AP Long Form Next Components

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE: Comment on the book’s title. What message does the author want to convey with the title? Does the meaning of the title change for the reader from pre to post reading?

MEMORABLE QUOTES: (about five to eight) passages, sentences, fragments that capture the essence of story and style. Discuss significance to work.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Did you enjoy the novel? Strength, weaknesses, lingering questions? Does it relate to other books you have read? Any insight from critical reviews? Any insights into human folly or triumph? Do you expect any lasting effects on you? (Don’t underestimate the importance of this last section!)

Credit: (see previous blog entry)

STUDYPATH May 26-30, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Period Four takes Bedford Reader final five terms test
2. Water Cases Nine and Ten assigned; due Thursday
3. Unit Fifteen Vocabulary answers in class on Monday
4. Triads present oral defenses in preparation for field trip
5. Lunch tickets for field trip due no later than today (no exceptions)
6. See addendum about research paper due today (see separate blog)

Wednesday
1. Junior Defense of Thesis Research Paper Rubric issued in class today
2. Triads present oral defenses in preparation for field trip
3. Bedford Reader class discussion on Huntington, Naylor, and Daum
4. Bedford Reader Wenke selection due on Thursday

Thursday
1. Triads present oral defenses in preparation for field trip
2. Precis instructions issued for research paper; due Monday
3. Bedford Reader class discussion on Huntington, Naylor, and Daum continues
4. Water Case Four class discussion and activity scheduled for tomorrow

Friday
1. Triads present oral defenses in preparation for field trip
2. Class discussion and activity for Water Case Four
3. Weekend homework to be announced

Research Paper Adjustment of Assignment

An adjustment was made on Friday for the research paper. Five pages minimum (instead of fifteen) are due on Tuesday.

STUDYPATH May 19-23, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

CST TESTING MONDAY-THURSDAY; CLASS SCHEDULES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Monday: Periods One, Four, Five and Six
Tuesday: Periods One, Two, and Three
Wednesday: Periods One, Two, and Three
Thursday: Periods One, Four, Five and Six
Friday: Periods One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six

Weekly assigned work TBA in class with these exceptions:

Bring Vocabulary textbook on Monday for in-class work on Unit Fourteen
Invisible Man essay is due on Thursday
Research Paper outline is due on Thursday
Water Cases Six, Seven, and Eight will be completed in class
Bedford Reader Literary Terms (last five) test TBA; bring textbook to class Monday
Tone assignment to be completed in class
Research Paper first draft is due on Tuesday, May 27 (no exceptions)

JUNE 11 FIELD TRIP LUNCH TICKETS, IDENTIFICATION AND TRIP SLIP INFORMATION:

Lunch tickets must be received by May 28
IDs will be checked in class as time permits
Field trip slips will be issued on June 2, and must be completed by Friday, June 6
Appropriate business attire is requested for this trip
Junior Defense of Thesis Participants: Amir, Fahiya, Michael, Kenneth, Leslie, Norberto, Mynor
Triads will begin seven minute theses' defenses week of May 27-30

STUDYPATH May 12-16, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. Op-Ed due on Thursday
2. AP Long Form Components due today
3. Water Cases Three, Four, Five due today; Cases Six and Seven assigned
4. Unit Fourteen Vocabulary due MONDAY, MAY 19
5. Tone assignment continues in preparation for AP English Exam

Tuesday
1. AP English Language Exam strategies continue; exam administered tomorrow
2. Meghan Daum and Gloria Naylor Bedford Reader selections due today
3. Footnotes and citation multiple-choice practice in preparation for AP English Exam

Wednesday
1. Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination

Thursday
1. Op-Ed due today; new op-ed assigned
2. Invisible Man final essay due Monday, May 19
3. Outline for research paper due Monday, May 19
4. Library research tomorrow; meet at library

Friday
1. Meet at library for research
2. Dates for lunch tickets, identification cards, trip slips, and triad presentations announced for June 11 Metropolitan Water District field trip
3. Weekend homework to be announced

AP Long Form Next Components

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (TROPES): Language that is not literal. Metaphorical devices link meaning; most common are METAPHOR, SIMILE, PERSONIFICATION, AND ALLUSION. Point out examples (direct quotes) and discuss how used and how often used.

IRONIC DEVICES: Irony adds extra dimensions to meaning, stets up special understanding between writer and reader. Most common include VERBAL, SITUATIONAL, or DRAMATIC IRONY, PARADOX, OXYMORON, EUPHEMISM, HYPERBOLE, and UNDERSTATEMENT. Point out examples; how used, how often?

TONE: Author’s attitude toward subject, characters, and reader. Could be playful, serious, angry, ironic, formal, somber, satiric, and combinations of many more. Discuss the author’s tone and observe how the author creates it through plot, diction, syntax, imagery, figurative devices. Use direct quotations from text to support observations.

