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
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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
Sunday, December 14, 2008
STUDYPATH* December 15-19, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Water Politics Case Four in class
2. Letter to the Editor due
3. Topic and Thesis Statement for Research Paper due tomorrow
4. Words 91-100 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Thursday; test on Friday
5. AP Vocabulary continued
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 due today; precis introduced
5. Language of Composition outline due today
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Words 91-100 due today; test tomorrow
Friday
1. Words 91-100 (Words High School Students Should Know) test today
2. Winter Break December 20-January 11
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Water Politics Case Four in class
2. Letter to the Editor due
3. Topic and Thesis Statement for Research Paper due tomorrow
4. Words 91-100 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Thursday; test on Friday
5. AP Vocabulary continued
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 due today; precis introduced
5. Language of Composition outline due today
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Words 91-100 due today; test tomorrow
Friday
1. Words 91-100 (Words High School Students Should Know) test today
2. Winter Break December 20-January 11
Saturday, December 06, 2008
STUDYPATH* December 8-12, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Literary Terms test
2. Letter to the Editor due tomorrow
3. Water Politics Case Three debate
4. Words 81-90 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Thursday; test on Friday
5. AP Vocabulary continued
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Letter to the Editor due today
2. Water Politics Case Three debate continues
3. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday
4. Water Politics Case Four due Friday
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Research Paper topic and thesis statement due on Monday
4. AP Vocabulary continued
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Letter to the Editor assignment due Monday
3. Language of Composition outline assigned; due date to be announced
4. AP Vocabulary continued
Friday
1. Words 81-90 (Words High School Students Should Know) test today
2. Water Politics Case Four due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Literary Terms test
2. Letter to the Editor due tomorrow
3. Water Politics Case Three debate
4. Words 81-90 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Thursday; test on Friday
5. AP Vocabulary continued
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Letter to the Editor due today
2. Water Politics Case Three debate continues
3. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday
4. Water Politics Case Four due Friday
Wednesday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks both due in class today
2. Multiple Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Research Paper topic and thesis statement due on Monday
4. AP Vocabulary continued
Thursday
1. Language of Composition and Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today
2. Letter to the Editor assignment due Monday
3. Language of Composition outline assigned; due date to be announced
4. AP Vocabulary continued
Friday
1. Words 81-90 (Words High School Students Should Know) test today
2. Water Politics Case Four due today
3. Weekend homework to be announced
Sunday, November 30, 2008
STUDYPATH* December 1-5, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Language of Composition Books due Wednesday for grammar assignment
2. Bedford Reader textbooks due Wednesday and Thursday for reading assignment
3. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class today; test on Friday
4. Water Politics Case Three due today
5. Words 71-80 (Words High School Students Should Know) due today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Words High School Students Should Know (Words 71-80) test today
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader assignment in class; books required
2. Water Case Three assignment in class
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition; books required in class
4. Drinking Water: Public Thirst film continues
5. Huntington questions from Bedford Reader due today
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader assignment in class; books required
2. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop test tomorrow
3. Water Case Three assignment continued
4. Letter to the Editor assignment
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop test today
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Language of Composition Books due Wednesday for grammar assignment
2. Bedford Reader textbooks due Wednesday and Thursday for reading assignment
3. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class today; test on Friday
4. Water Politics Case Three due today
5. Words 71-80 (Words High School Students Should Know) due today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
2. Words High School Students Should Know (Words 71-80) test today
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader assignment in class; books required
2. Water Case Three assignment in class
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition; books required in class
4. Drinking Water: Public Thirst film continues
5. Huntington questions from Bedford Reader due today
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader assignment in class; books required
2. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop test tomorrow
3. Water Case Three assignment continued
4. Letter to the Editor assignment
Friday
1. Weekend homework to be announced
