The Great Gatsby Essay!

I know all of you are looking forward to writing this. We’re going to do it as another AP Prompt practice.

IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT AP EXAM: I’ve learned that the prose passage they’ll have you analyze will come with NO author name and NO title, so it’ll be nearly impossible for you to find it on the internet. Clever, clever.

Also they will send you an “entrance ticket” through your email a few days before the exam. You should have already received an email from them explaining this, but only three of you responded, according to the AP people and the email they sent me. PLEASE check for those emails. You need them!

AP Prose Prompt Essay

I created this prompt by looking at past questions and creating something appropriate to what we read. During our Zoom meeting we’ll discuss possibilities for answering this. As before, I’ll try to record this meeting and post it for those who can’t join us.

TONE is a big part of this essay, and an AP Lit teacher just posted this on the group’s Facebook page: a list of “tone” words. This is a great reference about different kinds of tone. Sometimes I think we get pigeon-holed into thinking of only a few kinds of descriptions (happy, funny, angry, sad), but this list broadens that considerably.

Here’s the Zoom Meeting we had today about this essay and some suggestions of how to respond to it:

HOMEWORK:

Time yourself and spend ONLY 30 minutes typing up this essay. Share with me by WEDNESDAY before midnight.

And now, some great memes to share, because there are a LOT for Gatsby: