3/31

Warm-up: Was Cofer or Ehrlich more successful in dispelling gender stereotypes? Why?

Classwork: Discuss Ehrilich and Cofer, go over synthesis assignment

Homework: Independent reading for synthesis assignment; SOAPSToneRs due on Wed. April 6th.

3/30

Warm-up: What gender issues are still plaguing our society today? Why do you think this problem exists and is it fixable?

Classwork: Read Ehrlich's "About Men" and Cofer's "The Myth of the Latin Woman" Write 3 AP style multiple choice questions for each


Homework: Finish Ehrilich and Cofer questions; Work on Independent reading

Caluculating your AP Test Score

For the 2007 test that we just took, this was the formula to get your AP score


Multiple Choice

[# correct – (1/4X number wrong)] X 1.2980 = weighted score for section 1 (do not round)

Essays

Essay 1 __(score out of 9)______ x 3.0556 = _____
Essay 2__(score out of 9)______ x 3.0556 = ______
Essay 3 __(score out of 9)______ x 3.0556 = _____

Sum of essay scores = weighted score for section 2 ( do not round)


Composite Score
Section 1 + Section 2 = Your composite score (round to the nearest whole #)


AP Scale=

5 = 110-150
4 = 94-109
3 = 74-93
2 = 48-73
1 = 0-47

3/29

Warm-up: What is your favorite quote from each of the letters? Why?

Classwork: Discuss Adams, Read Ehrlich, Write 3 AP questions for Ehrlich

Homework: Independent Reading

3/28

Warm-up: Turn one of the following Rhetoric and Style questions into an AP styled multiple choice question with at least 3 choices. Use number 4, 5, 8, 9, or 12.

Classwork: Woolf quiz, Discuss the Woolf questions, start reading the Adams letters

Homework: Read LOC pg 363-366 and answer questions 1-8 on 366-367

Keep working on independent reading - finish by 4/6

3/25

Warm-up: Exchange AP questions with a partner. Write their best question in your notebook. Answer the others to the best of your ability.

Classwork: Examine practice AP style questions. Start reading "Professions for Women"

HW: complete discussion ?s 1-12 and rhet. and style ?s 1-12 on LOC pg 360-62


***Finish reading your independent reads by 4/6****

2/24

Warm-up: What is Gould's thesis? Which part of his essay is your favorite? Why?

Classwork: Answer rhetoric and style questions1-12 on pg 354-355

Homework: Compose 5 multiple choice AP style questions on "Women's Brains" you can use the rhetoric and style questions as a guide

3/23

Warm-up: Read LOC 347-348 and choose 2 questions posed in the passage to answer

Classwork: Discuss gender unit introduction; start reading "Women's Brains" by Gould

Homework: Finish "Women's Brains" and answer discussion questions 1-5 on LOC pg 354

Independent reading assignment and documentary viewings

Nonfiction/Documentary
Synthesis Essay/Speech
Objective: Students will critically read and analyze a nonfiction print text or film in order to write and present an original synthesis essay on a challenge/issue/question raised by the book or film.
FIRST STEP!
Please choose ONE of the following books or ONE pair of documentaries!!!!!!!!!!!
Book Choices:
The Color of Water—James McBride
The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion
Into the Wild—Jon Krakauer
Three Cups of Tea—Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (paired with some other articles on the anti-slavery movement we will provide you)
Being a Black Man—Washington Post editors
In Cold Blood—Truman Capote
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich AND Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard (these are paired as they are SHORT and deal with similar topics)
OR, choose one of the following PAIRS of documentaries to “read:”
Film Options:
• Food Inc./Food Matters (food!!)
• Restrepo/ The Sorrow and the Pity/War Dance – CHOOSE TWO! (war and the human response)
• The Corporation/Inside Job (economic collapse, big business)
• Trouble the Water/When the Levees Broke (New Orleans/Katrina)
• It Might Get Loud/Tupac: Resurrection (music)
•
Due Dates:
March 25 – Start reading your book or documentaries
April 6 – Book/documentaries completely read!
April 13 – Synthesis essay/presentation due

You will receive the ACTUAL synthesis essay/speech assignment later this week. For now, consider, as you read, what issues are discussed or presented in the text. What questions are raised, what problems or challenges are presented, what different opinions are expressed? Ultimately, you will write and answer your own synthesis essay.





