Due:  Do the Multiple Choice test. Take time to analyze the passage and carefully consider each question.

 

In class:

• 5-a-day
• Review homework
• Timed AP Essay--40 minutes

Due:  Write an introduction with thesis statement for the essay

 

• 5-a-day
• Write the essay starting from the introduction written for homework (don’t rewrite it)--time for 30 minutes
• Discuss the essay and the process

Due:  analyze missed test questions (same was as last time) and evaluate/score essay based on rubric

 

• 5-a-day
• Question 2 Essay:  Analyze and break down the writing prompt then re-write the prompt in their own words.
• Read the passage and take notes
• Look up words that are unknown/unclear
• Identify rhetorical strategies in the prompt and explain them in a set of notes

In class:

• Study for vocab quiz (5 min.)
• List 26 Quiz
• Begin List 27
• Grammar:  Misplaced Modifiers slides 2-10; 16-27 due F 5/3 (I have the students’ grammar notebooks. You will need to take the notes on a separate set of pages and add them to the notebooks later. Ex. staple or glue)

Due:  Analyze the questions they missed in the same manner as we’ve done all year:  explain why they missed the question (s) they missed, explain why the right answer is the right answer, find textual evidence and/or give a definition for words/terms they don’t know/forgot.

 

• 5-a-day
• Timed Multiple Choice (MC) test--14 minutes.
• Timed Essay test:  40 minutes

Due:  signed recognition of receipt (for senior exit interview/webpage portfolio)

In class:

• Poem-a-day
• Watch the morning announcements (please project). There’s a link on the side to the video announcements:  https://lhs.gvusd.org/apps/pages/ASB
• Another MC AP test: 5 minutes to read the passage and really understand it.
• write a quick summary explaining what they understand the passage to be about.
• You may do the first 9-10 (1 per person) round-table style with everyone collaborating and discussing as a group, then they can do the next 5 with a partner (Usually there’s only about 10-15 questions per passage.This should take the bulk of the period.

see slide 44

Due:  Sources 4-7

In class:

Due:  List 24

In class:

see slide 44

Due at beginning of class:  2 source analyses

In class:  

see slide 44

see slide 44

Due:  Grammar Notes

In class:  do next set of slides 40-45; use the rest of class to work on your research project

Research Essay

Using the issue you chose in Chapter 3, find (and download to a pdf/Google Doc--okay to print, but the class has to do things the same way, so decide) each of these types of sources to support your argument:

• Newspaper Article
• Academic Journal Article
• Advertisement or Political Cartoon
• Passage from a Book--may go to library and get a copy made or scanned
• Website/Online Article
• Magazine Article
• Editorial
• Essay

Due:  Thursday 3/14 at the beginning of class

For each of these sources you must:

• Write a MLA citation at the top of the page--due Thursday 3/14 in class
• Read, highlight, and annotate--due Thursday 3/14 in class

AP Lang--submit essays to turnitin.com; give sub paper copies

 

AP Lang and Lit--Timed writes (40 min.)

Revised Community Service/ Dumbest Generation Essay due; must be printed. Here are the notes/directions for self-review.

In class:

In class:

Due:  Dred Scott Decision PT Parts 2 (will be checked in previously attached area); submit "Speech in Springfield, IL" by Abraham Lincoln here.

 

In class:  

 

Due:  Draft 1:  Community Service Essay--bring paper copy for peer review

 

 

Due:  Community Essay (from p. 153)--2-3 pages typed, MLA style. Bring a paper copy AND submit to turnitin.com.

 

In class:  Timed essay

Due:  Walk through the “Writing a Synthesis Essay” and do the activities (p. 160-166)

 

In class:  

Due:  List 20 5-a-day; Dred Scott PT Part 1 + annotated passage

 

In class:  

Due:  second bullet point from slide 39:  Read the passages from Conversation:  Mandatory Community Service Essay p. 153-9

 

In class:  

Due:  Ch. 3 Essay--submit to Turnitin.com

In class:  In class:  Do the first bulleted point from slide 39: Read, take notes, and do activities p. 145-152

Due:  Understanding Modifiers Slides 56-61; List 18

 

In class:

Due:  Note cards

In class:  Work on Essays

Due: 

In class:

 

In class:

• 5-a-day--Monday’s and Tuesday’s
• Finish Slide 37 #3 (can do for homework if the time is needed for the video)
• Work on editing the AP Language promotional video

Due: 

In class:

 

 

Today in class we reviewed previous work. No new homework was given.

