This week: 5/14
Monday: Argument Speed Dating. Last timed write returned. We discussed
weaknesses to avoid on Wednesday:What I noticed while scoring....
Off Prompt responses: Make sure you understand your job. If you have to read
a passage, do NOT take short-cuts. Be sure you absolutely understand the
writing. Re- read until you do.
Source parentheticals. Your parenthetical comes AFTER the sentence followed
by a period (--------).
First sentences need to be AMAZING and grammatically correct.
Lack of embedding. This should not occur at this point in the year.
List-like thesis statements: Lincoln uses allusions, repetition, and compare
and contrasts. Not only does this statement lack parallelism, it is putting
you into a corner and produces a predictable/formulaic response. President
Lincoln, in his quest to unify the nation, appeals to a divided nation
through his emotional and logical Second Inaugural Address.
When in doubt…go TONE
Getting too “philosophical” or fancy. Keep it simple and clear. Save
creative writing for creative writing course. What do you need to say? Say
it! THINK T.E.A.
Introductions too involved. Keep it focused and brief. You don’t have time
for a ¾ page intro.
Inappropriate evidence for your argument….READING (means reading….non-fiction
preferably….this includes your history book), OBSERVATION (what’s going on
SPECIFICALLY in society, your community, etc.), PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (be
specific
Assignment? Relax and read Catcher in the
Rye (for our book club end of the year:)).
Tuesday: Celebrate w: 40 inspirational quotes (http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=40+inspirational+speeches+in+2+minutes&oq=40+in&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=
&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0l10.1507.2257.0.4502.5.3.0.1.1.0.362.643.1j0j1j1.3.0...0.0.
FS7BLr9d2jc) , party bags, colored crayons
and song? It just doesn't get any more fun! Count down until tomorrow....24
hours. 7:30 in room 404. DO NOT BE LATE. DO NOT BRING CELL PHONES.Be sure to
sleep, eat, and get here on time. Brink snack and water!
Wednesday: YAY! It's the DAY! Carpe Diem
Thursday and Friday: It's book club day! Bring blanky or chair to sit outside
and take in the fresh air and a great book. Again, doesn't get much better.
Please be reminded that we will be having socratic seminar on the book for
our final. Anyone ABSENT will be given the MC for CITR instead. Seminar
questions are available now in handouts (CITR seminar questions). They will
be distributed on Monday though in hard copy for those who need them.
5/7
Monday: Finish the play (The NIght Thoreau Spent in Jail). Work on questions
and term sheet (see handout section for questions and term sheet)..You DON'T
have to do the Huckleberrying for vocabulary (that was another year :)). Only
if you WANT to.
Tuesday: Today will be MC portion of the final exam. (We'll quiz on
Thoreau tomorrow as AP Calculus students can better make up a quiz than a
timed write).
Wednesday: Quiz on TNTSIJ (questions/quote work due).
Thursday: Essay portion of final
Friday: Speed Dating (looking at argument)...changed to Monday. Today we
examined our MC questions (looking at the ones we got wrong), talked about
our Best of 3 essays (returned), and looked at Major Works studied this year
(see handouts for list and assignment). This is a REVIEW to get us thinking
about our own thinking this year. Remember THAT guy? ....yeah....we need to
remember who said what and why! This should help.
4/30
Monday: Continue with TNTSIJ (through page 36). Review Sentence types and
discuss complex sentences. Complete handout (ID and D,I) for Tuesday.
Tuesday: Turn in Complex sentences. Continue with play and end up with
anlysis prompt practice.
Wednesday: TNTSIJ continued, be working on questions and quote work, and MC
passage #4
Thursday: Complex and Compound Sentence Assessment (Dept Data Director) and
continue with play.
Friday: Carnival Day: See handouts (terms in TNTSIJ) for assignment (match
the term/device with the exmplae from the play. Analsys Outline. (Be
working on questions as they will be due on Tuesday...all Act one and Act two
work including quote work).
4/23
Monday: Choose your best of three synthesis, clean out folders to include
ONLY essays, and #124 (notebooks) what do you notice about your writing? What
do you still need to work on? (Feel free to read over your first essay--the
summer reading argument).
