Hook, Housekeeping
& Homework
Wednesday
Welcome Back, Palmer Terrors!
Ms. Durland
English 8 AP Literature
How does it feel to be a senior?
Please have out your summer reading assignment (short story analysis).
Be prepared for attendance.
(at which time I will collect your assignment & speak with you briefly).
I will also have something for you to do while you wait…
Homework (What? Already?): Make sure you come prepared tomorrow with…
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class materials (so easy)
2.
read and annotated Class Policies & Expectations – side table
3.
read and annotated Year-at-a-Glance – side table
4.
read and signed Academic Honors Pledge (turn in tomorrow) – side table
5.
completed Student Information sheet (turn in tomorrow) – side table
6.
read and annotated “Ordeal by Cheque”
Past, Present, Future
Wednesday
• Summer vacation!
• It’s my birthday! But, it’s also time to turn in your summer
assignment and for your first close readings of the school year.
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Class policies & expectations
Honors pledge & student information
Course & unit overview
“Ordeal by Cheque”
• “Ordeal by Cheque”:
Close reading with group
Introduction to AP Literature
Wednesday
Standard(s)
2. Reading for All Purposes
1. Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of
analysis, interpretive, and evaluative strategies
Objective: you will be able to read closely to make critical
responses to literature
Relevance: Understanding and knowing expectations, rules,
and fellow colleagues up front enables you to be more
successful, comfortable and/or engaged in you learning
environment.
Essential Questions: How do I function effectively in class in a
literature course? How do I create meaning when confronted
with ambiguous texts?
Activity: Develop
You DO
Wednesday
Purpose: to read closely, annotating for the “what” of the text (details & plot
elements of “Ordeal by Cheque”)
Tasks: Follow the Part 1 Task directions
1. Read the story once, quietly to yourself.
2. Re-read. Annotate the Text for the “what”
• Note in the margins story elements
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*characters, setting, conflict, rising/falling action, climax, and resolution
• Note ambiguous sections (What is left unsaid?)
Reflection: Did you find this “story” difficult to read/understand? If so, what made it
hard? If not, why not?
Outcome: To be prepared to share plot structure & questions with a small group
tomorrow
• I’ll be calling attendance and collecting the summer reading short story
assignment. (Please have it out and ready to turn in.)
Homework
Wednesday
Purpose: to familiarize yourself with the expectations and general
aspects of the class in order to be a successful, contributing member
Make sure you come prepared tomorrow…
1. class materials (so easy)
2. read and annotated Class Policies & Expectations
3. read and annotated Year-at-a-Glance
4. read and signed Academic Honors Pledge (turn in tomorrow)
5. completed Student Information sheet (turn in tomorrow)
6. read and annotated “Ordeal by Cheque”
• Three-ring binder or folder for handouts & notes
• Loose-leaf, lined paper (full sheets) or a spiral with the perforated
line for tearing pages out neatly
• Pencils and pens
• Sticky notes
Hook, Housekeeping
& Homework
Thursday
• Turn in your white Honors Pledge and Student Information
sheet on the front table.
• If you were not here yesterday, take one of each of the three
handouts (1 blue, 2 white) off the front table. See me later
about summer reading…
• While you wait for attendance, see next slide…
What do you see?
Past, Present, Future
Thursday
• Summer Reading Turned In
• Close Reading:
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Class policies & expectations
Honors pledge & student information
Course & unit overview
“Ordeal by Cheque”
• “Ordeal by Cheque”: Close reading with group
• Meeting with Administration
Instruction: Obtain
Ambiguity
Thursday
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguity
a : the quality or state of being ambiguous (doubtful or uncertain) especially in
meaning
b : a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways :
an ambiguous word or expression
2: uncertainty
Welcome to AP Literature & Composition
Embrace
AP =
Ambiguity Possible
Address the Prompt
Analysis, Please
Always Poetry
Also Prose
Applied Practice
“Anything’s” Possible?
Absolute Paradise
Introduction to AP Literature
Wednesday
Standard(s)
2. Reading for All Purposes
1. Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of analysis,
interpretive, and evaluative strategies
Objective: You will identify the story elements of “Ordeal by Cheque”
and make inferential connections and note ambiguous sections.
Relevance: Understanding and knowing expectations, rules, and
fellow colleagues up front enables you to be more successful,
comfortable and/or engaged in you learning environment.
Essential Questions: How do I function effectively in class in a
literature course? How do I create meaning when confronted with
ambiguous texts?
Activity: Develop
Thursday
Talk about reading between the lines….
Purpose: to read closely, annotating for the “what,” the “how,”
and the “So What?” of the text
Tasks:
• With a small group, gather your forces and expand your
understanding: What? How? So what?
