Tuesday, December 16, 2008

AP Final Study Tips

AP Final Study Tips
Know all your roots. Know all your vocab that we have quizzed and tested over (the 50 words).
Rhetorical terms from your bellringers/ rhetorical tool box are fair game. You should know terms like:
tricolon, parallelism, allusion, diction, ethos, pathos, logos, and how to use semicolons or prepositional phrases.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Crucible Unit

Crucible Unit complete - test scores are posted

Nov 25 Act I - plot quiz
Dec 1 - Act II - quote quiz
Dec 2 - Act III - drawing quiz
Dec 4 - Act IV - essay quiz
Dec 8 - Time writing Essay
Dec 9 - Unit Test

Monday, December 1, 2008

Reading List - AP Recommended Novels

Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Albee
Go Tell It On the Mountain - Baldwin
Songs of Innocence and Experience - Blake
The Pilgrim's Progress, Book 1 - Bunyan
Heroes and Hero Worship - Carlyle
Bleak House - Dickens
Out of Africa - Dinesen
An American Tragedy - Dreiser
Middlemarch - Eliot
Collected Essays - Emerson
Intruder in the Dust - Faulkner
Light in August - Faulkner
A Passage to India - Forster
The Autobiography - Franklin, Ben
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Not Without Laughter - Hughes
The Turn of the Screw - James, Henry
The Member of the Wedding - McCullers
Billy Budd - Melville
Moby-Dick - Melville
Sula - Morrison
Wise Blood - O'Connor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare
Walden - Thoreau
The Color Purple - Walker, Alice
All the King's Men - Warren
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
Fences - Wilson, August