AP Literature Amy Klenz Open House 2017 AP Literature Amy Klenz

Intro Amy Klenz 21st year teaching 19th year at WHS 12th year teaching AP Lit Bachelor’s from Miami University Master’s from Cleveland State University mrsklenz.com Fastest way to reach me: klenz@wlake.org Phone extension is #2085

Advantages of the AP program College credit – up to 6 semester hours for $92 test fee Credit conferring differs from school to school based upon test score, check w/ admissions, web pages, etc. – also college board website: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/creditandplacement/search-credit-policies Academic rigor in the senior year Analytical skills for higher level thinking Writing skills for college level writing

How AP Lit differs from other 12th grade options Focus exclusively fiction Some literary criticism In-class, timed essays v. out of class Major poetry focus HW almost exclusively reading – 30 pages per night is typical w/ major works Not just reading for comprehension – reading for analysis Participation grade – 10%

SENIOR YEAR CONCERNS College essays – Week of Sept. 25, again week of Oct. 23 - 20 min/class period, bring essay and prompt and SPECIFIC concerns/?s I am also free 3rd period and 12th (last) period to conference Applications/Recs

Brief Syllabus Major texts Writing Poetry Wuthering Heights– Emily Bronte Hamlet– W. Shakespeare One Hundred Years of Solitude– Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead– Tom Stoppard Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen Oedipus the King - Sophocles Writing Majority – in-class essays, lit analysis Poetry Explication, lit analysis, quizzes

AP Lit Exam Scoring 1-5, 5 is best, 3 is passing score 2 sections Historically, average at WHS last 6 years is between 3.4-3.9 2 sections 1st section: Multiple Choice 1 hour to read 5 literary texts (some prose, some poetry) that students have not been exposed to prior and answer 55 Analytical questions 2nd section: Essay 2 hours to respond in well-organized manner to 3 essay prompts Poetry Prose Open-ended