Wednesday, 4/29

* Open

• Copy the four mnemonics on the board into your notes. You need to have these four memorized for next Tuesday. 

• On your own, finish
• Titles (10)
• Terms (6) 

• Begin reading the AP Essay Notes and Tricks

• I'm Binder checking  

• Open to your Dickens card

* Dickens' Background (per. 5,7)

* More glory if time allows.

HW: Card Quiz on Dickens and Beowulf or Sir Gawain; read AP Essay Notes and Tricks

A Glossary of Literary Terms for English Courses

Created, compiled & edited from Various Sources *

ALLEGORY: An extended story which carries a deeper meaning below the surface.  The story makes sense on a literal level but also conveys another more important meaning.  The deeper meaning is usually spiritual, moral or political.  An allegory (character, setting or action) is one-dimensional: it stands for only one thing.  Parables, fables and satires are all forms of allegory.  Famous allegories include: Dante's, Divine Comedy; Bunyan's, Pilgrim’s Progress; and C.S. Lewis’s, Chronicles of Narnia. 

Tuesday, 4/29

* Open

• Binder Checking (part 1)
• Punctuate, please: "I am the Resurrection and the Life saith the Lord he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die" (TTC 389 quoting John 11:25-26).  
• Add three terms to your notes from each of the two lists below:
• Reasonably Challenging List: AP English Literary Terms
• Horrifically Exhaustive List: Literary Elements Defined: Dr. Kip Wheeler

* Dickens

• See the original, handwritten manuscript of A Tale of Two Cities! 
• Notes and Discussion

http://charlesdickenspage.com/cities.html

• Card

* M.C. Quizzing

•  Binder Checking (part 2)

* Work On Your Card

HW: Finish Your Card for TTC

AP Literature Testing Strategy

A Test of Your Literary Analysis Skills

• Three hours of testing
• One multiple choice exam and three essays

Part I: Multiple Choice (60 min. to answer 55 questions)

• You will take one multiple choice exam of 55 questions.  
• There will be five passages with 10-15 questions each.  
• The passages will be from any literary period from the Renaissance to the present.  Your historical studies help, but the focus of all questioning is analysis.
• You should expect complete poems and selections from novels, play, short stories, or literary essays.
• 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. 
• You must write in pencil.

• College Board's Released Exams
• 1999 AP English Literature and Composition Released Exam  
• 1987 AP English Literature and Composition Released Exam
• Barron's Online Test Practice 
• AP M.C. Question Stems

• Grammar
• Do you know the parts of speech?  Review Bedford Section XI, part 62. 
• Do you know how to use an apostrophe for possession?  Review Bedford VII, part 36. 

Part II: Three Analysis Essays (40 min. for each essay; 120 min. total)

• AP Essay Rubric
• AP Essay Notes and Tricks 

• You will respond to two passage-based prompts (one poetry and one prose/drama, generally) and one open or free-response prompt (based on a text you choose from your own previous reading). 
• You must write in pen. 

• Previous Years' Prompts and Passages

• Poetry Prompts with Poems 
• Review poetry Forms (focus on the sonnet, the villanelle, and meter)
• Prose Passage Prompts
• Open Essay Prompts
• Quizlet Study Cards for Novels, Plays, and Long Poems 
• Prose, Drama, and Poetry Titles Listed from Open Essay Prompts

• Your Best Resource: SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAYS FOR ALL PROMPTS FROM THE COLLEGE BOARD

• SPECIFIC TERMS ARE VITAL TO CAREFUL ANALYSIS: LEARN THESE
• Quizlet Set: Terminal Velocity

• Review Your Study Cards for the Open Prompt

General Information and College Board Links

• AP Reading Skills (College Board)
  AP Writing Skills (College Board)
  Close Reading Guidance 
  Overview of the Test and Frequent Questions Answered
   
• General
• Bulletin for AP Students and Parents (PDF)

Other Term Review Lists 

• The old list from the blog: Literary Terms
• Horrifically Exhaustive List: Literary Elements Defined: Dr. Kip Wheeler
• Salty Rhetoric: 60 Terms (Website)
• Salty Rhetoric: 60 Terms (.pdf)
• Tropes (creative meaning)
• Schemes (creative structures)

Monday, 4/28

* Open

• Please punctuate:
• "It is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

• Binder Note 
• I will check your binder tomorrow whilst you work.  I want to see that all is in order quickly.  This will be your last check.  You may organize any way you wish henceforth!

• Card Quiz Change for Block Day
• Dickens
• Beowulf OR Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

* Group Work

• Choose two good texts from our reading that would apply to a prompt. 
• Choose any ten prompts from 2000 to the present to consider this.
• Do this in your notes:
• Write the prompt year; write the two selections
• Start at the bottom (2013): Open Essay Prompts

* Discuss Book III

* Work on a Dickens Card (due Wednesday)

HW: Prepare for Dickens Quiz and Binder Check