AP English Literature Periods 1 and 6

Study Your Lines!!!!! Knowledge of your lines is the one aspect in which you can earn an "A" based on your own effort, memorization, feeling and emotion included in your delivery. Be sure to have some sort of costume. It is the icing on the cake, and worth points. 2. Be sure to Complete the King Lear Reflection if you were not in class on Friday. The text follows: Prompt: In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can Not Read” author Francine Prose cites The Tragedy of King Lear as one of her favorite Shakespearean Tragedies. With its subjects of sibling rivalries; aging; appearances versus reality; one’s reputation; disguise; ones inner nature versus outer nature; the responsibility of children to parents and parents to child; loyalty; dysfunction; the honor of service and servants; the weakness and humanity found in us all, even Kings, King Lear is a play with many, many universal themes that touch our lives in many ways and in many stages. What aspect of the plot of the play, or the play within a play touched or moved you most? Which aspect of our reading, or your own reading and re-reading was most insightful to you? Connect King Lear to other tragedies you have read. How does it relate/rank? Why? Discuss connections with other literary texts? Anything else you would like to say about the plot? The text? Your understanding or connections? (Did you enjoy hearing the play?) 3. Upload the Final Exam Review Sheet. Study the plots of Lear, Dorian Gray; How to Read Literature like a Professor, Biblical Stories... the link is under class readings and important handouts.