AP English Literature Periods 1&2

By now, you should have finished The Kite Runner, or you should be very close. You should have two journal entries: one for each chapter, and you read two chapters per night, including weekends. That means, I should be able to check no fewer than 6 entries tomorrow for the Kite Runner. As you know, next week is our last week to review for the AP English Literature Exam. My intentions are to discuss The Kite Runner and the two poems given you on Monday. On your block day, I intend to give you a mock essay exam with three essays from the AP Exam: one prose, one poetry; one free response OR I may give you one poetry, one prose and have you do free response at home; 1 per night perhaps. As a student, you should be reviewing literary terms and techniques like point of view; narration; tone and tone words; figurative language. You should look over any assignments and journals of independent reading, even if only stamped. You will receive a few old assignments from semester one this week: Old Independent and King Lear reading journals; Kite Runner Reading Journals; etc. Read this as a refresher for the Free Response Questions. Know King Lear; Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; The Kite Runner; your first literature circle text, which was a re-read, and your second one which was contemporary. Try to connect themes. Study. You may bring food daily as long as it is not messy. Some days will be interactive; others will be silent reading; review and essay writing. I may quiz you without notice. It is not "personal" it is to help you succeed on your upcoming exam. Please come prepared by having the Kite Runner; your notebook; old texts and lit circle novels. I will host an afterschool study session on either Wednesday or Thursday afterschool, possibly offering extra credit. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Ap English Literature Period 2

The Kite Runner Close Reading Questions. 1. Is Amir’s relationship with his father dysfunctional? Is it functional when they come to America? Or could it be considered a continuum of the family cycle archetype? 2. Does Baba love Hassan more than Amir, his son? 3. Does Ali secretly envy Baba? 4. What motivates Assef to rape Hassan? 5. Why is it significant that on page 66 Amir’s father uses the pronoun “we won” instead of “you”? Why does Amir use both “we” and “I”? 6. Why is it significant that Assef and his gang wanted the blue kite that Hassan had run and won for Amir? 7. Look up the story of Abraham and Isaac. Why is knowledge of that story also significant to the scene before Hassan is raped? 8. Why do you think Baba has such a strong reaction to Amir when Amir suggests on page 90 that they get new servants? What does his reaction reveal? 9. In what ways does Hassan have the qualities that Baba admires in a son? List those traits and the actions Hassan does which demonstrate it. 10. Are Amir and Ali parallel characters? 11. Explain the significance of the story of Rasdam and Sorgab? 12. How is Baba’s life and his condition in America both expected and ironic? Additionally, read two chapters a night. Complete two journals. (this includes weekends)

AP English Literature Period 2

1. Wiki: David and Goliath. 2. Continue Reading the Kite Runner. You were supposed to be at Chapter 11. You will have another reading quiz tomorrow on random chapters up to chapter 14. 3. Pull out one quote and then respond for your reading journal in the same way you completed reading journals for Independent Reading.

English Ten Period 5

1. Complete your first independent reading novel Artistic Projects. Projects include a book jacket; a collage; a CD; a painting; a movie poster. I will post the prompt. 2. Read your new Spring Break novel.. You must have no fewer than six full page entries.

AP English Period 2

1. Complete your AP English Practice Exam 2. Read The Kite Runner up to and including chapter 13. Check back for instructions for your journal.

AP English Literature Period 1 Spring Break

Read The Kite Runner up to and including chapter 13. For every chapter: 1. give it an original title, and why you chose it that title. Avoid one word titles if you can. 2. Select what you feel to be the most important quote, event, action or occurrence with a justification for that event. 3. How does this chapter deal with the issue of social inequality? 2. Take your multiple choice AP Practice Test. 3. Complete your MAJOR DATA WORKS SHEET for YOUR INDEPENDENT READING NOVEL 4. Create and type 2 more free response prompts based on your independent novel.

English Ten Period 6

Spring Break Reading Assignment. You selected a text to read during your Spring Break vacation. For every 15-20 pages of your novel, do the following: On the left hand side of your journal Carefully Copy a quote from your reading that was interesting, or funny or intriguing. Write the quote down including quotation marks and the page. Then respond to the quote by indicating what that quote revels, predicts, relates to, reminds you of. Then write in your neatest handwriting, a response, similar to your other literature circle journals. On the right hand side, draw a picture and color it, or paint it, or sketch it. You may use white paper to neatly cover up the lines. You may also write a poem with the first line of the quote. You must have no fewer than 6 total entries; you may have more--but no more than nine. Response starters....this reminds me of a time when I....this reminds me of...I predict...this shows....life is sometimes like this...this relates....this is similar to my other text...now I understand....I like this passage because. Remember, once you use the response starter, your response and reaction must be a full page. So you must have six journal response and six corresponding artistic companions. Art choices include: --A drawing that relates to that passage --A poem about that passage or character or using the quote from the response. --A mini-collage --a cartoon ---a crest or mandala Yes! You may repeat art choices!

AP English Literature Period 1

Now that you know how to write free-response questions. Using a theme from your novel, construct two more well-conceived free response questions. You can not use your novel title in the question. Neatly handwrite or type your free response questions. 2. Re-read the poem "Cross" by Langston Hughes in your Perrine text. Complete the TPCASTTT handout. Write the explanation for Attitude and Shifts on the back of your paper. 3. Re-read the first four chapters of The Kite Runner. Finish your list of ten adjectives to describe each character. 4. Finally, score each of the prompts from the 2005 Form B McTeague Prompt. I have uploaded the prompt to the right. See you with your lit. circle novels and the poem, "Cross" and The Kite Runner on Thursday.

English Ten Period 6 Homework

Re-read the end of chapter 13, and Chapter 14 of Things Fall Apart and answer the following: 1. Why was Okonkwo's household destroyed? Who participated in the purge? 2. How was Obierika again shown different from Okonkwo? 3. Where is Okonkwo forced to go? Summarize the speech that Okonkwo's (great) uncle gives him. Why is "Mother Supreme"? What message was Uchendu trying to communicate to Okonkwo about feeling sad, and ungrateful? 4. Create two level 3--On My Own discussion questions for Chapter 13 or Chapter 14. Be ready to discuss your levels of questions and the events of the chapter.

English Ten Period 5

1. Re-read your rough draft of your literature circle essay out loud. Write "T" in the margin where a transition is needed. Write "Q" if a quotation could be inserted. Then, re-read the prompt of the essay. Think to yourself, "What do I need to add to make my essay complete"? Then re-write your essay, adding transitions, and quotes as needed. 2. Re-read the end of chapter 13, and Chapter 14. Answer the following: 1. Why was Okonkwo's household destroyed? Who participated in the purge? 2. How was Obierika again shown different from Okonkwo? 3. Where is Okonkwo forced to go? Summarize the speech that Okonkwo's (great) uncle gives him. Why is "Mother Supreme"? What message was Uchendu trying to communicate to Okonkwo about feeling sad, and ungrateful? 4. Create two level 3--On My Own discussion questions for Chapter 13 or Chapter 14.

Ap English Literature Period 2 Homework

1. Write a one page analysis in which you analyze the effectiveness of another element in DIDLS that you did not write about in class today. Remember, the poem is entitled, " A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. 2. Additionally, bring the Kite Runner, and your literature circle novels to class.