AP Literature and Composition

1. AP Literature and Composition Carolyn Johnson TAKE AP LIT IT WOULD BE FUN THEY SAID What are you thinking??

2. What AP Lit is not TAKE AP LIT Adjust hearsay perceptions! • “English major” / think “college readiness” • “fun” / think “reward” • “difficulty” / think “rigor” IT WOULD BE FUN THEY SAID

3. College-ready skills: Reading The pieces chosen for the AP Literature and Composition course invite and reward rereading, and do not, like ephemeral works in [more popular genres], yield all of their pleasures of thought and feeling the first time through. The College Board states the importance of reading deliberately and thoroughly . . . OBSERVE: What makes the work “tick” and satisfy the reader? INFER: What is the author’s intent and purpose? EVALUATE: How can you discern the success and value of the work?

4. College-ready skills: Reading “And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping.” - Stephenie Myer, Eclipse  . . . she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets – what nonsense was he thinking? She was fifty at least – she had eight children. Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair – He took her bag. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse • Point of View • Sound • Imagery

5. College-ready skills: Writing Reading and writing support one another. . . . she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets – what nonsense was he thinking? She was fifty at least – she had eight children. Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair – He took her bag. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse • a wide vocabulary • a variety of sentence structures • logical organization • a balance of generalization and specific illustrative detail • effective use of rhetoric – including a controlling tone, consistent voice, and emphasis through parallelism and antithesis

6. The Exam Format One Hour: 55 multiple choice questions • 45% of the total score Two Hours: 3 essay questions • 55% of the total score Cost: $118 Ordering deadline: April

7. Section 1: Multiple Choice • 4 -5 poetry or prose passages to read • 10 -15 questions per passage test analytical skills

8. Section2: Free Response, Questions 1 &2 • Two essays on given passages of poetry or prose.

9. Section2: Free Response, Question 3 • One essay on a long work from a suggested list, or the student’s choice of a comparable work.

10. The Destination Example: UC Berkeley English Literature: Score of 4 earns 4 units toward breadth requirement (equivalent to English 1A); score of 5 earns 5.3 units toward breadth requirement (equivalent to English 1A -1B). Language: Score of 4 or 5 earns 4 units toward breadth requirement (equivalent to English 1A). (Or at least a 4)

11. Technology in Our English Classroom

12. Technology in the classroom Notability app: For ease of annotating documents.

13. Technology in the classroom • E-Book Reading • Peer Editing • Online Research • Collaborative Thinking • Presenting: Keynote, Airplay