Essay Play Time

Friends,

Come and score your essay with me during advisory on Thursday.  I will give you specific tips for your personal improvement.

Enjoy,

Mr. S

Quizlet Study Cards

British Texts

• That Hideous Strength (Hsei, Reardon)
  
• Beowulf (Erny, Hall, Young)
• Sir Gawain the Green Knight (Guerrero, Chuang), (Ivanovich, Bleich, Watts) (Brown, Khatib)
• The Tempest
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Garcia and Katterhagen)
• Romeo and Juliet (Buak)
• Pride and Prejudice (Tan), (Swing, Burdick) (Blanton, Gehl, Schmidt)

Other Texts

• The Scarlet Letter (Chambliss, Bright) (Esteybar)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Rule and Katie Reardon), (Tran and Callison), (Gaubazt, Costa), (Slater, Khumar)
• The Great Gatsby (Hiura, Whitehouse), (Gerlach, Wayne), (Cooper, Jarvis)
• The Jungle (Parker, Pahl, Penn)
• The Crucible (Hong, Lee) 
• Hiroshima (Miser, Surgalski), (Kaitlin Bleich, Samantha Dilbeck)
• The Green Mile (Poncé, Verada)

AP Essay Extravaganza!

All Links Will Direct You to the Source (the College Board Online)


2014: Free-Response Questions

Questions	Scoring	Samples and Commentary	Score Distributions
Free-Response Questions	Scoring Guidelines Student Performance Q&A Scoring Statistics	Sample Responses Q1 Sample Responses Q2 Sample Responses Q3	Score Distributions

2013: Free-Response Questions

Questions	Scoring	Samples and Commentary	Score Distributions
Free-Response Questions	Scoring Guidelines Student Performance Q&A Scoring Statistics	Sample Responses Q1 Sample Responses Q2 Sample Responses Q3	Score Distributions

2012: Free-Response Questions

Questions	Scoring	Samples and Commentary	Score Distributions
Free-Response Questions	Scoring Guidelines Student Performance Q&A Scoring Statistics	Sample Responses Q1 Sample Responses Q2 Sample Responses Q3	Score Distributions

2011: Free-Response Questions

Questions	Scoring	Samples and Commentary	Score Distributions
Free-Response Questions	Scoring Guidelines Student Performance Q&A Scoring Statistics	Sample Responses Q1 Sample Responses Q2 Sample Responses Q3	Score Distributions

Block Day, Somewhat

* Open

• Please Peruse Schwager's 2016 Tour 

* Note Card Work for 15 min.

* M. C. Test: 45 Question

HW:

• Prepare: AP Test Preparation Page
• For those behind:
• Notes on Modernism (at least two notes per blue section)
• Journal: Outside Reading (due block, but no late deduction taken if turned in next week)

Essay to Beat: "The Barred Owl"; "The History Teacher"

Sample Student Essays: Sample Responses Q1

Essay to Beat: "Evening Hawk" Sample Essays

Here are sample responses to today's prompt: Sample Responses Q1.

Tuesday, 4/28/15: Review and Write

* Open

• Review your test review page, please: AP Test Preparation Page
• Turn in any Senior Projects

* Calendar Review

• Block: Optional M.C. Test
• E.C. Questions on Vocabulary Unit 10, Victorianism, and Modernism 

• Quizlet Card: Email the link to me by the end of block day so that I can post them for others to study from.

• Outside Reading: Due block, but I will take it as late as next Tuesday with no deduction.

* Modern Poetry Essay

HW: 

• Journal: Outside Reading (due block, but no late deduction taken until after Tuesday)
• Notes on Modernism (at least two notes per blue section)

Essay to Beat: "Lady Windermere's Fan" Sample Essays

Here are sample student essays from today's prompt to gauge your development (length), accuracy, and analysis by. 

Monday and Tuesday are normal. Please be aware that we will have many visitors this week because our school is going through our accreditation process.

