...The children loved the stories that she told of her motherland, Utriedor—it was a small, frozen country in southernmost Rhydin—and her foreign accent and blonde hair. Dragoon Wolfe, Kian native, had entered into the military before the Zodiac Council had time to issue a draft; he ended up dying overseas after stepping on a landmine. Adrian, the Thrindrel-Wolfe’s eldest son, followed in his father’s footsteps and signed a contract with the Zorian Army, only to go missing in action a few years later. Their second oldest, Axel, was studying to be a lawyer. Their youngest had gotten arrested at sixteen for trying to steal from the King, earning a life sentence because he refused to give up the rest of Electric...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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...Skyline High School pre-AP/AP English Summer Reading List . The following books are required summer reading for students taking AP English IV courses at Skyline High School in 2016-2017. Students must have the assigned reading completed by the first day of classes. It is recommended that students create an AP Test preparation card for each work of literary merit that has been completed. In addition, students should expect a test which evaluates their comprehension of the assigned reading within the first two weeks of the school year. AP English IV (11th grade students entering AP IV in 2016-2017) Seniors should create a synopsis card for each novel read of literary merit. Your teacher will explain how this will prepare you for the open questions for the AP Literature exam. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C, Foster Complete writing assignments from the chapter sheet that accompanies Foster. See Assignments on the back of this sheet. Access this link for tips on dialectical journal entries: https:www.YouTube.com/watch?v=CBsJTqfB1Ws AP English IV Writing Assignments Directions: Complete assignments for chapters 1-10 as you read Foster’s work. Writing Assignments for How to Read Literature like a Professor By Thomas C. Foster (Adapted from Donna Anglin by Sandra Effinger) Introduction: How’d He Do That? How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to...
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...Looking back at my last year’s AP Language Composition class , the frustration I felt while reading the short stories written by Ernest Hemingway was overwhelming. Even after rereading the story we were working on, I was unable to fully understand it. The short story that I remember the most is the “Sea Of Change”. In this story, a man is having a discussion with his girlfriend or wife about her embarrassing him and she leaves him. A shift in the character's behavior suggests that the man went through a change. The “change” he went through was something I failed to figure out. After a class discussion multiple ideas were thrown and as a class we agreed that Hemingway was suggesting the man was gay. Without the help of my class, coming up...
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...like it. I liked reading short stories, poems, and nonfiction books but I didn’t like historical stories, research, or long books. I’ve never a finished a book until high school because I never found a book I liked considering I never tried since I didn’t have an interest in reading. Although, now I can say I like to read if I find the right book when i use to say that i hated reading. The youngest I remember writing was in 6th grade when I would write letters to my dad. I wrote letters to my dad after my parents got divorced since I didn’t get to see my dad from it. My letters would be about how much I missed him, how school was going, and how things were different. I wrote...
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...I had not heard of AP style until I was 18 years old. My high school had cut its newspaper one year before I could join, and my weekly hometown paper still refers to the football team as “leatherheads.” But my grandma, a former English teacher, made me diagram sentences or play Scrabble when I was bored, and grammar was my strong suit as I grew up. Through college, my skills that would benefit a news organization have diversified. I copy edit and report for the university paper, participate in leadership activities in class and on campus and gain cultural experiences from traveling. Initially, I joined the campus paper solely to write. Copy editing was a foreign concept, but I decided to join on a whim. I learned to use Adobe InCopy and InDesign and quickly figured out the basics of AP style. I picked up on the minutiae of designing a paper and began to revel in each factual error or comma splice I picked out. Each headline that made it past the copy chief was a victory. I began slotting pages the second semester of my freshman year, and by sophomore year, I was assistant copy chief. As a reporter for the life and culture section, my copy editing skills improved my...
