Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (AP English III)
The college-level AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. This college composition course emphasizes expository, analytical, and argumentative writing. Students will engage in analyzing rhetorical strategies used by writers for varying purposes. This course prepares students to take the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) exam in May for which students may receive college placement hours. All students enrolled in the AP English III course are expected to take this exam in May.
Click on the below file to see the course expectations/syllabus:
Click on the below file to see the course expectations/syllabus:
A Quick Warning about Plagarism: You may not use direct or indirect wording off of any source and represent these ideas as your own. If papers contain any percentage of direct wording from a source that is not from the given writer/student, that student will receive a 0. You will not be allowed to rewrite the paper. Please do not access outside literary sites, or other student papers to write your essays. Do not "write papers/assignments together". Do not electronically share your paper. Cite all sources and quotes. You may NOT recycle papers from other classes or from previous years. It will show as plagarizing yourself. Every assignment is to be original content.
Weeks of May 2 May 9
AP Test Review Weeks. See Below for assignments and review sheets
Week of April 18
Monday and Tuesday: Rain Days Wednesday: Begin AP Test Review: Rhetoric Prior to 1900. Today's focus comparative rhetoric Queen Elizabeth and King Henry V. Complete the Both Both But chart. Youtube videos are below Thursday: Rhetoric Prior to 1900. Writing comparative rhetoric analysis and working through AP MC passages Friday: Rhetoric Prior to 1900. Writing comparative rhetoric analysis and working through AP MC passages
Week of April 11
Monday: Group discussion of argument as it applies to our thematic essays. Drafting time for argument .See below handout for instructions Tuesday: Group discussion of rhetoric as it applies to our thematic essays. Drafting time for rhetoric Wednesday: Group discussion of synthesis argument as it applies to our thematic essays. Drafting time for synthesis Thursday: Finish synthesis argument discussions. Drafting time for finishing 3 Essay Slam. Friday: Staff Development Day; Student Holiday 3 Essay Slam due Sunday by 11:59.
Week of April 4
Monday: Work on Independent AP review Assignments Tuesday: Work on Independent AP review Assignments: Due Tonight! Wednesday: Begin Thematic Essay Analysis: You will eventually write one Comparative Rhetoric Essay; one Argument Essay, and one Synthesis Essay from these readings Thursday: Reading time essays; AP drill MC Friday: Reading time essays Week of March 28 Monday: Finish up Major Analysis Paper/Project on Narrative Non-Fiction book. Due tonight. Tuesday: Begin Independent AP Review Assignments Wednesday: Independent AP review assignments Thursday: Independent AP Review Assignments Friday: Timed write and/or AP MC drills AP Test Review Activities Due April 5 - Tuesday by midnight into turnitin.com and/or appliedpracticeonline.com All AP Prompt passages can be found at www.collegeboard.org. Select AP the AP Central. Select Exam Information the AP English Language and Composition Exam. Then select the year for the prompt under Free Response Questions. See me for which year and the prompts Students may complete an extra review plan for extra credit. Reasoning strategies are under "Considerations when forming and argument"
Week of February 29:
Monday: Annotations/reading time narrative non-fiction. Developing a found argument for section II. Writing time for argumentation. Analysis I for Narrative Non-fiction books due tonight. Tuesday: Annotations/reading time. Introduction to Major Analysis of larger structures. Lit Circle discussions Wednesday: Annotations/reading time. Revisions for chosen argument for major grade mini-process paper Thursday: Revisions for chosen argument for major grade mini-process paper Friday: Part I of Full Practice AP Test: AP MC
Week of February 22
Monday: Annotations for larger structures in our narrative non-fiction books Tuesday: Annotations/reading; group analysis activities with a focus on argument and rhetorical analysis Wednesday: Annotations/reading; group analysis activities with a focus on argument and rhetorical analysis Thursday: Annotations/reading; group analysis activities with a focus on argument and rhetorical analysis Friday: Timed Write argument
Weeks of February 8 and February 15: I was gone these weeks on family medical leave. You should have finished the following assignments in this time period and either turned them in online, or to the substitute:
Finish Gatbsy Analysis Activities. Due Sunday Feb 14. Gatsby Test American Dream Synthesis Essay Begin Narrative Non-fiction books Week of February 1
Monday: Finish Harlem Renaissance activities --- due tonight into turnitin.com. See last week for handouts and instructions Tuesday: McDrill: 2 passages from the 1920's. Reading time Gatsby Wednesday: Begin Gatsby Analysis Activities Thursday: Gatsby Analysis Activities Friday: Gatsby Quiz. Gatsby Analysis Activities
Week of January 25
Monday: Introduction to Gatsby. Reading time for Gatsby. Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance Tuesday: Reading Gatsby. Harlem Renaissance Analysis Activities Wednesday: Reading Gatsby. Harlem Renaissance Analysis Activities Thursday: Reading Gatsby. Harlem Renaissance Analysis Activities Friday: Timed Write: Comparative Rhetoric Analysis Hurston and Bonner Analysis activities will be due Monday into turnitin.com
Week of October 13:
Monday: Teacher workday/Student Holiday Tuesday: Peer edits for final drafts of our Rhetorical Analysis Process Papers. Due Tonight!! Bring writing exercises to me tomorrow. Wednesday: PSAT for periods 1-5. Period 7 writing comparative rhetoric paragraphs. Thursday: Argument Seminar: Ben Franklin aphorisms. Write a claim and 2 warrant paragraphs due on Sunday night along with your Both Both But But Chart and your Both But paragraphs. Extra paragraphs are extra credit. Friday: Timed Write Ben Franklin aphorisms Remember that you will need your Frederick Douglass passages for Monday. Chapter 2, 4, and 7. . Week of October 5
Monday: Revisions rhetoric process paper. Begin Revolutionary War Rhetoric Activities Tuesday: Revisions rhetoric process paper: add a conclusions, add an introduction, add an additional warrant paragraph Revolutionary War Rhetoric Activities Wednesday: Syntax revisions process paper. (see below). Take one sentence in your paper and rewrite it into each of the syntax patterns. Then, take 4 sentences (back to back sentences) and re-choreograph each syntax pattern. Thursday: Typed Draft I peer edits process paper. Revolutionary War Rhetoric Friday: Revolutionary War Rhetoric. Final Draft Process Paper due Thursday night into turnitin.com by 11:59. 1/2 day inservice day for teachers. You will need The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Monday October 19.
Week of September 82 Monday: Timed Write Rough Draft: rhetorical analysis process paper Tuesday: Annotation/Writing Time The Crucible. Analysis Activities Wednesday: Socratic Discussion Crucible Act III fallacies. Analysis Activities The Crucible Thursday: Test The Crucible Friday: Finish Analysis Activities The Crucible. Upload into turnitin.com by Sunday night at 11:59 Extra credit Crucible Questions Act III due by Sunday night into appliedpracticeonline.com the ID is your ID with the 0 in front. The password is the school mascot all lower case letter. Week of September 21
Monday: Finish Analysis Activities for 9/11. Activities II and III need to be uploaded into turnitin.com by 11:59 tonight Tuesday: Reading Time for The Crucible Act I. Assignments for Rhetorical Analysis Process Paper given. Find your speech on-line and print, and annotate for a timed write on Monday. Wednesday: The Crucible Act I and Act II reading time in class. Analysis Activities: AP MC, rhetoric paragraphs, and fallacy/exigency chart Thursday: The Crucible Act II reading time in class. Analysis Activities : AP MC, rhetoric paragraphs, rhetoric paragraphs and fallacy /exigency chart. Friday: County Fair Day/ Timed write rough draft on Monday over your selected speech... annotate
Week of September 14
Monday: We finished our analysis activities for In Cold Blood. Upload into turnitin.com tonight. Tuesday: Rhetoric of 9/11 Analysis Activities (see below for documents) Wednesday: Rhetoric of 9/11 Analysis Activities Thursday: Rhetoric of 9/11 Analysis Activities> Make sure And our Flag Was Still There is annotated by Friday. Friday: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write: And Our Flag Was Still There. 9/11 Analysis Activities due into turnitin.com Sunday!
