A Midsummer Night's Dream

We will finish Act V of the play on Monday. Have a great Thanksgiving.

Passage Analysis

The students spent the period writing a passage analysis essay.


Click the link below and scroll to the passage analysis section. (Q1)
It is a pdf file.

http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/ap/students/english/ap04_frq_english_lit_b.pdf

A Midsummer Night's Dream-PASSAGE ANALYSIS TOMORROW

We will have an in class writing tomorrow dealing with a randomly selected passage.

Today-
pd 3 read up to Act III, scene 2

OBERON
Flower of this purple dye,Hit with Cupid's archery,Sink in apple of his eye.When his love he doth espy,Let her shine as gloriouslyAs the Venus of the sky.When thou wakest, if she be by,Beg of her for remedy.

pd 6 read up to Act III, scene 2

-LYSANDER
You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;For you love Hermia; this you know I know:And here, with all good will, with all my heart,In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;And yours of Helena to me bequeath,Whom I do love and will do till my death.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pd 3-Students are to read through Act II.
Pd 6-Students are to read Act III, scene 1 and stop when Bottom says:

The finch, the sparrow and the lark,The plain-song cuckoo gray,Whose note full many a man doth mark,And dares not answer nay; -- for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolisha bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry'cuckoo' never so?

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream

Today we read through Act II, scene I. If you were absent, you must read this scene on your own. I have provided a link to the entire play in the etext section.

The Taming of the Shrew

The students received copies of The Taming of the Shrew today. It should be read by next Thursday. We are currently reading A Mid-Summer Night's Dream in class.

This is the free response from Tuesday.

An effective literary work does not merely stop or cease; it concludes. In the view of some critics, a work that does not provide the pleasure of significant “closure” has terminated with an artistic fault. A satisfactory ending is not, however, always conclusive in every sense; significant closure may require the reader to abide with or adjust to ambiguity and uncertainty.
In an essay, discuss the ending of a novel or play of acknowledged literary merit. Explain precisely how and why the ending appropriately or inappropriately concludes the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.

You MUST choose a work from the list below.

A Tale of Two Cities

Figurative Language Bomb

Blogs

Nice job everyone. However, I must mention that I saw many similarities.

Light-Anthem
Faith pillow-The Handmaid's Tale
Rebirth-A Tale of Two Cities (thanks Sparknotes)
Food-The Importance of Being Earnest
Censorship-Fahrenheit 451
The spilt wine-A Tale of Two Cities (thanks Mr. Klimas)

If you want to be successful on the exam, you have to be able to be able to come up with original observations for analysis. There are so many things from each work we read.

For example,
The Handmaid's Tale

• soul scrolls
• jezebelle's
• serena joy
• the commander
• the eyes
• red
• milk and honey
• point of view
• diction-"loose woman" "choice"
• Pen is Envy
• scrabble
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• feminism
• the ceremony
• the ending-the anthropology lecture
• the wings
• the marthas

and the list goes on...

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