AP Literature Poetry Response Assignments
2nd Semester - February2016
Okay – you’ve gotten accustomed to writing these responses (and some of you have been quite creative). Now, let’s try for a bit more analysis. Hereafter, you will be using the responses you wrote last semester to draft more analytical responses. Follow these steps:
1)Choose a poem from last semester’s list for which you wrote a response.
2)Using your response as a starting point, complete a Literary Analysis Planning Guide for the poem. You won’t actually write an essay or submit a response – you will submit this completed guide.
3)You will find a blank copy of the guide under “Helpful Resources” on my Webpage. (You’ll need to click on the AP English Literature page.)
4)Fill out the blank planning guide and save it to your computer, using the POEM’S TITLE as the name.
5)Then, attach this completed form in an email to my gmail account: by the due date.
6)At the end of each Nine Weeks grading period, youwill earn a100-point writing grade which will be determined by the average for these guides AND your score on the Poetry Response Paragraph (see attached handout). This is why it is imperative that you keep up with these!
On the back of this sheet I have listed again the poems you responded to last semester.Below are the due dates for these guides and for the Poetry Response Paragraphs (all of which will be accepted EARLY):
3rd Nine Weeks:
Guide due – February 2nd (emailed)
Guide due – February 8th (emailed)
Guide due – February 16th (emailed)
Paragraph due – February 25th (HARD COPY) – THIS WILL BE GRADED.
September Poems:
“Dusting,” (page 1206)
“Bored” (page 849)
“Ulysses” (page 1347)
“Snapping Beans” (page 811)
“Friends with Numbers,” (page 1271)
“Those Winter Sundays” (page 771)
October Poems:
“Manners” (page 822)
“Seventeen” (page 937)
“Directions for Resisting the SAT” (page 1253)
“AD” (page 930)
“London’s Summer Morning” (page 882)
“Parting at Morning” (page 1316)
November Poems:
“To one who has been long in city pent” (page 1334)
“Root Cellar” (page 877)
“Mr. Z” (page 1272)
“Mexicans Begin Jogging” (page 1273)
“Paradise-Un” (page 1278)
“Faith is a fine invention” (page 1111)
December Poems:
“To a Waterfowl” (page 1317)
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (page 916)
“Unholy Sonnet” (page 1014)
“Dogs” (page 1002)
“Blackberry Eating” (page 957)
“from An Essay on Criticism” (page 969)
January poems:
“Upon Julia’s Clothes” (page 1006) [by Robert Herrick]
“The ABC of Aerobics,” [by Peter Meinke] p. 1054
“Common Ground,” p. 836 [by Judith Ortiz Cofer]
“Recuerdo,” p. 1243 [by Edna St. Vincent Millay]
“Unharvested,” page 1140 [by Robert Frost]
“The World is Too Much with Us,” [by William Wordsworth] p. 1009
February poems:
“Paradise-Un,” p. 1278 [by Catherine Wing]
“Dream Variations” p. 1170 [by Langston Hughes]
“Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” p. 1358 [by William Butler Yeats]
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” p. 1239 [by Christopher Marlowe]
“First Muse,” p. 1214 [by Julia Alvarez]
“Zimmer’s Head Thudding against the Blackboard,” p. 1253 [by Paul Zimmer]
March poems:
“In a London Drawingroom,” p. 1324 [by George Eliot]
“Graded Paper,” p. 1255 [by Mark Halliday]
“Ode to American English,” p. 850 [by Barbara Hamby]
“All-American Sestina,” p. 1018 [by Florence Cassen Mayers]
“Mutability” p. 1356 [by William Wordsworth]
“Behind Grandma’s House,” [by Gary Soto] p. 947
April/May poems:
“The Foot,” p. 989 [by Alice Jones]
“America,” p. 1291[by Tony Hoagland]
“Promises Like Pie-Crust,” p. 1342 [by Christina Rossetti]
“The Windhover,” p. 1330 [by Gerard Manley Hopkins]
“The Game,” p. 1319 [by Judith Ortiz Cofer]
“Oh Sumptuous moment,” [by Emily Dickinson] p. 1096
“To Celia,” [by Ben Jonson] p 1333