* Take the 1999 M.C. (on Focus). Score it (key on Focus). Make corrections for extra credit.
* Study terms and prompts.
* Monday's card quiz is cancelled (I have some of your TTC cards).
Showing posts with label Week 38. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 38. Show all posts
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.
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
2006 Released practice: 46 q
2004
1999 Test: 55 q.
1982 Test: 55 q.
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
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
- "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”
- “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.
* 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.
Wednesday, 5/2: AP Prep.
* Pray
* Card Quiz: Shakespearean Comedy
* Review Heaney
* Collect J42
* Don't forget your CWP
* AP M.C.
* Tomorrow's Card Quiz: Shakespearean Tragedy
HW: CWP
* Card Quiz: Shakespearean Comedy
* Review Heaney
* Collect J42
* Don't forget your CWP
* AP M.C.
* Tomorrow's Card Quiz: Shakespearean Tragedy
HW: CWP
Tuesday, 5/1: AP Prep.
* Pray
* Card Quiz: Austen
* Timeline: Short
* Term Note: The five general stages of a plot:
1. Exposition --> 2. Rising Action (Complication) --> 3. Climax --> 4. Falling Action --> 5. Denouement (Resolution)
* AP Prep. 2008, part 1
* Tomorrow's Card Quiz: Shakespearean Comedy of Your Choice
* If time, begin in class (J42)
1999 Poem: “Blackberry-Picking” (Seamus Heaney)
Prompt: Read the following poem carefully, paying particular attention to the physical intensity
of the language. Then write a well-organized essay in which you explain how the poet conveys
not just a literal description of picking blackberries but a deeper understanding of the whole
experience. You may wish to include analysis of such elements as diction, imagery, metaphor,
rhyme, rhythm, and form.
Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.
HW: J42: One-page+ response. 1990, Heaney. Write for 20 min...but no more than 40 min.
* Card Quiz: Austen
* Timeline: Short
* Term Note: The five general stages of a plot:
1. Exposition --> 2. Rising Action (Complication) --> 3. Climax --> 4. Falling Action --> 5. Denouement (Resolution)
* AP Prep. 2008, part 1
* Tomorrow's Card Quiz: Shakespearean Comedy of Your Choice
* If time, begin in class (J42)
1999 Poem: “Blackberry-Picking” (Seamus Heaney)
Prompt: Read the following poem carefully, paying particular attention to the physical intensity
of the language. Then write a well-organized essay in which you explain how the poet conveys
not just a literal description of picking blackberries but a deeper understanding of the whole
experience. You may wish to include analysis of such elements as diction, imagery, metaphor,
rhyme, rhythm, and form.
Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.
HW: J42: One-page+ response. 1990, Heaney. Write for 20 min...but no more than 40 min.
Monday, 4/30: AP Preparation
* Pray
* CWP due Thursday (or send in two pieces to contests)
* Study aids on the blog
* Literary Periods part I: From the beginning
* Short Card quiz each day. Tomorrow: Austen.
* Per. 1 ICE returned today, Per. 3 tomorrow, Per. 6 on Wednesday.
* Notes so far:
- Book Titles! Spell them correctly (a vs. the, tale vs. tail). Underline.
- Archetype: Noun: "The Eden archetype plays significantly in the garden scene..." Adj. "Sydney Carton is not an archetypical hero; rather, he is an antihero who finds redemption in sacrifice."
- Avoid contractions
- But can open a sentence, but beware!
- Avoid boring verbs (does, did, do)
- Avoid "author uses" for elements. Conjure ten synonyms for uses in your notes now. Look over the terms for a reasonable pairing.
- Write, "In the novel's exposition...," not "in the start of the book." If you can't remember the term, at least say opening.
- Review the apostrophe (section 36, pp. 408-410): dogs (more than one dog), dog's (belongs to one dog), dogs' (belongs to many dogs), its (possessive with no apostrophe, like his), it's (it is), Dickens' or Dickens's are both correct; I prefer the first.
* Terms
HW: Read the rest of our terms.
* CWP due Thursday (or send in two pieces to contests)
* Study aids on the blog
* Literary Periods part I: From the beginning
* Short Card quiz each day. Tomorrow: Austen.
* Per. 1 ICE returned today, Per. 3 tomorrow, Per. 6 on Wednesday.
* Notes so far:
- Book Titles! Spell them correctly (a vs. the, tale vs. tail). Underline.
- Archetype: Noun: "The Eden archetype plays significantly in the garden scene..." Adj. "Sydney Carton is not an archetypical hero; rather, he is an antihero who finds redemption in sacrifice."
- Avoid contractions
- But can open a sentence, but beware!
- Avoid boring verbs (does, did, do)
- Avoid "author uses" for elements. Conjure ten synonyms for uses in your notes now. Look over the terms for a reasonable pairing.
- Write, "In the novel's exposition...," not "in the start of the book." If you can't remember the term, at least say opening.
- Review the apostrophe (section 36, pp. 408-410): dogs (more than one dog), dog's (belongs to one dog), dogs' (belongs to many dogs), its (possessive with no apostrophe, like his), it's (it is), Dickens' or Dickens's are both correct; I prefer the first.
* Terms
HW: Read the rest of our terms.
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