AP Literature and Compositon
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
EACH QUARTER:
1. Read the Together Title complete the written work
2. Read the Separate Title and complete written work
3. Complete Unit reading/writing
first quarter: short stories
second quarter: poetry drama
third quarter: the trial
fourth quarter: the journey
4. AP Lit Test practice
1. Read the Together Title complete the written work
2. Read the Separate Title and complete written work
3. Complete Unit reading/writing
first quarter: short stories
second quarter: poetry drama
third quarter: the trial
fourth quarter: the journey
4. AP Lit Test practice
FRQ1 POETRY
Here is the difference between 2 and a 3 in row B:
2: Summary with a dash of analysis (missing an essential component)
3: Analysis with a dash of summary (all essential components attempted to be addressed)
2: Summary with a dash of analysis (missing an essential component)
3: Analysis with a dash of summary (all essential components attempted to be addressed)
Analyze a poem with TPCAST
What to Say about a Poem: A basic guide to respond to poetry
College Application Essays
AP Lit Starter
Hint : A brief search of the term foil might render this definition:characters whose actions and traits contrast each other in a way that gives us a better understanding of both of their characters.
Who is a lesser character? Anyone but Heathcliff and Catherine, really--Hindley, Isabella, Lockwood, Joseph--.Look at the way the minor characters are characterized against the main. The differences may illuminate the main character's strengths, flaws, weaknesses, desires...For example. Hindley torments Heathcliff, in large part because of a perceived status--Heathcliff has no name, no family history, a man without an identity. You could develop how that relationship(Hindley vs. Heathcliff) shaped the monsterous, relentless side of Heathcliff, meanwhile Hindley slowly and surely descended into a kind of nihilistic wastrel, dying broke and in obscurity. In general, for this kind of essay, we want to reveal, discuss, CHARACTER(in my example, Heathcliff's character) and looking at the relationship with a minor character, a foil, can just be another way of doing it. If "compare and contrast" seems a prompt you're more comfortable with, why, go with that.
Good luck! I'll take questions.
Who is a lesser character? Anyone but Heathcliff and Catherine, really--Hindley, Isabella, Lockwood, Joseph--.Look at the way the minor characters are characterized against the main. The differences may illuminate the main character's strengths, flaws, weaknesses, desires...For example. Hindley torments Heathcliff, in large part because of a perceived status--Heathcliff has no name, no family history, a man without an identity. You could develop how that relationship(Hindley vs. Heathcliff) shaped the monsterous, relentless side of Heathcliff, meanwhile Hindley slowly and surely descended into a kind of nihilistic wastrel, dying broke and in obscurity. In general, for this kind of essay, we want to reveal, discuss, CHARACTER(in my example, Heathcliff's character) and looking at the relationship with a minor character, a foil, can just be another way of doing it. If "compare and contrast" seems a prompt you're more comfortable with, why, go with that.
Good luck! I'll take questions.
Literary Theory
Intro to Prose: AP Lit FRQ2
Terry Eagleton's What is Literature?
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
OR
Intro to Modern Lit Theory Website
Raymond Carver's Short Short Story Popular Mechanics
The Short Story
The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'connor
The Conversion of the Jews by Phillip Roth
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malmud
Chixcilub by T. Coragassen Boyle
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozickt
The Shawl Reading Questions
Cathedral by Ramond Carver
Cathedral Questions for Writers
The Other Miller by Tobias Wolff
The Good Deed by Dane Bauer
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, A Small Good Thing.
Intro to Prose: AP Lit FRQ2
Terry Eagleton's What is Literature?
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
OR
Intro to Modern Lit Theory Website
Raymond Carver's Short Short Story Popular Mechanics
The Short Story
The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'connor
The Conversion of the Jews by Phillip Roth
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malmud
Chixcilub by T. Coragassen Boyle
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozickt
The Shawl Reading Questions
Cathedral by Ramond Carver
Cathedral Questions for Writers
The Other Miller by Tobias Wolff
The Good Deed by Dane Bauer
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, A Small Good Thing.
