1/31

Warm-up:

1st pd - Look at sources 6-7 on pg 79-81 and in write how you would link the ideas in these graphics to an essay about mandatory community service.

3rd pd - What part of Russell’s “The Happy Life” do you most agree with?  What particular quote stands out to you?  Why?


Classwork:  Finish outlining/discussing mandatory community service essay in Chapter 3, go over yesterday's Putnam homework, discuss Russell's "The Happy Life", Read "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" and complete questions 1-5


Homework: Finish "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" and questions 1-5;  Read "In Westminster Abbey" on LoC on pg 333-334 and answer questions 1-3 on pg 334; study P-S vocab

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1/30

Warm-up:  What are 5 things that you learned about how to write synthesis essays or use sources in your arguments?  What questions do you still have about writing synthesis essays?

Classwork:  Finish reading Chapter 3 LOC pg 74-85, discuss synthesis essays, look at the sample essays in the book, take notes in notebook on the 7 community service sources

Homework:  Read Russell LOC pg 317-318 and answer 1-6 pg 318

1/29

Warm-up:  Write a reflection.  Have you ever read or heard something that altered your thinking about a topic?  Explain why or why not?  What kind of information or evidence would cause you to reevaluate any of your beliefs?

Classwork:  collect P-S glossaries, begin reading LOC chapter 3 (debate during 1st pd tentatively rescheduled to tomorrow due to assembly)

Homework:  Finish reading LOC book pg 61-74 and answer questions 1-7 on pg 68

1/28

Warm-up:  Explain the difference between physical, psychological, and social effects of sin.

Classwork:  Debate about which character in the Scarlet Letter suffered the most

Homework:  P-S glossaries due tomorrow - definitions and examples from both books

1/25

Warm-up:  N/A - Fetterolf out of building

Classwork: Read and annotate "Role of Pearl", work on P-S glossaries

Homework:  P-S glossaries due 1/29 from both books, must have definitions and examples

1/24

Warm-up:  Review 5 steps to a 5 advice for argumentative essay.

Classwork:  Write argumentative essay about society/community

Homework:  P-S glossaries with definitions and examples from both books due 1/29

1/23

Warm-up:  Write a reflection to The Scarlet Letter.  Why is this book widely taught?  What value does it have?  Why would you leave it in or remove it from the curriculum?  In what ways do you feel that it prepared you for the AP test?

Classwork:  Quiz on Chapters 19-24 of SL

Homework:  Create a glossary for terms beginning with P-S in both LOC and RFW - include definitions and examples

1/22

Warm-up:  Select two important quotes or scenes from Chapter 19-24 and explain why you think they are significant

Classwork:  review chapters 19-24 of Scarlet Letter through presentations

Homework:  Study for SL quiz tomorrow, P-S glossaries due 1/29

1/17

Warm-up:  Midterm Bloodthirsty Competition:  Introductory Vocabulary Blast

The words below are listed roughly in the order in which they appear in the excerpts from the midterm; #1-6 are from the Charlie Parker “Yardbird” passage (the next-to-last passage), the rest from the last passage on the subject of language changing.

Directions:  Match the word to its definition.  First, try to match the ones you already know, then use your root words and context clues to solve the rest by referring back to the line numbers or questions in which the words appear.  As a last resort, use your dictionaries.          

           

1) ornithological (6)                                        a) writings not included or confirmed in an original text and thus considered inauthentic

2) beatnik(28)                                                 b) a literary or dramatic work that mocks or ridicules another

3) apocryphal (33)                                         c) a scholar of language

4) interpolation(60)                                        d) a prolonged lamentation or complaint

5) extraneous(60)                                            e) anxiety arising from awareness of guilt

6) burlesque(62)                                              f) existing on or coming from the outside

7)  jeremiad(3)                                                 g) of or pertaining to the scientific study of birds                                                     

                                                                        h) an alteration of a text by inserting foreign matter                                      

8) linguist(23)                                                 i) a person who rejects the mores of an established society and indulges in exotic                                                                                                                                                                                                                philosophizing, sort of like Jack Kerouac or Ken Kesey or Tom Wolfe

9) ineluctable(30)                                            j) cheerful, hopeful

10) sanguine(44)                                             k) pertaining to the study of the writing of sermons

11) compunction(49)                                      l) not to be avoided, changed, or resisted; inevitable

12) homiletic(69)

13) futility (question #51)                              m) a powerful feeling of dislike toward somebody or something considered to be worthless, inferior, or undeserving of respect