After school viewings of docs

It is my hope that you will watch some of these docs regardless of whether you are ultimately writing about them. To encourage your watching these films AND to assist you in the process of "reading" a documentary, I (Price) will show The Corporation after school Wednesday in my room, 250 (this film is one of your choices). Take a look at the trailer, below. I saw this movie at the Rehoboth Film Festival and was blown away --it is very clever and visually stunning.

http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=46

On Thursday, Ms. Hendricks is showing Food, Inc. after school in her room, 215. This is also one of the films on our doc list. Watching this film turned two of my friends into vegans, so beware! :)

http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php

THESE AFTER SCHOOL DOCUMENTARY screenings will be both enjoyable and educational. We will watch the doc, then discuss how to read it!!!


Ms. Fetterolf will try to show Restrepo after school on Wednesday 3/23, and will announce more dates of viewings for the following weeks.

3/22

Warm-up: Write a reaction to Promises, yesterday's documentary. What did you like or not like? Why?

Classwork: Finish documentary, finish going over AP practice test, go over independent assignment

Homework: SAT review, pick/start reading individual texts, register for SAT, bring LOC tomorrow

3/21

Warm-up: N/A - teacher absent

Classwork: Watch Promises documentary and fill out worksheet

Homework: SAT review, get independent reading source, revise SL essays

3/18

Warm-up: SOAPSTone one of the passages from the AP test

Classwork: AP test bloodthirsty and going over the test

Homework: Scarlet Letter revisions, SAT registration and review

3/17

Warm-up: Review rhetorical terms in the glossary of 5 Steps. The test will start no later than 5 minutes after the bell.

Classwork: AP practice test

Homework: SAT review

3/16

Warmup: Read pg 189 of 5 Steps. Explain the recipe analogy. Does that help you think about synthesis? How?

Classwork: Write a synthesis essay on presidential elections

Homework: Work on SAT review to practice vocabulary and reading skills

3/15

Warm-up: Take an article from the Onion and explain what is satirical about it. What is the author really saying?

Classwork: Discuss Modest Proposal and satire

Homework: Prepare for synthesis essay tomorrow - This article might help http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/51307.html

3/14

Warm-up: Write a one page letter to Swift in which you agree with or challenge his proposal. Your letter can be satirical or serious.

Classwork: Discuss Modest Proposal

Homework: SOAPSTone "A Modest Proposal"

3/11

Warm-up: List the 3 most positive and the 3 most negative effects of advertising.

Classwork: Debate about the effects of advertising

Homework: Due Monday: Read "A Modest Proposal" LoC pg 914-920 and answer questions 1-8 and 1-12 on pgs 920-921 (Discussion and rhetoric and style)

3/10

Warm-up: Pd 2&3 - Which advertisement/ad campaign has had the most memorable influence on you? Explain

Classwork: Pd 2&3 - Discuss advertising - prepare for debates, create ad campaigns - Pd 4 - Write synthesis essay

Homework: Due Monday: Read "A Modest Proposal" LoC pg 914-920 and answer questions 1-8 and 1-12 on pgs 920-921 (Discussion and rhetoric and style)

3/9

Warm-up: Explain why the advertisement you were given had a positive or negative effect on society.

Classwork: write synthesis essay on advertising

Homework: Due Monday: Read "A Modest Proposal" LoC pg 914-920 and answer questions 1-8 and 1-12 on pgs 920-921 (Discussion and rhetoric and style)

3/8

Warm-up: Pd 2&3 - Take a space prompt and finish outlining your essay; Pd 4 take a space prompt and begin outlining your response

Classwork: Discuss space outlines and score sample essays

Homework: Review LOC chapter 3 to prepare for tomorrow's synthesis essay

3/7

Warm-up: Complete Exercise 5 on pg 345

Classwork: Discuss homework, outline space synthesis essay

Homework: Review Chapter 3 to prepare for first 100 point synthesis essay

3/3

Warm-up: Write a reflection about drafting your first synthesis essay.
How good are the body paragraphs that you have so far?
What do you still need to do to make it better?


