Something Old, Something New

I would like for you to reflect this week on how far you have come in AP Language.  What have you learned, in what ways are you still struggling and what skills do you most look forward to mastering?  Sometimes an honest self assessment is the best way to move forward!

Diction, Syntaxt and Tone

Read "This Living Hand" by John Keats.  What is the tone that Keats is trying to convey in his poem?  How does his choice of words (diction) and style (syntax) successfully create the tone?

Simile and Metaphor

This week in class, we talked a lot about similes and metaphors.  Find three examples of metaphor or simile in the New American Bible.  Present all three in the blog and choose one that resonates with you and tell us why. 

September 6, 2013 Language and Identity Unit

Today in class we read "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan.  At the end of the essay, Tan says that she "Began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with."  Read Tan's short story "Two Kinds" and analyze where and how she uses different "Englishes".  Find a link to the short story
 here.