Week of September 7
Monday: Labor Day Tuesday: Quick edits of our Summer Reading LIterary Analysis Essay. Begin Analysis Activities for In Cold Blood. Wednesday: Summer Reading Test. LIterary Analysis Essay due into turnitin.com Thursday: Analysis Activities for In Cold Blood Friday: Analysis Activities for In Cold Blood. Due Mond night into turnitin.com
Week of August 31
Monday: Naviance Day with the Counselors Tuesday: Drafting and Writing exercises for our Summer Reading Argument Essay. Begin Analysis Activities for The Road. Wednesday: Drafting and editing exercises for our Summer Reading Argument Essay. Final Draft due to turnitin.com by 11:59 tonight. We added a list, an expanded list, an amplification, and 4 sentences with figurative language. Please see below. Continue with Analysis Activities for The Road Thursday: Analysis Activities for The Road. Writing exercises for argument paper due. Friday: Finish The Road Analysis Activities Revision Writing Exercises Summer Argument Paper
Brainstorm to add content: Good News/Bad News Winners/Losers That was Then/This is Now Degree to which Predictions Show descriptions through amplification/ underline a word to amplify: “His face was white; not like another man’s white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body’s flesh crawl – a tree toad white, a fish-belly white.” (Twain) Show description by creating a list in your paragraphs (Bloom): “The camp seems loudest at night. A huge, dulled murmur flows up from the valleys with hacking, rattling coughs, unending moaning like mantras, mules braying, wails, and shrieks like a child stepped on a nail” (Ryan) Add 4 sentences with figurative language
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Week of August 24
Monday: RPHS Investment day. Syllabus and Introduction to the course. Make sure you have read The Road by next Monday
Tuesday: RPHS Investment day: Class assemblies and drills. Introduction to rhetoric... read I Can't Take It Any S'more and review rhetorical vocabulary. Make keepers. Keeper words for today: Anaphora, Amplification, Simple Sentence, Epistrophe, Polysyndeton, Hyperbole, Paradox,
Wednesday: Rhetorical Vocabulary. Rhetoric analysis: claim, warrants, progression of structure, rhetorical devices, rhetorical affects. Annotate I Can't Take it Any S'more.
Thursday: Writing a rhetorical analysis paragraph - drafting.
Friday: Due to the counselor training for Naviance on Monday, there are some calendar changes: Final rhetorical analysis paragraph due into turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on Sunday night. (Calendar change) MLA format (see below). AP Scoring Rubric review. Paragraph models. Remember that we start analysis for The Road on Tuesday!! Drafting and editing your summer argument draft essay. We will do further edits on Tuesday, and the final draft will be due into turnitin.com by Wednesday night at 11:59 pm.
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Monday: RPHS Investment day. Syllabus and Introduction to the course. Make sure you have read The Road by next Monday
Tuesday: RPHS Investment day: Class assemblies and drills. Introduction to rhetoric... read I Can't Take It Any S'more and review rhetorical vocabulary. Make keepers. Keeper words for today: Anaphora, Amplification, Simple Sentence, Epistrophe, Polysyndeton, Hyperbole, Paradox,
Wednesday: Rhetorical Vocabulary. Rhetoric analysis: claim, warrants, progression of structure, rhetorical devices, rhetorical affects. Annotate I Can't Take it Any S'more.
Thursday: Writing a rhetorical analysis paragraph - drafting.
Friday: Due to the counselor training for Naviance on Monday, there are some calendar changes: Final rhetorical analysis paragraph due into turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on Sunday night. (Calendar change) MLA format (see below). AP Scoring Rubric review. Paragraph models. Remember that we start analysis for The Road on Tuesday!! Drafting and editing your summer argument draft essay. We will do further edits on Tuesday, and the final draft will be due into turnitin.com by Wednesday night at 11:59 pm.
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Archived Homework Details: 2014-2015 RPHS School Year
Week of May 18
Monday: We started Pre- writing for our College Essays
Tuesday: We wrote our rough drafts for our essays in class (due next class)
Wednesday: Revision and editing College Essays
Thursday: Peer editing our College Essays. Essays due into Turnitin.com tonight. We also started writing poetry after viewing slam poetry examples. Your thank you notes and letters are due tomorrow in class
Friday: Thank you notes and letters due. Poetry Writing.
Revision exercises for College Essay:
Show feelings by saying how you wish you felt the opposite way:
“I hate the traits that are me, the real me. I want my minimal, low self to be dominate. I don’t want to feel invisible, but illuminated. I want to be cool the way a cool marble wall endures.” (Yoritomo).
Add one philosophical statement
Add 3 sentences using figurative language 3 different ways
Next week
Tuesday: Poetry writing. 3 poems due into turnitin. com tonight: 1 Narrative Poem 1 Identity Poem 1 scratch poem/Puzzle poem
Monday: We started Pre- writing for our College Essays
Tuesday: We wrote our rough drafts for our essays in class (due next class)
Wednesday: Revision and editing College Essays
Thursday: Peer editing our College Essays. Essays due into Turnitin.com tonight. We also started writing poetry after viewing slam poetry examples. Your thank you notes and letters are due tomorrow in class
Friday: Thank you notes and letters due. Poetry Writing.
Revision exercises for College Essay:
Show feelings by saying how you wish you felt the opposite way:
“I hate the traits that are me, the real me. I want my minimal, low self to be dominate. I don’t want to feel invisible, but illuminated. I want to be cool the way a cool marble wall endures.” (Yoritomo).
Add one philosophical statement
Add 3 sentences using figurative language 3 different ways
Next week
Tuesday: Poetry writing. 3 poems due into turnitin. com tonight: 1 Narrative Poem 1 Identity Poem 1 scratch poem/Puzzle poem
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Week of May 11
Monday: Analysis Argument Activities (see below for this assignment) due on Thursday
Tuesday: Final AP test review. Argument Activities.
Wed: AP Test
Thursday: Advice letter/poem to incoming juniors
Friday: Thank you notes and letters
Monday: Analysis Argument Activities (see below for this assignment) due on Thursday
Tuesday: Final AP test review. Argument Activities.
Wed: AP Test
Thursday: Advice letter/poem to incoming juniors
Friday: Thank you notes and letters
Week of May 4
Monday: Finish Comparative Rhetoric: Elizabeth and Henry and Smoking Satire selections. Due into turnitin.com by tonight at 11:59
Tuesday: Practice Full AP MC Test
Wednesday: Finish Full AP MC Test. Start Argument Analysis Activities
Thursday: AP MC on applied practice online (homework)
Friday: AP MC on applied practice online (due Sunday). Argument Analysis Activities
Monday: Finish Comparative Rhetoric: Elizabeth and Henry and Smoking Satire selections. Due into turnitin.com by tonight at 11:59
Tuesday: Practice Full AP MC Test
Wednesday: Finish Full AP MC Test. Start Argument Analysis Activities
Thursday: AP MC on applied practice online (homework)
Friday: AP MC on applied practice online (due Sunday). Argument Analysis Activities
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Week of April 27
Monday: Thematic Essay Portfolio: writing the synthesis essay in class
Tuesday: Thematic Essay Portfolio: finishing the synthesis essay. Beginning to look at Rhetoric Prior to 1900 Analysis Activities starting with a Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of Queen Elizabeth's speech to the troops at Tilsbury and Henry V's St. Cripian's Day speech.
Wednesday: Thematic Essay Portfolio writing time. Portfolio due tonight by 11:59. MG. Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of speeches
Thursday: AP MC Practice: Rhetoric prior to 1900 MC drills
Friday: Timed Write: Argument
Monday: Thematic Essay Portfolio: writing the synthesis essay in class
Tuesday: Thematic Essay Portfolio: finishing the synthesis essay. Beginning to look at Rhetoric Prior to 1900 Analysis Activities starting with a Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of Queen Elizabeth's speech to the troops at Tilsbury and Henry V's St. Cripian's Day speech.
Wednesday: Thematic Essay Portfolio writing time. Portfolio due tonight by 11:59. MG. Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of speeches
Thursday: AP MC Practice: Rhetoric prior to 1900 MC drills
Friday: Timed Write: Argument
Week of April 20
Monday: Comparative Rhetorical analysis with Thematic Essay Grouping and applied practiceonline.com Satire Selections
Tuesday: Comparative Rhetorical analysis writing time. Appliedpracticeonline.com Satire Selections
Wednesday:
Thursday: Practice with rhetoric prior to 1800: Analysis Activities (
Friday: Timed Write. Appliedpractice online due by 11:59 tonight.
Monday: Comparative Rhetorical analysis with Thematic Essay Grouping and applied practiceonline.com Satire Selections
Tuesday: Comparative Rhetorical analysis writing time. Appliedpracticeonline.com Satire Selections
Wednesday:
Thursday: Practice with rhetoric prior to 1800: Analysis Activities (
Friday: Timed Write. Appliedpractice online due by 11:59 tonight.
Thematic Essay Portfolio will be due Wednesday,
Thematic Essay Collection due Wednesday, April 29 at 11:59 into turnitin.com MG
Satire: Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of Smoking (Mini essay: Introduction, Both, But, Conclusion) and War speeches (Full Comparative Essay) due Sunday, May 3 at 11:59 into turnitin.com
Monday: Reading time for our thematic non-fiction essay selections
Tuesday: Reading and discussion/annotation time for our thematic non-fiction selections
Wednesday: Reading time for thematic non-fiction essay selections; select essay to write argument essay. Writing time for argument
Thursday: Focus on satire (Begin satire unit) Thematic non-fiction selection will be on-going during warm-up time for 2 weeks.
