First Formative Assessment: The Title of Your Blog

For next class be sure to have decided on a CCOA title and update your blog. I'll be assessing your blogs on a scale of one to four. I will award a point for each successful part of CCOA completed.

What is a blog?

Before creating your blog's on Blogger let's review what a blog is, as we will be reading blog posts as well as writing blog posts.

Heck No, Hedda Gabler!

The vote has demonstrated that roughly half the class does not want to study the play - so we will not.

I appreciate everyone's honesty!

Wanna study Hedda Gabler?

Cinecolombia will be showing this play the weekend of September 3rd. It might be nice to take advantage of this class production and study it together.

Please respond whether or not you'd like to study it using the poll on the right-hand side of my blog. Be sure to watch the trailer first.

PS I actually saw this production live many years ago in New York. It is very intense!

Bring Post-Its

For next class, we'll have our first Life Skills assessment: bring in a pack of post-its that you can use this semester.

In Regards to Summer Reading

If you haven't received an email, or are new to this class you'll need to have read A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (translated by Charlotte Mandell) by August 22nd. 

Please don't fret: the reading is very short (62 pages!). You can think of it either as a long short story or an extremely short novel (in class, we´ll refer to it as a novella). 

You can pick up a copy here at school (H301) or you can buy a pdf from the publisher Meville House for six dollars, or on iBooks, or on Amazon. However, be sure to get this particular edition, as it´s translated and so differs greatly depending on the translation. 

Welcome to AP Literature and Composition

On this blog you'll find information about assignments, links to readings and other resources you might need throughout the year.

But before we go any further you need to enter your email address into the bar above to get updates on my new posts. I'll never assign homework if we haven't discussed it in class first, but this will be the written record of assignments and dates.

In addition, you can find a summary of our syllabus on the AP Lit Links sidebar, listed as Course Description.