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Agenda:
DGP/Diagram
Mini-Lesson:
- Incorporating Quotations in an essay.
- Introduction for an analysis essay
- Conclusions
AP Questions (continue with the multiple choice we started yesterday).
Dumpster Diving - start analysis (SOAPSTONE).
Homework: See previous entries for Friday's homework.
We will have MEDIA ORIENTATION/RESEARCH in the media center for both days. 5th block, you will lose part of Friday because of the pep rally.
FAQ PROJECT:
Due Friday end of class. See me for handout. Next week, you will take your FAQ's and your researched articles, and will use these to write your first formal essay!
Make sure to bring these materials to class all week next week.
No vocabulary this Friday. We will have our next quiz next Friday.
AP Language Agenda:
Warm Up: Modes
Modes exercise
AP Exam lesson:
- format
- multiple choice grading and hints
- multiple choice work
HOMEWORK:
- Thursday: Dumpster Diving (Norton)
- Friday: Frankenstein Reading and Socratic Seminar prep (see Monday blog entry)
- Friday Vocab Q:4
Friday: Research Proposal Due
9th Lit:
Vocabulary/DGP
FAQ Prep for Thursday and Friday Library Orientation
UNIT I SHORT STORY TEST
NO VOCABULARY QUIZ THIS WEEK. WE WILL HAVE IT NEXT FRIDAY.
Click for this unit's essential questions.
Vocabulary:
- How can I use Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots to understand the meaning of new words?
Short Story Unit:
- How can students identify and analyze dramatic elements to interpret literature?
- How can analyzing the characters, stuctures and themes of literature help students to interpret literature?
Today I had a training and you completed the following in class:
Vocabulary book work unit 3
TKAMB reading and journal work: Chapter 1-2
Study for Short Story Unit Test
HOMEWORK:
Short Story Unit Test Tomorrow. I gave you a study guide in class.
Agenda:
Lit term discussion. We talked about the quiz and went over each question. As discussed in class, we will have several smaller quizzes so that you will become more comfortable with these terms.
Research and thesis statement discussion.
MLK close reading. This is the last time we will work on this in class, but as I told you earlier, please schedule a writing conf. with me if you are having trouble.
HOMEWORK:
See previous entry
For Thursday read "On Dumpster Diving"
For Friday: Vocab Q:4 and Research Proposal
Agenda:
Check research articles
Vocabulary Quiz
DGP
In Class reading: To Kill a Mockingbird
Tomorrow, you will have a substitute because I will be in a training session. You will have two tasks: Read To Kill a Mockingbird to page (to be announced in class) and write a brief summary of what you read, and study for the short story unit test on Wednesday.
5th block, you will work on the SAT reading comprehension packet, will study for the test, and will read to page (TBA) in TKAMB.
Homework:
Wednesday: Short Story Unit Test!
Change in weekly precis:
I would like you to type each one instead of filling out the precis form. Because you will be turning in the FAQ and Annotated Bibliography in the Spring, typing it now will make that process much, much easier for you.
Also, I am really enjoying reading your thoughtful and informative blog posts. Your responses to each other's posts are exactly what I'd hoped they would be. Good Job!
Agenda:
Lit Terms Quiz
Pass Back Double J's for MLK
Pass Back F-451 Papers
Go over Mult Ch Q's
Book Circle - Frankenstein
Homework:
Continue Reading in Frankenstein.
Kaplan: through page 163
Other books: Through chapter 8 (the last paragraph of the reading is: "We retired early to our apartments, but not to sleep; at least I did not...")
Formal Socratic Seminar This Friday. Be ready to discuss rhetorical devices from the text. This seminar will be text-focused, and an "A" seminar requires that students refer to the text often, discuss rhetorical strategies using terms we have studied in class, and demonstrate understanding of the plot/themes, etc.
Optional: Type 5 multiple choice questions (with answer options and separate answer key) that focus on rhetorical analysis. (10 points bonus daily grade points)
For Thursday: Read from Norton: page 22 "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner.
