In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Period Two's letter to the editor assignment response to the Daum column is due Tuesday. If papers are delivered this week, Period Three will write a letter to the editor that will be due on Friday, December 18
Pages 72-83 of Vocabulary Workshop review for Units One-Six is due Monday; the Unit One-Six Cumulative Test will be scheduled later this week or after the holiday break.
Great Gatsby DCQ is due on Tuesday.
Sign-in codes and user names will be issued this week for gomyaccess.com, which students will use to compose and submit the final essay on Great Gatsby due January 11, 2010. Textual evidence and proper citations will be required.
Talking points for Great Gatsby Chapters Seven-Nine are scheduled for Monday. The film will be screened on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
The Booker T. Washington piece rhetoric question responses from Language of Composition are due Wednesday.
Water Politics Case Three unit test and class activity has been postponed until after the holiday break.
The global warming synthesis essay is due today, Monday.
Students will complete reading and dialectical journal entries for Invisible Man. Specific information will be assigned by week's end.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 05, 2009
STUDYPATH* December 7-11, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Students will complete all Vocabulary Workshop pages between the end of Unit Six and the beginning of Unit Seven in preparation for the Unit One-Six Cumulative Test, scheduled for next week in class.
Letter to the Editor response is due from Period Three on Tuesday. Period Two will write a Letter to the Editor response on Thursday and submit it the following Tuesday.
The Great Gatsby Chapters Seven-Nine talking points are due Friday for the usual class discussion. Screening of the film will be scheduled for next week. The essay for the novel will be completed online in the Vantage Writing Lab with a date yet to be set. The Gatsby DCQ activity will be assigned as homework with a due date to be announced. The Gatsby compare-contrast essay is due today.
The Bedford Reader literary terms will be reviewed in class on Monday and the test is scheduled for the next day. Language of Composition books should be brought on Tuesday for the Booker T. Washington selection review and rhetoric questions to be assigned.
Water Politics Case Two activity continues on Wednesday with Case Three to be assigned. A Writer's Choice grammar assignment is also scheduled for today so books should be brought to class.
The environmental synthesis essay will be written in class on Thursday; reading selections A-F will be provided for students before the essay.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Students will complete all Vocabulary Workshop pages between the end of Unit Six and the beginning of Unit Seven in preparation for the Unit One-Six Cumulative Test, scheduled for next week in class.
Letter to the Editor response is due from Period Three on Tuesday. Period Two will write a Letter to the Editor response on Thursday and submit it the following Tuesday.
The Great Gatsby Chapters Seven-Nine talking points are due Friday for the usual class discussion. Screening of the film will be scheduled for next week. The essay for the novel will be completed online in the Vantage Writing Lab with a date yet to be set. The Gatsby DCQ activity will be assigned as homework with a due date to be announced. The Gatsby compare-contrast essay is due today.
The Bedford Reader literary terms will be reviewed in class on Monday and the test is scheduled for the next day. Language of Composition books should be brought on Tuesday for the Booker T. Washington selection review and rhetoric questions to be assigned.
Water Politics Case Two activity continues on Wednesday with Case Three to be assigned. A Writer's Choice grammar assignment is also scheduled for today so books should be brought to class.
The environmental synthesis essay will be written in class on Thursday; reading selections A-F will be provided for students before the essay.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
STUDYPATH* November 30-December 4, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Period Three will write a letter to the editor on Thursday for homework and submit it on Tuesday of next week.
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due Monday for both classes; test is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday.
Students will bring The Great Gatsby novels to class on Friday for Chapters Four-Six class discussion; five talking points per chapter are due on Friday. Gatsby assignments to accompany the novel will be scheduled in class either as classwork or homework.
Bedford Reader is due this week on Monday and Tuesday, and Language of Composition should be brought to class on Tuesday; the Swift essay "A Modest Proposal" test will be completed either in class or as homework.
Water Politics Case Two will be discussed on Wednesday in class; unit test is due on Wednesday. There will also be a grammar assignment from Writer's Choice and that text should be brought to class.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Period Three will write a letter to the editor on Thursday for homework and submit it on Tuesday of next week.
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due Monday for both classes; test is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday.
Students will bring The Great Gatsby novels to class on Friday for Chapters Four-Six class discussion; five talking points per chapter are due on Friday. Gatsby assignments to accompany the novel will be scheduled in class either as classwork or homework.
Bedford Reader is due this week on Monday and Tuesday, and Language of Composition should be brought to class on Tuesday; the Swift essay "A Modest Proposal" test will be completed either in class or as homework.
Water Politics Case Two will be discussed on Wednesday in class; unit test is due on Wednesday. There will also be a grammar assignment from Writer's Choice and that text should be brought to class.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
STUDYPATH* November 23-27, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Thursday and Friday are school holidays.
Period Two must submit the letter to the editor on Tuesday.
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due on Monday for both classes.
Students will bring The Great Gatsby novels to class on Monday for wrap up of Chapters One-Three class discussion.
Bedford Reader is not due this week, but Language of Composition should be brought to class on Tuesday; students should also re-read the Swift essay "A Modest Proposal" and expect a test on this reading selection.
Water Politics Case One will be discussed on Wednesday in class.
Check blog next Sunday night for assignments and texts due for November 30-December 4 instructional period.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Thursday and Friday are school holidays.
Period Two must submit the letter to the editor on Tuesday.
Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers are due on Monday for both classes.
Students will bring The Great Gatsby novels to class on Monday for wrap up of Chapters One-Three class discussion.
Bedford Reader is not due this week, but Language of Composition should be brought to class on Tuesday; students should also re-read the Swift essay "A Modest Proposal" and expect a test on this reading selection.
Water Politics Case One will be discussed on Wednesday in class.
Check blog next Sunday night for assignments and texts due for November 30-December 4 instructional period.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
STUDYPATH* November 16-20, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Five test is scheduled for Tuesday in class. Unit Six answers are due on Thursday and the next unit test will be scheduled.
An on-demand writing assignment is scheduled for Thursday. The prompt will be distributed the day before so students may read the prompt and the passages ahead of the in-class essay due at the end of the period Thursday.
Both AP classes are scheduled to complete either diction or detail assignments, which will be due at the end of the week.
A reading and writing assignment from Language of Composition has been made and is due on Tuesday. The selection is "A Modest Proposal," an essay by Jonathan Swift.
The third period AP class has a letter to the editor also due on Tuesday as students respond to a Los Angeles Times editorial.
A grammar assignment is scheduled for Wednesday when textbooks are due in class.
Bring Bedford Reader to class on Monday and Tuesday when the next reading selections will be assigned. Literary terms from this textbook will also be reviewed and the next test scheduled.
The Great Gatsby novels have been distributed and writing assignments of five talking points per chapters for Chapters One-Three are due Friday, when the class will participate in a class discussion.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Five test is scheduled for Tuesday in class. Unit Six answers are due on Thursday and the next unit test will be scheduled.
An on-demand writing assignment is scheduled for Thursday. The prompt will be distributed the day before so students may read the prompt and the passages ahead of the in-class essay due at the end of the period Thursday.
Both AP classes are scheduled to complete either diction or detail assignments, which will be due at the end of the week.
A reading and writing assignment from Language of Composition has been made and is due on Tuesday. The selection is "A Modest Proposal," an essay by Jonathan Swift.
The third period AP class has a letter to the editor also due on Tuesday as students respond to a Los Angeles Times editorial.
A grammar assignment is scheduled for Wednesday when textbooks are due in class.
Bring Bedford Reader to class on Monday and Tuesday when the next reading selections will be assigned. Literary terms from this textbook will also be reviewed and the next test scheduled.
The Great Gatsby novels have been distributed and writing assignments of five talking points per chapters for Chapters One-Three are due Friday, when the class will participate in a class discussion.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
STUDYPATH* November 9-13, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Four test is scheduled for Tuesday in class. Unit Five answers are due on Thursday and the next unit test will be scheduled.
The first synthesis essay is due on Monday. Students used sources A-H to compose a well-written, tightly-constructed composition at home.
Both AP classes were scheduled with either detail or diction prompt homework assignments, which had different due dates.
There is no school on Wednesday, Veterans Day.
Grammar assignment for this week is postponed because of the holiday; however the Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop answers are due Thursday.
Bring Bedford Reader to class on Monday and Tuesday when the next reading selection will be assigned. Literary terms from this textbook will also be reviewed and the next test scheduled.
Their Eyes Were Watching God novels are now due in class for return to the textbook room. The Great Gatsby will be distributed and class discussion and writing assignments made during this week.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit Four test is scheduled for Tuesday in class. Unit Five answers are due on Thursday and the next unit test will be scheduled.
The first synthesis essay is due on Monday. Students used sources A-H to compose a well-written, tightly-constructed composition at home.
Both AP classes were scheduled with either detail or diction prompt homework assignments, which had different due dates.
There is no school on Wednesday, Veterans Day.
Grammar assignment for this week is postponed because of the holiday; however the Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop answers are due Thursday.
Bring Bedford Reader to class on Monday and Tuesday when the next reading selection will be assigned. Literary terms from this textbook will also be reviewed and the next test scheduled.
Their Eyes Were Watching God novels are now due in class for return to the textbook room. The Great Gatsby will be distributed and class discussion and writing assignments made during this week.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
STUDYPATH* November 2-6, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit IV is due on Thursday in class when textbooks should be presented. Test for this unit is scheduled for Friday.
