1.  To continue to become familiar with the multiple-choice part of the AP exam.  To begin to examine the techniques of comedy.  To examine the standards of etiquette in Victorian society.

2.  Timed AP Multiple-Choice test: The Awakening. (Twenty minutes)  Background on Oscar Wilde and Victorian time period.  Begin reading The Importance of Being Earnest.

3.  Extra-credit opportunity next week only during lunch: both lunches on A Day or first lunch on B Day.  Mon, April 8: absolute last day to turn in The Awakening Dialectal Journal.  Mon, April 15: matching test over Techniques of Comedy.

4.  1854- Born in Dublin  Came from an upper-class family  Studied aestheticism: one versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.  Closet homosexual, but he did marry.  Wilde’s most brilliant comedy was The Importance of Being Earnest, released in 1895.  Served jail time for homosexual activities.

5.  Setting: London and the countryside in 1895, during the last years of the Victorian time period.  The English aristocrats flourished!! This is the group on which Wilde’s satire focus on, along with the view that marriage has nothing to do with love; it is a means for achieving social status

6.  Character development  Themes  Motifs  Symbolism  Techniques of comedy

7.  John Worthing, J.P.  Algernon Moncrieff  Rev. Canon Chasuble  Merriman  Lane  Lady Brackwell  Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax  Cecily Cardew  Miss Prism