IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENTS AND CLASS UPDATES TRUMP PUBLISHED BLOGS
Monday
1. Words High School Students Should Know will resume this week; test next week
2. Textbook Weekly Schedule: Anthology M-T; Vocabulary W; Bedford Th-F
3. Level “F” Vocabulary Unit Three answers due in class today
4. Grammar “Pronouns” lesson on Thursday; Weekly AP Prompt Essay Friday, instead of Thursday because of Minimum Day Schedule
5. Vantage Lab scheduled for Tuesday, October 2
6. Bedford Reader “The Death of the Moth” papers recollected for scoring
7. Cornell Notes for AP Test Two (to be scheduled): Twelve types of sentences, AP Exam Format; Writers’ Attitudes; Levels of Questioning; Woolf Tone, Syntax, and Diction; Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases
8. Franklin Tone essay assigned, possibly as Friday in-class timed writing (#4)
9. Period Four—Great Gatsby homework assignment due today; read Chapter One and record ten talking points; Period One—Gatsby book and Chapter One homework assigned
10. Anthology due in class for reading assignment
11. Period One-- Bedford Reader in-class assignment; “The Death of the Moth” (695) due today
Tuesday
MEET IN VANTAGE LAB TODAY
1. AP Rhetorical Tool: Balanced, Interrupted, Periodic and Loose Sentences
2. 100 Words High School Students Should Know: Next ten words assigned
3. Cornell Notes (see #7 from Monday) continued in class today
4. Vocabulary Unit Three Level “F” Examination
5. AP Prose Passage Multiple Choice Practice in class
6. Bedford Reader Terms 1-10 Test in class today
7. Period One--Great Gatsby books assigned to students; homework assignment due today; read Chapter One and record ten talking points
Wednesday
1. Back to School Night tomorrow night; 6:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. in Room 120
2. Levels of Questioning and SOAPS Strategies; Cornell Notes continued
3. Level “F” Unit Four assigned in class; vocabulary books due in class
4. Benjamin Franklin Tone in-class essay on Friday
5. Grammar assigned as homework
Thursday (Minimum Day) BACK-TO-SCHOOL NIGHT
1. Bedford Reader due in class today
2. Bedford Reader Next Ten Terms introduced in class today
3. Consultative Writing Assignment—Los Angeles Times editorial columnist; due Monday
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. Benjamin Franklin Tone in-class essay
3. Bedford Reader Literary Next Ten Terms due on Tuesday
4. Check blog Sunday evening for updated assignments and announcements
