AP English 11B (Period 4) Assignments

Turn in all yellow Language of Literature Anthologies

• Finish reading The Catcher in the Rye
• Characters and symbols notes
• Holden's fairytale (1 typed page minimum)
  

• Catcher Poetry Project & Holden's Gift with typed explanation due
  

• read pages 105-157
  
• notes on characters and symbols
• Holden's Fairy Tale due day 1 of next week
  

• Read pages. 53-104 of Catcher in the Rye
• Notes on characters and symbols
• Holden's Fairy Tale due Day 1 of next week (1 full typed page)
  

• Read pages 1-52 of The Catcher in the Rye
• Take notes on characters and symbols
  

• Finish scanning assigned sonnet
• turn in Language of Literature anthology (yellow book) by June 11th
  

A Raisin in the Sun test (essay and multiple choice)

Read Act 3

Read Act 2 of A Raisin in the Sun

• Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun (you don't have to annotate)
  

Study for AP Test! (See AP English Files Page for more practice for argument essays)

Do not turn on the tv or computer!  Study for 30 minutes, take a 5 minute break, study for 30 minutes, take a 5 minute break, repeat and stop only for nourishment, hygiene,  and 7-8 hours night sleep. 

• practice 10-11 multiple choice
  

• ap practice essay

• Rhetorical Terms and Tone Words Test (STUDY!)
  
• Assigned AP essay
  

• Multiple choice practice (in one hour)

• AP essay (the rhetorical analysis essay that your group was assigned to read, analyze, and present to the class)
• study rhetorical terms & tone words
  

• AP essay question #3 (Look in the packet of rhetorical analysis essays for question 3.  It's an argument essay about giving to the needy.)
• Multiple choice practice passages 7 & 8
  

• multiple choice practice (passage 6 only)
• Essay question 1 (labeled homework) in packet
• rhetorical terms and tone test
  

AP Practice essays

Rhetorical Terms and tone word quiz on Friday

type 7 multiple choice questions based on your assigned reading from class & answer key:

• 5 answer choices (A, B, C, D, & E) per question
  
• Be the same level of difficulty as the real AP questions
• Use the question stems
  

• 4 passages & accompanying multiple choice questions for AP Exam practice
  

Revise question 2 or 3 of practice AP questions. Use rubrics and student samples as references.

• discussion questions for ch. 21-22 for The Things They Carried
• 3 practice AP essays
  

• Annotate ch. 21-22
• Final draft of research paper due
  

• annotate ch. 16-20
• finish discussion questions for ch. 10-15
• bring rough drafts to class
  

• Research rough draft with works cited page
• Annotate ch. 10-15
• Multiple choice practice #3 (no labels)
  

• Read and annotate ch. 8-9 of The Things They Carried ("The Dentist" and "Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong")
• Work on research paper
  

annotate ch. 4-7 of The Things They Carried

work on rough draft of research paper (draft due March 31st for Period 3 and April 1st for Period 4)

Read and annotate ch. 1-3 of The Things They Carried

Multiple choice practice sets 1 & 2 (then label the question types)

If you borrowed The Great Gatsby, remove all annotations and return to class.

Essay test for The Great Gatsby

• You may use your book and 1 page of notes (single sided; if typed, 12 point font in Times New Roman or Garamond and 1" margins)
  

• Vocabulary (#31-60), multiple choice, and short answer test Friday, March 7
  
• read over the essay prompts: essay test will be on Friday, March 14

• read and annotate ch. 8-9
  

• annotate ch. 7
• final draft of ad analysis essay
  

• annotate ch. 5-6
• vocab quiz on #1-30 (memorize spelling and definitions)
• Final draft due day 1 of next week
  

• Annotate ch. 3-4 of The Great Gatsby
• 4 page typed rough draft of advertisement analysis
  

Read and annotate Great Gatsby ch 1-2

Rough draft of ad analysis due Wed. Feb. 27

• Precis on "The Fiction of Truth in Advertising"
• for period 3: Annotate and answer discussion questions for "Fresh Faces"
• for Period 3 & 4: 4 page typed rough draft of ad analysis essay due Wednesday, Feb. 27th
  

• American Dream Reflection
• 4 page typed rough draft of ad analysis essay due Wed. 2/27
  

• Camay Ad Analysis
• 4 advertisement analysis

Test on Transcendentalism and the American Gothic

• Typed "I Hear ____ Singing" poem and add a visual that relates to the topic
• Read pages 450-453
• Precis for "MAsque of the Red Death" (start on page 454)
• Notes (summary and questions) for each stanza for "The Raven" (start on page 466)
  

• Finish worksheet on "The Psalm of Life"; do not do the index card poster at the end of the worksheet
• Precis on "Walden" (pages 381-391)
  

• Finish "I hear ______ singing" poem
• Precis on "Self-Reliance" (pages 363-366 of yellow Literature anthology)
• Directions for precis under AP English files