1.  Here is a useful set of reminders:  Advice to Young AP Students
      (with a nod to bowdlerized versions of Herrick's carpe diem poem title)

2. With nearly half of you not taking the exam, and a "real" multiple choice test taking 60 minutes, we haven't done a whole one since early in the year.  Every one is different, they are meant to be hard, and the main reason for "practicing" is to realize that the questions are difficult so that you don't panic if you think you aren't doing well.  But IF you would like to practice on your own, and would genuinely do so, you can pick one up tomorrow.

3. Everyone who is not in class tomorrow because of the Calculus tests please stop by between afternoon classes or at the end of the day.  I completely left at home today something I really want you to see.

4.  For tomorrow, DO remember to read the "Arun" passage (on the back of "One Art") and think through how you would respond to that passage.  (15 min. or so)

5.  And for tomorrow (just added, but if you can, try to do this), review "My Last Duchess" and be prepared to say HOW we know what happened to the Duchess and what, if you were the emissary, you would tell your employer when you return. (another 15 min. or so).  You should have already read this because it was in Ch. 7 (Figurative Language 3), assigned in the schedule last Monday. 

6.  On your own between now and Wednesday--Just think through . . . .
a) Use the Question 3's for Crime and Punishment to review that--choose several.
b) Imagine which ones of those might (could) apply to other works we have done.


Works We Have Read that You Should Have Well in Mind for Wednesday:

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (use this one only if it appears on the list of suggested works)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

It would be good to have one or two works from prior years of study IF you feel you know them well already and are willing to invest some review time (or even Shmoop time--never use it instead of reading, but it actually is a pretty good source for helping you remember and refresh. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby would probably be my top choice here.