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  • Rita L. Owens Steam Academy
  • Irvington, NJ
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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If there anything students in AP Literature don't mind doing, it's reading. However, my curriculum is limited to the actual books our school already owns. In reviewing books that have the layers & depth to make for a standout AP exam essay, we have some good ones in our curriculum, for sure: Beloved, A Passage to India, Heart of Darkness, Slaughterhouse Five, Waiting for Godot, Death of a Salesman, and many more. But after hearing that many, many AP exam-takers end up writing about, say, The Great Gatsby, I was inspired to push my students next year to larger, complex texts that we don't have in our collection but are often suggested by the College Board, and that are written about less often by students. One AP exam grader this year told me that almost NO students had written about Moby Dick. At the 200th anniversary of Melville's birth, I think it's time to bring this novel back into curriculum. My hope: that my students will not only to enjoy it, but possibly even write about it on their AP exam, and really knock graders' socks off! The other title, Dorian Gray, is another book we do not have in our school's collection. It also has layers of theme and symbolism that would produce a superior essay analysis: art, vanity, public vs. private self, and corruption. I am ready to bring these two novels to life, and further instill a love of complex literature to my students! Thanks!

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If there anything students in AP Literature don't mind doing, it's reading. However, my curriculum is limited to the actual books our school already owns. In reviewing books that have the layers & depth to make for a standout AP exam essay, we have some good ones in our curriculum, for sure: Beloved, A Passage to India, Heart of Darkness, Slaughterhouse Five, Waiting for Godot, Death of a Salesman, and many more. But after hearing that many, many AP exam-takers end up writing about, say, The Great Gatsby, I was inspired to push my students next year to larger, complex texts that we don't have in our collection but are often suggested by the College Board, and that are written about less often by students. One AP exam grader this year told me that almost NO students had written about Moby Dick. At the 200th anniversary of Melville's birth, I think it's time to bring this novel back into curriculum. My hope: that my students will not only to enjoy it, but possibly even write about it on their AP exam, and really knock graders' socks off! The other title, Dorian Gray, is another book we do not have in our school's collection. It also has layers of theme and symbolism that would produce a superior essay analysis: art, vanity, public vs. private self, and corruption. I am ready to bring these two novels to life, and further instill a love of complex literature to my students! Thanks!

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