Thursday, December 22, 2016

For Those of You Interested in an Advertising Career

As many of you may recall from last year, I visit classrooms in January to help pique interest in AP Lit and let students know all the options available to them junior and senior year. (Yes, I will be out of the room during that time, but you know you will have something to keep you busy.)

Another way to call attention to AP Lit is to create a poster that grabs the eye and provides key words that would attract a student to the course. And in the past years, our department chair has blown up this poster into a mega-poster that is on the English department bulletin board second semester.

With that in mind, I have a proposal, not a modest one, for my AP Lit students.

If you would like to make a poster for AP Lit, and perhaps earn 10-20 extra credit points (dependent on effort), create one advertisement and share/e-mail it to me by 7:00 a.m. on January 4. This will need to be in digital format.

You will find below some facts about the course that you may want to include; however, you can also bring in stuff you have learned or liked this semester to encourage a student to take the course. Remember, this is an advertisement and prospective students walking down the hall will not stop to read full sentence explanations. The winning poster will be selected by another teacher or staff member and will receive an additional 10 extra credit points.

AP Lit Facts:

·         Seniors only
·         Full year course with an objective to pass the AP Literature and Composition exam in May
·         College credit earned through test scores and/or dual credit enrollment
·         Curriculum focuses on components of the AP Literature and Composition Exam: multiple choice, poetry analysis, prose and analysis, and free response analysis
·         Close reading strategies and critical theory analyses of texts including feminist, historicist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and structuralist
·         Fiction emphasis: poetry, short stories, plays, novels, etc.
·         AP prompt writing skills to foster mature writing style and analysis
·         Writings will consist of literary analyses with additional research and intense study required
·         Full length texts will include novels and plays throughout the course of the school year
No summer reading
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