Grammar from Writer's Choice text (perfect tenses page 585) is due on Wednesday; in lieu of a grammar lesson, students will compose in class their first synthesis essay in preparation for the upcoming Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam scheduled in May 2010. Sources A-H will be sent home with students early in the week so they may be read for prewriting before the prompt is presented in class on Wednesday.
Part II of Their Eyes Were Watching God film screening is scheduled for Monday in class. Students will complete a multiple choice exam for the book during the week; The Great Gatsby will be assigned either late this week or early next week.
The Bedford Reader text is required in class Tuesday for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Silent Dancing" nonfiction selection. Students were assigned six questions from the Reader to be completed in advance of the class. Literary terms will also be covered and a test scheduled for the next ten terms.
Work on the research paper begins with topic, thesis statement and five guiding questions on water conservation and natural disaster Junior Defense of Thesis presentations.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop Unit IV is due on Thursday in class when textbooks should be presented. Test for this unit is scheduled for Friday.
Grammar from Writer's Choice text (perfect tenses page 585) is due on Wednesday; in lieu of a grammar lesson, students will compose in class their first synthesis essay in preparation for the upcoming Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam scheduled in May 2010. Sources A-H will be sent home with students early in the week so they may be read for prewriting before the prompt is presented in class on Wednesday.
Part II of Their Eyes Were Watching God film screening is scheduled for Monday in class. Students will complete a multiple choice exam for the book during the week; The Great Gatsby will be assigned either late this week or early next week.
The Bedford Reader text is required in class Tuesday for Judith Ortiz Cofer's "Silent Dancing" nonfiction selection. Students were assigned six questions from the Reader to be completed in advance of the class. Literary terms will also be covered and a test scheduled for the next ten terms.
Work on the research paper begins with topic, thesis statement and five guiding questions on water conservation and natural disaster Junior Defense of Thesis presentations.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
STUDYPATH* October 26-30, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop I-III Cumulative test is scheduled for today, Monday. Students must attach work to test. Unit IV will be scheduled in class.
Bedford Reader must be brought to class on Mondays and Tuesday. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" will be discussed and analyzed both days to further understanding of the narrative mode of writing. Bedford Reader literary terms (next set of ten) will be assigned and a test scheduled.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due on Wednesday for verb lesson that was begun last week. Additionally, the research paper section will be discussed as students ready their topics for the spring research paper.
The next in-class writing assignment, students' first synthesis essay, will be scheduled this week and Sources A-H assigned for reading prior to the essay.
Their Eyes Were Watching God multiple choice exam will be scheduled and the film screening date set; letters must be signed and returned before previewing the film.
In-class multiple-choice practice continues all week.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Vocabulary Workshop I-III Cumulative test is scheduled for today, Monday. Students must attach work to test. Unit IV will be scheduled in class.
Bedford Reader must be brought to class on Mondays and Tuesday. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" will be discussed and analyzed both days to further understanding of the narrative mode of writing. Bedford Reader literary terms (next set of ten) will be assigned and a test scheduled.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due on Wednesday for verb lesson that was begun last week. Additionally, the research paper section will be discussed as students ready their topics for the spring research paper.
The next in-class writing assignment, students' first synthesis essay, will be scheduled this week and Sources A-H assigned for reading prior to the essay.
Their Eyes Were Watching God multiple choice exam will be scheduled and the film screening date set; letters must be signed and returned before previewing the film.
In-class multiple-choice practice continues all week.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
STUDYPATH* October 19-23, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Unit I-III Vocabulary Workshop assignment is due on Tuesday; test was originally scheduled for Thursday but instead will be Monday, October 26; test is a cumulative review exam for Units I-III
Bedford Reader is required for classes on Monday-Tuesday; the outline for Part III of Bedford Reader will be due on Tuesday, October 20. An initial nonfiction selection from either Bedford Reader or Language of Composition will be covered in class early in the week and an assignment made. Additional literary terms will be covered in class and a quiz scheduled.
Talking points for Chapters Sixteen-Twenty of Their Eyes Were Watching God are due on Friday for our usual class discussion; those students who did not earn discussion points last week will be given an opportunity on Monday as we finish up Chapters Eleven-Fifteen.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due in class on Wednesday for grammar review; the sentence diagramming assignment will be retaught since many students were on field trips or taking the PSAT exam last week.
The next AP Essay, featuring prompt and passage from writer James Baldwin, will be scheduled for Thursday as an in-class timed writing assignment. Prewriting will collected on Monday and students will not see the prompt again until the in-class timed essay.
Check teacher pages on the hollywoodhighschool.net web site for additional information. Reminder of textbook days: M-T Bedford Reader; W Writer's Choice; Th Vocabulary Workshop F Their Eyes Were Watching God
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Unit I-III Vocabulary Workshop assignment is due on Tuesday; test was originally scheduled for Thursday but instead will be Monday, October 26; test is a cumulative review exam for Units I-III
Bedford Reader is required for classes on Monday-Tuesday; the outline for Part III of Bedford Reader will be due on Tuesday, October 20. An initial nonfiction selection from either Bedford Reader or Language of Composition will be covered in class early in the week and an assignment made. Additional literary terms will be covered in class and a quiz scheduled.
Talking points for Chapters Sixteen-Twenty of Their Eyes Were Watching God are due on Friday for our usual class discussion; those students who did not earn discussion points last week will be given an opportunity on Monday as we finish up Chapters Eleven-Fifteen.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due in class on Wednesday for grammar review; the sentence diagramming assignment will be retaught since many students were on field trips or taking the PSAT exam last week.
The next AP Essay, featuring prompt and passage from writer James Baldwin, will be scheduled for Thursday as an in-class timed writing assignment. Prewriting will collected on Monday and students will not see the prompt again until the in-class timed essay.
Check teacher pages on the hollywoodhighschool.net web site for additional information. Reminder of textbook days: M-T Bedford Reader; W Writer's Choice; Th Vocabulary Workshop F Their Eyes Were Watching God
Saturday, October 10, 2009
STUDYPATH* October 12-16, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Unit III Vocabulary test will be administered on Monday; the Unit 1-III vocabulary exercises will be assigned and due on Monday, October 19 for a cumulative exam to be scheduled. Books are due in class on Thursday for this cumulative review assignment.
Bedford Reader is required for classes on Monday-Tuesday; Period Three will take the literary terms test on Tuesday that was scheduled for last Friday. The outline for Part III of Bedford Reader will be due on Tuesday, October 20. An initial nonfiction selection from either Bedford Reader or Language of Composition will be covered in class early in the week.
Talking points for Chapters Eleven-Fifteen of Their Eyes Were Watching God are due on Friday for our usual class discussion; those students who did not earn discussion points last week will be given an opportunity on Monday as we finish up Chapters Six-Ten.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due in class on Wednesday for grammar review.
The next AP Essay, featuring prompt and passage from writer James Baldwin, will be scheduled this week. Prewriting will be assigned and then collected; students will compose the essay on a date to be announced and use the prewriting that was completed for their analysis essay.
Cornell Notes recorded during the first week of school will be reviewed and a Cornell Notes Quiz will be scheduled in class.
Check teacher pages on the hollywoodhighschool.net web site for additional information.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Unit III Vocabulary test will be administered on Monday; the Unit 1-III vocabulary exercises will be assigned and due on Monday, October 19 for a cumulative exam to be scheduled. Books are due in class on Thursday for this cumulative review assignment.
Bedford Reader is required for classes on Monday-Tuesday; Period Three will take the literary terms test on Tuesday that was scheduled for last Friday. The outline for Part III of Bedford Reader will be due on Tuesday, October 20. An initial nonfiction selection from either Bedford Reader or Language of Composition will be covered in class early in the week.
Talking points for Chapters Eleven-Fifteen of Their Eyes Were Watching God are due on Friday for our usual class discussion; those students who did not earn discussion points last week will be given an opportunity on Monday as we finish up Chapters Six-Ten.
Writer's Choice textbooks are due in class on Wednesday for grammar review.
The next AP Essay, featuring prompt and passage from writer James Baldwin, will be scheduled this week. Prewriting will be assigned and then collected; students will compose the essay on a date to be announced and use the prewriting that was completed for their analysis essay.
Cornell Notes recorded during the first week of school will be reviewed and a Cornell Notes Quiz will be scheduled in class.
Check teacher pages on the hollywoodhighschool.net web site for additional information.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
STUDYPATH* October 5-9, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Work was begun on a tone assignment in class and will continue this week with the "apply" section of the activity. Bedford Reader terms 21-30 will be reviewed in class Monday and Tuesday, when the textbook is due in class, and a quiz date will be set. Bedford Reader outlining for Chapter Two is due today, Monday and Chapter Three outlining due date will be set. The Virginia Woolf essay will be written in class on Wednesday and prewriting will be returned to students. Writer's Choice text and grammar assignment will be rescheduled this week to Thursday when that textbook and Unit III of Vocabulary Workshop will be due. Five talking points per chapter are due Friday for Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 6-10; a class discussion is scheduled for Friday. Work on prose passages #2 and #3 continues all week. When time permits, Cornell Notes will be finished and a quiz scheduled. The Los Angeles Times assignments will begin after paper deliveries begin; they were scheduled two weeks ago but have not arrived on a weekly basis yet. Other work will be scheduled and announced during the week in class.
