AP ENGLISH LIT DIAGNOSTIC (open attached document:

 

The following text is an excerpt from a novel. Show your understanding of your reading comprehension and critical-analysis by responding to the giving prompt question. Your written work will be evaluated primarily on your ability to show understanding of the text and construct an interpretation (make sure to write your response on the application.)  

NOTE: For more in-depth analysis, identify literary devices (e.g. – figurative language; tone; imagery; diction; etc.) the author uses and elaborate on the effect of these devices. This should reflect how knowledgable and skilled you are in the ability to analyze literature.

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT (SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT):

 

As I mentioned in a prior email, you will need to obtain copies of these two books to complete your summer assignment:

 

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy

HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR by Thomas C. Foster

 

If you have any difficulties obtaining this books on your own, check with the front office after June 19th (they should have a few copies to borrow by then.)

 

 

FINAL ESSAY: COMPARE & CONTRAST

 

The essay prompt will require you to compare and contrast THREE CHARACTERS from THREE WORKS you have read for class this year.  Consider all aspects of characterization (e.g. - description; type; how the character drives the action of the plot; etc.)  

 

Rubric is attached. Below are some helpful links to prepare you for the final essay paper in AP English Lit.  You will be informed if you are required to take this essay a week before the the essay should be written. 

 

CAP PROJECT -- PRESENTATION SUGGESTIONS: (see attached)

 

Here is helpful information how to create an effective PowerPoint, and reminders on how to present you presentation to an audience.

On May 22/23, all seniors will be taking the final Lexile Level Test. The results from this Lexile Text will be immediately available, and at that time Mr. Jacques will inform if you will be required to take the Final Essay Exam on May 30. 

NOTE:  I will inform you what the essay will be about, and will offer support before the test date so you will be prepared.

Practice TODAY:  Go to Achieve 3000 and sign in.  

Username: your first name, last initial, followed by your 5-digit school number.

Password: your "secret word" followed by your 5-digit school number

In class today, we will practice the article “NO FAIR!” (about dogs); close-read and answer m/c questions. *I suggest you also practice at home -- simply choose articles that sound appealing to you.  

 

CAP Packet (see attached)

Review Day:

 

To prepare for your exam next Wednesday, I suggest reviewing "the little things" we covered this year.  Now is not the time to stress and cram by  re-reading a book or writing another essay.  It's time to remind yourself of how to execute:

 

- Vocab

- Reviewing plots/characters/themes of the works we read 

-  How to construct opening paragraphs (Answering the So What?)

- How to structure your essays

- M/C practice

 

Below is a helpful website.  Feel free to use any of its practice exercises.

 

MOCK EXAM #1 TODAY -- DO NOT BE ABSENT!! 

 

1. Full Multiple-Choice exam (1 hour)

2. Prose Passage essay and a Poetry Passage essay (1 hour)

 

If you are absent, you must schedule a make-up (2-hours) within one week's time. Otherwise, you will receive multiple zeros for this exam.

 

 

 

TODAY:  LITERARY WORKS FINAL TEST (see attached study guide) DO NOT BE ABSENT!! 

To Sir John Lade... comparison essay samples (see attached).

 

Due today:  hard copy of first draft---CAP RESEARCH PAPER

 

AP Gov: 5 page min.

Reg Gov: 3 page min.

 

Adhere to all of the requirements listed on the rubric and CAP packet. We will conduct a peer review in class today, so do not forget to bring your hard copy printout.

 

See attached documents.

 

 

see attached

Sirens essay samples

NOVEL/PLAY ESSAY TODAY!!  Make sure to come to class fully prepared to write a 40-minute essay based on the most recent work you have read.

 

HAWK ROOSTING/GOLDEN RETRIEVALS  SAMPLE ESSAYs (SEE ATTACHED)

DUE TODAY:  (See attached documents for help) Again using the two poems, "Bright Star" and "Choose Something Like a Star" -- complete an introduction paragraph and an outline for the prompt:

 

Prompt: Read the following two poems very carefully, noting that the second includes an allusion to the first. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss their similarities and differences. In your essay, be sure to consider both theme and style. 

Points on Keats

--sonnet—mixes Italian and Elizabethan

--diction shows reverence for star

--first half shows Romantic reverence and use of nature

--second part moves to the emotions he feels—in love

Dramatic at end—will die without her love

 

Points on Frost

--speaker is more “familiar” with the star—says star cannot withhold its wisdom and must speak to us

--varies the rhyme pattern—keeps us paying attention, as we must pay attention to the star

--some humor—the star’s reply of “I burn.”

--uses allusion to connect star to Keats’s

--this star challenges/demands of us in a way that Keats’s does not

Keats’s poem connects a bit more with the emotions (heart) while Frost’s connects more with thought (mind).

 

Helpful website: 

 

DUE TODAY:  Write a 2-page minimum essay on RICHARD III Soliloquy (see attached.)

DUE TODAY (HAMLET SOLILOQUY ESSAY):

 

Write a 2-page minimum essay on TO BE OR NOT TO BE (see attached.)

 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT:  Grade your own essays. (SEE SAMPLES ATTACHED) Reflect upon what you are already capable of -- which is great--  and how much more you can still improve.

 

ALSO -- READ YOUR NOVELS!!!

 

 

DUE TODAY:  

 

*Use McGraw-Hill Workbook 

 

Close-read and annotate the passage for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fydor Dostoyevsky.Answer the 339-348 Multiple-Choice Questions.

Next, self-generate and answer FIVE QUESTIONS pertaining to the passage. Use your “Questions to Ask” handout for assistance. You will share and discuss in your groups in class.

QUIZ TODAY:  You must memorize and be prepared to define all types of rhymes and all poetic metric forms listed on this handout.  

DUE TODAY:

 

*USE MCGRAW HILL PREP BOOK.

 

Close-read and annotate the two prose passages for Babbit by Sinclair Lewis.

Answer the 299-318 Multiple-Choice Questions. For questions 298 and 307 only -- define all the literary terms listed.

 

Next, self-generate and answer two questions for each passages (4 total.) Use your “Questions to Ask” handout for assistance. You will share and discuss in your groups in class.

 

DUE TODAY: 

*USE MCGRAW HILL PREP BOOK.

 

Close-read and annotate the passage for The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

Answer the 289-298 Multiple-Choice Questions. For questions 292, 298 only -- define all the literary terms listed.

 

Next, self-generate and answer FIVE QUESTIONS pertaining to the passage. Use your “Questions to Ask” handout for assistance. You will share and discuss in your groups in class.

DUE TODAY:

 

*USE MCGRAW HILL PREP BOOK.

Close-read and annotate the two prose passages for The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Answer the 269-288 Multiple-Choice Questions. For questions 272, 279, 280, 287 only -- define all the literary terms listed.

Next, self-generate and answer two questions for each passages (4 total.) Use your “Questions to Ask” handout for assistance. You will share and discuss in your groups in class.

 

 

*USE MCGRAW HILL PREP BOOK. Complete a TPCASTT for the poems, THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK and SUCCESS IS CONTOUNTED SWEET...

 

Answer 71-90 Multiple-Choice Questions. For questions 71, 73, 78 -- Define all the literary terms listed (13 total). For questions 82, 83, 84, 87– research information on Rhythm and Meter and define the literary terms. *See HANDOUT FROM PREVIOUS POST and this website for help:

 

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/english-homework-help/48906-rhythm-in-poetry/

DUE TODAY --

 

*USE PEARSON PREP BOOK (ATTACHED). Complete a TPCASTT for the poem, SONNET.

Answer 1-10 of the Multiple-Choice Question for this poem. For questions 1, 3 -- Define all the literary terms listed (10 total). *See HANDOUT and this website for help:

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/english-homework-help/48906-rhythm-in-poetry/

SONNETS (for in-class work today).

 

FIRST -- watch and review this:

 

 

We will watch these two videos which explain iambic pentameter (and stressed/unstressed syllables):  

 

 

 

Next, we will use the attached handouts (hardcopies distributed in class).  

 

HW:  For next class (Wednesday) use page 1-2 of the attached document and complete Steps 1-11 (Analyzing the Building Blocks of a Sonnet) for Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 138. *These two sonnets are also on the Powerpoint.  

Allusions, Symbols and Archetypes handout (see website ad attached doc)

 

 

For your last assigned novel, here is the list to choose from:

GROUP (F) (Modern Era)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Road

The Bluest Eye

Winter’s Bone

 

GROUP (G) (World)

Frankenstein

The Plague

Paradise Lost

The Master and Margarita

 

GROUP (H) (Spanish)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Old Gringo

 

 

GROUP (I) (Shorter Works)

Fences

Heart of Darkness

The Great Gatsby

The Old Man and the Sea

Daisy Miller

Ethan Frome

The Awakening

Metamorphosis

A Raisin in the Sun

Of Mice and Men

Lord of the Flies

The Red Badge of Courage

 

 

 

DYSTOPIAN NOVEL: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (SEE ATTACHED)

 

These are analytical questions that you should review on your own while reading the novel.  I plan to give you a couple of days in class to go over these with your peers -- which means it is your own responsibility to keep up with the reading.

 

BRAVE NEW WORLD READERS -- review literary allusions present in the book (Biblical/Shakespeare especially). I  strongly suggest reviewing this Prezi Presentation and information that can be extremely beneficial for your essay tomorrow.  

