Expository Composition Period 2- Name Essay and Spring Break Assignments

1. You will write a fully copmleted rough draft that is ready for peer editing. Your essay tells the story behind--Your Name. You may focus on your entire name, or your first name. Be sure to include the following in your essay: The story behind your name; fond memories or not so fond memories regarding your name; teasing; the etymology of your name ( for this part, you may actually research your name to see its origin). Even if your essay only focus on your first name, be sure to identify your full name. This essay is both narrative and expository. A coplete rough draft is due on April 10th (Tuesday). Have fun with this one!

AP English Literature Spring Break Assignments

1. Finish your rough draft for the writing assignment in which you were asked to corret a misconception about an aspect of your culture (ethnicity; socio-economic; gender; age group). Your essay may include quotes/anecdotes/description. You may use first person (sparingly).
2. Finish reading and annotating Things Fall Apart. Complete the Major Works Data Sheet.
3. Write a thesis statement or theme statement for each of the following subjects: success/failure/sacrifice/redemption/insecurity/powerlessness/power/favoritism/social acceptance/balance or temperance.
4. Answer the following short study questions: Why is it significant to the village that the missionaries builds its church on the Evil Forest?
Define the word "disenfranchisement". Who were the disenfranchised in Things Fall Apart? Why is it important that a society takes care of this group?
Define the following literary tems and provide examples from Things Fall Apart: verbal irony; dramatic irony; situational irony; foreshadowing; internal conflict.
AP Prep Schedule: When we return we will devote one week to discussing themes from Things Fall Apart and making connections to Oedipus and The Kite Runner.
Week 2- April 16 through Weeks4 April 23 we will read one novel or play per week. The novels are relatively short (no more than 250 pages). Get ready to have fun!!!!!

AP English Literature-Critical Approaches Handout and things to Come

Due tomorrow (3/29): Select anyone of the events/details from Things Fall Apart and apply at least two of the critical lens to it (Formalist; Sociologist; Mythological; Psychological; Historian). Be sure to clearly identify the event you discuss; and clearly in two pages answer the questions that that perspective demands. In some instances (historical) you may make predictions as to how an event or ceremony began.

AP English Literature- Things Fall Apart

1. Reflect on the apple exercise. What does it show us about our view?
2. Read and annotate and give your own titles to Chapters 17-20 of Things Fall Apart. Answer the following:
Define efulefu; osu; Evil Forest
1. What informs readers that there will be tension between the Christian missionaries and the citizens of Umuofia?
2. For what purpose do the conversations about tapping palm wine, and the village of Abame have? How do these foreshadow the arrival of the missionaries?
3. Why was Nwoye attracted to the new religion of Christianity?
4. How did the clans undesirables contribute to the spread of the new religion? How is this ironic?