduction to the topic? Does the item deal
with a particular aspect of the issue especially relevant to the topic at
hand
o intended audience and accessibility of the text: is it geared to a
general readership or a specialize audience?
o reliability and/or credentials of the author(s)
significant or special features of the work
reflection on the text as a tool for deepening comprehension of Mrs. Dalloway
A more comprehensive handout for this assignment will be provided, and will we will
compose a sample annotation as a class to model the process.
Krause
AP Literature
Spring 2015
Mrs. Dalloway Unit Overview
Reading Logs:
Maintain a reading log to record your impressions of, responses to, reflections on,
and questions regarding Mrs. Dalloway. Complete an entry for each reading assignment.
Log entries are due in class on the days each reading assignment is due to have been
read. Please have all complete entries with you every class period. Visual artistic
responses are not an option for this assignment, though if you want to compose such a
representation as an additional means of clarifying your comprehension and insight,
please feel free to do so.
As complex, independent, considerate readers who can approach innovative, challenging,
dynamic literature and show such involvement in writing, how you choose to respond to
the text is up to you. That being said, if you need a prompt for guidance, consider
the list of reading prompts provided.
How long should the entries be? Well, that’s up to you. You are only limited by what
you choose to not do. Shallow entries will result in shallow grades.
Please be wary of straying into being dismissive of the text.
Please provide a heading for each new entry, including the date of completion and a
title / description of the entry (or Reading Assignment #).
Have all entries completed and with you when you show up for class. “I forgot to print
it” means that you do not have it.
Prompts to consider for written response to each reading:
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Referring to a specific character
in Mrs. Dalloway, show how interior
monologue functions as a narrative
and expository device.
While Virginia Woolf was writing
this novel, she referred to it as
The Hours. She changed the title,
but what evidence is there of her
concern with time?
The charge has been frequently made
that “nothing happens” in Virginia
Woolf’s novels. How would you
answer this?
What facets of the English social
system does Virginia Woolf
criticize?
Why does Peter Walsh object to Hugh
Whitbread?
Describe Miss Kilman in terms of
her religious feelings.
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How, and through what characters,
does Virginia Woolf weave the theme
of possessiveness and possessive
love?
In what way are Peter Walsh and
Sally Seton similar? Peter and
Clarissa?
Describe and reflect upon instances
in which a “sane” character thinks
or utters a phrase that is
amplified in Septimus Smith’s
madness.
From the brief scene Virginia Woolf
presents, describe Clarissa and
Richard’s marriage.
What does Clarissa Dalloway’s
value?
Consider the varied connotations of
the motif of trees and flowers.
Additionally, I will assign a formal reflection assignment regarding these logs.