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AP Syllabus: Download file
9th Lit Syllabus: Download file
Based on Collegeboard Requirements:
I was absent today, but tomorrow we will continue with our short story unit. You should have finished "The Most Dangerous Game" today.
Homework:
Complete the study guide
Vocab Q:2 Friday
** Class, you do not need to bring your textbooks tomorrow.
I apologize, but I am going to have to miss tomorrow as well. You should work on either your response papers, your lit term presentations, your Frankenstein, or your terms (for the quizzes Friday). I will be in for the second half of tomorrow if you need me and will for SURE be here Friday.
CHANGE: Since I was absent today and you did not get your promised lab time, the response paper will now be due Friday. Make it good! :-) Remember, even though the format is not as structured, the level of professionalism must be high; make this a polished paper which demonstrates your ability to proof for mistakes, to write in MLA format, and to synthesis readings into one piece, using smoothly incorporated quotations as evidence.
Frankenstein: For Tuesday, read to page 51 in the Kaplan version. This is to the end of chapter I. The first words of page 51 are "When I had attained the age of seventeen...". I want you to do a mini-dialectical journal for this first reading: take three quotes that have a similar effect. Write about those quotes (incorporate some of your new knowledge of rhetorical devices). Typed, please.
Friday:
Vocab Q:1
Terms Q:1
Bring your textbooks tomorrow!
Agenda:
DGP week 3 sentence/parts of speech and sentence parts
Vocabulary Unit 2 words 6-10
Summer Reading Project presentations
Reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
Homework:
Study guide for TMDG due on Friday (4th)
and Thursday (5th)
Vocabulary Q:2 Friday
* You don't need texts. Bring your response paper materials to the lab with you tomorrow. We will be meeting in the 200 hall lab.
Buy the Frankenstein Novel (Kaplan is best, but if you want to use another edition you may) by Friday. Our first reading assignment will be due next Tuesday. Page TBA
Agenda:
Finish Z Presentations
Discuss F-451 Mult Choice Questions
Tomorrow, we will finally get to the Sagan piece after our time in the lab, so be ready to get in your groups for a SOAPSTONE analysis.
HOMEWORK:
First response paper due Thursday.
Vocab quiz 1 Friday
Lit Term Q:1 Friday
BRING YOUR TEXTBOOKS TOMORROW!
Agenda:
Warm Up: Quick Write: Would you rather be the hunter or the "huntee"? What games have you played where people are being hunted?
DGP/Diagram from last week
Vocabulary Unit 2, Words 1-5
Book exercises to correspond with the first 5 words
Start reading "The Most Dangerous Game"
HOMEWORK:
Summer Reading Projects due tomorrow!
** You do not need to bring your books tomorrow. Do bring both the Sagan and the Staples essays.
Please buy the Kaplan version of Frankenstein. We will start reading this week (I will post the first reading assignment in the next day or so).
Agenda:
Lesson on first week terms. Click for the handout: Download file
Timed Writing: F-451 Assessment.
Tuesday, we will finish the Zinsser presentations and will have a class discussion on both essays (Sagan/Staples).
Wednesday, you go to the lab for the first half of the period.
Thursday: First Response paper due.
Friday: Vocab quiz and Lit Term Quiz #1
Bring your textbooks to class Monday!
Agenda:
Vocab in a bag presentations
SUASI (Stand up and SHOUT it!!!)
vocabulary quiz #1
Finish Cask...
Homework:
Summer Reading Projects due Tuesday!
** Bring your F451 books on Monday for your timed writing final assessment.
Revised tropes/schemes handout: Download file
Agenda:
Zinsser Presentations. Great job so far! We will finish these on Monday OR Tuesday, so be sure to bring your presentation materials on both days.
F451 Assessment: Hint! Be sure to carefully read from page 140 to the end. What is the tone? Notice some analogies, allusions, details, and choice of diction and how these rhetorical devices contribute to the tone.
Assignments:
Carl Sagan: Read the essay "The Abstraction of Beasts", which I gave you today.
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You need to bring your textbooks to class.
Agenda:
Vocab review for quiz tomorrow.
SAT/EOCT Vocabulary Exercises
DGP
"The Cask...."
The Cask study guide (maybe the last ten minutes in class)
HOMEWORK:
Work on your summer reading project!
Vocabulary quiz tomorrow on unit 1.
The Cask Study Guide!
* You do not need textbooks tomorrow.
Agenda:
Vocab
Lit term group assignments/words
Orwell close analysis
Homework:
Presentations for Zinsser tomorrow!