 

 

 

 

DUE TODAY (HAMLET SOLILOQUY)

 

Write a 2-page minimum essay based on the prompt listed on handouts (SEE ATTACHED).

Reminder:  today --- Literary Works Quiz on your chosen Dystopian novel.

Winter Break Assignment -- see attached.

 

Poems due -- first day back.

Dystopian Literary Works Quiz -- during the first week back.

AP Test Prep Workbook

 

Pearson Prep Workbook

(we will use in class for MC practice).  See attached.

You will have a Literary Works quiz on your American Novel today. Be prepared.

JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN essay samples (see attached)

POETRY HANDOUTS (see attached)

 

 

Sample Essays for THE PUPIL (see attached).

AMERICAN NOVEL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:  Attached are discussion questions that may be of help to gaining a deeper understanding of themes and characters (aspects which will be needed to know for Open Response Essays).  You will be given time in class to meet with your peers to discuss these questions (and others that you find on your own.)

 

Although responses to the questions will not be graded, keep in mind that the essays WILL BE GRADED.  So if you do not fully understand the book, chances are that you will not be able to analyze the book.  

THE HUNGER ARTIST instructions for class today - see attached.

DUE TODAY: THE STRANGER Discussion questions

(if you are out due to a fieldtrip today, make sure to turn this in before you leave, or give to a classmate who can turn it in for you.)

Review of MARY BARTON essays (see attached materials)

 

 

In class essay today:  The Glass Menagerie

QUIZ TODAY -- LITERARY ELEMENTS (see attached).

Refer to your handouts given in class.

QUIZ TODAY: The Glass Menagerie Literary Works Quiz -- (see attached study guide.)

Background information on THE STRANGER, CAMUS, AND EXISTENTIALISM.

 

 

(PDF ATTACHED)

THE STREET prose passage -- scoring sample essay assignment (see attached.)

 

NOTE:  You need to have the hard-copy handouts distributed in class in order to complete.  Come see me ASAP if you do not have these.

The Glass Menagerie Discussion Questions (we will discuss in class today).  NOTE:  These questions resemble the types of prompts which will appear on upcoming essays for THE GLASS MENAGERIE.  Thus, it will be in your best interest to critically-think about them as much as possible BEFORE the essay dates arrive. 

PROSE PASSAGE RESOURCES (see attached)

 

We will begin discussing Prose Passage Analysis today.  I will have hard copies of the attached handouts.  If you lose your copies, then this digital version is always available to you.  

 

 

Paintings for today's discussions...

Read scenes 1-4 of The Glass Menagerie by the start of class today.

One pager assignment (see attached)

THE GLASS MENAGERIE RESOURCES:

 

The play itself

Vocab definitions

Theatrical Devices 

NOTES FOR IMPROVING FREE-RESPONSE ESSAYS (See attached).

 

 

Antigone Discussion Class (see attached.)

 

We will pick up where we left off in last class and discuss the rest of these questions in small groups today (after the Antigone Quiz.)  

 

 

SET #3 OF VOCAB TERMS TO KNOW.  Remember, you should be studying all of these words well enough to recall from memory.  Define. Explain effect. Provide example.  

 

Ambiguity

Analogy

Canon

Colloquial

Conceit

Euphemism

Existentialism

Frame

Grotesque

Local Color

Writing Handouts (Helpful Resources)

 

Be prepared for DO NOW;

 

Connotation

Denotation

Empathy

Exposition

Hyperbole

Motif

Paradox

Persona

Epic

Resolution

 

PERSONAL STATEMENT HELP!! 

 

Attached is a list of words that you should consider using for your personal statement responses.  One list ACTION VERBS (things you do) and the other list DESCRIPTIONS OF CHARACTER.

 

Also, here are some...

 

SAMPLE PERSONAL STATEMENTS:  If you are dedicated individual who truly wishes to create a highly-effective personal statements, then I suggest reviewing a few of these sample essays.   Note how the writers utilized creativity in their style to create a vivid picture of themselves.  If you would also like to try this style, then come see me -- I'll be glad to assist you.

 

 

Oedipus Literary Work Quiz today (see attached handout).

 

You should be prepared to respond to all of these questions, thoroughly, and with examples, details and specifics.

Author/Poet Poster Assignment (see attached.)

Open Response Handouts (see attached).

 

We will be discussing and using these handouts in today's class. 

Keep your hard copies, as you will be using them in our upcoming

righting assignments.

AP Lit Terms List for this week. 

Remember: You need to fully define the term. Explain its effect. And provide and example of the term in use.

 

Catharsis

Deus ex machina

Dramatic Irony

Flat Character

Foil

Harmartia

Hubris

Static Character

Stock Character