Friday: Timed write comparative rhetoric
Satire: Comparative Rhetoric Analysis of Smoking (Mini essay: Introduction, Both, But, Conclusion) and War speeches (Full Comparative Essay) due Sunday, May 3 at 11:59 into turnitin.com
Monday: Reading time for our thematic non-fiction essay selections
Tuesday: Reading and discussion/annotation time for our thematic non-fiction selections
Wednesday: Reading time for thematic non-fiction essay selections; select essay to write argument essay. Writing time for argument
Thursday: Focus on satire (Begin satire unit) Thematic non-fiction selection will be on-going during warm-up time for 2 weeks.
Friday: Timed write comparative rhetoric
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Week of March 30
Monday: IPAD carts decide group analysis of essay collections. Finish synthesis Pesticides
Tuesday: Reading and discussing our essay selections. Writing time for synthesis essay
Wed: Writing time synthesis essay: 3 Essay Slam due tonigh by 11:59
Thurs: Timed Write (Argument or Synthesis)
Monday: IPAD carts decide group analysis of essay collections. Finish synthesis Pesticides
Tuesday: Reading and discussing our essay selections. Writing time for synthesis essay
Wed: Writing time synthesis essay: 3 Essay Slam due tonigh by 11:59
Thurs: Timed Write (Argument or Synthesis)
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Week of March 23
Monday: Peer edits and Peer share research papers. Research papers due tonight!
Tuesday - Friday: We started Analysis Activities centered around the theme of Nature. Please see attached assignment sheet.
Monday: Peer edits and Peer share research papers. Research papers due tonight!
Tuesday - Friday: We started Analysis Activities centered around the theme of Nature. Please see attached assignment sheet.
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Week of March 16
Monday: Practice AP Test: MC; and we went over internal citations for our research paper
Tuesday: Practice AP Test: MC; and we went over the works cited page for our research paper
Wednesday: Timed Write: Synthesis
Thursday: Timed Write: Rhetoric
Friday: Timed Write Argument
Monday: Typed draft of research paper needed in class for peer revisions. Upload Research paper into Turnitn.com by tonight
Monday: Practice AP Test: MC; and we went over internal citations for our research paper
Tuesday: Practice AP Test: MC; and we went over the works cited page for our research paper
Wednesday: Timed Write: Synthesis
Thursday: Timed Write: Rhetoric
Friday: Timed Write Argument
Monday: Typed draft of research paper needed in class for peer revisions. Upload Research paper into Turnitn.com by tonight
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How to get to source packet examples: www.collegeboard.com - AP - AP Central - Exam Information - English Language and Composition - Click on Free-Response questions. The first question in the packet will be the Synthesis Essay.
Week of March 2:
Monday: Counselors
Tuesday: Timed Write Synthesis Argument
Wednesday: 3 passage AP MC Drill
Thursday: Revisions: Twinkle Twinkle. See below for directions
Friday: Revisions: Peer additions; juxtaposition
Monday: Counselors
Tuesday: Timed Write Synthesis Argument
Wednesday: 3 passage AP MC Drill
Thursday: Revisions: Twinkle Twinkle. See below for directions
Friday: Revisions: Peer additions; juxtaposition
Week of February 23:
Monday: We had our last day in class to work on our major project/paper over our Narrative Non-fiction book. This is due tomorrow bu 11:59 into turnitin.com, or if you are doing a "creative" project hand it in in class tomorrow.
Tuesday: AP MC review and timed practice packet
Wednesday: Presentations of projects and/or papers. Begin Research Paper; decide on topic.
Thursday: Putting together a source packet
Friday: Putting together a source packet
Monday: We had our last day in class to work on our major project/paper over our Narrative Non-fiction book. This is due tomorrow bu 11:59 into turnitin.com, or if you are doing a "creative" project hand it in in class tomorrow.
Tuesday: AP MC review and timed practice packet
Wednesday: Presentations of projects and/or papers. Begin Research Paper; decide on topic.
Thursday: Putting together a source packet
Friday: Putting together a source packet
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Week of February 16:
Tuesday: We continued to annotate our Narrative non-fiction book for larger structural components (See over head below)
Wednesday: We finished our annotations, and I assigned our Major project
Thursday: We worked on our major projects all day
Friday: We worked on our major projects all day
Tuesday: We continued to annotate our Narrative non-fiction book for larger structural components (See over head below)
Wednesday: We finished our annotations, and I assigned our Major project
Thursday: We worked on our major projects all day
Friday: We worked on our major projects all day
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Week of February 9
Monday: We read our Narrative Non-Fiction books, we got in groups to complete our argument charts. You need to choose one argument to create a full argument essay which will be due into turnitin.com by tomorrow night at 11:59. (please see last week for this handout) Upload your American Dream Synthesis Essay tonight.
Tuesday: We are going to turn in our writing exercises in class today from our Synthesis Essay. We are writing a new Synthesis Essay Timed Write in class today. Make sure you upload your argument essay from yesterday. Your argument pre-writing charts for sections I, II, and III are due tomorrow in class.
Wednesday: We are reading our Narrative Non-Fiction books in class today. We are going to discuss different patterns of development in our books. Please annotate the first four sections for these patters. See below Overhead for instructions
Monday: We read our Narrative Non-Fiction books, we got in groups to complete our argument charts. You need to choose one argument to create a full argument essay which will be due into turnitin.com by tomorrow night at 11:59. (please see last week for this handout) Upload your American Dream Synthesis Essay tonight.
Tuesday: We are going to turn in our writing exercises in class today from our Synthesis Essay. We are writing a new Synthesis Essay Timed Write in class today. Make sure you upload your argument essay from yesterday. Your argument pre-writing charts for sections I, II, and III are due tomorrow in class.
Wednesday: We are reading our Narrative Non-Fiction books in class today. We are going to discuss different patterns of development in our books. Please annotate the first four sections for these patters. See below Overhead for instructions
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Week of February 2:
Monday: We are continuing to read our Narrative Non-fiction books. We added at least 4 additional ideas to our Synthesis paper from the Considerations When Forming an Argument List (see attachment below)
Tuesday: We read our Narrative Non-fiction books. We choose a rhetorical passage from sections I and II to write a mini-rhetorical analysis
Wednesday: We read our Narrative Non-fiction books, and got into groups to discuss passages of rhetoric. Choose one passage to write a "mini" rhetorical analysis. Please see assignment sheet below.
Thursday: We continued writing our rhetorical analysis of a passage from our Narrative Non-fiction books. (This is due next Tuesday, so no need for homework if not finished) And we did more revisions on our Synthesis Argument Paper. See below for these revisions
Friday: We did more revisions on our Synthesis paper. Final drafts due Sunday night at 11:59 into turnitin.com.
Monday: We are continuing to read our Narrative Non-fiction books. We added at least 4 additional ideas to our Synthesis paper from the Considerations When Forming an Argument List (see attachment below)
Tuesday: We read our Narrative Non-fiction books. We choose a rhetorical passage from sections I and II to write a mini-rhetorical analysis
Wednesday: We read our Narrative Non-fiction books, and got into groups to discuss passages of rhetoric. Choose one passage to write a "mini" rhetorical analysis. Please see assignment sheet below.
Thursday: We continued writing our rhetorical analysis of a passage from our Narrative Non-fiction books. (This is due next Tuesday, so no need for homework if not finished) And we did more revisions on our Synthesis Argument Paper. See below for these revisions
Friday: We did more revisions on our Synthesis paper. Final drafts due Sunday night at 11:59 into turnitin.com.
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Week of January 26:
Monday: We worked on our Gatsby creative writing projects (due tonight)
Tuesday: We presented our Creative Writing Projects and started reading and annotating our next synthesis argument essay source packet. See below for this handout
Wednesday: We divided up our Narrative Non-fiction book into 6 sections (see group for your divisions), and we read our books all period. See below for this reading schedule
Thursday: Timed Write: American Dream Synthesis Essay
Friday: Peer scoring timed writes; Reading time for our Narrative Non-fiction books
Monday: We worked on our Gatsby creative writing projects (due tonight)
Tuesday: We presented our Creative Writing Projects and started reading and annotating our next synthesis argument essay source packet. See below for this handout
Wednesday: We divided up our Narrative Non-fiction book into 6 sections (see group for your divisions), and we read our books all period. See below for this reading schedule
Thursday: Timed Write: American Dream Synthesis Essay
Friday: Peer scoring timed writes; Reading time for our Narrative Non-fiction books
This is an excellent example of a literary analysis. Thank you Emily!