THEME: The theme refers to the book’s controlling idea or central insight. Identify the book’s central theme. Express as a statement with subject and predicate, not as a word or phrase (i.e. Wrong: “loyalty”, or “loyalty to country”; Right: “Envy is futile.”) Discuss author’s intention.

STUDYPATH May 5-9, 2007

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary in class; books are required and test to be scheduled
2. Op-Ed due today
3. Bedford Terms test in class today; Huntington discussion in class
4. AP Long Form next components due on Monday, May 12 (see accompanying blog for details)
5. Water Cases One and Two talking points due today; Water Cases Three, Four, Five are due Monday

Tuesday
1. Bedford Reader Argument outlines due in class; books are required in class
2. Next two Bedford selections are due Friday; complete questions on meaning, writing strategy, and language for "Safe-Sex Lies" by Megan Daum and "The Meanings of a Word" by Gloria Naylor
3. Invisible Man essay due dates: May 15 for Period Four and May 16 for Period One

Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader new set of ten literary terms
2. In-class essay scheduled for Thursday
3. Writer's Choice Phrases Unit completed; test scored
4. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary Test

Thursday
1. In-class timed essay
2. Multiple-choice sixty minute simulated exam scheduled for Friday
3. Op-Ed scheduled and due on Monday

Friday
1. Multiple-choice sixty minute simulated exam
2. Weekend homework to be announced, including assignment on tone

STUDYPATH April 28-May 2

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. Units Ten-Twelve and Cumulative III Vocabulary in class; books are required
2. Bedford Reader literary terms and Huntington assignment due
3. Invisible Man essay due May 15
4. Op-Ed piece due today for Period Four; due Thursday for Period One

Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Period One Invisible Man talking points due Friday for Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue
2. Bedford Reader literary terms and reading assignment
3. Timed essay scheduled for Thursday

Wednesday
1. Writer's Choice grammar and research paper
2. Bedford Reader literary terms test TBA

Thursday
1. Timed essay in class
2. Research Paper due dates announced

Friday
1. Period One: Talking points for Invisible Man Chapters 21-25 and Epilogue due for class discussion
2. Op-Ed assigned for all classes; due date announced
3. Unit Thirteen Vocabulary in class on Monday; books are required

STUDYPATH April 21-25, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. Unit Twelve Vocabulary in-class assignment; book is required
2. Bedford Reader text due only today this week; Bedford Terms
3. Writer's Choice grammar
4. Multiple-choice practice tomorrow (sixty minute simulated AP Test)

Tuesday
1. Sixty minute simulated AP Test
2. Bedford Reader text not required until next Monday; complete "The Crisis of National Identity" by Samuel P. Huntington paying particular attention to unfamiliar vocabulary; due Monday

Wednesday
1. In-class essay (essay is forty-minute timed essay to simulate AP Test)
2. Vantage Lab scheduled for tomorrow for Global Warming rewrite

Thursday
1. Vantage Lab rewrite for Global Warming essay
2. Talking points for Chapters Sixteen-Twenty for Period One due tomorrow for Invisible Man; motif essay prewriting assigned for Period Four

Friday
1. Invisible Man Chapters Sixteen-Twenty for Period One; motif essay prewriting for Period Four
2. Huntington piece from Bedford Reader due Monday; see Tuesday for specific assignment
3. Unit Thirteen will be completed in class Monday; vocabulary books are required

AP Long Form

Next components are due Monday, April 21, 2008

SYNTAX: (sentence structure) Analysis of sentence and phrase patterns._

1. Make some general observations: Are the sentence predominately simple or complex. Long or short? Level of formality? Any fragments? How does the author use syntax to create rhythm and flow of the language? Is there much variety to the sentence pattern? Are sentences loose, periodic, inverted, convoluted?

2. Using one of the same passages above, focus on the author’s syntax choices. What effect is he/she creating? Comment on how these choices help define character, set tone, or further theme.

IMAGERY: Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses—most commonly visual. Look for recurrent images. What function does the imagery seem to serve? Use direct quotations from text to support observations.

SYMBOLISM: When an image is used to suggest complex or multiple meanings (hawk for war, dove for peace, swan for stately beauty), it becomes a symbol. Is the novel highly symbolic? Allegorical? Point out images used as symbols. What function does the symbolism seem to serve? Use direct quotations from text to support observations.