Reminder: Bedford Reader in class Monday-Tuesday; no book necessary for Wednesday; Writer's Choice and Vocabulary Workshop in class Thursday; Their Eyes Were Watching God in class Friday
E-mail me a jcarmicl@lausd.net if you have questions or concerns.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Work was begun on a tone assignment in class and will continue this week with the "apply" section of the activity. Bedford Reader terms 21-30 will be reviewed in class Monday and Tuesday, when the textbook is due in class, and a quiz date will be set. Bedford Reader outlining for Chapter Two is due today, Monday and Chapter Three outlining due date will be set. The Virginia Woolf essay will be written in class on Wednesday and prewriting will be returned to students. Writer's Choice text and grammar assignment will be rescheduled this week to Thursday when that textbook and Unit III of Vocabulary Workshop will be due. Five talking points per chapter are due Friday for Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapters 6-10; a class discussion is scheduled for Friday. Work on prose passages #2 and #3 continues all week. When time permits, Cornell Notes will be finished and a quiz scheduled. The Los Angeles Times assignments will begin after paper deliveries begin; they were scheduled two weeks ago but have not arrived on a weekly basis yet. Other work will be scheduled and announced during the week in class.
Reminder: Bedford Reader in class Monday-Tuesday; no book necessary for Wednesday; Writer's Choice and Vocabulary Workshop in class Thursday; Their Eyes Were Watching God in class Friday
E-mail me a jcarmicl@lausd.net if you have questions or concerns.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
STUDYPATH* September 28-October 2, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
This week's blog debuts the weekly schedule in narrative form rather than in a day-by-day format.
Monday is an unassigned day and this class resumes on Tuesday with a literary terms test on words 11-20 in Bedford Reader. Students will be provided brief study time in class before this quiz. The Richard Rodriguez essay rewrites are due today; students should staple the new draft on top of the first draft. Their Eyes Were Watching God has been issued to students and they will write twenty-five talking points for each chapter for Friday's class discussion--the chapters due will be announced in class. Bedford Reader's second chapter will be assigned for outlining and a due date set. The Virginia Woolf prompt will be assigned this week for prewriting and the essay will be completed in class with a date to be scheduled. Students are asked to think about the fifteen-page research paper due in the spring and will choose a specific area of focus on the topic of a natural disaster tied to water conservation. Prose passages #2 and #3 will be completed in class with discussions on how to best answer multiple choice questions accurately and with precision. Cornell Notes that have not been completed yet will be finished by week's end. Vocabulary Workshop Unit II answers are due in class on Thursday as is the book. Writers Choice textbook has been assigned and will be due in class on Wednesday for a grammar lesson. Bedford Reader is due now on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the assigned novel is due on successive Fridays. Los Angeles Times newspapers will be distributed on Friday and a letter to the editor assigned with due date to be announced. Check teacher pages frequently for specific homework assignments and due dates to be updated during this week.
Thanks for your dedication and hard work, AP students as we continue to hone the strategies and skills necessary for successfully completing college-level reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar work. As always, we practice for perfection on the AP English Language Composition examination, scheduled in May 2010.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
This week's blog debuts the weekly schedule in narrative form rather than in a day-by-day format.
Monday is an unassigned day and this class resumes on Tuesday with a literary terms test on words 11-20 in Bedford Reader. Students will be provided brief study time in class before this quiz. The Richard Rodriguez essay rewrites are due today; students should staple the new draft on top of the first draft. Their Eyes Were Watching God has been issued to students and they will write twenty-five talking points for each chapter for Friday's class discussion--the chapters due will be announced in class. Bedford Reader's second chapter will be assigned for outlining and a due date set. The Virginia Woolf prompt will be assigned this week for prewriting and the essay will be completed in class with a date to be scheduled. Students are asked to think about the fifteen-page research paper due in the spring and will choose a specific area of focus on the topic of a natural disaster tied to water conservation. Prose passages #2 and #3 will be completed in class with discussions on how to best answer multiple choice questions accurately and with precision. Cornell Notes that have not been completed yet will be finished by week's end. Vocabulary Workshop Unit II answers are due in class on Thursday as is the book. Writers Choice textbook has been assigned and will be due in class on Wednesday for a grammar lesson. Bedford Reader is due now on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the assigned novel is due on successive Fridays. Los Angeles Times newspapers will be distributed on Friday and a letter to the editor assigned with due date to be announced. Check teacher pages frequently for specific homework assignments and due dates to be updated during this week.
Thanks for your dedication and hard work, AP students as we continue to hone the strategies and skills necessary for successfully completing college-level reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar work. As always, we practice for perfection on the AP English Language Composition examination, scheduled in May 2010.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
STUDYPATH* September 21-25, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Check teacher pages for homework assignments
2. Virginia Woolf's "Death of the Moth"
3. Cornell Notes on Bloom's Taxonomy and Vocabulary Workshop Skills continue
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); Vocabulary Workshop (Thursday); Literature and Integrated Studies (Thursday-Friday); Language of Composition (as announced)
5. Rodriguez essays returned; rewrites due Monday, September 28
6. Prose passage #1 continued; prose passage #2 introduced
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment; see teacher pages for specifics
2. Outlining for Bedford Reader (next section pages announced in class) due Tuesday, September 29
3. Virginia Woolf essay in-class timed writing next Monday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class
2. Literary terms 11-20 reviewed in class; test Tuesday, September 29
3. Prose passage #2 multiple choice work in class
Thursday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit One answers due today; test on Tuesday
2. Vocabulary Workshop assignment for Unit Two; check teacher pages for specifics
3. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
4. Meet in library tomorrow for STAR reading level testing
Friday
1. In-class essay on Virginia Woolf passage on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Both sections of AP Language meet in library today
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Check teacher pages for homework assignments
2. Virginia Woolf's "Death of the Moth"
3. Cornell Notes on Bloom's Taxonomy and Vocabulary Workshop Skills continue
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); Vocabulary Workshop (Thursday); Literature and Integrated Studies (Thursday-Friday); Language of Composition (as announced)
5. Rodriguez essays returned; rewrites due Monday, September 28
6. Prose passage #1 continued; prose passage #2 introduced
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment; see teacher pages for specifics
2. Outlining for Bedford Reader (next section pages announced in class) due Tuesday, September 29
3. Virginia Woolf essay in-class timed writing next Monday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class
2. Literary terms 11-20 reviewed in class; test Tuesday, September 29
3. Prose passage #2 multiple choice work in class
Thursday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit One answers due today; test on Tuesday
2. Vocabulary Workshop assignment for Unit Two; check teacher pages for specifics
3. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
4. Meet in library tomorrow for STAR reading level testing
Friday
1. In-class essay on Virginia Woolf passage on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Both sections of AP Language meet in library today
Sunday, September 13, 2009
STUDYPATH* September 14-18, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Check teacher pages for homework assignments
2. Bedford Reader (BR) textbooks distributed; Language of Composition (LofC) textbooks distributed; outline assignment announced
3. Cornell Notes on Bloom's Taxonomy and Vocabulary Workshop Skills continue
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); Vocabulary Workshop (Thursday); Literature and Integrated Studies (Thursday-Friday); Language of Composition (as announced)
5. AP rubric reviewed in class
6. Prose passage #1 continued
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment; see teacher pages for specifics
2. Late work policy
3. Richard Rodriguez essay due today; rewrites due date to be announced
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class
2. Literary terms reviewed in class; test to be scheduled
3. Cornell Notes and class orientation continued
Thursday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice continued
2. Vocabulary Workshop assignment; check teacher pages for specifics
3. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
Friday
1. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Check teacher pages for homework assignments
2. Bedford Reader (BR) textbooks distributed; Language of Composition (LofC) textbooks distributed; outline assignment announced
3. Cornell Notes on Bloom's Taxonomy and Vocabulary Workshop Skills continue
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday); Vocabulary Workshop (Thursday); Literature and Integrated Studies (Thursday-Friday); Language of Composition (as announced)
5. AP rubric reviewed in class
6. Prose passage #1 continued
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment; see teacher pages for specifics
2. Late work policy
3. Richard Rodriguez essay due today; rewrites due date to be announced
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class
2. Literary terms reviewed in class; test to be scheduled
3. Cornell Notes and class orientation continued
Thursday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice continued
2. Vocabulary Workshop assignment; check teacher pages for specifics
3. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
Friday
1. Literature and Integrated Studies in class assignment; textbook due in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Friday, September 04, 2009
STUDYPATH* September 9-11, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Wednesday
1. Textbooks assigned Thursday
2. Program cards signed
3. Seating assignment designated
4. Teacher Pages homework assignment
Thursday
1. Teacher Pages homework assignment
2. Literary terms
3. Class Orientation Day One
4. Textbooks assigned today; first assignment and due date announced
Friday
1. Class Orientation Day Two
2. Teacher Pages homework assignment
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Wednesday
1. Textbooks assigned Thursday
2. Program cards signed
3. Seating assignment designated
4. Teacher Pages homework assignment
Thursday
1. Teacher Pages homework assignment
2. Literary terms
3. Class Orientation Day One
4. Textbooks assigned today; first assignment and due date announced
Friday
1. Class Orientation Day Two
2. Teacher Pages homework assignment
Friday, August 28, 2009
Summer Assignment
Incoming Advanced Placement English Language students may choose to submit summer assignments in advance of the due date, September 9, 2009. If you wish to submit your assignment early, e-mail it to jcarmicl@lausd.net in Word format; you will possibly have a score and annotations on your work returned to you during the first full week of instruction. Questions or concerns, e-mail me at the address listed above.
