Reading The Color Purple and analyzing prompts

Today we spent our class time rereading the letters from the day before so that we could analyze some questions that may be on the AP exam. For the most part the questions that we encountered were not that difficult. The only difficult part is providing a theme that would work for the prompt and novel. Also answering the prompt can be hard. I say this because when writing one may beat around the bush instead of answering the prompt that is stated. We didn’t get to continue reading the novel so we were assigned to read it for homework.

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