Monday, November 28, 2005

FOURTEEN WEEK REPORT

1. The Glass Menagerie Act I due by Friday, December 2
2. The Glass Menagerie Act II due by Friday, December 9
3. Op-Ed Columnist Analysis due by Friday, December 2
4. Repetition-Wit, Pages 84-89 Cliffs Literary Terms test Monday, December 5
5. Coordination-Subordination, Exercises Two-Seven Due Monday, December 12
6. Outline "Introduction to the Argumentative Essay" by Friday, December 2
7. A.P. English Language Exercises in imitation (Momaday, White, Baldwin passages) due Friday, December 2
8. The Great Gatsby AP Long Form due Friday, December 16
9. Reflective Letter outline due Friday, December 16 (using Bloom's Affective Taxonomy)
10.Book Schedule: Anthology Mondays-Tuesdays; Novel Wednesdays-Thursdays; Cliffs Fridays
11.Off-Track Work: Two AP Long Forms; One AP Short Form; Five AP Essays Prompts; One Hundred Words High School Students Should Know; Three Op-Ed Columnist Analyses; Grammar Component (to be announced); Call To Action--Water Conservation focus (to be announced)

Monday, November 21, 2005

Weeks In Preview November 21-December 2

AP Students have been working on and will be assigned the following:

1. Walden similies and sentence mimicking examples
2. Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Emerson/Thoreau American Romanticism selections and graphic organizers/vocabulary/grammar components
3. Practice Test Multiple Choice Exams from Cliff AP Preparation Guide
4. Literary Terms 31-45 from Cliffs Preparation Guide
5. The Great Gatsby Chapters Three-Four-Five
6. Coordination and Subordination-Relationship Between Ideas in a Sentence handout
7. Start The Great Gatsby short form for early analysis in completion of AP Long Form (due third week in December)
8. Unit Six Vocabulary and Unit Seven Vocabulary practice and examinations
9. Grammar Unit (begins after Thanksgiving)
10.Grammar Unit-Clauses, Sentences, and Fragments practice
11.What is Argument? Introduction to the Argumentative Essay and Argument Comprehensive Review (begins after Thanksgiving)









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Monday, November 14, 2005

Weeks in Preview November 7-11, 14-18

AP Students have been working on and will be assigned the following:

1. Sentence Imitation Exercises lead to sentence mimicking (practicing formal and consultative language) Justification: The mimicking of sentences activities demonstrates insightful and well-constructed ideas that will form the initial building blocks of the paragraph, and therefore, the thought-on-paper processes that will eventually lead to the effective argument essays that proves a thesis
2. Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Emerson/Thoreau American Romanticism selections and graphic organizers/vocabulary/grammar components
3. Three novels/plays chosen from College Board's 100 for off-track AP Long Form analysis; rules include no copying of material, no outside sources, except those specifically called for in AP Long Form document, and certain titles (novels-plays) not accepted (MORE TO COME)
4. Literary Terms 31-45 from Cliffs Preparation Guide
5. The Great Gatsby Chapters Three-Four-Five
6. Unit Five and Unit Six from Vocabulary Workshop
7. Crevecoeur AP Essay (Cliffs) due Monday, November 14; late assignments are not accepted in semester's second half
8. Textbook checks will occur periodically in class
9. Plagiarism affirmation document due in class signed by student and parent
10.Grammar Unit-Clauses, Sentences, and Fragments practice
11.What is Argument? Introduction to the Argumentative Essay and Argument Comprehensive Review