1. Read your novel- be sure to respond in your journal for approximately every twenty pages of reading.
2. Complete your annotated bibliography. Due on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Be ready.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Kite Runner Questions and AP English Lit Assignment for SpRinG BreAk!!
I hope that you all have had some time to rest! And Now, the questions and assignments as promised:
Poetry Assignemt: Using your Perrine literature text, find one poem that you really like or find challenging. Type this poem out, include the poet's name, the title of the poem, and the page number from the text. Your poem must come from the Perrine's literature text, not online, not from another book. Bring to class on Tuesday, April 6th. Be sure you have read it.
The Kite Runner Assignment:
1. Finish reading and responding to The Kite Runner and writing in your journals. Answer the following on a separate sheet (or sheets of paper):
1. Explain how Baba's handling of his diagnosis was typical for him (how was his behavior in line with what you know about his character? Be sure to include adjectives or decriptive words to remind me that you know about his character).
2. Chapters 15 and 16 are in many ways expository an fill in details of what happens in Afghanistan with the fall of the Northern Alliance and teh rise of the Taliban. Why were many Afghans initially happy that the Taliban took control? What soon happened afterwards?
3. What does Amir learn when he goes back to Afghanistan from Rahim Khan? That is summarize Chapter 16.
4. Why is Amir's conflict with Assef significant? Why does Hosseini have Amir find Sohrab in the way and place that he did?
Preparation for Return:
We will discuss overarching themes found in The Kite Runner by way of Whole Class Discussion. You will write about The Kite Runner. You will prepare the Literary Archetype Essay Discussed before Break as a culminiating task. You will taste poetry and learn some of the terms associated with it. You will read a non-fiction article that relates to The Kite Runner. You will take more practice AP Exams in class. We will begin our next novel, probably The Stranger or The Song of Solomon or Chronicle of A Death Foretold during April 12th.
Poetry Assignemt: Using your Perrine literature text, find one poem that you really like or find challenging. Type this poem out, include the poet's name, the title of the poem, and the page number from the text. Your poem must come from the Perrine's literature text, not online, not from another book. Bring to class on Tuesday, April 6th. Be sure you have read it.
The Kite Runner Assignment:
1. Finish reading and responding to The Kite Runner and writing in your journals. Answer the following on a separate sheet (or sheets of paper):
1. Explain how Baba's handling of his diagnosis was typical for him (how was his behavior in line with what you know about his character? Be sure to include adjectives or decriptive words to remind me that you know about his character).
2. Chapters 15 and 16 are in many ways expository an fill in details of what happens in Afghanistan with the fall of the Northern Alliance and teh rise of the Taliban. Why were many Afghans initially happy that the Taliban took control? What soon happened afterwards?
3. What does Amir learn when he goes back to Afghanistan from Rahim Khan? That is summarize Chapter 16.
4. Why is Amir's conflict with Assef significant? Why does Hosseini have Amir find Sohrab in the way and place that he did?
Preparation for Return:
We will discuss overarching themes found in The Kite Runner by way of Whole Class Discussion. You will write about The Kite Runner. You will prepare the Literary Archetype Essay Discussed before Break as a culminiating task. You will taste poetry and learn some of the terms associated with it. You will read a non-fiction article that relates to The Kite Runner. You will take more practice AP Exams in class. We will begin our next novel, probably The Stranger or The Song of Solomon or Chronicle of A Death Foretold during April 12th.
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