AP Lit/Comp Week 5

​Week 5: Poetry: Allusion, Symbol, Irony and Allegory

Texts: “in Just—“ and “next to of course god america i”  e.e. cummings; “Siren Song” Margaret Atwood; “Journey of the Magi” T.S. Eliot; “Leda and the Swan” William Butler Yeats; “Southern History” and “History Lesson” Natasha Trethewey; “Kentucky, 1833” Rita Dove; “The Haunted Palace” Edgar Allan Poe; “On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City” Sherman Alexie; “The Weary Blues” Langston Hughes; “Ode on a Grecian Urn” John Keats

Writing: Students will write a poem in response to another poem inspired by Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems from Everyman’s Pocket Library (Tuesday)

Class Activities: Socratic Seminar (Monday), Poetry Quiz 4 (objective) with terms (Tuesday), Partner work to determine the score on the AP poetry question with a list of two good things and two things to work on (Wednesday), Poetry in Social and Historic Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance & In Response to War (Thursday)

Assignments Due: Poetry Explication (Analytic/Critical/Evaluative) Assignment (Friday); Outside Reading Map (Monday 2/6)

Test: Examination on Reading Poetry (Friday 2/3)