1. Bellwork: August 24, 2015
**BE PREPARED to turn in your 2 copies of your rough draft!!**
What is the most important aspect of the following prompt? Explain why.
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.

2. Agenda: Aug. 24, 2015 Bellwork Turn in College Essays
Go over AP LIT Test Framework
Notes on the Elements of AP Prompts
Abstract
Concrete
Context
Model 2 Examples of Concrete and Abstract in AP Prompt
Individual Practice

3. Format of AP Lit. Assessment
2 Sections:
Section I: Multiple Choice | 60 Minutes | 55 Questions | 45% of Exam Score
Includes excerpts from several published works of drama, poetry, or prose fiction
Each excerpt is accompanied by several multiple-choice questions or prompts
Section II: Free Response | 120 Minutes | 3 Free-Response Questions | 55% of Exam Score
Students have 120 minutes to write essay responses to three free-response prompts from the following categories:
A literary analysis of a given poem
A literary analysis of a given passage of prose fiction
An analysis that examines a specific concept, issue, or element in a work of literary merit selected by the student

4. AP Exam Score Breakdown:
5: Extremely Well Qualified
4: Well Qualified
3: Qualified
2: Possibly Qualified
1: No Recommendation

5. AP Notes: Prompt Elements
Please write these notes in your binder under the OPEN ESSAY/MWAS Section.

6. It might be helpful to write the prompt to identify its parts...
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.

7. AP NOTES: Prompt Elements
All AP Literature Prompts can be divided into three major components:
Context
Concrete
Abstract

8. AP Notes: Prompt Elements
Context
Often times, prompts will include contextual—or background—information to support student thinking
By analyzing context clues in a prompt, a student can easily create inferences that will support their understanding of the passage

9. Identify the Context.
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.

10. AP NOTES: Prompt Elements
Concrete:
Concrete elements are the devices a student must identify and create an inference about in a passage
Diction, Selection of Detail, Personification, Imagery, Simile/Metaphor, etc
These devices are create or reveal the abstract element of a prompt

11. The Concrete:
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.

12. AP NOTES: Prompt Elements
Abstract
Abstract elements are the universal or underlying aspect that a prompt directs students to analyze
Concrete elements are used to reveal the abstract
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR ANALYSIS

13. Identify the abstract.
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.

14. 2001 AP Poetry Question
In each of the following poems, the speaker responds to the conditions of a particular place and time—England in 1802 in the first poem, the United States about 100 years later in the second. Read each poem carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems and analyze the relationship between them.

15. Your Turn!
With your shoulder partner, identify and explain the context, concrete, and abstract within the prompt.

16. Write down the context, concrete, and abstract in the following: 2008 Prose Essay Prompt
The following passage is taken from Fasting, Feasting, a novel published in 1999 by Indian novelist Anita Desai. 
In the excerpt, Arun, an exchange student from India, joins members of his American host family for an afternoon
at the beach. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses such literary devices as speech and point of view to characterize Arun’s experience.

17. Identify the context, concrete and abstract in the following:
Read carefully the following poem by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Then write an essay analyzing how Waniek employs literary techniques to develop the complex meanings that the speaker attributes to The Century Quilt. You may wish to consider such elements as structure, imagery, and tone.

18. Individual Practice
For each prompt, identify the context, concrete and abstract.

19. Exit Slip
The following passage is from D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel, The Rainbow, which focuses on the lives of the Brangwens, a farming family who lived in rural England during the late nineteenth century. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Lawrence employs literary devices to characterize the woman and capture her situation.
Reword the abstract of the prompt into a question.
How might this question help your analysis of the passage associated with the prompt?