Tuesday: Warm up: MC practice
Watch interview with Peter Singer (see: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-
colbert-report-videos/221466/march-12-2009/peter-singer)---if you're
absent, please watch it...it's hysterical, and read his essay p. 319. Analyze
his writing: What rhetorical devices does Singer use to convey his argument?
Please respond to this question with an AMAZING precis.
Wednesday: Rhetorical chairs with questions p. 323 and read/analyze Bertrand
Russell's "The Happy Life". Write the opening to an analysis essay based on
Russell's rhetoric and purpose.
Thursday: Share "openings" and read introduction to "Night Thoreau Spent in
Jail." SOAP it in your writing notebook. Assignment: MC passage #2
Friday: Happy Gold Nugget Days! Correct MC passage, and continue w/ MC
passage #3. Begin the play, Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. (make up work....ask
for copy of start of Act 1, read, and begin study questions).
4/16
Star Testing Week: All about the synthesis essay
Friday: synthesis in class discussion (read CB samples) and peer read/score.
writing notebook work: write a paragraph about a sandwich or summer with the
use of the following: one periodic sentence and three other rhetorical
strategies/devices. Assignment: synthesis due next Tuesday
4/9
Monday: Watch clip of Anna Quindlen. Read and SOAP Quindlen's Commencement
speech (and annotate it). Answer questions pages 299-300 in notebooks. If
absent,you can annotate the text with the Take Note/Make note approach (take
a piece of paper, fold it in half lengthwise, and find allusions/metaphors
and other devices/strategies and comment on effect on the right hand side of
paper.
Tuesday: Discuss Quindlen's text with questions prepared last night for
homework. Template for your synthesis question
Wednesday: Time in lab to prepare your "synthesis" for informed citizen
Thursday: Synthesis in class (first draft)Study for term test:
http://quizlet.com/3651385/pre-flight-checklist-check-2-flash-cards/
Friday: Term test!Assignment: bring in your complete synthesis prompt for
Monday (be sure to keep copies for you and your partner) and include ALL
sources. College board sample (B) read in class and scored (2011 B synthesis)
3/26
Monday-Thursday: Informed Citizen presentations and fallacy of argument
(terms)Please turn in writing notebooks for notebook check
Friday: fallacy of
argument activity (take one of our fallacy terms and create a 'skit'
displaying its use...if absent, please write one out in your writing
notebook).Assignment: Study quizlet.com for term test and complete practice
hard copy test (Quizlet 20 questions)
3/19
Monday: Discuss the synthesis prompt and outline for tomorrow's write (all
sources are on this website...see AP handouts)
Tuesday: Synthesis 2010 timed write
Wednesday: Peer reading and commentary
Reminder: Thoreau writes are due Friday
Thursday: Time to work with partner on informed citizen (I'm bringing in
notebooks for prezi/powerpoint work)
Friday: Share your inner Thoreau! Pre-flight checklist 3/12
Monday: Finish up discussion on Thoreau's text (with graphic organizer/jigsaw
activity). Please answer the paragraph questions in your writing notebooks.
Tuesday: Discuss paragraph answers, MC practice (9 questions) and read
Wendell Glick's take on Thoreau. Complete a Graff on Glick (see link:
http://college.cengage.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/thoreau.html)
Source 3 due today
Wed: Share Graffs and discuss upcoming Thoreau imitation. Today, complete a
mind-map keeping the Thoreau philosophy in mind: What do YOU value in life?
Thursday: Time in controversial pairs find evidence for your question on both
sides. Take a look at a true synthesis prompt(moved to Friday)
Friday: Looking closely at the synthesis prompt (Sources and discussion).
Choose one of the sources to soap in your writing notebook (for make up
assignment)
Monday: Thoreau Powerpoint and notes (cornell notes). See handouts for
powerpoint slides. Assignment: Compound vs. simple sentences (write 8
sentences ( four and four) centering on YOUR topic). ex: Global warming is a
hoax.
Many people believe global warming to be a hoax; many of them choose not to
take action.
