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Mr. Nerf's English Classes at Paxon School for Advanced Studies |
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AP Language Assignments\
Here are the instructions for the second quarter Great Books Seminars. Dates for the seminars TBA.
The following is the topic for Great Books Seminar #1 (Due date- 11/17, 18): Read MLK, Jr’s “Nonviolent Resistance” found in your Prose Models textbook. Compare and contrast MLK’s civil rights ideas with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use the same rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. The following is the topic for Great Books Seminar #2 (Due date- 11/30; 12/1): Read Ghandi's "Quit India" speech (there is a link on my website). Compare and contrast Gandhi's approach to racial injustice with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use similar rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. http://www.wordpower.ws/speeches/gandhi-quit-india.html The following is the topic for Great Books Seminar #3 (Due date- 12/8,9): Read two of Malcolm X’s speeches: “God’s Judgment of White America” and “After the Bombing/Speech at Ford Auditorium.” Note any comparisons and contrasts in Malcolm X’s two speeches. The first was given while he was still a member of the Nation of Islam and the second was given after he had traveled to Mecca and embraced the traditional teachings of Islam. Note how he uses various rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, and note whether those stylistic elements produce similar or different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_021465.htm X after Mecca pilgrimage http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_120463.htm X with Nation of Islam 10/22
Makeup day for students who missed the Quarter 1 exam.
Students receive their graded Synthesis essays. Students update writing log.
For future WRITING FOLDER CHECK- Your folders must be in compliance with the following requirements:
10 Common Writing Mistakes
Correction Comments
Rubric: Analytical, Persuasive, and Synthesis
Writing Log-Completed in pen
Summer Project (or note explaining its absence)
Essay #1 and Revision (or note explaining its absence)-Okefenokee (Analytical)
Essay #2 and Revision (or note explaining its absence)-Individual and Socieyt (Persuasive)
Essay #3-Invasive Species (Synthesis)
AP MC Log-Completed in pen
Practice Test
Homework: Read Malcolm X. Comprehensive X exam on 10/27,28.
10/23
Makeup day for students who missed the Quarter 1 exam.
Students receive their graded Synthesis essays. Students update writing log.
For future WRITING FOLDER CHECK- Your folders must be in compliance with the following requirements:
10 Common Writing Mistakes
Correction Comments
Rubric: Analytical, Persuasive, and Synthesis
Writing Log-Completed in pen
Summer Project (or note explaining its absence)
Essay #1 and Revision (or note explaining its absence)-Okefenokee (Analytical)
Essay #2 and Revision (or note explaining its absence)-Individual and Socieyt (Persuasive)
Essay #3-Invasive Species (Synthesis)
AP MC Log-Completed in pen
Practice Test
Homework: Read Malcolm X. Comprehensive X exam on 10/27,28.
10/27, 28 Comprehensive exam on The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley).
Review requirements for Writing Folders.
Students complete Student Quarterly Reviews of Writing Log and AP MC Log.
Homework: Find examples of effective diction in the "Nightmare" chapter. Be prepared to discuss in class. Be prepared to show evidence in your copy of the book that you have identified examples of effective diction.
10/ 29/30
I distributed writing folders. Students completed the Quarterly Review for Q 1's writing log and AP MC log. The logs were submitted as a class grade.
I distributed Writing Logs and AP MC Logs for Q 2. Students completed the top portion of each log in preparation for the Q2 entries.
In class, we reviewed the requirements for revising the synthesis essay (invasive species) written last quarter. Students will be able to revise this essay at a later should should they so choose.
In class, we discussed the nightmarish incidents of the first chapter of Malcolm X's autobiography.
Homework: Find examples of nightmarish events in the "Nightmare" chapter. Note how Malcolm X uses rhetorical strategies to emphasize how these events made lasting impressions upon him. Find examples of effective rhetorical strategies used by Malcolm X to communicate his childhood experiences in this chapter. List these examples in bullet form and identify the rhetorical strategy/strategies used in each example. Then, develop a thesis statement in which you explain how Malcolm X uses rhetorical strategies to emphasize how traumatic early childhood experiences developed his nascent attitudes and beliefs. NOTE: YOU MUST BRING YOUR COPY OF MALCOLM X TO CLASS EACH DAY. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN A ZERO FOR ANY CLASSWORK OR HALF CREDIT FOR ANY HOMEWORK SUBMITTED ON THAT DAY. YOU HAVE KNOWN SINCE THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL THAT THIS BOOK WAS REQUIRED, SO DON'T INSULT ME WITH EXCUSES FOR YOU NOT HAVING THE TEXT.
11/2, 3
In class we did the following:
Return Quarter 1 logs and Student Quarterly Reviews
Students placed writing folders in order.
Reviewed Grade Recovery policy: Deadline to apply is 11/13; student must meet minimum req's to attempt grade recovery; student who meets the req's will have to print the Grade Recovery form from my website and submit it to me.
