If you have missed class-- here is a link to a site where you can acces practice tests:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2002.html
Please take at least one complete timed multiple choice test and write at least two of the timed essays: one poetry and one prose-- we will write on the open topic later this week after we finish with Hamlet.
Monday: We took a full MC practice test--
HW: finish Act IV of Hamlet
Tuesday: We discussed poetry and free response essay prompts from 2012 test:
reviewed parts and functions of the sonnet--please review this if you were absent-- also talked about "speech acts" in poetry.
Wednesday: We will focus on Hamlet:
Assignment for Act IV (we will do in class)
Thursday: Read Act V
Essay/Final Test on Hamlet: Monday, May 6th
May 7 and 8: Review Major Works Data Sheets and Literary Terms
May 9th: AP TEST!
May 10th: Poetry Party to Celebrate! Cinderella is invited!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Preparation for the test to come--Get ready!
Here is what we were up to this week:
Monday: we dissected a prompt form the 2009 version of the AP test, read the poem, and found the things that the prompt might have suggested were there (allusion/figures of speech/tone) and then wrote our own first paragraph and THEN read A LOT of student samples. Then we graded those prompts and decided which was the best--by our own criteria.
Tuesday: We re-read our favorite student essays: W and WW, and decided if the opening paragraphs did three things:
1- Named the nature of the COMPLEX reaction of the speaker
2- Mentioned the author and speaker and led into the techniques we would highlight in our essay.
3- Was well written
the we read more essays--along with their actual grade and comments from the grading staff
Then we dissected the prompt for the second (prose) essay and read it--notating at will! Then we made note of the techniques mentioned in the prompt that we had noticed on our first reading: Fig. of speech/personification/details of description/imagery. We the wrote a first paragraph of our essay about this piece.
Wednesday: This period is devoted to writing the essay in answer to the second prompt (prose) from the 2009 exam.
Thursday: We will research/look-up/ make study guides for the Literary Terms vocabulary that we need to master for the test. Helps are available in class-- and we also have the power of the internet! Make a study guide/flash cards/notecards/poems/essays ANYTHING that will help you remember the meaning of the terms that you did not include in your first semester glossary. Online Glossary
Friday: We will read "problem" essays from the second prompt in 2009: essays that are the borderline, according to the judges. We want to locate the key differences that might make our own essays unquestionable when we take the test.
HOMEWORK: Read the fourth act of Hamlet by Monday. We will probably get some time in class to help with this, but don't count on it. Reading helps: eat Ham-let sandwiches--wonder at Claudius formations in the blue sky, Grit you teeth and think of Gertrude, and BE. It is always better than the alternative. By the way: my favorite speech in a play full of amazing speeches comes in Act V. Still-- find your favorite speech from Act IV and be prepared to talk about it on Monday.
Monday: we dissected a prompt form the 2009 version of the AP test, read the poem, and found the things that the prompt might have suggested were there (allusion/figures of speech/tone) and then wrote our own first paragraph and THEN read A LOT of student samples. Then we graded those prompts and decided which was the best--by our own criteria.
Tuesday: We re-read our favorite student essays: W and WW, and decided if the opening paragraphs did three things:
1- Named the nature of the COMPLEX reaction of the speaker
2- Mentioned the author and speaker and led into the techniques we would highlight in our essay.
3- Was well written
the we read more essays--along with their actual grade and comments from the grading staff
Then we dissected the prompt for the second (prose) essay and read it--notating at will! Then we made note of the techniques mentioned in the prompt that we had noticed on our first reading: Fig. of speech/personification/details of description/imagery. We the wrote a first paragraph of our essay about this piece.
Wednesday: This period is devoted to writing the essay in answer to the second prompt (prose) from the 2009 exam.
Thursday: We will research/look-up/ make study guides for the Literary Terms vocabulary that we need to master for the test. Helps are available in class-- and we also have the power of the internet! Make a study guide/flash cards/notecards/poems/essays ANYTHING that will help you remember the meaning of the terms that you did not include in your first semester glossary. Online Glossary
Friday: We will read "problem" essays from the second prompt in 2009: essays that are the borderline, according to the judges. We want to locate the key differences that might make our own essays unquestionable when we take the test.
