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Frequently Asked Questions: This page contains answers to common questions
of students and parents.
- What works are acceptable for AP English IV extra credit outside reading?
- How should an AP or TAG major works notes be organized?
- What works are acceptable for English II TAG outside reading?
- What is a Literary Response Journal?
- What literary terms should I be able to define, recognize and use?
- What basic writing rules should I know?
What works are acceptable for AP English IV extra credit outside reading? Outside Reading for Extra Credit Assessment
Teacher-selected list of titles: Choose one, read it carefully,
and complete the major works notes as directed. Make sure you
choose a title that you have not read
previously.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Beowulf (medieval work) AND Grendel (Gardner)*
Black Boy (Wright)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Marquez)
A Dollhouse (Ibsen)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
The Glass Menagerie (Williams)
The Good Earth (Buck)
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
Jane Eyre (Bronté)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
Katherine (Seton)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy)
The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot)
Native Son (Wright)
The Once and Future King (White)
Our Town (Wilder)
Othello (Shakespeare)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Joyce)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)
A Tales of Two Cities (Dickens)
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
Tess of the D’urbervilles (Hardy)
The Things They Carried (O’Brien)
* Two-for-one: You must read both titles.
How should an AP or TAG major works notes be organized? Very carefully according to the directions on AP or TAG Handouts
What works are acceptable for English II TAG outside reading? First Semester: Kathering by Anya Seton and/or The Once and
Future King by
T.H. White
Second Semester: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Gulliver's
Travels by
Jonathan Swift, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Jane Eyre by
Charlotte
Bronte, and/or A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
What is a Literary Response Journal? Literary Response Journal
Literary Response Journals (LRJ��s) are reaction records you
keep while
reading. They are not complicated and will help you keep track
of important
points in the text as you read, saving review time later. Your
goal is to
make notes about points in the essay/story/novel/play/poem that
you thought
were important, interesting, sad, funny, confusing, etc., during
your
reading. The notes then serve to prompt your responses during
discussions
and to help you study for tests over the text.
Sometimes you will do reading journals for an entire work but
more often for
only one section or various parts of the whole. You will need to
purchase a
looseleaf notebook and looseleaf paper for your journal because
periodically
you will turn in parts of the journal for a progress and/or grade
check.
The
looseleaf aspect allows you to continue working while I have part
of your
journal. Please set up the format in your notebook this way:
1. Divide a page in your notebook in half longways.
2. On the left, label the column QUOTES FROM TEXT.
3. On the right, label the column MY REACTIONS.
4. As you read, quote important points in the text in the left
column.
Note
the page numbers also. (You do not need to copy the entire
quotation, just
enough to jog your memory later�Xbut definitely enough that it
makes sense
to
me as I check your journal.)
5. As you copy the quotation, note in the right column your
reaction�Xdoes
a
character seem cruel, compassionate, conflicted? --has the story
taken an
unexpected turn? --have you found an important part of the
author��s
message? Etc.
The double-entry journal combines note-taking with comment. It
provides two
columns in dialogue with one another. Its purpose is to
encourage careful
reading and response. As you read, write your personal responses
to the
work. State your feelings, thoughts, reactions, and questions
about
situations, characters, ideas, actions, settings, details. Write
about what
you like or dislike, what seems confusing or unusual. Tell what
you think
something means. Relate plot, characters, setting to your
personal
experiences or to people you know�Xin life or in literature.
Use
colloquial,
everyday language�Xwrite down reactions as they occur to you.
So long as
your
responses are honest, they cannot be wrong. I would expect that
as the year
progresses, a greater percentage of your answers will have some
literary
and/or analytical aspect to them.
Possibilities for comment include the following:
I wonder what this means�K
I don��t understand this because�K
I like/dislike this because�K
This character reminds me of�K
This part is confusing because�K
This description makes me feel�K
The setting gives the effect of�K
This detail seems out of place/effective/important
because�K
I didn��t expect the character to do this/to react this
way because�K
The ideas here remind me of�K
The attitude of the character/the author/the government
makes me
feel�K
The author seems to think/feel�Kbecause�K
This section is particularly
effective/depressing/surprising
because�K
I need to know/hear/find out more about�K
Sometimes I feel just like (a character) when�K
The tone of this part makes me feel�K
This makes me think that�Kwill happen later because�K
The character seems to feel�Kabout�K
Note: If you take these assignments seriously (this is not to
suggest a
need
for a lack of humor) and develop your entries fully, you should
receive full
credit for the assignment. On the other hand, entries done in
haste or
without active reading or thoughtful consideration of the text
will not
receive credit. Also, beware of simply paraphrasing or
summarizing the
text. Such entries, again, will not receive credit. Remember,
the purpose
of this assignment is for you to become engaged with the text.