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Week of January 20:
Tuesday: We are starting our last 2 analysis activities for Gatsby: Map of the Eggs, and the Creative Writing Project. See below for instructions
Wed: We are writing an argument timed write that will count as 50% of the major grade for Gatsby
Thurs: We are continuing to work on annotations, the map of the Eggs, and the Creative Writing Project
Friday: Are MC portion of our Gatsby test is today. Annotations will be due Monday :) Map of the Eggs is due today. Creative writing project is due either into turnitin.com by Monday night at 11:59, or if you are the "We can Do it" activity this is due in class Tuesday morning.
Be sure you have ordered your Narrative Non-Fiction selection!!
Tuesday: We are starting our last 2 analysis activities for Gatsby: Map of the Eggs, and the Creative Writing Project. See below for instructions
Wed: We are writing an argument timed write that will count as 50% of the major grade for Gatsby
Thurs: We are continuing to work on annotations, the map of the Eggs, and the Creative Writing Project
Friday: Are MC portion of our Gatsby test is today. Annotations will be due Monday :) Map of the Eggs is due today. Creative writing project is due either into turnitin.com by Monday night at 11:59, or if you are the "We can Do it" activity this is due in class Tuesday morning.
Be sure you have ordered your Narrative Non-Fiction selection!!
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Week of January 12: We are continuing with our reading schedule and annotations for Gatsby. Please see last week's handouts for these questions and pacing. We are continuing with our analysis activities for the first half of the novel. Please see last week's handouts.
Tuesday: Quiz Chapters 1-6
Wednesday/Thursday: Group Analysis Activities (see below week for these)
Friday: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
We also chose our Narrative Non-Fiction selection. You will need this book by January 28 (Wednesday)
Quiz: Tuesday over chapters 1-6
Analysis Paragraphs and Applied Practice due Thursday at 11:59 into appliedpracticeonline.com and turnitin.com
Tuesday: Quiz Chapters 1-6
Wednesday/Thursday: Group Analysis Activities (see below week for these)
Friday: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
We also chose our Narrative Non-Fiction selection. You will need this book by January 28 (Wednesday)
Quiz: Tuesday over chapters 1-6
Analysis Paragraphs and Applied Practice due Thursday at 11:59 into appliedpracticeonline.com and turnitin.com
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Week of January 5: We started Gatsby this week. Please see below for reading schedule on our bookmarks ! You are also annotating the novel to support AP English Literature objectives. Each chapter will have a different focus. See below for these questions and schedule for annotating.
We read "The Crack-Up" by Fitzgerald also. Read and annotate for rhetoric (see below). Then write a mini-essay with a claim and 2 warrant paragraphs. This will be due on Sunday night at 11:59 into turnitin.com
We read "The Crack-Up" by Fitzgerald also. Read and annotate for rhetoric (see below). Then write a mini-essay with a claim and 2 warrant paragraphs. This will be due on Sunday night at 11:59 into turnitin.com
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Final Exam Review is posted on appliedpracticeonline.com
The last day to retest for the Huck Finn test is Monday, December 15.
The last day to retest for the Huck Finn test is Monday, December 15.
Week of December 8: We are finishing Huck Finn and turning in our analysis activities Tuesday night into turnitin.com or into applied practice. We wrote a synthesis argument timed write on Wednesday. We take our Huck Finn test on Thursday.
All make-up work and/or late work has to be completed by Friday, December 12.
All make-up work and/or late work has to be completed by Friday, December 12.
Week of December 1: We are continuing on with Huck Finn. You need to be at the end of the novel by December 9. Our Huck Finn test will be December 9.
Monday: we finished working on Analysis Activities I for Huck
Tuesday: we wrote an argument timed write in class about a social or political issue in the novel
WednesdayThursday/Friday: we start Analysis Activities II
Monday: we finished working on Analysis Activities I for Huck
Tuesday: we wrote an argument timed write in class about a social or political issue in the novel
WednesdayThursday/Friday: we start Analysis Activities II
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Week of November 17: We took our Huck Finn Quiz over chapters 1-12 Monday in class and did some silent reading. Tuesday we had an argument timed write. Wednesday - Friday we will start our Huck Finn analysis activities for chapters 1-17. Please see attachment for these activities
November 10 and 11: We wrote our Synthesis Argument Essay timed write about Beauty on Monday. Tuesday we are going to read our Huck Finn Books, then get in groups to start our Frederick Douglass analysis activities:
Frederick Douglass Analysis Activities: Complete the 3 selected passages and questions on appliedpracticeonline.com; Annotate and write a "mini" rhetorical analysis from his famous speech: Hypocrisy of American Slavery. Please see below for this speech
Frederick Douglass Analysis Activities: Complete the 3 selected passages and questions on appliedpracticeonline.com; Annotate and write a "mini" rhetorical analysis from his famous speech: Hypocrisy of American Slavery. Please see below for this speech
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Week of November 3:
Monday: we added new writing exercises to our argument. See below for all of these exercises. Type up Draft #2 for class tomorrow. We also finished Short Story Analysis activity #3.
Tuesday: We are editing our typed draft #2 for our argument paper. Tonight by 11:59 Short Story Analysis Activities #1 and #3 need to be loaded into turnitin.com. We will turn in activity #3 in class on Wednesday
Wednesday: Transcendentalism/Romanticism test
Thursday: Upload final draft of process paper by 11:59 into turnitin.com
Friday: All writing exercises are due. Timed writing synthesis essay
We start The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Monday!!:)
Monday: we added new writing exercises to our argument. See below for all of these exercises. Type up Draft #2 for class tomorrow. We also finished Short Story Analysis activity #3.
Tuesday: We are editing our typed draft #2 for our argument paper. Tonight by 11:59 Short Story Analysis Activities #1 and #3 need to be loaded into turnitin.com. We will turn in activity #3 in class on Wednesday
Wednesday: Transcendentalism/Romanticism test
Thursday: Upload final draft of process paper by 11:59 into turnitin.com
Friday: All writing exercises are due. Timed writing synthesis essay
We start The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Monday!!:)
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Week of October 27: We are starting our revision writing exercises for our argument process paper. We are starting with paragraph structures. You will write one of each type of structure : process analysis, classification and division, cause and effect, extended definition, conclusion and introduction. Please see below for these revision exercises. We also should have read all 3 of our short stories. We are working on our short story analysis activities which are tentatively due on Tuesday night. I'm seeing how well our process paper is going; this deadline may be extended.
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October 25: We wrote our timed write for our rough draft of our Argument Process Paper today in class. We will also need to read our second short story for homework
October 24: We start our Argument process paper today. We selected our "fortune cookie aphorism" and did a bit of pre-writing/brainstorming. We will start writing draft #1 on Friday in class. We also started our Romanticism/American Short Story Unit today. Groups selected short story assignments and we started to read our first story in class. See below for these stories and handouts:
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Week of October 20: We are continuing our Transcendental Analysis Activities over passages from Walden. Please see below from last week for this assignment. Groups presented an argument from passage #1 on Monday. Activities will be due on Wednesday night into turnitin.com by 11:59. We started writing argument. Please see below for sample argument essay presented in class.
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Week of October 15: This week we spent 2 days covering PSAT verbal review. This was practice only. Thursday afternoon (October 16) is the last time for test make-ups and/or test retakes. We start Transcendentalism Wednesday and Thursday. You will be required to have paper copies (book, or printed out selections). The required reading selections are indicated in the below attached assignment form:
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Week of October 10: We peer edited our rhetorical analysis process paper today. Please make sure all edits are completed (see below). Our final drafts are due into turnitin.com by 11:59 this Sunday night. All other process assignments will be due in class on Monday: Draft I, Writing Exercises, Typed Draft II with edits. We will need Walden passages by Thursday, October 16.
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October 8: We completed syntax and content revisions for our rhetorical analysis. See below for handouts:
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October 6: WE will be writing our process papers all week. We wrote our first rough draft for our Rhetorical Analysis Process Paper over a human rights/civil rights speech. Please see below for this assignment.
October 3, 6 and 7: We started to write our rhetorical analysis process paper. You need the following:
Paper Requirements: Introduction, 4 warrant paragraphs, minimum of 2 transitional paragraphs, and a conclusion
Writing exercises need the following to date:
2 leads, 3 transitional paragraphs, 4th warrant paragraph, and 2 conclusions
Please see below for accompanying handouts/note/overheads
Paper Requirements: Introduction, 4 warrant paragraphs, minimum of 2 transitional paragraphs, and a conclusion
Writing exercises need the following to date:
2 leads, 3 transitional paragraphs, 4th warrant paragraph, and 2 conclusions
Please see below for accompanying handouts/note/overheads
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September 29-30: We are finishing up our Crucible Analysis activities. These will be due to turnitin.com by 11;59 Wednesday night. Make sure you have read the play by Friday. Our Crucible Test is on Friday.