Which one on the above is a simple sentence? A compound? Write 4 of each (use
your topic for focus)
Tuesday: Read Thoreau's words or wisdom (aphorisms) 1-10. Choose one to
discuss in your writing notebooks (108) and write a skeleton of an essay
(109). Assignment: Source 2 for tomorrow
Wednesday: Discuss Thoreau's words of wisdom, and begin the chapter from
Life in the Woods...beginning on page 276. Read the opening first chapter
and annotate it (if you are absent, and you are working out of the book, use
a post-it and you can add it later to the hard copy provided in class).
Source 2 due today. Assignment: Take your assigned "section" (paragraph),
and read/prepare/annotate for group/jigwaw work on Friday.
Thursday: EAP (Essay portion....be ready to write an argument for the Early
Assessment Program or placement test for CSUs)
Friday: Jigwaw Where I lived, and What I lived for by Thoreau. Share ideas.
Assignment: Read in its entirety and answer the questions in your writing
notebooks. Source 3 due next Tuesday!
2/27
Monday: Watch David Logan @ Tedtalks (see link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership.html)
Take Cornell Notes on this 16 minute "talk" on tribes and leadership!
Discuss upcoming informed Citizen. Assignment: Please read the opening to
MLK's famous letter from Jail, pp. 260-261 and SOAPStone it and craft two
thoughtful questions about the text).
Tuesday:Minimum day. Discuss David Logan and watch samples of informed
citizen presentations
Wednesday:MLK's letter from Birmingham Jail (first section--first 13
paragraphs). Listen and annotate (If ABSENT today, you can find the full text
online for marking up or use a seperate piece of paper as you read it in our
textbook).
(see annotation rubric for possible 20 points on active reading and active
note taking). Assignment: Mark up your TEXT, make comments, ask questions,
find rhetorical devices and comment on their effect
Thursday:MLK letter continued with MC questions Reminder: YOUR source #1 is
due Friday! Link it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83jYXYTwHw
Friday:MC practice with AP style questions, simple vs. compound sentence
revisitation, and bring in your SOURCE #1
2/21
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Revisions are due today! Discuss ARgument from last Thursday and
share student samples/CB examplars. Final due on Friday! Assignment:
complete questions on community for unit 6 (handout given in class) in
writing notebooks, and one pager assigned for Thursday on the opening of unit
6: Community page. 259. Be sure to follow the one-pager template (forget
how...see handouts).
Wednesday: Discuss community: denotation/connotation, mini-lesson on grammar
(independent clauses), and discuss upcoming informed citizen project (be
thinking about topics).
Thursday: One-pagers are due. All about the pros and cons of an argument.
Introduce the source slips for pro/con issue. Practice with Frontline and
assign individual work with the CNR article and blog.
Friday: Sign up for informed citizen project, create an essential questions,
and independent clause work.
2/12
Monday: Discuss returned Lapham essays and discuss elements of argument
(revisions are due next TUESDAY).
Tuesday: Begin Frontline's documentary: Is Wal-Mart good for America? Watch
first 1/2 @ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/
Wednesday: Finsh documentary today and discuss upcoming argument essay (in-
class for first draft and take home due next FRIDAY)...all about charities
and incentives...is it ethical to expect/recieve incentives for charity?
Thursday: IN-class argument
week: 1/31
Monday:Body Maps for Gatsby! Present them! Yay! (if you're absent, be sure to
turn in to Mrs. Thomas for points)
Tuesday:Thinking in Three's
Wednesday: Thinking in Threes and Prepare for Gatsby Guess tomorrow! Be sure
to finish #100!
Thursday: Gatsby Guess DAY! Yay! Turn in writing notebooks
Friday: Rally Day ...discuss your chosen "text" and practice revision
w/paramedic sentences. End of grading period (your notebooks are due)
1/30
Monday: Discuss 1-5 from Thursday's assignment, and meeting of the minds:
discussing possible motif/symbol significance. Write a thesis statment
claiming it's significance to the novel. Ex: In F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel,
The Great Gatsby, the _____________ symbolizes __________________.
Assignment: Read Max Perkins Take p199-201 (in back of novel), SOAPStone it
and answer the questions provided in class (in your notebooks). Be ready to
discuss it.