Don't forget your research proposal is due this week.
Vocabulary: Complete vocabulary book work pages: 31-33
Complete and turn in grammar packet: turn in Friday for a grade
Finish reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
Start To Kill a Mockingbird
Homework:
- Vocabulary Quiz Monday on Unit 2
- Find TWO more good sources about your topic that you chose in the lab. Read the sources, and make notes on them (ideas, places where you have questions, etc.) Bring to class Monday. ** For those of you who did NOT WORK in the lab the other day, I expect you to not only fill out the packet I gave you, but to find two additional sources, read them, and takes notes. This work will turn into a formal essay and your progress will be graded on Monday.
Passwords for Elibrary:
Post here for research blog #2: http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/research-2.html
MLK Letter: Download file
Stand up and SHOUT it!
Vocab Quiz: 3
Check research assignments
MLK Group Analysis
HOMEWORK:
Read the first 4 letters and chapter 1 of Frankenstein. Book Circle on Monday (no homework for this).
Study for the Lit Terms Quiz
Blog entry #2 Sunday Noon
Complete passage 1 and 2 mult choice Frank Questions
Vocabulary: Complete vocabulary book work pages: 31-33: will be checked Monday.
Complete and turn in grammar packet: turn in Friday for a grade
Finish reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
Complete a "Short Story Chart" for the following stories: Download file
- The Gift of the Magi
- The Most Dangerous Game
- The Cask of Amon..."
Homework:
- Vocabulary Quiz Monday on Unit 2
- If you did not finish the short story charts, finish them for Monday.
- Find TWO more good sources about your topic that you chose in the lab. Read the sources, and make notes on them (ideas, places where you have questions, etc.) Bring to class Monday.
Agenda:
DGP
Reading Quiz: The Gift of the Magi
"The Most Dangerous Game"
Vocabulary Quiz MONDAY
Bring both To Kill a Mockingbird and your Textbook to class tomorrow.
Handouts from today:
MLK Essay Rubric: Download file
Research Proposal Rubric: Download file
MLK: We will do these questions tomorrow in class.
MLK Questions:
MLK Analysis Handout:
Download file
Agenda:
DGP - Identifying sentence parts, incorporating punct. and diagramming
Rubric Discussion
MLK groups/close reading to identify appeals to ethos, logos, pathos.
Homework:
Vocabulary Q:3 tomorrow
Research #2 (one annotation/precis, evidence of two articles)
The lit terms quiz will be on Monday.
Agenda:
Vocabulary Unit 3 Review
Computer lab (we had a shortened class, but hopefully you got something accomplished on your lit term projects.)
Homework:
Vocab and Lit Term Quiz on Friday. Tomorrow, be ready to discuss MLK's letter. We will do close analysis, as well as class discussion.
Agenda:
Pass back summer reading quizzes.....ouch.
Vocabulary U:2 review
Computer lab to do part-1 of research/persuasive writing project. Download file
Homework:
We will have "The Gift of the Magi" reading quiz tomorrow. Bring textbook to class.
Bring TKAMB to class.
Friday: Vocabulary Quiz #2
No Grammar Quiz Friday.
* Schedule subject to change at teacher's discretion.
Click below for this week's tentative schedule.
Tentative Weekly Schedule:
We will start Frankenstein this week. Please buy the Kaplan version of the text. It is not a disaster if you can't find it, but just make sure you work out the reading assignments, as each publication has different page numbers. Along with the seminars and graded discussions/test, we will have two multiple choice assignments and in-class writing assignments.
Tentative Reading Schedule:
- 1/28: Read to page 51 (Kaplan)
- 2/4: Socratic Seminar. Read to page 191 (through vol. II, chapter III).
- 2.11: Graded class discuss: Frankenstein. Reading through vol III, ch. IV. page 347.
- 2/15: Final test
Tuesday:
Collect MLK Double Journal
- Pass back summer reading work.