14) contempt (question #45)                          n) pointlessness; lack of usefulness or effectiveness

15) berate(question #48)                                 o) to harshly criticize or verbally abuse

Classwork:  go over passage 4 bloodthirsty, bloodthirsty and go over passage 5

Homework: Finish Scarlet Letter by next Tuesday 1/22 - answer study guide questions 19.3&4; 20.2; 21.1; 22.2,3&4; 23.6&7, 24. 1, 2, 4 &5

1/16

Warm-up:  SOAPSTone passage 3 of the midterm - the one about the functions of literature

Classwork:  Bloodthirsty Passage 3 of midterm, go over Passage 3, bloodthirsty passage 4

Homework:  Finish the Scarlet Letter and answer study guide questions 19.3 & 4; 20.2; 21.1; 22.2,3 & 4, 23. 6 & 7, 24. 1, 2, 4 & 5

1/15

Warm-up:  What are some helpful tips for taking the multiple choice section of the AP test?  You may look at a 5 Steps book if you don’t remember.

Classwork:  Practice AP test

Homework:  Finish Scarlet Letter by next Tuesday 1/22 - answer study guide questions 19.3&4; 20.2; 21.1; 22.2,3&4; 23.6&7, 24. 1, 2, 4 &5

1/14

Warm-up:  Choose 3 vocabulary words from the 16-18 study guide and write a sentence for each word that explains something in  these three chapters of the book.

Classwork:  With a partner write a quiz about Chapter 16-18 – at least 10 questions – at least 5 must be quotes (you have to explain why you thought that quote was important enough to be on the quiz) – other 5 can be quotes, T/F or multiple choice, discuss Chapters 16-18

Homework:  Finish The Scarlet Letter by Monday, Work on SAT and AP test review

1/10

Warm-up:  Select two important quotes/scenes from Chapters 13-15 and explain their significance.

Classwork:  Quiz on SL 13-15, discuss 13-15, outline argumentative and analytical essays using another group's prompts from yesterday

Homework:  Finish Chapter 16-18 by Monday (do study guide questions)

1/9

Warm-up:  Reread the passage from Chapter 5 paragraphs 2-3 about why Hester stays.  (It may seem marvelous…the result of martyrdom.)  Identify what strategies the author is using to explain Hester’s decision to remain past the time of her prison term.  Find at least 3 strategies.

Classwork:  after discussing warm-up, read a sample essay on the prompt

Review 5 steps to remind yourself of the differences between and the format of argumentative and analytical prompts.

Find a passage from Chapters 10-15 of SL that utilizes different strategies to reveal an idea, make a point, etc.  Write an analytical prompt about the passage. 

Write an argumentative prompt about the Scarlet Letter or a related idea.  Make sure your question is clear and debatable.

Homework:  Finish SL Chapter 13-15, optional civil disobedience essay revisions

1/8

Warm-up:  What is significant about the second scaffold scene?  What motifs (reoccurring subject, image, idea) are present in the scaffold scene that are elsewhere in the novel?  Why?

Classwork:  Read Scarlet Letter Chapter 13, get back civil disobedience essays

Homework:  Finish Chapters 13-15 of Scarlet Letter by Thursday

1/7

Warm-up:  Choose 2 quotes/moments/scenes from Chapters 9-12 that you think are most important and explain why.

Classwork:  Quiz on Scarlet Letter Chap 1-12, discuss Scarlet Letter

Homework:  SAT/AP test prep

1/4

Warm-up:  Write a one page argumentative essay draft on this question: To what extent has our society become accepting of single mothers?

Classwork:  go over E-O test, read and discuss chapters 9-12

Homework: Finish reading through Chapter 12

1/3

Warm-up:  Look at the first 5 sentences of Chapter 9 in The Scarlet Letter.  Complete the following chart for each of the 5 sentences.

Sentence Number	First Four Words	Special Features	Verbs	Number of Words Per
1

Classwork:  Finish significant moment charts, gallery walk making comments on the charts of others, read chapter 9

Homework:  Finish through chapter 12 by Monday

1/2

Warm-up:  Reread Dimmesdale’s plea for Hester to be allowed to keep her daughter (middle to end of Chapter 8).  Identify his claims, backing, grounds, rebuttals, warrants, etc.  Write an explanation of how his argument works.

Classwork:  significant moment explanation charts

Homework:  SAT prep for juniors/AP test prep for seniors