Classwork: Peer review and finish drafting synthesis essays

Homework: Read LOC pg 335-343; answer 1-4 on pg 336-7, answer 1-6 on pg 338-9, and complete Exercises 1 & 2 on pg 343

Discussion Notes from 3/2

PD 2
Singer says, “The formula is simple: Whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.” Do you agree or disagree that people should donate excess funds to the needy? Explain why or why not.
Agree:
• yes I think we should donate funds, but not $70,000
why: funds can be used to create technology that can be used to help needy nations.
For self betterment
Disagree:
• you should give all your money, give what you feel is needed
• help ourselves first
• you need to have an emergency funds
• if you give all your money you’ll end up in need



PD 3
Singer says, “The formula is simple: Whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.” Do you agree or disagree that people should donate excess funds to the needy? Explain why or why not.
Agree:


Disagree: Not everyone’s necessities are the same. People have a right to spend their money the way they want. Not all excess funds should be given. Sometimes volunteering is more effective than purely donating money.
Qualify: Money would be given only if the funds would be going to advice, technology, and agriculture.
Thesis: Although monetary charity helps it does not cure the root causes of poverty. Therefore it’s not necessary for people to give up all of their funds because we could also help through volunteering, donating supplies physical items, and encouraging personal development.

Should the United States intervene in another country’s crisis? Provide specific reasons and evidence.

U.S. should intervene: Should only help countries that cannot help themselves or allies. Aid should be given to causes that interfere with human rights, the global economy, ecology, security, prosperity and when countries ask for aid.

U.S. should not intervene: Shouldn’t interfere with countries’ personal political situations. We also should not interfere with countries’ problems when it could affect our own economy.

PD 4
Singer says, “The formula is simple: Whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.” Do you agree or disagree that people should donate excess funds to the needy? Explain why or why not.
Agree: Little amounts of money can go a long way for the less fortunate.


Disagree: People work hard for their earnings and should be able to spend excess money on themselves. Charity is donating based on the amount you want to give. You should save money for emergencies. Giving money is important, but the government may not use the money for the right reasons. Giving money doesn’t fix the problems. If you give all of your excess money, you are indirectly suffering for if you have an unexpected emergency.

Possible thesis: I do not agree with Singer when he says that you should give all of your excess money to charity because people work hard for the money they earn and they have the right to determine how their money is spent.

Should the United States intervene in another country’s crisis? Provide specific reasons and evidence.

U.S. should intervene: The USA is considered the “big brother” of the world and if we don’t help and lead by example, other countries will do the same. As a world power, it is our duty to help other countries. It is morally right and you are helping those in need. If a lot of human lives are at risk, we should help.

U.S. should not intervene: It allows other countries to become dependent on the USA. We need to take care of the USA before we start taking care of other countries. Sometimes the USA adds to the issues instead of helping with a solution. If we are not economically stable, we should not help another country. The people of the USA may pay (taxes) for something they don’t necessarily believe in.

Possible thesis: The USA, being the head power of the world, should step into another countries crisis to uphold our reputation and because of the resources we have available to help. In the process of helping another country, it may lead to creating more enemies. I disagree that the USA should intervene with other countries issues due to possible dependency.



Should individual citizens of affluent countries contribute a portion of their income to fight AIDS in Africa? Why or why not?

Agree: Helping somebody should be more important than money.

Disagree: Not even in the USA is wealthy and stable to donate excess money. Due to being economically unstable, excess money should be used to address the issue.

Possible thesis:

3/2

Warm-up: Read pg 123-130 of 5 steps. List 3 pieces of important advice for writing synthesis essays.

Classwork: Discuss LOC 317-334; start drafting synthesis essays

Homework: choose one prompt and write the thesis and 2 body paragraphs

3/1

Warm-up: Which of the community sources (pg 317-334) did you like best? Why?

Classwork: Evaluated sample synthesis essays on community service; took quiz on community sources

Homework: Review LOC pg 317-334