Theme Ideas: Green Compassion/forgiveness Isolation Love Memory/Past Mortality Sacrifice Spirituality Violence Language Devices/Imagery: Blue Syntax (sentence structure) Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, allusion, irony, etc.) Diction (Choice of words, speech: colloquial, formal, etc.) Point of View (first-person, third-person, etc.) Tone (the attitude of the author toward the subject such as humorous, serious, didactic) The Annotation Guide will be due August 23, 2017. IMPORTANT: The students will read a variety of novels, plays, and poems both in and out of class. The novels and plays contain mature content and graphic scenes/language at times. The literature chosen for AP English Language and Composition has likely appeared on the AP English Language and Composition exam in the past. Your first in-class assignment will be to use your annotations to write a detailed and thorough essay in response to one of three different prompts. The essay will be due August 23rd, 2017. You may e-mail me over the summer at if you have any questions. The essay must be typed (times new roman, 12 pt. font ONLY) and double-spaced. Essay should be a MINIMUM of four FULL paragraphs. BE sure to use evidence from the book. Directions: Respond in writing to the following questions, on quotations from the text and your annotations. As this response serves as a test of your comprehension, please be thorough and detailed in your response. Analyze the narrative and rhetorical strategies used in the text, as evidenced by the following quotation: They slipped out of their backpacks and left them on the terrace and kicked their way through the trash on the porch and pushed into the kitchen. The boy held on to his hand. All much as he’d remembered it. The rooms empty. In the small room off the dining room there was a bare iron cot, a metal folding table. The same cast-iron coal-grate in the small fireplace. The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips. He stood there. He felt
Theme Ideas: Green Compassion/forgiveness Isolation Love Memory/Past Mortality Sacrifice Spirituality Violence Language Devices/Imagery: Blue Syntax (sentence structure) Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, allusion, irony, etc.) Diction (Choice of words, speech: colloquial, formal, etc.) Point of View (first-person, third-person, etc.) Tone (the attitude of the author toward the subject such as humorous, serious, didactic) The Annotation Guide will be due August 23, 2017. IMPORTANT: The students will read a variety of novels, plays, and poems both in and out of class. The novels and plays contain mature content and graphic scenes/language at times. The literature chosen for AP English Language and Composition has likely appeared on the AP English Language and Composition exam in the past. Your first in-class assignment will be to use your annotations to write a detailed and thorough essay in response to one of three different prompts. The essay will be due August 23rd, 2017. You may e-mail me over the summer at if you have any questions. The essay must be typed (times new roman, 12 pt. font ONLY) and double-spaced. Essay should be a MINIMUM of four FULL paragraphs. BE sure to use evidence from the book. Directions: Respond in writing to the following questions, on quotations from the text and your annotations. As this response serves as a test of your comprehension, please be thorough and detailed in your response. Analyze the narrative and rhetorical strategies used in the text, as evidenced by the following quotation: They slipped out of their backpacks and left them on the terrace and kicked their way through the trash on the porch and pushed into the kitchen. The boy held on to his hand. All much as he’d remembered it. The rooms empty. In the small room off the dining room there was a bare iron cot, a metal folding table. The same cast-iron coal-grate in the small fireplace. The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips. He stood there. He felt
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