AP English Literature - Mr. Robel
Topic outline
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This link enables you to not only read our version of the play online, but it also allows you to search the play for key words or phrases. Use the "Search This Play" tool on the right of the page if you want to trace the appearance and development of a word, image, idea, or other motif throughout the play.
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Read this essay to see how to turn your 4-Step Analysis of a passage into a well-organized prose-analysis essay.
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To show you what he thinks a good take-home essay looks like, Mr. R wrote this essay in response to the 2016 Open Question Writing Prompt:
Many works of literature contain a character who deceives others. The character’s dishonesty may be intended either to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety, to spare someone’s feelings, or to carry out a crime. Choose a novel or play in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
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Read this short essay by the famous German philosopher, and consider how Nietzsche's ideas relate to the chapter entitled "Ubermensch" in Old School.
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(1) Click this link to read an introduction to the novel created by the National Endowment for the Arts. After reading the introduction, (2) then click the left-side tab "About the author," and read both the biographical information and the interview with Tim O'Brien. Which specific information provided on these two pages do you find interesting and important to your understanding of the novel and your appreciation for what Tim O'Brien has done in it? Why?