English Literature SAT Subject Test

If you're attending university in the US, you may consider taking an English Literature SAT Subject Test. The college counselors have advised that you do so in May, while you're at your peak performance.

Summative Timed Writing

On April 24th and 25th you will complete a prose analysis summative timed writing assignment (Question 2). This way, we'll be able to compare your performance to model papers and receive feedback in time for the exam.

Pre-20th Century Prose Check-in

While we continue to read our novels, we´ll have some formative check-in´s to prepare for our Summative Open-Ended Question (Q3) in which you´ll need to write about your novel. 

As I look around, I don´t see that we´re annotating as we should be.

This is the rubric I´ll use.

Full-Length Multiple-Choice Exam (Summative)

On our full-length multiple-choice exam you will have sixty minutes to complete fifty-five questions See April Lesson Calendar on sidebar for dates.

The passages will be:
Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare
Chapter 6 of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
"Andrea del Sarto" by William Browning
"The Race" by Sharon Olds


vocabulary:
ominous
toil
dispassionate
inexorable
thwart
erudite
malelovent
reticent
ineffectual
ambivalent
impropriety
skeptical



terms:
octave
sestet
ballad
quatrain
couplet
poetic license
pastoral
epic
elegy
ode
lyric
synecdoche
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
allusion
stream of consciousness

In-Class MC Practice

Try taking this MC quiz with 14 minutes to complete.

Group Lead Literary Cenacle Discussions (formative)

Your literary cenacle will choose a passage from your pre-20th century novel with which to create questions around. Then the class will participate in four-five rounds of three-minute discussions. 

Your group is responsible for making copies of the passage you will discuss.



Groups will be evaluated on the clarity of their questions, their insight into the text and their ability to lead the conversation into profundity, rather than repeating the same inferences or observations about the text.

I will help the Candide groups to lead the first discussion.

You can find the discussion rubric here.

Q2 Student Samples

You can find student sample responses for Q2 here.