HOMEWORK: Read the fourth act of Hamlet by Monday. We will probably get some time in class to help with this, but don't count on it. Reading helps: eat Ham-let sandwiches--wonder at Claudius formations in the blue sky, Grit you teeth and think of Gertrude, and BE. It is always better than the alternative. By the way: my favorite speech in a play full of amazing speeches comes in Act V. Still-- find your favorite speech from Act IV and be prepared to talk about it on Monday.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Missing Essay Prompt
Official Prompt for Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness Essay:
Choose one theme topic* that you see as common to both works and write an essay that discusses how each work explores that theme and what you believe the author/director was trying to say about that theme.
* theme topics are things like love/greed/war/imperialism/power/the nature of man, etc.
Choose one theme topic* that you see as common to both works and write an essay that discusses how each work explores that theme and what you believe the author/director was trying to say about that theme.
* theme topics are things like love/greed/war/imperialism/power/the nature of man, etc.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Out of the Darkness and Back to Denmark!
Is there an anagram in there somewhere?
Anyway--
1- The last post has the essay topic for the film--please bring a Full Draft (FIRST OR SECOND--JUST MAKE SURE IT IS NOT SO RE-WORKED THAT YOU CAN'T BEAR TO REVISE--FOR REVISION IS OUR LIFE!)-- ready for revision--on Monday--PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!
2- Here is an update on the dates we are working with so far. We MUST finish Hamlet by the end of the month and we MUST learn/review literary terms.
VITAL LINK: Here are the other things we are up to:
How to Have a Great Weekend:
Read some Hamlet as you munch a ham sandwich?
Look up to the clouds and think: "Cloudius-----Claudius!"
Grind some coffee and grit your teeth over Gertrude's bad judgement?
Be true to thine ownself--
Be neither a borrower nor a lender--
Pretend to be mad and betray a couple former frien----NO! That's going too far!
Anyway--
1- The last post has the essay topic for the film--please bring a Full Draft (FIRST OR SECOND--JUST MAKE SURE IT IS NOT SO RE-WORKED THAT YOU CAN'T BEAR TO REVISE--FOR REVISION IS OUR LIFE!)-- ready for revision--on Monday--PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!
2- Here is an update on the dates we are working with so far. We MUST finish Hamlet by the end of the month and we MUST learn/review literary terms.
VITAL LINK: Here are the other things we are up to:
How to Have a Great Weekend:
Read some Hamlet as you munch a ham sandwich?
Look up to the clouds and think: "Cloudius-----Claudius!"
Grind some coffee and grit your teeth over Gertrude's bad judgement?
Be true to thine ownself--
Be neither a borrower nor a lender--
Pretend to be mad and betray a couple former frien----NO! That's going too far!
Remember that it is always better to be than not to be--there is no question. Enjoy and I will see you on Monday.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Here is the essay topic for the movie
Please write the essay and bring a complete draft to class on Monday, April 22nd.:
Double spaced, TNR, 1-inch margins--thanks!
Double spaced, TNR, 1-inch margins--thanks!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Moving ON!
We have a full schedule this week-- here is a link to the timetable we discussed on Monday:
April 8-12
April 8-12
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Hamlet, Hamlet, He's Our Man! If He Can't Do it....?
Home stretch towards the AP exam and the end of your high school careers--amazing days!
Here's what we are up to this week:
Document of Agendas/video links
We also discussed viewing the film, Apocalyspe Now and relating it to our study of Heart of Darkness--the book from which the film was adapted. Here is a link to a permission slip for you (over 18) or your parents (under 18) to sign.
Here's what we are up to this week:
Document of Agendas/video links
We also discussed viewing the film, Apocalyspe Now and relating it to our study of Heart of Darkness--the book from which the film was adapted. Here is a link to a permission slip for you (over 18) or your parents (under 18) to sign.
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