Tuesday: Max Perkins "Take". Your "take": symbol discussion and prep for
tomorrow's Socratic Seminar.
Wednesday: Seminar
Thursday: In-class write on the symbols within the GG.
Friday: Body Map!
1/23....Finish Gatsby by Friday!
MOnday: Finish MC from Friday (2nd half) and score.
Tuesday: Reflect on MC scores and passages. Discuss. Work with The Great
Gapsby (p. 234 and p. 235). Assignment: Analyze "We Can Do It) p. 232 and p.
233 (answer 1-5 in writing notebooks).
Wednesday: Short,simple sentences and fragments: grammar as rhetoric (notes),
and practice ex. 1 and 2 p. 254-255.
Assignment: Read and prepare questions on Goodman's piece "In praise of a
Snail's Pace" p. 223 1-8 (writing notebooks)
Thursday: Discuss Snail's Pace and compare to Old Leisure. Read essay in
textbook p. 250-251 and answer questions 1-5 for Monday's discussion (as
tomorrow we are quizzing on Gatsby! :)).
Friday: Gatsby "final" quiz. Be sure to have your study questions ready.
1/16
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Read around with Lapham essays (score 3 to 4 essays)
Wed: Gatsby quiz #2, vocabulary work. Assignment: Lapham essay due Thursday
Thursday: Essays due. Read around. Listen to Atlanta Exposition Address.
Assignment: Finish and complete discussion quesitions
Friday: MC practice
1/9
Monday: Watch clip from Nickel and Dimed (you tube) and read start
of "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Eherenreich (partner precis on these few
pages). Finish the reading at home and answer 1-5 on page 186 in notebooks.
Tuesday:Rhetoric and style: Ehrenreich (1-12) with rhetorical chairs. Choose
one question from 1-12 (rhetoric and style) and respond fully to it in your
notebooks.
Wednesday:Gatsby quiz. Work on 1-3 vocabulary assignment (handout)
Thursday:Go over Gatsby vocabulary and discuss argument. Read through Lapham
argument prompt--discuss and outline
Friday:In class write: Lapham prompt
1/3/2012
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Hand in Above and Beyond assignment. Trivia fun with 1920's trivia
and read NY times article by Michael Blow (SoAP and Graff it in your writing
notebooks).
Wednesday: Gatsby distributed. Be sure to read the through xii of the preface
and complete Cornell Notes on the reading.
Thursday: Discuss the Gatsby Notebook assignment (symbol/motif), and read
first 15-16 pages of Gatsby. Study questions distributed for first three
chapters.
Friday:Discuss the opening of Chapter 5 (Work). Read the essay (handout in
class) by David Callahan and answer the 10 MC questions. Discuss.
Assignment: Read chapters 1-3 of Gatsby for next Wednesday (be sure to
working on your study questions and symbol/motif assignment)
week:
Monday: MC passage 5 (last)and peer "score" Mississippi analysis
Tuesday: Essays are due. Read around and share. Discuss MC scoring and essay
scoring...writing notebook reflection for last timed-write. pre-flight
checklist (if time) to take a look at terms you still don't know well....
Wednesday: Last timed-write
Thursday: CB and peer score....discuss the "Above and Beyond" assignment
Friday: Choose your best of three and reflect on why you've chosen it. Please
leave your writing notebooks with me! Happy Vacation.
12/5
Monday: Multiple-choice practice (passage 4)
Tuesday: Rewrites are due today! Minimum day peer scoring Geek/Nerd essay by
Fridman. Assigned last essay of this semester #2 or #8 or #9 (suggestions for
writing) due next Tuesday
Wednesday: Discuss your last timed-write and reflect. Agree or disagree
with the scoring. Pre-flight checklist....we'll be testing at the start of
second semester. Paramedic sentences.
Thursday: Timed-write
Friday: CB example and peer score
11/28
Monday:MC practice: Passage 3 of MC exam.
Tuesday:Dept. Standard Assessement: Connnotation/Denotation , discuss last
essays (returned) Welty analysis. Reflect on both MC from Monday and
returned essay. WHAT will you work on for NEXT time?
