Senior Exit Interviews day #2

Senior Exit Interviews day #1

LHS Total Student Digital Portfolio/Website due in class to "Class of 2018 LHS Total Student Portfolio." Class code on Slides and in the handout detailing assignment requirements. THIS IS NOT WHERE YOU TURN THE ASSIGNMENT IN. 

Unit 5 work for those who aren't taking the AP English test due at the end of class. 

• Focus on design and aesthetic
• Editing

• Focus on design and aesthetic
• Editing

• Hyperlink the SLOs in the footer to the pages/work samples that exemplify that area:
• Honorable Citizen hyperlinked to the Community Service page or one of its subpages that contains your evidence (attendance record and community service hours)
• Academically Strong hyperlinked to a course in one of the core disciplines (English, Math, Social Science, or Science) that contains a work sample that exemplifies this SLO
• Working Hard for Excellence hyperlinked to a course in one of the core disciplines (English, Math, Social Science, or Science) that contains a work sample that exemplifies this SLO and connect to your career choice/future plans

• Knowledgeable Communicator hyperlinked to Government/Economics subpage that contains the Senior Budget Project
• Soaring With Pride hyperlinked to Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities subpage for a sport, club, academic team, etc.

Monday 4/23-Friday 4/27

• Create footer with these 5 SLOs equally spaced at the bottom of the webpage:
• Honorable Citizen
• Academically Strong
• Working Hard for Excellence
• Knowledgeable Communicator
• Soaring with Pride

• Add content and work samples to each page/subpage. Required work samples from this year only, but all four years preferred. Remember, this is supposed to show the totality of who you are and what you’ve accomplished over the last 4 years of high school:
• AG (if you took Ag classes)
• Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities
• Community Service:
• REQUIRED:  Community service documentation of 25 completed hours
• REQUIRED:  Attendance record from senior year, semester one.
• OPTIONAL:  Other photos or documents for discussion purposes
• Electives
• English Language Arts
• Cross-curricular projects grades 9-11 (AP students exempt)
• Anti-bullying Campaign
• Exemplary work sample
• Mathematics
• Exemplary work sample
• Physical Education
• Science
• Exemplary work sample
• Social Science
• Budget Project
• You must have the score sheet from the teacher and key elements of the budget project
• May include brochures, pictures of apartment, bank logo, etc.
• Talking point:  How did the budget project help you realize your need to communicate in real-world circumstances? (Do NOT answer this question in writing on the webpage)

Monday 4/23-Friday 4/27

• Create footer with these 5 SLOs equally spaced at the bottom of the webpage:
• Honorable Citizen
• Academically Strong
• Working Hard for Excellence
• Knowledgeable Communicator
• Soaring with Pride

• Add content and work samples to each page/subpage. Required work samples from this year only, but all four years preferred. Remember, this is supposed to show the totality of who you are and what you’ve accomplished over the last 4 years of high school:
• AG (if you took Ag classes)
• Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities
• Community Service:
• REQUIRED:  Community service documentation of 25 completed hours
• REQUIRED:  Attendance record from senior year, semester one.
• OPTIONAL:  Other photos or documents for discussion purposes
• Electives
• English Language Arts
• Cross-curricular projects grades 9-11 (AP students exempt)
• Anti-bullying Campaign
• Exemplary work sample
• Mathematics
• Exemplary work sample
• Physical Education
• Science
• Exemplary work sample
• Social Science
• Budget Project
• You must have the score sheet from the teacher and key elements of the budget project
• May include brochures, pictures of apartment, bank logo, etc.
• Talking point:  How did the budget project help you realize your need to communicate in real-world circumstances? (Do NOT answer this question in writing on the webpage)

Analyze and annotate incorrect responses to MC AP practice test.

Monday 4/23-Friday 4/27

• Create footer with these 5 SLOs equally spaced at the bottom of the webpage:
• Honorable Citizen
• Academically Strong
• Working Hard for Excellence
• Knowledgeable Communicator
• Soaring with Pride

• Add content and work samples to each page/subpage. Required work samples from this year only, but all four years preferred. Remember, this is supposed to show the totality of who you are and what you’ve accomplished over the last 4 years of high school:
• AG (if you took Ag classes)
• Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities
• Community Service:
• REQUIRED:  Community service documentation of 25 completed hours
• REQUIRED:  Attendance record from senior year, semester one.
• OPTIONAL:  Other photos or documents for discussion purposes
• Electives
• English Language Arts
• Cross-curricular projects grades 9-11 (AP students exempt)
• Anti-bullying Campaign
• Exemplary work sample
• Mathematics
• Exemplary work sample
• Physical Education
• Science
• Exemplary work sample
• Social Science
• Budget Project
• You must have the score sheet from the teacher and key elements of the budget project
• May include brochures, pictures of apartment, bank logo, etc.
• Talking point:  How did the budget project help you realize your need to communicate in real-world circumstances? (Do NOT answer this question in writing on the webpage)

Revise AP essay to get to a "7". Must be handwritten.

Monday 4/23-Friday 4/27

• Create footer with these 5 SLOs equally spaced at the bottom of the webpage:
• Honorable Citizen
• Academically Strong
• Working Hard for Excellence
• Knowledgeable Communicator
• Soaring with Pride

• Add content and work samples to each page/subpage. Required work samples from this year only, but all four years preferred. Remember, this is supposed to show the totality of who you are and what you’ve accomplished over the last 4 years of high school:
• AG (if you took Ag classes)
• Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities
• Community Service:
• REQUIRED:  Community service documentation of 25 completed hours
• REQUIRED:  Attendance record from senior year, semester one.
• OPTIONAL:  Other photos or documents for discussion purposes
• Electives
• English Language Arts
• Cross-curricular projects grades 9-11 (AP students exempt)
• Anti-bullying Campaign
• Exemplary work sample
• Mathematics
• Exemplary work sample
• Physical Education
• Science
• Exemplary work sample
• Social Science
• Budget Project
• You must have the score sheet from the teacher and key elements of the budget project
• May include brochures, pictures of apartment, bank logo, etc.
• Talking point:  How did the budget project help you realize your need to communicate in real-world circumstances? (Do NOT answer this question in writing on the webpage)

• Add content to homepage
• Must include:
• Name (First and Last, middle optional; abbreviated forms of names should appear in the middle with quotes around it:  James “Jimmy” Smith)
• Years Attended (ex. 2014-2018)
• Introduction--can be written or a video
• Must be school appropriate and of a quality that could be shown to colleges or potential employers
• Must convey an implied theme as to who you are as a person (Who are you? What do you want others to know about you? What is the impression you want to give about yourself? What’s important to you? What makes you, you? Why are you an embodiment of what it means to be a HAWK?)
• Senior photo  
• If you did not purchase your photo from ProShots, the yearbook staff and Ms. Harp-Sligh cannot release your photo.
• Highlights--over the course of all four years of high school
• 3-6

• Senior Photo
• If you did not purchase your senior portrait, do not ask yearbook for a copy
• Signed Recognition of Receipt due

Start making 5x7 notecards for the novels read this year--Themes, symbols, motifs, archetypes, characterization, significant quotes; read a modern novel

Due:  

• Evaluation of a peer’s essay based on AP rubric and make suggestions of what the writer would need to do to get to the next level.
• Revised Kafka Essay with a focus on sophistication of language and syntax.

In class:

• Poem-a-day
• Revise the AP essay based on peer’s comments to make it worthy of a 7 or 8 score. Must be handwritten.
• Work on senior digital portfolio.

• Design and create subpages for the remaining subject areas
• Subpages are for each course taken in that subject area
• Should include banners that reflect the course content

Kafka essay draft #1 (p. 1019 #6)

• Construct website pages for each subject area:
• AG (if you took Ag classes)
• Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities
• Community Service
• Electives (such as Art, Music, Drama, Foreign Language)
• English Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Physical Education
• Science
• Social Science
• Design and create subpages (subpages are the individual courses you took/are taking within each discipline) for 2 subject areas
• Subpages are for each course taken in that subject area
• Should include banners that reflect the course content

• Review process
• Answer questions
• Individual Work time--decide on whether to create a new site or to convert the English Portfolio Website

Homework:

• Create a webpage through Google Sites
• Settings--visible to [email protected]
• Gather evidence (such as previous projects, performances, and assignments) for website (there will be daily due dates for each slide, so use the weekend to find as much of it ahead of time).

Syntax grid (all 20 sentences).