2. Unit Four-Six Vocabulary Workshop test today
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Saturday, November 22, 2008
STUDYPATH* November 24-28, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Bedford Reader in class Wednesday for assignment
3. Unit Six Vocabulary answers due today; test tomorrow
4. Water Politics Case Two continued
5. Words High School Students Should Know (Words 61-70) test postponed to today
6. Grammar assignment due today (appositives)
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Six vocabulary test
2. Words 71-80 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Monday
3. Water Politics Case Three assigned
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
2. Water Politics Case Three due on Monday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. School holiday Thursday and Friday
5. Unit Four-Six Review due Monday
Thursday
1. Thanksgiving Day Holiday
Friday
1. School holiday
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Bedford Reader in class Wednesday for assignment
3. Unit Six Vocabulary answers due today; test tomorrow
4. Water Politics Case Two continued
5. Words High School Students Should Know (Words 61-70) test postponed to today
6. Grammar assignment due today (appositives)
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Six vocabulary test
2. Words 71-80 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Monday
3. Water Politics Case Three assigned
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
2. Water Politics Case Three due on Monday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. School holiday Thursday and Friday
5. Unit Four-Six Review due Monday
Thursday
1. Thanksgiving Day Holiday
Friday
1. School holiday
Saturday, November 15, 2008
STUDYPATH* November 17-21, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Bedford Reader in class Wednesday and Thursday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Water Politics Case Two assigned
5. Unit Five vocabulary due; test tomorrow
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Five vocabulary test
2. Words 61-70 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Friday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
2. Water Politics Case Two due today
Thursday
1. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor assigned
2. Grammar assignment
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Bedford Reader due in class
Friday
1. Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Letter to the Editor due
2. Bedford Reader in class Wednesday and Thursday
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Water Politics Case Two assigned
5. Unit Five vocabulary due; test tomorrow
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Unit Five vocabulary test
2. Words 61-70 (Words High School Students Should Know) due Friday
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
2. Water Politics Case Two due today
Thursday
1. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor assigned
2. Grammar assignment
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
4. Bedford Reader due in class
Friday
1. Unit Six Vocabulary Workshop answers due Monday
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Sunday, November 09, 2008
STUDYPATH* November 10-14, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Four Vocabulary test today in class
2. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor due today
3. Words 51-60 (WHSSSK) test today in class
4. Bedford Reader literary terms test today in class; book days for Bedford Reader are Wednesday-Thursday
Tuesday
1. Veterans Day school holiday
2. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader reading assignment
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Water Politics Case One in class
4. Language of Composition grammar assignment; books signed out to students
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader reading assignment continued
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Frederick Douglass timed writing essay in class tomorrow
4. Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop due on Monday
5. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor assignment
Friday
1. Frederick Douglass timed essay in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Four Vocabulary test today in class
2. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor due today
3. Words 51-60 (WHSSSK) test today in class
4. Bedford Reader literary terms test today in class; book days for Bedford Reader are Wednesday-Thursday
Tuesday
1. Veterans Day school holiday
2. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader reading assignment
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Water Politics Case One in class
4. Language of Composition grammar assignment; books signed out to students
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader reading assignment continued
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
3. Frederick Douglass timed writing essay in class tomorrow
4. Unit Five Vocabulary Workshop due on Monday
5. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor assignment
Friday
1. Frederick Douglass timed essay in class
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Saturday, November 01, 2008
STUDYPATH* November 3-7, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor due today
2. Cornell Notes (Language Registers and Bloom's Taxonomy) test tomorrow
3. Grammar continued from The Language of Composition
4. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop due on Thursday; test on Friday
5. Frederick Douglass essay prewriting assigned upon completion of background information and graphic organizer; due Thursday
6. Bedford Reader textbook days are Wednesday and Thursday of each week
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Literary Terms test from Bedford Reader scheduled for Friday; books due in class Wednesdays and Thursdays