September 23-25: We are reading the Crucible. Read Acts I and II for homework. We will start analysis activities for Acts I and II on Thursday. Please see below for this assignment. For the weekend: finish the first activity from your group, and read to the middle of The Crucible to Mary Warren's line "I can lie not more. I am with God, I am with God".
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September 22: We had our first rhetorical analysis timed write! Please have the Crucible tomorrow in class. Extra credit work is due by tonight into Applied Practice online.
September 18: Puritan literature was introduced today. We read Jonathan Edwards sermon: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Students completed the "Positive and Negative" chart for the sermon. This chart will be due at the end of class on Friday.
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September 15, 16, and 17: We are continuing to complete our analysis activities for the rhetoric of 9/11. These assignments are due tomorrow.
September 12: We started our analysis activities for the rhetoric of 9/11. Please see below for this assignment handout. These activities will be due next Wednesday, September 17. You will turn in the paper annotations of And our Flag, and the paper web for Bin Laden. You will submit the George Bush paragraphs to turnitin.com by 11:59.
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September 11: We took our Summer reading test today
September 10: We finished up our analysis activities for Into the Wild. Applied practice online are due tonight by 11:59. Activities 2 and 3 are due Thursday by 11:59. Our Summer Reading Test is tomorrow.
You will need the play, The Crucible, by Arthur MIller next Friday, September 19th so please acquire it now!!
See the Rhetoric analysis portion of this site to see the Kincaid sample we covered today in class. See the Writing portion of this site to see the MLA guidelines for papers
You will need the play, The Crucible, by Arthur MIller next Friday, September 19th so please acquire it now!!
See the Rhetoric analysis portion of this site to see the Kincaid sample we covered today in class. See the Writing portion of this site to see the MLA guidelines for papers
September 8: We started our analysis activities for Into the Wild today. Please see below for the activities. Make sure you go to appliedpracticeonline.com and not appliedpractice.com to find the MC questions. These are two different sites, and your login will not work on the other site. It will only work on appliedpracticeonline.com
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September 5: We continued working on our analysis activities for The Catcher in the Rye. You should have 4 of the 4 completed by now. All assignments are due Saturday by 11:59. Make sure you group the assignments correctly as indicated on the assignment sheet. We will start Into the Wild on Monday!
September 4: We continued working on our analysis activities for The Catcher in the Rye. You should have 3 of the 4 completed by now.
September 3: We continued working on our analysis activities for The Catcher in the Rye. You should have 2 of the 4 completed by now.
September 2 (Tuesday): We started our analysis activities for The Catcher in the Rye. All four activities will be due Friday by 11:59. See below for these documents
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August 29 (Friday): We edited our rhetorical analysis s'more paragraphs and discussed the summer reading essay. See below for MLA documentation.
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August 28 (Thursday): We are learning to write a rhetorical analysis paragraph today! :) Please see below documents for models and reference guides. Your annotations and rhetoric analysis paragraphs will be due at the first of class on Friday. We also discussed our summer reading assignment that will be due. I'm extending this summer reading essay assignment's due date to Monday, September 1 at 11:59 to give students a chance to register for turnitin.com accounts, and make any revisions/editing needed to produce a lovely paper.
August 27 (Wednesday) We started to review and/or learn our key rhetorical vocabulary terms, and put them in our "vocabulary keepers". See the document below for these flashcards. We also reviewed our analysis of "I Can't Take it any S'More". We learned about the progression of an argument (claim, warrants, strategies, affects). Follow the below steps to annotate for the progression of the argument for this piece due on Thursday:
Getting Started with Rhetoric Analysis
With a Partner Pre-writing: (annotations)
· Locate the claim
· Locate one warrant to analyze
· Locate 2 rhetorical strategies are used in each warrant section.
· Select the 2 most influential strategies and identify 2 affects for each (we will do this step next class)
Getting Started with Rhetoric Analysis
With a Partner Pre-writing: (annotations)
· Locate the claim
· Locate one warrant to analyze
· Locate 2 rhetorical strategies are used in each warrant section.
· Select the 2 most influential strategies and identify 2 affects for each (we will do this step next class)
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August 26 (Tuesday): Read "I Can't Take It Any S'more" for homework, and annotate for literary elements (such as character, conflict, setting, theme, symbolism, figurative language, syntax, irony etc.... Don't forget about your summer reading. We will go over this assignment on Thursday... it is due on Friday.
August 25 and 26: Opening day procedures and Investment Days in the Ridge Point Way. Please be sure that you have done your summer reading! Summer reading assignments will be due Friday, August 29 into www.turnitin.com by 11:59 pm. We will begin analysis of The Catcher in the Rye on Tuesday, September 2.
Archived Assignments for the 2013-2014 HHS School Year:
All make-up and missing work is due Wednesday, May 28 by 3:00. Assignments received on Thursday will not receive credit.
Extra credit Illuminated Text assignments due Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29. This assignment will not be accepted past class times on Wednesday (A) Thursday (B). Please see below for examples
Extra credit Illuminated Text assignments due Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29. This assignment will not be accepted past class times on Wednesday (A) Thursday (B). Please see below for examples
May 21 and 22
We completed some new revision writing exercises for our research paper; Write at least one sentence or more using each of the following questions to further describe, or elaborate on a topic in your paper:
1. Description (What is it? What does it look like, sound like, smell like, feel like?)
2. Comparison (What is it similar to or different from?)
3. Association (What does it make you think of?)
4. Analysis (How is it made. or what is it composed of? What are the parts?) stages of, steps of
5. Application (What can you do with it? How is it used?)
6. Argumentation (Take a stand, arguing for or against it): add 5 imperative sentences
We completed some new revision writing exercises for our research paper; Write at least one sentence or more using each of the following questions to further describe, or elaborate on a topic in your paper:
1. Description (What is it? What does it look like, sound like, smell like, feel like?)
2. Comparison (What is it similar to or different from?)
3. Association (What does it make you think of?)
4. Analysis (How is it made. or what is it composed of? What are the parts?) stages of, steps of
5. Application (What can you do with it? How is it used?)
6. Argumentation (Take a stand, arguing for or against it): add 5 imperative sentences
Week of May 19
We started reading the play A Raisin in the Sun in class
We are finishing up our research papers. Typed Draft II is due Wed/Thurs. For Typed Draft II please have the following
We started reading the play A Raisin in the Sun in class
We are finishing up our research papers. Typed Draft II is due Wed/Thurs. For Typed Draft II please have the following
- Full introduction
- 4 warrant paragraphs
- 2 transitional paragraphs
- MLA citations (pagination, internal citations, and Works Cited page) Please see below for MLA reference notes
Final Drafts of research paper are due into Turnitin.com by midnight Thursday, May 22
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Week of May 11
We finished our analysis activities for Of Mice and Men (see below)
We also completed comparative rhetoric charts on 2 AP Prompts (see the college board site to get these passage) 1999 Exam Prompt about The Okefenokee Swamp and the 2003 prompt about Birds. See below for this chart.
Of Mice and Men test is Thursday/Friday of this week.
We added 1 new warrant paragraph to our research paper drafts and 2 transitional paragraphs. Our research paper will be due Thursday, May 22 by midnight into Turnitin.
We finished our analysis activities for Of Mice and Men (see below)
We also completed comparative rhetoric charts on 2 AP Prompts (see the college board site to get these passage) 1999 Exam Prompt about The Okefenokee Swamp and the 2003 prompt about Birds. See below for this chart.
Of Mice and Men test is Thursday/Friday of this week.
We added 1 new warrant paragraph to our research paper drafts and 2 transitional paragraphs. Our research paper will be due Thursday, May 22 by midnight into Turnitin.
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Week of April 28
This is the last full week of instruction before our AP Test on May 9. I will have to be involved in EOC test administration and will not see you the 3 days prior to the test. For this reason... all assignments/test related to Of Mice and Men will be put off until after our AP test. Our research paper will be put off until after our AP test.
We will have AP test review all week. Please see below for AP Test Review Activities. These activities will be due Thursday/Friday of this week.
This is the last full week of instruction before our AP Test on May 9. I will have to be involved in EOC test administration and will not see you the 3 days prior to the test. For this reason... all assignments/test related to Of Mice and Men will be put off until after our AP test. Our research paper will be put off until after our AP test.
We will have AP test review all week. Please see below for AP Test Review Activities. These activities will be due Thursday/Friday of this week.
Week of April 21:
- We finished our Rhetorical Analysis Warm-ups
- We are continuing with our Of Mice and Me analysis activities. A day activities are due Friday, April 25 and B day activities are due Wednesday, April 30 (due to my absence this week B day will hand these in a day later).
- Of Mice and Men Test will be Tuesday April 29 and Wednesday, April 30.
We will start AP Test Review Activities on Friday/Monday see below for these documents. We will also practice AP MC for works prior to 1900 ("4 really hard passages to practice": James, Swift, Addison, and Jefferson) See me for this handout.
