AP English Literature and Composition (Orange Glen High School) //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Class Name: AP English Literature and Composition Instructor(s): Rachel Bronwyn en-us SchoolSitePro <![CDATA[Due: 05/20/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3911000 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Read chapter fourteen of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 
In class we watched part one of the four-part miniseries.
If you missed class, you need to watch part one before Wednesday's class. You will need an hour.

]]> Mon, 18 May 2015 16:23:02 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/24/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3878596 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Prepare the three poems for Friday. Be ready. I expect that you will extensively annotate
1. "He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven"
2. "Funeral Blues"
I expect that you will prepare copious Cornell notes for "do not go gentle into that good night."
Be ready.
Seriously.

]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:25:50 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/23/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3876117 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Do you feel like you had more to say in Socratic Seminar?
Write a 1-2 page TYPED piece which begins, Ms. Bronwyn, during Socractic Seminar I wanted to say....
Pursue two different ideas. The more specific you are the more points you can earn. If you use direct textual evidence you will of course earn more points. This piece is semi-formal.  This piece is conversational. This piece can sound like someone speaking very thoughtfully like a college student.
This assignment is open to everyone.
Please double-space this assignment.
Due Friday morning at 7:45 a.m.

]]> Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:27:23 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/22/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3876111 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Make sure you are prepared to write to one of the two prompts you were given last week. You make use your text during the test. You may use notes. You may prepare opening sentences. 
 
Prompt #1:

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero claims that Caliban is “A devil, a born devil, on whose nature/ Nurture can never stick” (IV, i). Through Prospero’s utterance, Shakespeare is addressing the tension between the belief that innate traits construct a person’s character and the idea that a person’s experiences shape his/her character and thus his/her responses to the world. 

Consider a text which you addresses this question of Nature/Nurture. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the author presents this issue and how the author’s argument illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.  Do not merely summarize the plot.

Prompt #2:
The concept of the “Other” is a useful device that allows the reader to explore how a character responds to an other who seems to be different from himself. How a character responds to or defines the “Other” often reveals more about the character than the “Other” he is attempting to describe or identify. Perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group, the “Other” is almost always seen as a lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly. The “Other” in a society may have few or no legal rights, may be characterized as less intelligent or as immoral, and may even be regarded as sub-human. 

Select a novel or play and, focusing on the idea of the “Other,” write an essay analyzing how the “Other” functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.


]]> Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:23:29 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/22/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3872816 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Don't forget--from 7:45-9:30 is Restoration Wednesday.
Come and restore your grade!!!
Practice (again) writing about a poem!
 

]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:32:07 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/20/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3869866 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Read the excerpt about Frankenstein from The Madwoman in the Attic. Also, please read these additional artciles. Takes notes and/or annotate. Be prepared for a test grade Socratic Seminar. Be bale to speak thoughtfully and fluently about both these texts and Frankenstein. 
 

 Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings

By Tom GeogheganBBC News Magazine

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12711091

 Legacy of Frankenstein: The Monster Is the One in the White Lab Coat

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/legacy-of-frankenstein-the-monster-is-the-one-in-the-white-lab-coat

 Was ‘Frankenstein’ Really About Childbirth?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/101435/mary-shelley-frankenstein-godwin-bodleian-oxford


]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:20:48 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/16/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3858600 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Read chapters 24 in Frankenstein.
]]> Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:09:28 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/14/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3858598 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Read chapters 21-23 in Frankenstein.
Make sure you prepare your assigned passage. Be ready....don't be like Victor Frankenstein.

]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:39:57 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/14/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3865452 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ Grades are not updated because Synergy has been freezing and crashing and getting a flat tire and running off the road and generally being completely not useful!
There is supposed to be a massive update and fix tonight....stay tuned...so don't get wiggly if your grades don't reflect recent work...
 

]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:55:25 PDT <![CDATA[Due: 04/10/2015]]> //www.orangeglenhigh.org/homeworkItem3858580 //www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/classes/609098/assignments/ 1. Read chapters 18-20 in Frankenstein.
2. Prepare the passages from "What are our responsibilities?" and "Self-Education" for Socratic Seminar on Friday.

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