1. AP Lit, 4.11 Today: a challenge. If you’re up to the challenge…
Place a paper towel on your desk, and then…
Have a partner help blindfold you. (not kidding)
Then, wait for my cue.

2. AP Lit Challenge Journal, 4.11
What is the experience of eating a blackberry?
What imagery might you employ to describe it?
Recall the thoughts and sensations you had during the challenge.
Touch the object I’ve placed on your desk.
Feel how big or how small, how rough or how soft. What are the features of the object?
Smell the object you are holding.
Is it sweet or sour, fragrant or bitter?
Taste the object to your tongue.
Does it prickle your taste-buds or water your mouth?

3. By the time you leave you will…
AP Lit Agenda, 4.11
Challenge Journal
“Blackberry Picking” by Seamus Heaney
Close-reading patterns
Insights
Learning log
Consider the power of imagery and its function in a poem.
Construct meaning of a poem.
Practice reliable close-reading skills and determine insights for literary analysis writing.

4. Apply reliable annotation strategies.
Lead by Insight
Apply reliable annotation strategies.
Then…
Note observations and notices.
Determine patterns in observations.
Draw conclusions.
How does the writer’s craft create meaning?

5. AP Lit Journal, 4.13 Quick little mentor text activity:
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
_____by ___________
The ____ comes
on ____ ____ ____.
It ____ ____ing
over ____and ____
on ____ ____
How do devices & structure support meaning?

6. By the time you leave you will…
AP Lit Agenda, 4.13
Fog MT
PEE-ing in AP Lit
Back to “Blackberry Picking”
Conversation & then write
Learning log
Consider the power of imagery and its function in a poem.
Construct meaning of a poem.
Practice reliable close-reading skills and determine insights for literary analysis writing.
Learn and practice a solid format for timed writing analysis.

7. Supporting Paragraphs & P-E-E
Person 1: POINT
State your insight
Person 2: EVIDENCE
Provide explicit textual evidence that supports Person 1’s insight
Person 3: EXPLANATION
Provide explanation of Person 2’s text evidence in support of Person 1’s point.

8. Person 2: EVIDENCE Person 3: EXPLANATION
Do now
NOW, second verse, same as the first.
Repeat E-E for original point.
Person 2: EVIDENCE
Provide explicit textual evidence that supports Person 1’s insight
Person 3: EXPLANATION
Provide explanation for Person 2’s text evidence in support of Person 1’s point.
Person 1: (Be person 2) Dig up more textual support for your point.
Person 2: (Be person 3) Provide more explanation for evidence in support of original point

9. Create a supporting paragraph following this format on your own.
Now, PEE EE on your own
Create a supporting paragraph following this format on your own.
Begin with a point or insight, follow with textual evidence, then provide explanation for evidence in support of point.
Repeat the last two E-E steps to complete your paragraph.

10. WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF YOUR POETRY?
AP LIT JOURNAL, 4.14
WHAT WAS YOUR APPROACH?
WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF YOUR POETRY?
Magnetic Poetry, hooray! At each pod, create a “magnetic” poem. Be thoughtful! Make stanzas, use figurative language, consider rhythm, rhyme, and other poetic devices.

12. Can you keep a steady beat?
Ready, set, go. Try it out! (I’m serious.)
Dr. Gonzel from SU sure can.

13. This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

14. By the time you leave you will…
AP Lit Agenda, 4.14
Magnetic poetry
PEE-ing in AP Lit continued
Learning log
Don’t forget!
Poetry Service Project permission slip!
Sem 2 novels end of April!
Senior Footprint Project!
Consider the power of imagery and its function in a poem.
Construct meaning of a poem.
Practice reliable close-reading skills and determine insights for literary analysis writing.
Learn and practice a solid format for timed writing analysis.

15. Now, go back and visit each paragraph.
What did the writer do well?
In what paragraphs do you see…
Strong or elevated diction?
Sophisticated syntax?
Clear, precise language?

16. List your best test taking strategies on the small board.
AP Lit Warm Up, 4.18
Chalk talk:
List your best test taking strategies on the small board.

17. By the time you leave you will…
AP Lit Agenda, 4.18
Test-taking strategies…go!
Multiple choice Monday
Learning log
Don’t forget!
Poetry Service Project permission slip!
Sem 2 novels end of April!
Senior Footprint Project!
Apply good test-taking strategies to AP MC.
Use logic & reasoning to accurately answer MC selections.
Collaborate to identify the best possible answer.
Explain your thinking to your classmates.