Review Malcolm X exam
Students worked in groups to determine which students had the best thesis from last night's homework.
I showed students 4 analytical prompts from 1984-2000, and I explained how every analytical essay requires them to do the same basic thing each time.
Homework: Bring to class a copy of the Quotations handout from my handout page.
11/4, 5
In class we did the following:
Small groups: critiqued student thesis statements
Analytical thesis statements should NOT mimic the prompt. They SHOULD be specific. The MUST make an assertion (a confident claim) concerning the purpose of the author.
Sample thesis from Malcolm X hw: Malcolm X's use of disturbing diction, pathos intended to move the reader to outrage, and hyperbole meant to indicate his frustration help the reader understand how certain traumatic childhood experiences forever shaped his suspicious and angry outlook toward white society.
Time permitting (Wednesday is an early-release day): AP MC #1. I will allow students a few minutes to use a dictionary to look up words for which they are unfamiliar.
Homework: Be prepared to write an analytical essay. Use the AP Help Site link on my Links page. Once on the AP site, look in the left column for "Courses and Exams." Use the drop menu and choose "AP Language." Once on the AP Lang page, look in the left column for "Sample Questions & Scoring." From there, you can practice developing thesis statements for previous AP analytical essay prompts.
11/6, 9 In class we did the following:
I returned AP MC #1. We reviewed the passages and any terms that students did not understand.
Students updated the MC Log.
I provided some helpful suggestions and revision for the AP Language Terms handout, including two new websites:
Students wrote an analytical essay in class.
Homework: Use the following website to understand many of the syntax examples from the AP Language Terms handout:
11/10, 12
In class we did the following:
We reviewed AP MC #1.
We reviewed analytical essay. We discussed student examples.
Homework: Use the Lincoln speech to understand the importance of syntax in developing purpose. Where possible use examples of syntax from the AP Language Terms handout. Remember, that the following website can help you understand the syntax terms on the handout:
11/13, 16
I returned the analytical essay. I used student examples to show student the right/wrong way to analyze and to show good examples of intro/con paragraphs. Students may revise either the synthesis essay (Invasive Species) or the analytical essay (Lincoln's Speech). The revision is due on 11/23, 24 based on the student's normal class meeting day.
Students shared the examples of syntactical strategies used by Lincoln in his speech.
ONE LAST WARNING: If you received a zero on the synthesis essay (Invasive Species) or the analytical essay (Lincoln's Speech), you are reminded that a ZERO cannot be revised. In order to erase this zero, you must attend the next Tutoring session (11/17) and write the essay during that time. This is your last chance to prevent your grade from suffering irreparable damage.
Homework:
The following is the topic for Great Books Seminar #1 (Due date- 11/17, 18): Read MLK, Jr’s “Nonviolent Resistance” found in your Prose Models textbook. Compare and contrast MLK’s civil rights ideas with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use the same rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment.
11/17, 18
Students conducted Seminar #1.
Read MLK, Jr’s “Ndonviolent Resistance” found in your Prose Models textbook. Compare and contrast MLK’s civil rights ideas with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use the same rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. Time permitting: We discussed the RS's and message contained in Chapter 15 "Icarus," paragraphs 1-18.
ONE LAST WARNING: If you received a zero on the synthesis essay (Invasive Species) or the analytical essay (Lincoln's Speech), you are reminded that a ZERO cannot be revised. In order to erase this zero, you must attend the next Tutoring session (11/17) and write the essay during that time. This is your last chance to prevent your grade from suffering irreparable damage.
Homework: AP Terms test (column 1 words) next class; essay revisions due 11/23, 24.
11/19, 20 I administered AP Language Terms Test I (column 1 words).
I administered AP MC #2.
Homework: You may revise either the synthesis essay or the analytical essay. BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE REVISED AP LANGUAGE RULES FOR REVISIONS:
RULES FOR AP LANG REVISIONS
11/23, 24
In class we did the following:
Returned and reviewed AP MC #2. Students updated writing logs.
I conducted a book check. I reminded students about Seminar #2. I read an Indian creation story about the white race, we contrasted/compared that story with the Dr. Yacuba story in Malcolm X. Homework:
The following is the topic for Great Books Seminar #2 (Due date- 11/30; 12/1): Read Ghandi's "Quit India" speech (there is a link on my website). Compare and contrast Gandhi's approach to racial injustice with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use similar rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. http://www.wordpower.ws/speeches/gandhi-quit-india.html In class we did the following:
Seminar #2:
Read Ghandi's "Quit India" speech (there is a link on my website). Compare and contrast Gandhi's approach to racial injustice with those of Malcolm X. Note how they use similar rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, but communicate such different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. I returned essay revisions and students updated writing logs.
