AP English Literature and Composition

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AP English Literature and Composition

• Getting from There to Here

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AP Program World Wide

• 200,000 test in English Lit and Comp
• Two Parts of the Exam
• Multiple Choice (Close Reading)
• Essays (Two close reading, one thematic)

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What you receive on the Exam

• MC 45 (1 Hour)
• Essays55 (2 Hours)
• 150 points
• Essays scale of 1-9
• AP Grades 1-5
• Skills test
• Applied Knowledge
• Not Content Driven

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What the Student Receives from this Course

• Critical Thinking Skills
• Responsibility
• Virtue?
• Compassion?
• A Chance to Compete!

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Literature for Critical Thinking

• Modern and Contemporary works are juxtaposed to
  works of the Ancient, Classical, Renaissance,
  Enlightenment/Neo-Classical, and Romantic periods

• Literature Forces us to confront these Issues
  Directly
• Reading and Writing Well are the practice of that
  confrontation

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Thematically The Relationship of Polarities and
Oppositions

• Tension?
• Conflict?
• Exclusion?
• Mutual Creation?
• Harmony?
• Creative Synthesis?

• Male Female
• civilization wilderness
• East West
• ApollonianDionysian
• RationalityIrrationality
• Tragedy Comedy
• War Peace

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Composition Skills The Evidence of Critical
Thinking

• Thematic essay
• Close Reading
• Timed Essay
• Paragraph structures
• Sentence patterns (20)
• Knowledge of syntax IS important to this exam and
  to full discussion of literature

• Pretty Good at Thematic Discussion
• Close Reading Skills Need work
• STYLE COUNTS!

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VIRTUE the capacity to act on behalf of what is
right
DIRECTION?

• The Advanced Placement Exam
• College...
• Real WorldNot just occupationsnot just
  functional literacy
• Magnanimity.(Great Souled-ness)
• Ability to see the limits and basis of ones
  point of view ability to see the virtue in and
  reasons for other views, coupled with the
  ability to articulate ones own reasons for action