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Frankenstein Reading Schedule for AP English Students
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Current Class Activities & Assignments for English IV-A (Pds. 1, 2, & 3):
January 28, 2013: Students read biographical information about William Blake, read four Blake poems, and began viewing a biographical video.
January 29, 2013: Students read biographical information about William Wordsworth, read three Wordsworth poems, and began viewing a biographical video while completing reading comprehension and analysis work over the poems.
January 30, 2013: Students read biographical information about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and a non-fiction article about Coleridge's landscape.
January 31, 2013: Students read biographical information about Percy Bysshe Shelley, read three Shelley poems, and began viewing a biographical video while completing reading comprehension and analysis work over the poems.
February 1, 2013: Students read biographical information about John Keats, read three Keats poems, and began viewing a biographical video while completing reading comprehension and analysis work over the poems.
February 4, 2013: Students completed their mid-year STAR Reading assessments, then began reviewing the story of Prometheus in order to understand Mary Shelley's allusion to it in Frankenstein.
February 5, 2013: Students read the Author's Introduction, Preface, and Letters 1-3 of Frankenstein. Students received a worksheet that they were to complete as they read. After Letter 4, it needs to be finished.
February 6, 2013: Students read the fourth letter of Frankenstein and reviewed responses on their worksheets from Monday and Tuesday.
Current Class Activities & Assignments for APE Lit. (Pds. 4, 6, & 7):
January 28, 2013: Students completed a Frankenstein multiple-choice practice as bell work, and then reviewed the answers. Students then viewed the 1831 introduction to the novel. As homework, students are to complete SPLOTTS notes and read Chapters I-IV of Frankenstein.
January 29, 2013: Students completed the weekly SPLOTTS quiz, received a Frankenstein reading schedule as well as new SPLOTTS notes pages and poem assignment, and continued reading in Frankenstein.
January 30, 2013: Students completed practice multiple-choice analysis questions over the previous reading assignment, then continued reading in Frankenstein.
January 31, 2013: Students completed another round of multiple-choice analysis questions over the prior evening's reading of Frankenstein, then continued reading according to the assigned reading schedule.
February 1, 2013: Students completed official AP multiple-choice practice, then picked up several rounds of multiple-choice analysis questions for the weekend reading assignment of Frankenstein.
February 4, 2013: Students completed their mid-year STAR Reading assessments, then reviewed the story of Prometheus, and discussed how it is a relevant allusion in Frankenstein.
February 5, 2013: Students had the class period to catch up and continue their reading of Frankenstein. Students received more multiple-choice analysis practice.
February 6, 2013: Students completed SPLOTTS quizzes (and fourth period took a reading quiz), then reviewed answers to multiple-choice practice questions. Students are to read Chapters 22-23 of Frankenstein tonight.
Archived Class Activities and Assignments (All Classes):
Weeks 1 & 2 (August 20-31, 2012)
Weeks 3 & 4 (September 4-14, 2012)
Weeks 5 & 6 (September 17-28, 2012)
Weeks 7 & 8 (October 1-12, 2012)
Weeks 9 & 10 (October 15-26, 2012
Weeks 11 & 12 (October 29-November 9, 2012)
Weeks 13 & 14 (November 12-20, 2012)
Weeks 15 & 16 (November 26-December 7, 2012)
Weeks 17 & 18 (December 10-20, 2012)
Weeks 19 & 20 (January 3-11, 2013)
Weeks 21 & 22 (January 14-25, 2013
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