We reviewed the AP Language Terms test in class. Homework: Read chapters 18 and 19 in Malcolm X. Find evidence that indicates that Malcolm X WOULD and WOULD NOT have been a different civil rights leader after his Mecca pilgrimage if he had been allowed to live. Review the Quotations handout and be prepared to use the strategies from the handout in conjunction with the Malcolm X examples from the reading assignment.
12/2, 3 In class we did the following:
Students used examples from Chapters 18 and 19 in The Autobiography of Malcolm X to practice the 4 quotation skills from the Quotations handout: Short Quotes, Long Quotes, Omitting Words, and Adding Words. Students had to develop examples for each of the 4 skills and apply those 4 skills to the evidence found in the chapters. They must provide 4 examples to support the idea that Malcolm X WOULD have been a different civil rights leader after his pilgrimage to Mecca if he had lived, and they must provide 4 examples to support the idea that Malcolm X WOULD NOT have been a different civil rights leader after his pilgrimage to Mecca if he had lived.
Homework--Be aware of the following dates:
12/4, 7: Persuasive Essan + AP MC test #3 12/ 8, 9 Seminar #3 12/10, 11 AP Language Terms Test #2 12/14, 15 Research Paper Test--Parenthetical Citations, Bibliography Format, and Quotations The Scarlet Letter is due 1/25, 26 (HINT: DO NOT READ "THE CUSTOM HOUSE" INTRODUCTION) 12/4, 7
In class we did the following:
Students wrote a persuasive essay.
Students completed AP MC test #3. Homework--Be aware of the following dates:
12/ 8, 9 Seminar #3 Read two of Malcolm X’s speeches: “God’s Judgment of White America” and “After the Bombing/Speech at Ford Auditorium.” Note any comparisons and contrasts in Malcolm X’s two speeches. The first was given while he was still a member of the Nation of Islam and the second was given after he had traveled to Mecca and embraced the traditional teachings of Islam. Note how he uses various rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, and note whether those stylistic elements produce similar or different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_021465.htm X after Mecca pilgrimage http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_120463.htm X with Nation of Islam In class we did the following:
Seminar #3:
Read two of Malcolm X’s speeches: “God’s Judgment of White America” and “After the Bombing/Speech at Ford Auditorium.” Note any comparisons and contrasts in Malcolm X’s two speeches. The first was given while he was still a member of the Nation of Islam and the second was given after he had traveled to Mecca and embraced the traditional teachings of Islam. Note how he uses various rhetorical strategies, such as diction, tone, and appeals, and note whether those stylistic elements produce similar or different messages. Discussion Panel members will be responsible for conducting a dialogue concerning the topic. These students are responsible for answering all questions posed to them and responding to other panel members’ comments. Panel members must provide cited support for their answers. Answers without specific support from the text being discussed will be considered unsubstantiated and, therefore, insufficient. Audience members are responsible for providing five (5) questions for discussion and for taking accurate notes of the seminar. The grades for the audience members are based on their questioning and note-taking skill. If you are absent for a seminar and you were to have been on the discussion panel, you owe me a four-page typed response to the seminar topic. If you were to have been an audience member, you owe me a two-page typed response to the topic. You must submit your typed responsed upon your return to class. You may not return to class and ask me to extend the due date for this makeup assignment. http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_021465.htm X after Mecca pilgrimage http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_120463.htm X with Nation of Islam We reviewed the persuasive essay. We discussed student examples.
Homework--Be aware of the following dates:
12/10, 11 AP Language Terms Test #2 Homework--Be aware of the following dates:
12/14, 15 Research Paper Test--Parenthetical Citations, Bibliography Format, and Quotations Homework--Be aware of the following dates:
The Scarlet Letter is due 1/25, 26 (HINT: DO NOT READ "THE CUSTOM HOUSE" INTRODUCTION).
12/ 16; 1/ 4 Students received their graded AP Terms Test 2 and the Research Paper Test. We reviewed the correct answers. Students who scored less than 17/29 on the Research test were allowed to use notes and their Quotations handout to revise their test and receive a new grade no higher than 17/29. Only those students present in this class may avail themselves of this revision opportunity. Students were allowed to preview the upcoming AP MC #4.
Homework: The Scarlet Letter is due 1/25, 26 (HINT: DO NOT READ "THE CUSTOM HOUSE" INTRODUCTION). The due date for the next essay revision is 1/5, 6. 1/5, 6 Students submitted a revision for one of the eligible essays. Students took AP MC test #4. Students wrote a synthesis essay. See the calendar for posted Semester Exam dates. Homework: The Scarlet Letter is due 1/25, 26 (HINT: DO NOT READ "THE CUSTOM HOUSE" INTRODUCTION). 1/7, 8 Students worked in small groups to assess students samples of the synthesis essay about television's effect on presidential elections. Students who were absent do not have to make up this assignment. See the calendar for posted Semester Exam dates. Homework: The Scarlet Letter is due 1/25, 26 (HINT: DO NOT READ "THE CUSTOM HOUSE" INTRODUCTION). |
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