Your Post. On Your Blog (not on AP's by mistake!)

Some of you have been gone for a couple of days.  Be sure to read the post for Friday, March 19; as I explained today,  that entry was written before I left school Friday, but posted erroneously (and carelessly) posted to the AP blog.  I apologize.

TODAY IN CLASS
Even without the blog, you were told on Friday to get started over the week-end on the essay topics you've had since Thursday (6th) or Friday (4th).  But today I gave you a further hand-out with a bit more detail on format.  Some additions were made today (things I take for granted, but should have spelled out):

• The first draft for Wednesday needs to be double-spaced.
• And yes, the final draft needs to be on turnitin.com as well as turned in as a hard copy
• The "five-paragraph" instruction is as a minimum.  It would be OK to have four body paragraphs (a total of six in your essay) either by 1) having so much information/substance in one area that you really need to break it down into two paragraphsm or 2) seeing four major points of development for your thesis.

That handout is linked here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARigzimXmDnvZGZ0dzhmcGhfNTZ2amdnOTJ0dg&hl=en

FOR TOMORROW
There will be a test, but tests over literature we've been working with for 3 weeks or more are hard to "study" for.  You should know characters/what happens, etc. by all we've done in class.  There will be some assessment of that. Certain quotations should stand out to you because they have been emphasized in class or because they are essential to plot or character and thus should be fairly self-evident if you do in fact know characters and "what happens." But I'm more interested in knowing if you can read and understand the text--so lots of questions will focus on that.  And your success depends on how seriously you have taken the reading process.  (If you were absent today, be sure to look up three terms in your gray book:  aside, soliloquy, and blank verse.)

There will be about 50 matching/multiple choice questions and one essay.

Bottom line:  the best way to prepare tonight is to work on your paper.  Any one of the three topics will get you "into" broad sections of the play, and force you (or at least encourage you) to consider cause/effect/connections, etc.