I hope you have had a restful summer and look forward to a challenging and rewarding year in AP English Language. A reminder that the course syllabus is posted on the teacher pages link on the school website.
I hope you have had a restful summer and look forward to a challenging and rewarding year in AP English Language. A reminder that the course syllabus is posted on the teacher pages link on the school website.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Syllabus for AP English Language
The fall syllabus for this course is available on teacher pages link on the school website. Please e-mail jcarmicl@lausd.net for questions or concerns.
Opening days agenda and initial assignments will be posted in early September.
Opening days agenda and initial assignments will be posted in early September.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
STUDYPATH* June 27, 2009
Incoming AP students are encouraged to submit the summer work assignment on time (scroll down through assignments on this blog to find assignment). The fall syllabus for this class will be posted in August. If you have questions or concerns, contact me at jcarmicl@lausd.net during this summer break.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
STUDYPATH* June 15-19, 2009 FINALS
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
FINALS WEEK
Vantage Writing Lab Wednesday June 17 Period Five Semester Reflection
Assignment Menu
Bring vocabulary textbook Monday for final mastery test
Portfolio preparation in class
Ellison screening completed
Return all textbooks; sign books in and leave on utility desk
Unit Thirteen-Fifteen and Cumulative Review Four scored in class
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
FINALS WEEK
Vantage Writing Lab Wednesday June 17 Period Five Semester Reflection
Assignment Menu
Bring vocabulary textbook Monday for final mastery test
Portfolio preparation in class
Ellison screening completed
Return all textbooks; sign books in and leave on utility desk
Unit Thirteen-Fifteen and Cumulative Review Four scored in class
Saturday, June 06, 2009
STUDYPATH* June 8-12, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday-Friday Last Week of Instruction Assignment Menu
1. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary Workshop
2. Hazlitt Multiple Choice Test
3. Vocabulary Workshop Review Units Thirteen-Fifteen and Cumulative Review
4. Final Mastery Test Vocabulary Workshop
5. KQED Water Video
6. Semester Reflection Questions for Portfolio
7. Precis for Research Paper
8. Ellison Video
9. Water Case Ten
10.Final Examination Semester Reflection
11.Language of Composition and Bedford Reader books returned to textbook room
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday-Friday Last Week of Instruction Assignment Menu
1. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary Workshop
2. Hazlitt Multiple Choice Test
3. Vocabulary Workshop Review Units Thirteen-Fifteen and Cumulative Review
4. Final Mastery Test Vocabulary Workshop
5. KQED Water Video
6. Semester Reflection Questions for Portfolio
7. Precis for Research Paper
8. Ellison Video
9. Water Case Ten
10.Final Examination Semester Reflection
11.Language of Composition and Bedford Reader books returned to textbook room
Thursday, May 28, 2009
STUDYPATH* June 1-5, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test scheduled for Thursday; Unit Fifteen Vocabulary due on Friday
2. Hazlitt multiple choice test completed in class this week
3. Junior Defense of Thesis Field Trip to Metropolitan Water District: meet in cafeteria at 8:00 A.M.; board bus at 8:30 A.M.
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Hazlitt multiple choice test questions refined
2. Ellison film screened Tuesday and Wednesday
Wednesday
1. Ellison film screened
2. Water Case Ten assigned
Thursday
1. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test
2. Water Case Ten due on Monday
Friday
1. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test scheduled for Thursday; Unit Fifteen Vocabulary due on Friday
2. Hazlitt multiple choice test completed in class this week
3. Junior Defense of Thesis Field Trip to Metropolitan Water District: meet in cafeteria at 8:00 A.M.; board bus at 8:30 A.M.
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Hazlitt multiple choice test questions refined
2. Ellison film screened Tuesday and Wednesday
Wednesday
1. Ellison film screened
2. Water Case Ten assigned
Thursday
1. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test
2. Water Case Ten due on Monday
Friday
1. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Summer Assignment
Students enrolled in Mr. Carmicle's AP English Language and Composition class are expected to complete the following assignments by the first day of school. The late work policy for this class states:
"Summer assignments that are not submitted by due date will be scored as “0,” which may negatively affect a student’s overall course score and earned class grade point average. Assignments that are completed and submitted late will receive only a “credit,” and not earn a letter grade; in this case a student must complete the work to avoid receiving a “0” but will still earn no letter grade for work that was completed. It is in the student’s best interest to meet deadlines and submit work of the highest quality by due dates."
Procedure:
Access collegeboard.com, click students, click AP, click courses/exams, and download the course description for AP English Language.
Take the multiple choice test recording handwritten answers on lined paper or typed responses on copy paper. Check your answers with the key at the end of the sample multiple choice exam. For each question, record a detailed answer of at least a sentence or two about why the answer is correct.
Answer three of the seven free-response questions in essay form. Of the three choices, a synthesis question must be included.
Questions can be addressed by e-mailing me at jcarmicl@lausd.net or by using the school's website link for teacher communication.
"Summer assignments that are not submitted by due date will be scored as “0,” which may negatively affect a student’s overall course score and earned class grade point average. Assignments that are completed and submitted late will receive only a “credit,” and not earn a letter grade; in this case a student must complete the work to avoid receiving a “0” but will still earn no letter grade for work that was completed. It is in the student’s best interest to meet deadlines and submit work of the highest quality by due dates."
Procedure:
Access collegeboard.com, click students, click AP, click courses/exams, and download the course description for AP English Language.
Take the multiple choice test recording handwritten answers on lined paper or typed responses on copy paper. Check your answers with the key at the end of the sample multiple choice exam. For each question, record a detailed answer of at least a sentence or two about why the answer is correct.
Answer three of the seven free-response questions in essay form. Of the three choices, a synthesis question must be included.
Questions can be addressed by e-mailing me at jcarmicl@lausd.net or by using the school's website link for teacher communication.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
STUDYPATH* May 25-29, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Memorial Day is a legal holiday.
2. Water Case Nine class debate and Junior Defense of Thesis presentations Tuesday-Friday.
3. Metropolitan Water District field trip scheduled for Monday, June 1; meet in cafeteria before boarding bus at 8:30 A.M.
Tuesday
1. Water Case Nine Junior Defense of Thesis presentations to class using JDT rubric
2. Water Case Nine pre-debate worksheets completed and reviewed
3. Field trip slips due no later than tomorrow
4. Water Case Nine test due today
Wednesday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation
2. Water Case Nine updates provided to students
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine Junior Defense of Thesis presentations to class using JDT rubric
2. Trip slip and trip protocol checklist finalized
Friday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation
2. Meet 7:45 A.M.-8:00 A.M. Monday in school cafeteria; appropriate attire requested
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Memorial Day is a legal holiday.
2. Water Case Nine class debate and Junior Defense of Thesis presentations Tuesday-Friday.
3. Metropolitan Water District field trip scheduled for Monday, June 1; meet in cafeteria before boarding bus at 8:30 A.M.
Tuesday
1. Water Case Nine Junior Defense of Thesis presentations to class using JDT rubric
2. Water Case Nine pre-debate worksheets completed and reviewed
3. Field trip slips due no later than tomorrow
4. Water Case Nine test due today
Wednesday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation
2. Water Case Nine updates provided to students
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine Junior Defense of Thesis presentations to class using JDT rubric
2. Trip slip and trip protocol checklist finalized
Friday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation
2. Meet 7:45 A.M.-8:00 A.M. Monday in school cafeteria; appropriate attire requested
Friday, May 15, 2009
STUDYPATH* May 18-22, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Water Case Nine class discussion; read remainder of handout
2. Debate groups meet to plan pro vs. con positions
3. Research paper second drafts due Friday; paper clip drafts on top of originals
SPECIAL NOTE: THIS DEADLINE IS A DATE CERTAIN ASSIGNMENT; LATE WORK POLICY DOES NOT APPLY
4. Vocabulary Workshop assignment due Friday; test Monday
Tuesday
1. Water Case Nine continues on Thursday
2. Debate groups planning continues on Thursday
3. Period Five AP English does not meet today
Wednesday
1. Metropolitan Water District field trip June 1
2. Period Five AP English does not meet today
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine continues
2. Debate groups planning continues
Friday
1. Water Case Nine continues
2. Debate groups planning continues
3. Vocabulary Workshop assignment due; test Monday
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Water Case Nine class discussion; read remainder of handout
2. Debate groups meet to plan pro vs. con positions
3. Research paper second drafts due Friday; paper clip drafts on top of originals
SPECIAL NOTE: THIS DEADLINE IS A DATE CERTAIN ASSIGNMENT; LATE WORK POLICY DOES NOT APPLY
4. Vocabulary Workshop assignment due Friday; test Monday
Tuesday
1. Water Case Nine continues on Thursday
2. Debate groups planning continues on Thursday
3. Period Five AP English does not meet today
Wednesday
1. Metropolitan Water District field trip June 1
2. Period Five AP English does not meet today
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine continues
2. Debate groups planning continues
Friday
1. Water Case Nine continues
2. Debate groups planning continues
3. Vocabulary Workshop assignment due; test Monday
Saturday, May 09, 2009
STUDYPATH* May 11-15, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Final preparation for AP English Language Examination
