AP Week 14

Monday:
Turn in your "Modest Proposal", Toulmin Quiz, and Jigsaw of "Self-Reliance".
HW: Self-Reliance Powerpoint

Tuesday:
Discuss Self-Reliance Images
Starting on Monday, you will be reading Invisible Man, working on the video project, selecting a Civil War era piece or relevant selection to teach to the class (list and assignement), and completing a project for AP Lang.

Have a SUPER Happy Thanksgiving!!

AP Week 13

Monday:

Present Figurative Lanuage

HW: Three options for your modest proposal.

Tuesday:

Satire, Pop Culture, and "A Modest Proposal".

HW: "On Dumpster Diving" for Wednesday and "My Modest Proposal" due Thursday

Wednesday:

Toulmin Circles and Seminar in the Multi Purpose Room

HW: "My Modest Proposal"

Thursday:

Peer Edit proposals and NIE Character Hunt

HW: Peer Editing

Friday:

APUSH!

HW: rewrite "Proposal"

AP Week 12

Monday:
B-Day Test: The Awakening and Benchmark.
HW: Multiples

Tuesday:
Library Orientation and Toulmin
HW: SAT Practice Questions

Wednesday:
Multiple Choice Analysis
HW: Swift's "A Modest Proposal" on page 638 with the first two sections of questions.

Friday:

Figurative Language in Advertising

AP Week 11

Congrats;)
All Juniors who passed the NC Writing Test are welcome to join us in the Multipurpose room on Wednesday to celebrate with a pizza party! If you passed the test, you are welcome DURING YOUR LUNCH to dine with us!

Monday:
The Awakening review, submission of Gatsby essay.
HW: Emerson (see the link under Friday of last week)

Wednesday:
Presentations on TA, the most rediculously detailed questions to review for the test, and Journal submission of Emerson.
HW: 3 Arguments Toulmin-style

Thursday:
TA Rediculous Review and submission of the Emerson journal.

Friday:
TA test and becnchmark.

AP Week 10

Parents: Due to the county server, I wasn't able to send home progress reports on Friday. I sent them home on Wednesday. Also, just like ENG II, AP students will recieve 4 grades throughout the semester; however, the only grade that will appear on their transcript is the final grade assigned in June. This is a crucial year and comes with many growing pains and learning curves;however, desire and dication are powerful forces!

Monday: Peer Edit of Reverse Mapping - Groups for Toulmin (Prezi) - SAT Practice Test 2
HW: Finish Preze, SAT Practice, and Peer Editing


Tuesday:
Finish Prezi and assignment for the class.
HW: Finish Prezi and SAT packet - Finish The Awakening for Monday


Wednesday:
Present Toulmin lessons
HW: Annotate M.E. Lewes


Thursday:
Learning about the Free Response Questions - Read commentary, extract main ideas, apply to a sample student essay, and evaluate a student essay.
HW: Write the draft of M.E. Lewes


Friday:
APUSH All Day - Regardless, Mrs. Hunter will collect your essays.
HW: Check this link!

English I Weekly Assignments

October 18 - 22

October 11 - 15

October 4 - October 8

September 27 - October 1

September 20 - 24

September 13 - 17

September 6 - 10

August 30 - September 3

August 25 - 27

AP Week 9

Monday:
"I Am A Woman" Multiples
HW: page 638 in the SAT book #1-24

Tuesday:
Meet in the Library - bring "The Awakening"
HW: Read TA to chapter 20 by Monday.


Wednesday
SAT Check, Thesis Writing, and Kate Chopin
HW: Notes on Chopin, The Awakening, and Realism


Thursday:
Literary Movements in American Lit.
HW: Notes on Toulmin's Theory (and here's a consice look at it:)


Friday:
Delving into Toulmin's world!
HW: Reverse Mapping of Gatsby

AP Week 8

Monday:
We will meet in the multipurpose room! You will stay with Mrs. Hunter for the duration of class.


Tuesday:
Seminar: "Taking a Bite" out of television analysis.
HW: Read, edit, annotate, and grade the two versions of the "Owls" essay.