- pass back vocabulary quizzes.
- Thesis mini-lesson
- DGP
In-class close of F-451/Complete questions and discuss mult choice strategies.
** Start MLK
**Start Frankenstein
Wednesday:
Computer Lab: Lit Terms Projects
DGP
MLK Analysis/Groups
Thursday
DGP
MLK Analysis/Groups
Groups Presentation MLK
In-class discussion/MLK's appeals to ethos, logos, pathos and rhetorical strategies used in his letter.
** Assign take home essay: MLK
Friday:
Vocab Q:3
DGP Diagram
PowerPoint:
- - Toulmin, Rogerian, Classical argument
- - Tropes/Schemes Audio
Agenda:
Pass back summer reading
Pass back vocab Q:2
lesson:
- Thesis
- Lit terms
- Topic sentences
Mult Choice Q's
Homework: Be ready to work on literary term presentation tomorrow in the lab. Check out your copy of Frankenstein or buy the Kaplan version.
Friday:
- Research #2
- Vocabulary Q:3
- Lit terms quiz
** Schedule subject to change at teacher's discretion.
Click below to see a tentative schedule for this week.
Tuesday:
- Hand back vocabulary quiz #1
DGP Week 3
Vocabulary U:2
Summer Reading Quiz
Give FAQ sample and introduce assignment to go with To Kill a Mockingbird.
Finish "The Most Dangerous Game"
Wednesday:
DGP
Vocab
Jim Crow Stories
Computer Lab: FAQ
Check out TKAMB
Read Historical Article
Thursday:
- Vocabulary sentences in context
- Thesis mini-lesson/overheads
- HOTSEAT/Persuasive Topic #1
Read Chapter 1 TKAMB in class
Friday:
Vocabulary Q:2
DGP Diagram
In Class Reading: One Ordinary Day....
Agenda:
DGP Diagram
Vocab in a Bag Presentations
Vocabulary Q:1
Summer Reading Lit Circles/Review
HOMEWORK:
SUMMER READING QUIZ TUESDAY 1/22
Agenda:
Check Research #1
Quick "Stand up and Shout it!"
Vocabulary Quiz #2
F-451 Timed Writing, AP Questions 1-38
HOMEWORK:
Read this letter TO MLK first, before reading the Norton. Download file
Read MLK Letter page 889-902
Do ten entries in a double journal. Click here for an example:
Sunday Noon: Research Blog Entry #1
Double Journal Example: Download file
** Please bring the AP Questions and F-451 to class on Tuesday. I want to go over the questions 1-38 (you do not have to have them all completed by then; just bring what you have).
** Next Wednesday, we will spend part of the class time in the computer lab, where you may work on your Lit Term projects. You may want to start thinking about that so you will have something to do that day.
Link to Research Blog:
http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/research-project-2008.html
Agenda:
1-pager warm-up
vocabulary stand up and SHOUT it!
Overhead notes on the elements of a short story
Begin "The Most Dangerous Game"
HOMEWORK:
Literary Circle work for Summer Reading
Vocabulary Q:2
Agenda:
Warm Up: Parallel writing warm up: you used what we discussed about parallelism, asyndeton, polysyndeton, and repetition in a quick write activity.
Zinsser Quiz
F-451 AP Questions
Homework:
- Research weekly #1
- Vocab Quiz:2
- Finish reading F-451. Bring book to class and be ready to discuss, to answer questions, and to pre-write.
Agenda:
DGP
Vocabulary
Finish "The Cask..." (4th)
Visual Rhetoric/Media Literacy (Excellent Job Today!)
Homework:
For Friday: Summer reading literary circles and vocabulary quiz #1
Vocabulary Review Unit 2
Orwell: Finish close reading, and go over multiple choice questions
Analyzing visual rhetoric presentation
Homework:
Tomorrow: Zinsser Quiz
Friday
Vocabulary Q:2
Research annotation #1
Finish reading F-451
- On Friday, we will go over f-451 questions in class, will discuss the text, and will either have a timed essay for homework or in class as a final assessment.
