Beginning Thursday, February 26th, we will begin our AP Seminar Workshops with

The Great Gatsby. I have a few of these novels if you would like to read over the
weekend before next Wednesdays composition grade. We will continue having one
novel a week presented on Thursday and Friday. The Wednesday leading up to the
new seminar will continue to be writing Wednesday with a focus on writing about
the novel that was presented. This will give you time to look over your notes, do
your own research, or even, Heaven Forbid! read the work. Each week will look
like this:
Monday
1. Review
Vocabular
y
2. Poetry
Analysis
3. Multiple
Choice
Practice

Tuesday
1. Socrati
c
Semina
r
2. Prose
Analysi
s
3. Multipl
e
Choice
Practic
e

Wednesday
1. On-Demand
Writing
Novel
2. On-Demand
Writing
Poetry/Prose

Thursda
y
Novel
Seminar

Friday
1. Vocabula
ry Test
2. Seminar

List of Poems for Analysis:

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Discussion: Tuesday, March 3; Writing,
Wednesday, March 4
Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot Analysis: Monday, March 9; Multiple
Choice Quiz: Tuesday, March 10
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Group Analysis, Discussion, and
Composition
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Group Analysis, Discussion, and
Composition
Out, Out by Robert Frost Group Analysis, Discussion, and Composition
Bells for John Whitesides Daughter by John Crowe Ransom Group Analysis,
Discussion, and Composition
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Group Analysis, Discussion, and
Composition
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Class Discussion; Small Group Analysis
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold Class Discussion; Small Group Analysis
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain and addition poems by Emily Dickinson Group
Presentation

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Group Presentation

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes - Group Presentation
Woman Work by Maya Angelou Group Presentation
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas Group Presentation
In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop Group Presentation

Dialectical/Visual Journal: The following selections will be copied, or printed out, and
placed in a portfolio. You are responsible for creating one analysis per poem, an indepth visual analysis of the marked up poem, an interpretive visual creation using
the medium of your choosing, a timeline of the authors life and any historical
events or movements paralleling the authors life, and finally, a fourteen-line poem
with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg, and that is written in iambic
pentameter. (We have so much work to do)
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
The Colonel by Caroline Forche
Thou Blind Mans Mark by Phillip Sydney
Various sonnets by William Shakespeare

Novels
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1984 by George Orwell
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Plays
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes
The Crucible by Arthur Miller