ap literature and composition what are you thinking?? carolyn johnson
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AP Literature and Composition
What are you thinking??
Carolyn Johnson
What AP Lit is not
• “English major” / think “college readiness”
• “extrinsic reward” / think “intrinsic reward”
• “difficulty” / think “rigor”
Adjust hearsay perceptions!
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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.
CONTEXT: What surrounds the work?
CONTENT: What’s going on?
CONNECTION: Why is it important?
The College Board states the importance of reading deliberately and thoroughly . . .
College-ready skills: Reading
. . . 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
“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
• Point of View
• Sound •Imagery
College-ready skills: Writing
• effective use of rhetoric – including a controlling tone, consistent voice, and emphasis through parallelism and antithesis
• a wide vocabulary
• a variety of sentence structures
• logical organization
• a balance of generalization and specific illustrative detail
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
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
Section 1: Multiple Choice
• 4 -5 poetry or prose passages to read
• 10 -15 questions per passage test analytical skills
Section 2: Free Response, Questions 1 &2
• Two essays on given passages of poetry or prose.
Section 2: Free Response, Question 3
• One essay on a long work from a suggested list, or the student’s choice of a comparable work.
The Destination
(Or at least a 4)
Example: UC Berkeley AP Literature & Comp: 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).
AP Language & Comp: Score of 4 or 5 earns 4 units toward breadth requirement (equivalent to English 1A).
Technology in Our English Classroom
Technology in the classroom
Notability app: For ease of annotating documents.
Technology in the classroom
• E-Book Reading
• Peer Editing
• Research
• Collaborative Thinking
• Presenting: Airplay (Keynote)