Cue Alice Cooper

Now that the final bell of the 2016-2017 school year has rung, it is time to crank some Alice Cooper and prepare for the pool. While I miss our conversations, your early exit has allowed me to start -- gasp -- reading for pleasure and not for school!

I look forward to seeing the majority of you at graduation - a last chance to relive our little AP Lit universe. I'll be on the gold side in row 4 if you are happening to look for me or want to legally call me by my first name after you receive your diploma.

This is the first year I have had two sections of Lit, and you did not disappoint - even when you had pages of readings, another box prompt to do, or some random creative endeavor that I thought would be memorable and engaging to the literary process. I will miss all of you and your energy, passion, and creativity!

Video Links

To do not despair, I will have a more thorough final post for my AP Lit groups tomorrow - when I have finished up grading duties and have some peace and quiet to compose something worthwhile. In the meantime, I meant everything I said to both classes today: you are the brightest group of literary scholars I know, and you will change the world if you work together and utilize all your strengths.

Here are the links for my second hour ladies:

The first to metaphorically represent the "fight" inherent in all of us, and to show how gender roles have changed over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

The second to remind us all that life, in all of his hardships, still is just a show to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsh3J5lJ6g

The Almost Last Day

Don't forget to be part of our AP Lit celebrations tomorrow as we say goodbye to our little world of monsters, creature, swimmers, and bastards (that is a reference to King Lear by the way and, technically, Brave New World).

Film Studies & Art

1. We finished up the film and dished about the cinematography, character choices, and connection to the text.

2. You completed a verbal free response prompt. Absentees will need to make this up.

3. You analyzed the book art of my Wuthering Heights collection. And, I forgot to bring on with me: https://mareseosullivan.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/wh-full-cover.jpeg

Goodbye to the Heights

Like Cathy and Hareton fleeing the ghostly haunts of the Heights, you turned in your WH books today. While still have movie time and a couple activities to do regarding the book, you will no longer need your texts. Or, any text for that matter. If you still have a large burdensome textbook or a petite novel in your possession, bring those back a.s.a.p. After I finish your last essays, I will be dealing with books!

Shirts

AP Lit, make sure to wear or bring your class t-shirt so that we can celebrate the class and take photos!

Recap Day

With the test 2 days away, today's class reemphasized the needed requirements of the synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument essays and reviewed your latest MC exam.

Tomorrow will be the final two rounds of MC, the return of the argument, and card play to review.

We are 2 days away from the exam!