Tuesday

This week we need to finish Anna Karenina. You will have an in-class timed essay on the book tomorrow for a FINAL grade. We then need to move into poetry and review poetry and MC questions and finally discuss the last book you will read in class.

 So today, I want to discuss what characters you could write essays on (AP Test).

Also, how does the book open and close?  What can you say about the books organization? 

Anna
Alexey Karenin
Vronsky
Levin
Kitty
Stepan
Dolly
Prince and Princess Shtcherbatsky
Sergey
Nikolay
Betsy
Varenka
Lidia

2023, Set 2. Many works of literature feature a rebel character who changes or disrupts the existing state of societal, familial, or political affairs in the text. They may break social norms, challenge long-held values, subvert expectations, or participate in other forms of resistance. The character’s motivation for this rebellious behavior is often complex. Either from your own reading or from the list below, choose a work of fiction in which a character changes or disrupts the existing state of societal, familial, or political affairs. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the complex motivation of the rebel contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole. 

2022. Many works of literature feature characters who accept or reject a hierarchical structure. This hierarchy may be social, economic, political, or familial, or it may apply to some other kind of structure. Either from your own reading or from the list below, choose a work of fiction in which a character responds to a hierarchy in some significant way. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how that character’s response to the hierarchy contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole.