AP Doc: 2011 Eng Lit Scoring Guidelines

Use the following AP scoring guidelines (from last year's test) to evaluate your partner's essay. Substitute the ideas from our questions for the novels/concepts referenced here.

ap11_engl_lit_scoring_guidelines

Vocabulary: Fall List #2

accoutrements
apogee
apropos
bicker
coalesce
contretemps
convolution
cull
disparate
dogmatic
licentious
mete
noxious
polemic
populous
probity
repartee
supervene
truncate
unimpeachable

August 22

JOURNAL TOPIC: (today's tunes: "Learning to Fly" performed by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and "Learning to Fly" performed by Pink Floyd)

What did you learn in this class last week?


AGENDA:
1. Return journals/last week's vocabulary quiz/PWB reading quiz
2. Observations/feedback on journals & assignments so far
3. Vocabulary/on demand poetry
4. Preview of coming attractions

HW:
1. Read your partner's 1987 AP essays and evaluate according to the AP Scoring Guidelines.
2. Bring an artifact (or a photo of one) that holds personal meaning/significance for you.
3. Finish the sentence: "I concentrate best when..."
4. Finish the sentence: "I have a hard time concentrating when..."

Senior Resume Worksheet

Here is the senior resume worksheet I mentioned in class (also courtesy of our College Counseling Office), and I hereby take back what I said about starting from scratch. If you have the resume you created in our World Lit course, simply update it with your recent accomplishments-- and be mindful that your objective has changed. If you weren't in that course, you can either borrow the format from someone who was or use this worksheet to begin. However you go about this, bring a document that promotes you to class on Monday, August 22.

senior resume worksheet

UCSB Personal Statement Worksheet

Hi everyone, the following comes to us courtesy of the College Counseling Office. Please read and be prepared to think on paper next week.

ucsb personal statement worksheet

August 19

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Little Know It All" by Iggy Pop and "Words (Between the Lines of Age)" by Neil Young]

Consider the following image (courtesy of the fine folks at boingboing.net). What issues/problems/challenges in your life once seemed HUGE but got smaller as you gained a greater perspective on things?


















AGENDA:
1. Journal/turn in
2. Vocabulary quiz/correct
3. Preview of coming attractions

HW:
1. Poetry #1 due Monday
2. Read The Personal Statement Worksheet (courtesy of UCSB and our own College Counseling Office) and complete the Senior Resume Worksheet, due Monday
3. Take the 1987 AP Exam and write yourself notes about which questions you found easy, which questions you found challenging, and which questions will haunt your dreams until you pass the exam. Exam answers and notes due Monday.

August 18

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: Fela Kuti's "Teacher Don't Teach Me No Nonsense"]

How would you go about writing a satire of The Poisonwood Bible? Would you focus on the same issues/themes as Barbara Kingsolver? What techniques would you use to draw the reader in and cause him/her to think differently?

AGENDA:
1. Journal (or use the time to review summer reading notes for the essay)
2. Essay exam on The Poisonwood Bible

HW:
1. Quiz tomorrow on Vocabulary #1 & The Right to Your Opinion
2. Make sure to submit Poetry Assignment #1 and memorize the poem by Monday, August 22