Entries by dpogreba

AP Multiple Choice Practice Sessions, Round 2

The second set of AP multiple choices practices will be on the following dates: Tuesday, 3:25 p.m. Thursday, 7:00 p.m.  (CANCELED: NHS INDUCTION) Friday: 3:25 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 1:00 p.m.  and 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 1:00 p.m. Monday: 3:25 p.m. Tuesday: 7:00 p.m. 

Crossing the Swamp: Tips

If I suggested that you look at the essay format outline or the quotations, please go review them at the wiki:  Quotations Essay Format Strategy  Some sample poems to practice figuring out thematic divisions A Soliloquy of the Moon Poem Catching Up with an Idea These, I, Singing in Spring Five per cent better each […]

AP Intensive Essay Work Dates

Schedule for the 11 Essays of Doom   Date Due  Prompt CB Sample Class Sample Monday,4/23 Crossing the Swamp   Here   Tuesday, 4/24  Evening Hawk    Here     Wednesday, 4/25  Five A.M./Five Flights   Here   Thursday, 4/26  To Paint a Water Lily   Here   Friday, 4/28  Poetry Revision   Here Monday, 4/30 "Gentlefolks…"   Here […]

An Appropriate Article About Poetry

Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, argues that it's a good thing that poetry is challenging : Difficulty, after all, is one of life's essential pleasures: music, athletics, dance thrill us partly because they engage great difficulties. Epics and tragedies, no less than action movies and mysteries, portray an individual's struggle with some great difficulty. […]

AP Language: Lear Responses

This link (PDF, give it a moment to load) contains the sample responses to the Lear prompt from the College Board. I suspect that you will be unimpressed. Lots of OJ, personal examples, and terrible transitions.  Yikes.