*Wednesday, April 29 Schedule - amended schedule, 60 minute classes

*Thursday, April 30 Schedule - amended schedule, 60 minute classes

The advisories will work like typical advisories (however, with their second and third period teachers) but with these two emphases:

- Students will be able to listen to guest speakers:

- 2nd period advisory: AP Preparation!

- 3rd period advisory: AP Preparation!

Monday, 4/27/15: Essay Practice (try to beat your previous score)

* Open
* 40 min. Essay

• Passage-based Essay
• Underline your thesis
• Draw a line next to your best passages of analysis. 
• One essay today and one essay tomorrow; if either essay is better than your Keats/Longfellow essay, then leave it with me on Tuesday (after your second essay). 

• Work for 5 min. with your partner on your card
• Just send me the link for your card by the end of the week as we have so little class time to do this.   
• Schwager has to tour classrooms concerning a trip for the summer of 2016.  Join us!

Review updated Prompt Pages

• Poetry Prompts with Poems  (tomorrow's essay will be from a modern poetry prompt)

• Prose Passage Prompts

• Open Essay Prompts

HW:

• Novel Journal (due block day)
• Outside Reading
• Tomorrow: M.C. Practice
• Tomorrow is the last day to turn in your Senior Project for full credit (2% deduction on Wed...double every day thereafter)
• Also submit (paper productions) to turnitin.com

My Middle Mouse is in Today's Paper (little blonie)

Two Common MLA Sources

The Bible

Give the name of the specific edition you are using, any editor(s) associated with it, followed by the publication information. Remember that your in-text (parenthetical citation) should include the name of the specific edition of the Bible, followed by an abbreviation of the book, the chapter and verse(s). (See Citing the Bible on In-Text Citations: The Basics.)

"Deuteronomy." Holy Bible: The New King James Version, 

     Containing the Old and New Testaments. Nashville: 

     T. Nelson, 1982. Search Scriptures. Web. 24 Apr. 2015.  
 
The New English Bible. NY: Oxford University Press, 1972. Print. 

The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cambridge: Cambridge

     Press, 1611. Print.

The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Susan Jones. New York: Doubleday, 1985.

     Print.

More Biblical Sources

• Bible dictionary; Bible companion; book of the Bible found in a literature book

A Government Publication

Cite the author of the publication if the author is identified. Otherwise, start with the name of the national government, followed by the agency (including any subdivisions or agencies) that serves as the organizational author. For congressional documents, be sure to include the number of the Congress and the session when the hearing was held or resolution passed. US government documents are typically published by the Government Printing Office, which MLA abbreviates as GPO.

United States. Cong. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.  

     Hearing on the Geopolitics of Oil. 110th Cong., 1st sess. Washington:

     GPO, 2007. Print.

 
United States. Government Accountability Office. Climate Change: EPA 

     and DOE Should Do More to Encourage Progress Under Two Voluntary 

     Programs. Washington: GPO, 2006. Print.

Block Day: AP Preparation: Multiple Choice Test

Open

• Review your card

* Card Quiz

* Make one card on quizlet with a partner:

• Choose a partner to work with
• Write your names and card on the board
• Go to https://quizlet.com/ to create your card
• Share the card with me via email: marcusschwager@mvcs.org.  Make sure you tell me which students composed the card when you email me. 

* Extra time? Review Close Reading (Dr. Wheeler) 

* AP M.C. Joys

• AP M.C. Question Stems
• You have less than one minute per question (due to reading time). 
• You should simply guess if you run out of time (there is no guessing penalty).  
• You don't have to get the highest score on the M.C. to pass the exam; see this example graph. 
• Time to test!

HW: Finish (or get close to finishing) your last novel 

• AP Test Preparation Page 
• College Board's Released Exams (for extra practice) 
• 1999 AP English Literature and Composition Released Exam  
• 1987 AP English Literature and Composition Released Exam

Wednesday, 4/22/15: How is analysis different from summary or paraphrase?

