JMHS APSI 2012 Table of contents SECTION ONE – THE TEST AP Access and Equity and Pre-AP AP English Language and Composition Exam AP English Literature and Composition Exam Exam Day Levels of Reading and Questioning the text Essay Questions 2011 Questions with Poems AP Literature Prose Essay Prompts (1970–2011) AP Literature Open-ended Prompts (1970-2011) Thirty years of AP Open Questions! (condensed) Test taking skills (Multiple Choice) SECTION TWO - CAMP Multiple Choice Poetry and Prose Camp Ways to read a poem – Storm Warnings SECTION THREE - PAIRS OF POEMS SECTION FOUR – TONE AND SATIRE SECTION FIVE - TEMPEST SECTION SIX - MACBETH SECTION SEVEN - HAMLET SECTION EIGHT – ADDITIONAL MATERIALS Hills Like White Elephants The Guest Letter by George Bernard Shaw SECTION NINE – JANE EYRE AND ANTIGONE SECTION TEN – HEART OF DARKNESS SECTION ELEVEN – AP SYLLABUS AND STRATEGIES AP Access and Equity and Pre-AP (Taken directly from the CollegeBoard) AP Access and Equity Initiative Access for All Students The College Board and the Advanced Placement Program encourage teachers, AP Coordinators, and school administrators to make equitable access a guiding principle for their AP programs. The College Board is committed to the principle that all students deserve an opportunity to participate in rigorous and academically challenging courses and programs. All students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access for AP courses to students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population. Preparing Every Student for College Pre-AP is based on the following two important premises. The first is the expectation that all students can perform well at rigorous academic levels. This expectation should be reflected in curriculum and instruction throughout the school such that all students are consistently being challenged to expand their knowledge and skills to the next level. The second important premise of Pre-AP is the belief that we can prepare every student for higher intellectual engagement by starting the development of skills and acquisition of knowledge as early as possible. Addressed effectively, the middle and high school years can provide a powerful opportunity to help all students acquire the knowledge, concepts, and skills needed to engage in a higher level of learning. Labeling Courses Pre-AP The College Board does not officially endorse locally designed courses labeled "Pre-AP." Courses labeled "Pre-AP" that inappropriately restrict access to AP and other college-level work are inconsistent with the fundamental purpose of the Pre-AP initiatives of the College Board. The College Board strongly believes that all students should have access to preparation for AP and other challenging courses, and that Pre-AP teaching strategies should be reflected in all courses taken by students prior to their enrollment in AP. The College Board discourages using "Pre-AP" in the title of locally designed courses and listing these courses on a student's transcript, because there is no one fixed or mandated Pre-AP curriculum that students must take to prepare for AP and other challenging coursework. Rather than using Pre-AP in course titles, the College Board recommends the adoption of more comprehensive Pre-AP programs that work across grade levels and subject areas to prepare the full diversity of a school's student population for AP and college. CollegeBoard Access and Equity: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/program/initiatives/22794.html Pre-AP Programs http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/preap/index.html AP English Language and Composition Exam (Taken directly from CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lang/exam.html?englang About the Exam The three-hour and fifteen-minute exam usually consists of a one-hour multiple-choice section and a two-hour and fifteen-minute free-response section. Section I: Multiple-Choice The multiple-choice questions test your ability to read closely and analyze the rhetoric of prose passages. Total scores on the multiple-choice section are based on the number of questions answered correctly. Points are not deducted for incorrect answers and no points are awarded for unanswered questions. Section II: Free-Response After a fifteen-minute reading period, you'll write three essays to demonstrate your skill in composition. Free response questions require close reading, thoughtful rhetorical analysis, and purposeful argumentation, and include a synthesis question that tests your ability to effectively make an argument of your own by combining and citing several supplied sources, including at least one visual source. Scoring the Exam The multiple-choice section counts for 45 percent of your grade. The free-response section contributes the remaining 55 percent. Study Skills: Reading In an AP English course, you may feel you have never been given so much to read. AP English demands plenty of serious reading, and you might be tempted to "speed-read." You may try to scan paragraphs and pages as fast as you can while hunting for main ideas. In a word: Don't. First, main ideas usually aren't quickly accessible from "speed-reading" complex texts. Also, if you race through good writing, you are likely to miss the subtlety and complexity. A paragraph of text by Frederick Douglass or Joyce Carol Oates, a speech by Abraham Lincoln, or a letter by E. B. White cannot be appreciated—or even minimally understood—without careful, often-repeated readings. In reading your AP assignments, be sure to: Read slowly Reread complex and important sentences Ask yourself often, "What does this sentence, paragraph, speech, stanza, or chapter mean?" Make Your Reading EfficientHow can you balance the careful reading AP English requires with your demanding chemistry and calculus workloads, plus get in play practice, soccer games, and whatever else you've got on your busy schedule? We've compiled some helpful tips to make your AP reading more efficient, fun, and productive. • Get a head start. Obtain copies of as many assigned texts as you can. Then you won't waste time searching for a text when you absolutely need it. • Preview important reading assignments. By