Hook, Housekeeping & Homework Tuesday

While you wait, please turn to a shoulder partner and discuss:• What type of reading do you like to do? • What type of reading do you have to do?

• Homework: Email me or visit my SharePoint website• Tell your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her

English class.

durlakr@d11.org kara.durland@d11.org 1. Your student’s name2. Your first and last name3. Your relationship to the student4. Contact email5. Contact phone numbers6. Any other brief comment about your student that I might need to know

Past, Present, Future Tuesday

• Palmer experience (?)• Summer Break

• General information about English 7 - 8• A.P. Literature & Composition

• Parent Conferences

Open House Tuesday

• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening

• Objective: You will be able to identify the general structure and resources of your student's English class

• Relevance: Knowing who I am and how the class is structured will help you engage in conversations with your student and enable them to be more successful

• Inquiry Question(s): Who is Ms. Durland, and what is the general structure of my student’s English Class?

Instruction: Obtain I Do Tuesday

Purpose: to familiarize you with some of the structures and resources of this English class

Tasks:1. Identify Units (see next slide)2. Identify A.P. Exam Sections & Date (see next slide)3. Visualize class work

• PPT• Make-up Work• Explore SharePoint

• http://teachers.d11.org/teachers/durlakr• Palmer Home Page – My Teacher pages – District 11 Teacher SharePoint Pages

Outcome: a better understanding of your student’s day-to-day experience and the resources that are available

The AP English Literature and Composition Exam

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION EXAM: 3 HOURS

• The AP English Literature and Composition Exam employs multiple-choice questions and free-response prompts to test students’ skills in literary analysis of passages from prose and poetry texts.

Format of Assessment

Section I: Multiple Choice | 60 Minutes | 55 Questions | 45% of Exam Score

• Includes excerpts from several published works of drama, poetry, or prose fiction

• Each excerpt is accompanied by several multiple-choice questions or prompts

Section II: Free Response | 120 Minutes | 3 Free-Response Questions | 55% of Exam Score

• Students have 120 minutes to write essay responses to three free-response prompts from the following categories:

• A literary analysis of a given poem

• A literary analysis of a given passage of prose fiction

• An analysis that examines a specific concept, issue, or element in a work of literary merit selected by the student

Year-At-A-GlanceQuarter 1 AP=Applied Practice• Introduction to AP Literature • Summer Reading: short story presentations & college essay revisions• Novel: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)• Analytical Writing (self & peer assessments, revisions)• Poetry: discussions, written analysis & multiple-choice practice, research presentations Quarter 2 AP=Always Poetry• Drama: The Oedipus Cycle (Sophocles), Aristotle’s Poetics• Drama: Hamlet (Shakespeare)• Drama: Death of a Salesman (Miller)• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: introduction to long-term project• Poetry: continue research presentations Quarter 3 AP=Address the Prompt• Poetry: discussions, written analysis & multiple-choice practice• Novel: Things Fall Apart (Achebe)• Novel: The Stranger (Camus)• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: continue project• Sign-up for AP Exams Quarter 4 AP=Analysis, Please• The Importance of Being Ernest (Wilde)• Pride and Prejudice (Austen)• Poetry: analysis & discussions & multiple-choice practice• Analytical Writing (timed writings, AP prompts)• AP Exam (This is your final exam, so plan ahead & sign-up!) – Wednesday, May 4th• Multi-Genre Writing and/or Choice Novel: presentations

Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do

Open House Homework Tuesday

• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening• Objective: you will be able to share contact information with me and

identify the general structures and outline of your student's English class

• Demonstration of Learning (DOL): Tell me or your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her English class.

• Homework: Email me and/or visit my SharePoint sitedurlakr@d11.org kara.durland@d11.org

• Extension Activity: Set up a calendar reminder to email me

Hook, Housekeeping & Homework English 8 Thursday

While you wait, please turn to a shoulder partner and discuss:• What type of reading do you like to do? What type of reading do you have to

do?

• Homework: Email me or visit my SharePoint websitedurlakr@d11.org kara.durland@d11.org

1. Your student’s name2. Your first and last name3. Your relationship to the student4. Contact email5. Contact phone numbers6. Any other brief comment about your student that I might need to know

Past, Present, Future Thursday

• Summer Break• Palmer experience (?)

• General information English 8 Literature

• Parent Conferences

Open House Thursday

• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening

• Objective: you will be able to share contact information with me and identify the general structure and resources of your student's English class

• Relevance: knowing who I am and how the class is structured will help you engage in conversations with your student and enable them to me more successful

• Essential Question(s): Who is Ms. Durland, and what is the general structure of my student’s English Class?

Instruction: Obtain I Do Tuesday

• Purpose: to familiarize you with some of the resources and structures of this English class

• Tasks:• Identify Units

• Short Stories (& poetry) Through a Critical Lens• The Novel

• Their Eyes Were Watching God• Independent novel

• Visualize class work• PPT• Composition notebook• Make-up Work

• Explore SharePoint• http://teachers.d11.org/teachers/durlakr• Palmer Home Page – My Teacher pages – District 11 Teacher SharePoint Pages

• Outcome: a better understanding of your student’s day-to-day experience and the resources that are available

Activities: Develop & ApplyWe Do – You Do

Open House Tuesday

• Standard 4 Oral Expression and Listening• Objective: you will be able to share contact information with

me and identify the general structures and outline of your student's English class

• Demonstration of Learning (DOL): Tell your student one thing you learned this evening about his/her English class.

• Homework: Email me and/or visit my SharePoint sitedurlakr@d11.org kara.durland@d11.org