Agenda:
- Overhead Notes: Parallelism, Tropes, Schemes. This is just the start!
- Pick Lit Term Project partners and sign up.
- Close Reading, Orwell.
Homework:
First research assignment (one annotation, copied articles) due Friday
Blog Link http://www.jamisonenglish.typepad.com/
Vocabulary Q:2 Friday
Blog: Sunday 12:00 NOON
Click below for research resources:
Cobb Virtual Library:
Galileo via Georgia State:
PSWD: Town
Gale Resource Center and Galileo
Getting to the Gale Literature Resource Center:
- From the Harrison Home Page (www.harrisonhigh.org), look for the ACADEMICS tab at the top of the page.
- Select Cobb Virtual Library
- Then select the High School button on the right.
- The Gale Literature Resource Center is in the center of the nine websites.
Interesting links:
http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/search-
Username: cobbhs
Password: three
http://galdb1.gsu.edu/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi?style=&_id=a809230e-1251539346-0915&_cc=1
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Agenda:
DGP day #2
Vocabulary Unit 1
Introduce "Vocab in a Bag"
4th: Finish "The Cask..." Homework: Do the vocabulary on the handout and the first 5 questions (on a separate sheet of paper).
5th: Read "The Cask..." We will finish tomorrow
Homework:
Vocabulary Q:1 Friday
Summer Reading Lit Circle Homework Due Friday
Summer Reading Quiz: Tuesday 1/22
Agenda:
DGP Week 2, Parts of Speech
Vocabulary Unit 1 Book (completing the sentences, synonyms).
Reading Quiz: The Sniper
Pass out Summer Reading Lit. Circle Assignments
Start Reading: "The Cask of Amontillado"
Homework:
Bring textbook to class
Bring vocabulary book to class
Summer Reading lit circle - Friday
Vocabulary Q:1 Friday
Agenda:
pass back vocabulary quizzes
pass back timed essays
pass back socratic seminar work
Collect Summer Reading Projects
Feedback on first timed essays - we went over common writing challenges and ways to overcome...
- Dangling Mods
- Pron/Antecedent
- Sub/Vb
- Lead in/Analysis
- Effective Thesis/Topic Sentences
- Vague Prons/Generalizations/Assumptions
Grammar: DGP Day 1-2
Handouts:
AP words
Rhetorical Terms
HOMEWORK:
If you didn't read Orwell for today, read it for tomorrow. Bring Norton to class.
Finish F-451 by Friday.
Agenda:
Vocabulary Q:1
Socratic Seminar #1: Fahrenheit 451
Homework:
Orwell: "Shooting an Elephant" read the essay in Norton, and download the Orwell question sheet (under the weekly schedule I posted at the beginning of this past week) and read the questions for pre-reading. You will work in groups to answer the questions on Monday.
Summer Reading Projects due
I am so excited to start the year, and can't wait to meet each of you. Please check this blog each day; I will post many important handouts, lessons, assignments, and of course the daily agenda.
Click here for some handouts you will need this week. I will add to this list during the next couple weeks, and in the future you can go to the AP Handouts 2008 category to download handouts from class:
Click for a copy of several of our first day handouts:
Tone Words: Download file
stems and roots: Download file
Tropes and Schemes: Download file
Orwell Handout: Download file
Daily grammar form: Download file
Agenda:
Warm up: DGP day 4
Review of elements of an effective essay
Timed writing diagnostic (argument)
Begin "The Sniper"
Terms to know:
Plot Diagram
exposition - beginning of the story
rising action - action after the beginning, builds in intensity
climax - the point of no return, the most intense moment, there's no turning back now
falling action - everything that happens after the climax
denouement (resolution) - the conclusion of the story: loose ends are tied up.