Wednesday:Read CB examplars of Welty Essay and score. Read article: Edward
Said controversy and GRAFF it in writing notebooks.
Thursday:IN class timed write: analysisk
Friday: Board Meeting (those absent last week must turn in an essay on the
answering the following prompt: Many people feel that Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an outdated and racist novel, and a work
that should no longer be read and examined in the classroom. Write a
thoughtful essay challenging or defending the reading of this novel in
American classrooms today. Be sure to bring in specific evidence from the
novel and at least one outside source.
11/14
Monday: Revie appostives and (see page 167), and
Tuesday;Appositives ex. 3 page 171 (in notebook), and discuss the tables on
page 147. Complete questions following on page 148.
Wednesday:Discuss National Endowment for the Arts table pages 147-148(1-5),
appositives and rhetorical effect, and complete exercises 4-5 pages 172-173
Thursday: one pagers due and quiz on section 4. Assignment: prepare for
tomorrow's seminar by answering the selected questions
FridaY: Socratic Seminar (if you are absent you must complete a write-up of
ONE of the discussion question in a one-pager format)
Thanksgiving Week:
Monday and Tuesday: Work on Board Meeting simulation presentations (if
ABSENT, see next FRIDAY for make up assignment).....
11/7
Monday: Discussed Exploring the Text questions/answers in small discussion
groups and took notes on how to embed quotations (see powerpoint presentation
in AP handouts). Write 2 sentences with appropriate transitions and
embedding quotations WITH changes.
Tuesday: Huck finn one-pager due for section 3. Quiz today. Assignment: Read
and finish Huck by next Thursday.
Wednesday/Thursday: Watch Spellbound (documentary on "meritocracy")
10/31
Monday: One-pagers due along with Quiz on Huck section 2
Tuesday: Discuss Huck Finn Section 2, and watch Sherman Alexie on Colbert
Report (there is a link to a youtube interview available for those absent: AP
useful links). Read and begin 1-8 questions on Superman and Me (in textbook)
Wednesday: Welty essay due, complete disucssion on Superman and Me, precis on
Alexie. Assignment: Huck Finn Section 3 due next Tuesday (along with one-
pager #3)
Thursday: Essay "excerpts" (Mori, Baldwin, et al.) Choose one to complete and
be ready "Eleven" by Sandara Cisneros. Be sure to have finished your chosen
Ed. essay to be ready to discuss on Monday.
PLEASE LEAVE YOUR WRITING NOTEBOOKS WITH ME TODAY! :)
week: 10/24
Mon: Discuss Huck Finn and themes. Read passage and complete MC quetions
(hand in). Section 2 due NEXT Monday. Read and discuss Eudora Welty prompt
Tuesday: Group work with evidence from Welty prompt. Fill in graphic
organizer together.
Wednesday: Discuss prompt and complete thesis/planning page. Start your essay
(due next Tueday). Share background of Emerson (get notes if you're absent),
and begin "from Education" (chapter 4)....read first 2-3 paragraphs.
Thursday: Continue with "from Education" and finish essay (complete 1-5 in
writing notebook ....p. 108) for tomorrow.
Friday: Discuss Emerson and create MC questions using MC stem sheet.
week: 10/17
Monday: Debrief Socratic Seminar.
Tuesday: Spirit of Educaiton: Visual Rhetoric Analysis (in textbook chapter
4) and begin Francine Prose's essay "Why the Caged Bird Can't Read"
annotation #1
Wednesday:
Continue annotation of essay and discuss. Prepare 99-100 1-5 for tomorrow.
Thursday: Finishing discussing Francine Prose and discuss the 1-5 questions.
Activity w/1-10 questions (rhetoric and style)
Friday: One pager's due. Quiz on Huck section I.
week: 10/10
Monday: Discuss Mark Twain, distribute books, and watch Born to trouble.
Assignment: REad and SOAPstone notice and explanatory.
Tuesday: Return Princess Di prompts and discuss scoring. Revisions permitted
for any and all (see AP handouts for revision checklist for instructions).
Watch "Born to Trouble" and take notes on Twain and the controversy
surrounding the reading of the novel.
