The TCSS Advanced Placement ELA blog was developed to provide a location where Troup County Advanced Placement ELA teachers could share strategies, questions, concerns, tips, etc. to help support one another in the endeavor to cultivate successful college students.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Monthly Highlights
Please share your literary emphasis at this point in Advanced Placement Language and/or Advanced Placement Literature.
We finished our emphasis on British Literature, essay writing, and research last semester. This semester we started out using the Diyanni texts to review poetic/literary devices and are doing weekly multiple choice or AP essay practice on Fridays. My biggest problem with the multiple choice section is that many students simply do not recognize the words...had to explain facade, veil, maudlin, histrionics. We are keeping a list of words that they don't recognize and using them as vocabulary. Funny moment of the day:
Student: Mr. Veon. What is a sausage? Veon: (Baffled) What? Student: Here...it says a sausage. Veon: (Looking at test) Oh!!!! That's assuage.
Any thoughts on (besides reading more) building a scaffolded vocabulary for 9th grade to 12th? I am planning to require that students do vocab work with every piece of literature we do from now on...as in compiling a list of words they didn't know or that they think others might not know!
We finished our emphasis on British Literature, essay writing, and research last semester. This semester we started out using the Diyanni texts to review poetic/literary devices and are doing weekly multiple choice or AP essay practice on Fridays. My biggest problem with the multiple choice section is that many students simply do not recognize the words...had to explain facade, veil, maudlin, histrionics. We are keeping a list of words that they don't recognize and using them as vocabulary. Funny moment of the day:
ReplyDeleteStudent: Mr. Veon. What is a sausage?
Veon: (Baffled) What?
Student: Here...it says a sausage.
Veon: (Looking at test) Oh!!!! That's assuage.
Any thoughts on (besides reading more) building a scaffolded vocabulary for 9th grade to 12th? I am planning to require that students do vocab work with every piece of literature we do from now on...as in compiling a list of words they didn't know or that they think others might not know!
Veon