Toolbox of materials for your success
During the emergency shut down of the schools, CollegeBoard posted videos of veteran AP teachers teaching lessons on YouTube. They are wonderful, even when they do go off topic occasionally.
I will be utilizing aspects of these lessons, but if you would like to watch them yourself, or to supplement what I cover, go to the playlist linked here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoGgviqq4845L7Yj9c1kkIfdskkaLOUzD
I will be utilizing aspects of these lessons, but if you would like to watch them yourself, or to supplement what I cover, go to the playlist linked here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoGgviqq4845L7Yj9c1kkIfdskkaLOUzD
How to write and sound like an academic instead of a twitter fanatic.
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I use many acronyms and this document explains them. I will be in class as well, but you should memorize them.
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There are four aspects of a character: moral, mental, physical, and social. This handout provides terms to describe each aspect. This handout is from the April 4th CollegeBoard tutorial.
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DITS is an acronym for Diction, Imagery, Theme, Style. This is a useful tool to determine the TONE of a text. On this document are lists of word banks to describe diction and tone.
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This document is connected with the DITS and TPS-FASTT tools we will use in class. It shows how to look at tone in text examples and how to write about them. Not all of the terms from the DITS document are here, but many are.
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This picture may help you visualize the different literary periods and literary movements. Sometimes it helps to see that these overlap a great deal.
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This document lists major time periods, the focus/topics/themes during each, characteristics of the periods, and example texts as well.
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There are no more random literary device questions on the AP exam, but there are some literary devices that are good to know to expand you subject-specific vocabulary. There are some devices specifically mentioned in CollegeBoards Big Ideas and those are marked with an asterisk (*). Being able to discuss these devices may help in obtaining the Sophistication point for your essays.
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This document is from the April 24th CollegeBoard lesson. On it are questions to help you focus on things like setting, point of view, character, narrative structure, and imagery/figurative language, which are all part of the Big Ideas. Each section also provides sentence stems to help you begin discussing these aspects of a text.
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Assignments for longer fiction, short fiction, and poetry are explained in this document, as are requirements for discussions. Familiarize yourself with this document because not following the procedures will result in loss of points or inability to submit the assignment.
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This is the core assignment for short fiction and poetry. TPS-FASTT stands for Title, Paraphrase, Speaker, Figurative Language, Attitude (Tone), Shifts, Theme, Title. This activity teaches students how to analyze a text and how to look deeper than the overall meaning, which can change upon deeper digging. On this document is also a list (without definitions) of all the devices used in the Big Ideas and common devices that students should know for sophisticated and academic writing.
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