1. Formal Literary Analysis
Reflections on Your Compositions

2. Objectives
Students will understand how to interpret an AP 9-point Rubric.
Students will be able to articulate the three essay types that will show up on the AP Literature and Composition Exam in May.
Students will refresh on identifying parts of the sentence, understanding the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs, differentiating between direct objects and objects of the preposition, and identifying how all of those components contribute to the active or passive “voice” of the sentence.
Students will reflect on their writing and process instructor feedback.

3. Perspective
In Darfur, the Sudanese government has killed approximately 300,000 non-Arab people in the name of ethnic cleansing. The genocide is still ongoing.
Today, some people living on the Navajo Reservation do not have access to running water. Many have to haul in water to bath, cook, and wash.
We have a classroom. We are not undergoing explicit ethnic cleansing. We have running water in this school. You all are here with the ability to read this. You have the opportunity to receive an education.
In five years, most of you will not remember this day. You will not remember this grade. You will move on with your lives; and this here, this moment, will fade into the past. You will make it through this.

4. AP Literature & Comp. Free Response Section
Your essays will be marked using the 9-Point Rubric.
You will have three essay prompts.
Poetry Passage & Guided Prompt
Prose Passage & Guided Prompt
Roll-the-Dice Novel & Guided Prompt
You will have 120 minutes to write your three essays. The time is alloted in one big chunk. So, it is up to you to pace yourself and finish on time.
You must write them all by hand… This is why we practice timed writing in journals… by hand.
You will have to write using pen. So, there’s that.

5. Strengths
Overall, general understanding of literary analysis format/structure
Strong working thesis statements
Foundational springboards for deeper analysis
Plot Synopsis/Summary
Understanding of Dynamic & Static Characters
MLA formatting skills are improving!
In-text citations- good, good

6. Target Areas
Selection of textual support that builds arguments rather than embellishes arguments (a.k.a. Finding the quotations)
Utilize word-specific analysis
Develope interpretation and intertwine argumentation
Provide background information when necessary
Enhanced explanations- going deeper and without redundancy
Developing language- keep looking for ways to re-word for a stronger “punch”
Playing with clauses- avoiding loose/non-periodic sentences
Maintaining consistency- verbal tenses, subject verb agreement, active voice

7. Take Away Point No. 1
QUOTATIONS ARE YOUR BEST FRIENDS IN LITERARY ANALYSIS. BEST FRIENDS.
Selection of textual support that builds arguments rather than embellishes arguments (a.k.a. Finding the quotations)
Utilize word-specific analysis
Develope interpretation and intertwine argumentation
Provide background information when necessary

8. Take Away Point No. 2 DIG DEEP INTO THE ABYSS. DEEEEP.
Enhanced explanations- going deeper and without redundancy

9. NOW WE BECOME RADIOLOGISTS

10. Take Away Point No. 3 TALK THE TALK. IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT SYNTAX.
Develop language- keep looking for ways to re-word for a stronger “punch”
Play with clauses- avoid loose/non-periodic sentences
Maintain consistency- verbal tenses, subject verb agreement, active voice

11. Take Away Point No. 3 (Extended Version)
Remember This? … Maybe. Ish. Sort of?
Transitive Verb sends action to the direct object.
Intransitive Verb sends action to … wait…. There’s nothing there.
Transitive verb (hence direct object) = active voice
Intransitive verb (hence no direct object) = passive voice

12. Practice
Furthermore, the role of masculinity over femininity is revealed by the actions of the knights.

13. Practice
Emelye is a young girl that wanted to stay a virgin; however, when the two knights were taken by her beauty, her purity was in the hands of men.

14. Check-for-Understanding
What is the highest you can receive on an essay on the AP exam?
How many essays do you have to write for the AP exam?
If a sentence has a transitive verb, it is expressed in _________ voice.