Open House 2014 AP Literature Amy Klenz

Intro  Amy Klenz  16 th year at WHS  9 th year teaching AP Lit  Bachelor’s from Miami University  Master’s from Cleveland State University

Advantages of the AP program  College credit – up to 6 semester hours for $87 test fee  Credit conferring differs from school to school based upon test score, check w/ admissions, web pages, etc.  Academic rigor in the senior year  Analytical skills for higher level thinking  Writing skills for college level writing

How AP Lit differs from other 12 th 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

SENIOR YEAR CONCERNS  College essays –  Not assigned for class but I will ABSOLUTELY read/comment on them  English Department month of October  Wednesday mornings 7:25-7:50 in library/media center  Teachers available to meet one-on-one to proof essays  Bring prompt and concerns  Applications/Recs

AP Lit Exam  Scoring 1-5, 5 is best, 3 is passing score  Historically, average at WHS last 6 years is between  2 sections  1 st 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  2 nd section: Essay  2 hours to respond in well-organized manner to 3 essay prompts  Poetry  Prose  Open-ended

Brief Syllabus  Major texts  Jane Eyre– Bronte  King Lear– Shakespeare  A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley  The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne  Beowulf/Grendel – Anonymous/Gardner  Oedipus the King - Sophocles  Writing  Majority – in-class essays, lit analysis  Poetry  Explication, lit analysis, quizzes  Vocabulary program  Sadlier-Oxford Level H

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