previewing, you carefully note: AP English Language and Composition Exam (Taken directly from CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lang/exam.html?englang Exact title o Author's name o Table of contents o Preface or introduction; this section often states the author's purpose and o themes In essays and certain types of prose, the final paragraph(s). o • Pause to consider the author's principal ideas and the material the author uses to support them. Such ideas may be fairly easy to identify in writings of critical essayists or journalists, but much more subtle in the works of someone such as Virginia Woolf or Richard Rodriguez. • Know the context of a piece of writing. This technique will help you read with greater understanding and better recollection. A knowledge of the period in which the authors lived and wrote enhances your understanding of what they have tried to say and how well they succeeded. When you read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, find other sources to learn about social attitudes and cultural conditions that prevailed in the late 1950s. • Read text aloud. Slow down when you are having trouble with complex prose passages, and read them aloud. Reading aloud may help you to understand the tone of the passage. • Reread difficult material to help you understand it. Complex issues and elegant expression are not always easily understood or appreciated on a first reading. • Form the habit of consulting your dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, or atlas. Through such resources, you'll discover the precise meanings of words as well as knowledge about the content of what you are reading. Similar resources are available online or as computer software. Study Skills: Writing Writing is central to the AP English courses and exams. Both courses have two goals: to provide you with opportunities to become skilled, mature, critical readers, and to help you to develop into practiced, logical, clear, and honest writers. In AP English, writing is taught as "process" -- that is, thinking, planning, drafting the text, then reviewing, discussing, redrafting, editing, polishing, and finishing it. It's also important that AP students learn to write "on call" or "on demand." Learning to write critical or expository essays on call takes time and practice. Here are some key guidelines to remember in learning to write a critical essay: Take time to organize your ideas. Make pertinent use of the text given to you to analyze. Quote judiciously from the text to support your observations. Be logical in your exposition of ideas. If you acquire these skills -- organizing ideas, marshalling evidence, being logical in analysis, and using the text judiciously -- you should have little trouble writing your essays on the AP Exam. Practice in other kinds of writing -- narrative, argument, exposition, and personal writing -- all AP English Language and Composition Exam (Taken directly from CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lang/exam.html?englang have their place alongside practice in writing on demand. As you study and practice writing, consider the following points. Reading Directly Influences Writing Skills & Habits Reading and writing are intertwined. When you read what published authors have written you are immersed not just in their ideas, but in the pulsing of their sentences and the aptness of their diction. The more you read, the more that the rhythm of the English language will be available to influence your writing. Reading is not a substitute for writing, but it does help lay the foundation that makes good writing possible. Writing is Fun When you have penned what you think is a great sentence or a clean, logical paragraph, read it over to yourself out loud. Enjoy it. Delight in the ideas, savor the diction, and let the phrases and clauses roll around in your mind. Claim it as part of your self. You may discover you have a voice worthy of respect. A Tip from E. M. Forster He is reputed to have said that he never knew clearly what it was he thought until he spoke it; and once he had said it, he never knew clearly what it was that he said until he had written it down. Then, Forster noted, he could play with it and give it final form. Be like Forster: think, speak, write, analyze your writing, then give it final shape. Write Purposefully with Rhetorical Awareness When you write, fashion your text with awareness of key rhetorical elements. What is the message of your text? How do you intend to convey your message to your particular audience? Give shape to your thinking with language that enlightens your readers and lets you achieve your aims. AP English Literature and Composition Exam (Taken directly from the CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/exam.html?englit About the Exam The three-hour exam usually consists of a one-hour multiple-choice section and a two-hour free-response section. Section I: Multiple-Choice The multiple-choice section tests your critical reading skills. You'll read several passages and answer questions about the content, form, and style of each. Total scores on the multiple- choice section are based on the number of questions answered correctly. Points are not deducted for incorrect answers and no points are awarded for unanswered questions. Section II: Free-Response In this section you'll write essays to show your ability to analyze and interpret literary texts in clear and effective prose. Scoring the Exam The multiple-choice section counts for 45 percent of your grade. The free-response section contributes the remaining 55 percent. Study Skills: Reading See Language Exam (The skills are the same with the following additions or changes) • Pause to consider the author's principal ideas and the material the author uses to support them. Such ideas may be fairly easy to identify in writings of critical essayists or journalists, but much more subtle in the works of someone like Virginia Woolf or Emily Dickinson. • Know the context of a piece of writing. This technique will help you read with greater understanding and better recollection. A knowledge of the period in which the authors lived and wrote enhances your understanding of