2. Words 51-60 (Words High Schools Students Should Know) assigned; test Friday
3. Multiple-Choice practice continues for the Advanced Placement Examination
4. Language Registers and Bloom's Taxonomy test in class
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today; reading assignment to be announced
2. Multiple-Choice practice continues for the Advanced Placement Examination
3. Water Conservation assignment from Water Politics; due Monday
4. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class tomorrow
Thursday
1. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop answers due today
2. Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today for writing assignment
3. Grammar continued from The Language of Composition
4. Los Angeles Times consultative writing assignment due on Monday
5. Bedford Reader literary terms test tomorrow
Friday
1. Words 51-60 WHSSSK test in class today
2. Water Politics assignment due Monday
3. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop test today
4. Bedford Reader literary terms test today
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Los Angeles Times letter to the editor due today
2. Cornell Notes (Language Registers and Bloom's Taxonomy) test tomorrow
3. Grammar continued from The Language of Composition
4. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop due on Thursday; test on Friday
5. Frederick Douglass essay prewriting assigned upon completion of background information and graphic organizer; due Thursday
6. Bedford Reader textbook days are Wednesday and Thursday of each week
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Literary Terms test from Bedford Reader scheduled for Friday; books due in class Wednesdays and Thursdays
2. Words 51-60 (Words High Schools Students Should Know) assigned; test Friday
3. Multiple-Choice practice continues for the Advanced Placement Examination
4. Language Registers and Bloom's Taxonomy test in class
Wednesday
1. Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today; reading assignment to be announced
2. Multiple-Choice practice continues for the Advanced Placement Examination
3. Water Conservation assignment from Water Politics; due Monday
4. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class tomorrow
Thursday
1. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop answers due today
2. Bedford Reader textbooks due in class today for writing assignment
3. Grammar continued from The Language of Composition
4. Los Angeles Times consultative writing assignment due on Monday
5. Bedford Reader literary terms test tomorrow
Friday
1. Words 51-60 WHSSSK test in class today
2. Water Politics assignment due Monday
3. Unit Four Vocabulary Workshop test today
4. Bedford Reader literary terms test today
Saturday, October 25, 2008
STUDYPATH* October 27-31, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Film Screening: The Great Gatsby Part One
2. Unit One-Three Vocabulary assignment due Wednesday
3. "Homeless" Bedford Reader assignment due Wednesday; bring book Wednesday and Thursday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Film Screening: The Great Gatsby Part Two
2. Words High School Students Should Know 41-50 due today; test tomorrow
Wednesday
1. Words High School Students Should Know 41-50 test today
2. Bedford Reader class discussion on "Homeless" reading selection
3. Grammar Lesson: Appositives from The Language of Composition
Thursday
1. Grammar Lesson: Appositives continued
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Friday
1. Timed writing in class to be announced
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Film Screening: The Great Gatsby Part One
2. Unit One-Three Vocabulary assignment due Wednesday
3. "Homeless" Bedford Reader assignment due Wednesday; bring book Wednesday and Thursday
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Film Screening: The Great Gatsby Part Two
2. Words High School Students Should Know 41-50 due today; test tomorrow
Wednesday
1. Words High School Students Should Know 41-50 test today
2. Bedford Reader class discussion on "Homeless" reading selection
3. Grammar Lesson: Appositives from The Language of Composition
Thursday
1. Grammar Lesson: Appositives continued
2. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Friday
1. Timed writing in class to be announced
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Sunday, October 19, 2008
STUDYPATH* October 20-24, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Lincoln essay timed writing on Wednesday
2. The Great Gatsby Chapter Nine talking points due Friday for class discussion
3. Bedford Reader due in class Thursday for assignment
4. "Silent Dancing" Bedford Reader assignment due tomorrow
5. Unit One-Three Cumulative Vocabulary test next Monday
6. Gauche-Inconvertible test today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1."Silent Dancing" assignment due today
2. Detail assignment
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Wednesday
1. Lincoln essay in class timed writing
2. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader assignment
2. Grammar lesson from Language of Composition
3. Great Gatsby Chapter Nine talking points due tomorrow
Friday
1. The Great Gatsby class discussion
2. Weekend homework to be announced
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Lincoln essay timed writing on Wednesday
2. The Great Gatsby Chapter Nine talking points due Friday for class discussion
3. Bedford Reader due in class Thursday for assignment
4. "Silent Dancing" Bedford Reader assignment due tomorrow
5. Unit One-Three Cumulative Vocabulary test next Monday
6. Gauche-Inconvertible test today
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1."Silent Dancing" assignment due today
2. Detail assignment
3. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam
Wednesday
1. Lincoln essay in class timed writing
2. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
Thursday
1. Bedford Reader assignment
2. Grammar lesson from Language of Composition
3. Great Gatsby Chapter Nine talking points due tomorrow
Friday
1. The Great Gatsby class discussion
2. Weekend homework to be announced
Sunday, October 12, 2008
STUDYPATH* October 13-17, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday for assignments
2. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test tomorrow
3. Words High School Students Should Know 31-40 assigned; test to be scheduled
4. Back-To-School Night Thursday 5:30-7:30 P.M. in Room 422
5. Lincoln essay assigned
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
2. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop test today
3. October 24 is deadline for Homework2pdf
4. Baldwin essays scored and returned to students for rewrites
5. Great Gatsby Chapters Seven and Eight talking points due Friday for class discussion
Wednesday
1. Cornell Notes continued in class
2. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition
3. Bedford Reader due today, Thursday for class assignments
4. Literary Terms from Bedford Reader continued
5. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam continues
Thursday
1. Back-To-School Night 5:30-7:30 P.M. in Room 422
2. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition continued
4. Cornell Notes continued
5. Lincoln essay prewriting due in class today; timed essay to be scheduled
6. Words 31-40 WHSSSK due tomorrow; test on Monday
Friday
1. Great Gatsby Chapters Seven and Eight talking points due in class for discussion
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Words 31-40 due today
4. Portfolios organized
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Bedford Reader due in class Wednesday and Thursday for assignments
2. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop answers due today; test tomorrow
3. Words High School Students Should Know 31-40 assigned; test to be scheduled
4. Back-To-School Night Thursday 5:30-7:30 P.M. in Room 422
5. Lincoln essay assigned
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Bedford Reader due in class tomorrow
2. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop test today
3. October 24 is deadline for Homework2pdf
4. Baldwin essays scored and returned to students for rewrites
5. Great Gatsby Chapters Seven and Eight talking points due Friday for class discussion
Wednesday
1. Cornell Notes continued in class
2. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition
3. Bedford Reader due today, Thursday for class assignments
4. Literary Terms from Bedford Reader continued
5. Multiple-Choice practice for the AP Exam continues
Thursday
1. Back-To-School Night 5:30-7:30 P.M. in Room 422
2. Bedford Reader due in class for assignment
3. Grammar assignment from Language of Composition continued
4. Cornell Notes continued
5. Lincoln essay prewriting due in class today; timed essay to be scheduled
6. Words 31-40 WHSSSK due tomorrow; test on Monday
Friday
1. Great Gatsby Chapters Seven and Eight talking points due in class for discussion
2. Weekend homework to be announced
3. Words 31-40 due today
4. Portfolios organized
Sunday, October 05, 2008
STUDYPATH* October 6-10, 2008
In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Two Vocabulary answers due in class today; test tomorrow
2. Cornell Notes in class this week
3. Homework2pdf. due October 24; check downloads page on school web site
4. Words High School Students Should Know test today
5. Multiple-Choice practice continues in class all week
6. Bedford Reader due in class Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for assignment
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Baldwin essays returned to students for rewrites
2. Unit Two Vocabulary test in class; books are required
3. Grammar assignment from The Language of Composition
4. Bedford Reader due in class
Wednesday
1. Homework2pdf. due October 24
2. Grammar assignment from The Language of Composition
3. Cornell Notes continued in class
4. Thursday is Unassigned Day (classes not in session)
5. Bedford Reader due in class
Thursday
1. Unassigned Day (classes not in session)
2. The Great Gatsby Chapters Five and Six talking points due tomorrow for Friday class discussion
Friday
1. The Great Gatsby class discussion Chapters Five and Six; talking points due
2. Weekend homework to be assigned
3. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class Monday; test Tuesday
4. Portfolios organized
*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR
Monday
1. Unit Two Vocabulary answers due in class today; test tomorrow
2. Cornell Notes in class this week
3. Homework2pdf. due October 24; check downloads page on school web site
4. Words High School Students Should Know test today
5. Multiple-Choice practice continues in class all week
6. Bedford Reader due in class Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for assignment
Tuesday (Shortened Day)
1. Baldwin essays returned to students for rewrites
2. Unit Two Vocabulary test in class; books are required
3. Grammar assignment from The Language of Composition
4. Bedford Reader due in class
Wednesday
1. Homework2pdf. due October 24
2. Grammar assignment from The Language of Composition
3. Cornell Notes continued in class
4. Thursday is Unassigned Day (classes not in session)
5. Bedford Reader due in class
Thursday
1. Unassigned Day (classes not in session)
2. The Great Gatsby Chapters Five and Six talking points due tomorrow for Friday class discussion
Friday
1. The Great Gatsby class discussion Chapters Five and Six; talking points due
2. Weekend homework to be assigned
3. Unit Three Vocabulary Workshop answers due in class Monday; test Tuesday
4. Portfolios organized
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