Welcome to AP English Literature and Composition! Heidi Little Please sign in!

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Welcome to AP English Literature and
Composition! Heidi LittlePlease sign in!
hlittle_at_everettsd.org
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My background

• Attended Cascade High School (go class of 2001!)
• Everett CC (AA)
• Western (BA in English and Teaching
  Certification)
• UW Bothell (Masters in Ed literacy focus)
• 9th year full-time teaching at JHS (student
  taught here as well!)
• Completed my Pro-Teach certification two years
  ago
• Attended the Pre-AP institute four years ago
• Attended the summer AP institute for AP Lit in
  2014 went again this summer
• I LOVE DISNEY!

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Class Materials to look for

• Composition Book with labeled sections
  Journal!!!
• Independent Novel (of literary merit) new
  book per quarter

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Additional Materials Needed

• Pencils/Pens
• Colored Pens
• Paper
• Highlighters
• Post-It / Sticky Notes
• students should be engaging in a variety of
  texts all the time
• Reading Read and annotate/respond

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College Board course description

• The AP English Literature and Composition course
  aligns to an introductory college-level literary
  analysis course. The course engages students in
  the close reading and critical analysis of
  imaginative literature to deepen their
  understanding of the ways writers use language to
  provide both meaning and pleasure. As they read,
  students consider a works structure, style, and
  themes, as well as its use of figurative
  language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Writing
  assignments include expository, analytical, and
  argumentative essays that require students to
  analyze and interpret literary works.

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AP English Literature and Composition Course
Content

• The course is designed to help students become
  skilled readers and writers through engagement
  with the following course requirements
• Reading complex imaginative literature (fiction,
  drama, and poetry) appropriate for college-level
  study
• Writing an interpretation of a piece of
  literature that is based on a careful observation
  of textual details, considering the works
  structure, style, and themes the social and
  historical values it reflects and embodies and
  such elements as the use of figurative language,
  imagery, symbolism, and tone
• Composing in several forms (e.g., narrative,
  expository, analytical, and argumentative essays)
  based on students analyses of literary texts
• Writing that proceeds through several stages or
  drafts, with revision aided by teacher and peers
• Writing informally (e.g., response journals,
  textual annotations, collaborative writing),
  which helps students better understand the texts
  they are reading
• Revising their work to develop a wide-ranging
  vocabulary used appropriately and effectively
• A variety of sentence structures, including
  appropriate use of subordination and
  coordination
• Logical organization, enhanced by techniques such
  as repetition, transitions, and emphasis
• A balance of generalization and specific,
  illustrative detail and
• An effective use of rhetoric, including tone,
  voice, diction, and sentence structure.

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Grading

• 10 Formative
• Daily class work / Class Activities
• Homework
• 90 Summative (15 reserved for semester final)
• Assessments (essays / writing, projects, and/or
  presentations)

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Homework

• Reading is constant (assigned and independent)
• Interacting with journals (passage analyses,
  poetry journals, vocabulary book)
• Finishing work from daily class activities
• Process Essays
• See Calendar on my webpage

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How to help

• Check our website http//www.everettsd.org/Page/1
  6758
• Check out his/her journal!
• Ask what your student is reading the answer
  will never be nothing ?
• Communicate with me ANY TIME!!!

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Communication

• hlittle_at_everettsd.org
• Questions?