AP 12: week 2: 9/8 and 9/10

Objectives:  learn a wide variety of literary tropes to augment reading analysis
                   practice and internalize the common rubric elements for literary analysis
                   plan, write, edit, and evaluate a timed written analysis of Thousand Splendid Suns

Tuesday, Sept. 8:

• partner and create small posters to help remember key concepts of How to Read Literature Like A Professor
• examine 2015 question 3 from the AP Lit exam + rubric
• read anchor papers and determine what score they had earned
• discuss and plan response for Thousand Splendid Suns

HW:  prepare for Thousand Splendid Suns timed write
bring notes for Persuasion

Wednesday, September 10
 check, review, collaborate on 1000 Splendid Suns timed write preparation
timed write
decompress with discussion and play acting of Jane Austen's Persusaion
HW) pick out key passages in the opening chapters of Persuasion related to the next prompt:
In retrospect, the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces some of the major themes of the work. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama or the first chapter of a novel in which you explain how it functions in this way.