Here is a preview of the week for AP students:
1. Op/Ed Writer chosen; Column followed weekly; Practice consultative/formal language using six questions handout
2. AP Quizzes: Unit II Vocabulary; AP Quiz Two-Types of Sentences, Levels of Questioning, Conjuctive Adverbs/Transitions
3. Colonial Era Packet: Complete by Friday; re-read "Of Plymouth Plantation," "Offer of Help," and "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God"
4. Elements of Rhetorical Analysis handout: Practice passages and search for ethos, pathos, logos appeals
5. AP Long Form: Their Eyes Were Watching God ; Work on handout in preparation for submission at end of novel
6. Grammar: Independent and Subordinate Clauses handouts
Reminder: Keep all assigned work for reflective letter at end of semester.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Week In Preview September 19-23
Goals for this week include:
Literary Terms 1-15 with upcoming test of words spelled and defined from memory
Richard Rodriguez AP Exam prompt with concentration on Tone/Temperature Chart
Colonial Period's "Of Plymouth Plantation","Offer of Help", and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from AMLIT Anthology
Second AP Quiz featuring sentence types and structures, levels of questioning, language tone and style, grammar, and usage
Chapters 11. 12. 13, 14, 15 of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and AP Long and Short Forms
Unit Two Level F Vocabulary and Test
OP/ED Writer Choice and first independent Consultative/Formal Register feedback practice
Check web log frequently for additions
E-mail: jcarmicl@lausd.k12.ca.us
Phone: 323-461-3891 Extension 419
Literary Terms 1-15 with upcoming test of words spelled and defined from memory
Richard Rodriguez AP Exam prompt with concentration on Tone/Temperature Chart
Colonial Period's "Of Plymouth Plantation","Offer of Help", and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from AMLIT Anthology
Second AP Quiz featuring sentence types and structures, levels of questioning, language tone and style, grammar, and usage
Chapters 11. 12. 13, 14, 15 of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and AP Long and Short Forms
Unit Two Level F Vocabulary and Test
OP/ED Writer Choice and first independent Consultative/Formal Register feedback practice
Check web log frequently for additions
E-mail: jcarmicl@lausd.k12.ca.us
Phone: 323-461-3891 Extension 419
Monday, September 12, 2005
Week In Preview
AP Students, here are assignments to be completed this week.
Read Chapters 6-10 of Hurston and begin completion of AP Long and Short Form for novel. Make notes of important vocabulary.
Study and commit to memory the first fifteen of eighty-five literary terms.
Read, analyze, and rewrite the Woolf AP prompt to earn a higher score if you achieved any score less than a nine.
Continue to complete Unit 1 vocabulary in Level F book and prepare for exam on the first twenty words.
Spend time analyzing the Rodriguez AP prompt for class discussion on tone. An essay is scheduled for this week or next, and becomes a primer for an in-class timed writing for a future AP prompt.
The rhetorical square is our next analytical tool and will be introduced by week's end.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!! Never forget that.
Read Chapters 6-10 of Hurston and begin completion of AP Long and Short Form for novel. Make notes of important vocabulary.
Study and commit to memory the first fifteen of eighty-five literary terms.
Read, analyze, and rewrite the Woolf AP prompt to earn a higher score if you achieved any score less than a nine.
Continue to complete Unit 1 vocabulary in Level F book and prepare for exam on the first twenty words.
Spend time analyzing the Rodriguez AP prompt for class discussion on tone. An essay is scheduled for this week or next, and becomes a primer for an in-class timed writing for a future AP prompt.
The rhetorical square is our next analytical tool and will be introduced by week's end.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!! Never forget that.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
AP English Update
Here are assignments AP English should be working on both in and out of class:
1. Begin reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and record talking points for class discussion.
2. Study fifteen literary terms for upcoming test.
3. Continue to record Cornell Notes for sentence types and sentence structure lectures.
4. Choose op/ed writer from names suggested in class; begin to follow one writer's column on a weekly or bi-weekly basis for consultative/formal language register practice.
1. Begin reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and record talking points for class discussion.
2. Study fifteen literary terms for upcoming test.
3. Continue to record Cornell Notes for sentence types and sentence structure lectures.
4. Choose op/ed writer from names suggested in class; begin to follow one writer's column on a weekly or bi-weekly basis for consultative/formal language register practice.
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