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AP Syllabus: Download file
9th Lit Syllabus: Download file
See all my standards taught this year AND essential questions: Download file
** Please note some changes I made to this week's blog entry. Also, please stay with the P&P reading. Because we have so little time left, there is NO time for cramming it in.
Please go to www.turnitin.com and register for the researched argument paper.
Our class ID: 2499394
PSWD: synthesis
Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break!
Monday:
DGP
Vocab - Please take this opportunity to do the Vocab in a bag assignment for Friday...
Pass Back Journals (4th). I will have 5th completed in the next few days.
Start Epic Poetry Unit:
- The Odyssey
- We will be working on both Epic/Traditional Poetry at the same time, so be ready for some fabulous verse! You are going to learn so much - about so many different authors.
Download the Summary: Download file
Download Vocab Extra Credit: Due Next Friday Download file
- 4th Block Homework: Do a second draft of your lit. analysis essays. I will pass back the first draft today.
Tuesday:
Vocab
DGP
Odyssey
Poetry
Wednesday:
Vocab
DGP
Odyssey
Poetry
Thursday:
Vocab
DGP
Odyssey
Poetry
vocab quiz review
Friday:
Vocab in a bag
Vocab Quiz
Odyssey
HOMEWORK: Based on your FAQ, please write a 2-3 page draft of an argument essay. Remember, you are using your thesis from your FAQ, and your goal is to convince your reader. 1st Draft Due TUESDAY.
Click Below for Standards and Essential Questions:
Welcome back! I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving. It is hard to believe that we have only three weeks until the END of the semester; we have a lot to do (I know you are up to the task!).
Monday:
- P&P Discussion #1: Groups identify characterization/irony/satire
- For Friday, Read to page: 273. The chapter text begins as follows:
"I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth," said her uncle, as they drove from the town; "and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter...'
- Discuss Hamlet project.
- Read Act-1 Hamlet
Hamlet Project Rubric: Download file
Hamlet Summary: Download file
Funny Cartoon: Download file
Act-I (Please print this out if you don't have the book)" Download file
We will be reading Act-I and cutting lines in class to show you what will be expected for your final project.
Tuesday:
Finish Act-I/Hamlet (If we don't finish in class, read for homework for Wednesday.
Wednesday:
Assign Acting Companies (Groups will form and will pick their own acting directors. You will draw straws for first dibs on acts/scenes).
Close Reading: Horatio's Monologue
Thursday:
- Collect Researched Argument Papers
- P&P Multiple Choice AP Questions
- Question Analysis
Friday:
Hogarth Art/Satire/P&P (Just have it read; there is no homework for this).
Homework:
Work in your groups! Get those lines cut down and scenes analyzed.
We ARE going to have a rhetorical device final activity, in which groups will work together to identify rhetorical devices. We'll do this next week.