STUDYPATH April 14-18, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
Most of this class will be on a field trip today; assignments are due before students board buses
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary answers due today; test Tuesday
2. Writer's Choice grammar assignments; phrases unit
3. Index cards due for research paper
4. Bedford Reader literary terms test rescheduled to Tuesday

Tuesday
1. Unit Eleven Vocabulary test today
2. Bedford Reader two selections due "Orientation" by Daniel Orozco and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
3. Writer's Choice grammar assignment

Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class for Orozco/Kincaid discussion
2. Vantage Lab date announced for Global Warming rewrite
3. Writer's Choice grammar assignment

Thursday
1. Next components of AP Long Form due on Monday
2. Multiple-choice practice
3. Invisible Man Chapters Eleven-Fifteen due tomorrow for Period One; Chapters Twenty-One to Twenty Five and Epilogue due tomorrow for Period Four


Friday
1. Invisible Man class discussion; see Thursday for chapters
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Meet at library for first twenty minutes of period for Book Fair
4. UNIT TWELVE WILL BE DONE IN CLASS ON MONDAY; BOOK IS REQUIRED FOR CLASSWORK

AP English Long Form Credit

All AP English Long Form Credit use on this blog is credited to Chris Baldwin, PHHS, who created this form.

STUDYPATH April 7-11, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

CHECK SUNDAY NIGHTS FOR UPDATE TO BLOG.

Monday
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary answers due today; test tomorrow
2. Writer's Choice Research Paper and Grammar assignments including Unit Twelve Phrases
3. Invisible Man talking points five per chapter due Friday for class discussion; Chapters Six-Ten for Period One and Sixteen-Twenty for Period Four
4. Bedford Reader "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker due Tuesday; literary terms

Tuesday
1. Vocabulary Unit Ten test
2. Writer's Choice assignments
3. "Everyday Use" due today
4. Literary terms

Wednesday
1. Writer's Choice assignments
2. Multiple-choice in-class practice
3. Literary terms

Thursday
1. Writer's Choice assignments
2. Vocabulary books due in class tomorrow; talking points due tomorrow

Friday
1. Vocabulary books due in class today
2. Class discussion of Invisible Man; see Monday for chapters
3. Two index cards due for research paper sources

Invisible Man Long Form

These components are due Monday, April 14 for Period One and Monday, April 21 for Period Four.

SETTING: Where and when does this novel occur? How is the environment described? Any symbolic meanings in the settings? How does the author use setting? What ATMOSPHERE is created by the setting? How important is setting to the novel?

DICTION: Analyze the author’s word choices. First discuss the work in general: is the language informal, formal, neutral? Explain and give an example. Does the author use much imagery? Metaphoric and/or ironic devices? Is the language plain? Flowery? Concise? Strong? Does diction indicate social status, education, region? Are the sounds cacophonous (“plosives”: b, d, g, k, p, t) or euphonious (“liquids”: l, m, n, r, soft v and f, th and wh)? Does it seem patterned or random? How much dialogue is used? How different is the dialogue from character to character?

SELECT THREE PASSAGES (minimum: approximately one-half page) featuring three different plot segments. Copy or Xerox them. Referring to the passages, discuss specific diction choices. Comment on how diction choices help define character, set tone, or further theme.

Invisible Man Long Form

Next components of Long Form are due on Friday, April 4 for Period Four, and Friday, April 11 for Period One

POINT OF VIEW (NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE): Is the novel written from the first person (“I”), second person (“you,” very rare), or third person (he/she)? Is it a reminiscence or recent perspective, written in the present tense or the past tense? If in the first person, is he/she the protagonist or an observer? If in the third, is he/she omniscient (knowing everything), limited omniscient (knowing one character most often) or objective (no subjective commentary by the narrator, but limited omniscient)?

CHARACTER: General comments: Flat/round? Static/dynamic? Believable? How are they revealed? How complex? How many? Protagonist/antagonist? Role of minor characters? Then describe four-six central characters: name, age, three descriptive adjectives, appearance, personality, function in novel, significance of name, a quote that reveals character with an explanation of what the quote reveals.

STUDYPATH March 31-April 4, 2008

CHECK BLOG SUNDAY NIGHTS FOR ANY UPDATES

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. APEX diagnostic tests due today
2. Research paper strategies; grammar Unit Thirteen test
3. Bedford Reader textbook days revised to Monday-Wednesday; Bedford literary terms continued
4. Multiple-choice practice
5. Invisible Man class discussion continues from Friday (bring novel to class)
6. Answers Unit 7-9 and Cumulative II due in class today

Tuesday
2. Invisible Man Period One: Chapters 1-5 talking points due Friday; Period Four: Chapters 11-15 talking points due Friday
2. Bedford terms continued
3. "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen due in class today
4. Synthesis essay scheduled for Thursday
5. Los Angeles Times Op-Ed assignment

Wednesday
1. Unit Ten Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday in class
2. Research paper strategies
3. Bedford terms test in class today
4. Multiple-choice practice

Thursday
1. In-class synthesis essay
2. Invisible Man class discussion tomorrow

Friday
1. Invisible Man class discussion (see Tuesday for chapter assignments)
2. Vocabulary Workshop due in class today for Unit Ten assignment

