AP English Period 3 and 6 Classwork Calendar (Period 3 & 6) Assignments

List of books suggested for AP

Pick a book for outside reading--here is another list

Hamlet Act III study guide. Quiz Wednesday

Use the attached link to study the complexities of Hamlet. The study guide quiz section is most helpful. Also interesting are the articles exploring thematic ideas in the play. Additionally, use the site to help you understand each of Hamlet's 7 soliloquies.

Hamlet Act I and II quiz. Review all handouts and materials. Review (re-read) Acts I and II.
Prepare for questions on the text as we have discussed it thus far.
Questions on Act II will include the ENTIRE act. Read on your own the sections we have not yet covered. Use study aids if you need to in order to understand those pages.

The attached version of the play has notes--click on the numbers to the left of the lines--

During class we watched the ghost scenes from two versions of Hamlet
Watch and compare with the chart given in class.

Complete your assigned group work questions and prepare your remarks for class discussion. Be sure to include some textual references to direct student discussion to The Stranger. The goal is to connect the issue assigned to your group to both the text and philosophical ideas about the thematic focus.

Use the attached pages and your assigned groups to complete these questions.

Do this

Read pages 103-123 The Stranger

review the questions at this site. You don't need to answer them on a paper; but use your mind to think about them. Please be prepared to discuss with intelligence the part one of The Stranger--on Friday

Read pages 77-102 The Stranger

Read pages 52-76

Read pages 3-26 The Stranger

Read this article about the American West. Copy two paragraphs which strike you as meaningful--paste them into a Word document. Print the page and bring it to class. Have some thoughts about heroes and western archetypes.

Test Montana 1948--Whole Book

Read and print (or download to a device you bring to class) the attached article from The Atlantic.

Final Test Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment AP Chart. Print and bring to class.

Read and highlight the article Deliberating in a Democracy

We will be reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor. After reading the book and completing Crime and Punishment, students will write essays analyzing Crime and Punishment using insights gleaned from the professor.
Here are notes from the table of contents.

Review critical discussion of Crime and Punishment to reinforce your understanding of Dostoyevsky's message(s) regarding political systems in Czarist Russia of the late 1800s.

For review--
Here are notes covering today's quiz.
Use the link to further explore ideas from an esteemed PhD candidate at University of Chicago.

30 Question Multiple Choice Quiz
Books I and II Crime and Punishment.

Matching
True/False
Quote ID (multiple choice)

Complete Dialectical Journals for Crime and Punishment
Turn them in on Wednesday 11/4

Ted Bundy and Raskolnikov share many personal traits. They are both well-educated, handsome men whose secret lives as murderous fiends reveal a shocking capacity for immorality even among middle class "civilized" citizens.
Read the Wiki on Ted. Read pages 8 and 9 of the Googlebooks link.

Review the discussion of Plato's theory of Forms

Use this website to preview the characters you will encounter in Crime and Punishment. Read Chapter 1

Write three questions to be used during Socratic Seminar on Friday. You will use the questions Friday and turn them in.

Read the two literary excerpts which detail encounters with the medical profession. Come to class ready to work in groups and discuss the implications of these passages in relation to the critical lens of "protest literature"

Please bring The Cuckoo's Nest to class on Wednesday. Thanks

Read the example essays at the College Board on betrayal and past events.
NO NEED TO PRINT THEM. Just read them and read the explanations describing the reasoning behind the grading.

Print the attached 2 page document.
Read it.
Bring it to class on Wednesday, Sept. 8

Return signed expectations acknowledgment; 15 points
Return signed acknowledgment of Ethics Policy; 15 points