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.