1. August 30-31, 2017 Objectives: Discuss exam expectations.
Explicate a work of poetry.
Catalyst:
Turn in your survey and contract at the front table.
Turn in your novel/composition notebook at the back IN THE BIN.
**Make sure your first and last name and block are clearly written on the inside cover of both. Keep them both together when turning them in.
Grab a Chromebook: reading check on HW
Homework for next class:
In Perrine's: read and outline pp ("Reading the Story"); pay close attention to "Reviewing Chapter One" at the end
Poetry Response 1.1 according to expectations
Get Native Son (not next class but soon)

2. Agenda:
Homework reading assessment (4 mins.)
Intro. to poetry responses
AP Exam Basics: Poetry
Poetry explication and discussion/MC diagnostic

3. Poetry Responses
Poetry packets and instructions on Resources tab (Under Poetry for Round 1)
Around from which to choose
Cannot use same one more than once
Responses must be typed
12 pt., Times New Roman font
Single-spaced with clear heading (include block)
250 words (minimum, for now)
No outside research allowed
5 responses = 1 test grade
Informal grades will be place-holders in Gradebook
Don’t turn them in late.
First 2-3 will be personal reflection
What did you get out of your chosen poem?
What about it “spoke” to you?
Next few will be full explication
More on that later
The remaining responses will be analysis-specific

4. AP Exam Basics: Poetry Organization:
3 hours, two parts (MC [~50-55 questions], 3 essays)
Scoring:
MC 45%, essay 55% (composite total 150 points)
Composite score turned into grade for colleges: 5-1 ("aim" for 5-3)
If you want more specific calculations, resources are available.
Your scores are first seen by colleges, then the high school, then you.
use of language
diction
syntax
tone (and tone shift)
characterization
comparing and contrasting poems
metaphor
Where does poetry fit in?
2-4 poems in MC, one poetry-based essay (~65%)
Expect to think critically about any combination of the following:

5. Annotation Guidelines
Sample Poetry assessment: "More light! More light!“
Annotation Guidelines
Annotation begins with highlighting the text:
Highlighting (text)
underline important ideas
note new characters
box key terms
note unfamiliar terms
note interesting passages
connect related/interesting points
identify central issues or themes
**Highlighting is a necessary step toward annotating a text, but it is not annotation itself. Once you have highlighted the text, you must then process this information by writing in the margins of the text. 
This, then, is annotation:
Annotating (in margins)
Ask questions.
Summarize paragraphs, passages, key ideas.
Define connotations and denotations.
Analyze images and figurative language.
Analyze repetitions and rhetorical strategies.
Elaborate on highlighted material.
Suggest ideas or parallels to other texts or other experiences.
Argue the writer's points or offer criticisms.
Comment on writer's style.

6. Read and annotate the poem. Answer the MC questions.
Sample Poetry assessment: "More light! More light!"
Read and annotate the poem.
Answer the MC questions.
In Google Classroom, submit your individual answers.
Hold on to your annotated text.

7. Collaborative Group Archetypes
Ranking
7. The Stranger
3. The Know-it-all/Dictator
1. The SLACKERRRRRRRRRR
2. The Leech
6. The Participation Trophy
4. The Average Student
5. The Libra

8. Names have been redacted to protect the guilty.
Groups:
Names have been redacted to protect the guilty.
Discuss the poem and answers you chose. Defend your choices. Submit to me your group's consensus on a notecard. You get THREE submissions.

9. Homework for next class:
In Perrine's: read and outline pp ("Reading the Story"); pay close attention to "Reviewing Chapter One" at the end
Poetry Response 1.1 according to expectations
Get a copy of Native Son (not next class but soon)