2. AP English breakfast in cafeteria 7:00 A.M. Wednesday
3. Literary terms completed in class
4. Tone assignment completed
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test postponed
6. Thank you card for guest speaker Friday
Tuesday
1. Day before tips for the AP English Language Examination
2. Water Case Nine assigned; due on Thursday
Wednesday
1. AP English Language Examination 8:00 A.M. in small gym
2. AP English breakfast in cafeteria 7:00 A.M.
3. Water Case Nine due tomorrow
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine in class in preparation for MWD debate on June 1
2. Preparation for the Metropolitan Water District field trip begins today
3. Water Case Nine debate participants chosen
4. Rehearsals for Junior Defense of Thesis presenters; power points finalized
Friday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation continues
2. Rehearsals for Junior Defense of Thesis presenters
3. Final drafts for research papers due next week
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Final preparation for AP English Language Examination
2. AP English breakfast in cafeteria 7:00 A.M. Wednesday
3. Literary terms completed in class
4. Tone assignment completed
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary test postponed
6. Thank you card for guest speaker Friday
Tuesday
1. Day before tips for the AP English Language Examination
2. Water Case Nine assigned; due on Thursday
Wednesday
1. AP English Language Examination 8:00 A.M. in small gym
2. AP English breakfast in cafeteria 7:00 A.M.
3. Water Case Nine due tomorrow
Thursday
1. Water Case Nine in class in preparation for MWD debate on June 1
2. Preparation for the Metropolitan Water District field trip begins today
3. Water Case Nine debate participants chosen
4. Rehearsals for Junior Defense of Thesis presenters; power points finalized
Friday
1. Water Case Nine debate preparation continues
2. Rehearsals for Junior Defense of Thesis presenters
3. Final drafts for research papers due next week
Sunday, May 03, 2009
STUDYPATH* May 4-8, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. LA Times cartoon response due today
2. Water Case Eight due
3. Tone assignment continued in class
4. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary Workshop test Tuesday
6. Literary terms test
7. Essay begun in class Friday due
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. MWD presenters' power points due no later than May 7
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Literary terms all week in class
4. Tone assignment continued in class
5. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen test today
Wednesday
1. Water Case Nine assigned reading for guest speaker on Friday
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Literary terms all week in class
Thursday
1. Literary terms in class all week
2. Reading assignments Water Case Nine for guest speaker tomorrow
Friday
1. Metropolitan Water District guest speaker today
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. LA Times cartoon response due today
2. Water Case Eight due
3. Tone assignment continued in class
4. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary Workshop test Tuesday
6. Literary terms test
7. Essay begun in class Friday due
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. MWD presenters' power points due no later than May 7
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Literary terms all week in class
4. Tone assignment continued in class
5. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Fourteen test today
Wednesday
1. Water Case Nine assigned reading for guest speaker on Friday
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Literary terms all week in class
Thursday
1. Literary terms in class all week
2. Reading assignments Water Case Nine for guest speaker tomorrow
Friday
1. Metropolitan Water District guest speaker today
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, April 25, 2009
STUDYPATH* April 27-May 1, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due
2. Water Case Seven due Wednesday
3. Tone assignment continued in class
4. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary Workshop due Friday
6. Literary terms test
7. Synthesis essay due today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. MWD presenters' power points due no later than May 7
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Tone assignment continued in class
5. Hazlitt multiple choice questions finalized for sample exam
Wednesday
1. Water Case Seven due today; Water Case Eight assigned
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Bedford Reader/Language of Composition literary terms (books due in class)
4. Research paper second drafts due for those who received corrected first draft
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader/Language of Composition literary terms (books due in class)
2. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary due tomorrow
3. Timed writing in class tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class
2. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due
2. Water Case Seven due Wednesday
3. Tone assignment continued in class
4. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
5. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary Workshop due Friday
6. Literary terms test
7. Synthesis essay due today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. MWD presenters' power points due no later than May 7
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Tone assignment continued in class
5. Hazlitt multiple choice questions finalized for sample exam
Wednesday
1. Water Case Seven due today; Water Case Eight assigned
2. Prose passage practice for the AP Exam
3. Bedford Reader/Language of Composition literary terms (books due in class)
4. Research paper second drafts due for those who received corrected first draft
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader/Language of Composition literary terms (books due in class)
2. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary due tomorrow
3. Timed writing in class tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class
2. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Thursday, April 16, 2009
STUDYPATH* April 20-24, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Meet in Vantage Writing Lab-Room 701 for AP essay prewriting and in-class writing assignment-DAY ONE
2. Welcome to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Tuesday
1. Meet in Vantage Writing Lab-Room 701 for AP in-class writing assignment-DAY TWO
2. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Literary terms from Bedford Reader and Language of Composition; books due in class
Wednesday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Literary terms; books due in class
Thursday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Invisible Man motif essay due tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class essay
2. Invisible Man motif essay due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Meet in Vantage Writing Lab-Room 701 for AP essay prewriting and in-class writing assignment-DAY ONE
2. Welcome to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Tuesday
1. Meet in Vantage Writing Lab-Room 701 for AP in-class writing assignment-DAY TWO
2. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Literary terms from Bedford Reader and Language of Composition; books due in class
Wednesday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Literary terms; books due in class
Thursday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Invisible Man motif essay due tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class essay
2. Invisible Man motif essay due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Sunday, April 12, 2009
STUDYPATH* April 13-17, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due date reminder
2. Prose passage multiple choice practice
3. Sample full Advanced Placement Examination due today (three essays and one multiple choice test)
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Thirteen due Friday; test Monday
5. Research paper first drafts will be returned to students as suggestions and corrections are made; new drafts must be paper clipped on top of original draft
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases assignments to be announced
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class Wednesday and Thursday for literary terms assignments
3. Prose passage multiple choice practice
Wednesday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice
2. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Thirteen due Friday
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition literary terms assignments
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition literary terms assignments
2. Research paper drafts are being returned to students after corrections and suggestions are made
3. Prose passage multiple choice practice
Friday
1. In-class writing assignment
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due date reminder
2. Prose passage multiple choice practice
3. Sample full Advanced Placement Examination due today (three essays and one multiple choice test)
4. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Thirteen due Friday; test Monday
5. Research paper first drafts will be returned to students as suggestions and corrections are made; new drafts must be paper clipped on top of original draft
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases assignments to be announced
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class Wednesday and Thursday for literary terms assignments
3. Prose passage multiple choice practice
Wednesday
1. Prose passage multiple choice practice
2. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Thirteen due Friday
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition literary terms assignments
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition literary terms assignments
2. Research paper drafts are being returned to students after corrections and suggestions are made
3. Prose passage multiple choice practice
Friday
1. In-class writing assignment
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, March 28, 2009
STUDYPATH* March 30-April 3, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due date to be set
2. "A Modest Proposal" class discussion continues; Language of Composition book due in class
3. "A Modest Proposal" essay due tomorrow; #2 Suggestions for Writing, page 921
4. Unit One-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test tomorrow; answers turned in Friday will be marked BTA
5. Research paper first draft due April 3
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class Wednesday only
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Unit One-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test today
Wednesday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
Thursday
1. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
2. Research paper first draft due tomorrow
3. Full version AP Exam due April 13; exam to be distributed tomorrow
Friday
1. Full version AP Exam distributed; due April 13
2. Research paper first draft due today
3. Spring Break April 6-10, 2009
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man essay due date to be set
2. "A Modest Proposal" class discussion continues; Language of Composition book due in class
3. "A Modest Proposal" essay due tomorrow; #2 Suggestions for Writing, page 921
4. Unit One-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test tomorrow; answers turned in Friday will be marked BTA
5. Research paper first draft due April 3
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class Wednesday only
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Unit One-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop test today
Wednesday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
Thursday
1. Water Cases Six and Seven in class this week
2. Research paper first draft due tomorrow
3. Full version AP Exam due April 13; exam to be distributed tomorrow
Friday
1. Full version AP Exam distributed; due April 13
2. Research paper first draft due today
3. Spring Break April 6-10, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
STUDYPATH* March 23-27, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop review answers due Friday; test Tuesday
2. Bedford Reader answers due Tuesday
3. Water Case Five and Six in class all week
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Bedford Reader "No Name Woman" answers due today
3. Water Case Six
Wednesday
1. Water Case Six continued
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Bedford Reader assignment
5. Research paper first draft due April 3
Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Case Seven assigned
3. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop review answers due Friday; test Tuesday
2. Bedford Reader answers due Tuesday
3. Water Case Five and Six in class all week
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Bedford Reader "No Name Woman" answers due today
3. Water Case Six
Wednesday
1. Water Case Six continued
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Timed writing in class Friday
4. Bedford Reader assignment
5. Research paper first draft due April 3
Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Case Seven assigned
3. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due tomorrow
Friday
1. Timed writing in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, March 14, 2009
STUDYPATH* March 16-20, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due today; test tomorrow
2. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue class discussion continues; essay due date in April to be announced
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Twelve Vocabulary test today
2. Water Cases Four, Five and Six in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments due today
Wednesday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
2. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignment due Tuesday
