AP Lit Periods 1&6

Homework: Use either The Shadow of the Wind; How to Read Literature Like a Professor; Enrique's Journey; or The Glass Menagerie to create a total of 8 ORIGINAL Questions: 2 Right There; 2 Think and Search; 2 Author and You; 2 On My Own. 2. Continue to Categorize the Multiple Choice Questions from our first AP English Literature Practice Exam. Use the following as your categories: Grammatical Knowledge; Comprehension: Tone; Audience; Purpose; Main Idea; Detail; Literary Term Vocabulary; Relationships/Word Patterns; Patterns of Organization. Use the link to the right under classroom Readings to download/view the test questions. The correct answers are on page 39 of the test. 3. You will meet in your Literature Circle Groups one last time before the play. Period 1 on Tuesday; Period 6 on Wednesday. Please be prepared to discuss. Exam for Period 1 Tomorrow/Period 6 on Wednesday.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 6

Be sure to complete the AP English Literature Mini Unit Exam Sheet. Period 1 you were given this sheet. Period 6, you will find it uploaded under class readings and handouts.

AP English Literature Homework Periods 1 & 2

Tomorrow, both periods will engage in a Literature Circle Discussion of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. You should have already determined who will be the: Discussion Director; The Connector; the Summarizer; The Illustrator; the Literary Luminary. I have uploaded a sheet for each role under Class Readings and Handouts. Please download and print OR Duplicate on your own paper. Your role sheet MUST BE DONE when you ENTER CLASS. 2. YOu must have 8 (period 1)/ 6 (period 6) Journal Entries for your reading. Because there are no acts but scenes, you may DO ONE ENTRY for SCENE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, two for scene 6 (because it is longer); and one for the scene 7. As long as you have the required number of scenes. Many students have already READ the ENTIRE PLAY. I will give you one more chance to meet in Literature Circles before we attend the play next week. 3. Please bring your dialectical journals, with a quote from the play, the scene number and your response to class tomorrow.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 6

1. Your Self Evaluation of your Summer Reading Dialectical Journal Entries for Shadow of the Wind is DUE ON MONDAY!! not FRIDAY. 2. Buy The Picture of Dorian Gray. 3. Begin Reading The Glass Menagerie. The link to the PDF is under Class Readings and Handouts. On Thursday, you will meet in your first Literature Circle Meetings to discuss Acts 1 & 2. Period 1, your groups will be determined on Monday. 3. Begin Reviewing How to Read Literature Like A Professor and notes on Summary versus Analysis for Exams next week. Finally, on your block day you will take the multiple choice portion of an AP English Literature Exam. The remaining three essays will be distributed during the next two or three weeks.

AP English Literature Periods 1 & 2

I do hope that you enjoyed a little respite from AP English Literature. Previously, I mentioned the need for you to read The Glass Menagerie, and I included a link to the PDF under class readings. You do not need to read the play before coming back to school. Instead, you will read it as your first Independent Text & discuss in literature circles. Please download it, and plan on printing it in preparation for having the first Act read by Thursday. 2. Visit the Official Website of Oscar Wilde--see link under Class Readings. Read his entire biography, paying particular attention to his parents and their education/accomplishments; familiar events (deaths, etc.) Make an index card--front and back-- of information about Mr. Wilde that is of interest to you. Include two quotes that are of interest to you as well. As a note, his official biography on the link site is 4 pages long..you must scroll to the bottom and advance the page. Also, on the site there is a separate place for quotes. On Tuesday, I will assess your reading of his biography (think quiz).

AP English Liteature Periods 1 & 2

How to Read Literature Like A Professor Reflection 1. Today in pairs, or individually, you will examine the Open Ended AP English Literature Essay Prompts from 1970-2014. You will skim the prompts looking for those prompts which call for knowledge gleaned specifically from analyzing novels from the stance presented in our How to Read Literature Like a Professor text. First, look for those prompts which groups in our class presented directly. Write the name of the chapter and the year of the prompt. 2. Then, look for prompts that correlate to knowledge and subjects that Mr. Foster addresses in other chapters of his book that we did not hear presentations on. Write these chapter names down, as well as the corresponding year of that AP English Literature Prompt. 3. Finally, write a reflective response in which you discuss the merits of How to Read Literature Like a Professor. How does his book help you in effect, analyze, not simply summarize literature? Which chapter thus far did you find most useful? Why? Which group do you feel helped you understand the most? Which chapter do you thin best corresponds to the novels and stories you naturally are drawn to? How might having this novel helped you in the past? Discuss an assignment in which the text could have helped you. Anything else? Feel free to discuss. Your reflection should be no fewer than two full pages (1 front; 1 back)

AP English Literature Periods 1&6 Homework due August 19, 2014

Look under Classroom Readings and Handouts. Carefully read/re-read for some students who have read this before, The Worlds of Fiction. The document is three pages, please click on each page in order to read the entire document: The Worlds of Fiction page 1; The Worlds of Fiction page 2; The Worlds of Fiction page 3. You may print out and annotate if you'd like.