Test Prep
The Poetry Prompt
Part 1 - Structure and its components
The first 17 minutes breaks down "Easter Wings" by George Herbert and then outlines the sonnet form.
The next 15 minutes analyzes Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why," breaking down the poem's structure.
The final 10 minutes is a debrief and summary with a practice prompt from 2014.
Part II - Contrast
A Warm up: breaking down the poem "For That He Looke Not Upon Her" by George Gascoinge.
The Lesson Overview, using contrasting as an umbrella term to explore the complexities found in a poem that can contribute to interpretations of the text.
A guided practice, analyzing the structure of "Thou Blind Man's Mark" by Sir Philip Sidney
The homework: analyzing "Convergence of Twain" by Thomas Hardy and asking you to identify the contrasts.
Part III - Word Choice and Ambiguity
A warm-up, reviewing the contrasts in "Convergence of Twain" develops possible claims as to an expanded meaning of the poem.
The Lesson Overview, examining how specific words function in a poem to create a larger meaning. [I would advise you take notes of this section.]
Contemporary poet Debora Kuan's "Magic Lesson".
The last portion works through the prompt for Ted Hughes' "To Paint a Water Lily."
Long Fiction or Drama
Character Complexity
This AP English Literature teaches students to explain how a character’s own choices, actions, and speech reveal complexities in that character, and explain the function of those complexities.
Plot Structure
This AP English Literature class covers explaining the function of a significant event or related set of significant events in a plot.
Narrative Perspective
This AP English Literature class teaches students to identify and describe details, diction, or syntax in a text that reveal a narrator’s or speaker’s perspective.
Writing a Thesis Statement
Develop a thesis statement that conveys a defensible claim about an interpretation of literature and that may establish a line of reasoning.
Developing Commentary
Develop commentary that establishes and explains relationships among textual evidence, the line of reasoning, and the thesis.
PROSE REVIEW
Characterization
1.A: Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
Setting
Unit 2.A: Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.
Structure (Plot)
Unit 3.A: Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative.
Point of View/Narrator
Unit 4.B: Identify and explain the function of point of view in a narrative.
Contrasts and Figurative Language
Unit 3.D Explain the function of contrasts within a text.