Since my last blog post, we have made some progress. One thing that we did was analyze The Century Quilt by Marilyn Nelson. Upon analyzing the poem we learned how to the writing portion of the AP exam is scored. I think it was really helpful to look at the sample essays because it gave me a better idea on what I need to do to improve my writing in time for the exam. In addition to the writing component of the test, we also covered a couple of strategies for getting through the multiple choice questions. Some of the common structures that we looked were rhetorical function, context, antecedent, style and the tone. This really informed me about how I need to approach each type of question on the exam. Especially since we formulated our own questions for the Marriage by Gregory Corso.
Then this past week we partnered up and performed a skit that included a poem we read from the chapter four in combination with The American Dream. Finally, after spending a few weeks on The American Dream, we finished all our annotations and in class discussions. To wrap it up, we finished it off with a blog post that touched on the important topics in The American Dream. The next play we will be annotating is The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller since we have finished watching the movie it will give some guideline. In class we started to talk about the deeper meaning that is in the play. I found that the discussions in class are very helpful in shaping my understanding of the play/novel.
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ReplyDeleteAll that AP test work was quite a lot, haha. What did you find most helpful when it came to discussing the MC part of it? I personally liked writing the questions, myself. How did the class discussions help you learn more? I think it was really cool that between the 20-odd kids in my class we all picked up on different things :) Anyways, its so strange reading this and talking about starting DoS, when we are actually just finishing it! At least we have some new material to use on the AP test! :D
Erin Donahue
I agree with you on the sample essays. Those really helped me as well. The American Dream was an interesting time frame as it was a completely different play. Not the type all of us were accustomed to. The focus on the AP exam we did with the multiple choice and free responses are helpful. Death of a Salesman was an interesting film. What did you think of it? Of Willy's mental state?
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about class discussion and how it shapes and explains some things confusing in the play, it helps me a lot as well. I find that sometimes I even get distracted and very interested in what everyone else is saying that I forget to contribute sometimes! I found that writing the questions were quite difficult, I personally preferred practicing the real ones. But I am also glad we are moving on to new things now though! Yay!
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