Thursday, September 29, 2011

STUDYPATH* October 3-7, 2011

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
*Bedford Reader is required in class Monday and Tuesday; Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Silent Dancing" responses are due Tuesday; pages 162-169; questions 1, 3 meaning, questions 1, 3 writing strategies, and question 3 language, all on page 170
*"What AP Readers Long To See" handout
*Synthesis essays and Bedford Reader outlines are returned to students
*Their Eyes Were Watching God class discussion continues in class today

Tuesday
*Bedford Reader is required in class today for literary terms; test is scheduled for Friday before class discussion
*Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop test is scheduled for today; assignment for Units One-Three review is made in class and due Monday

Wednesday
*Prose passage #6 multiple choice practice
*Writer's Choice textbook is required in class today
*5 Steps to a 5 textbook lessons continue in class
*Summer multiple choice answers are discussed in groups

Thursday
*In-class essay is scheduled for today; this is a timed writing

Friday
*Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters Six-Ten three talking points per chapter (each connected to a literary device) are due today
*Bedford Reader assigned text and responses due Monday will be discussed in class

Saturday, September 24, 2011

STUDYPATH* September 26-30, 2011

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
Bedford Reader is required in class for class discussion of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" narrative selection
Synthesis essay is due tomorrow night at 11:59 P.M. on turnitin.com; NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
In-class writing assignment is scheduled for next week
Unit Two Vocabulary Workshop test is scheduled for tomorrow
"What AP Readers Long To See" handout is distributed to students in class today
Analyzing Rhetorical Situations handout discussion wraps up today in class
Rodriguez rewrites returned to students

Tuesday
Unit Two Vocabulary Workshop test is scheduled for today; Unit Three answers are due Friday
Bedford Reader is required in class today for literary terms
Their Eyes Were Watching God three talking points per chapter (Chapters One-Five) are due Friday for class discussion; each talking point must be connected to a literary device used by the author--an example will be provided in class

Wednesday
Prose passage #5 multiple choice work in class
Writer's Choice textbook is required in class today
Outlining for argument and persuasion from Bedford Reader is returned to students today; test on logical fallacies is scheduled for Friday before class discussion
5 Steps to a 5 textbook is introduced in class (pages xi, xv-xviii; 3-7)

Thursday
Unassigned Day-No School

Friday
Test on logical fallacies is scheduled for today
Their Eyes Were Watching God class discussion; fifteen talking points are due for Chapters One-Five of the novel
Weekend homework will be announced

Saturday, September 17, 2011

STUDYPATH* September 19-23, 2011

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR


Monday

Bedford Reader textbook is required in class today for reading assignment and literary terms 11-20
Vocabulary Workshop books are required in class today for explanation of Unit One test format; Unit Two answers are due Friday in class
Virginia Woolf essay based on AP prompt is due today
Richard Rodriguez and Florence Kelley essays are returned to students; Rodriguez rewrite checklist includes tone, diction, and syntactical devices such as loose, periodic, balanced and interrupted sentences

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
Bedford Reader textbook is required in class today for literary terms 11-20; narration reading assignment and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" writing assignment due Monday
(Assignment: Answer Question One and Four-Meaning; Answer Question One and Four-Writing Strategy; Answer Question Five-Language)
Unit One Vocabulary Workshop test is scheduled for today
Outlining Bedford Reader argument and persuasion is due today
Their Eyes Were Watching God novel assigned; talking points due Friday for Chapters One-Five class discussion

Wednesday
Synthesis essay assigned (access essay at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2001.html-use 2011 Form B synthesis essay download) and due Tuesday midnight on turnitin.com web site
SOAP and rhetorical square discussed in class
Prose Passage #4 multiple choice work in class

Thursday
Rodriguez rewrites due no later than today; new draft must be stapled to first draft
5 Steps to a 5 textbook assignment is scheduled in class

Friday
Class discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God is scheduled today; talking points must be submitted in class (this assignment is postponed because novels have not yet been assigned to students)
Unit Two Vocabulary Workshop answers due
Weekend homework will be announced

Saturday, September 03, 2011

STUDYPATH* 12-16, 2011

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

Monday
AP students will write a forty-minute timed essay using the annotations, prompt, and passage from the Richard Rodriguez excerpt.
Vocabulary Workshop textbooks distributed
Writer's Choice distributed
Opening Days Bulletin due
Locavore summer assignment essays returned

Tuesday
Bedford Reader is required in class for literary terms.
Vocabulary diagnostic

Wednesday
Bedford Reader literary terms 1-10 test
Rhetorical devices discussed in class; bring reader/writer notebooks from last year, if applicable

Thursday
Multiple choice practice
Woolf essay prompt distributed
"The Death of the Moth" Virginia Woolf; Bedford Readers due in class today
SOAP and rhetorical square discussed in class

Friday

Woolf essay due Monday
Vocabulary Workshop Unit One answers due today
Turnitin.com account setup due by Monday; log onto turnitin.com to create account
Weekend homework will be announced.