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AP Literature and Composition

AP Literature and Composition. August 30, 2013 Mr. Houghteling “It’s a Flunked-Out Friday, and because it’s Friday, you know what that means…” . “It’s great to be alive!” . Agenda . Nabokov quiz. Holden’s Quotables . Oral reading. Journal writing / questions or comments. .

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AP Literature and Composition

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  1. AP Literature and Composition August 30, 2013Mr. Houghteling“It’s a Flunked-Out Friday, and because it’s Friday, you know what that means…”

  2. “It’s great to be alive!”

  3. Agenda • Nabokov quiz. • Holden’s Quotables. • Oral reading. • Journal writing / questions or comments.

  4. Popular Fiction Banned Books Literature To Kill a Mockingbird Brave New World The Catcher in the Rye The Color Purple The Chocolate War I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Of Mice and Men The Bluest Eye The Handmaid’s Tale The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ttyl (series) Twilight (series) And Tango Makes Three The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Hunger Games (series) What My Mother Doesn’t Know The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things Harry Potter (series) Captain Underpants (series)

  5. AGENDA • The Catcher in the Rye • FOCUS • Idiosyncrasies of language • Identifying the speaker • EXPOSITION: Setting, Conflict, Plot

  6. The Catcher in the Rye • Read two chapters a day: through Chapters 10 (page 76) by Tuesday! • Reading Journal • ONE entry per day. • Consider: • Questions you may have. • Interesting plot developments. • Interpretation of characterization. • Interpretation of author’s style. • Quotation analysis.

  7. Holden’s Quotables Get in pairs. When you get your quote, share it with your partner. Discuss the value of Holden’s statement, analyzing its validity or lack of it. Try to reach a consensus as to whether Holden is telling you a truth or not.

  8. Holden’s Quotables 1 • “People always think something’s all true” (1.9). • “People never notice anything” (1.9). • “I’d never yell ‘Good luck!’ at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it” (2.16). • “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot” (3.18). • “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it” (3.18).

  9. Holden’s Quotables 2 • “You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he’s a real hot-shot, and they’re always asking you to do them a big favor” (4.27). • “You have to be in the mood for those things” (4.33). • “You take a guy like Stradlater, they never give your regards to people” (4.33).

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