12th grade life science exam--report to Library at the beginning of class. Periods 1 and 4 in the computer lab; period 2 in the main library using Chromebooks

Answer 1/2 page for assigned questions from p. 1224

Begin reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor; continue reading Pride and Prejudice

Finish reading Daisy Miller and discussion time; assigned question on form and meaning; Discuss the first few chapters of Pride and Prejudice

Today in  class students will write a mini-epic poem following a set of poetic conventions and stylistic elements collaboratively decided upon. 

Text analysis question #10 and Text criticism #11 p. 835 "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Today students reviewed their work on "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" examined a multiple choice AP exam.

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Part VI--read and answer side margin questions

Due:  Form and Meaning in Poetry; from Coleridge’s Dreamscape:  “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

In class:  

• Poem-a-day
• The Lake Poets: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Read, Highlight and Annotate)
• Read:   The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Due:

Ch. 14 notes and exercises; slide 12 notes

 

In class:  review homework with a partner and do slide 13 all

Questions for ch. 13

Due:  Notes for Ch. 13

 

In class:  Review notes and do exercises with partner

Finish the rest of slide 9 in the Poetry presentation.

Due:  Ch. 11 activities (last 2 bullet points); notes for ch. 12 (directions on the slides); bring note cards

 

In class: 

Due:

In class:

• Answer questions for “Batter My Heart, Three Personed God” by John Donne (p. 122-123)
• Answer questions for “American Holiday” by Joyce Carol Oates (p. 128-129)

Notes for ch. 7 (in notebook)

Slide 5--read and take notes p. 67-79 (notes go in poetry notebook)--see slide for specific requirements

Due at beginning of class:  Activity on p. 24; first two columns of poetic terms on 3''x5'' notecards.

Begin Poetry Unit; take notes and do activity from Ch. 2

In class:  Check out textbook and Sound and Sense; take notes from ch. 2 in textbook p. 21-24

 

A Christmas Carol Activity

Timed AP Essay

A Christmas Carol notes

Othello slides 53-61

Finish Act II questions 

Timed MC test on Othello

Timed in-class essay

Final draft of Possession Essay--must bring a typed paper copy and submit electronically to Turnitin.com.

 

Thank you!

Act 1.3 questions--see slides for details and directions

Act 1.1-1.2 questions--see slides for directions and expectations

Timed AP style essay

Othello background research--see slide 4 for resources

Next draft of Possession essay due (this can count as your final draft if you're ready; an appointment must be made for any further essay help)

Read your novels 1 hour each night (that's 11 hours of reading before 11/27). You will be expected to be 3/4 of the way through your novel. 

Revised paper copy of Possession essay

Analysis of missed questions from MC AP test:  Explain why the correct answer the correct answer, provide textual evidence, and explain why you got it wrong.

Table of Contents and Title Page

Find a novel of literary merit on the topic of cruelty, deceit, or jealousy. This will be your independent reading novel for the next 2-3 weeks. 

Resume and Reference Page 

Practice AP test (MC + Essay)

Revised essay (paper copy)

Paper copy of Draft 1 Possession essay due at the beginning of class. 

Job Ad

Letter of Recommendation #2--must be a hard-copy (no electronic copies will be accepted)

Don't forget to submit your community service hours form to Ms. Brauer. They are due today by 3:30!!!

Draft 1 of Possession essay due end of class to turnitin.com

Finish Possession

Cover Letter

Letter of Recommendation #1--Must bring a paper copy to class (no electronic submissions accepted)

Read Ch. 11-15 in Possession

 

Research

Features of Victorian Literature and Society

Using the databases available to you through the school library, find scholarly articles. Print 3-4 of them, then create a set of notes on your findings on 5x8 index cards (1 for each article)

Possession  

What are the various meanings of this word?

Write a ½-1 page composition detailing the possible meanings of this word in a multitude of ways in an in-depth manner.

 

Research

Features of Mystery Novels

Use literary websites or books to look for these archetypal features. Print the article (s) and take notes on your findings on a 5x8 index card.

Revised, final draft of Resume--must be printed

Keep reading your 2nd 11th grade novel; read and take notes on p. 33-34 in Writing for Literature book.

Revised introduction for Frankenstein essay. Due at the beginning of class.

 Note cards for previous pieces of literature from grades 9-11 due beginning of class

 Read a selection from English 11. The expectation is for you to read for 1 hour a night, every night, for 1 week.

 Biblical allusion assignment due Friday 9/1

 Evaluate timed essay based on rubric

Practice AP MC Test

Practice AP Essay Test

 Signed Syllabus Due