October 1-5, 2012

Greetings Students: APE's, Other Seniors, and APE's in Training!

To be BLOCKED, or not to be BLOCKED? That is the question.

To not be blocked seems the answer. Let us hope it remains thus. Should the blog be blocked midweek, I will re-post any pertinent links on Edmodo.

As you all know, we have completed fifteen allusions, so all students will take the allusions quiz on Monday.

The individual class plans follow:

Pre-APEnglish 10

Study your new vocabulary for your weekly quiz on Friday.

This week we will continue our study of Julius Caesar.  The e-text provides a side-by-side translation from Early Modern to Modern English. Use the e-text at home to help in your understanding. We will read the original in class together. I hope to complete Act I and progress well into Act II.


Expect short tests after each act.

Our goal this week is to explain the actions of various characters and to infer the reasons behind those actions. While reading, you should identify and also compare and contrast dramatic foils.
We will also discuss characterization and use textual evidence to support our claims about characters.
And finally, we will examine the grammatical structure of certain passages. 

See you in class!


English 12

Study your new vocabulary for your weekly quiz on Friday.

This week we will read the three selections assigned last week: The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and the Wife's Lament. Your goals, beyond paraphrasing these older texts, is to analyze the poems and look for the thematic ideas in them. You will also learn vocabulary in context, understand the elegy form of poetry, and recognize kennings and caesuras.

Be sure to check Edmodo daily for updates. I will alert you to any reading or outside assignments.


Don't forget that your Personal Essay is due Monday.


See you in class!

APEnglish Literature and Composition

We have much to do this week!


First let me thank those of you who attended the Saturday prep session. I appreciate your commitment. You will be rewarded for your dilegence.


"Clothes" (Monday and Tuesday: We will use the handout below.)

Select passages that you think warrant discussion and be prepared to discuss them. We will also use this handout on analyzing fiction.

The Yellow Wallpaper (Wednesday)
I Stand Here Ironing (Wednesday)

Thursday we will evaluate essays for I Stand Here Ironing.
Friday you will have your vocabulary quiz and create a thematic and thesis statement for several of the texts we have read.

You will write an analytical essay on one or a combination of the stories from this unit. Topics and due dates will be posted on Edmodo. Check daily for updates and assignments.


See you in Class!