AP English Literature Period 1 and 6

1. Remember, that your Literature Circle Journals are due tomorrow as well as your role sheets. Many students are going on a field trip--no excuse--I must have your roll sheets and journals tomorrow.
2. Your five week grade date is approaching.  Click 2015AP English Lit. Assignment Record Log to see Assignments that you should have submitted to me. Maybe one or two of these you may still have--for the most part, all have been collected.
3. Period 6 Homework-- In addition to the above, write a reflection that is at least a page that answers the following prompts: --Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a general AP Free Response Question Prompt.
--Discuss the benefits of re-reading (several times) a text and using the detailed TPCASTT strategy, even if one has a basic understanding of the text? Identify new understandings of the poem "Those Winter Sundays" that you overlooked but now notice as important based on your re-reading and re-analyzing.

AP English Literature Periods 1 and 6

1. Finish reading Chapter one of The Fall of Rome. Be prepared to discuss.
2.Be prepared and armed with your Literature Circle Materials: Your journals with three new entries (two pages each); and your FULLY COMPLETED literature circle roll sheet. You will be discussing chunk 1; and chunk 2.

AP English Lit. PEriod 1

Please check back tomorrow morning by 10 am for your homework assignment! Ms. G

AP English Literature Period 6

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of a true education."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reflect on the quote above from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Then, discuss an assignment or reading given you in your English class, preferably, AP English Lit that caused you to think intensively and/or critically.  Or think of an assignment or project from another class that developed your character.  Discuss the assignment or project; how it challenged you; and what you discovered about the subject matter or yourself while undertaking it.  Required length: one full page.

2. Finish reading, or re-reading "Living in Sin" from your Perrine Literature Text.  Complete a total of 15 of the questions on page 655 using "Living in Sin". Be ready to discuss your interpretation in class on Wednesday, and be ready for a reading quiz on the poem (a short one).

3. To continue reading and journaling for your Literature Circle Novel (read another chuck). You will really have your first official meeting this Thursday. You should have three more complete DJ's done by Thursday as well as your literature circle role sheet completed.

4. Finally, finish categorizing the test questions of Practice AP English Literature Exam into the following learning domains: grammar; literary terms/technique; comprehension: tone/purpose; main idea; vocabulary knowledge; detail; pattern of organization.

AP English Literature Period 1

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of a true education."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reflect on the quote above from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Then, discuss an assignment or reading given you in your English class, preferably, AP English Lit that caused you to think intensively and/or critically.  Or think of an assignment or project from another class that developed your character.  Discuss the assignment or project; how it challenged you; and what you discovered about the subject matter or yourself while undertaking it.

2. Finish reading; re-reading if necessary today's poem, " It Sifts From Leaden Sieves". Look up the definition of a Sieve; as well as Leaden. Complete 15 of the questions on page 655. Be sure to number your responses; and be ready to discuss on Tuesday. Be ready for a reading quiz on Tuesday.

3. Continue reading and journaling for your Literature Circle Novel (read another chuck). You will really have your first official meeting this Thursday. You should have three more complete DJ's done by Thursday as well as your literature circle role sheet completed.

4. Finally, finish categorizing the test questions of Practice AP English Literature Exam into the following learning domains: grammar; literary terms/technique; comprehension: tone/purpose; main idea; vocabulary knowledge; detail; pattern of organization.

AP LIT P1

Reflect on the details that you found in Chapter 1 of your throwback and what those details foreshadow. Also reflect on your reading of the in class reading. Based on rereading Chapter 1 of your novel, what value does re reading have? With what aspects of Nabokovs comments about reading do you agree? Do you agree that real reading is really "re-reading"? Discuss other aspects of the reading that yoj found engaging. Also discuss two or three details from Chapter 1 and the events or ojtcomes they foreshadow. Your response/reflection must be a full page and a half.
2. Role sheets from Thursday will still be accepted if yojr Lit Circle Role Sheet ws not fully completed.

AP English Literature period 1

1. Determine who will be what role for Literature Circles. Download the sheet found under Handouts. 2. Read your chunk of the your "Literary Throwback" Complete three separate entries that are at least two full pages each (a total of 6 pages). Include a quote, and the page number at the top of the page. 3. Locate and bring the text you used for your free response essay that you wrote in class on Monday. 4. Bring King Lear to class on Tuesday. 5. Be prepared to write on your throw back novel on Thursday-- a thesis paragraph.

Happy New Year! AP English Literature Students

For Winter Break- you were to complete the AP English Literature Practice Exam that was distributed during the Final Week of School. The test IS NOT Available online, not is it available to be scanned. Because access to the school has been limited, if you did not get a copy, lost it, left it or misplaced it, you may earn a zero on this assignment; and it is due upon return. Please email me if you did not get the test. There are only approximately five students who are in this situation. 2. By now, you should have ordered your copy of your LITERATURE CIRCLE TEXT THAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD READ IN GROUPS. IT is a text you have already read. You will be RE-READING individually and discussing in groups that you have already chosen. This will begin immediately upon return next Monday. 3. I have made changes in our reading schedule. We will begin with the short contemporary novel: The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate Please order a copy on Amazon; or online. We will read Oedipus after reading The Fall of Rome. 4. We are NOT finished analyzing King Lear. We will have TBT where we we will discuss previous texts, as well analyze them in writing. Find your copy of King Lear and include it in your materials.