Inference+Skills

=Much of what you read in AP English (and during any serious study of literature) will require you to use your powers of deduction and inference ("reading between the lines").=

Watch the video below. Think about the story that the video is telling without really "telling" that story.
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Now, read "Half a Sheet of Foolscap" by August Strindberg (foolscap is a type of paper). Think about the story IT is telling without really "telling".
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/11156/

==To successfully understand both of these texts (and, yes, video IS text...the mind must wrestle with it much as it must wrestle with words), you must be able to go beyond what is literally in front of your face. You must engage your brain in thinking BEYOND the literal. You must infer, speculate, wonder, engage, study, think, read and reread. To be successful in THIS course and in the study of literature, you cannot be satisfied with a "surface reading" or a "surface understanding" of text. You must think and THINK HARD about the art that is being created by the text. Liking what you read is wonderful, but is NOT the be all and end all of studying literature. Many of the books that I now love started off as books that I hated. They became books that I loved only after much thought and studying. Happy reading!==