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Please partner up and read a
Contemporary novel for your first MOR partner dialogue. As you read, you should
write four entries each (approx. 250 words per entry), conversing with each
other as you go, to analyze the text. Please refer to quotations from the text
and include at least one question for your partner in each entry. Your
dialogues may be informally composed (I/you/contractions ok), but they should
also demonstrate that you are reading deeply and keeping an eye on how the lit
devices that we are studying show up and help create deeper meaning. Don't
forget to discuss the ending!
You should post these dialogues on
one of your blogs. For example, Jordan might make the first entry by posting on
his blog, and then the rest of his and his partner's entries would be posted as
comments on that first post. (I highly recommend composing the posts in Word or
another program first, however, as it is easy to lose track of spelling, word
count, and even whole pages of content if one composes in the blogspot space
itself.)
A list of all works that have been suggested ON the AP exam since 1971 can be found at this link (most frequently recommended works are also listed at the bottom). You may, of course, read a novel that is not on this list, but please make sure it is of sufficient literary merit that you might be able to use it on the open essay question of the AP test. If you would like any advice, I've got plenty!
For October, a "contemporary" novel will be one published after approximately 1950 (the novel 1984, published in 1948, would count!).
