Summer Culture Recommendations
Here’s the list of all your recommendations! If you have more to add, add them in the comments.
Keep in touch!
- Ms. Dunn
Books:
James Bond books
Scott Pilgrim, Books 1-6
Maus I and Maus II
James Patterson books
Matt Reliy books
The Hobbit
The Percy Jackson books
Dutch 1, 2, and by Terri Woods
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Krik Krak by Edwidge Danticat
Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews
The Hunger Games series
Slam by Nick Hornby
This is What I Want to Tell You by Heather-Duffy Stone
Movies:
Man on Wire
Basquiat
James Bond movies
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter movies
500 Days of Summer
Blood In Blood Out
La lengua de las mariposas (The tongue of the butterfly)
Belle Epoque
John Q
Slumdog Millionaire
Love & Basketball
Finding Nemo
Crooklyn
A Walk to Remember
Titanic
Antwone Fisher
Blood Diamond
Deep Blue Sea
Mean Girls
Dirty Dancing
Footloose
My Best Friend’s Wedding
A Beautiful Mind
Forrest Gump
Music:
When I Look at You by Miley Cyrus
One Love by Trey Songz
Your Winter by Sister Hazel
Life is Beautiful by Sixx AM
Even Angels by Fantasia
Afroman
Bob Dylan
Cake
Del tha Funky Homosapien
Diamond District
Dispatch
Elton John
Girl Talk
Iron & Wine
Jay Electronica
The Killers
The Lonely Island
Matt & Kim
OK Go
Passion Pit
Phoneix
Radiohead
RZA
Sublime
Vampire Weekend
The White Stripes
Young MC
AP English Final Exam
The exam will take place from 10:20 to 12:00 PM on Thursday, May 20th.
Good luck! Please ask if you have questions.
Preparing for the AP Exam Multiple Choice
Our class PowerPoint (with links to resources):
The AP English Lit Multiple Choice
Link to a practice test:
http://www.shmoop.com/ap-english-literature/practice-quiz.html
Preparing for the AP English Lit Essay
View old essays and essay responses at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2002.html
Our class PowerPoint on the AP Exam Essays:
The AP English Literature Essays
Scoring the AP English Lit Exam
A great explanation of the scoring on the AP English Lit exam. You can use this to score your practice test:
http://www.apenglishlit.com/ap-english/how-to-score-the-ap-english-literature-exam/
Senior Thesis: Second Draft Checklist
Senior Thesis Second Draft Checklist
Your 2nd draft is DUE in my mailbox or in my email by homeroom on Wednesday, 4/28. The 2nd draft should be 10-12 pages, with a Works Cited page.
Using Scholarly Sources in your Senior Thesis
Click here for the PowerPoint on using scholarly sources in your senior thesis:
And for student examples of using scholarly sources in three ways:
3 purposes for using scholarly sources
And for excellent MLA resources:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/citeone_s.php?style=MLA
http://www.easybib.com/#sourceList
And library links:
