Moonrise Kingdom Questions

HERE is a link to the questions due by email to me on or before class on Thurs., June 6th.

Sonnets of Possibility

Using your responses to today's prewriting questions, you need to write a Sonnet of Possibility that will be due next Monday.  Writing in sonnet form requires that you follow certain rules related to meter, rhyme and structure.  THIS WEBSITE will walk you through the rules for English sonnet writing, but you may use any of the sonnet forms we discussed in class before the exam.

The website suggests reading some sonnets and mimicking the writing style, so here are some of the sonnets we've studied or been introduced to this year:

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare (English sonnet)
"Ozymandius" by Percy Shelley (indefinite form)

Lastly, please start thinking of pictures or a note you might like to place in your letter to yourself.  We will fill and address your letters next week.

Interesting Lives Film Unit: Searching for Sugar Man

HERE is a link to the guiding questions.  This is an optional assignment.  If you choose to do it, please email me your responses on or before Mon., May 20th.

Film Unit and CELEBRATION

We will begin our "Interesting Lives" film unit next Tuesday.

If you'd like to help us celebrate our hard work in preparing for the exam, you can sign up HERE to bring something in for us to share on Tuesday.

Socratic Seminar Prep

EXAM PREP

Your homework is to continue AP exam preparation.  Please review some of the comparative poem prompts and sample essays below, so you have a sense of how to answer a comparative analysis prompt in the event one appears this year.

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Question 1
Question 1 Sample Essays

Please take a look at these comparative essay suggestions especially if you've had difficulty organizing your thinking around a prompt.


DISCUSSION PREP

Today you will use the following Google Doc links to prepare for your seminar on Friday:

Block 1
Block 3
Block 7

3 Classes to go before the exam...

Lit Circles

Finish reading your novel for next class.  I'll give you time to discuss your lit circle roles and prepare for discussion next Tuesday.

Exam Prep

Depending on where you are in your preparation, you may find the resources below useful:

How should I study literary terms?

Know your strengths from our vocabulary sheet.   This sheet is not an exhaustive list, but it is a good starting point.  You may consider making custom flash cards from your own reading experience.  Placing passages/stanzas that you've read on the front and terms and definitions on the back is the best strategy.  Because you'll need to pick out many of these terms as you read, you will want to work from your reading comprehension toward the terms.  Here is a flash card strategy example.

Where can I compare my writing to others' writing on the various essay prompts?

Here is a link to the last decade of questions with sample responses for each question.  By reading through what others have written, you can measure how your organizing and sharing of your thinking in response to a prompt stacks up against others who've taken the exam.

FRIDAY - Summative In-Class Essay / TUESDAY finish novel

IN-CLASS ESSAY: You will have 40-min to read, plan, and write in response to a prose passage.

LIT CIRCLES: Next Tuesday we'll continue preparing for a whole class discussion on your self-selected novels, so please finish your reading and literature circle roles over the weekend.