HOMEWORK:
$8 vocab
signed syllabus due tomorrow!
Agenda:
Voice Lesson: Diction #2
Summer Reading brief review of assignment (due Monday)
Socratic Seminar review
First timed writing diagnostic (synthesis essay from "Conversation" packet)
Multiple Choice to #28
Thank you for enduring these grueling pretests! This may seem like a chore now, but when you see how much you've improved by the end of the year, you'll feel such a wonderful sense of accomplishment!
HOMEWORK:
Socratic seminar on F-451 tomorrow. Read to page 110. Please remember that "A" work must be typed! Review the rubric before you do your questions. You will be following the handout I gave you.
First vocabulary quiz on unit-1
Bring pictures if you want...
Agenda:
Vocabulary work: Unit 1 - using the first ten words of the unit, you wrote sentences that define the word in the context of the sentence.
DGP Diagnostic Test
Sell vocabulary books
DGP day Monday and Tuesday, sentence #1
Scavenger Hunt
HOMEWORK:
Signed Syllabus
$8 Vocabulary!!!
Agenda:
Voice lesson/Diction
Lit Termsdiagnostic
Grammar Diagnostic
Check Ads
Handouts:
DGP form
DGP packet
AP words
Pre-Test Synthesis Essay Readings
Rhetorical Terms
HOMEWORK:
Tomorrow you will have your diagnostics in multiple choice and in writing. This will be a full class period, so get plenty of sleep tonight. Please read through the "Conversation" handout that I gave you today, so you can write your best essay tomorrow.
Friday:
Socratic Seminar/110 F-451
Vocab Quiz #1
Bring pictures for my class board!! :-)
Click below for a complete listing of Level-D vocabulary words. We will have a quiz on each unit, starting with the quiz on Unit-1 on January 18th, 2008.
Unit 1 (download complete unit 1 mp3)
admonish
cumbersome
efface
relinquish
breach
deadlock
muddle
salvage
brigand
debris
opinionated
spasmodic
circumspect
diffuse
perennial
spurious
commandeer
dilemma
predispose
unbridled
Unit 2 (download complete unit 2 mp3)
adjourn
erratic
illegible
subjugate
alien
expulsion
jeer
sully
comely
feint
lucrative
tantalize
compensate
fodder
mediocre
terse
dissolute
fortify
proliferate
unflinching
Unit 3 (download complete unit 3 mp3)
abridge
dissent
marauder
semblance
adherent
eminent
obesity
surmount
altercation
exorcise
pauper
terminate
cherubic
fabricate
pilfer
trite
condone
irate
rift
usurp
Unit 4 (download complete unit 4 mp3)
abscond
biased
inanimate
pompous
access
daunt
incinerate
precipice
anarchy
disentangle
intrepid
rectify
arduous
fated
larceny
reprieve
auspicious
hoodwink
pliant
revile
Unit 5 (download complete unit 5 mp3)
accomplice
exodus
morose
reprimand
annihilate
facilitate
opaque
servitude
arbitrary
incorrigible
paramount
slapdash
brazen
latent
prattle
stagnant
catalyst
militant
rebut
succumb
Unit 6 (download complete unit 6 mp3)
atone
doleful
incessant
sardonic
bondage
ghastly
intricate
superfluous
credible
hamper
lucid
supplant
defray
hew
posthumous
taunt
diligent
impoverished
prim
tenacious
Unit 7 (download complete unit 7 mp3)
adieu
exorbitant
metropolis
shoddy
advent
interim
momentous
sprightly
apex
inundate
obstreperous
surly
assimilate
malign
pensive
tirade
bogus
meander
perilous
vagrant
Unit 8 (download complete unit 8 mp3)
assurance
dwindle
preposterous
remunerate
asylum
flippant
pugnacious
sparse
console
immunity
rabid
sterling
dilate
institute
realm
venture
dross
liability
rejuvenate
warp
Unit 9 (download complete unit 9 mp3)
auxiliary
escalate
heterogeneous
monologue
candid
expedient
horde
prognosis
cubicle
feign
impel
rasping
drudgery
flair
incredulous
repugnant
envoy
grievous
inscribe
scuttle
Unit 10 (download complete unit 10 mp3)
adept