Wednesday:
"Owls" - You will get back and self-grade your essay considering the comments I made as well as annotate the exemplars.
HW: complete rubric and notes in SAT book pages 271 - 280.

Thursday:
Subject/Verb Agreement and Fragments

HW: Rewrite the final draft of "Owls" and redo rubric.

Friday:

Freak-Out Free Friday!

HW: Owls Essay Final

AP Week 7

Monday:
Turn in MWDS, SAT review, Socratic Seminar, and Gatsby Essay (due Thursday).
HW: Gatsby Essay

Tuesday:
Types of Sentences, Brainstorm for Gatsby, and return papers.
HW: "I Want a Wife" and Grammar Worksheet

Wednesday:

Reading Check on "I Want a Wife" and types of sentences.

HW: Gatsby Essay

Thursday:

Seminar (in house) on "I Want a Wife".

HW: Peer Edit

Friday:

Half Day - Cross-Curricular Lesson with Mrs. Hunter (Worksheet - Letter - Additional Notes with links)

HW: You will read "Taking a Bite out of Twilight". From this reading you will identify with the perspective of the author, the intended audience, and the author of the Twilight series. Consider it's impact on society. You will then select a show on TV to address how it has a feminist lens! Focus on the context of the series, the commercials shown, the dialogue of the characters, etc...

Please have this for class on Monday.

AP Week 6

Monday:

Return progress reports, present Gatsby theme posters, and Gatsby Visual Interpretation.

Tuesday:

Discuss Visual Gatsby, finish theme poster, and discuss "Superwoman"

HW: MWDS for Gatsby by Friday, read in Readings for Writers "Superwoman" on page 655. You will need to come in with two questions regarding you experience with the text and observations that are concrete and real.

Wednesday:

APUSH All day!

Thursday:

No School.

Friday:

No School

Note: MWDS should be submitted on Monday.

AP Week 5

Monday:
Gatsby Reading Check (themes), hand out papers,
HW: Read the "Advice" section on page 3 and the "Discussion" section on page 6 of the Readings for Writers book. You will come in prepared to answer the follow-up questions and with a paragraph summary of both sections. By Friday, you will need to create AT LEAST two posts on our Wikispaces forum. ALSO: you will need to submit a final draft of the "Owls" essay by Thursday.

Tuesday:
Discussion on reading from Readings for Writers and Vocabulary.
HW: "Owls" rewrite and Wikispaces.


Wednesday:
MLK Speech with a look at persuasion and purpose.
HW: See above and SAT book pages: ___


Thursday:
Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Media: Glenn Beck.

Friday:
Gatsby discussion

AP Week 4

Monday:
aplanguagesbhs.wikispaces.com

Tuesday:
Complete Short Story Interactive Theater, Student Sample of "Owls" with reverse mapping, and completing student essay reverse map!

Wednesday:
Peer Editing: Owls

Thursday:
Lecture in multipurpose room (Notes 1 & 2), Intro to Writing, and Literary Terms.

Friday:

Both classes will be with Mrs. Hunter for the duration of class.

Next week: We will explore Gatsby, our SAT book, and the Readings for Writers book. There will be a reading test for Gatsby, Vocabulary Quiz, and review of Multiple Choice Test.

AP Week 3

Tuesday:
Reading Quiz on the Short Stories, Intro to Gatsby, review of student samples "Owls".
HW: Rewrite Intro to "Owls", Half of Gatsby by Friday, and your perspective on each of the three short stories using a feminist criticism.

Wednesday:
Analysis of the three short stories.

Thursday:
Annotation of the "Owls" essay.

Friday:
Interactive Theater: Short Story Characters

AP - Week 2

Monday 8-30

Turn in your literary terms, address issues with MWDS, Gallery Walk with evaluations, and HW: "The Yellow Wallpaper" with questions and Vocabulary Sentences (due Wednesday) - MWDS (due Friday)



Tuesday 8-31

Literary Circles, Tests will be returned, Peer Editing,



Wednesday 9-1

Discussion of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

HW: Read "The Story of an Hour" and "Desiree's Baby" for Friday



Thursday 9-2

Sample AP Exam



Friday 9-3

Assign The Great Gatsby, Literary Terms Quiz, Peer Edit Assignment, and "Owls".
HW: "Owls" Essay, Chopin Short Stories, Gatsby Chapters 1-9 for Friday, and Peer Edit.

