AP Literature Period 1

Read Carefully Chapters 1-10 of The Scarlet Letter. For each chapter in your reading journal, select the quote or passage that you feel to be the MOST IMPORTANT to the chapter. Discuss the importance and significance of your selection.  Highlight the quote, and include the page number on it as well. Your response must be no longer than 150 words You can not use the word "because" in any of the ten entries.
2.Assignment #2 will be uploaded by Tuesday afternoon.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 6

You will have a Spring Break Assignment. You know it involves reading and journaling. Please check back tomorrow morning for updates!

AP English Literature Period 1&6

Read/Read in Your Perrine Literature several selections about Writing About Literature pg. 5-6;
pg. 11 (Proving Your Point); read Writing In-Class Essay or Essay Tests pg 15-22). Please then download and complete the Reflective Journal. Be sure to include at least 8 bullet points under the "What I Learned Section" Be sure to complete the Journal, with at least two other components for each of the sections.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 6

You received your character analysis peer-edited essays. Select one, read out-loud. Revise for:
Evidence. Is your Evidence poignant and specific? 2. Grammar and Conventions: Do you add logical transitional words and phrases? Do you add additional textual details? Due Monday. Typed drafts only.

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AP English period 1

Homework: Rather than do the reflection, be sure you have identified 6 demons you may have encountered. Write the name of the demon, then provide a brief anecdote or description of when or how you encountered it. Some of your responses may be longer than others.
2. Identify any 6 demons encountered by a male in the novel The Fall of Rome. You may use bullet points for this. Then identify 3-6 demons Ms. Hansen encounters or experiences.

Ap English Literature Period 6

1. Look under Class Readings and Handouts. Download The Stranger Dialectical Journal Cover. Please place several sheets of paper inside your journal. fold it as normal.
2. Then respond: What impression do you get of the narrator? How might his behavior be considered odd, considering the opening events of the novel? Identify two details from your reading of the text thus far that point to an "oddity" or our narrator.
3. Finish your journal response regarding race, gender or ethnicity being like a demon.
4. Bring typed original prompts and multiple choice questions tomorrow.
5. Download the Major Data Worksheet. If you don't see it, goggle it, and print the PDF that you see.

AP English Literature Period 1

1. Please complete your second Open Ended AP Free Response Prompt. Please also type both prompts, and suggest titles (grades 9-12) of literary merit that you feel could be used to answer the prompt.
2. Continue working on 5-7 multiple choice questions for The Fall of Rome. Remember to construct answers for your questions (A-E)

AP English Literature Period 6

1. Finish your second prompt, modeled after (in terms of language and breadth) the AP English Literature Open (Free Response Prompt). Be sure to type both your prompts (the one completed in class, and the one completed at home. Include a total of five texts for each prompt...if you can)
2. I suspect that many students have not fully read the entire text. Expect a reading quiz on Wednesday with one question or quote identification from chapters 9-the end of the novel ( 7 questions total).
3. Finish constructing your own ten multiple choice questions for The Fall of Rome, with answer choices A-E.

AP English Literature periods 1 & 6

Updates: Students in AP English Lit periods 1 & 6 must purchase a 3 Ring Binder --preferably 1&1/2 inch to accommodate up to 375 sheets. Please include, purchase or make at least ten dividers for the following sections: Shadow of the Wind; The Glass Menagerie; The Picture of Dorian Gray; King Lear; Lit Circle #1; The Fall of Rome; Poetry; Lit Terms; and sections for two more novels. This notebook is due on Thursday.

2. Please download (if you do not have a copy) A Major Data Worksheet for The Fall of Rome (period 1 has this already). The copy is under handouts. Complete the Major Data Worksheet by Friday. Ten quotes; 6 total characters.  This is due on Thursday.

3. Complete the TPCASTT  for "Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer's Day?" as well as ten questions on page 655 in the Perrine Text.

4. Many students finished their lit. circle novel early and didn't so a last set of journals (2/5/15) . To avoid some students having finished, and others not, if you KNOW YOU FINISHED EARLY, PLEASE COMPLET 3 DIALECTICAL JOURNAL ENTRIES FOR THE FALL OF ROME, to be a grade filler.

Lit. periods 1/6

If you were absent in periods 1 or 6, this is the prompt to which we responded, in reference to a minor character (character who appears briefly) in The Fall of Rome. This was written in class. If you did not finish, you must at home.

1994. In some works of literature, a character who appears briefly, or does not appear at all, is a significant presence. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and write an essay in which you show how such a character functions in the work. You may wish to discuss how the character affects action, theme, or the development of other characters. Avoid plot summary.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 6

1. Read the section on Characterization in Your Perrine Literature Text (page 161-166). Upload the document Reflective Journal and complete( its under hanfouts). Also review the questions on Reviewing Chapter 3 on page 166 on Your Blue Perrine Text.
2. Bio-poem or I AM poem on two minor characters. Must use specific evidence, but stand the "Testing the Validity of Interpretations? Guide.
3. Finish the novel. we will read a bit out loud but finish it. Exam coming soon.

AP English Literature Period 1

Type a one and one half page reflection in which you address your understanding of: how characters function in texts; paying attention to characters who appear briefly; and the importance of continuing to "Read life a Professor" including applying symbolism and historical archetypes to texts. Discuss what you learned, wanted to say in the discussion but perhaps held back, and what else you feel is note-worthy in understanding how characters work. 
2. Complete a character bio-poem for two different minor characters.
3. RE-read sections of The Fall of Rome in preparation for closing writing assignments.

AP English Literature Periods 1&6

1. Tomorrow, you will take a practice AP Multiple Choice Exam.  Do not write answers on the exam--rather, write them on your own paper.  You should get to question 25 at the very least. Do not take the exam home. On Monday, we will discuss the answers.
2. Period 1-- Your have a total of four (4) bio-poem due (one for each major character and a minor character of your choosing).  Due typed on Monday. Be prepared to read!
3. Period 6-Finish your second analysis at home, if you didn't already finish it on Thursday.
4. Reading homework: Read Chapter 7-10 of The Fall of Rome. Questions to be posted later!

AP ENGLISH LIT. P1&6

Please bring The Fall of Rome for reading in class on Monday. Study questions for Chapters 5-9 will be distributed. On your block day, be prepared for multiple discussions--including your responses to your puzzles, The Fall of Rome; Open Minds (p.1/6) and Bio poems. Geeting closer to writing character analysis essays on the three major and one minor character. Poetry essay will be the Week of March 9th. You will recieve questions from previous poems and are expected to write an in class essay on a prompt of my choosing.