Finding the Right Match: January 10, 2018

Focus: What can we expect of the poetry multiple choice section on the AP Literature exam?

1. Warming up with the course syllabus and copies of Invisible Man

2. Transferring your MC responses and scoring each section

• Circling the answers you initially chose and giving me back your scantrons
• Offering you a few thoughts about your MC scores

3. Revisiting "The Albuquerque Graveyard" with a little speed dating (Find the right match for you...wait, no.  Find the right match for each M.C. question)

• Gathering quick background info from the title and the blurb at the end

• Rereading the poem with a focus on the space and the speaker: What kind of journey is the speaker on here?

• Decoding the questions: What types of questions can you expect here?

• Taking on the vocabulary in question #25

• Working around the vocabulary in question #26

• Comparing answers for questions #27-34

4. Meeting your first unit of Academic Vocabulary!

• How it works: Academic Vocabulary overview
• Experimenting with your first set of words

5. Offering you a few new reading ticket possibilities for Invisible Man

HW:
1. Return your signed class syllabus by Thursday, January 11.

2. Strongly consider purchasing your own copy of Ellison's Invisible Man. (Also, if you still have a copy of Beloved, please turn it in this week.)

3. Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Invisible Man by Friday; prepare your first reading ticket for Friday's Socratic.

• Overview of Socratic expectations and grading method
• Reading ticket possibilities