• Use the questions for Part 2 (Analyzing Plot Elements, Style &
Stylistic Devices) to guide your conversations and further
annotate your text.
Outcome: turn in groups responses to the Outcome section
dramatic situation
• A situation, in a narrative or dramatic work, in which people
(or "people") are involved in conflicts that solicit the
audience's empathetic involvement in their predicament.
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Baker, Lyman A. Critical Concepts: Dramatic Situation | Conflict. K-State. 2000. 19 Aug 2015.
Homework
Friday
• Who does still not have a student ID?
• If you have work to turn in still, please bring it to me directly.
Partner sign-up
• Find someone with whom you’d like to work with next week
• In the 15 minutes before the Meeting with Administration, one of
you write down your name and the name of the partner you’d like to
work with in groups next week.
• This is how I’ll take attendance. If your partner is absent, but you are
signing him/her up, please note that in (parentheses).
• If you don’t have a preference on a partner, then just write your own
name.
• Sharepoint
Colorado Academic Standards
Oral Expression and Listening
1.Effective speaking in formal and informal settings requires appropriate use of methods and
audience awareness
2.Effective collaborative groups accomplish goals
Reading for All Purposes
1.Literary criticism of complex texts requires the use of analysis, interpretive, and evaluative
strategies
2.Interpreting and evaluating complex informational texts require the understanding of
rhetoric, critical reading, and analysis skills
Writing and Composition
1.Style, detail, expressive language, and genre create a well-crafted statement directed at an
intended audience and purpose
2.Ideas, evidence, structure, and style create persuasive, academic, and technical texts for
particular audiences and specific purposes
3.Standard English conventions effectively communicate to targeted audiences and purposes
Research and Reasoning
1.Independent research designs articulate and defend information, conclusions, and solutions
that address specific contexts and purposes
2.Logical arguments distinguish facts from opinions; and evidence defines reasoned judgment
Coming Soon…
Monday
• College Board/Advanced Placement Research Due
• Review Ordeal by Cheque: annotations and responses
• Quiz over summer reading stories (return summer reading
short stories?)
• Summer Reading Short Story Group Assignments
Tuesday
• Writing Center Information, Mrs. Donovan, Tutors Needed
• Summer Reading Short Story Group Work
• Summer Reading Short Story Group Presentation
I DO
What is the tone at the beginning of the story?
Identify: joyful, hopeful
Exemplify/Explain
• Text-to-text: A check is written to a toy company, a bicycle
company, & a Cadillac company. These are “luxury items” and
show a progression from childhood to adult.
• Text-to-self: The first check is written to a baby shoppe.
People are usually excited about pregnancies and go shopping
for the baby’s room, clothing, etc. and throw baby showers.
• Text-to-world: The first page of checks are from 1903-23 from
Hollywood State Bank. The U.S. was growing/prospering in the
early 1900s & the entertainment industry was blossoming in
Hollywood
Hook & Housekeeping &
Heads-up
• How was your weekend?
• Place your weekend work in the In/Out basket
• Tonight’s homework:
• College Application Essay Questions
• Respond to at least five questions using at least 10 words/ ½ sheet of
paper per response
• Write neatly! Someone else has to read it!
Mitchell students, pick up homework before you leave!
Academic Standards
1. Oral Expression & Listening
1. Effective speaking in formal and informal settings requires
appropriate use of methods and audience awareness
a. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence,
conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can
follow the line of reasoning… appropriate to purpose, audience,
and… informal tasks.
2. Effective collaborative groups accomplish goals
b. propel conversations by posing and responding to questions
that probe reasoning and evidence.
Academic Standards
2. Reading for All Purposes
2. Interpreting and evaluating complex informational texts
require the understanding of rhetoric, critical reading, and
analysis skills
e. obtain and use information from text and text features to
answer questions, perform specific tasks, and identify/solve
problems.
Objectives
• You will be able to pose questions to obtain additional
information about text.
• You will be able to obtain and evaluate responses to
questions.
• You will be able to critique evidence based on purpose and
audience.
Obtain- I DO
• I see a few checks written to places such as a gown shop, a
sport shop, and a bootery. Do you like to go shopping? Are
you into fashion? Where these things for yourself or someone
else? What types of items did you buy?
• This is Lawrence Exeter Jr. He is a generous person who likes
the ladies. He spent much of a year or so buying gifts, such as
lingerie and flowers, for lady friends.
Reflection
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What was difficult about this task? What was easy?
Did we meet all aspects of the purpose?
30 second presentation/introduction of your peer
share one interesting aspect of his/her summer
reveals something about his/her personality/interests.
