This Seat's Taken: AP Lit, April 11, 2013

Focus: Achieving harmony between the creative and analytical parts of your poetic mind

1. Announcements!

2. A few comforting facts about multiple choice...

• If you get 50% of the multiple choice questions right and you get two 4's and a 5 on your essays, you would earn a 3 on the test.

• If you get 50% of the multiple choice questions right and you get two 6's and a 7 on your essays, you would earn a ____.

• If you get 60% of the multiple choice questions right and you get a 5 and two 6's on your essays, you would earn a ____.

• If you get 60% of the multiple choice questions right and you get all 7's on your essays, you would earn a ____.

3. Let's try out your creative side...ever written a sestina?  Try it!

• Start with a little metacognitive writing: Think of a comforting moment in your childhood.  Write about it.

• Pick out the six most essential words from that piece of writing.

• Try writing two stanzas of a sestina; don't be too hard on yourself--it's tough!

4. Now let's try out somebody else's sestina.  Don't panic.

HW:
1. Post your big question blog for either Slaughterhouse-Five or Portrait of the Artist.
2. Continue working on your culminating essay; bring a laptop on Monday if possible.