Friday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
2. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due today; test tomorrow
2. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue class discussion continues; essay due date in April to be announced
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Twelve Vocabulary test today
2. Water Cases Four, Five and Six in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments due today
Wednesday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
2. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
3. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignment due Tuesday
Friday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class this week
2. Unit Nine-Twelve Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, March 07, 2009
STUDYPATH* March 9-13, 2009
In-class essays and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Friday for class discussion
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test tomorrow
3. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six all week in class
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test
Wednesday
1. Water Cases Four, Five and Six in class
2. Multiple-choice practice preparation for the AP Exam
3. Homework assigned from Bedford Reader and Language of Composition
Thursday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned; due Monday
3. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
Friday
1. Invisible Man class discussion; essay due date set
2. Research paper update: questions and procedures
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Friday for class discussion
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test tomorrow
3. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six all week in class
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test
Wednesday
1. Water Cases Four, Five and Six in class
2. Multiple-choice practice preparation for the AP Exam
3. Homework assigned from Bedford Reader and Language of Composition
Thursday
1. Water Cases Four, Five, and Six in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned; due Monday
3. Unit Twelve Vocabulary Workshop due Monday
Friday
1. Invisible Man class discussion; essay due date set
2. Research paper update: questions and procedures
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, February 28, 2009
STUDYPATH* March 2-6, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL. ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary Workshop test rescheduled to Tuesday, March 10th
2. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #1
3. Letter to the editor due today
4. Comparative Essay (Gould) due today (pages 349 Language of Composition and 615 in Bedford Reader: read both essays, write one and one-half pages about his style of writing, the specific audience for each essay and his purpose for each essay; this assignment may encompass a compare and contrast response)
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Multiple-choice practice
2. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Monday, March 9th for class discussion
Wednesday
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #2
Thursday
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Multiple-choice practice
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #3
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Monday for class discussion
*POTENTIAL. ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary Workshop test rescheduled to Tuesday, March 10th
2. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #1
3. Letter to the editor due today
4. Comparative Essay (Gould) due today (pages 349 Language of Composition and 615 in Bedford Reader: read both essays, write one and one-half pages about his style of writing, the specific audience for each essay and his purpose for each essay; this assignment may encompass a compare and contrast response)
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Multiple-choice practice
2. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Monday, March 9th for class discussion
Wednesday
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #2
Thursday
1. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Multiple-choice practice
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. AP EXAM PREPARATION WEEK-Essay #3
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Monday for class discussion
Sunday, February 22, 2009
STUDYPATH* February 23-27, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL. ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary test rescheduled to tomorrow
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary answers due Friday; test Monday
3. Letter to the editor due today
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader and Language of Composition Wednesday-Thursday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary test today
2. AP Preparation Week scheduled for next week
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Friday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
2. Letter to the editor scheduled; due Monday
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due today for class discussion
*POTENTIAL. ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary test rescheduled to tomorrow
2. Unit Eleven Vocabulary answers due Friday; test Monday
3. Letter to the editor due today
4. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader and Language of Composition Wednesday-Thursday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary test today
2. AP Preparation Week scheduled for next week
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due Friday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments
2. Letter to the editor scheduled; due Monday
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue talking points due today for class discussion
Sunday, February 15, 2009
STUDYPATH* February 16-20, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Presidents' Day Holiday
2. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop due Friday; test Monday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Letter to the Editor due today
2. Bedford Reader questions due today
3. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty talking points due Friday for class discussion
4. In-class essay Friday
5. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader and The Language of Composition Wednesday only
Wednesday
1. Assignments from Bedford Reader and The Language of Composition
2. In-class essay Friday
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Letter to the Editor assigned
2. Class discussion: "Too Much Pressure" with School for Advanced Studies counselors
Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty talking points due for class discussion on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test Monday
4. In-class essay today
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Presidents' Day Holiday
2. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop due Friday; test Monday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Letter to the Editor due today
2. Bedford Reader questions due today
3. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty talking points due Friday for class discussion
4. In-class essay Friday
5. Textbook Days: Bedford Reader and The Language of Composition Wednesday only
Wednesday
1. Assignments from Bedford Reader and The Language of Composition
2. In-class essay Friday
3. Multiple-choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Letter to the Editor assigned
2. Class discussion: "Too Much Pressure" with School for Advanced Studies counselors
Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty talking points due for class discussion on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test Monday
4. In-class essay today
Sunday, February 08, 2009
AP Semester B Syllabus (Under Construction)
Semester B Syllabus (Under Construction)
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Syllabus 2008-2009
Instructional Dates/Material To Be Covered/Semester "B"
Year Long Rigor Tools
Bloom's Taxonomy and Bloom's Affective Taxonomy
Consultative Language and Language Registers: Frozen, Formal, Consultative, Casual, Intimate
Levels of Questioning: Level One-Factual; Level Two-Interpretative; Level Three-Evaluative
The Rhetorical Square-Audience, Purpose, Persona, Argument and SOAPS: Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker
Cornell Note-Taking, Outlining, and Journaling
Sentence Mimicking and Pivoting TextGrammar of Irony and Grammar of Paradox
Classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin Argumentation Models
Rhetorical Modes of Discourse
Student-Teacher Conferencing: Rubrics, Revisions, and Rewrites
GLAAPSI, July 2005 Marcy Bowman AP Packet
The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination is administered by the College Board during the latter part of this semester.
In this semester, students continue to hone their responses to nonfiction pieces by accomplishing precise, thorough, insightful, and thoughtful responses through original drafts and various stages of rewrites. The second semester also includes weekly selections from the Bedford Reader, highlighted below, that address the meaning, writing strategy and language authors use to accomplish their purposes for writing; students may use these questioning tools (including levels of questioning) to analyze what they have read and determine, as the Bedford Reader states, how “good writers write.”
There is a fair amount of concentration in this semester on response to visual literacy. Of the seventeen visual works included in the Bedford Reader, students experience a sampling of these offerings to learn how to make meaning of images, advertising, and photographs, learning to use the sensory details of tactile images evoked by figurative language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. See examples and justifications in the matrix provided below.
Specific methods of achieving purposes in writing are used throughout the course scope and sequence as well since students are asked to read and write in various modes of discourse. A sampling of the Semester B sequence follows:
Literature Assignments and Methods for Achieving Your Purpose in Writing*
Week One
Narration: To tell a story about your subject, possibly to enlighten readers or to try to explain something to them
Visual Literacy: “How Joe’s Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame” (advertisement)
(analysis of a narrative cartoon to ascertain chronology and message used to lure customers)
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (122)
First appeared in The New Yorker in 1948
Theme: Manners and Morals
Week Two
Description: To help readers understand your subject through the evidence of their senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste
“Silent Dancing" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
First appeared in The Georgia Review
Theme: Cultural Diversity
Week Three
Example: To explain your subject with instances that show readers its nature or character
Visual Literacy: “Cellular Phones of the Future” (cartoon)
(interpreting drawings with text to determine artist’s opinion)
Anna Quindlen from her collection Living Out Loud in Mother Jones Magazine
Theme: Homelessness
Week Four
Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side by Side
To explain or evaluate your subject by helping readers see the similarities between it and another subject
“Everyday Use” published in 1973 and appeared in Harper’s magazine
Alice Walker
Theme: Community
Week Five
Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step
To inform readers how to do something or how something works—how a sequence of actions leads to a particular result
"Orientation" Daniel Orozco first published in Seattle Review in 1994 and appeared in the Best American Short Stories 1995
Visual Literacy: “Workers Making Dolls” (photograph) Photographer Wally McNamee
(single image used to portray several steps in the doll-making process) 324
Theme: Humor and Satire
Week Six
Division or Analysis: Slicing Into Parts (335)
To explain a conclusion about your subject by showing readers the subject’s parts of elements “Girl”
From the collection At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid
Theme: Other Peoples, Other Cultures
Week Seven
Classification: Sorting Into Kinds
To help readers see order in your subject by understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted into
Visual Literacy: “What Everyone Should Know About the Movie Rating System” (chart)
Motion Picture Association of America mpaa.org
(graphic organizer sorting films into groups of appropriateness)
“The Crisis of National Identity” by Samuel P. Huntington
Opening pages from Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s Identity
Theme: Community
Week Eight
Cause and Effect: Asking Why
To tell readers the reasons for or consequences of one's subject, explaining why or what if “Safe-Sex Lies” by Meghan Daum
Essay published in The New York Times Magazine January 1996
Theme: Sexuality
Week Nine
Definition: Tracing a Boundary
To show readers the meaning of your subject—its boundaries and its distinctions from other subjects
“The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor
Essay published in The New York Times
Theme: Communication
Week Ten
Argument and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals
To have readers consider your opinion about a subject or a proposal for it
Visual Literacy: “Corporate America Flag” (media image) Adbusters Media Foundation
(image adaptation of a familiar symbol to achieve effect)
“Too Much Pressure” by Colleen Wenke published in Fresh Ink: Essays from Boston's College's First-Year Writing Seminar
Theme: Manners and Morals
Ongoing
Useful Terms Abstract/Concrete to Warrant
*The Bedford Reader Ninth Edition 2006
Juniors are encouraged to contact College Counselor Ms. Campbell regarding college entrance examination procedures, college financial assistance forms, and college application and admission information.
