AP Lit – 2008 Exam Review Schedule

We will spend the final weeks of the course preparing specifically for the May 8 AP Literature Exam. You will be taking the complete 1994 AP Literature exam, including the complete multiple choice section and the three separate essays. You will receive a grade for each of the four components of the 1994 exam. The exam will also be scored, using the AP scoring guide, and you will receive a “projected” AP Lit score.

Each class during these last few weeks is important – please make an effort to attend each and every session. If you know of anything that will take you out of class on any of the four asterisked days (see schedule), please let me know ASAP.

Graded assignments during this unit:

• 3 homework assignments (due 4/10, 4/15, 4/21) – these will be graded as A or 0 (“A” for a complete assignment, “0” for an incomplete or missing assignment)
• 1 in-class multiple choice test (4/22) – this will receive a full-weight test grade
• 3 in-class timed writings (4/24, 4/25, 4/28) – these will receive full-weight writing grades

Wednesday, 4/9 (F) DAY 1: Intro to Multiple Choice testing – handouts and info

In-class practice test (with scoring)

Assignment: Complete Packet 1 (poetry multiple choice

practice); due TOMORROW, 4/10

Thursday, 4/10 (G) Review multiple choice Packet 1

Discussion and evaluation

Practice

Friday, 4/11 (A) NO CLASS

Monday, 4/14 (B) DAY 2: Focus on Prose Multiple Choice

In-class practice (with scoring)

Assignment: Complete Packet 2 (prose multiple choice

practice); due TOMORROW, 4/15

Tuesday, 4/15 (C) DAY 3: Review multiple choice Packet 2

Discussion and evaluation

Practice

Wednesday, 4/16 (D) DAY 4: In-Class Practice – Complete AP Multiple Choice Test

IMPORTANT: Class WILL begin at 7:55 AM to give you

the full hour for the test. Please make every effort to be

there by that time.

Assignment: For Monday, 4/21, do the following:

1) select five novels or plays that you really like

2) list the name of major characters for each

3) list the names of important or interesting minor characters for each

4) list the central theme(s) of each

5) describe at least one key event or scene from each

Responses may be hand-written, but they must be

available IN CLASS on Monday, 4/21

Thursday, 4/17 (E) DAY 5: Scoring the AP Multiple Choice Test

Discussion of how AP scoring works

To skip or not to skip, that is the question!

Assignment: Remember, novel/play assignment due

Monday, 4/21

Friday, 4/18 (S) NO CLASS

Monday, 4/21 (F) DAY 6: Overview of AP Free Response questions

Discuss answers to homework questions

Handout – sample questions

Overall discussion of what the AP readers are looking for

TOMORROW: We will begin taking the 1994 AP Lit exam

*Tuesday, 4/22 (G) DAY 7: In-class – 1994 Multiple Choice test (test will

begin at 7:55 and will run until 8:55 – please be on time)

Wednesday, 4/23 (A) NO CLASS

*Thursday, 4/24 (B) DAY 8: In-class timed writing – 1994 Question 1 (prose)

*Friday, 4/25 (C) Day 9: In-class timed writing – 1994 Question 2 (poetry)

*Monday, 4/28 (D) Day 10: In-class timed writing – 1994 Question 3 (free

response)

Tuesday, 4/29 (E) Day 11: Scoring and Predictions

Final evaluation

Wednesday, 4/30 (F) Day 12: Last day! Endings and beginnings . . .

Thursday, 5/1 (S) NO CLASS – SENIOR CHAPEL