GALLOPING TO AP LIT: Second Semester

I thought you would like a little preview of our first week back. First off, we will have the buzzers out to review literary terms and vocabulary. As many of you are competitive, you are more than welcome to prep tonight for tomorrow's competition. Next, you will have the allusion assignment -- creating mini posters representing/explaining/exemplifying/other verbs ending in -ing that will showcase Biblical, mythological, literary, cultural, and historical references. We will then continue with analyzing the final and starting The Canterbury Tales. Rumor -- or my brain -- has it that you will have a prose writing prompt in the next week or so. This is a rangefinder one, so it should indicate how you respond to prose prompts after all the poetry emphasis of last quarter.

If you recall from last year, Ms. Vaughn created an advertisement bulletin board for all English electives. She would like to do this again, and I would like your help. I will introduce the specifics on Wednesday, but if you would like to get a jump start on extra credit, e-mail me and I will send you the documentation.

Lastly, we will have a change of venue on Wednesdays during January (if all works well, this will become a tradition for the remainder of the school year). Meet in the Career Center on Wednesday!

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