AP English Literature

1. Finish reading the essay, "Revise for Evidence". Then, create a Padlet in which you take notes on our Essay, revise for evidence.  Have sections for Qualities of Information; Disadvantaged of Vague Information

H. Expository Composition Periods 2 and 6

H. Composition period 2: Begin visualizing, planning and creating your Identity Puzzles.  Must include: Color; Creativity; the quote by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; and at least 20 splinters or subsets of your race/ethnicity.
2. Those students who were giving blood or working for leadership: Be sure to complete your Self Awareness Circles Exercise, and the one page reflection that accompanies it.

Period 6: Here are your The Fall of Rome Questions:
2. Why do you think the teacher, Mr. Washington prefers the term "Nego" even though he knows it is outdated?
5. What does Mr. Washington mean when he says, " it is up to us to make best of opportunities what we will."
8. Describe Kofi's family after the shooting.
9. How does Rashid read, or predict that Mr. Washington held him unfavorably?
10. Contrast Gerald and Rashid.

H. Expository Composition Identify Puzzles period 6

Our communities are even more fissured than white America asserts Henry Louis Gates, Jr. To reflect the diversity of your heritage and the diverse groups included in it, create an identity puzzle in which you include no fewer than 12 different splinter groups. Be creative and use color.

H. Expository Composition period 2

1. Article of the Week: My Choice: A Nation Within  A Nation. Please read out loud as a class. You should mark and annotate the essay as needed.  Complete a SOAPS Analysis. Complete an academic summary or precis and upload it.  Include one right there question; one author and you question and one on my own question.
2. Then carefully read, study the examples of 11 sentence patterns. Then write one of each type and identify which type it is.  you may type your sentences and upload them on Schoology.

AP English Literature Period 1 Agenda

AP English Literature In-Class Work
Because I use Mastery Grading, you all have the chance to revise your exam.  Several students worked hard and simply need slight revisions (including more questions about characterization and actually using the word characterization in the question). Two students don't need much revision at all. The rest of your exams need work as describe in my comments to you. Several students did not submit or upload an exam at all. Several students do not have passages in their exam. 
Your job is to use the feedback I have given you and revise your exam or submit one, in the case of those students who did not submit an exam.  Procedure: First, re-read your OWN Exam.  Do you know see some of the issues that I identified? If yes, flag those questions as problematic and begin revising those first. 
2. If you did not submit an exam--submit it. But also read these instructions to make sure your exam does what it needs to do. 
Verb/Word bank: I should read the following verbs/word in your test questions and/or answers:  purpose; characterize; depict; describe; conflict; foreshadow; literary technique; speaker; tone; is meant; reveal; demonstrate; infer; generalize; conclude.....
3. Your reflection should be uploaded in terms of what you noticed when you re-read your own exam.  So be sure to re-read your exam and discuss it when your submit your AP Reflection about the challenges and joys of creating your own test.
4. Carefully construct an AP Free/Open question that does not specifically name Oedipus, but we know Oedipus can be a text a student would use to write.
5. Submit your answers to your newly submitted exam if you made any changes.  Due dates are listed in Schoology. No late work beyond the Schoology due dates is accepted.
So, I am looking for a revised, resubmitted exam; a reflection; an Open Ended Question; and later on Thursday, for use to categorize the knowledge domains used in the revised exam. Please print a copy of your revised exam for Thursday. 

AP English Literature

Translate Ode 5 sentence by sentence.  You should have no fewer than 13 sentences.
Find the passage of the play, Oedipus Rex to prepare for creation of your Multiple Choice Assessment.  You may want to review your Major Data Work Sheet for important quotes and descriptive words to describe/characterize passages and characters.
Please visit the following link to add the Remind App for AP English Literature 

H. Expository Composition period 2

1. Finish your Expository Text of the Week SOAPS. Remember, it has to be from the Narration Section or must be from Radio Rookies.
2. Public Narratives: As learned and discussed briefly in class, the public debate can change with time, and across different groups.  Following are ten issues.  Pick those issues that you are knowledgeable about and then write down what seems to be the public debate on these issues. Know that as a minority there is a such thing as the "general" public debate, and the "my group" public debate. You can respond to the following subjects from your view as a minority or the 'general public'
1. Police Officers      2. Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh            3. NFL Players
4.  Nike Shoes, Inc.    5.  Black Lives Matter          6. #MeTooMovement    7. Charter Schools
8. Gentrification         9. Apple I-Phone         10. November Mid-Term Elections

H. Expository Composition Beginning Unit#2: Narration

Today, we will read and analyze the following essay that are in part narrative:

1. Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan
Homework: 1. Read another Narrative Essay from Patterns for College Writing.  Remember, it must be a narrative essay. Then complete your SOAPS, but also include a response to the question: Why does the author remember this incident when so many others have been forgotten?

Begin two separate and distinct narratives. One that could possibly be used in your College Admission Personal Insight Question.  Your narrative should clearly and specifically be used for one of the UC Questions OR a general admissions question.

2. Begin a narrative about something else...perhaps a time you felt embarrassed or out of place; your journey to the California; Los Angeles, or even the United States; a time you learned an important lesson; or you can write three paragraphs about each of these if you don't remember enough on one specific topic.

AP English Literature

Reading: Finish Reading Oedipus Rex. If you do not have the text, scroll down to the online downloadable versions. Remember to take notes, jot down meaningful and memorable passages or quotes or statements. 

H. Expository Composition

Appositive Phrase Practice. Complete Practice Exercises 1-5; and and 5 from 11-18. Handout is here:
Appositive Practice PDF

AP Literature Modelling Toni Morrison

Creative Writing. Using the passage from Paradise by Toni Morrison as a model, think of an abstract concept (love) that you would like to make concrete by use of metaphor. Compose a response in which you state that your abstraction is something concrete. Also attempt to use the conventions that Mrs. Morrison uses in her example: antithesis (balanced opposites); parallelism achieved through repetition--alliteration; anaphora. Dont forget to have a metaphor in your composition.! Be ready to share tomorrow in class.