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...college. By that time, you should be familiar with a wide range of English, American, and Global literatures. The list of masterworks on the back of this sheet offers a guide for what are considered seminal works in the English-language tradition. We will read and discuss several of the texts during next year’s Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition course. (I AM NOT ASKING YOU TO READ THEM ALL – DON’T BE SILLY!) Reading ahead and reading a work twice is always advisable. In any case, a broad background of reading will benefit you on the AP English Literature test, as well as in your college English classes. Summer Reading: Bulfinch, Thomas The Age of Fable: Stories of Gods and Heroes^^ Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor* Hamilton, Edith Mythology^^ Shakespeare, William MacBeth Optional: Cotterell, Arthur & Storm, Rachel The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Mythology# These books should all be available at your local library or bookstore (you may also order online). *If you do not already own a copy of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, you should get a copy. We will be referring to it throughout the year as we dissect and discuss literary works. ^^I have provided .PDF copies of these works through Edmodo. Please do NOT print copies of these works. #This book is a great resource to have for college, particularly if you are going to be an English major. To help you retain the content of the summer reading...
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...Lawson 1 Courteneye Lawson Mrs. McCaster AP English 12 September 8, 2011 Gothic Elements in “A Rose for Emily” Novelist, William Faulkner, in his short story “A Rose for Emily” Illustrates several Southern Gothic Elements. This particular story has a moody and forbidding atmosphere. Throughout the short story Faulkner depicts images of a cold dark neighbor and a dilapidated mansion. Through these elements this creates a dark and ominous feeling throughout the story. The story begins describing the funeral of Miss Emily. Miss Emily and her family had once been the center of the town and now Miss Emily’s reputation had died right along with the rest of the old men and women of the town. The narrator explains that the men attended her funeral out of obligation while the women came because no one had seen the inside of her house in years. Miss. Emily lived a very shelter life. Miss Emily was always alone and eventually the neighborhood starts to make rude comments about her. They begin to connote her as” crazy” but she was really not use to living on her own and was still morning the lost of her father. The story goes on to illustrate Emily’s house as “an eyesore among eyesores”. This house had once been white “the best looking house in the neighborhood” but is still decorated with the style of the seventies. She lived in a neighborhood that once was the best neighborhood in town, now deserted. The only house that was left was the one of Miss Emily. This...
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...Haley Huntwork AP English 30 August 2013 “A Rose for Emily” Plot/Structure The plot of “A Rose for Emily” separates from the structure of most short stories by not following the typical chronological order. William Faulkner uses flashbacks to give a better understanding of the external conflict between the protagonist, Miss Emily, and society. The nonlinear plot structure of “A Rose for Emily” creates a different way of comprehending the narrative by keeping the true nature of Miss Emily questionable. Faulkner begins the first section in present time, giving a recap of Emily’s life as the local townspeople attend her funeral. The funeral is being held at her home, which no one had entered for over ten years, drawing the entire town to attend. Faulkner uses flashback in the second section to give you a hint as to what is to be discovered at the end. The flashback occurs thirty years earlier, when Emily refused an official inquiry when the townspeople detect a powerful odor coming from the property. The cause of the smell is revealed at the end. Another flashback occurs in section three, recounting when Miss Emily first begins seeing the man people believed she would marry, Homer Barron. Miss Emily ends up going to the pharmacy to purchase arsenic. This keeps the reader in suspense because the real reason of purchasing the arsenic is never revealed. The last flashback is in section four, when the people of the town believe Emily was going to commit suicide. This causes...
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...favorite subject in school, however with an eleventh grade English teacher, I learned to tolerate it. My mother taught me almost everything I know about writing; what my teachers failed to teach me at school, my mother taught me at home. She has made sure I have written every essay, personal statement or research...
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...Copyright © 2013 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-180360-1 MHID: 0-07-180360-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-180359-5, MHID: 0-07180359-9. E-book conversion by Codemantra Version 1.0 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill Education eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please visit the Contact Us page at www.mhprofessional.com. Trademarks: McGraw-Hill Education, the McGraw-Hill Education logo, 5 Steps to a 5 and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of McGraw-Hill Education and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property...
