1. April 9-10, 2018
Objectives:
Answer multiple choice questions for a prose passage.
Analyze dramatic and poetic texts for characterization, tone, and rhetorical choices.
Homework & Reminders:
LAST PERRINE’S READING! Handout for guidance on Google Classroom. Due 4.17/4.18.
King Lear (purple Folger edition) Acts I/II next class.
HoD final portfolio (online AND hard copy)
Catalyst:
College-bound Title Suggestions on Google Classroom

2. UPCOMING: 4.11/4.12: King Lear Acts I/II
4.11/4.12: Heart of Darkness final portfolio
4.13/4.16: Practice FRQ question 3
4.17/4.18: Prosody terms/reading due
4.18: Early Release Day
4.19/4.20: Practice FRQ question 1
4.25/4.26: King Lear assessment
: AP Exam review (bring MWDS/novel materials for assigned days)

3. Today’s Motif: the role of the son 1
Today’s Motif: the role of the son 1. Multiple choice practice: excerpt from Frankenstein 2. Close reading objectives: excerpt from King Lear 3. Poetry composition: “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

4. Today’s motif: the role of the son
Prose passage excerpt: Frankenstein multiple choice
Number the lines – oops!
Read/annotate the excerpt.
Answer questions 1-13.
15 mins.

5. King Lear close reading, Act I
Dramatic excerpt:
King Lear close reading, Act I
Close read the following passage, highlighting/annotating specific syntactical choices and rhetorical devices.
On the opposite side of your composition book, complete the following:
A brief paraphrase (what is Edmund suggesting here?)
An analysis of the impact of your annotated rhetorical devices/strategies
An explanation of how the perspective (p.o.v.) impacts the text

6. Poetry analysis:
“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
Read/annotate the poem
In Google Classroom, respond to the following prompt in a well-developed paragraph:
How does Hughes develop the poem’s message through a specific figurative device?

7. Dramatic excerpt: Oedipus the King multiple choice
Read/annotate the excerpt.
Answer questions
15 mins.