1. AP Literature
First day

2. Welcome! Please find your seat, and then get out 3 pieces of paper & a pencil
3 – Austin Larsen 4 – Collin Christensen 5 – Carson Plant 6 – Jillian Long 7 – Iris Wilcox 8 – Nicholas Papadopoulos 9 – Daniel Steidel 10 – Kevin McGoldrick 11 – Brooks Juhasz 12 – Payton Price 13 – Naiomy Gonzalez 14 – William Wheeler 15 – Morgan Farrington 16 – Cameron Christianson 17 – Kyle Nebrigich 18 – Payton Smith 19 – George Hysmith 20 – Darby Knudsen 23 – Craig Simpson 24 – Erik Anderson 25 – Victoria Gehring 26 – Aspen Longwell 27 – Garrett Anderson 28 – Evan Thieme 29 – Abbie Ray 30 – Kiara Nelson 31 – Robert Huckstep 32 – Allie Jensen 33 – Tanner Polluck 34 – Morgan Jenson 35 – Kara Steward 36 – Logan Berger

3. Welcome! Please find your seat, and then get out 3 pieces of paper & a pencil
3 – Zachary Slemp 4 – Hailey Hein 5 – Sarah McCuen 6 – Kayley McDonald 8 – Morgan Pulfer 9 – Natalie Palazzo 12 – Michael Piscione 13 – Brittany Brown 16 – Kirk Fairbanks 17 – Mika Unger 20 – Megan Boals 23 – Joshua Wheeler 24 – Kelly Mazur 25 – Taylor Nichols 26 – Julie Lavis 27 – Ryan Palmer 28 – Jessica Solomon 29 – Tyler Hollow 30 – Hannah Brugger 31 – Abigail Gonzalez 32 – Daniel Owen 33 – Kellee Harwood 34 – Emma Wickham 35 – Shannon Cambron 36 – Alexis Alvi

4. Tell me a little about yourself
Throughout the year, we will get to know each other very well. I LOVE getting a kick start on this by reading a little bit about you.
Please free write about some information you think I should know about you. This can be in letter format (with a salutation and closing/signature), or it could just be a simple free write page. You will only have 10 minutes.
Please address the following questions in your sample:
Why AP? What motivated you to take AP Literature?
Are you interested in taking the final AP exam?
What types of literature (or genres) do you enjoy reading? Do you have any favorite authors or titles you would like to share? (I like to try to pick reading samples based on your interests when I can.)
What are your plans after high school?
What are some things I should know about you?

10. Late and Make-Up Work
When you step in here, you’re going from a “high school” to a “college” experience.
Absences
Truancies = no accepted assignments
Late Work
Assignments/Projects will have a 50% reduction for one week. After that, it stays a zero.
Tests/Quizzes made up within one week for full credit
Otherwise, quiz/test has maximum value of 70%

11. Your AP English Notebook
Please keep assignments and handouts in a three ring binder specifically for AP English.
Dividers:
Class Handouts
Writing
Notes
Test Practice
Vocabulary

12. AP Literature Exam
Students are strongly encouraged to take the AP English Lit & Comp exam
Composed of three parts:
Q1 = Poetry
Q2 = Prose passage
Q3 = Open Response
Instructional time in this class is dedicated to preparing for the exam at the end of the school year
Credits, credits, credits!

14. Class Discussion and Participation
You get out of this class what you put into it.
Socratic Seminars just about every day we are reading a novel – “Book Talks”
Annotate, annotate, annotate
Question, question, question
Quote, quote, quote

15. Vocabulary Bi-weekly Word lists provided at beginning of the year
Common AP exam words
Quiz consists of:
Spell word correctly
Define
Give example using term AND given using a specific sentence structure
All independently! College-level courses require more independent work

16. Reading Material 5 novels, (30?) poems, and prose passages
Novel Harvest Worksheet to prepare for Q3 Open Responses for AP exam
Purchasing your own copies of novels is HIGHLY recommended
Of the novels we are CURRENTLY reading this year, I remember covering THREE of them in college.
Notes are INVALUABLE resources to take with you.
No sticky notes – just pencil to book

17. BooKS
It is highly recommended that you purchase your own novels this year.
Annotations directly in the book instead of sticky notes
Bring notes/annotations to college with you

18. Your assignment tonight
You will draw a slip of paper with 2-3 terms on it
Please do the following for EACH term:
Have an understanding of the definition (this doesn’t mean just write definition – really know what it means!)
Bring an example of the term in use
This doesn’t mean use the word “simile” in a sentence – it means show a sentence that SHOWS a simile