21 Class Days Before Exams!

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21 Class Days Before Exams!

• Computer lab working on research paper
• You may have to work on the paper some at home in
  order to finish on time
• Todays Class
• Create a GMAIL account
• This will be how you save your work so that it
  will never be lost!
• Start working on preliminary research worksheet
  that is due tomorrow
• Able to work at your own pace
• Instruction from me and online
• Sign up to get help from me

• Research Paper Due Dates
• GMAIL account Monday, 5/2
• Preliminary Research Worksheet Tuesday, 5/3
• Outline Friday, 5/6
• 50 researched note cards Friday, 5/13
• Complete Rough Draft 5/20
• Final Draft with Corrections Made Friday, 5/27

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Research Paper Requirements

• All work should be completed on time
• Preliminary research work sheet
• Outline and 50 note cards
• Completed Rough Draft with Title Page and Works
  Cited Page, with in-text citations (using
  easybib.com)
• 12 Point/Times New Roman Font
• 1 Margins, Double-Spaced
• No headings/Title on Title Page only
• 5-8 complete pages
• Final draft with corrections made

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Honors English Todays Class

• Go over plan for the rest of the semester
• AP English/English IV sample writing prompt
• Introduction- The Glass Menagerie Tennessee
  Williams
• View pt. 1 begin writing prompt
• Writing prompt/essay due tomorrow

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21 Class Days Before Exams!

• Every Monday/Tuesday (except the last Monday)- in
  class covering literature practicing AP writing
  prompts
• Every Wednesday through Friday- computer lab
  working on research paper
• You will have to work on the paper some at home
  in order to finish on time
• No more vocabulary quizzzes!

• Research Paper Due Dates
• GMAIL account Wednesday, 5/4
• Outline Friday, 5/6
• 50 researched note cards Friday, 5/13
• Complete Rough Draft 5/20
• Final Draft with Corrections Made Friday, 5/27

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AP/Honors English IV Prep

• AP English Literature Composition Exam
• 3 hours
• 2 sections
• 1 hours to complete 55 multiple choice questions
  which test your ability to read/comprehend/analyze
  prose and poetry from different genres and time
  periods, mostly from British and American
  literature
• 2 hours to answer 3 free response questions which
  test your ability to write critical essays on
  literary texts

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams

• Greatest playwright in American history
• Questioned political/social norms
• Awarded 4 Drama Critic Circle Awards, 2 Pulitzer
  Prizes, Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Self destructive
• Alcohol and drug abuser

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Tennessee Williams

• Real name Thomas Lanier Williams (1911)
• Born in the South, raised in Missouri
• Troubled life- highly criticized, lost family
  friends, closet homosexual
• Died alone in a hotel room- alcohol drug
  overdoes

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The Glass Menagerie Whats it about?

• Human desperation for the past, for the future,
  and for freedom
• Imprisonment/paralysis by longing for these
  things
• The entire scene is a memory from the narrator
• 1930s middle class- The Great Depression era
• Shed light on discouragement over a failed
  economy, thus a failed middle class American
  society, through the telling of failed lives.

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Your Assignment

• Watch the play
• Take notes on things you notice that will help
  you answer one of the following prompts.
• Notes will be collected.
• You may use your notes on the timed essay which
  will be written at the conclusion of the play
  tomorrow

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AP English Literature Exam

1. 1990. Choose a novel or play that depicts a
   conflict between a parent (or a parental figure)
   and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which
   you analyze the sources of the conflict and
   explain how the conflict contributes to the
   meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.
2. 2009. A symbol is an object, action, or event
   that represents something or that creates a range
   of associations beyond itself. In literary works
   a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or
   enlarge literal meaning. Select a novel or play
   and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay
   analyzing how that symbol functions in the work
   and what it reveals about the characters or
   themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely
   summarize the plot.