AP Engl Lit/Expos Com p2

Ap Lit: Revise your 1972 essay. 1. Read the first 2 paragraphs out loud and voice-record them. Please read your entire essay out loud, but only the first 2 paragraphs need to be recorded.  2. Eliminate the past and use literary present tense and/or simple past if you need it. Remove most helping verbs (i.e. she had done becomes she did) 3. Remove second person, "you will read, you will see, we see". Replace with it comes clear, it will be revealed, shown, etc.  Bring Oedipus packet to class on Thursday. You may read up to page 12 if you would like.

H. Expos Comp period 2:  Type your Descriptive Essay Draft if you have not. Read it and elaborate based on class instruction. Then, have two copies of your draft printed BEFORE period 2. No one will be allowed to print during class!

H. Expository Composition Period 2

1. Rewrite one full paragraph subtracting as many details as possible, while still keeping the passage understandable.  The first paragraph may be rewritten to look like this:
Sometime in the morning, Denise found herself awake and listening to a sound that was coming from the water.  Squirt pushed himself up and peered into the night and when a growl began to issue from the puppy's throat, Denise grabbed him and stuffed him under her bag.  She thought she could make out the silhouette and did not want Squirt to antagonize the animal. When the sounds seemed to move Denise awoke the others and told them what she had heard.......
2. Continue or begin working on a FULL Draft of an Essay about a food that is special to you, your family, or your culture; and (perhaps) the person associated with that food. Write an essay in which you describe the food/dish, the person who makes it, and your feelings associated with.  Your draft should use sensory details like the two essays we have read: "Rice" by Jhumpa Lahiri and "The Night of The Grizzles"

Oedipus

Here is the link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4BLVnt1qsfkU3ZfVDdoeTFMUG8/view?usp=sharing

AP Literature Homework period 1

Begin drafting your own original, imaginative story with a setting; characters and plot.  Your story maybe in any genre: science fiction; dystopia; historical fiction or realistic fiction.   You may not copy or cut and paste.  Try your hand at using dialogue, details and imagery.  Ideally your story is almost any length over three pages--you need that among of time to develop your setting and your characters.  Perhaps you may want to brainstorm a conflict that you want your characters to grapple with BEFORE writing the actual story.  This may be helpful.

Additionally: 1. Be sure you copied the 70 question stems from the Open Question Handout.
2. Be sure you went to two or your category Padlets, and looked up and copy/pasted the definitions of those literary terms in your category blocks.  You also need to handwrite the definitions for those terms in two of your Padlet "blocks" . Here is the link to the definitions: Virtual Salt: A handbook of Literary Devices

Here is the rough draft to my response to 1972 AP English Literature Prompt
What did you need for your essay? You will have the change to RE-Read Chapter 1 or the opening scene to reconstruct your essay in class. You may want to bring the novel or play tomorrow or download a copy for your needs.

Descriptive Essay #1

Using "Rice" by Jhumpa Lahiri as . model, we will write a full length descriptive essay about a dish that has meaning for you and your family, and perhaps even your culture.  Your essay may choose to focus on the person who makes that dish in your family as well as the dish itself and recollect an event when the dish was made.  OR You may focus strictly on the dish and the variations of it in your family. You must include 4 of the 5 types of imagery. You must describe the dish using specific language and details.  You must also give some description and biographical information about the maker of the dish. Draft #1 due Friday, September 14th

Analyzing A Descriptive Essay: Rice by Jhumpa Lahiri

1. What food or dish or baked good do you associate with a specific member of your family? What is it and with whom do you associate it?
2. What foods do you eat on a specific holiday? 
Re-read the essay entitled, "Rice" on pg 172 Patterns For College Writing and respond:
3. Write down all of the verbs Lahiri uses in the first two paragraphs. You should have between 22-24 verbs written down.
4. Now, write down all of the ingredients and their descriptions of Lahiri's father's pulao. You should have 15 ingredients.
5. Lastly add 7-10 ACTIVE verbs that Lahiri's father does to make the pulao dish.

AP English Literature Period 1

1. Carefully read and mark the two essays given to you on Question 3; Mysterious Origins.  On a sheet of paper, give each student essay a score, and then justify the score that you gave using the AP English Literature Rubric for the Essay.  Upload your response to Schoology.
2. Be sure you have copied the 70 Question Stems.