diminutive
impair
preamble
aspire
emancipate
invincible
render
bleak
erroneous
languid
rugged
chide
exploit
mire
skeptical
despicable
extemporaneous
obtrusive
slipshod
Unit 11 (download complete unit 11 mp3)
brevity
deteriorate
proponent
relentless
comport
divulge
quaver
rivulet
concise
enlightened
recoil
squander
demure
forestall
recoup
staccato
depreciation
garble
reek
statute
Unit 12 (download complete unit 12 mp3)
appreciable
concerted
irreverent
subversive
autocratic
contend
laborious
synthetic
blanch
humane
lithe
temperate
blasphemy
illustrious
maltreat
venomous
brawny
intolerable
ponder
wily
Unit 13 (download complete unit 13 mp3)
ad infinitum
concede
perverse
sordid
apportion
congenial
prelude
untenable
bona fide
lofty
rancid
versatile
buoyant
migration
rustic
vindicate
clique
perceive
sever
wane
Unit 14 (download complete unit 14 mp3)
annex
devitalize
improvise
precipitous
cleave
embroil
incite
profuse
cordial
exonerate
influx
reconcile
cornerstone
glib
pallor
shackle
debacle
haphazard
pedigree
threadbare
Unit 15 (download complete unit 15 mp3)
abase
combatant
impenitent
probe
actuate
dormant
knave
protract
avert
dubious
legion
quarry
boorish
harangue
liberality
spurn
brunt
harry
plaintiff
subterfuge
CHANGE: We will have our first vocabulary quiz NEXT Friday (January 18), not this Friday. You still need to buy your vocabulary books, because we will start work on the vocabulary unit this week.
- Welcome and Intro
- Syllabus
- Ice Breaker
- Class Discussion
- Vocabulary/DGP Intro and handouts
- TRSS
HOMEWORK:
Bring $8 for vocabulary books.
Bring a couple pictures that represent your life (you, family, friends, etc.) for the class wall.
Bring signed syllabus form (last sheet in syllabus) by FRIDAY.
Introduction to rhetoric.
Diction - Word Choice. When studying serious literature, whether prose, poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, students should NEVER skips words they do not know. That would be like ignoring half the music in your favorite song, or refusing to listen to the lyrics of a song.
Syntax - The way words are arranged within sentences. How writers manipulate and control the sentence is a strong determiner of voice and imparts personality to writing.
Organization: The order in which information, or the argument, is presented in the work of prose.
The Rhetorical Triangle
Speaker
Subject
Audience
Context
Intention
- Welcome Sheets
- Class Discussion/What to expect in an AP Language class
- Syllabus/handouts
- Check out F-451 in library
HOMEWORK:
- Bring $8 for vocabulary books. We will have our first quiz this Friday
- Tomorrow, bring an advertisement that "speaks" to you, that persuades you to buy the product it is selling. Why is the ad effective? In a typed one-page analysis, identify the following:
1. speaker (who is really selling the product?)
2. audience (who is the target market for this product and why?)
3. subject (what is the ad about?)
4. what is the context? (selling cigarettes today and selling them fifty years ago are two different issues...)
5. intent (what is the intent of the ad?)
- For Friday: Socratic Seminar questions for F-451 and read to page 110
- Vocabulary Quiz #1
Click the link below to connect to the page on my website where you will post your weekly research comments.
http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/research-project-2008.html
Click below to see Unit-1 Vocabulary Words (no definitions here)
adjunct
bellweather
caterwaul
chimerical
effete
fait accompli
hidebound
hierarchy
liturgy
mirage
morass
noisome
oblivious
poltroon
proselyte
quasi
raillery
ribald
supine
vignette