Homework
• College Application Essay Questions
• respond to at least five questions in a minimum of 100
words/using at least a ½ sheet of paper per response
• Write neatly! Someone else has to read it!
Hook, Housekeeping &
Homework
Discuss with a shoulder partner:
• What type of post high school education are you planning?
• How far are you in the college/university application process?
• What institutions are you looking into attending?
Homework:
• Write a maximum 2 page personal statement
• typed (Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced)
• proper MLA heading (upper left-hand corner of the first page,
list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the
date)
• Due Thursday
Academic Standards
1. Oral Expression & Listening 2. Effective collaborative groups
accomplish goals b. propel conversations by posing and
responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence.
2. Reading for All Purposes 2. Interpreting and evaluating
complex informational texts require the understanding of
rhetoric, critical reading, and analysis skills e. obtain and use
information from text and text features to answer questions,
perform specific tasks, and identify/solve problems.
3. Writing and Composition 1. Style, detail, expressive language,
and genre create a well-crafted statement directed at an
intended audience and purpose e. Critique own writing and the
writing of others from the perspective of the intended audience
to guide revisions, improve voice and style (word choice,
sentence variety, figurative language) and achieve intended
purpose and effect
Objectives
• You will be able to obtain and evaluate responses to questions
after reading a peer’s responses to college application-type
essay questions.
• You will be able to critique evidence and offer suggestions to a
peer based on purpose and audience.
Purpose & Audience
PURPOSE OF COLLEGE APP ESSAY:
• an "anchor" for the whole application, to expound on your
achievements
opportunity to demonstrate your ability to write well.
• showcase your personality innermost thoughts, aspirations, dreams, and
personal realities, the intangible characteristics: honesty, integrity,
commitment, ethical choices, perseverance, empathy, and leadership
• Old adage “show, don’t tell” - show them who you are
• Tell: “I was really inspired by my second grade teacher who made sure I
learned how to read.”
• Show: “My second grade teacher, Mrs. Hurley, mesmerized me with her
home spun stories of adventure and magic that she read out loud during
story time. I’ve been an avid reader of fiction ever since.”
• on the line between acceptance and rejection, the essay can be the
deciding factor.
AUDIENCE:
College admissions office
Obtain – I DO
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AP Summer Institute
Woman wrote divorce
Questioning, revealed left an abusive relationship
Powerful way to talk about learning from mistakes
Topic would show personal background, reflective process,
central theme
• Concern = emotional topic, stay focused
Develop – WE DO
• Tasks: Swap College app responses, read silently, pose 1-3
questions about an area you would like to know more about
(5 min)
• Talk to partner , questioning, and draw conclusions about
interests/personality (5 min each)
• About what should your peer write? Why? Strengths? Needs?
• Outcome: Select one topic/prompt that you believe could best
reflect your partner as an individual (2 min)
Reflection
• How was today’s session helpful?
• What gives the written word its power?
• How can you make your essay stand out as a unique
representation of you as an individual?
YOU DO/Apply - Homework
• Write a maximum 2 page personal statement
• Typed = Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced
• Proper MLA heading = upper left-hand corner of the first page,
list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date
• Due Thursday
Hook, Housekeeping,
Homework
• Can you answer these questions?
• What is the purpose of a college application essay?
• Who is your intended audience?
• What are the basic components of any essay?
• Homework: Write a maximum 2 page personal statement
• Typed = Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced
• Proper MLA heading = upper left-hand corner of the first page,
list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date
• Due tomorrow
Standards & Objectives
• 2. Reading for All Purposes 2. Interpreting and evaluating complex
informational texts require the understanding of rhetoric, critical
reading, and analysis skills e. obtain and use information from text
and text features to answer questions, perform specific tasks, and
identify/solve problems.
• You will obtain and use
information from a web-based
source in order to guide
revisions, improving voice and
style and achieving intended
purpose and effect.
Obtain – Develop
• Read through questions on ½ sheet
• Go to Lab B
• Complete questions
Reflect - Apply
• What is the most important piece of information you learned
to day?
• What will you do tonight?
• What is theme?
• What was the central point of the sample essay?
• What will your central point be?
• Write a maximum 2 page personal statement
• Typed = Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced
• Proper MLA heading = upper left-hand corner of the first page,
list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date
• Due tomorrow
Hook, Housekeeping,
Homework
• Turn your homework into the basket
• Consider the following questions:
• What are the basic components of any essay?
• How can you make your essay stand out as a unique representation
of you as an individual?
• What is useful feedback?