* Open

• Reread your Keats and Longfellow Prompt 

* Keats and Longfellow

• Summary, Analysis, and Interpretation
• Sample Essays on Keats and Longfellow

HW:

• Senor Project FD
• Grace Period 
• By Tuesday, no grade deduction
• By Wednesday, 2% Grade Deduction
• Every day thereafter doubles (4%, 8%, 16%...)
• One Card Memorized
• Sign up for Snacks and Drinks
• Per. 3
• Per. 4
• Per. 5
• Per. 6

Tuesday, 4/21/15: How do we prepare for the AP Literature test open prompt?

 

* Open 

• Quizlet-o-philes: Notice that I hyperlinked vocabulary lists 1-10 to help you study (click vocab. to the left and see below)
• Begin today's AP Study Card work: Make a card for any one work not read in AP Lit.

* List 10: Incorporate bold words from the usage list into each sentence.

ambulatory
brazen
din
ennui
exonerate
inscrutable 
prognosticate
schism
sedition
wizened 

  HW: Senior Project FD Work; review the Research Assignment (for those not including research in their projects)

Question: What do I Put for the Naviance Scholarship Info.?

Student Services Answers: The scholarship question does not need to be specific. We just want to see (for statistical purposes) how much money our students applying to schools are getting (on average). Just have them put what they know. That question is not a huge deal. The most important part is that they put where  they were accepted to, and which school they need final transcripts sent to. Thanks for doing this!

Monday, 4/20/15: How might we review common usage errors before the AP exam?

* Open

• AP Registration During Advisory (thank goodness!)
• Go to: succeed.naviance.com/mvcs 
• Username: Focus username(not e-mail)
• Password: Focus password
• Click on the “About Me” tab, and on the left you will see “2015 Senior Exit Survey.” 
• Take it and submit.

* Grammar: From Bedford's Common Usage Errors

• Copy into terms and vocabulary:

• affect, effect

  Affect is usually a verb meaning “to influence.” Effect is usually a noun meaning “result.” The drug did not affect the disease, and it had adverse side effects. Effect can also be a verb meaning “to bring about.” Only the president can effect such a change.

   
• Take this quiz (11 questions)

* Note Card Work due Block Day: AP Study Cards

1. Monday: Make a Pride and Prejudice Card
2. Tuesday: Make a card for any one work not read in AP Lit.
3. Wednesday (with a partner): enter one card's worth of info. on quizlet to share with the class by block day
4. Block Day: Quiz on any card this Block Day

 HW: Senior Project FD Work; review the Research Assignment (for those not including research in their projects)


Homework Resources:

• MLA Formatting Link Page and Sample Paper  
• Reference: Click here to see the Purdue guidelines for first page format.
• Reference: Click here to see the Purdue guidelines for a works cited page.
• Help: Click here to view a video that shows a short cut on creating a hanging indent.
• Reference: Click here to see the Purdue guidelines for annotated bibliographies.

Research Assignment

Subject: Any Topic of Interest Related to Your Senior Project

Writing Requirements:

• Original (but not necessarily insightful) writing
• Correct grammar
• Correct essay format and quotations
• Correct Works Cited 
• One full page or more
• Sources
       * At least three scholarly sources, quoted
       * At least one Bible verse, quoted

• Quotes: multiple direct and at least one indirect

• Format: per your major requirement (MLA, APA, etc.)

• Title: MLA (or other format) Research Paper

• Delivery type: Paper and Turnitin.com 

Weight: 20% of your Senior Project Grade

• 10% for essay writing and quotation format
• 10% for general paper format and works cited

Due on or before Thursday, May 14--15 (your block day)


Resources:

• Touchstone Magazine: Here's the keyword search page (anything we read for class you'll find in there). This works for all literature, theology, and philosophy.

