AP English Literature Period 1

Our time together before AP Exams is almost done. Tomorrow, we will re-focus on the Free Response Essay. Please bring King Lear  and The Scarlet Letter as you may need it. Tomorrow, I will define a few poetic forms, but most of your time will be spend writing and discussing, with some quiet time to yourself.
Also, you will get back a barrage of assignments. The most important ones to take are Major Data Worksheets; Reflections; Open Minds; Character Bio-Poems, One pagers and Journals. These you will re-read and study from to refresh your memory of the novels.
3. On Monday, afterschool, I can offer a review session to those needing extra-credit. I can not offer one tomorrow because I have a doctors appt. I can offer one on Friday, if there is interest.

AP English Literature Period 1

1. Select any two characters from texts, preferably read in AP Lit; and complete an Open Mind for them.  Identify each character by name at the bottom, then identify, preferably from a journal or major data worksheet, the three most important things they said.  Write each down on their respective side, along with three to four images that symbolize them, and six adjectives on each side.  Then, using pencil, connect the adjectives or words or images that you feel may relate from one character to another.
2. Carefully read the released AP Lit Prompt. After reading and annotating it. Write the essay.
3.  Those who still need to: categorize your multiple choice exams.
4. On Thursday we will have another Poetry Write Around; A discussion and possible Free Response Essay Question on The Scarlet Letter; and another AP Practice Test will be given to you with three essay topics for you to complete.

AP English Literature Period 1 and 6 Homework

Carefully read pages 686-692 of your Perrine Literature text on Connotation and Denotation. Please answer the questions on page 692 1-5. Do not write the questions but think deeply about the answers.

Period 1: You are to categorize the question types for the Practice AP Lit Exam you got back today. Remember question types include: Grammar/Antecedent Reference; Grammar: Shift; Comprehension: tone; author's purpose; characterization; primary purpose; Literary Device Knowledge; form; Method of Organization.

Period 6: Check back on Tuesday to get one of the two tests that you took back so that you can categorize the questions before I see you on Wednesday, April 29th

AP English Lit. Periods 1 and 6

1. Complete AP English Literature Practice Test. You must mark/annotate the passages.
2. Create a total of five Free Response Essay topics (with the titles we have read this year in mind.) remember, you should not name a specific text by name. Type all essay topics on one sheet. Your topics should be those not addressed on previous AP Exams.
3. Read and study your literary terms, categories, notebooks.

AP English Literature Period 6

Tomorrow, we will discuss The Stranger. Please finish the novel. We will also revisit the Powerpoint reading Camus theory of The Absurd. We will do a variety of short activities to review The Stranger including creating multiple choice questions, and Free Response Questions. We will also respond to another essay, on a Poem. You should have been keeping journal responses for The Stranger. Bring tomorrow.
2. Secondly, you should be reviewing your notebooks for literary term definitions, reading the Perrine text for clarification and assistance as well.

AP English Literature Period 1

Now, more than ever you should dedicate 20 minutes per night to studying literary terms and devices, and even reading segments of your Perrine Text that help you conceptualize how devices work to create meaning.
1.  Based on your reading The Scarlet Letter, you will write one prompt which mimics the prompts of the Free Response Question #3

2.  Create ten total multiple choice questions of your own.  2 comprehension questions (purpose/tone) ; 2 specific grammar questions; 2 questions about literary technique; 2 detail questions; and 2 organization questions.  You may write out or type or even copy and paste the passages from the novel into your work (if you type everything)

3.  Finish reading the novel

4.  Thursday will really be a throw-back day in which we will review The Scarlet Letter, and begin to review other characters we have read from literature.  Have your Journals. May do a journal check. 

AP English Literature Homework period 1

1. Your Open Mind should feature three character defining quotes before and three character defining quotes after some sort of transformation or pivotal moment in the life of your selected character. Also include at least 3-4 adjectives before, and 3-4 adjectives after that character defining moment.  You also need 3 pictures/images or symbols before; 3 after.
2. Complete the Major Data Worksheet. You do not need to complete the quotes section as you have been reading and making dialectical journal entries one per chapter. Focus on Characters-- always include a minor one; as well as the back page.
3. Finish the Okefenokee Swamp Assignment discussed in class today.

AP English Literature Period 1

Finish completing the classwork assignment based on on your literary term quiz #1.  What is the impact of the device/strategy/or technique? What does Hawthorne intend to accomplish based on its use?
2. Continue Reading the Scarlet Letter up to Chapter 19: remember, one journal entry for each chapter of the novel.

AP English Literature Period 6

Carefully read and annotate the 4 page (2 page front and back) handout on The Prose Passage. Study your notes on the literary terms and techniques: connotation; denotation; tone; distance; levels of diction: high/formal/elevated; standard or medium; low or informal as well as the diction types. We will begin to apply this to our reading/writing and analysis of poems and prose passages.
2. Finish reading Chapter 3 (Part 2) of The Stranger. Select a quote, and continue your journal.
Tomorrow we will be revisiting The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. Getting a list of Tone Words and Words to Describe Language and Writing.

AP English Literature Period 6

Continue to Read The Stranger. Finish Part 2. For every chapter, please write one journal response, in which you select a quote or passage from the protagonist; or even another character. Tell me why the quote is significant. What does it do in terms of moving the novels plot along? Characterization?
2. Re-Read "The Whipping" by Robert Hayden. Answer ten questions that you self-select from page 655/655 in the Perrine Literature Text.
3. Study all your literary terms!

AP English Literature Homework P. 1

1. Continue reading and annotating The Scarlet Letter, with one Entry per chapter in your journals (you select a quote; defend it as the most important or revealing, in 200 words or less).
2. Create three questions for tomorrow's discussion: 1 Level 3 Question (Theme based; discussion question; 1 Right there Question; 1 Author and You Question: the answer is not in the text, but you must read the text).
3. Begin studying.  As stated in class, I will give less and less direct instruction and discussion; and more time for you to review; read; study; take sample tests; rewrite essays, etc. While you are doing this, I am making sure that I have accurately recorded assignments in Making the Grade.  My personal goal is that you get graded work, to put in your folders by Friday, or Monday, April 20th (the day before the 113 min. periods begin)
4. Discuss the difference in feeling in the following two words: melancholy and sad. How do the two differ?

AP English Literature Period 1

1. Continue Reading and annotating and underlining The Scarlet Letter Chapters 11-14. Select one important, revealing, evocative quote that moves you, or tells you or foreshadows or indicates or symbolizes something worthwhile to you as a reader. Respond to the quote in 150 words or less. Be sure to use literary language, precise language, and dont simply summarize the quote, but justify its importance in the novel or chapter.
2. Define all of the literary terms and techniques on BOTH sides of the Puzzle. Great online resources, include Virtual Salt- A handbook of Rhetorical Terms/Literary Terms.

AP English Lit Period 6 -- The Stranger

Be sure to finish reading all of part 1 of The Stranger. Be able to answer the following questions:
1. When does the plot seem to thicken, in your opinion? Why?
2. Describe each of the following characters in five words each: Mersault; Raymond; Old man Salamerno; Marie; the dog; No slang words or casual diction allowed.. For example...no "easy going"
3. Finally, be sure you have at least five distict journal entries in your response journal.