Friday, May 4, 2012

05/04/2012

This weekend:

Practice Compare and Contrast Poetry Essay and:

  • Receive extra credit points for practicing another timed write.
  • A good idea to practice since there has been a Compare/Contrast Poetry Prompt in 7 of the last 10 years on the AP Exam.
  • Studying points this weekend: Poetry Terms/ Rhetoric Terms these in particular: anaphora, balanced sentence, cumulative sentence, parallel structure, ellipses, apostrophe (these are words that seem to be frequent answers on the sample tests)
***Monday we will take another Multiple Choice Practice Test, and I will send you home to finish it Tuesday and check answers, and we will discuss results.
Tuesday Night: Study Fiction Terms
Wednesday: Overall Review of Terminology
Wednesday Night: Review Terms/Get a good night's sleep


Next novel to purchase:
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Mrs. Johnson