3/27

Warm-up:  Reflect on how gender stereotypes have affected your life.  In what ways do you feel limited?  Do you feel like you conform to the stereotypes or not?  Explain.

Classwork:  discuss essay outlines from yesterday, fix essays so that argumentative have at least 3 reasons and analytical have strategies tied to deep purposes of meaning not vague purposes of catching attention, time to work on T-Z glossaries

Homework:  Due 4/8 T-Z glossaries with definitions and examples, test on A-Z on 4/9

3/26

Warm-up:  Of the essays that we have read about gender, which argument do you find most compelling?  Why?  Which author’s style do you think most resembles your own writing?  Why?

Classwork:  AP style quiz on gender with 2 essay outlines

Homework:  Due 4/8 - T-Z glossaries with definitions and examples - Study for A-Z test on 4/9

3/25

Warm-up:  Write a SOAPSTone analysis of AIDS has a Woman’s Face.

Classwork:  discuss "AIDS has a Woman's Face",  write an original analytical and argumentative prompt for any of the gender selections that we have read (model after 5 Steps examples)

Homework:  Due 4/8 - T-Z glossaries with examples and definitions - test on A-Z on 4/9 - study to review all terms

3/22

Warm-up:  What is Theroux’s purpose?  How would you explain his argument? 

Classwork:  Theroux quiz, discuss "Being a Man", write an AP style multiple choice question for Woolf, About Men, Cofer, and Thoreux

Homework:  Read "AIDS has a Woman's Face" and answer 1-10 on LOC pg 382-388

3/21

Warm-up:
PD 1 - Use this framework to write a citation for the essay beginning on pg 370.Work in an anthology.  
Author. Article title.  Anthology Title.  Editor.  Publication information (place:publisher, date). pg number.

PD 3- Are stereotypes dangerous or a useful tool for assessing others?  Explain.  (1 pg response with examples)

Classwork:  identify 3 strategies or syntax choices from anywhere in the "Myth" and explain their function and importance to the work.  For one of them, write a full paragraph that would be in an analytical essay about how the author develops her purpose.

Homework:  Read "Being a Man" LoC pg 378-381 and answer 1-8 pg 381-2

3/20

Warm-up:  Identify the first 3 sentences of About Men as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.  Write the subjects and verbs for each of the sentences. 

Classwork:  quiz on About Men, identify 2 rhetorical strategies and one interesting syntax/style choice and explain the effect of each of the 3 choices, discuss About Men and begin "Myth of the Latin Woman"

Homework:  Read Myth of the Latin Woman on LOC pg 370-375 and answer exploring the text questions 1-8

3/19

Warm-up:  Take a rubric from the stool.  Read it and write 3 important things to remember about synthesis essays in your notebook. 

Classwork:  write synthesis essays about independent books, work on T-Z glossaries

Homework:  Read "About Men" - LOC pg 367-369

3/15 - Last Friday

Subwork - complete Rhetoric & Style questions 1-12 on looseleaf.  Turn in.

Homework:  Finish independent book and 3rd synthesis prompt.  Optional revision of essays due on 3/18.

3/18

Warm-up:  Write a reflection about your book.  What did you like/dislike?  Why is this book on the list? Who would you recommend it to?  Why?  What did you learn about non-fiction and language by reading this book?

Classwork:  quiz on Professions for Women, discuss independent books and create thesis statements, reasons, and find support from the book for each of 4 questions relating to the book.

Homework:  Prepare for synthesis essay tomorrow

3/14

Warm-up:  Pd 1 - Finish writing your final paragraph.

Pd 3 - Use this framework to write a citation for the essay beginning on pg 356.

Work in an anthology

Author. Article title.  Anthology Title.  Editor.  Publication information (place: publisher, date). pg number.

Classwork:  Read "Professions for Women" on LOC pg 356-360   and answer discussion questions 1,3, & 4


Homework:  Read independent book and work on synthesis prompt

3/13

Warm-up:  Review your topic sentence and any other work that you completed on your analytical paragraph yesterday.  Then write a reflection on what purpose or effect you are examining.  What language choices are you examining?  Is the scope of your analysis clear and appropriate?

Classwork:  Finish writing analytical paragraphs based on AP test passage

Homework:  Read independent book and work on synthesis prompt for checkpoint 3

3/12

Warm-up:  Label each set as synonyms or antonyms and define the words.

tumultuous … tranquil 

languid … indolent

oblique … indirect

gallantry … boorishness

congenial … hospitable

Classwork:  bloodthirsty passage 4 of AP test; start writing analytical paragraph using passages from AP test

Homework:  Read independent books and work on synthesis question for checkpoint 3

3/11

Warm-up:  What were the 2 most important passages or quotes in the 2nd third of your book?  Explain the importance of each.

Classwork:  Independent book quizzes, discussions with independent book groups about synthesis prompts and the book so far

Homework:  Read part 3 of independent book and work on final synthesis prompt (due 3/18)

3/8

Warm-up:  SLabel each set as synonyms or antonyms & define the words.

S1.  unassailable … irrefutable

S2.  contrarians … proponents

S3.  treatise … dissertation

S4.  sardonic … sincere

S5.  subsidize … endow

Classwork:  give back synthesis prompts and discuss improvements for next time such as providing bibliographical info, selecting a selection that is an appropriate length, and writing an introduction that considers both sides of the debatable issue that the prompt is about; continue bloodthirstying AP test passages

Homework:  finish part 2 of independent book and write a synthesis question and collect 2-3 outside sources

3/7

Warm-up:  Label each set of words as synonyms or antonyms and write what they mean. 

confidential … intimate

rigid … pliant

impressionistic … connotative

moralistic … ethical

aloof … engaged

Classwork: Bloodthirstying passages from the AP test

Homework:  Read independent book and work on synthesis question

3/5

Warm-up:  Review rhetorical terms in order to prepare for practice AP test.

Classwork:  Practice AP test

Homework:  Read independent books and work on second synthesis prompt

3/4

Warm-up:  Select 2 important moments from the first third of your book, and explain the importance. 

Classwork:  charting about the important moments of the first third of the book, writing at least 5 quiz questions on book, discussing synthesis prompts

Homework:  read independent book

3/1

Warm-up:  Answer (in a full page) question 3 from suggestions for writing on LOC pg 355.  Obviously you won’t have time for research, but you can take a stance and support it with your prior knowledge. 


Classwork:  go over answers to rhetoric and style questions and look at AP style multiple choice questions, time in book groups to discuss synthesis topics and work on reading

Homework:  finish first third of book and complete synthesis assignment.