5/31

Warm-up:  •Reflect on your book in a paragraph.  Use any or some of the following stems:

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•I wonder why …/                    I predict …/    

•I am confused by …

•I love/like …because____                

• The book’s conflict is _____

•The character __________ reminds me of ____

•I wish …                       This book reminds me a bit of ….

•This writer’s style is ________

Classwork: final quiz on novel; share creative writing from Tuesday


Homework:  work on final project

5/29

Warm-up:  •Review notes for your quiz on checkpoint #2.


Classwork:  Quiz on Part 2 of novel, reading and project time; write a poem or letter using a tone from the worksheet to a character in the novel.  Copies of the worksheet are in the makeup work folder.


Homework:  Finish your novel by Thursday!  Work on final projects

5/25

Warm-up:  •Make a to do list regarding your college search and application process.  What are your next steps?  What resources or help do you need from the school, your parents, colleges, etc?


Classwork:  college prep discussion; read novels; work on projects; 6 word memoir writing.


Homework:  Finish checkpoint 2 by 5/29; work on final project

5/24

Warm-up:  •What qualities or traits should you be sure to highlight on your college applications?  What questions do you have about letters of recommendation, resumes, and application essays?


Classwork:  college prep discussion, work on projects and independent reading


Homework:  finish 2nd third of your book by 5/29 - work on final project
(checkpoints and directions are under the classroom documents tab)

5/23

Warm-up:  Review your notes about the book before your quiz.


Classwork:  Quiz on novels, independent time to read novels and/or work on final projects


Homework:  Finish the second 3rd of your novel by 5/29

5/22

Warm-up:  •Explain 5 style features of the novel that you are reading, and give an example of each.


Classwork:  Read novels, work on projects


Homework:  Finish first 3rd by tomorrow

5/21

Warm-up:  •What does the following quote mean?  Explain.

•I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t  wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.  -Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, and philosopher (1872–1970)

Classwork:  Discuss AP test, read novels, discuss project proposals


Homework:  Read novels - checkpoint 1 due 5/23 (WED)

5/18

Classwork:  Take a packet about the final project.  Read it.  Write a proposal about what you will do for your project.  I will approve or deny proposals next week.

Start reading your independent novel.  The first 3rd is due the 23rd.  Checkpoints are posted under classroom documents.

5/17

Warm-up:  •Without divulging any information about the material on the test, write a reflection about your testing experience.  How did you feel about different parts of the exam?  Did you feel adequately prepared?  What else could you have done to be even more prepared.


Classwork:  senior project presentations, novel discussion


Homework:  Start reading your novels - first 3rd is due on 5/23 - the checkpoints are posted in classroom documents

5/16

AP TEST DAY!!!!!  I hope that you all feel great after showing the world what you have learned and how hard you have worked!


Remember to stop by my room (or Ms. Price or Ms. Hendricks) to pick up your novel.

Also, I added Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin to the list!  This is what Amazon said about it:  "With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."




You of course could still read Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby, or The Things They Carried.

Test Review

I posted today's power point of test prep questions under classroom documents!  There are many good resources to review there.  Enjoy!

5/15

Warm-up:  What questions do you have about the exam?

Classwork:  AP test power point review; go over 2 multiple choice passages (mangroves and imagination)

Homework:  Study for AP test

5/14

Warm-up:  •Review your study guide to review for the test.  On the study guide, underline any new information or any tip that you don’t understand or don’t know how to apply.  Put stars beside information that you feel very comfortable with that you have heard a million times.


Classwork:  Discuss 2010 prompts; get back book essays


Homework:  Study for AP test

5/11

Warm-up:  What are your plans for preparing for the AP test over the weekend?

Classwork:  Plan essays from the 2010 exam - technology synthesis prompt, Banneker letter analytical, humorist argumentative

Homework:  Complete 2 multiple choice passages; study for AP test; look over study guide



Plans for Monday - to answer any questions you have about the study guide/test; to go over homework passages; to discuss the 2010 essay prompts

5/10

Warm-up:  What questions do you have about footnotes?


Classwork: discuss essay prompts from Tuesday's speed plans, choose one to start developing into a full essay, footnote handout and discussion of footnotes


Homework:  Study for AP test

5/9

Warm-up:  •Which prompt that you outlined yesterday did you struggle with most?  Why?

•Which prompt was easiest to write?  Why?

•Which one are you proudest of writing?  Why?

Classwork:  Discuss "A Modest Proposal"; further develop yesterday's essays; turn in notebooks


Homework:  Study for AP test

5/8

Warm-up:  •Write each of these templates, and then explain when you would use this model.

•X’s claim that __________ rests upon the questionable assumption that __________.

•But ________ are real, and arguably, the most significant factor in _________.

•Whereas X provides ample evidence that _____, Y and Z’s research on ______ and _______ convinces me that _______ instead.

Classwork:  Outline 3 essays - locavores, television, and Queen Elizabeth (in journal)



Homework:  Due tomorrow - Read "A Modest Proposal" and answer discussion questions 1-8 on LOC pg 914-920; study for AP test

5/7

Warm-up:  •Often in analytical essays, it becomes repetitive to say that “the author says.”  Copy these ways to say said, and then brainstorm 10 more on your own.

•asserted

•contested

•contradicted

•objected

•pronounced

•proposed

•divulged

•retorted

Classwork:  Multiple choice practice; creating a glossary of unknown words from passage

Homework:  Due Wednesday - Read "A Modest Proposal" and answer 1-8 discussion questions LOC pg 914-920

5/4

Warm-up:  •Synonym or Antonym?  Explain.

•rasps … grates

•crinoline … petticoat

•christened … labeled

•depose … give evidence

•abasement …. degradation

•magnanimity … pettiness

•beguiled … enticed

•dyspeptic … indigestion

•alderman … councilman

Classwork:  Look at sample essays of the essays planned in class; complete multiple choice questions on AP passage "I am a woman."


Homework:  Read "A Modest Proposal" LOC pg 914-920 and answer discussion questions 1-8; Study for AP test

5/3

Warm-up:  Answer the following questions.

Which of the three types of essays do you feel most comfortable writing?  Why?  Which do you feel least comfortable writing?  Why?  What activities or support do you need to get better?  What questions do you have about essay writing?

Classwork:  Finish speed planning essays; discuss plans; develop essays, etc.


Homework:  Study for AP test;

Due Wed 5/9, read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" LOC pg 914-920 and complete discussion questions 1-8 on pg 920

5/2

Warm-up:  •What key words or tasks do you expect to see in the prompts for each of the three types (analytical, argumentative, synthesis) of essays?  How will you know which kind of essay to write?



Classwork:  Speed planning of three essays in notebooks

Homework:  Due tomorrow - at least one page in response to any prompt on LOC pg 196

Study for AP test

5/1

Warm-up:  •What does Washington mean when he says “It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.”?  (paragraph 4)  Do you agree with his idea?  Why or why not?


Classwork:  Quiz on Booker T. Washington's speech, discussion and rhetoric and style presentations about Washington


Homework:  Due Thursday - choose one writing prompt from LOC pg 196 and write at least one full page in response;  Study for AP test