Today and Friday, after poetry presentations, we'll be looking at strategies to approach the poetry multiple choice questions on the A.P. exam. You will have similar questions on your poetry unit exam next week.
You will receive a hardcopy packet of multiple-choice questions to complete in class, while working and discussing in groups. However, you should download the following two documents first:
1: A.P. Multiple-Choice Stems -- types of questions you can expect (DOCX)
2: A.P. Poetry multiple choice question strategies and practice questions (PDF)
1. Read through the poems given in your MC questions packet before reading the corresponding questions
2. Annotate key points -- use of imagery, figurative language, and other language resources.
3. Read the individual questions and apply the techniques given in the strategies download
4. Eliminate all answers you know to be incorrect
5. Choose the best answer -- and then be prepared to explain why it's the correct response.
Poetry Recitation Order
A2 CLASS
Group A -- January 29
Savarese: "The Time I've Lost in Wooing" (Moore) and "A Poison Tree" (Blake)
Geyer: "Light Shining Out of Darkness" (Cowpe) and "To the Virgins..." (Herrick)
Woodard: "A Thousand Martyrs" (Behn) and "The Good Morrow" (Donne)
Dalton: "War Horse" (Boland) and "Ozymandias" (Shelley)
Eippert: "Up Hill" (C. Rossetti) and "To an Athlete Dying Young" (Houseman)
Peed: "Life in a Love" (Browning) and "The Man He Killed" (Hardy)
Heister: "The Affliction of Richard" (Bridges) and "The Last Laugh" (Owen)
Hawkins: "Fortuna" (Carlyle) and "Silence" (Hood)
Schutter: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (Wordsworth) and "Crossing the Bar" (Tennyson)
Cooper: "Invictus" (Henley) and "All the world's a Stage" (Shakespeare)
Worobetz: "Bilbo's Song" (Tolkien) and "The Kiss" (Graves)
A4 CLASS
Group A -- January 29
Weber: "The King" (Tolkien) and "The Nymph's Reply..." (Raleigh)
Harper: "The Tyger" (Blake) and "Macbeth's Mourning Monologue" (Shakespeare)
Meece: "City of Sleep" (Kipling) and "Spring" (Hopkins)
Waldbillig: "The Star" (Taylor) and "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" (Thomas)
Menke: "To an Athlete Dying Young" (Houseman) and "Silence" (Hood)
Smith: "The Man He Killed" (Hardy) and "In My Cart of Sullen Art" (Thomas)
Wermes: "Forget Not Yet" (Wyatt) and "A Face" (Browning)
Poch: "The Tables Turned" (Wordsworth) and "Hap" (Hardy)
Cooper: "A Darkling Thrush" (Hardy) and Tempest excerpt (Shakespeare)
Shagena: "Shall the Earth No More Inspire Thee" (E. Bronte) and "Ode on Solitude" (Pope)
Johnson: "The Light Shining..." (Cowper) and "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb" (Clare)
You will receive a hardcopy packet of multiple-choice questions to complete in class, while working and discussing in groups. However, you should download the following two documents first:
1: A.P. Multiple-Choice Stems -- types of questions you can expect (DOCX)
2: A.P. Poetry multiple choice question strategies and practice questions (PDF)
1. Read through the poems given in your MC questions packet before reading the corresponding questions
2. Annotate key points -- use of imagery, figurative language, and other language resources.
3. Read the individual questions and apply the techniques given in the strategies download
4. Eliminate all answers you know to be incorrect
5. Choose the best answer -- and then be prepared to explain why it's the correct response.
Poetry Recitation Order
A2 CLASS
Group A -- January 29
Savarese: "The Time I've Lost in Wooing" (Moore) and "A Poison Tree" (Blake)
Geyer: "Light Shining Out of Darkness" (Cowpe) and "To the Virgins..." (Herrick)
Woodard: "A Thousand Martyrs" (Behn) and "The Good Morrow" (Donne)
Dalton: "War Horse" (Boland) and "Ozymandias" (Shelley)
Eippert: "Up Hill" (C. Rossetti) and "To an Athlete Dying Young" (Houseman)
Peed: "Life in a Love" (Browning) and "The Man He Killed" (Hardy)
Heister: "The Affliction of Richard" (Bridges) and "The Last Laugh" (Owen)
Hawkins: "Fortuna" (Carlyle) and "Silence" (Hood)
Schutter: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (Wordsworth) and "Crossing the Bar" (Tennyson)
Cooper: "Invictus" (Henley) and "All the world's a Stage" (Shakespeare)
Worobetz: "Bilbo's Song" (Tolkien) and "The Kiss" (Graves)
A4 CLASS
Group A -- January 29
Weber: "The King" (Tolkien) and "The Nymph's Reply..." (Raleigh)
Harper: "The Tyger" (Blake) and "Macbeth's Mourning Monologue" (Shakespeare)
Meece: "City of Sleep" (Kipling) and "Spring" (Hopkins)
Waldbillig: "The Star" (Taylor) and "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" (Thomas)
Menke: "To an Athlete Dying Young" (Houseman) and "Silence" (Hood)
Smith: "The Man He Killed" (Hardy) and "In My Cart of Sullen Art" (Thomas)
Wermes: "Forget Not Yet" (Wyatt) and "A Face" (Browning)
Poch: "The Tables Turned" (Wordsworth) and "Hap" (Hardy)
Cooper: "A Darkling Thrush" (Hardy) and Tempest excerpt (Shakespeare)
Shagena: "Shall the Earth No More Inspire Thee" (E. Bronte) and "Ode on Solitude" (Pope)
Johnson: "The Light Shining..." (Cowper) and "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb" (Clare)
RSS Feed