Semester Projects and Independent Reading
I. 1st Semester Project: Poetry Huddle
As modeled during the introduction to poetry unit, students will work with a partner to find four poems which have a single “thing” tying the poems together. The “thing” should not be abstract like, “death,” “love,” or “faith,” but should, instead, be a concrete “thing” such as “flower,” “fire,” or “book.” Students will use four of the strategies they have learned during the semester to teach the class about their poems. Students can choose from any of the Annotation Acronyms, Threading, Outrageous Interpretations, and Graphic Organizers to teach the class. This assignment will count as part of the final exam grade. A detailed rubric with instructions will follow later in the semester.
RUBRIC FOR POETRY HUDDLE
II. Literary Circle Study of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
With your assigned group, read, discuss, and complete the following activities for the novel:
A. As you read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien consider what you have learned from Foster’s How to Read English Like a Professor. Make connections from the novel to FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING chapters (1-3, 5-14) from the guide.
B. Type a list of these connections explaining them fully (3-5 compound or complex sentences), similar to the examples Foster uses to make his points. You must demonstrate your understanding of Foster through analysis of the three assigned works and you must do this in a way that is appropriate for an AP student. (Hint: Pretend you are Foster, use the novels as he would for examples in the chapters.)
C. Major Works Data Activity
Complete the Major Works Data Activity for this novel. Please replicate the chart in a word processing program and fill in the appropriate data with sophisticated thought. Use your own sense to determine which boxes require complete sentences and which require lists.
Major Works Data Blank Form
III. AP Style Test
Test to follow the completion of the novel. Due date for completion is End of the First Semester.
IV. 2nd Semester Project: AP Lit and Composition Senior Research Assignment
The AP English research writing assignment is to study the work of a prominent literary author and explore an aspect of that author’s work that interest you – biographical connection with his/her fiction, a theme or motif, critical reception of the work, or an in-depth literary comparison.
The following elements should be part of your paper:
· Your thesis must concern some aspect of the author’s work. This is an open invitation to explore what interests you, from a facet of the author’s life that has found its way into his or her work, to a theme or motif that recurs in the work.
· The paper should be eight (6) to ten (8) pages long;
· You must use at least three (3) full-length primary sources and five (5) secondary sources;
· You must follow all the conventions of research papers in MLA format, including proper parenthetical citations and works cited page.
• You will present your findings to your classmates as part of the final exam.
Literary Analysis Sample Formatted Essay
V. Literary Circle Study of 1984 by George Orwell
With your assigned group, read, discuss, and complete the following activities for the novel assigned to your group:
A. This assignment is the same as the first semester.
I. 1st Semester Project: Poetry Huddle
As modeled during the introduction to poetry unit, students will work with a partner to find four poems which have a single “thing” tying the poems together. The “thing” should not be abstract like, “death,” “love,” or “faith,” but should, instead, be a concrete “thing” such as “flower,” “fire,” or “book.” Students will use four of the strategies they have learned during the semester to teach the class about their poems. Students can choose from any of the Annotation Acronyms, Threading, Outrageous Interpretations, and Graphic Organizers to teach the class. This assignment will count as part of the final exam grade. A detailed rubric with instructions will follow later in the semester.
RUBRIC FOR POETRY HUDDLE
II. Literary Circle Study of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
With your assigned group, read, discuss, and complete the following activities for the novel:
A. As you read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien consider what you have learned from Foster’s How to Read English Like a Professor. Make connections from the novel to FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING chapters (1-3, 5-14) from the guide.
B. Type a list of these connections explaining them fully (3-5 compound or complex sentences), similar to the examples Foster uses to make his points. You must demonstrate your understanding of Foster through analysis of the three assigned works and you must do this in a way that is appropriate for an AP student. (Hint: Pretend you are Foster, use the novels as he would for examples in the chapters.)
C. Major Works Data Activity
Complete the Major Works Data Activity for this novel. Please replicate the chart in a word processing program and fill in the appropriate data with sophisticated thought. Use your own sense to determine which boxes require complete sentences and which require lists.
Major Works Data Blank Form
III. AP Style Test
Test to follow the completion of the novel. Due date for completion is End of the First Semester.
IV. 2nd Semester Project: AP Lit and Composition Senior Research Assignment
The AP English research writing assignment is to study the work of a prominent literary author and explore an aspect of that author’s work that interest you – biographical connection with his/her fiction, a theme or motif, critical reception of the work, or an in-depth literary comparison.
The following elements should be part of your paper:
· Your thesis must concern some aspect of the author’s work. This is an open invitation to explore what interests you, from a facet of the author’s life that has found its way into his or her work, to a theme or motif that recurs in the work.
· The paper should be eight (6) to ten (8) pages long;
· You must use at least three (3) full-length primary sources and five (5) secondary sources;
· You must follow all the conventions of research papers in MLA format, including proper parenthetical citations and works cited page.
• You will present your findings to your classmates as part of the final exam.
Literary Analysis Sample Formatted Essay
V. Literary Circle Study of 1984 by George Orwell
With your assigned group, read, discuss, and complete the following activities for the novel assigned to your group:
A. This assignment is the same as the first semester.