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Summer Culture Recommendations

meghanldunn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:58:37 +0000

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

meghanldunn — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:23:35 +0000

The exam will take place from 10:20 to 12:00 PM on Thursday, May 20th.

AP English Final Review 2010

Literary Word Bank 2010

Good luck! Please ask if you have questions.

Preparing for the AP Exam Multiple Choice

meghanldunn — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:02:00 +0000

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

meghanldunn — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:09:49 +0000

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

Strategies for Attacking AP Essays

Scoring the AP English Lit Exam

meghanldunn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:48:59 +0000

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

meghanldunn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:13:19 +0000

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.

Beloved Test Preparation

meghanldunn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:14:11 +0000

Beloved AP Essay Test

Using Scholarly Sources in your Senior Thesis

meghanldunn — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:02:35 +0000

Click here for the PowerPoint on using scholarly sources in your senior thesis:

Scholarly Sources

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:

www.bpl.org

http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/

Model Passage Analysis: Beloved

meghanldunn — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:54:33 +0000

Model passage analysis

Reviewing Analysis Templates

Beloved Response Paper 1

meghanldunn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:32:43 +0000

Beloved Response Paper 1