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 divisionsA Soliloquy of the MoonPoem…

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…

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.…

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.

AP Literature Test Review

In the next three weeks, these will be the key pieces of information for review/work on the AP test: Literary Terms PracticeEssay Writing ScheduleGeneric Test Review: prompts, multiple choice, review sheets  

Thursday Review Question Answers

  • 24. D
  • 25. C
  • 26. C
  • 27. E
  • 28.C
  • 29. D
  • 30. C