In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
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Monday is a legal holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. School is not in session.
Tuesday's agenda includes the wrap-up discussion of the prologue and Chapters One-Five of Ellison's Invisible Man. Dialectical journal entries for Chapters Six-Ten (two entries per chapter) are due on Friday for the next class discussion. The "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell selection from Language of Composition responses are due today; no late exceptions since this assignment could have been e-mailed to meet the deadline. Bedford Readers are due in class today for the last five literary terms and the next assigned reading selection.
The multiple choice test for Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is due Wednesday; this assignment will be scored and a grade entered for each student. Language of Composition books are due in class today for the next assigned reading selection.
Period Two's letter to the editor for the Los Angeles Times editorial response is due Thursday. Period Three will receive a similar assignment on Thursday. The test for Vocabulary Workshop Units One-Six is scheduled in class today.
Final exams are scheduled and included on the school master calendar; AP English Language students will write one essay and complete a sixty-minute multiple choice examination during the two-hour final.
Be certain to notate quotes and textual evidence for the upcoming Invisible Man essay; two complete typed copies will be required from each student.
Friday discussion of Invisible Man will continue with Chapters Six-Ten journal responses.
If there are questions or concerns, e-mail me at jcarmicl@lausd.net in advance of assignment deadlines.
