Unit 1: Introduction to AP Lit and Comp, Review of Summer Reading, Writing the College Essay
Unit 1: Introduction to AP Lit and Comp, Review of Summer Reading, Writing the College Essay
Essential Questions and Skills:
What is Literary Analysis? Why does it matter? Why do we study literature? What does “literary merit” mean?
What does the AP Literature Multiple Choice section look like? What are some common stems? How would you do if you took the test today? How do you write a proper multiple choice question?
What is involved and expected on the Free-Response Questions on the exam? How do you interpret and annotate an exam prompt as part of your pre-writing activity? What is the difference between a 9 essay response and a 6 essay response? How do we interpret and utilize a rubric to hone writing skills and techniques?
How can you apply your understanding of The Catcher in the Rye to Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor?
How can you apply your learning from Foster’s HTRLLAP to an assigned short story?
How do you write a creative, interesting, and informative college essay?
Materials:
General handouts on writing the college essay
General handouts on sentence variety and revision techniques
Sample English Literature and Composition Exam
Sample English Literature and Composition Scoring Guidelines
The Question of the Question,” Rneee Shea (apcentral.collegeboard.com)
“An Exam Reader’s Advice on Writing,” Conni Shelnut (apcentral.collegeboard.com)
AP Style Test
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone by Nancy Dean
Assessments
A. Student and Teacher generated AP Style Test Questions from the Summer Reading assignments.
B. Abbreviated AP Style Test using the summer reading assignments.
C. Essay writing: Foster’s HTRLLAP connections to Cather in the Rye and “Garden Party.”
D. College essay writing assignment.
E. Weekly exercises from Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone.
(Things Fall Apart will be assigned during Unit 1 to allow students enough time to become immersed in the novel before discussion begins during Heart of Darkness Unit.)
Essential Questions and Skills:
What is Literary Analysis? Why does it matter? Why do we study literature? What does “literary merit” mean?
What does the AP Literature Multiple Choice section look like? What are some common stems? How would you do if you took the test today? How do you write a proper multiple choice question?
What is involved and expected on the Free-Response Questions on the exam? How do you interpret and annotate an exam prompt as part of your pre-writing activity? What is the difference between a 9 essay response and a 6 essay response? How do we interpret and utilize a rubric to hone writing skills and techniques?
How can you apply your understanding of The Catcher in the Rye to Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor?
How can you apply your learning from Foster’s HTRLLAP to an assigned short story?
How do you write a creative, interesting, and informative college essay?
Materials:
General handouts on writing the college essay
General handouts on sentence variety and revision techniques
Sample English Literature and Composition Exam
Sample English Literature and Composition Scoring Guidelines
The Question of the Question,” Rneee Shea (apcentral.collegeboard.com)
“An Exam Reader’s Advice on Writing,” Conni Shelnut (apcentral.collegeboard.com)
AP Style Test
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield
Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone by Nancy Dean
Assessments
A. Student and Teacher generated AP Style Test Questions from the Summer Reading assignments.
B. Abbreviated AP Style Test using the summer reading assignments.
C. Essay writing: Foster’s HTRLLAP connections to Cather in the Rye and “Garden Party.”
D. College essay writing assignment.
E. Weekly exercises from Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone.
(Things Fall Apart will be assigned during Unit 1 to allow students enough time to become immersed in the novel before discussion begins during Heart of Darkness Unit.)