The Advanced Placement Examinations, California High School Exit Examinations, and California Achievement Test Examinations are scheduled this semester.
Students who feel essay rewrite scores should be higher must write a request, using the specific language of the generic or tailored rubric, to justify why the essay should be re-read and re-scored.
Weeks Eleven-Sixteen
Research
In the spring semester students complete a fifteen-page research paper for the topic “Water Conservation tied to a U.S. Natural Disaster.” Students are required to use a works cited list and embedded citations using Modern Language Association protocol as a guide line for their finished product. This paper is coordinated with the social studies AP instructor. A “Junior Defense of Thesis” is prepared as students are required to orally defend their theses to the teacher, to their triad members, and finally to the entire class of students. Students are chosen to also defend their theses to the board members of the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles. An abstract of the “Junior Defense of Thesis” follows:
JUNIOR DEFENSE OF THESIS 2009
Students will develop a Personal Action Plan that will link the environment (water conservation) and citizenship (call for action) themes from 9th or 10th grade with a culminating research-based and oral defense project paper.
Sample Standards:
Writing 1.6 Research and Technology: develop presentations by using clear research questions and creative and critical research strategies (e.g., field studies, oral histories, interviews, experiments, electronic sources)
Writing 1.4 Organization and Focus: enhance meanings by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy; the incorporation of visual aids (e.g., graphs, tables, pictures); and the issuance of a call for action
Multimedia presentation or print media presentation; judges use 10-point checklist and rubric to score students’ oral defense; teacher scores research papers, which require summaries, paraphrases, and direct quotations, attributive tags, and MLA formats for in-text citations and works cited list
Three projected outcomes:
These are proposed outcomes of the Junior Defense of Thesis and the objectives noted are not indicative that approval has been granted.
Thirty-second CBS Television Network broadcast quality storyboarded public service announcement (possibly produced by students on video)
Thirty-second KNX CBS owned and operation Radio public service announcement ad copy with agreement to run spot free of charge from educational institution (spot possibly produced by students on audio)
Eighth to quarter-page display print ad public service announcement to run in USA Today (purchase of ad space may be made with grant funds) (possibly produced camera-ready by students using multimedia resources)
Textbooks
Textbooks used in this course include The Bedford Reader, Cliffs AP Preparation Guide, Vocabulary Workshop Level “F”, and Glencoe Writer’s Choice. Various nonfiction pieces are used from composition rhetorics and readers, as are newspaper editorials, opinion-editorial pieces written by individual columnists, and storyboards, photographs, and newspaper editorial cartoons.
Kennedy, X.J., Dorothy Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron, The
Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford Books of St.
Martin’s Press, 1997.
Cliffs AP English Language and Composition (2nd Edition) Swovelin ©2001
Vocabulary Workshop Level “F” Shostak (Sadlier-Oxford Publishing) 2005
Anthology: Writer’s Choice Grammar and Composition; Glencoe ©2005
Anthology: Literature and Integrated Studies; Scott-Foresman Publishing ©1997
Useful Web Sites
Online Writing Labs http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Composition formatting
Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
Vocabulary for the AP student
Strunk and White http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Rules of style for written prose
Teacher Web Log http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments due
Apex Learning http://www.apexvs.com/
AP diagnostic tests; literary terms; study strategies
Go My Access/Vantage Learning http://www.gomyaccess.com
Intellimetric prompts and rubric-scored writing
Exercise Central http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral
Online quizzes for each reading selection
College Board Online http://www.collegeboard.org/ap
Grading System
Marks on individual assignments are based on the following scale:
A 92.5 % or better
B 82.5 % or better
C 72.5 % or better
D 62.5 % or better
Midterm and final examinations are administered; other quizzes are given throughout the course and include tests on meaning, language, and writing strategies from texts, tests on vocabulary, the connotative and denotative meanings of words, and tests on literary terms necessary for success on the multiple-choice and essays portions of the AP Language Exam.
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Syllabus 2008-2009
Instructional Dates/Material To Be Covered/Semester "B"
Year Long Rigor Tools
Bloom's Taxonomy and Bloom's Affective Taxonomy
Consultative Language and Language Registers: Frozen, Formal, Consultative, Casual, Intimate
Levels of Questioning: Level One-Factual; Level Two-Interpretative; Level Three-Evaluative
The Rhetorical Square-Audience, Purpose, Persona, Argument and SOAPS: Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker
Cornell Note-Taking, Outlining, and Journaling
Sentence Mimicking and Pivoting TextGrammar of Irony and Grammar of Paradox
Classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin Argumentation Models
Rhetorical Modes of Discourse
Student-Teacher Conferencing: Rubrics, Revisions, and Rewrites
GLAAPSI, July 2005 Marcy Bowman AP Packet
The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination is administered by the College Board during the latter part of this semester.
In this semester, students continue to hone their responses to nonfiction pieces by accomplishing precise, thorough, insightful, and thoughtful responses through original drafts and various stages of rewrites. The second semester also includes weekly selections from the Bedford Reader, highlighted below, that address the meaning, writing strategy and language authors use to accomplish their purposes for writing; students may use these questioning tools (including levels of questioning) to analyze what they have read and determine, as the Bedford Reader states, how “good writers write.”
There is a fair amount of concentration in this semester on response to visual literacy. Of the seventeen visual works included in the Bedford Reader, students experience a sampling of these offerings to learn how to make meaning of images, advertising, and photographs, learning to use the sensory details of tactile images evoked by figurative language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. See examples and justifications in the matrix provided below.
Specific methods of achieving purposes in writing are used throughout the course scope and sequence as well since students are asked to read and write in various modes of discourse. A sampling of the Semester B sequence follows:
Literature Assignments and Methods for Achieving Your Purpose in Writing*
Week One
Narration: To tell a story about your subject, possibly to enlighten readers or to try to explain something to them
Visual Literacy: “How Joe’s Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame” (advertisement)
(analysis of a narrative cartoon to ascertain chronology and message used to lure customers)
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (122)
First appeared in The New Yorker in 1948
Theme: Manners and Morals
Week Two
Description: To help readers understand your subject through the evidence of their senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste
“Silent Dancing" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
First appeared in The Georgia Review
Theme: Cultural Diversity
Week Three
Example: To explain your subject with instances that show readers its nature or character
Visual Literacy: “Cellular Phones of the Future” (cartoon)
(interpreting drawings with text to determine artist’s opinion)
Anna Quindlen from her collection Living Out Loud in Mother Jones Magazine
Theme: Homelessness
Week Four
Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side by Side
To explain or evaluate your subject by helping readers see the similarities between it and another subject
“Everyday Use” published in 1973 and appeared in Harper’s magazine
Alice Walker
Theme: Community
Week Five
Process Analysis: Explaining Step by Step
To inform readers how to do something or how something works—how a sequence of actions leads to a particular result
"Orientation" Daniel Orozco first published in Seattle Review in 1994 and appeared in the Best American Short Stories 1995
Visual Literacy: “Workers Making Dolls” (photograph) Photographer Wally McNamee
(single image used to portray several steps in the doll-making process) 324
Theme: Humor and Satire
Week Six
Division or Analysis: Slicing Into Parts (335)
To explain a conclusion about your subject by showing readers the subject’s parts of elements “Girl”
From the collection At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid
Theme: Other Peoples, Other Cultures
Week Seven
Classification: Sorting Into Kinds
To help readers see order in your subject by understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted into
Visual Literacy: “What Everyone Should Know About the Movie Rating System” (chart)
Motion Picture Association of America mpaa.org
(graphic organizer sorting films into groups of appropriateness)
“The Crisis of National Identity” by Samuel P. Huntington
Opening pages from Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s Identity
Theme: Community
Week Eight
Cause and Effect: Asking Why
To tell readers the reasons for or consequences of one's subject, explaining why or what if “Safe-Sex Lies” by Meghan Daum
Essay published in The New York Times Magazine January 1996
Theme: Sexuality
Week Nine
Definition: Tracing a Boundary
To show readers the meaning of your subject—its boundaries and its distinctions from other subjects
“The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor
Essay published in The New York Times
Theme: Communication
Week Ten
Argument and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals
To have readers consider your opinion about a subject or a proposal for it
Visual Literacy: “Corporate America Flag” (media image) Adbusters Media Foundation
(image adaptation of a familiar symbol to achieve effect)
“Too Much Pressure” by Colleen Wenke published in Fresh Ink: Essays from Boston's College's First-Year Writing Seminar
Theme: Manners and Morals
Ongoing
Useful Terms Abstract/Concrete to Warrant
*The Bedford Reader Ninth Edition 2006
Juniors are encouraged to contact College Counselor Ms. Campbell regarding college entrance examination procedures, college financial assistance forms, and college application and admission information.
The Advanced Placement Examinations, California High School Exit Examinations, and California Achievement Test Examinations are scheduled this semester.
Students who feel essay rewrite scores should be higher must write a request, using the specific language of the generic or tailored rubric, to justify why the essay should be re-read and re-scored.
