Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Homework Assignments: Week 31
AP englishMonday
5/4 Complete the last official, graded timed writing of the year—open question on Twelfth Night.Tuesday
5/5 No homework! Happy Cinco de Mayo.Wednesday
5/6 Finish reading through all of your book notes and reviewing literary terms.Thursday
5/7 No homework—prepare for other AP exams (like AP English Language & Econ for seniors and AP US History for juniors).Friday
5/8 Read in your IR book and seniors should review literary terms and sample timed writings to prepare for the Language exam next Wednesday.
Old Homework Assignments: Week 29 - 30Week 30
Monday
4/27 Finish reading and/or watching Twelfth Night if you have not done so already. Begin studying literary terms for the exam.Tuesday
4/28 Complete book notes for 12th Night and The Woman Warrior. See the link for details.Wednesday
4/29 Seniors: Find all of your book notes from last year, read through them and bring them to class tomorrow. Juniors, choose one or two books from last year (Lord of the Flies, Cyrano de Bergerac, Antigone, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Doll’s House, Pygmalion, or Much Ado About Nothing) and prepare book notes on them.Thursday
4/30 Complete the multiple choice exam.Friday
5/1 Complete the timed writing (passage) and study the literary terms.Week 29
Monday
4/20 Finish your visual representation on The Woman Warrior if you have not done so already.Tuesday
4/21 Complete the timed writing.Wednesday
4/22 Finish reading Act II of Twelfth Night. Read carefully and take notes in your books as you read. Be prepared for class discussion and a short reading quiz.Thursday
4/23 Finish reading Act III of Twelfth Night. Read carefully and take notes in your books as you read. Be prepared for class discussion and a short reading quiz.Friday
4/24 Watch the movie version of Twelfth Night, at least to Act IV. Feel free to finish if you want. Read in your IR book.
Old Assignments
11/14 Passage Analysis 3: Choose an interesting passage of at least 10 lines from Act IV of Twelfth Night and analyze it. Part I: Translate and write down the passage in your own words. Part II: Analyze the passage. When you reflect on the passage, explain what the passage shows about a character or a situation. Discuss any puns or metaphors in the passage. Connect the passage to real life, to another book, or to another passage in the play. Explain what you think Shakespeare is working with in the passage. See the model for further explanation.
Start Vocabulary #3: For each of the following vocabulary words, write down a) guessed meaning, b) dictionary definition, c)root (root word, meaning of root word, language of root word, d) sentence that shows the meaning of the word. Due Thursday at the beginning of the period.
abatement, assail , calamity , deem, discourse, disposition , feign, fervor, infirmity, prodigal, revel, semblance , validity, usurp
Reading Quiz Act II
Writing Notes: Morning Poems
Open Questions: 1970 - 2008
Sample AP Essay questions
Due Dates
AP English Literature exam: Thurs. 5/7
AP English Language exam: Wed. 5/13
ePortfolios: Friday 5/15
In-Class Assignments
Introduction
Book Notes
Model introductions & outlines
Notes on the play as a whole
Elizabethan English
Shakespeare's vocabulary
Romance: Key Concepts
Passage Analysis Model