Free-Response/Open Essay - An OverviewBefore we begin this review activity, read the following resources independently. This should take you about 10 minutes. As a class, we will talk about what you have read.
Free-Response Review Group ActivityWith your group,
You will complete this form twice - one for each of the TWO titles your group is responsible for reviewing. Once this document is complete, the class will have access to this class-created database. PLEASE NOTE:
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2015-2016 Title TallyThe following list shows what titles some of my students chose for the open question last year. The titles in bold-face are ones that I assigned during the year. The prompt is reprinted below the list.
2016 Free-Response Prompt: Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonesty may be intended either to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety, to spare someone’s feelings, or to carry out a crime. Choose a novel or play in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. |
Debriefing and Discussion - What/How do I study?
Class Review Responses 2016
Use this link to help you review titles. Document should be alphabetized by title.
After reviewing and brainstorming title options for the free-response/open question, choose five DIVERSE titles (novels or plays) of literary merit that you feel are most versatile for you to study. "Diverse" means that your choices need to represent a variety of literary works. Consider choosing something old, modern, written by a man, written by a woman, written by a minority author, a play, a novel, a comedy, a tragedy, something written in a unique narrative structure, etc.
Use the class database and ole Sparky to help you review these titles that you have already READ. This is what tools like Sparknotes are for - to review. Make sure that you carry specifics of each title into the exam with you so that you can write a SPECIFIC essay that is fully developed and answers the whole question. Know the title (and how to spell it), the author, the plot, the setting(s), the significant characters, major literary elements, the theme, significant symbols, etc.
Consider reviewing the Professor handout for each title on your short-list. Chances are that if you titles are diverse enough, ONE of them will be suited to any prompt that the College Board can throw at you. If you are armed with specifics, you will be a more confident writer. This is the last essay question of the exam - the last forty minutes of a three hour exam; make sure that you are prepared to write well.
Use this link to help you review titles. Document should be alphabetized by title.
After reviewing and brainstorming title options for the free-response/open question, choose five DIVERSE titles (novels or plays) of literary merit that you feel are most versatile for you to study. "Diverse" means that your choices need to represent a variety of literary works. Consider choosing something old, modern, written by a man, written by a woman, written by a minority author, a play, a novel, a comedy, a tragedy, something written in a unique narrative structure, etc.
Use the class database and ole Sparky to help you review these titles that you have already READ. This is what tools like Sparknotes are for - to review. Make sure that you carry specifics of each title into the exam with you so that you can write a SPECIFIC essay that is fully developed and answers the whole question. Know the title (and how to spell it), the author, the plot, the setting(s), the significant characters, major literary elements, the theme, significant symbols, etc.
Consider reviewing the Professor handout for each title on your short-list. Chances are that if you titles are diverse enough, ONE of them will be suited to any prompt that the College Board can throw at you. If you are armed with specifics, you will be a more confident writer. This is the last essay question of the exam - the last forty minutes of a three hour exam; make sure that you are prepared to write well.