Independent Literary Essays and Day 3 of your AP Lit Overture: August 23, 2017

Focus: How do we generate authentic topics for our college essays?

PLC: Shortened Class
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1. Warming up by debriefing yesterday's Socratic

• What did we do well?
• What do we need to work on?  How?
• How would you grade your first time participating in an A.P. Lit Socratic?

2. Offering you an overview of your first independent literary essay: The College Essay

• Select one essay that you're writing for college acceptance (if you're not going to college or you don't have to write any essays, use one of the 500 prompts posted below).

• Do your best to abide by the word limit set by your college; if you're composing multiple essays, pick one of your longer ones to turn in.

• Include the name of the college, the exact prompt, and any other directions that your college included, such as a word limit.

• Conference with me at least once, either before the essay is due or after you've turned it in.

• Turn it in by September 18 by 3:00 pm (printed copy).

3. Generating ideas with a few stream-of-consciousness writing prompts:

• "Directions to Where I Live"

• Freewriting with 500 New York Times personal writing prompts

• Highlight two or three moments that you remember well enough to describe using at least three of your senses.

• Look for any patterns and/or shifts.

4. (This might need to wait until tomorrow) Using a sample essay to talk about the balance of slowing down moments and reflecting on the larger meaning


HW:
1. For tomorrow (Thursday): Bring paper and a pen or pencil for your first timed writing (on "Werewolves"). Bring your copy of "Werewolves" to class as well.

2. For Friday: Make sure you have completed the survey I e-mailed you last Thursday (and encourage your parents/guardians to complete theirs, too). Sign up for Remind texts by clicking  here.

3. Peering into next week: Reread the first half of Oedipus Rex for Monday and the second half for Wednesday; bring Oedipus and How To Read Literature...to class each day next week.