Use the Dropbox link to upload any work: https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Here it is as a link. Friday 8 March: Vocabulary review, begin As I Lay Dying in class Monday 11 March: Hot seat opens for Imitative Short Story; AILD reading through p. 25 due; vocabulary update Tuesday 12 March: AILD pp. 26-34 due Lab: Step 4 Comprehensive Review discussion; topic requests made Wednesday 13 March: AILD pp. 35-57 due Thursday 14 March: AILD pp. 58-81 due Friday 15 March: Workday for Imitative Story; hot seats available; vocabulary review Monday 18 March: AILD pp. 82-102 due Tuesday 19 March: AILD pp. 103-127 due Lab: Canceled for St. Joseph's day Wednesday 20 March: Hot seat closes for Imitative Short Story; in-class activity AILD; vocabulary review Thursday 21 March: AILD 128-149 due Friday 22 March: Imitative Short Story due; celebratory reading; extra credit sonnets due for recitation Monday 25 March: Reading forward in AILD pp. 150-176 Tuesday 26 March: Class canceled for Gala practice (AILD pp. 150-176 due) Lab: Argument prompt redux; working the prompt exercise; list of rhetorical terms Wednesday 27 March: AILD pp.177-197 due; vocabulary review Thursday 28 March: AILD pp. 198-217 due; vocabulary review Friday 29 March: AILD pp. 218-238 due; vocabulary review Monday 1 April: AILD pp. 239-end due Tuesday 2 April: Objective test, characters and events Lab: Ideas by request: Usage (4 main uses of commas); reminder of tests due (2) after spring break Wednesday 3 April: March vocabulary test Thursday 4 April: In-class writing: AILD and Faulkner's Nobel speech Coming up: Lab for Tuesday after Gala: Have three folders for materials: 1. Synthesis, 2. Rhetorical Analysis, 3. Argument. Divide all notes and handouts into these categories and file them, to be able to distill main ideas. Tuesday 19 February: Proto-Modernism: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio; "The Book of the Grotesque"; "Hands"; any early poem recitations Lab: Argument essay practice activity; prompts and responses for your reference Wednesday 20 February: Last day to turn in Dickinson paper; Snow Day! Friday 22 February: Prufrock p. 2 due for recitation; "Tandy" or "Hands" due (available via Winesburg, Ohio link, above) Tuesday 26 February: "The Strength of God"; here is a sample sourced argument for you to look at "foregrounding the argument"; here is a sample piece that shows excellent transitions (though it is an argument of inquiry, not a position paper) Lab: Argument practice essay in class Wednesday 27 February: Hot seat closes for the Sourced Argument paper; Hemingway: "Soldier's Home" in class Friday 1 March: Final Sourced Argument due; "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I" in class Tuesday 5 March: "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I" Lab: Chapter 8, 5 Steps to a 5 Wednesday 6 March: "Big Two-Hearted River, Part II"; short story assignment made For Anderson, choose "Paper Pills," "The Teacher," or "Sophistication" For Hemingway, choose "Battler," "The End of Something," or "The Three-Day Blow" Use the Dropbox link to upload any papers in Quarter 3:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Here it is as a link. Here is the assignment sheet for the sourced argument, for your reference. Tuesday 29 January: Dickinson introduction; Guide for presentation Lab: Canceled due to weather Wednesday 30 January: Snow day! (Dickinson copy text due) Friday 1 February: Prufrock page 2 read through; Tentative thesis for Sourced Argument due by the end of class; No second period: First Friday Mass (HW Bartleby the Scrivener, reading 1) Tuesday 5 February: Workday for Dickinson presentation; Reading 1 for "Bartleby the Scrivener" due Lab: Midterm essays Wednesday 6 February: "Bartleby the Scrivener" Reading 2 due; Hot seat opens for the Sourced Argument paper Friday 8 February: End of "Bartleby the Scrivener" due Tuesday 12 February: Dickinson presentations Lab: Revised midterm essay due; Multiple choice practice; Argument essay overview Wednesday 13 February: Dickinson presentations Friday 15 February: Prufrock page 2 French dictation; "Bartleby" in-class writing Tuesday 19 February: Proto-Modernism: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio; "The Book of the Grotesque"; "Hands"; any early poem recitations Lab: Argument essay practice activity; prompts and responses for your reference Wednesday 20 February: Last day to turn in Dickinson paper; Snow Day! Friday 22 February: Prufrock p. 2 due for recitation; "Tandy" or "Hands" due (available via Winesburg, Ohio link, above) Tuesday 26 February: "The Strength of God"; here is a sample sourced argument for you to look at "foregrounding the argument"; here is a sample piece that shows excellent transitions (though it is an argument of inquiry, not a position paper) Lab: Argument practice essay in class Wednesday 27 February: Hot seat closes for the Sourced Argument paper; Hemingway: "Soldier's Home" in class Friday 1 March: Final Sourced Argument due; "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I" in class Here is the new URL to upload assignments in Quarter 2, 2018-19:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Here