1. Independent Reading Checkpoint Assignments
Due the first day of weeks 6, 8 and 10 of each quarter

2. Q3 – Week 6 Check Up Create a Found Poem
A Found Poem is a poetic form that lends itself to capturing a personal response to literature is the found poem. Responding to literature through writing found poetry helps you to appreciate an author's style and focus on an aspect of a book that fascinates or appeals to you.
To write a found poem:
1. Choose an exciting, riveting or horrifying incident or an interesting character in the book
2. Find few words and phrases—at least 10—that capture the spirit of the incident or a dominant trait of a character
3. Arrange these selected words and phrases from the text into a found poem. You do not have to keep them in the same order that you found them in the book.
Here are examples from two books: The Hiding Place & a biography about Michelangelo
Something’s wrong
Burden of rage
Don’t you feel anything?
Murdered with my heart and tongue
I forgive
as You forgive me
That night
for the first time
I slept
It is very seldom that pigs Are sculptured in marble or cast In bronze, and it would be well To make some of snow, so as to have
Statues not likely to be found elsewhere.
A statue of a Frenchman in an ulster Is also rather uncommon
Task
25 pts
Find & arrange 10 lines
15 pts
Read found poem aloud
10 pts

3. Q3 – Week 8 Check Up Pick a role & assignment
How do I exceed the minimum? (+5 pts)
Type your work
Provide an additional passage, word, question
illustrate on a larger piece of paper, or make it 3D
Role
What do I do?
What do I hand in? (Minimum  pts/30)
Line Lighter  
Find and copy down at least five lines that reflect good writing or are key or important to the story. Write an explanation of why they are of high quality or important.
Neatly hand-written passages on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper, followed by an explanations of importance.
Illustrator  
Create one or more images your book. Find one or more scenes that would be interesting visually and create the scene using a preferred artistic medium.
One drawing, painting, photo scene, collage, etc. on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of unlined paper. Include a caption on the bottom explaining its relevance to the book.
Word Smith  
Extract at least five words from your book that you did not fully comprehend. Determine the meaning. Write the word, the meaning, the context in which you found the word, and another sentence that demonstrates understanding of that word’s proper usage.
Neatly hand-written on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper: 5 words, each with a dictionary definition, the context in which you found the word, and an original sentence demonstrating proper usage.
Instigator  
Produce at least three thinking questions that prompt thinking beyond the facts of the book. Write the questions down and the location in the text (page(s) and paragraph(s)) that would help to answer the question
Neatly hand-written set of questions on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper, followed by passage indicators for probable answers.
Connector 
What did your assigned reading remind you of? Pick three passages from your book and tell how the passage relates to experience: one has to relate to personal experience, one to other texts and one to the world.
Minimum: (90-94)
Neatly hand-written set of 3 passages and associated experiential ties – one of each type, on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper.

4. Q3 – Major Assignment - AP Literature ONLY Create Essential Questions
Your Task: Generate at least 5 essential questions your novel seeks to answer. They should fit the criteria detailed to the left. See the EQ examples for an idea of what essential questions look like. Use the sentence starters below.
Are big picture, thematic, open-ended questions that a literary work seeks to explore about the human condition
Invite multiple perspectives and simply cannot be answered in black and white terms
Cause genuine and relevant inquiry into the big ideas and core content of a work
1. Who Describe a
3. Discuss how 4. Explain how
Provoke deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions
5. Show how Analyze how
7. To what extent Given ______ [text premise], who/what/why/how (pick one)
Require readers to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers
Note: Do NOT propose “What is the meaning of the work as a whole?” as an EQ. That’s a given.
Stimulate vital, on-going rethinking of big ideas, assumptions, and prior interpretations of the work
Spark meaningful connections with prior learning and personal experiences
Task
55 pts
Each essential question
10 pts
Title/Author
5 pts

5. Q3 – Major Assignment – AP Language ONLY 4 Big Questions
For each question, you must provide evidence from the text (short, specific quotes) to prove your response.
How is the book structured? (chronologically, vignettes, interviews, research and data evidence and discussion, a number of these element—which ones and in what order)
What point of view or narrative voice is the book written from?
What did the author’s purpose appear to be?
What is the overall tone of the work?