4/30

Warm-up:  •Write a one page reflection in which you consider some of these questions:  How does our work shape or influence our lives?  What is a work ethic?   Does our 21st century life lack a work ethic and/or are we a culture of workaholics?  What are the motivations for working hard?

     Classwork:  finish analytical paragraphs on practice test passages; pass back synthesis essays and discuss revision opportunity

    

      Homework:  read LOC pg 191-194, answer discussion questions 1-7; bring LOC tomorrow

4/27

Warm-up:  Review vocabulary for quiz


Classwork: Vocabulary Quiz, AP practice test reflection (directions below), AP practice test analytical paragraph (directions on the blog)

•Name

•How many points did you go up or down (ex: +4 or -2)

•How many questions did you answer the first time? the second time?

•Look at 5 specific questions that you got right one time but not the other.  For each of those 5 questions, answer these questions:

•a.  what is the question asking (terms, purpose, meaning, etc.)?

•b. why do you think you got a different answer?

Homework:  Study for AP test

4/26

Warm-up:  •Synonym or Antonym?  Explain.

•predilections … preferences … penchants

•precocious … immature

•tracery … pattern

•diamagnetic … substance exhibiting negative magnetism

•elicit … engender

•merit … worth … aptitude

•exemplar … consummate

•maxims … aphorisms

Classwork:  bloodthirsty practice test, analyze change over time


Homework:  Study for AP test - bring all former AP tests

4/25

Warm-up:  •Synonym or Antonym?  Explain.

•ferment … peace

•decry … condemn … disparage

•engenders … prompts

•petulant … genial

•consummate … supreme … ideal

•meritocracy … system based on ability

•pecuniary … commercial … financial

•bourgeoisie … proletariat

•self-effacing … brash

•diatribe … attack

Classwork:  bloodthirsty AP test


Homework:  Study for AP test

4/24

Warm-up:  •Synonym or Antonym?  Explain

•endowed … gifted

•declamatory … oratorical

•empirical … experiential

•satiety … starvation

•profuse … scanty

•aberration … anomaly

•paucity … scarcity

•intrinsically … inherently

•gainsay … contradict

•restitution … recompense

Classwork:  bloodthirsty practice AP test; make up work



Homework:  Study for AP test

4/23

Warm-up:  •Copy these literary terms and example.

•apostrophe - the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present: For instance, John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not proud.” Death, of course, is a phenomenon rather than a proud person, but the act of addressing the abstract has its own rhetorical power.

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•euphemism - Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. For instance, saying "Grandfather has gone to a better place" is a euphemism for "Grandfather has died." The idea is to put something bad, disturbing, or embarrassing in an inoffensive or neutral light.

Classwork:  Practice AP test


Homework:  Study for AP test

4/20

Warm-up:

•Imagine 3 pictures of wind turbines. Beside one is the word nature; another, future; and a third, eyesore. Using what you know about the public debate on alternative energy sources, explain what the positions of these three different groups might be.

Classwork: quiz on parallelism, examining 2007 Question 1 sample essays from apcentral.com, discussing appropriate citations, looking at writing templates

Homework: Study for AP test - review A-Z terms, look at sample essays online, etc.

4/19

Warm-up:

•In your independent book (or, if you don’t have it, on LOC pg 349-354), find 3 examples of parallel structure. Write the example and underline the parts that are parallel.

Classwork: •Read LOC pg 339-342

•Complete exercise 1, 2, 4, and 2 of the questions from exercise 5

•Then use your independent book to locate 5 examples of parallelism and complete the directions for exercise 4 with each example (of course you may use your examples from warm-up)

Essay/Asssessment make up

Homework: Finish exercises 1,2,4, 5 (two questions only) and find 5 examples from your independent book and follow exercise 4 directions

Expect a quiz on parallelism tomorrow!

4/18

Warm-up:

•Write a reflection.

•What did you like or dislike about your independent reading book?

•Why do you think we chose it to put on the list? What characteristics of a college level text does it have?

•For whom would you recommend or not recommend this book?

Classwork: Argumentative essays on independent books

Homework: Bring LOC tomorrow; study for AP test

4/17

Warm-up:

•Brainstorm a list of abstract nouns that your independent reading book is about. (Ex: dependency, freedom, compassion, security, etc.)

Classwork: Group discussion of independent books; write a possible synthesis/argumentative prompt for your book and then outline how you would respond - make sure that you add 2 other sources to your outline that you would also use to justify your position on the prompt

Homework: Finish independent book and bring it tomorrow

4/16

Warm-up:

•Skim pg 123-139 of an orange copy of 5 steps to a 5, or review your notes about synthesis essays from last Friday, or review Chapter 3 of LOC. Write 3 tips for writing synthesis essays that you need to remember during writing.

Classwork: Writing synthesis essay about advertising

Homework: Finish independent books by Wednesday! Bring books tomorrow.

4/13

Warm-up:

•Finish any questions for sources 1-4 (LOC pg 317-334) that you haven’t finished yet. You can omit #2 for source 4 since it requires outside research. You should have a total of 19 questions. I will collect these questions.

Classwork: quiz on independent reading books, practice writing a synthesis essay about community

Homework: Finish independent book by 4/18, Wednesday!

Review for Monday's Synthesis essay by reading LOC pg 335-338 and reviewing chapter 3 of LOC. You can also go to apcentral.collegeboard.com and look at sample synthesis essays. It is the first essay for every year starting with 2007. There are samples about space, the penny, locavores, advertising and more! Remember that the more you read good writing, the more likely you are to model it in your own writing attempts!

4/12

Warm-up:

•Read the poem on pg 333-334 and answer questions 1-3 on the sheet of loose-leaf paper containing yesterday’s questions on “The Happy Life” and “The Singer Solution to World Poverty.”

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•When you finish the poem and questions, finish the work from yesterday if you have not.

Classwork: Read LOC pg 324-334 and answer questions

Homework: Finish to the second checkpoint by tomorrow.

4/11

Warm-up:

•Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. - Virginia Burden

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•To what extent do you agree with this quote? In what ways is our progress and happiness tied to others or independent from them?

Classwork: Read LOC pg 317-323 and answer the questions for each passage & pg 333-334 to start preparing for community synthesis essay

Homework: Finish 2nd third of book by Friday 4/13

4/10

Warm-up:

Choose one passage (1/2 page to a full page) from the first 3^rd of the text that you think is particularly meaningful and important. This passage could connect to the author’s purpose, exemplify the author’s style, be evocative or controversial, or convey a strong tone toward the subject. It should be remarkable in some way. Explain (in writing) why you chose this particular purpose.

Classwork:

1. In groups, discuss the passages that you chose for warm-up. This discussion must include the group flipping to that passage, reading it, and then talking about why it is important to the text. For 2 of the passages that your group mates choose, write under your warm-up ways in which their passages are similar to or different from the passage that you chose.

2. 2. As a group, write 5 quiz questions about the book. Your questions can be multiple choice or true/false, but they should be thoughtful and should cover important aspects of the book. We will likely use any good questions on a future quiz on your book, so it would be to your group’s advantage to do these well to ensure that you will get at least a few questions correct.

3. 3. If you have any extra time, discuss the book or keep reading.

H Homework: Read independent books - second checkpoint is 4/13 (Friday)