4/30

Warm-up: Read LOC pg 698-703, and then complete Exercise 2 on pg 704.

Classwork:  Read pg 420-423; then complete Exercise 1.

Read pg 498 – 501; then complete Exercise 1.

Read pg 592-3; then complete Exercise 1 & 2.

Homework:  study for AP test

4/29

Warm-up:  What can you tell about these sources from their footnotes?

1. Keith Schneider, “Salt Lake City is Finding a Payoff in Conservation,” New York Times, November 7, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/businessspecial3/07cities.html (accessed November 14, 2007).

2.  Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! : American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).

Classwork:  Read “The Traveling Bra Salesman’s Lesson” and answer questions 2, 4, 5 and 10.  Complete online survey for PGCPS


Homework:  study for AP test

4/26

Warm-up:  Read the following sentences. Underline the participial phrases and add any necessary commas.

1. Landing safely on the runway the plane neared the airport.

2. The children covered in mud ran through the kitchen.

3. The vegetables grown in my garden are organic.

4. The students talking during the movie had to stay after class.

Classwork:  AP multiple choice passage and analytical outline

Homework:  Final typed essay due with drafts of other 2 essays

4/25

Warm-up:  Explain the difference between each group of words and write a sentence for each using it correctly.

1.  there/their/they’re  2.  your/you’re

3.  themselves/theirselves  4.  effect/affect

5.  then/than  6.  except/accept

7.  apart/ a part  8.  who/which/that

Classwork:  choose which essay you will revise and work on revisions

Homework:  finish essay no later than Monday (typed), study for AP tests

4/24

Warm-up:  Brainstorm a list of at least 15 active verbs that would be useful in analytical essays to reveal what an author is doing. 

Classwork:  writing in class analytical essay, notebook check

Homework:  study for AP test

4/23

Warm-up:  Review your SEXI handout, your packet of templates from They Say, I Say, and/or the chapter about Analytical essays from 5 Steps to a 5.  What are some important tips to remember about writing analytical essays?  Write at least 4 and explain.  

Classwork:  writing a practice analytical paragraph

Homework:  Study for AP tests

4/22

Warm-up:  Write a one page response in which you take a position on whether the green movement is going far enough according to Roosevelt’s ideal.  

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”  -Theodore Roosevelt

Classwork:  Read essay on pg 862-866 and complete a graphic organizer like the one on pg 45-46 of LOC - make your purposes and effects deeply insightful

Homework:  study for AP tests

4/19

Warm-up:  On the AP test with only 40 minutes to write, what score do you think you are likely to get on each of the 3 types of essays?  What will be your best?  Worst?  Why?

Take the score you are likely to get on each essay and multiply each number by 3.0556.  Write down each of those answers.

Classwork:  write argumentative essay about doubt

Homework:  study for AP test, optional revisions of ind. book essays due Monday

4/18

Warm-up:  Label each pair as synonyms or antonyms and define.

1. sublime … diabolical

2. felicity … contentment

3.  unvarnished … embellished

4.  fastidiousness … assiduousness

5.  propriety … rudeness

Classwork:  bloodthirsty the rest of the practice AP test

Homework:  study for AP tests

4/17

Warm-up:
Pd 1 - reread and SOAPSTone passage 2
Pd 3 - reread and SOAPSTone passage 3

Classwork:  go over A-Z test, work on bloodthirsty of AP test

Homework:  Study for AP tests

4/16

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

1. hobbled … limited

2.  prominence … eminence

3.  substantiate … disprove

4.  garnered … reaped

5.  empirical … observed

Classwork:  AP test preregistration, bloodthirsty of AP test

Homework:  study for AP tests

4/15

Warm-up:  Take a footnotes handout from the front stool.  Read it and take notes about at least 5 things that you learned about footnotes.  DO NOT write on the handout.

Classwork:  AP practice test

Homework:  study for AP test

4/12

Warm-up:  Copy these synthesis tips and add 3 of your own. 
Use topic sentences to present REASONS for taking your stance; do NOT begin with a source.
If you use exact language, enclose it in quotation marks.
Make it clear where you begin and end using a source.  If there is more than one sentence where you are referring to the source you may need both a signal phrase and parenthetical documentation.
Place the period of the sentence after the parentheses of citations.

Classwork:  Write a synthesis essay about prompt # 1 OR 2 on pg 417 of LOC.  You must use at least 3 sources, but they can be anything from the education or gender chapter.

Homework:  Sign up for an account at apscore.org.  Study for Monday's practice AP test

4/11

Warm-up:  Choose a quote from Walker’s essay that you think is important and discuss why.

Classwork:  discuss "Putting Down the Gun" and read and answer questions about "Boy Problems"

Homework:  Write an argumentative question about the intersection and gender that you think is interesting and discuss how you would link 4 sources to that question.

4/10

Warm-up:  What books do you find compelling?  Are they taught in schools?  Why or why not?

Classwork:  Discuss "Why Johnny Won't Read" and read and answer questions about "Mind over Muscle"

Homework:  Read "Putting Down the Gun" on LoC pg 412-414 and answer questions 1-5

4/9

Warm-up:  List at least 10 words that could be used to describe an author’s style.  Then describe the style of at least 3 texts that we have read this year. 

Classwork:  A-Z test

Homework:  Read "Why Johnny Won't Read" LOC pg 408-410 and answer 1-3

4/8

Warm-up:  Give an example of understatement and of zeugma.

Classwork:  Review for A-Z test

Homework:  Study for A-Z test