Ap Exam: Study Journal

Today in class our group in the back got a lot accomplished. We were able to discuss how we were going to study for this test. Myself and Aj are going to prepare by doing the read and respond questions while Max and Mariah are going to study vocab.

A Reflection on Uninstructed Learning

The text from The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons provides so many different outlooks on how to accomplish the impossible and unimaginable. When the author(s) talked about how "three months of self-doubt and self-ridicule" turned into something so worthwhile, it makes the hardest of obstacles and the worst of trying times seem manageable. The theme being put across in this text is that even when the going gets rough, just stay strong and try and try again. Sometimes, the hardest assignments can kill you but as we all know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and makes you a fighter.

Study Update:3

I seriously need to study! I need to sit down and pick up the Ap vocabulary sheet and study so I will

Study Update:2

I'm sitting here watching Bryce Harper make his MLB debut at 19 years old, while trying to study for the Final. Right now I am working on the read and respond paragraph questions because they are the hardest for me because I can not stay focused for that long. Wish me Luck!

Study Update:1

Well right now I just got home from the PowderPuff game. I am going to attempt to work on the multiple choice section of one of the tests because I feel like I need to start, to recognize the wrong answers immediately. This might not click right away but, in due time it will.

2004 Ap Section 1

I chose this section because I feel we can all use help in these sections. Most high school students, like myself feel rushed when we get to these sections because we feel like we don't have enough time to read and complete all the questions accurately. So I feel like we can all use a little prep in this section

MacBeth Prompt

Prose Essay Prompt
1975: Lagerkvist’s The Marriage Feast: Define and discuss the subject of the story. Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.
Poem Prompt
1989 Poem: “The Great Scarf of Birds” (John Updike)
Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.
Open Essay
1975B Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and
only rarely uses a narrator's voice to guide the audience's responses to
character and action. Select a play you have read and write an essay in
which you explain the techniques the playwright uses to guide his
audience's respnses to the central characters and the action. You might
consider the effect on the audience of things like setting, the use of
comparable and contrasting characters, and the characters' responses to
each other. Support your argument with specific references to the play.
Do not give a plot summary.

Ap Prep(Absent)

I am not taking the Ap Test but, that doesn't mean I don't have to prepare for it. I feel like I really need help on the multiple choice sections, so I need to develop a strategy, that will enable me to become better. I feel confident on the free response questions because I have confidence in my writing style .

Notes Part 2

Tomorrow Speech

Recorded by Sophmore: Alex Contreras

Macbeth Notes(Annonated)

MacBeth Test Answer Key

Part I.

1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.

2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
B. The Thane of Cawdor him.

3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II only

4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.

5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.

6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
B. A metaphor.

7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."

8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
B. II and III

9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.


Part 2

1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
B. dagger.

2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
B. he looked like her father

3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.

4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.


5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.

6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo


7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II

8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III


9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.

10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.

Lit Anal 3: Invisible Man

Main Character/Narrator:

• A gifted speaker
• 1920's-1930's- lived in the South as a young man
• Was rewarded with a scholarship to a black college 

Mr. Emerson:

• He helps the narrator get a low paying job at Liberty Paints plant
• An explosion happens and the narrator gets knocked out

Plot:

• A man refuses other people to see him; hiding under a manhole
• Steals electricity underground
•  The narrator was introduced into a brotherhood
• He meets the leader Tom Clifton
• After the explosion at the plant he loses his memory and ability to speak

"Brotherhood"

• They are all suppose to be brothers and have a bond
• However, the narrator gets betrayed by them and wants revenge
• He seduces a lady to find out secrets about the group

Themes:

• Racism
• The man struggles to find his identity
• racial prejudice

• Ideology
• inner self complexity

• Stereotypes
• African American trying to escape prejudice

Literary Elements:

• Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
• Liberty paints- demonstrated the relation to black/white (symbolism) 
• Sambo doll- puppeteers dolls in same way the brotherhood manipulated the leader and the narrator 

Macbeth Notes