AP Literature & Composition

For the past several weeks, AP Literature & Composition students have studied Arthur Miller’s modern American tragedy, Death of a Salesman. To finish the unit, the class broke into groups, with each group taking responsibility for an important scene in the play. These they performed in front of their peers on Tuesday. The purpose of this approach, of course, is to drive students into the play, so that when the time comes to write about Death of a Salesman on the AP Exam, an individual student will recall not only specific lines, but also the emotional context of the scene. To succeed with this assignment, students must determine for themselves the mood of the scene and the struggles of each character. This impressive group met the challenge with remarkable maturity and achieved significant depth in their performances.

– Jay Connolly, AP Literature & Composition