STUDYPATH March 24-28, 2008

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR


In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. Writer's Choice is due in class M-W
2. Bedford Reader is due in class Thursday; complete two assignments before this Thursday "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (122) and questions on meaning, writing strategy, and language and "Silent Dancing" by Judith Ortiz Cofer (162) and questions on meaning, writing strategy and language
3. Multiple-Choice practice
4. Unit Nine vocabulary answers due today; test tomorrow

Tuesday
1. Unit Nine vocabulary test today
2. Writer's Choice grammar
3. Research paper strategies
4. APEX diagnostic tests due by Friday

Wednesday
1. Writer's Choice grammar
2. Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten due Friday for class discussion (five talking points per chapter)

Thursday
1. Multiple-choice practice in class
2. Hazlitt multiple-choice review
3. Vocabulary book due in class tomorrow
4. Cofer and Jackson pieces from Bedford Reader due today

Friday
1. Unit Seven-Nine and Cumulative Review II vocabulary answers due on Monday
2. Class discussion of Invisible Man Chapters Six-Ten; five talking points per chapter due
3. Weekend homework to be announced

Practicing Consulative Language

Several AP students have decided to address the op-ed columnists by using a questioning strategy instead of crafting a letter response. Here is the format for the questioning strategy as requested by AP students:

Practicing Consultative/Formal Registers Outside the School Day:

Look through several newspapers and magazines to find an editorial writer you would be willing to read regularly. Choose someone who makes you think—either in agreement or in disagreement.

For each editorial, do the following:

1. What is the writer’s argument? Summarize the editorial’s argument in a sentence of no more than eighteen words.

2. How does the writer prove it? What evidence does the writer give?

3. How does the writer explain the evidence? What does the writer explain about the evidence that shows how or why it proves the argument?

4. Do you agree with the argument? Why or why not?

5. Write down three things you would like to say to this writer.

6. Find three ways this editorial relates to something you have studied or learned about in school. Write an explanation of how the editorial relates to your class work.

c.Marcy Bowman, 2005 California State University AP Seminar and writingback.org

STUDYPATH March 17-21, 2007

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday, March 17
1. Writer's Choice due in class; research paper strategies from textbook begin today
2. Op-Ed due today; see "Practicing Consultative Language" if you wish to use the questioning method rather than the letter response method for the op-ed response
3. Synthesis essays graded and returned to students during this week (revisions and rewrites due Friday)
4. Unit Eight Vocabulary due today in class; test to be scheduled
5. Research Paper Topic due today (in writing-format distributed in class last week)
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" talking points due today for Period One class only

Tuesday
1. Timed write essay in class today
2. Writer's Choice not due in class today; bring Writer's Choice Wednesday and Thursday this week
3. Bedford Reader texts distributed and assignment made

Wednesday
1. Writer's Choice due in class today and tomorrow for research paper and grammar assignments
2. Vocabulary Workshop texts due in class Friday
3. Multiple-Choice strategies continue with review of Hazlitt piece, Housman poem, and student-created multiple-choice questions
4. Bedford Reader assignments made

Thursday
1. Invisible Man Chapters One-Five talking points due Friday for class discussion (five talking points per chapter)
2. Since Period One received Invisible Man later than Period Four, the introduction, prologue and Chapters One-Five talking points are due Friday for class discussion (five talking points for prologue, introduction and five talking points per chapter)
3. Synthesis essay rewrites are due tomorrow
4. Vocabulary Workshop textbooks are due in class on Fridays
6. Writer's Choice textbook due as research paper and grammar assignments continue
2. Op-Ed assignment

Friday
1. Invisible Man class discussion; books and talking points required
2. Unit Nine vocabulary assigned; books required in class

STUDYPATH March 10-14, 2007

POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

Monday
1. DCQ Synthesis essay due today for Period One; due Tuesday for Period Four
2. Cornell Notes for Bloom's Taxonomy
3. Writer's Choice anthologies due in class today
4. Los Angeles Times editorial responses due today

Tuesday
1. Writer's Choice anthologies due in class today
2. Invisible Man books assigned; talking points due Friday for class discussion
3. Junior Defense of Thesis topic due today

Wednesday
1. Writer's Choice anthologies due in class today
2. Bedford Reader books assigned; Bedford Terms and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
3. Research Paper strategies

Thursday
1. Los Angeles Times editorial assignment
2. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (continued)
3. Bedford Terms test today (postponed)
4. Five talking points for both the introduction and the prologue for Invisible Man due by Friday


Friday
1. Invisible Man talking points for Chapters One-Five due today for class discussion (modified: see Thursday for assignment)
2. Vocabulary Workshop Unit Eight due Monday
3. Weekend homework to be announced, including revisions and rewrites for DCQ Synthesis essays
4. Research Paper topics are due today! Choose a natural disaster that is connected to water conservation.