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April 10 and 11:
- We should be on our 4th Rhetoric Warm-up now. Warm-ups will be due the Monday and Tuesday after Easter Break (April 21 and 22)
- We continued working on our Of Mice and Men Analysis Activities. See the links below for these activities. For "Girl Moved to Tears" annotate and write a thesis and 2 rhetorical analysis paragraphs.
- We should all be working on our Research Paper source packet. Source packets are due Wednesday, 16 and Thursday the 17th. See below for the link to a model. The model only contains the first 2 pages so that you can see the format. Your packet will contain 7 sources + the cover information. You can also see models at www.colllegeboard.com - AP - AP Central - Exam Information - AP English Language and Composition - select any year to see model packet.
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Week of March 17: We are taking a full AP test this week.
Week of April 7
- We took another full AP MC practice test. This will replace our daily grade if it is higher than our first score.
- Continue to read Of Mice and Men. WE will begin analysis activities on Thursday/Friday.
- Our research paper topics were assigned. Choose a research topic by Thursday/Friday
- Continue our Rhetoric warm-ups. We should be moving into our fourth analysis by Thursday/Friday of this week. Rhetoric analysis warm-ups will be due the Monday/Tuesday after Easter break.
March 6 and 7: We wrote SAT argument review drills for the March 8th administration. Please see the hand outs below. If you were absent please complete at home
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Week of February 24
- GATSBY TEST! Monday and Tuesday
- Final Gatsby activities and film : Great Books discussion: The Great Gatsby ( Wednesday/Thursday)
Synthesis Argument Paper: The American Dream Friday/Monday
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February 14 and 17
- We started our timed argument essay practice for SAT "Regrets and Mistakes"
- Process Narrative Final drafts due into Turnitin.com by Monday at midnight
- Process activities for Narrative due February 18 and 19 (prewriting tri-fold; draft; writing revision exercises) See below for writing revision exercises
- Gatsby analysis activities MC and Truth Rumor due today (A) and Monday (B)
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Week of February 10
- You need to read to the end of chapter 7 in Gatsby by the end of the week
- We are completing the analysis activities for Gatsby by Friday/Monday. See below for this assignment
- We are writing our Narrative Process paper. Process Papers will be due in Turn-it-in.com by Monday February 17 at midnight.
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January 27 and 28
Transcendentalism Test
Assignments due: A day: last 2 Walden warm-ups, annotations for Self Reliance, and the MC analysis questions
Assignments due B day: All 4 Walden warm-ups, Whitman Poem Synthesis Argument; Annotations for Self Reliance
Transcendentalism Test
Assignments due: A day: last 2 Walden warm-ups, annotations for Self Reliance, and the MC analysis questions
Assignments due B day: All 4 Walden warm-ups, Whitman Poem Synthesis Argument; Annotations for Self Reliance
Due January 21 and 22:
First two passages from our Walden warm-ups (see previous dates for this handout)
Synthesis Mini Essay: Walt Whitman Poetry (see attachment below)
First two passages from our Walden warm-ups (see previous dates for this handout)
Synthesis Mini Essay: Walt Whitman Poetry (see attachment below)
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January 15 and 16
We started our Transcendental Analysis Activities. Please see activities in the document below. We also continued our Walden excerpts.
We started our Transcendental Analysis Activities. Please see activities in the document below. We also continued our Walden excerpts.
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Week of January 13:
Monday - Wednesday
Monday - Wednesday
- We are reading, annotating, and writing paragraph responses from selections from Walden. Please see document below for these instructions.
- We are also beginning our first synthesis essay: Beauty. Students will need to read and annotate the given sources, group sources by topic, and write a timed write in class. Tuesday and Wednesday
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- Last day for Term 3/Fall Semester make-up is Wednesday, December 17
- Week of December 9th: Our Huck Finn Analysis Activities are due Tuesday (B) and Wednesday (A): MC Question packet "Two Views of the River", Sherburn and Boggs argument activity, and 5 turning points in Huck and Jim's relationship in a timeline (quotes, explain quotes).
Our Huck Finn Test will be Wednesday, Dec 11, and Thursday Dec 12.
Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December 3
Our final drafts of our argument process paper are due by Tuesday, December 3 at midnight. Our accompanying writing exercises, prewriting and drafts will be 3 daily grades due on Wed and Thursday.
We wrote 6 additional sentences which added figurative descriptions, and additional syntax elements. Please see attachment for the writing exercises that added syntax elements
Our final drafts of our argument process paper are due by Tuesday, December 3 at midnight. Our accompanying writing exercises, prewriting and drafts will be 3 daily grades due on Wed and Thursday.
We wrote 6 additional sentences which added figurative descriptions, and additional syntax elements. Please see attachment for the writing exercises that added syntax elements
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Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19
- We read to the end of chapter 34 in Huck Finn
- We continued to develop our draft for our argument process paper by adding some more writing structures to our writing exercises: description, cause and effect and exemplification. Please see below for models of each of these structures:
Cause and Effect: Excerpt from What Makes a Serial Killer, La Donna Beaty
“Man’s inhumanity to man’ began when Cain killed Abel, but this legacy has grown to frightening proportions as evidenced by the vast number of books that line the shelves of modern bookstores – row after row of titles dealing with death, anger, and blood. We may never know what causes a serial killer to exact his revenge on an unsuspecting society. But we need to continue to probe the interior of the human brain to discover the delicate balance of chemicals that control behavior. We need to be able to fix what goes wrong.
Cause and Effect (with an anecdote): excerpt from Kids Who Kill Are Still Kids, Cohen
This is what happened to Nathaniel Brazill, 14, who was recently sentence to 28 years in prison for the murder of a teacher, Barry Grunow. Brazill was only 13 when he shot the teacher on the final day of school. Grunow, a much –beloved teacher had stopped Brazil from talking to two girls and disrupting the class. He went home, got a gun and returned to school. Gunow was Brazill’s favorite teacher.
I always feel in columns of this sort the necessity to say something about the victim and how his life was taken from him. But Gunow is gone and nothing can be done to bring him back. That is not merely a cliché, but also an important point. Kids who kill are still kids. Justice is needed, but where is the deterrence in trying a child as an adult?
Consider what Brazill did. He shot his teacher before oodles of witnesses. He shot a man he liked. He shot someone without any chance of his getting away. He shot someone for almost no reason at all…He shot someone without fully comprehending the consequences. He shot someone because among other things he was just 13 years old.
Will other 13-year olds now hesitate before killing their teacher? Hardly. Who is being punished? The child at first, but later the adult he becomes
- Descriptive with an Argument base: Excerpt from the Destruction of Culture, Hedges
Self-doubt is aided by the monstrosity of war. We gape and wonder at the collapsing towers of the World Trade Center. They crumble before us, and yet we cannot quite comprehend it. What do we really see? In wartime an attack on a village where women and children are killed, an attack that does not conform to the myth peddled by our side, is hard to fathom and articulate. We live in wartime with a permanent discomfort, for in wartime, we see things so grotesque and fantastic that they seem beyond human comprehension. War turns human reality into a bizarre carnival that does not seem part of our experience. It knocks us off balance.
Exemplification: (giving examples of) Excerpt from An Elastic Institution, Borneman and Hart
Every society favors forms of union that conform to its ethical standards and its needs.
Our American society no longer approves of treating women as incompetent minors and the ward of their husbands within the structure of a patriarchal union. We do not approve, generally, of plural marriages – the basis of our disapproval being that they abrogate the rights of women and especially of young girls. We no longer generally feel that the sole function of women in society is to produce children and serve men as domestic labor. In other words, when we censure certain types of marriage the basis on which we do so is our defense of individual human rights. This is our ethical standard.
Thursday, November 14 and Friday, November 15
- We read to the end of chapter 31 in Huck Finn
- We started our analysis activities for Huck Finn: Should Sherburn have shot Boggs? Chapter 21
- We continued with our writing exercises. B day please see below examples.
Tuesday, November 12 and and Wednesday, November 13
- We should have read to the end of chapter 27 in Huck Finn
- We took a Huck Finn Reading Quiz
- We continued with our writing exercises over our aphorism (fortune cookie) argument paper. We are writing a classification and division section
Classification and Division (Sorting ideas into categories) Excerpt from “The Ways We Lie”, Ericsson
We lie. We all do. We exaggerate, we minimize, we avoid confrontation, we spare people’s feelings, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions. Like most people, I indulge in small falsehoods and still think of myself as an honest person. Sure I lie, but it doesn’t hurt anything. Or does it?... When someone lies, someone loses.