• University of Illinois: Here's one for American Poets

• Public Library Online: A generic site that includes many subjects

• Google Scholar

AP Registration on Monday During Advisory

You will go to the HS Gym to get your paperwork filled out (saving you 40+ min on the test day).  Great idea Ms. Ellison!  This is mandatory for all AP students...and you really, really, want to get this out of the way early. 

The Senior Project

Inspiration: Colossians 3: "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him....And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ."

Block Day: Senior Project Work

* Open

• Please review the AP Test Preparation Page.

* Peer Edit Two Projects In Class

• Project A: Research Paper
• Is there a clear, interesting, defensible thesis?
• Should the essay be broken into sections?
• See MLA Sample Paper

• Does the paper sustain interest through the course of the writing?

• Is the paper at least seven pages in length?
• Research questions
• Are there three sources (there needn't be a Works Cited yet, but we should see the quotes woven in)?
• Do two sources appear to be from scholarly places?
• Is one source the Bible?

• Project B: Self-Directed Approach
• What is the most interesting aspect of the project to you?
• Which areas require (or would benefit most from) further work (chapters, focus, an introduction, etc.)?
• Does this project show parity with the work involved with the research paper? 

• If research is included
• Are there four sources (there needn't be a Works Cited yet, but we should see the quotes woven in)?
• Do two sources appear to be from scholarly places?
• Is one source the Bible?

* Work on your FD

* Novel Reading

HW: Read Your Novel (shoot for 1/3, plus)

Wednesday, 4/15/15: How Do I Format my Works Cited (if I am ahead in my senior project)?

* Open

• Please review this formatting link for next week. 

* Senior Project

HW: Full RD of your Senior Project

Mr. Sharp taking notes in AP Lit.

Earthquakes Win!

Life is Good

Tuesday, 4/13/15: Attack the Senior Projectacons!

* Open

• Short, Sweet: "Jane Austen and the Second Amendment"
• Responsive Reading (see below)

* Finish your notes on the Victorian Period (1837-1901) 

* Senior Project
 
* Ahead of the game? Play: Quizlet Set: Terminal Velocity

HW: Senior Project

 
Psalm 148 (NKJV): Please Ring Out the Bold Verses!

Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord from the heavens; 
     Praise Him in the heights! 
Praise Him, all His angels; 
     Praise Him, all His hosts! 
Praise Him, sun and moon; 
     Praise Him, all you stars of light! 
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, 
     And you waters above the heavens! 

Let them praise the name of the Lord,
     For He commanded and they were created. 
He also established them forever and ever; 
     He made a decree which shall not pass away. 

Praise the Lord from the earth,
     You great sea creatures and all the depths; 
Fire and hail, snow and clouds; 
     Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; 
Mountains and all hills;
     Fruitful trees and all cedars; 
Beasts and all cattle; 
     Creeping things and flying fowl; 
Kings of the earth and all peoples;
     Princes and all judges of the earth; 
Both young men and maidens; 
     Old men and children. 

Let them praise the name of the Lord,
     For His name alone is exalted; 
His glory is above the earth and heaven. 
     And He has exalted the horn of His people, 
The praise of all His saints—
     Of the children of Israel, 
A people near to Him.

Praise the Lord!

Monday 4/13/15: Welcome!

* Open

• Play: Quizlet Set: Terminal Velocity
• The College Board would like to remind to create an account so that you can view your AP scores in July.  
• Planning
• 4/16: RD Senior Project
• 4/23: FD Senior Project
• 4/30: Novel Journal Due
• 5/6: AP Literature Test

• Outside Reading 

* You Now Get to Keep Your Manilla Folders
*  The Victorian Period (1837-1901)

•  Take at least two important notes for each blue section (in your composition book)

* Senior Project (full RD due block day)

HW: Senior Project

 

More Cuteness

In-Class Essay Prompt

Read the following poems carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the techniques the poet uses to develop the relationship between the speaker and the audience.  Note that both poems illustrate thematic elements through beverages.