How To Read Like an A.P. Lit Student: August 21, 2018

Focus: How do we use Foster's ideas to see what was previously invisible to us?

Please have out your summer reading assignments at the beginning of class.

1. Warming up with highlights from the class syllabus

2. Using Foster to (re)interpret three scenes:

• The start of a journey (30:26)
• A lunch scene
• Tunneling to freedom

• Which chapters/lines from How To Read Literature Like a Professor might apply to these clips? How so?

• What do you see now that might have been invisible to you before?

3. Reading closely the first page or so of "Werewolves in Their Youth" in small groups; what do you see that other readers might not notice? (Feel free to invoke Foster directly or to simply put your own close reading skills to work.)

4. Indulging in your concrete, Type-A, organization skills and setting yourself up for this class:

• Augmenting your vocabulary with Quizlet: Click HERE to join our class

• Organizing yourself with Google folders within folders within folders:

• Create an A.P. Lit folder called "Yourlastname_A.P. Lit" 

• Share it with me at kleclaire@lps.k12.co.us

• Within that folder, create a "1st Semester" folder.

• Within your "1st Semester" folder, create the following folders (feel free to spice up your labels):
• College Essay
• Introductory Stuff
• East of Eden
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Poetry
• Beloved

HW:
1. For Wednesday:

• Finish reading "Werewolves in Their Youth" for our first Socratic seminar. We will do our first Socratic ticket in class, but make sure you annotate the story in whatever way works for you.

• Please ask your parents/guardians to read and sign the course syllabus.

2. For Friday: 

• If you have not yet done so, please complete the survey I e-mailed to you (and urge your parents to fill theirs out, too).

• Bring your laptop to class.

3. Ongoing: Bring your old school supplies to class (pens, pencils, JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK that's just for this class).