Wednesday: Distribute Huck Finn reading schedule (section one: 1-11 due
Friday Oct. 21) and one pager instructions. Finish Born to Trouble.
Thursday: Discuss documentary with cornell note questions. Read Russell
Baker's "take" and complete a Graff Template of the argument. Prepare
discussion questions for socratic seminar on Friday. Keep reading!
Friday: Socratic Seminar #1 ...If ABSENT, write a one-pager on any of the
bulleted questions (see AP handouts....Born To trouble questions).
Last Week:
Monday: In class timed-write: 1996 Gary Soto prompt
Assignment: Choose peer post to analyze (for Wednesday)
Tuesday:How did Monday's writing go? Reflect on the timed-writing experience.
Begin reading student exemplars of same essay...getting to know the 1-9.
Wednesday:Share peer post analysis and Scoring with the 1-9 rubric
Thursday: Peer Reading and Scoring on 1-9 rubric (Assignment: Due
Monday...a "one pager" (see AP 11 handouts) for template using CHAPTER 4
introduction).
Friday: Rhetorical "chairs" with Mark Twain's quotes on education. See
handouts.
Last WEek:
Monday: Assignment: Discuss the JFK diction/syntax questions. Write an
introduction to a JFK analysis essay (in notebooks). Read Lapidos article
about anti-metabole and SOAP it.
Tuesday: Discuss Lapidos article and take MC Practice Test A (14-23) in
writing notebook (go back to your 1-14 MC bubble sheet and keep going).
Assignment: Wheels are due Wednesday
Wednesday: Wheels are due today. Read teacher example: Hunger. In groups,
write a paragraph about LOVE using 3 schemes and 3 tropes. Have fun with it.
Then, POST your own description of your own individual abstract concept. Use
my model, HUNGER, as a model. Posting is due on Sunday night!
Thursday: Apply your analysis skills to 1996 AP Question 2. Fill out graphic
organizer. Be ready to write about it on Monday!
Friday: Lit Term test. See Quizlet link for study assistance!
last week:
Monday: All about ZEUGMA. Assignment: Write a precis on WWII. Tonight, read
pp. 49-51 with cornell notes (paying close attention to the advertisement
directly analyzed).
Tuesday: Adding "antimetoble" to our words and stuff list. Write an example
in your notebooks. Share yesterday's precis writings and analyze the "Whose
Birthday is it Anyway" advertisement. Write up your analysis in your
notebooks.
Wednesday: Adding "double entendre" to our words and stuff list. Share your
analysis of the advertisment. Listen and mark up JFK speech. REad the
chapter analysis and answer questions.
Discuss the "rhetorical" wheel.
Thursday: Diction/syntax questions and JFK text.
Friday: Assessment test
Friday: English Assessment test
Last week:
Monday: It's all about scheme and trope this week: Take notes and apply to
9/11 Berne passage
Tuesday: Discuss the Berne passage, and Read Ernie Pyle's ON WWII (first
impressions in writing notebooks)
Wednesday: On WWII (continued) and terms of trope and scheme (get notes).
Find 5 examples of trope and 5 examples of scheme.
Thursday: Discuss last week's intro to rhetoric quiz. Reviewing Tropes and
Schemes with group worksheet. Assignment: Love and an example of trope/scheme
(if you were absent, don't worry...I'll fill you in on Friday).
Friday: Essay deadline: Princess Di. Reflection. The Scheme and Trope Game:
It's all about Love. Discuss the figurative device wheel assignment.
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Discuss MC passage, discuss summer reading essays, make list poison
words.
Wednesday: Back to School night
Passage analysis: intro to rhetoric quiz
Assigmment: Read A,B, anc C essays and write a paragraph analyzing strengths
and weaknesses
THURSDAY: Discuss A,B,C essays (along with thesis statments,and orgnization
of body paragraphs: Topic, Evidence, and Analysis/Commentary. Read and Soap
the the Princess Di texts (end of chapter one).
Friday: Listen to Earl Spencer's eulogy and discuss the rhetorical
similarities and differences between the four texts. Assign outline of essay
for Monday. Princess Di analysis essay due next Friday.
