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
