For tonight, let’s move on from MC APLit practice to essay APLit practice. So everyone take a deep breath. Let’s do the practice essay found in Practice Exam #4 in our Prep Book. It’s on page 216. The reason that I want you to do this one is twofold: (1) it involves reading poetry, which…

For tonight, lets do the MC section of practice test #3, pages 169-78. The answers can be found on 183-84. Please give yourself a full hour to do the MC section. Then and only after you complete the section should you check your answers. Please come to class tomorrow with questions and thoughts. For the…

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For work this weekend, lets do a couple of practice APLit multiple choice sections from our Cliffs Prep Book. Some thoughts… Remember, as we discussed in class today, the multiple choice questions in the prep book are, generally, much more difficult and ambiguous than the questions you will encounter on the actual exam itself. The…

Your job tonight is to study the literary glossaries in the your AP Prep Book. They can be found on (roughly) pages 83-91. Please come to class tomorrow with a book (any book) and annotations in your AP Prep book and plenty of questions in your head.

So today in class we read some descriptive based poetry. I also scanned to you via email a packet with both the poems from today and the writing from your classmates we looked at. For tonight, your job is to do a very similar thing as last night. Identify three very strong emotions that one…

For tonight, you are to select one of the four narrative poems that we read today in class (they were scanned to you via email as well)… “Hook” by James Wright “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche “Nutting” by William Wordsworth “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara You should mentally note a summary of the…

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility…” The above quote, many would say, is the defining moment in modern poetry. We still abide by this definition over 200 years later today. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) asserted this definition in a “Preface” to a book of poems…