• Homework: Based on peer editing & feedback, as well as self editing
and reflection, revise your personal statement maximum 2 page
personal statement
• Typed = Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced
• Proper MLA heading = upper left-hand corner of the first page, list
your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date
• Due Monday
Standards & Objectives
3. Writing and Composition 1. Style, detail, expressive language,
and genre create a well-crafted statement directed at an
intended audience and purpose e. Critique own writing and the
writing of others from the perspective of the intended audience
to guide revisions, improve voice and style (word choice,
sentence variety, figurative language) and achieve intended
purpose and effect
• You will be able to provide written (and oral) feedback to a
peer in order to guide essay revisions focused on a wellorganized statement that achieves an intended purpose and
effect
Break it down
• written feedback = complete peer editing sheet + write on
drafts
• well-organized statement = intro/thesis, body,
conclusion/theme
• purpose – to expound on achievements, to showcase unique
interests/personality/traits
• effect – emotional and/or intellectual response
Feedback: What would be most
helpful?
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Good job!
I like the way you used the same metaphor throughout your essay. The flower comparison
pulled me in and allowed me something to visualize - you as a growing, evolving student.
Good effort.
I’m wondering if “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is too cliché? What item or idea might
represent you more?
It’s kinda confusing; you might want to re-organize it.
I think if you switch these paragraphs, it will make more sense because then I’ll have some
background information.
I don’t really see anything wrong.
Could you tell me a bit more about this situation or what you were trying to say here?
….Maybe you could add in what you just told me because it is hard to understand without
that information.
You should check your spelling.
I marked some commas in the text, but you may want to double check with Ms. Durland.
Wow, mine sucks. Yours is much better.
I understood where paragraph 2 was headed because of your topic sentence, but paragraph 3
seems less organized.
Feedback: What would be most
helpful?
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You used the words get/got often, so I highlighted them all, and I tried to suggest a few
more powerful verbs or the correct linking verb where appropriate.
Do you have a theme? I couldn’t figure it out.
I think you were trying to say that you are a person that is always up for a challenge,
but I don’t see that stated. Is there a way you can make that more explicit?
Great story!
I like the story you shared about your car accident; it was very descriptive. I’m trying to
understand, though, what it shows the reader about who you are as a person; in other
words, what is the point of telling that story?
I don’t have much to tell you… looks good.
You started 5 out of 8 sentences in paragraph 2 almost exactly the same way. I noted
how you might re-word one sentence to add variety and make connections.
Wow! You write really well!
I like the imagery and bit of dialogue you used; it makes the essay come alive.
I like it. 
Have you considered adding an anecdote or example here to show a time when your
grandmother modeled love for you? How does she show you love?
I felt happy when I finished reading your essay. I underlined specific lines that really
evoked that mood, that showed your joy for life.
This is what I want to “hear”
• I like the story you shared about your car accident; it was very descriptive. I’m trying to understand, though,
what it shows the reader about who you are as a person; in other words, what is the point of telling that
story?
• I think if you switch these paragraphs, it will make more sense because then I’ll have some background
information.
• Have you considered adding an anecdote or example here to show a time when your grandmother modeled
love for you? How does she show you love?
• I understood where paragraph 2 was headed because of your topic sentence, but paragraph 3 seems less
organized.
• I think you were trying to say that you are a person that is always up for a challenge, but I don’t see that
stated. Is there a way you can make that more explicit?
• I like the way you used the same metaphor throughout your essay. The flower comparison pulled me in and
allowed me something to visualize - you as a growing, evolving student.
• I’m wondering if “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is too cliché? What item or idea might represent you
more?
• Could you tell me a bit more about this situation or what you were trying to say here? ….Maybe you could
add in what you just told me because it is hard to understand without that information.
• I marked some commas in the text, but you may want to double check with Ms. Durland.
• You used the words get/got often, so I highlighted them all, and I tried to suggest a few more powerful verbs
or the correct linking verb where appropriate.
• You started 5 out of 8 sentences in paragraph 2 almost exactly the same way. I noted how you might re-word
one sentence to add variety and make connections.
• I felt happy when I finished reading your essay. I underlined specific lines that really evoked that mood, that
showed your joy for life.
You Do – 20 minutes
• Read essay aloud to yourself for first impression
• Re-read silently
• Respond to the questions on the peer editing sheet
• Use the peer editing sheet as a guide to make notations on the
draft
• Be prepared to briefly conference with the author
• 1 major strength
• 1 major need
We Do – 10 minutes
• Conference with the author
• Return draft and give peer editing notes to the author
Reflection
• What was the best advice you gave your peer or that you
received? Why was it good advice?
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Homework Application
Revise & Edit a maximum 2 page personal statement
typed (Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced)
MLA heading (upper left-hand corner of the first page, list
your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date)
Due Tuesday