There are many, many ways to tell a lie…
The White Lie assumes that the truth will cause more damage than a simple, harmless unthruth…
The Façade. When I put on a suit to go to see a client, I feel as though I am putting on another face…
Ignoring the Plain Facts. In the 60’s the Catholic Church in Massachusetts began hearing complaints that Father James Porter was molesting children. Rather than relieving him of his duties, the authorities simply moved him from one parish to another…
Classification and Division (sorting ideas into catgories) Excerpt from Margaret Chase Smiths “National Suicide” speech
As a woman, I wonder how the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters feel about the way in which members of their families have been politically mangled in Senate debate—and I use the word “debate” advisedly.
As a United States Senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism. I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges that have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle.
As an American, I am shocked at the way Republicans and Democrats alike are playing directly into the Communist design of “confuse, divide and conquer.” As an American, I don’t want a Democratic administration “whitewash” or “cover-up” any more than I want a Republican smear or witch hunt.
Friday, Nov 8 and Monday Nov 11
- We should have read to the end of chapter 24 in Huck Finn
- Our Frederick Douglass activities are due next class (2 daily grades). One grade for the MC and one for the annotations and mini-essay over The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
- We started revision writing activities for our process paper. Develop one Process Analysis Section and one Extended Definition section. Please see below for examples of each.
Process Analysis (Steps that Go Through a Sequence): “On Fire”, Brown
You learn early to go in low, that heat and smoke rise into the ceiling, that cooler air is near the floor. You learn to button your collar tightly around you neck, to pull the gauntlets of your gloves up over the cuffs of your coat, that embers can go any where skin is exposed. You learn that you are only human flesh, not Superman, and that you can burn like a candle.
You try to go easy on the air that’s inside the tank on your back, try to be calm and not overly exert yourself, try and save some of your strength. You learn about exhaustion.
You learn eventually not to let your legs tremble when you’re pressing hard on the gas or the diesel pedal, when you’re driving into something that is unknown.
And on that first time you’ll probably be like I was, scared. But you can’t let that stop you from doing your job.
Process Analysis (Steps that Go Through a Sequence) Excerpt from “On Dumpster Diving”, Eighner:
At first the new scavenger is filled with disgust and self loathing. He is ashamed of being seen and may lurk around, trying to duck behind things, or he may try to dive at night… Every grain of rice seems to be a maggot. Everything seems to stink.
That stage passes with experience. The scavenger finds a pair of Nike running shoes that fit and look and smell brand new. He finds a TI pocket calculator in perfect working order. He finds pristine Blue Bell ice cream, still frozen…He begins to understand: People do throw away perfectly good stuff, a lot of perfectly good stuff.
Most divers do come to realize that they must restrict themselves to items of relatively immediate utility.
Extended Definition “The Wife-Beater”, Gayle Smith
Everybody wears them. The Gap sells them. Fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana have lavished them with jewels. Their previous greatest resurgence occurred in the 1950’s when Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski wore one in Tennesse Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: They are still all the rage.
What are they called?
The name is the issue. They are known as “wife-beaters.”
A Web search shows that kids nationwide are wearing the skinny-ribbed with T-shirts that can be worn alone or under another shirt. Women have adopted them with the same gusto as men. A search of boutiques shows that these wearers include professionals who wear them, adorned with designer accessories, under their pricey suits. They are available in all colors, sizes and price ranges.
Wearers under the age of 25 do not seem to be disturbed by the name.
But I sure am.
Extended Definitions: Excerpt from The Voice in the Fog, Harold MacGrath
Fog.
A London fog, solid, substantial, yellow as an old dog's tooth or a jaundiced eye. You could not look through it, nor yet gaze up and down it, nor over it; and you only thought you saw it. The eye became impotent, untrustworthy; all senses lay fallow except that of touch; the skin alone conveyed to you with promptness and no incertitude that this thing had substance. You could feel it; you could open and shut your hands and sense it on your palms, and it penetrated your clothes and beaded your spectacles and rings and bracelets and shoe-buckles. It was nightmare, bereft of its pillows, grown somnambulistic; and London became the antechamber to Hades, lackeyed by idle dreams and peopled by mistakes.
Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday (Oct 31 - November 5)
- We should have read to the end of chapter 14 in Huck Finn
- We have started our Frederick Douglass Analysis Activities. There are 2 MC sections that must be completed in class. The third activity is to annotate and write a mini essay (intro, 2 warrant paragraphs, and concluding sentence) for The Hypocrisy of American Slavery. Please see document below.
- Our Frederick Douglass test will be Wednesday (Nov 7) and Thursday (Nov
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Tuesday, Oct 29 and Wednesday, Oct 30
- Read to the end of chapter 6 in Huck Finn
- We also wrote
comparative rhetorical analysis paragraphs using our Paine and Henry Both Both
But But charts. Choose 1 But and write a paragraph and then choose 1 Both
and write a paragraph. - We turn in our Paine and Henry comparative analysis next class: annotate both, complete the Both Both But But chart, and write your 2 paragraphs. This assignment will count for 2 daily grades. Please see below rubric
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Friday, Oct 25 and Monday, Oct 28
- We started reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today: chapters 1-3. I would suggest you listen to an audio version while you read: www.loudlit.org or download the "Free Audiobooks" app (which is really 99 cents). The dialect is a little tricky and the audio helps.
- We also need to all bring The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to next class.
- We completed the Both Both But But Chart for Comparative Rhetoric Analysis to compare and contrast Patrick Henry's Speech to Thomas Paine's The Crisis. See document below for this chart.
- Complete 2 more warrant paragraphs for your process paper! :)
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Wednesday, Oct 23 and Thursday, Oct 24
We read The Crisis by Thomas Paine. It is on page 250 in the lit book, but you use the below document for this essay. Annotate for the progression of the argument for homework. We also completed our first warrant paragraph for our process argument paper. see the below essay example for how to integrate concrete details and strategies.
We read The Crisis by Thomas Paine. It is on page 250 in the lit book, but you use the below document for this essay. Annotate for the progression of the argument for homework. We also completed our first warrant paragraph for our process argument paper. see the below essay example for how to integrate concrete details and strategies.
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Monday, Oct 21 and Tuesday, Oct 22
We read Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention and annotated in an outline format on notebook paper for the progression of the argument. We also started on argument process papers. Pre-writing exercises
We read Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention and annotated in an outline format on notebook paper for the progression of the argument. We also started on argument process papers. Pre-writing exercises
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Tuesday, Oct 15 and Wednesday, Oct 16
We viewed Malala Yousafzai's speech at the United Nations. Annotate her speech for next class. We will have a timed write over her speech.
We viewed Malala Yousafzai's speech at the United Nations. Annotate her speech for next class. We will have a timed write over her speech.
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Friday, Oct 11 and Monday Oct 14
2. revisit your commentary. 2 affects per strategy. Make sure you vary your affects.
Wednesday, Oct 9 and Thursday, Oct 10
We handed in our Crucible Analysis Activities. See handout below for the rubric. We also revised our process papers. We added a new introduction and conclusion. See options below.
- We took our Crucible Test
- We made the following revisions in our process papers due Tuesday by midnight:
2. revisit your commentary. 2 affects per strategy. Make sure you vary your affects.
Wednesday, Oct 9 and Thursday, Oct 10
We handed in our Crucible Analysis Activities. See handout below for the rubric. We also revised our process papers. We added a new introduction and conclusion. See options below.
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Monday, Oct 7 and Tuesday Oct 8
We finished reading The Crucible today. This was the last day to complete our analysis activities in class. All activities are due Oct 9 and Oct 10. These count as our last 2 daily grades for the term. We will have our Crucible Test next week, and our final drafts of our process papers are due Tuesday, October 15 by midnight. Load your final draft into Turnitin.com.
Thursday, Oct 3 and Friday, Oct 4
We finished reading Act III of The Crucible. We continued working on our Analysis Activities. We added one more activity to the previous 4 activities (see below): read and annotate "Separation of Church and State" and write one analysis paragraph.
We finished reading The Crucible today. This was the last day to complete our analysis activities in class. All activities are due Oct 9 and Oct 10. These count as our last 2 daily grades for the term. We will have our Crucible Test next week, and our final drafts of our process papers are due Tuesday, October 15 by midnight. Load your final draft into Turnitin.com.
Thursday, Oct 3 and Friday, Oct 4
We finished reading Act III of The Crucible. We continued working on our Analysis Activities. We added one more activity to the previous 4 activities (see below): read and annotate "Separation of Church and State" and write one analysis paragraph.
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Tuesday, Oct 1 and Wednesday, Oct 2
We finished reading Act II of The Crucible. We wrote our first rough draft (timed write) of our process paper for our American Speech analysis.
We finished reading Act II of The Crucible. We wrote our first rough draft (timed write) of our process paper for our American Speech analysis.