In class: 

Slide 37 by the end of class

Slide 36

Due:  Slide 34

In class:  Slide 35

Due:  Slide 32

In class:  Slide 33 and begin Slide 34

Due:  List 13

Due:  Final Draft (Script Style Papers); Revised Draft (Essay Style Papers)

In class: 

List 13; Revise and analyze previous AP MC and Essay Tests; Revise essay

 

due at beginning of class: Revised essay and bring paper copy

Due:  Political Parties part 3 and part 4

In class:  Political Parties part 5--to be submitted to classroom

Due:  Rhetorical Precis for Prose, Emerson, and Alexie

 

In class: 

Read:  "Reading and Writing as a Conversation," "Writing to Make Claims About a Text," and "Writing to Extend the Conversation"--be sure to highlight and annotate as you read.

 

Due:  Grammar Exercises #5

Due:  Political Parties parts 1 and 2

 

In class:  Political parties part 3 and 4

In class:  Finish Ch. 5 grammar exercises; begin ch. 5 essay

Due:  Completed Grammar Slides for "usage"

In class: Political Parties Performance task part 1 and 2

Slide 13

Finish Slide 13 and turn in on Thursday

Due:

Grammar slides for "usage"; I will go over the rest of directions in class.

Due:

In class:  

See attached photograph for directions. Do this for both MC tests.

In class:  Mass Hysteria Part 4--submit to turnitin.com

Due:  List 10 SAT vocab; Mass Hysteria part 3 (upload in class)

 

In class:  Quiz and Timed write

Due:  List 9

In class: Quiz, begin list 10; Mass Hysteria Part 3

Final draft Caged Bird essay due to turnitin.com at the beginning of class. 

 

In class:  Begin next unit

• Slide 14 Voter Ballot/ Information Guide Activity labeled Detour #1 Directions
• #1-2

In class:  peer review, edit and revise Caged Bird Essay

Due:  SAT list #8; Mass Hysteria Part 1

In class:  Quiz, begin list 9, review Mass Hysteria Part 1; do Mass Hysteria Part 2

Draft 2 due at the end of class on T 10/9 (submit to Classroom); Bring a paper copy to class on Monday 10/15

Typed draft #2 of Caged Bird essay

Due:  SAT List #7; Mass Hysteria Part I

In class:  begin list 8 and Mass Hysteria Part 2

Due:  SAT List #6; Final Draft of Cover Letter and Reference Page

In class:  Begin performance task:  Mass Hysteria part 1

Caged Bird Timed Write

Final draft of cover letter; reference page. Must bring paper copies of both.

Due:  SAT Vocab. list 5; Cover letter draft

In class: 

Last 3 chapters of DJ + 5 more terms from 60 figures due first 30 min. of class

2 more chapters completed for DJ

Complete the first chapter of your assigned section for the Caged Bird dialectical journal. See Slides for directions and requirements.

Slide 8, #s 3-5

• 5-a-day 
• Resume

• Begin List #3
• SAT Vocab Quiz
• Resume writing

Caged Bird follow-up assignments (assigned and worked on in class Tuesday 8/28)

Terms test.

Due:  5-a-day 

In class: 

Due:  Completed Posters for Terms

In class:  Terms Activity #2 (add to slide deck--posted on classroom)

HW:  STUDY for terms test

Signed Syllabus Due at the Beginning of class

Today in class students took a Multiple Choice (MC) AP test and wrote an AP Essay. Each were timed. If you were absent today, please make up the tests during tutorial this week or next week.

Summer Assignment Due