Second Quarter: Poetry/Drama
3rd Quarter: Frankenstein
4th Quarter: The Journey
The Journey Essay
Heart of Darkness Reading 1
Heart of Darkness Reading 2
Heart of Darkness Reading 3
Remains of the Day Reading 1
Remains of the Day Reading 2
Heart of Darkness Reading 1
Heart of Darkness Reading 2
Heart of Darkness Reading 3
Remains of the Day Reading 1
Remains of the Day Reading 2
Heart of Darkness Part II Questions
Heart of Darkness Part III Questions
Go to Academic Search Premier. Search Heart of Darkness,"Obscurity, Apophasis, and the Critical Imagination: The Unsayable. Copy and Paste the Below questions on to a word document, and answer:
1. (1st paragraph) List 4 ingredients that make Conrad's writing distinctive.
2. (p. 94-- "The limits of words...") In perhaps two sentences, explain what Skinner's thesis is.
3. (p. 95) According to Skinner, what is "Apophasis"?
4. (pp. 100-102) Skinner provides evidence for his idea that HOD is about Apophasis. Provide a passage that supports that claim.
5. (p.103, top paragraph) The sentence: "This, it is suggested here, can lead to a re-reading of "Heart of Darkness" as a
radical text that continues a tradition of textual auto-erosion..."
What is the antecedent of the pronoun "THIS"?
Heart of Darkness Part III Questions
Go to Academic Search Premier. Search Heart of Darkness,"Obscurity, Apophasis, and the Critical Imagination: The Unsayable. Copy and Paste the Below questions on to a word document, and answer:
1. (1st paragraph) List 4 ingredients that make Conrad's writing distinctive.
2. (p. 94-- "The limits of words...") In perhaps two sentences, explain what Skinner's thesis is.
3. (p. 95) According to Skinner, what is "Apophasis"?
4. (pp. 100-102) Skinner provides evidence for his idea that HOD is about Apophasis. Provide a passage that supports that claim.
5. (p.103, top paragraph) The sentence: "This, it is suggested here, can lead to a re-reading of "Heart of Darkness" as a
radical text that continues a tradition of textual auto-erosion..."
What is the antecedent of the pronoun "THIS"?
Analysis Assignment
1. Read this story, A Small Good Thing.
2. Read the essay called
'THE CALM,' 'A SMALL, GOOD THING,' AND 'CATHEDRAL': RAYMOND CARVER AND THE REDISCOVERY OF HUMAN WORTH. It's the second item on an ifohio search for RAYMOND CARVER and CATHEDRAL.
3. write a DRAFT of an essay that compares and contrasts the epiphanies of the two stories. In your essay, think about how the CONFLICT is resolved. For Cathedral, certainly you can discuss the irony of UNDERSTANDING by way of NOT SEEING.
For Small Good Thing, you can discuss the parent's moment of redemption. What is their conflict, that is eventually resolved by the visit to the cake baker??
4. Turn in draft.
1. Read this story, A Small Good Thing.
2. Read the essay called
'THE CALM,' 'A SMALL, GOOD THING,' AND 'CATHEDRAL': RAYMOND CARVER AND THE REDISCOVERY OF HUMAN WORTH. It's the second item on an ifohio search for RAYMOND CARVER and CATHEDRAL.
3. write a DRAFT of an essay that compares and contrasts the epiphanies of the two stories. In your essay, think about how the CONFLICT is resolved. For Cathedral, certainly you can discuss the irony of UNDERSTANDING by way of NOT SEEING.
For Small Good Thing, you can discuss the parent's moment of redemption. What is their conflict, that is eventually resolved by the visit to the cake baker??
4. Turn in draft.
You Need to Be Reading These
AP LIT TEST CENTRAL
Part I: 55 Multiple Choice Questions
FRQ3: Free Response
Below: Tim Frietas on approaching FRQ3
AP Writer's Closet
Reading and Writing
Creative Writing
How should I start? Try these story starters
How should I continue? Try character and Point of View Development
How should I continue? Try character and Point of View Development
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