what they have tried to say and how well they succeeded. When you read John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, find other sources to learn about the difficult conditions for migrant laborers in California in the 1930s. To understand and appreciate much of English and American literature, you should have some acquaintance with the major themes of Judaic and Christian religious traditions and with Greek and Roman mythology. These religious concepts and stories have influenced and informed first English and then American literary traditions from the Middle Ages through modern times. As you study Literature and Composition, you should study extensively several representative works from various genres and periods from the Renaissance forward. You are advised to concentrate on works of recognized literary merit, worthy of scrutiny because of their richness of thought and language. Study Skills: Writing See Language Exam (The skills are the same with the following additions or changes) Grammar, Mechanics, and Rhetoric Think of them as elements that you can order to clean up your ideas, to sharpen your statements, to make your words and sentences glisten and stick. AP English Literature and Composition Exam (Taken directly from the CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/exam.html?englit Vocabulary Writers and critical readers have a "technical vocabulary" they use when talking about the language of drama, poetry, and fiction. Compile a list of such words. Notice writing that uses such vocabulary. Here are some of the words you should already know: syntax, tone, rhetoric, attitude, antecedent, denouement, exposition, climax, atmosphere, voice, speaker, stock character, thesis, ideology, persuasion, paradox, allusion, ambivalence, syllogism, and aphorism. Audience Your teachers may specify an audience that you are supposed to keep in mind when writing a paper. Most of us in daily life are not writing for a particular person or audience, but rather for someone called "the general reader." The general reader is someone, anyone, who possesses an average intelligence and has a fairly sound general education. This general reader is interested in the events of the day and in the world as a whole. He or she has a good measure of sympathy for humankind, appreciates the happy as well as the unhappy accidents of life. This reader also is blessed with a good sense of humor and the ability to listen to others; to writers like you, in fact. Keep the general reader in mind when you write. Exam Day (Taken directly from the CollegeBoard) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exday.html What to Bring • Several sharpened No. 2 pencils with erasers for all responses on your multiple-choice answer sheet. • Pens with black or dark blue ink for completing areas on the exam booklet covers and for free-response questions in most exams. • Your six-digit school code. Home-schooled students will be given a code at the time of the exam. • A watch. • AP-approved calculator with the necessary capabilities if you are taking the AP Calculus, Chemistry, Physics or Statistics Exams. • A ruler or straightedge only if you're taking an AP Physics Exam. • A government-issued or school-issued photo ID if you do not attend the school where you are taking the exam. • Your Social Security number* for identification purposes (optional). If you provide your number, it will appear on your AP score report. • If applicable, your SSD Student Accommodation Letter, which verifies that you have been approved for extended time or another testing accommodation. What Not to Bring • Cell phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants (PDAs), BlackBerry smartphones, Bluetooth-enabled devices, MP3 players, email/messaging devices, or any other electronic or communication devices. • Books, compasses, mechanical pencils, correction fluid, dictionaries, highlighters,**notes or colored pencils.** • Scratch paper; notes can be made on portions of the exam booklets. • Watches that beep or have an alarm. • Portable listening devices** or portable recording devices (even with headphones) or photographic equipment. • Computers.** • Clothing with subject-related information. • Food or drink.** * Some colleges and universities use Social Security numbers as student identifiers when assigning AP credit or advanced placement for qualifying AP scores. While the College Board does not require you to provide your Social Security number, you may want to check with the college or university where you are sending scores to see if they prefer for you to provide a Social Security number on your AP Exam answer sheet. **Unless this has been preapproved as an accommodation by the College Board Services for Students with Disabilities office prior to the exam date. Levels of Reading and Questioning the text Level One – Literal – Factual You can actually put your finger on the answer in the text. You are reading “on the” lines. Level One questions can be answered explicitly by using the facts in the text. You should be able to provide an accurate and complete summary of text because the information is “in front of you”. (The AP tests seldom ask level one questions. Why?) Level Two – Interpretive – Inferential You can put your finger on evidence in the text to support your answer. You are reading “between” the lines. Level Two questions are implied, requiring the reader to analyze and/or interpret specific parts of the text. They are inference-based. You must read between the lines for the answers. A good answer will probably lead to an identification of the significant patterns in the text. Level Three – Experiential – Connecting – Abstract You cannot put your finger on the answer in the text. You are reading “beyond” the lines. Level Three questions are open-ended and go beyond the text. These questions will provoke discussion of an abstract idea or issue. In addition to evidence from the text, you may bring your own personal experience into the discussion if it has a connection and a bearing to the abstract idea or issue. Good answers lead to an appreciation of the text and further discussion. 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