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Thursday Sept 26 and Monday Sept 39
We finished reading Act I of the Crucible and read Act II in class. We started our Analysis Activities for Act I of The Crucible. Please see above document for this assignment:
Tuesday, Sept 24 and Wednesday Sept 25
We learned six new types of logical fallacies. Please see attachment for these terms. The short video clip from Monty Python illustrated these fallacies. We also began reading the first Act of The Crucible.
You can access the on-line textbook by going to my.hrw.com (there is no www. in front; enter as is into the address box) and then your ID is your first initial + ID number and the password given to you in class. Password clue: Every student should be able to access this site.
We finished reading Act I of the Crucible and read Act II in class. We started our Analysis Activities for Act I of The Crucible. Please see above document for this assignment:
Tuesday, Sept 24 and Wednesday Sept 25
We learned six new types of logical fallacies. Please see attachment for these terms. The short video clip from Monty Python illustrated these fallacies. We also began reading the first Act of The Crucible.
You can access the on-line textbook by going to my.hrw.com (there is no www. in front; enter as is into the address box) and then your ID is your first initial + ID number and the password given to you in class. Password clue: Every student should be able to access this site.
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Below is the rubric used to score our And Our Flag Was Still There assignment and in-class mini timed write:
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Friday, Sept 20 and Monday Sept 23:
We read "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" as an introduction to Puritan literature. We also wrote our first mini-timed write rhetorical analysis essay over "And Our Flag Was Still There". Make sure your annotations are complete.
Monday, Sept 16 and Tuesday Sept 17
We started reading a new essay by Barbara Kingsolver, And Our Flag Was Still There. Annotate for the progression of the argument with post-it notes. We will have a mini timed write. We also finished our analysis activities for The Devil in the White City. Please see below for these details.
Our Devil in the White City Test is Wednesday and Thursday!
Thursday, Sept 12 and Friday Sept 13
Today we edited our Black City paragraphs for proper syntax structures. We continued with our analysis activities for The Devil in the White City.:
- "Black City" Paragraphs (2) and annotations
- MC AP Reading Comprehension practice "Hotel for the Fair"
- Analysis of Chapter Titles
- Burnham/Holmes Compare and Contrast Chart: Clarification about directions. Find 3 characteristics that are the same and 3 characteristics per character that are unique. You will have 6 quotes on each side of the chart. You will then choose 1 quote for Burnham and 1 quote for Holmes to create a compare, or contrast literary response paragraph
- S-V (action verb)
- S-V-DO
- Phrase, - S-V-DO
- S-V-DO-Phrase
- Phrase, - S-V-DO-Phrase
Today we watched a short biography video on TrueBio.com about the Chicago World's Fair and HH. Holmes. We continued with our group analysis activities for The Devil in the White City. See below for this assignment
Friday, Sept 6(A) ad Monday, Sept 9 (B):
Today we wrote 2 rhetorical analysis paragraphs for the passage "The Black City". We started our group analysis activities. Please see the below document and rubric for these activities.
What's due Wednesday, Sept 4 (A) and Thursday, Sept 5 (B):
Please bring your Devil in the White City books. We will start the analysis of this novel in class on these days. We are also handing in our I Can't Take It Any S"more assignment: rhetorical analysis paragraph + annotations
What we are doing Wednesday, Sept 4 (A) and Thursday, Sept 5 (B):
We are starting our analysis activities for The Devil in the White City. We will be working on these activities for the next 3 class periods.
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Rhetorical Paragraph examples can be found under the rhetoric tab of the web-site.
Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday August 29: Some classes are on a different pace due to opening day enrollment procedures, and the 5th period junior assembly. Some classes only met for 15-20 minutes. This is about where you should be depending on your period. We will all be caught up and ready to turn in our first assignment (Annotation and Rhetoric Paragraph for I Can't Take It Any S'more) by Wednesday, September 4(A) and 5 (B):
Period 1: We created our vocabulary keepers, learned new words, annotated I Can't Take It Any S'more for progression of the argument, claim, warrants, and strategies. I asked you to add at least one affect per strategy to your annotations.
Period 3: We created our vocabulary keepers, learned new words, annotated I Can't Take It Any S'more for progression of the argument, claim, warrants and strategies. We got in groups to add affects to our strategies. I modeled how to write a rhetorical analysis paragraph. Write a paragraph for homework.
Period 4: We created our vocabulary keepers, learned new words, annotated I Can't Take It Any S'more for progression of the argument, claim, warrants and strategies. I asked you to add at least one affect per strategy to your annotations.
Period 5: We had our junior assembly. You should have finished reading I Can't Take It Any S'more and annotated for strategies. We created our vocabulary keepers and learned new words.
Period 6: We created our vocabulary keepers, learned new words, annotated I Can't Take It Any S'more for progression of the argument, claim, warrants and strategies. We added affects to our strategies.
Period 8:
First Week of School 2013-2014: We looked at our first short piece of rhetoric: I Can't Take It Any S'more. Annotate for the progression of the arguement and strategies. Annotate for affects created by the author. We also wrote our first rhetorical analysis paragraph and reviewed our rhetorical terms. Please see below links for this reading, a model rhetorical analysis paragraph, and the rubric for this assignment. Also remember to return you signed syllabus for an extra daily grade of 100 for this 9 weeks.
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Archived Assignments 2012-2013 School Year
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May 20 and 21: We reviewed the MLA citation and pagination rules for our research paper, and read our play. Please click on the link to download the MLA citation reference documents. Please refer to OWLatPurdue.com for these examples.
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May 16 and 17: We did revision exercises for our Argument Research Paper: add a new warrant paragraph and 2 new transitional paragraphs. We also did syntax revisions. See below for these exercises. We read to the end of Act II in A Raisin in the Sun.
Revisions Research Paper:
I. Address some of the following new considerations in your argument. Write a minimum of one sentence or more:
Use the following argument considerations to add content to your paper (1 new warrant, and 2 transitional paragraphs)
II. Use of a series of sentences starting with an imperative verb:
“Praise the red glare…”
"Honor the blood “
“Plead for compassionate resolutions” Kingsolver
III. Create a domino effect by taking the last word in a phrase and develop in the next sentence (anadiplosis), and then repeat:
“The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to
an uncontrollable longing, and the longing
is indulged”
Poe, from The Imp of the Perverse
IV. Use a series of verbs separated by a dash.
Use repetition of an adverb.
I foamed—I raved—I swore! I swung the chair
upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon
the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually
Increased. It grew louder—louder—louder!
Revisions Research Paper:
I. Address some of the following new considerations in your argument. Write a minimum of one sentence or more:
Use the following argument considerations to add content to your paper (1 new warrant, and 2 transitional paragraphs)
- Is there denial - denial of truth?
- Illusion vs. reality or realistic/idealistic?
- Chaos vs. order – Good vs. evil – karma?
- Is there an underlying prejudice?
- Pride
- Social justice/injustice: Punishment? Revenge?
- Economic Considerations
- Unintended consequences
- Natural balance – nature vs. society?
- Identity or definition
- Creation vs. destruction
- Cause and Effect
- Historical change/Relevance
- Winners and losers
- Quest for ___________; Longing for _________
- Neglect; negligence
- Necessary or Unnecessary?’
II. Use of a series of sentences starting with an imperative verb:
“Praise the red glare…”
"Honor the blood “
“Plead for compassionate resolutions” Kingsolver
III. Create a domino effect by taking the last word in a phrase and develop in the next sentence (anadiplosis), and then repeat:
“The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to
an uncontrollable longing, and the longing
is indulged”
Poe, from The Imp of the Perverse
IV. Use a series of verbs separated by a dash.
Use repetition of an adverb.
I foamed—I raved—I swore! I swung the chair
upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon
the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually
Increased. It grew louder—louder—louder!
May 3 and 4: Our argument warm-ups and AP Argument Analysis activities will be due the next time I see you in class. I will not see you the week of STAAR testing next week. Good luck on your AP Test! You will do a fantastic job.
April 26 and April 29: We are completing AP Test Review Analysis Activities. Period 6 will take another full lenth AP MC practice test on Monday. Please upload the below document to see the AP Argument Analysis Activities:
April 26 and April 29: We are completing AP Test Review Analysis Activities. Period 6 will take another full lenth AP MC practice test on Monday. Please upload the below document to see the AP Argument Analysis Activities:
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April 18 and 19: We are continuing with our argument warm-ups. We will complete a timed-write over our research source packet on these days.
Week of April 15: We finished Of Mice and Men. All analysis activities were turned in April 12 and 15. Our test is April 16 and 17. We also started our research paper. All source packets are due April 17 and 18. We will have a timed writed over these packets.
Week of April 15: We finished Of Mice and Men. All analysis activities were turned in April 12 and 15. Our test is April 16 and 17. We also started our research paper. All source packets are due April 17 and 18. We will have a timed writed over these packets.
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