*Updated* Research Paper Observation and White Book Assignment due Monday

Please make sure I have a paper copy of the observation topic you want to pursue for your research paper.  The slideshow that we looked at in class is available here.  Remember, we only looked at the "observation" part of the slideshow.

Then, please read pages 935-940 in your white book, which is an excerpt from an autobiography of Zitkala Sa.

After you have done reading, please choose a section that you are going to analyze for style, focusing on what words mean (diction, imagery, figurative language) and where words are (syntax, structure, pacing.)  Type up a paragraph (one half page or so) analysis of the use of language and the effect that these choices are having on the reader.  You should use direct quotations and formal voice.  Please try to make observations like your white book modeled on the Ellison and Didion passages.

Submit your analysis to Turnitin.

Huck Finn and Finals Review Activities

Satire Review
Timeline reviews
Mega Timeline
Mega Timeline answers

Previous Unit 1 Kahoot
AP Language terms (there may be some we haven't learned yet, but refer to the finals study guide for what is on the test.

By student request:

Huswifery
Waterfowl

Semester 1 Finals Information and Huck Finn Reading

Please finish reading Huck Finn for Monday!

AP Language Semester 1 Study Guide

Your final exam will have approximately 125 multiple choice questions.  The semester one reading list below covers authors that will be asked about on the final exam.  There are some passages that we read this year that will not be covered on the exam.  

Reading List

Novels:

•  The Scarlet Letter
• Huckleberry Finn

Literature Passages:

• “Huswifery” (Edward Taylor)
•  “To His Excellency, General Washington” (Phillis Wheatley)
•  “To a Waterfowl” (William Cullen Bryant)
• “Fall of the House of Usher” (E.A. Poe)

Non-Fiction Passages/Excerpts:

• On Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
• General History of Virginia (John Smith)
• Wonders of the Invisible World (Cotton Mather)
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Johnathan Edwards)
• Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
• Speech in the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry)
• The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
• Speech of Miss Baker (Benjamin Franklin)
• Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
• My Bondage, My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
•   Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
•  Walden (H. D. Thoreau)

Question Breakdown:

• Two 5-event Huck Finn Timeline questions
• 12 HF character to quotation matching
• 6 HF social commentary
• 11 HF character analysis 
• 10 general HF questions
• 8 Literary device quotation identification
• 10 literary device definition matching
• 14 Author to title matching
• 11 Romanticism quotation or author identification
• 7 Critical reading passage questions
• 6 Fallacy identification
• 10 Scarlet Letter True/False
• 10 Writing process questions

Synthesis Reflection due Thursday

Here are the questions for the synthesis essay reflection that are due on Thursday.

Please read through Chapter 33 over break...

...and enjoy your vacation!

HF Chapters 1-5 due Wednesday

Please read chapters 1-5 of Huck Finn for Monday. If you were unable to check a book out from the library, there are several free electronic editions you can find online.  One is available here, but there are several other options online. 

Although understanding the plot is important, looking at how the topics below help to create our understanding of characters is even more significant.

I suggest that you mark these topics in your text (or on a post-it). If you want to be extra fancy, you can also color-code these different ideas in your notes.

Superstition
The role of the river
Appeal to father figures
Women (and their influence on Huck)
Religion
Education
Class Consciousness
Racial Identity
Self identity
Clothing
Money/Wealth/Acquisitiveness (wanting to acquire stuff)
Deception
Search for Approval
Protectiveness

Finish Scarlet Letter for Monday and Analysis Things

Please make sure that you have finished the Scarlet Letter for Monday.

Will there be a happy ending? Will Hester and Dimmesdale live happily ever after? Will Pearl become the first female governor of Boston? Finish your reading to find out!

Our analysis lesson slideshow from in class on Friday is available here.  All student examples are showing positive examples of analysis in different ways.  Shout outs to the students who made the analysis hall of fame!