1. WELCOME TO AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION!!! Please make sure phones and IPods are powered off and put away. Place Summer Reading Assignment on small table at entrance.

2.  Mexican Catholic girl, born and raised in El Paso TX.  Attended girls Catholic school from K- 12 th grade.  UTEP Alumni: both bachelor’s and master’s degrees.  Worked in EPISD for thirteen years.  Beginning ninth year at AISD.  Worked at TCC for two years: Comp I.

3.  Moved to DFW area in 2004 when I got married.  No biological children; two step- daughters and three step-grandkids.

4.  Mexican parents from small towns in Mexico. Dad came to US as a child and Mom came to US when she got married.  I’m 100% bilingual; Spanish is my first language and I always spoke it at home while growing up.  I am white, Caucasian and Mexican because of my upbringing and culture.  Mexican/Latina is not a race, it’s an ethnicity!!

5.  Review, discuss, and analyze important stuff in Lord of the Flies.  Review important literary terms and tempers to be used all year.  Beowulf/epic hero  Poetry from different literary time periods  AP Test practice  Oedipus Rex

6.  Summer Reading Journal due today (hard copy) Your work should already be in Turnitin.com  Tues, Sept 4: test on literary terms  Thurs, Sept 6: absolute last day to turn in Summer Reading for late grade.  Lord of the Flies test: Sept 10  Fri, Sept 28: Summer Reading due date for new students who just enrolled in course

7.  Due Process Assemblies for Seniors: Sept 5-6.  Counselor visit to Senior English classes: Wed, Sept 12.

8.  Class ID: 5436455  Class enrollment password: summer

9.  Section 1: multiple choice; (60 min) 45% of score; 55 questions; prose and poetry passages.  Section 2: Essays; (120 min) 55% of score. #1: poetry analysis (40 min) #2: prose analysis (40 min) short story, novel excerpt, or essay. #3: open essay. (40 min) Answer prompt with support from your own reading.