Objective: The students will compile all parts of Perrine's Poetry Unit 2 for turn in and points.
Ryan wake up! Come to class!
1. Extra Credit? Period 1 or Period 2?
2. Prepare packet. There should be 12 EASILY counted things completed in the packet. If my TAs miss it, it's your fault!]
3. Tomorrow is the essay. You may want to remember things to do/not to do in AP essays:
AP Essay Problems that Can Be Fixed Next Time
1. No Universal Truth (Theme) stated. Put it in the intro. BUT PROSE essays do not need one if the prompt doesn’t as about “author’s purpose.”
2. Intro too long. 2-3 sentences. Mention title, author and UT.
3. Title to the Essay (not needed and it wastes time to think of one)
4. No need for citations and page numbers (Hemingway 89)
5. Just saying “Hemingway uses diction and syntax…” That just means he uses words and sentences. Well duh!!!! Hemingway uses adjective diction and adjective syntax.
6. Quotes way too long. Integrate 3-7 word quotes into the flow of your writing. Example: She “liked his dignity” and “the way he wanted to serve her.”
7. Over use of ellipsis. Two word quotes like this: “She likes … her.”
8. Using first person. Do not put yourself in the paper. Try not to even say, “The reader…”
9. Slapping the reader (me) in the face with a quote that is not introduced or provided with context.
10. Contractions
11. In conclusion,
12. NOT KNOWING WHAT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS…. Many people wrote a paragraph on symbols, then started the next paragraph with, “Hemingway uses figurative language.”
13. You have to speed up. That will take practice.
14. Mentioning “rhetorical devices.” This is LAST YEAR!
15. Analysis without and textual evidence (quotes).
16. Too many devices in one paragraph. Lacks focus. Let Topic Sentences guide your writing.
17. One LONG paragraph only.
18. Too much summary.
19. Maybe use a formula:
a. Thesis
b. Claim 1: Topic Sentence
1. Fact from poem
2. Text evidence
3. Comm
4. Comm
5. Fact
6. Text evidence
7. Comm
8. Comm
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