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...these authors have written their own classics, and these two superb literary works will continue to last for generations. Both Brontë and Salinger have very distinct writing styles that contrast one another’s while helping each novel develop an identity of its own. Brontë utilizes a feminine style with its flowery imagery, lengthy and delicate syntax, and incorporates large amounts of emotion into her writing (Literary Analysis of Jane Eyre). Her strong sense of voice helps the novel stand on its own, while also standing the test of time. The book is narrated by Jane, the main character, and having the story told in first person allows Jane to share what happens through her personal view of the situation and provide her thoughts to the reader to help better understand what her character thinks and provides further characterization of Jane. Having this first person filter on the story also helps show how Jane’s character evolves...
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...AP English Great Expectations Symbol Essay 12/11/15 Josiah Enos In Charles Dickens Great Expectations, symbolism is prevalent throughout the story. Dickens adds meaning to otherwise irrelevant things, such as the mist, which clouds some of the story. In doing so, he adds a hidden meaning to these objects, forcing the readers to think. The mist captures aspects of mystery and also of surprise, it is a part of who Pip is. By using the mist as a symbol, Dickens represents the mystery and indecision overshadowing Pip. Great Expectations cleverly uses symbolism to represent something much more significant than what is on the surface. Dickens uses the mist to represent the clarity needed to think. Pip is someone who struggles to find himself, to find where he belongs. He feels comfortable in the mist, as it hides and obscures him from the world for a short time. It grounds him, reminding him that no matter where he goes he will always be just a laboring boy. It's something that he is familiar with, as it was part of his turbulent childhood. The mist knows Pip, and likewise, Pip knows the mist. In the mist and its obscure nature, Pip becomes transparent. It gives him answers, " the mists were rising as I walked away… Biddy was quite right, all I can say is—they were quite right, too" (Dickens, p. 432) the mist knows the cowardly tendencies of Pip. Seeing the moves he is going to make before he makes them. The mist brings Pip back, reminding him of who and what he is...
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...Student Sample English 111-72 A K. Schlene June 10, 2013 How the Internet Helped My Writing The internet is a breeding ground for information and education. However, it’s also a breeding ground for people who “typ leik di!!!1” I used to be one of those people. However, over time I slowly learned the difference between “Their” and “They’re” and that it was easy to just add an apostrophe to “I dont know” instead of typing “I dunno“ or “idk.“ This sort of metamorphosis transitioned from “text speak” a form of typing where “Are you with Mom?” could be turned into “r u w/ mom” with no sort of punctuation or capitalization, all the way to generally accepted grammar and spelling. For quite some time, I wandered around the internet interjecting my 12 year old opinions in text speak. Which often resulted in them telling me to basically shut up. I didn’t catch on, so I kept doing it for quite some time. Eventually, my “text speak” evolved into “1337 (Pronounced like the “lite” in “Elite“) speak.” In which some letters are replaced with numbers in a word, and intentional typos were born. “owned” became “pwned.” But for the most part, it can be made into a sort of legible sentence. However, like with text speak, it lacks capitalization unless they left caps lock on. In mild cases, the sentence “That guy just got his butt kicked” would become “That guy just got pwned. N00b.” And in extreme cases, the sentence “Pineapples are good for you” would become “p|/\/34pp135 R GUD...
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...Sample Letter of Recommendation - Undergraduate Student Free Sample Recommendation Letter By Karen Schweitzer, About.com Guide A good letter of recommendation from a high school teacher can help undergraduate students get admitted to business programs. This sample letter of recommendation was written for an undergraduate program applicant. See more sample recommendation letters. ===Sample Letter of Recommendation=== To Whom It May Concern: Cheri Jackson is an extraordinary young woman. As her AP English Professor, I have seen many examples of her talent and have long been impressed by her diligence and work ethic. I understand that Cheri is applying to the undergraduate business program at your school. I would like to recommend her for admission. Cheri has outstanding organizational skills. She is able to successfully complete multiple tasks with favorable results despite deadline pressure. As part of a semester project, she developed an innovative collaborative novel with her classmates. This book is now being considered for publication. Cheri not only headed the project, she ensured its success by demonstrating leadership abilities that her classmates both admired and respected. I must also make note of Cheri's exceptional academic performance. Out of a class of 150 students, Cheri graduated with honors in the top 10. Her above-average performance is a direct result of her hard work and strong focus. If your undergraduate business program is seeking superior candidates...
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