* Pray

* Return Papers

* Period 3 only: Your AP Test location has been changed to the new art center (where ceramics was).  This will give you (and those in the ARC) more room and quiet.  Please be there by 7:50 on Thursday morning.

* Essay: Passage prose or passage prompt response (choose the one you need more practice with) (~20 min.).  Read; plan for 5 min.  Write for 10-15.  Goal: get more than one page written.  

* Check 1999.  Average score: 30/53.  Typical high score range: 38-45.

* Begin 1991 (~25 min.)

* Tomorrow's Card Quiz: A Tale of Two Cities

HW: Finish 1991 (the test will be on Focus)

What did I read on the M.C. test? AP M.C. Selections

List of M.C. Selections from the Warchest (55 questions = normal; 46 questions = unofficial practice)

2009 Released test B: 55 q.

• “Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in” by Barbara Crooker
• "Hunger" from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
• “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop
• “The fresh harrow-lines seemed to stretch like the channellings...” from Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
• “To an Inconstant One” by Sir Robert Ayton. 1570–1638

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Extra 2009 
Skip (part repeat from ’82)
    Practice A: 46 q.
    “Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers...” from George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
    “Advice to a Prophet” already done in 1982...1959 by Richard Wilbur
    “What had been wanted was this always, this always to last, the talking softly on
    the porch, with the snake plant in the jarderiere...” Gwendolyn Brooks
    “The Eolian Harp” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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2008 Released test: 55 q

•  “To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of zenith...” from Sinclair Lewis’ novel Babbitt
•  “To Autumn” by John Keats
•  “The name ‘New York’ glittered in front of her like the silver in the shops...” from Gwendolyn Brooks' only novel Maud Martha
•  “Read history: so learn your place in Time” by Norma Millay Ellis (1954)
•  “There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should a mutual understanding...” from Charles Dickens' novelette The Chimes (a goblin story)

2006 Released practice: 46 q

• “Mr. Jones, of whose personal accomplishments we have hitherto...” from Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
• “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop
• “Of late years an abundant shower of curates have fallen upon the North of England...” From Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.
• “The Habit of Perfection” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

2004

• "Suppose that people live forever": Alan Lightman, 1993. 
• "The old books": George Eliot, 1860. 
• "The Albuquerque Graveyard": Jay Wright, 1987. 
• "Criticism is a study by which men grow important": Samuel Johnson, 1759.

1999 Test: 55 q.

• “CYRIL. (Coming in through the open window from the terrace)” from Oscar Wilde's The Decay of Living 
• “I dreaded that first Robin, so” by Emily Dickinson
• “VOLPONE: Good morning to the day; and next, my gold” from Ben Jonson's Volpone
• “Facing It” Yusef Komunyakaa (1988)
• “Louisa heard an exclamation and a soft commotion...” from Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's A New England Nun

           

1994 Test: 55 q.

• “The Sunday morning service began when Brother Elisha sat down...”
• “My Picture” by Abraham Crowley
• “If mere parsimony would have made a rich man, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy...”
• “A Whippoorwill in the Woods”, 1990 by Amy Clampitt

           

1991 Test: 55 q.

• “The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus...”
• “I have been studying how I may compare/This prison where I live unto the world” from Shakespeare; Richard deposed and imprisoned by Bolingbroke
• “Lady with a Falcon” 1978 by May Sarton
•  “The mountain paths stoop to these glens in forky zigzags”

           

1982 Test: 55 q. 

• “A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body” by Andrew Marvell
• “If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind....” from T.S. Eliot's, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1921)
• “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur (1959)
• “I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous house, standing in a golden age...” from Henry David Thoreau's Walden

Week 38 Block: AP Prep.

* Pray

* Shakespearean Tragedy Card Quiz

* CWP (or evidence) collection

* Note the new resources on Focus.  M.C. tests and green sheet awesomeness!

M.C. Schedule

Lear: Done
Austen: Done
1982: Done
2009: Done
2004: Done
2008: Friday
1999: Weekend homework
1991: Monday
1994: We will see; perhaps Tuesday Night

2006: Extra Unassigned Online with key now available (46 questions).

* M.C. 2008

* You may turn in corrections for 2004 on (but not after) Monday

* Poetic Rhythm and Meter Lesson: Ch. 12 of Perrine's (Poetry Section), pg. 915.
Scanning Review Slideshow (.ppt)

* ICE work (green sheets)

HW: Practice M.C. Test on Focus.  Answers are also available.  Score it when you are done.  Give me your score on Monday.  You will get 100% for doing the assignment.  You will get extra credit for doing test corrections on this one.

Monday 4/16: Finish M.C. 2004

* Pray

* OR option B: you may read Heart of Darkness instead of Crime and Punishment for your quarter 4 outside reading if you wish.

* Review
- This week block (week 36): Dickens Essay
- Week 37: AP Prep.
- Week 38: AP Prep.; CWP Due (if you show proof of two or more contests you are entering in quarter 4, you have fulfilled your fouth quarter CWP)
- Week 39: AP Test; Quo Vadis
- Week 40: Quo Vadis
- Week 41: Final Exam

* Finish M.C. 2004

HW: Review TTC

Thursday, 4/5: M.C.

* Pray

* M.C.

* Collect J39 (sorry, my numbers were off; please edit your numbers)

HW: Finish or nearly finish TTC

Block Day, Week 23

* Pray

* Early tea

* Quiz

1) Card
2) Terms
3) Practice AP

* Latter tea

* Bleak House

HW: Finish Journal Assignment