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B: Explain the function of a character changing or remaining unchanged.\u003Cbr>1.C: Explain the function of contrasting characters.\u003Cbr>1. D: Describe how textual details reveal nuances and complexities in characters’ relationships with one another | How Taught? Key Questions to Answer\u003Cbr>§ Which words, phrases, and details contribute to a character’s characterization? § How is a character described physically, emotionally, and/or psychologically? § Which aspects of a character’s background contribute to how the character perceives his or her world? § What drives the character to think, feel, and/or act in the manner he or she does?\u003Cbr>§ What provokes a character to change or remain unchanged? § What are the comparable traits of a character before and after he or she changes? § To what degree does the text convey empathy for those characters who change or for those who remain unchanged? § To what degree does a character’s changing constitute progress or decline? § How does a character’s changing or remaining unchanged affect other elements of the literary work and/or contribute to meaning of the work as a whole?\u003Cbr>§ How do comparable traits of two or more characters contrast? § What do the differing traits between characters reveal about them individually, their relationships with one another, and their relationships with other characters? § How does considering the significance of a contrast between characters contribute to meaning in the text? Which particular images, character speech, and textual details are relevant for examining characters’ relationships? § How do images, character speech, and other textual details reveal how characters interact? § How do diction and the details that a narrator or speaker offers (or does not offer) convey a particular perspective, ambiguity, and/or inconsistency and convey nuances and complexities in character relationships? |\n| --- | --- |\n\nCourse of Study English Language Arts-February 2023 AP Literature and Composition  \n\n| 1. E: Explain how a character’s own choices, actions, and speech reveal complexities in that character, and explain the function of those complexities. | Which of a character’s choices, actions, and/or speech seem contradictory or inconsistent? § How do a character’s contradictory or inconsistent traits contribute to a reader’s understanding of the character’s complexity? § How do a character’s contradictory or inconsistent traits contribute to meaning in a text? |\n| --- | --- |\n| Materials:\u003Cbr>Various teacher selected short stories or plays, such as the following:\u003Cbr>● AP Classroom\u003Cbr>● Mentor texts (both teacher and studentselected); teacher selected mentor texts come from the College Board website, AP Classroom, and previous student writings)\u003Cbr>● English Literature and Composition (Advanced Placement Edition) Unit 1 : The Elements of Fiction; Unit 4: Nuance and Complexity; Unit 7: Deepening Complexity\u003Cbr>● Selections from previously approved Board textbooks Perrine’s Sound and Sense and Perrine’s Story and Structure\u003Cbr>● Anchor texts: “The Lottery,” “Cathedral,”“Story of an Hour,” 1984, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Summer reading selection(s) (Students select two from the following list: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Much Ado About Nothing by Wi","cbCaityYYKEi0MEI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaityYYKEi0MEI","pdf",604285,17,"English","# Course of Study\n## Skill Category 1: Character\n## Skill Category 2: Setting\n## Materials\n## How Assessed?\n## How Re-Taught?","[{\"question\":\"What does Skill Category 1 require students to explain about character?\",\"answer\":\"Students explain how textual details reveal characterization, perspective, motives, and relationships, and how character change or remaining unchanged affects meaning in the work as a whole.\"},{\"question\":\"How are character complexities assessed in the course of study?\",\"answer\":\"Assessment includes pre-assessments, formative assessments (such as mini analyses, discussions, workshops, reflections, and quick writes), and summative assessments including formal essays and College Board rubrics.\"},{\"question\":\"What reteaching methods are suggested to support students?\",\"answer\":\"Reteaching may include descriptive feedback, student examples, modeling, self-assessments, new teacher-assigned tasks, graphic organizers, small-group instruction, practice activities, computer tutorials, and review sessions.\"}]","AP Literature & Composition Course of Study - February 2023 | PDF",1789902204,43]