AP - Week 1

Wednesday (8/25):

Test on summer reading, submission of summer reading, syllabus, letter to parents, information sheet (Due Friday), snapshot of course, and homework: close reading of TPB questions 1-8 due Thursday and take-home test due Friday

Thursday (8/26):

Submit and discuss close reading, discussion of syllabus, literary terms in TPB (first 4 in class) due Friday, and course expectations. Homework: finish literary terms, essay test, and placard for your product.

Friday (8/27):

Information sheet due, test due, assign MWDS (due Friday 9-3), and discussion of literary terms found in TPB. HW: finish placard

Next Week:

Gallery Walk of Products with placard, Literary Circles on TPB, Wrap-up of TPB, Sample AP Exam, Short Stories, and The Great Gatsby.

English II

You must reply to each of these questions with thoughtful and intellectual responses:
1. In your own words, what are human rights? Who should have them? What are the rights that every human should have?
2. Comment on how you perceived the altercation that Amir got himself into. What was it like? What did it show about him? How has he grown? What are your thoughts on his actions/reactions?

Week 14

ENG I

MEMOIR BOOK PROJECT

Remember you must complete this assignment in order to pass the first nine weeks. This project represents two test grades. It is broken down into several steps.
 
Memoir writing is a compilation of snapshot memories. Snapshot memories are fairly short and very specific.  Each memoir is rich in detail and description.  It differs from writing an autobiography, in which where you start with the day you were born and tell everything that has happened since then.  It also differs from a biography in that the person telling the story of the event is the person who actually experienced it, rather than someone observing the action.  In other words, there is no bias in the writing except that of the person who took part in the event.  An important part of memoir writing is the author's stated or implied message about why a memory is important enough to share.  In other words, it answers the question, "What difference does it make?"
 
We will be writing our own memoirs.  The "snapshot" memories you choose must be important enough to be shared with our class in order to strengthen our understanding of one another within our family!  They are memories you would want to pass down to generations.
 
We will write about the memoir subjects listed below in descriptive mode:
action verbs in the present tense, sensory detail, and figurative language.  You will bring the memory to life by writing about it in "real time," as if you are in the moment.

Categories
♦ "Where I grew up" stories
♦ Love stories (first love, true love, end of love, etc.)
♦ Pain stories (someone hurt you, argument with best friend or parents, etc.)
♦ First day of school stories
♦ Rites of passage/realizing you are growing up stories
♦ Weather stories (tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, etc.)
♦ Holiday Stories (traditions, memorable ones, when you found out there was no Santa
Claus, etc.)
♦ Physical Hurt stories (broken bones, stitches, surgeries, bee stings, etc.)
♦ First-time-I... stories  
♦ Funny family stories (Those your mother always tells at gatherings.)
♦ "Caught ya'!" stories (lying, cheating, writing a love letter, etc.)
 

How to Get Started

We will start by free writing in our journals, looking at examples of memoirs, and talking about the importance of memories.  We will then draft, create a hook, peer edit, and conference with me. We will present the memoir to the class aloud, and then prepare the final draft to be published in a class book. You can visit Mrs. Warren's website to read books from previous classes.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO THE WRITING PROCESS:
• Turn in all drafts of each piece
• Staple all peer and self editing and revision sheets to the entries with which they correspond
• Organize drafts and editing/revision forms in the order
The final draft must be four pages long, present tense, free of mistakes, and appropriate for school.

Weeks 6-8

English I: 1st Block

English I: 4th Block

English II: Cramming Conventions and Basics for the Writing Test!

Weeks 4-5

English I: 1st Block

English II: 3rd Block

English I: 4th Block

Weeks 1 - 3: Spring 2010

1st Block: English I

3rd Block: English II A & B

4th Block: Honors English I

English I Vocabulary: List: This will last you all semester!

English I Syllabus

Closing of Fall Semester

English I: End of Course Schedule 1st Block and 4th Block

English II - B: End of Semester Schedule

Fall 2009 - 2010 Exam Schedule