William Patterson

This is an essay designed to help students explore and analyze the social, economic, genetic, geographical, religious, and philosophical factors that have formed their personal identities. It works well within a literature and composition course in which they analyze character development and apply literary theory. The Identity Essay by William C. Patterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The product includes one-page cards with descriptions and skills indicated for each of the seven roles in a reciprocal reading lesson. Roles include: The Explicator, The Imagist, The Keeper of the Word Horde, The Synthesizer, The Allusionist, The Interrogator, and the Metacognator.

This exam provides an opportunity for students to show their understanding of the novel's main themes, to provide a performative close reading of sections of the novel, and connect intertextually to civil war poems by Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.

AP Literature and Composition Hamlet Quiz Acts 4 and 5 designed for a close study of the play suitable for an AP Literature and Composition classroom.

AP Literature and Composition Hamlet Essay process and prompts for the evaluation of students' close readings of the play suitable for an AP Literature course.

AP Literature and Composition Hamlet Quiz Act 3 designed for a close study of the play suitable for an AP Literature and Composition classroom.

This is a notes form for poems by American Poet James Wright that I use with a close reading of his 1959 book The Branch Will Not Break. This is an excellent way to prepare students for the poetry prompt on the AP Literature and Composition exam.

AP Literature and Composition Hamlet Quiz Act 2 Here is a quiz for Act 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet designed for a close study of the play suitable for an AP Literature and Composition course.

Here are a quiz for Act 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet designed for a close study of the play suitable for an AP Literature and Composition course.

This form provides students with a guide to note taking and brief analysis of a poem.

This form aids students in analysis of a poem using specific categories for coding the poem. It can be used as preparation for a literary analysis essay. Poetry Analysis Balance Sheet by William C. Patterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.