April Vacation Assignment

PART 1: (50 point quiz/test grade)

Please take the sample AP Exam passed out in class on Thursday.  (Please note that the electronic copy of the exam I thought I could upload is too large of a file for the blog to handle, so please email me if you lose your copy.  For those people who were absent when the assignment was passed out, I will email you.)

The emphasis on this assignment will not be on how many questions you answer correctly, but on how you defend the answers that you choose.  You will be graded on a little blue book that you pass in with your exam.  In the blue book you will need to include the following:

1)      Answers to multiple choice questions 1 - 54.

2)      Under each question you have to defend your answer.

For example, if question number one is:

In the course of the passage, the speaker moves from detached observation to

a.       vicarious suffering

b.       callous indifference

c.        terrified flight

d.       solemn resignation

e.        stubborn denial

And I say that the answer is A, I would write in my blue book:

1.       A. vicarious suffering

DEFENSE:  The speaker is clearly affected by the images his imagination torments him with.  He feels the terror of the man pursued by hounds, suffering the drunken voices and ire-filled faces of the hostile assembly, experiencing the beating, the tar-and feathering, and the ultimate incineration of the victim with such immediacy that, by the poem’s end, he has vicariously embodied the experience of the deceased.

 

3)       Make a glossary for yourself of words and terminology that you do not know. Please define all of these words and terms.  If you tell me that you know every word and literary term I may challenge your claim with a quiz, so be prepared.

 

PART 2: (75 point project grade)

Read your independent reading book.  Your book and data sheet need to be finished by May 2, 2011, so if you are concerned about time, I would complete most of your reading over vacation.