Course Introduction

Ms. Abena Ntoso

AP English Literature

Wednesday August 13

M & Ms Game

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Something you did this summer

Favorite school subject

Something you do well

Favorite movie or TV show

Something you can’t live without

Favorite sports team, food, or book

Reflect, Write, Discuss

• What does it look like when you are at your best?
• Try to be specific: What would we see you doing? What be present in your environment? Who would be around you? How would you interact with the world and others around you?
• What are your top three strengths?
• What do you struggle with most?

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Example

Gathering Prayer

As we gather here today,

let us have grace for ourselves and one another,

let us listen with patience, speak with humility,

and seek understanding in our dialogue.

Let us see the face of compassion in others,

and honor the spiritual presence in all things.

May we seek to create a loving and supportive community among us.

Amen.

Objective

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Examine and discuss how literary practice can influence our lives.

Access online course materials.

Create your writing portfolio folder in Google Drive, and share it with me.

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Course Website: https://bit.ly/ntosoteach

About Ms. Ntoso

You are a unique individual

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Our class is a learning community

Rules

Ask questions

Do the Work

Take Care of Yourself

Please feel free to

ask questions

at any time!

• During class
• Email
• Ask me
• Ask each other

Stress, anxiety and depression are real.

These are difficult times. Please let me or your counselor know if you are having difficulty coping with challenges.

Materials

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Computer

Notebook

Folder

Pen

Highlighter

Read & Discuss: Intro to Literary Practice

Read the quotes on literary practice, and highlight or underline words and phrases that stand out to you.

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Reflect, Write & Discuss:

• What words and phrases stand out to you? Why?
• What did you like about it? What does it make you wonder?
• What are your key takeaways? What are you excited to try in your own literary practice?
• What conversations do you hope to inspire through your writing?

Definition

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Literary Practice: one’s continual experiences of reading, writing, thinking, discussion, action, and reflection, and its impact on intellectual and personal growth

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Literature & potential for open-minded conversation

In his essay “What Does Art Do?” Vid Simoniti explains that art is a form of thinking that is “not based on a clash of positions,” but rather, is an “open ended space of thought, where oppositionality temporarily ceases.”

Literature, as an art form, allows readers to think through a contentious subject “without immediately reaching for conclusions, without the fear of being wrong, without immediately dividing themselves into the saved and the damned.”

Literature as a Liminal Space

In his essay “The Ends of the Book: Reading, Economies & Publics,” from the book Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, Matthew Stadler discusses what he calls “publication” or “the creation of a public shaped by reading.”

Reading is open-ended and conversational, creating a “liminal space” where writers and readers meet and where readers can meet one another, which in turn creates opportunities for conversations that enrich our minds, broaden our perspectives and generate empathy. Interactions inspired by reading can lead to discussions that recognize our “common humanity across difference.”

AP Literature Website Join Codes

AP Classroom: https://myap.collegeboard.org

5th Period: 2694WY

6th Period: D3JPDN

8th Period: RDE269

Google Classroom:

5th Period: jay6eozp

6th Period: wkapagvy

8th Period: t3yhffup

Google Drive Portfolio Folder

Create a new folder in your Google Drive and name it:

Last Name First Name Writing Portfolio

for example: Ntoso Abena Writing Portfolio

Share your Writing Portfolio folder with me: antoso@cristoreyjesuit.org Please be sure to give me editing access.

Writing assignments, annotated readings, and other digitized classwork should be kept in your Writing Portfolio folder.

Watch Video (2 minutes)

Writing Portfolio Folder in Google Drive

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Last Name First Name Writing Portfolio

for example: Ntoso Abena Writing Portfolio

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SHARE to antoso@cristoreyjesuit.org

Syllabus

Course Information

AP English Literature Course Syllabus

Student Information Form

The Student Information form helps me begin to get to know you as a person. The first question on the form is: �

What does it look like when you are at your best?

Write one paragraph (4-5 sentences) describing what it looks like when you are at your best. What are some of your strengths? What would we see you doing?

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Closing

Thank you for your attention

Thank you for your patience

Thank you for your kindness

May you experience joy and peace