AP Literature and Composition
November Agenda
Agendas, Journals, Homework, and Essay Prompts
Agenda 11/2/12
 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, pg. 584
 Wuthering Heights Video Project
 Groups of 5
 All missing work must be turned in NOW!!
 Poem Essay pre-writing packet
 Tomorrow: Practice Session at Woodbridge High School,
8:30-12:35, snacks and water will be provided. Please attend
if you can, you will receive extra credit for attending!
The Importance of Being Earnest
Roles:
 Algernon: Mrs. Faircloth
 Gwendolen : Matt
 Jack: Zak
 Lady Bracknell : Frank
 Lane: Joseph
 Cecily: Kassiel
 Miss Prism : Abby
 Chasuble: Taylor
 Merriman: Max
Agenda 11/8/12
 Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest p.597
 For Homework:
 On my webpage, go to Wuthering Heights page, and choose 3
literary criticisms from the 5.
 Print criticisms, read and annotate.
 Bring to class Thursday, Nov. 15th
The Importance of Being Earnest
Roles;
 Algernon: Mrs. Faircloth
 Gwendolen : Matt
 Jack: Zak
 Lady Bracknell : Ashley Kate
 Cecily: Amelia
 Miss Prism : Jazmin
 Chasuble: Taylor
 Merriman: Max
Agenda 11/13/12
 Oscar Wilde passage/guided questions
 Multiple Choice Questions
 Wuthering Heights character analysis
 Pick a character other than Heathcliff or Catherine and
complete the character bone structure
 WH videos need to be in my hands on Monday, Nov. 19th
 Thursday, Nov. 15th WH Socratic Seminar
 Dialectical journals due (15 entries)
 3 literary criticisms (annotated)
Flex Agenda 11/14/12
 Review multiple choice questions for Oscar Wilde passage
Agenda 11/15/12
 Dialectical journal due
 Annotated literary criticisms due
 Socratic Seminar: Wuthering Heights
 You may use your books, journals, criticisms, character bone
structure. EVERYTHING!!
 Remember you must contribute to the discussion as well as
actively listening. It is not enough to simply speak, but you must
have something to say.
 Prose prompt: After lunch
 Write a fully developed paragraph.
After lunch (11/15/12)
 AP Literature Terms
 15 important terms that you
will be quizzed on
 Anapest
 Anaphora
 Anticlimax
 Antithesis
 Aphorism
 Apostrophe
 Aside
 Assonance
 Asyndeton
 Aubade
 Ballad
 Bathos
 Bildungsroman
 Blank verse
 bombast
Agenda 11/27/12
 DIDLS: A guide to Navigating Texts
 Crime and Punishment Assignments:
 Review the ppt on Crime and Punishment to establish background information on
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author and text
Review the link (see Web Page/C&P) to establish the actual setting of the novel.
Review Psychological & Marxist Literary Theory Criticisms (see link on Web
Page/Literary Criticisms.
Review the handout on Aristotle’s Tragedy (webpage/C&P)
Read Chapters 11, 23-24 from How to Read Lit Like a Professor (bring the
book so I know you have it-homework grade) as it will bring clarity to the
reading of C & P.
You may want to research about 19th Century Russia (see link on Web
Page/C&P)
Part I read by Dec. 17th , 1 post it of annotations per chapter
Quiz on Monday, next 15 Terms
 cacophony
 connotation
 caesura
 consonance
 canon
 denouement
 catharsis
 deux ex machina
 chiasmus
 diction
 classicism
 dionysian
 colloquial
 dystopia
 conceit