Weeks Eleven-Sixteen
Research
In the spring semester students complete a fifteen-page research paper for the topic “Water Conservation tied to a U.S. Natural Disaster.” Students are required to use a works cited list and embedded citations using Modern Language Association protocol as a guide line for their finished product. This paper is coordinated with the social studies AP instructor. A “Junior Defense of Thesis” is prepared as students are required to orally defend their theses to the teacher, to their triad members, and finally to the entire class of students. Students are chosen to also defend their theses to the board members of the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles. An abstract of the “Junior Defense of Thesis” follows:
JUNIOR DEFENSE OF THESIS 2009
Students will develop a Personal Action Plan that will link the environment (water conservation) and citizenship (call for action) themes from 9th or 10th grade with a culminating research-based and oral defense project paper.
Sample Standards:
Writing 1.6 Research and Technology: develop presentations by using clear research questions and creative and critical research strategies (e.g., field studies, oral histories, interviews, experiments, electronic sources)
Writing 1.4 Organization and Focus: enhance meanings by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy; the incorporation of visual aids (e.g., graphs, tables, pictures); and the issuance of a call for action
Multimedia presentation or print media presentation; judges use 10-point checklist and rubric to score students’ oral defense; teacher scores research papers, which require summaries, paraphrases, and direct quotations, attributive tags, and MLA formats for in-text citations and works cited list
Three projected outcomes:
These are proposed outcomes of the Junior Defense of Thesis and the objectives noted are not indicative that approval has been granted.
Thirty-second CBS Television Network broadcast quality storyboarded public service announcement (possibly produced by students on video)
Thirty-second KNX CBS owned and operation Radio public service announcement ad copy with agreement to run spot free of charge from educational institution (spot possibly produced by students on audio)
Eighth to quarter-page display print ad public service announcement to run in USA Today (purchase of ad space may be made with grant funds) (possibly produced camera-ready by students using multimedia resources)
Textbooks
Textbooks used in this course include The Bedford Reader, Cliffs AP Preparation Guide, Vocabulary Workshop Level “F”, and Glencoe Writer’s Choice. Various nonfiction pieces are used from composition rhetorics and readers, as are newspaper editorials, opinion-editorial pieces written by individual columnists, and storyboards, photographs, and newspaper editorial cartoons.
Kennedy, X.J., Dorothy Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron, The
Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford Books of St.
Martin’s Press, 1997.
Cliffs AP English Language and Composition (2nd Edition) Swovelin ©2001
Vocabulary Workshop Level “F” Shostak (Sadlier-Oxford Publishing) 2005
Anthology: Writer’s Choice Grammar and Composition; Glencoe ©2005
Anthology: Literature and Integrated Studies; Scott-Foresman Publishing ©1997
Useful Web Sites
Online Writing Labs http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Composition formatting
Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
Vocabulary for the AP student
Strunk and White http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Rules of style for written prose
Teacher Web Log http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments due
Apex Learning http://www.apexvs.com/
AP diagnostic tests; literary terms; study strategies
Go My Access/Vantage Learning http://www.gomyaccess.com
Intellimetric prompts and rubric-scored writing
Exercise Central http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral
Online quizzes for each reading selection
College Board Online http://www.collegeboard.org/ap
Grading System
Marks on individual assignments are based on the following scale:
A 92.5 % or better
B 82.5 % or better
C 72.5 % or better
D 62.5 % or better
Midterm and final examinations are administered; other quizzes are given throughout the course and include tests on meaning, language, and writing strategies from texts, tests on vocabulary, the connotative and denotative meanings of words, and tests on literary terms necessary for success on the multiple-choice and essays portions of the AP Language Exam.
STUDYPATH* February 9-13, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader assignment due Tuesday
2. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due Friday for class discussion
3. Units Seven-Nine Vocabulary Workshop due Wednesday; test Thursday
4. Research paper thesis work in class, including Water Politics cases
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader assignment due today
2. Letter to the Editor due today
3. Textbook days: Bedford Reader and Language of Composition Wednesday and Thursday
Wednesday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Units Seven-Nine due today; test tomorrow
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments; books due in class; Bedford Reader literary terms
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments continue
2. Bedford Reader literary terms
3. Letter to the Editor assigned
Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due today for class discussion
2. Bedford Reader literary terms test today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader assignment due Tuesday
2. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due Friday for class discussion
3. Units Seven-Nine Vocabulary Workshop due Wednesday; test Thursday
4. Research paper thesis work in class, including Water Politics cases
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader assignment due today
2. Letter to the Editor due today
3. Textbook days: Bedford Reader and Language of Composition Wednesday and Thursday
Wednesday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Units Seven-Nine due today; test tomorrow
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments; books due in class; Bedford Reader literary terms
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments continue
2. Bedford Reader literary terms
3. Letter to the Editor assigned
Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due today for class discussion
2. Bedford Reader literary terms test today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, January 31, 2009
STUDYPATH* February 2-6, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader assignment due today
2. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due today
3. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop test postponed to Tuesday
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Invisible Man class discussion
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Literary Terms test
3. Letter to the Editor due today
4. Language of Composition grammar assignment due today
5. Invisible Man class discussion continued
Wednesday
1. Final Exams Periods Two/Three
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments; books due in class
Thursday
1. Final Exams Periods Five/Six
2. Semester reflections
3. Portfolio preparation
Friday
1. Final Exams Periods One/Four
2. Period Five does not meet today
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader assignment due today
2. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due today
3. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop test postponed to Tuesday
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Invisible Man class discussion
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Literary Terms test
3. Letter to the Editor due today
4. Language of Composition grammar assignment due today
5. Invisible Man class discussion continued
Wednesday
1. Final Exams Periods Two/Three
2. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition assignments; books due in class
Thursday
1. Final Exams Periods Five/Six
2. Semester reflections
3. Portfolio preparation
Friday
1. Final Exams Periods One/Four
2. Period Five does not meet today
Sunday, January 25, 2009
STUDYPATH* January 26-30, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Language of Composition grammar due
3. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop test Tuesday, not today
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Invisible Man class discussion continues
6. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due Friday for class discussion
Tuesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Wednesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due Friday; test Monday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Research paper thesis work in class
Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine answers due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Invisible Man class discussion of Chapters Six-Ten; talking points are due today
4. Outline due for research paper today; research paper due date March 17
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Language of Composition grammar due
3. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop test Tuesday, not today
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Invisible Man class discussion continues
6. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due Friday for class discussion
Tuesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop test
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Wednesday (Shortened Day-Senior Projects)
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Unit Nine Vocabulary Workshop answers due Friday; test Monday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Research paper thesis work in class
Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine answers due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Invisible Man class discussion of Chapters Six-Ten; talking points are due today
4. Outline due for research paper today; research paper due date March 17
Sunday, January 18, 2009
STUDYPATH* January 19-23, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2. School closed
Tuesday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Language of Composition grammar due
3. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop test
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Gloria Naylor piece answers due
6. Synthesis Essay due
7. Invisible Man Chapters One-Five talking points due
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop due Friday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Research paper thesis work in class
Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight answers due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced, including Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due Monday
3. Invisible Man class discussion
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2. School closed
Tuesday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Language of Composition grammar due
3. Unit Seven Vocabulary Workshop test
4. Research paper thesis work in class
5. Gloria Naylor piece answers due
6. Synthesis Essay due
7. Invisible Man Chapters One-Five talking points due
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Unit Eight Vocabulary Workshop due Friday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader and Language of Composition books due in class
2. Letter to the Editor assigned
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Research paper thesis work in class
Friday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight answers due today; test Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced, including Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten talking points due Monday
3. Invisible Man class discussion
Monday, January 05, 2009
STUDYPATH* January 12-16, 2009
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Seven due Friday; test on Monday
2. Textbook Days: Vocabulary Workshop Friday; Bedford Reader: Wednesday, Thursday; Language of Composition: Wednesday, Thursday; Invisible Man: Friday
3. Invisible Man Introduction, Prologue and Chapters One-Five due Friday, including five talking points per chapter for class discussion
4. Water Politics cases resume; assignment to be announced in class
5. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Examination
6. Language of Composition outline due Thursday; pages to be announced in class
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-Choice Practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Politics Case Four continues
3. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday
4. Topic and Thesis Statement for Research Paper reviewed in class before research paper assignments (outline, precis, works cited, first draft) due dates are set
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition
4. Bedford Reader literary terms and AP vocabulary in class
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Outlining Language of Composition due today
3. Bedford Reader next selection class discussion, literary terms and AP vocabulary continues in class
Friday
1. Invisible Man Introduction, Prologue, and Chapters One-Five talking points due today for class discussion on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Seven due Friday; test on Monday
2. Textbook Days: Vocabulary Workshop Friday; Bedford Reader: Wednesday, Thursday; Language of Composition: Wednesday, Thursday; Invisible Man: Friday
3. Invisible Man Introduction, Prologue and Chapters One-Five due Friday, including five talking points per chapter for class discussion
4. Water Politics cases resume; assignment to be announced in class
5. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Examination
6. Language of Composition outline due Thursday; pages to be announced in class
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-Choice Practice for the AP Exam
2. Water Politics Case Four continues
3. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday
4. Topic and Thesis Statement for Research Paper reviewed in class before research paper assignments (outline, precis, works cited, first draft) due dates are set
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition
4. Bedford Reader literary terms and AP vocabulary in class
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Outlining Language of Composition due today
3. Bedford Reader next selection class discussion, literary terms and AP vocabulary continues in class
Friday
1. Invisible Man Introduction, Prologue, and Chapters One-Five talking points due today for class discussion on Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
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