Welcome to AP Literature & Composition with Mrs. Blankenship
mblanken@wcboe.org
What to expect this school year
The focus of this AP English course will be to help you reach a college level of reading, thinking, and writing skills such that you can take the AP test and receive credit for English 101 and 102. Instead of being organized by theme or chronological order, this course is based on a fluid sequence of skills and related materials. For that reason, the first term units (summer reading, resume writing, six traits, and short stories) focus more on knowledge, comprehension, and application, while the fourth term units (Shakespeare, Poetry/Research) emphasize independent analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. However, this is your class. The order and unit length will reflect your responses, interests, and needs. Some classes may take a special interest in a certain unit or be able to move quickly beyond another unit.
Units/Content
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Resume Writing/Career Skills
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Essay Writing/Six Traits
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Short Story
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Novel Unit (ie, Pride and Prejudice & Color Purple)
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Shakespeare 1) Midsummer Night's Dream 2) Othello (or Hamlet)
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Poetry
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Research
Skills
· Time management skills/Independence
· Textual Analysis (Interpretative, evaluative, and argumentative skills)
· Self-evaluative/Meta-cognitive skills
· Writing skills
· Student-led learning / Self-motivated learning
· Critical thinking skills
AP Syllabus
Students are not required to take the AP test to take an AP class, but it is recommended because they can earn up to six college credits.
The AP English Literature and Composition test is a two part exam intended to assess a students mastery of reading, writing, and analysis skills necessary to earn credit for English 101 and 102. The first hour consists of 55 multiple choice questions on selected texts. The second half is a two hour essay writing test with three questions: a poetry question, a short fiction question, and an "open question" that requires students to apply prior knowledge of a novel.
To learn more visit the AP English Literature and Composition Exam on the College Board's website.
The AP tests are scheduled for early May. More details will be posted on the AP Test Page.
Due August 1st Essay due on Choice novel answering the question what makes this book worth studying as part of great British or American literature?
Due September 1st *First Day of School* Reading on Frankenstein and Much Ado about Nothing. Test in the first week of school and essay to follow.sdafsdklfjsda
Working together using this wiki
Think of this wiki as a shared online message board. Our entire class can share information using this wiki, making your comments accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.
Highlights of 2008-2009
AP English Goes Shakespearean!
These seemingly ordinary AP English students transformed into a band of Shakespearean Actors this winter. They performed a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream entirely in the original Shakespearean language. Complete with sword fight, cat fight, romance, comedy, and "magic love flowers."
Sorry! No pictures are available. You had to be there to see it.
Some favorite lines: Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus; You bead, you acorn!
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.
Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds of maiden's patience.
Thou hast mistaken quite and laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
Lord what fools these mortals be!
The Almost Tee-Shirt 2009
Slogans we thought were funny enough to be on an AP Class shirt.
-If you can read this... at least you're literate.
-You are flagrantly feckless you vacuous fool!
-Flagrantly Feckless.... It's not as bad as it sounds. It just makes you easy to subjugate.
-AP English Checklist
__ Auspicious Grades
__ Eliminate Platitudes
__ Daily Epiphanies
__ Loquacious Discussions
__ Stay away from feckless people
-Don't feel bad for being vacuous: You don't even know what the word means.
-Being perfunctory is just what works for you.
Parody Poems
More Poems Click on link to see the original poem and the rest of the class' parodies.
This is just to say by Jeremy Bernstein 2009
Parody of William Carlos Williams' "This is just to say"
I have taken
the lead part
of the musical
show
At which
you were
planning to
receive
Pardon me but
when the
director saw me
she just
couldn’t believe.
Keoshia by Kristina Johnson 2009
Parody of Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"
Keoshia, I had to slap you.
But you left before I had time--
Cement heavy, a bag full of stuff,
Ugly pictures with one guy
Big as a Wal-mart.
There's eyeliner in your heart
The employees never liked you,
Getting smart and laughing at you.
I always knew it was you.
Keoshia, Keoshia, you ****, I'm through.
Highlights of 2007-2008
AP English Hits Broadway!
Check out more pictures from our trip to the Big Apple.
Parody Poems
More Poems Click on link to see the original poem and the rest of the class' parodies.
The Bright Yellow Pencil by Kristen Shaver 2008
Parody of William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"
so much depends
upon
the bright yellow
pencil
stuck with a pink
eraser
doing a handstand
on its point.
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