What literary terms should I be able to define, recognize and use? Literary Terms, Part I
1. Allegory
2. Ambiguity
3. Apostrophe
4. Connotation
5. Convention
6. Denotation
7. Didactic
8. Digression
9. Epigram
10. Euphemism
11. Grotesque
12. Hyperbole
13. Jargon
14. Literal
15. Lyrical
16. Oxymoron
17. Parable
18. Paradox
19. Parody
20. Personification
21. Reliability
22. Rhetorical question
23. Soliloquy
24. Stereotype
25. Syllogism
26. Thesis
Terms Used in Multiple-Choice Questions Part II
27. Anaphora
28. Asyndeton
29. Polysyndeton
30. Inversion
31. Diction
32. Detail
33. Allusion
34. Na�ve Narrator
35. Interior Monologue
36. Pun
37. Metonymy
38. Synecdoche
39. Archetype
40. Hamartia
41. Catharsis
42. Hubris
43. Flat Character
44. Round Character
45. Static Character
46. Dynamic Character
Metrical Terms, Part III
47. Meter
48. Metrical Feet (6 types: iambic, trochaic, anapestic,
dactylic,
spondaic, pyrrhic)
49. Metrical Lines (8 kinds: monometer, dimeter, trimeter,
tetrameter,
pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octometer)
50. Consonance
51. Alliteration
52. Assonance
53. Ballad meter
54. Blank verse
55. Feminine, masculine, and triple rhyme
56. End-stopped lines/enjambement
57. Free verse
58. Heroic couplet
59. Ottava rima
60. Litotes
61. Internal rhyme
62. Onomatopoeia
63. Villanelle
64. Rhyme royal
65. Sonnet (Petrarchan and Shakespearean)
66. Stanza form (couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, sestet,
septet,
octave)
67. Terza rima
68. Sestina
Literary Terms, Part IV
Terms Used in Mulitple-Choice Questions Part IV
Grammatical Terms
69. Antecedent
70. Ellipsis
71. Imperative
72. Modify
73. Parallel structure
74. Periodic sentence
75. Loose Sentence
76. Syntax
77. Short sentences
78. Long, rambling sentences
79. Antithesis
Terms from Chapter 1 of The Art of Styling Sentences
1. subject
2. verb
3. modifier
4. declarative
5. interrogative
6. imperative
7. exclamatory
8. prepositional phrase
9. participial phrase
10. infinitive phrase
11. independent clause
12. dependent clause
13. simple sentence
14. compound sentence
15. complex sentence
16. compound-complex sentence
17. transitive verb
18. direct object
19. linking verb
20. subject complement
21. being verb
22. verbs of sensation
23. other linking verbs
24. connector
26. object of preposition
27. indirect object
28. object complement
29. object of the infinitive
30. preposition
Drama Terms
1. Protagonist
2. Antagonist
3. Round character
4. Flat character
5. Dynamic character
6. Static character
7. Stereotype character
8. Character foil
9. Choric figure
10. Raisonneur
11. Subplot
12. Exposition
13. Rising action
14. Climax
15. Falling action
16. Denouement
17. Soliloquy
18. Aside
19. Dramatic irony
20. Universal or cultural symbols
21. Contextual or private symbols
22. Allegorical
23. Tragicomedy
24. Farce
25. Melodrama
26. Social drama
27. Inversion
28. Interrupted sentences
29. Delayed construction
30. Omissions
31. Pun
32. Metaphorical language
33. The language of stage action
34. Quarto
35. Folio
What basic writing rules should I know? Writing Rules
1. Avoid slang or use quotes for special effect: �guys� or
�kids�
2. Do not use abbreviations except for a standard use like
Mrs. For
acronyms, you must first spell out the entire name the place the
acronym in
parentheses. From that point on you may use the acronym.
3. Do not use symbols; instead write out the work. Not &,
but and.
4. Unless it�s personal/reflective writing, use third
person. Even
with personal writing, avoid the preachy-ness of you�s.
5. Watch spelling; even spell check can�t catch the misuse
of there,
their, they�re or your, you�re or two, to, too; a lot is two
words (but not
two very interesting ones).
6. Use complete sentences. The purposeful use of fragments
(frags)
requires a sophisticated and well-practiced touch.
7. Don�t use command sentences (after all, you�re not
writing a �to do�
list).
8. Indent paragraphs properly (usually five spaces).
9. Punctuate correctly (use two hyphens for a dash to show a
break in
thought).
10. Avoid generic (general) words and phrases like thing,
fun, nice,
awesome, fun, so, etc.
11. Avoid long lists (they�re boring�like this one).
12. Don�t refer to the paper or parts of the paper itself.
13. Spell out numbers of one or two words.
14. Avoid clich�s and stock phrases.
15. Vary your sentence beginnings.
16. Use transitions (tr) to connect details within a
paragraph or ideas
from paragraph to paragraph.
17. Use two spaces after each end punctuation mark and colon
(except
colons used for time or Bible verses).
18. Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks; semi-
colons and
colons go outside quotation marks. Question marks and
exclamation marks can
go either place depending on which par contains the question or
exclamation.
19. Use consistent verb tense (t) throughout the essay,
choosing the
literary present unless the time changes.
20. Avoid awkward (k), unclear (uc), or unparallel
construction, as well
as poor pronoun reference (ref) and poor word choice (w).
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