Week of: October 13-17
Teachers: DeGroodt/Falcon
Team: AP Lit
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-Up: Unpack the prompt
Activities: Poetry Analysis essay: Sonnet analysis [MAJOR]
Monday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Hamlet exam (MC & Short Answer)
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Read excerpt from The Prince by W/Th (Oct 15/16); Read Act I of Hamlet by W/Th
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-Up: Review expository notes about Hamlet
Activities: Continue reading Hamlet Act I
-Review elements of drama, tragic hero, plot pyramid
-Begin to analyze exposition of Hamlet for importance of character, setting, conflict
Tuesday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Hamlet exam (MC & Short Answer)
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Read excerpt from The Prince by W/Th (Oct 15/16); Read Act I of Hamlet by W/Th
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Wed/Thurs
Warm-Up: Assign Play Notes for Hamlet—due Friday, October 31
Activities: Hamlet Socratic seminar
-Analyze Act I: tragedy, exposition, tragic hero, setting, characterization
-Connect to Machiavelli’s The Prince
Upcoming Major Assessments: Hamlet exam (MC & Short Answer)
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Read Hamlet Acts II-III by Oct 22-23
Objective: To understand a work’s complexity, to absorb richness of meaning, and to analyze how meaning is
embodied in literary form.
Objective: To understand the way writers use language to provide meaning and pleasure.
Objective: To write, focusing on critical analysis of literature including expository, analytical, and
argumentative essays as well as creative writing to sharpen understanding of writers’ accomplishments and
deepen appreciation of literary artistry.
Warm-Up: Vendler analysis model: antecedent situation, etc.
Activities: --Analyze a monologue or soliloquy from Act I using Vendler (Either Hamlet’s soliloquy in Sc. 2 “O,
that this too…” Laertes’ monologue in Sc. 3 to Ophelia “Think it no more”,
or the Ghost’s monologue in Sc. 5 “Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast”)
--Read Act II of Hamlet
Friday
Upcoming Major Assessments: Hamlet exam (MC & Short Answer)
Materials: Pen/pencil, novel, course handouts
Follow Up/HW: Read Hamlet Acts II-III by Oct 22-23