Monday 8/29: Group Precis (on Einstein's letter). Discuss the
analysis. Read
and take notes (using Cornell Note sheet/format) pp. 12-17. Be ready to
discuss.
Tuesday 8/30:
"Pop Quiz" to see how your notetaking went. Next time...it COUNTS :). Be sure
to read practicing performative literacy strategies. Discuss visual rhetoric,
soaping aloud Rosa Parks cartoon (see textbook). Assignment: Examine a
political cartoon of your choice (provided in class) and SOAPStone it in your
writing notebooks.
Wednesday 8/31: All about Patterns of Development today. Discuss the
patterns and apply each pattern to something read either over the summer or
thus far. Fill out chart.
Thursday 9/1: Finish up notes on patterns of development (for you absent
folks, take notes on each of the patterns of development (pp. 17-26) to make
up points. Assignment: p. 26 Assignment (on top of page in textbook) (going
back to Heyman's essay on page. 6).
Friday: Multiple-Choice practice #1: Read passage from practice test A and
answer the questions with a partner. Discuss questions and passage
difficulty. Study terms of rhetoric for next Wednesday's analysis test.
Friday 9/2: Multiple-Choice practice : Practice Test A
Monday 8/22: Discuss your rhetoric surveys (hand in). #4 SOAPstone your
memoir and discuss. Assignment: Intro to rhetoric...read pages 1-6 in your
textbooks and add to your rhetoric notes from today. Craft 5 questions that
have answers in your notes. Be ready to discuss the reading and rhetoric
tomorrow.
Tuesday: Discuss Rhetoric and your questions (turn in notes from discussion
and pp 1-6). Discuss Lou Gehrig's speech and SOAP it in your notebooks
(#5). Assignment: Precis Writing on Lou Gehrig's speech
Follow model and also see Precis Writing link (useful links) for specifc
outline and instructions:
Frank McCourt, Pullitzer Prize winner and author of the memoir Teacher Man
suggests that the road to teaching success requires dedication, but most
importantly the willingness to be both student and teacher simultaneously.
Through personal anecdotes, humor, and the occasional tear, McCourt shares
his challenges from his early years of teaching and how it drove him to his
ultimate success as a writer. The author, through his honest depiction of
failures in the classroom as well as the less frequent but accidental
success, reveals the adversities faced by those behind the desk to seek
better understanding of this often negated career. Teachers, as well as
students, can benefit from the truth of his journey through his reflective
and forthright delivery of his life and career.
Wednesday 8/24/11: Share your precis for Lou Gehrig speech, pre-flight
checklist, and discuss logos/ethos/pathos in Jodi Hyman's essay (see and read
pp. 6-9 for essay and analysis). Please SOAPstone and complete precis writing
for this essay in your writing notebooks.
Thursday: Watch interviews: Teacher Man and Glass Castle (see useful
links....I linked them for you absent people). Jot down notes in writing
notebooks (#9)...anything that resonates with you regarding memoir
writing/purpose and the speaker. :)
Friday: Watch Lucy Grealy interview and continue discussing memoir
writing/writers. Assignment: Read and SOAP Einstein's letter (see assignment
in textbook on page 9). Do this in your writing notebooks. Be ready to
discuss and write a group precis on Monday.
Monday: Welcome Back to School
Turn in summer assignments and discuss
Getting to know you activity: SAME DIFFERENCE in groups
Assgignment: Take intro to AP survey (see survey links) by Wednesday
Tuesday: Getting "set up" for class. Discuss course outlines (get signed by
Thursday), set up comp books, and writing notebook assignment #1: Read the
quotes, choose 10, and respond/reflect on them in your notebooks (due
tomorrow).
Wednesday: Go over quotes and apply to class. Discuss Performative
Literacy: group activity
Thursday: Finish work on performative literacy and discuss. Assignment: #2 in
notebooks: How does Performative literacy apply to you? Rhetoric survey due
Monday!
Friday: Quiz on summer reading and SOAPStone work (#3: SOAPStone and Teacher
Man)...don't forget about rhetoric survey due Monday!