Rice Summer AP Institute

I just finished the Rice Summer AP Institute and I can not wait to share some of the great things I learned with you. With the stuff I learned this last week, and the plans I already had in mind, we are going to have an awesome year. I have great new ways to approach the three essays, poetry analysis, and so much more. Make sure that when you get to class in August you are ready for a whole new way of looking at everything you do.

Reading Literature like a Pro

Hopefully by now you have started your summer reading assignment.Your first book is  How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. Your assignment is to pick out ten chapters and apply the concepts to novels, or stories that you have read before. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with. One of your clever classmates asked if you could apply the concepts to movies and video games. I applaud her for thinking outside the box. Movies and video games are forms of literature that you can easily apply his theories to. After all movies start out as scripts first, and video games start out as story boards. Many are even based off of books or plays. For instance Bioshock is based off of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged; therefore, you can easily apply any of Foster's theories to that video game. So go forth and analyze, think out side the box, and good luck!