it is as a link. Tuesday 8 January: Receive midterm study guide; Intro to American Transcendentalism (short excerpts tie in with AP winter reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) Lab: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek attitude of the speaker; narrative distance; sentence collecting Wednesday 9 January: Recitation due: "Prufrock" p. 1 Friday 11 January: Receive assignment sheet for Sourced Argument Paper; Classical structure of argument; Causal (page 1, page 2) and Proposal arguments; Proposal arguments in-class exercise Tuesday 15 January: Snow delay Lab: Sentence collecting Pilgrim assignment due; Review for exam Wednesday 16 January: Proposal arguments, continued; Thesis and approach brainstorming; optional rewrite of the AP synthesis essay due Thursday 17 January: Exam review at lunch Friday 18 January: No school; March for Life Midterm: Tuesday 22 January 8:30-10:10 Assignments to work on: "Prufrock," p. 2; Sourced Argument Paper Here is the new URL to upload assignments in Quarter 2, 2018-19:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Here it is as a link. Tuesday, November 13: Gatsby Test, Begin Part 2 of They Say/I Say AP Lab: Quiz on rhetorical devices group 1; Introduction of synthesis paper (5 Steps) HW: Device in group 2 for mini-presentation, complete American identity synthesis paper (timed 1 hour) by November 27: Here are additional copies of the prompt and the sources: Columbus, Bradstreet and Taylor, Crevecoeur, and Edwards. Wednesday, November 14: Part 2 of They Say/I Say due Friday, November 16: Paper sequence introduced; how to refine a prompt into a research question; "Prufrock" part 1 in class Tuesday, November 20: Three-Topic Memo Due; Credible vs. non-credible sources; Scholarly vs. general/popular sources; Bring laptops or tablets to class AP Lab: Canceled (St. Cecilia) Thanksgiving Break Tuesday, November 27: Group tentative bibliographies; MLA 8 update and review; prep for field trip AP Lab: American identity synthesis paper due; Devices due (group 2): distinctio, simile, metaphor, analogy, allusion, eponym, sententia, exemplum. HW: Device in group 3 for mini-presentation Wednesday, November 28: Field trip to UMD library; Individual tentative bibliography due by the end of the day; begin reading and annotating sources Friday, November 30: Stasis grid introduced; begin stasis grid using chart or Popplet; Stasis grid workday; continue reading sources Tuesday, December 4: Annotated bibliography introduced (and how copying the abstract is a bad idea); continue reading sources; sample annotated bibliography; sample Popplet stasis grid: example 1, example 2 Lab: Quiz on devices 1-15; Devices due (group 3): Popular Rhetorical Devices: Organization; HW: Devices in group 4 Wednesday, December 5: Vocabulary test; MLA-style simple bibliography due (at least 5 credible sources--AP: 5 scholarly plus any others; Eng 11: at least 2 scholarly); November Vocabulary Test Friday, December 7: Workday for annotated bibliography and stasis grid Here is the template for the Stasis Grid; please adapt box size to your needs. You may also use Popplet, as discussed, which is more adaptable. No handwritten grids will be accepted unless they are poster-sized. Tuesday, December 11 (Really Monday 2nd period and then Tuesday 1st period because of seniors' field trip on Monday): They Say/I Say Part 3 due; Rhetorical analysis introduced Lab: Quiz on devices 1-23; Devices due (group 4): Popular Rhetorical Devices: Style; HW: Devices in group 5 Wednesday, December 12: Annotated bibliography and stasis grid due (extended until Friday) Friday, December 14: (Annotated bib and stasis grid due, per extension) Workday for rhetorical analysis Tuesday, December 18: Informal fallacies; Workday; Checklist for rhetorical analysis Lab: Final quiz on Rhetorical Devices Wednesday, December 19: Workday and conferences, as desired, for rhetorical analysis; "Prufrock" part 1 due (can be extended) Friday, December 21: Rhetorical analysis due Christmas Break AP Lang Winter Reading: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Here is the new link to upload assignments in Quarter 2, 2018-19:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Hg4bruoSTQat2veeedCr Tuesday, October 2: Quiz: TS/IS Part 1; academic summary assignment made AP Lang Lab: In-class writing on O’Connor's Spiritual Writings Wednesday, October 3: Upper School Hiking Day; No classes Friday, October 5: Vocabulary test, September words; academic summary example (“Consider the Lobster”); Class stops at 9:30 for Mass ***** Tuesday, October 9: Gatsby Chapter 1 due with one study question; Hot seat for the academic summary opens AP Lang Lab: Sign up for usage presentations Wednesday, October 10: No class; PSAT Friday, October 12: Gatsby Chapter 2 due with one study question; review vocabulary ***** Tuesday, October 16: Gatsby Chapter 3 due with one study question; Hot seat for the Academic Summary closes AP Lang Lab: Usage presentations Wednesday, October 17: Gatsby Chapter 4 due with one study question; Academic Summary due Friday, October 19: Gatsby Chapter 5 due with one study question ***** Tuesday, October 23: Chapter 6 due with one study question Lab: Usage Presentations Wednesday, October 24: Chapter 7 due, no SQ due! Friday, October 26: No class; Archdiocesan Professional Day ***** Tuesday, October 30: Chapter 8 due with one study question; Vocabulary review Lab: Last usage presentations; Last set of multiple choice from the diagnostic exam Wednesday, October 31: Chapter 9 due with one study question; Franklin excerpt Friday, November 2: (Only first period; First Friday Mass at 9:30): Prep for in-class writing; Columbus excerpt ***** Tuesday, November 6: Practice in-class writing and discussion; Vocabulary test Lab: Gatsby and style: How to write about literature and style for AP Lang; Group 1 exercises from Rhetorical Devices due for discussion; quiz next time Wednesday, November 7: In-class writing Friday, November 9: Gatsby Review ***** Tuesday, November 13: Gatsby test Lab: Group 1 of Rhetorical Strategies due for quiz; material accumulates across quizzes Wednesday, November 14: Part 2 of They Say/I Say due Friday, November 16: September 2018
Wednesday, September 5: Policies, What is rhetoric?, Vocabulary plan, Flannery O’Connor sqs, short stories assigned, poem practice Assigned short stories: While I have handed out standard hard copies in class, here are back-ups I found on the Web: Claire, Grace C. "Revelation" Marisol, Vanessa "Good Country People" Kateri, Olivia "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Elizabeth, Julia "The Lame Shall Enter First" Emma, Gabby "The Enduring Chill" Thu, Josephine, Katie "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" Zoe, Ariana “Everything That Rises Must Converge” Grace B., Grace T. “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” Belency, Gillian “Parker’s Back” Students may sign up to recite the poem Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday; there will be some class time on Friday as well Friday, September 7: All-School Mass at 9:30; Poem due, HW: Read assigned short story ********************* Tuesday, September 11: Poem discussion—what is the poem’s argument? How does the poem support its argument? Assigned short story due for discussion; in-class writing (the story’s argument and devices/tools used) set-up from discussion AP Lang Lab 7th period: What is AP Lang? Rubric for the essays, important emphases, discussion #1: Preface and Intro-- SOAPSTone idea as it relates to these sections; AP Lang summer reading assignment (8 questions) is due September 25 Wednesday, September 12: No class; Summer Reading Groups meet Friday, September 14: In-class writing on O'Connor story; Prep presentation ********************* Tuesday, September 18: Refine arguments and tenets, prep presentations AP Lang Lab 7th period: Discussion #2: Sections 1 and 2 Wednesday, September 19: Story presentations #1 Friday, September 21: Story presentations #2; Tenets of the O'Connor story; HW: Finalize re-write of in-class writing ********************* Tuesday, September 25: Re-write of in-class writing due; "Indians" essay begun in class; HW: Finish reading Tompkins article AP Lang Lab: O’Connor SQs due (8 questions); Discussion #3: Sections 3-5; HW: Prep for in-class writing October 2 Wednesday, September 26: First discussion of "Indians"; HW: Extend discussion (How is this possible? What is her conclusion?) HW: Read Part 1 of TS/IS, pp. 19-53 Friday, September 28: No class; Field Day ********************* Wednesday 9 May: Intro to Othello
Thursday 10 May: Reading 1 due Friday 11 May: Reading 2 Monday 14 May: In-class play reading Tuesday 15 May: Reading 3 due. Mandatory AP review during the school day. (Periods 4, lunch, and 5) Wednesday 16 May: In-class play reading; AP Lang exam Thursday 17 May: Topic Presentations due Friday 18 May: Reading 4 due Monday 21 May: Reading 5 due; in-class activity with passages from 3.3 (annotate well) Tuesday 22 May: 3.4 and 4.1 due (read scenes 2 and 3 in class) Wednesday 23 May: Reading 7 due Thursday 24 May: Reading 8 due; Speaker in class: Ian Blackwell Rogers on original pronunciation and Othello Friday 25 May: In-class activities; Othello round-up Monday 28 May: No school; Memorial Day Tuesday 29 May: "Quest" on Othello (20 min.); Prep for in-class writing Wednesday 30 May: In-class writing: The Rhetoric of Othello Thursday 31 May: Review for final Friday 1 June: No class; Mass Othello readings Reading 1: 1.1-2 Reading 2: 1.3 Reading 3: 2.1-2.2 Reading 4: 2.3 Reading 5: 3.1-3.3, scene 4 in class Reading 6: 4.1-4.2, scene 3 in class Reading 7: 5.1 Reading 8: 5.2 Monday 9 April: Why do we read As I Lay Dying? What does it add stylistically, aesthetically, morally, spiritually, culturally? Tuesday 10 April: Intro to the Harlem Renaissance; "Returning Soldiers" (DuBois); "The New Negro" (Locke) Wednesday 11 April: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" reading due; "I, Too" and "Theme for English B" (Hughes) Thursday 12 April: Proposal due, AILD project; Harlem Renaissance poetry handout (9 poems) Friday 13 April: Jane Austen Day Monday 16 April: Workday for poetry discussions (in pairs) Tuesday 17 April: Poetry discussion day #1 (HW: AILD project) Wednesday 18 April: No class; Gala rehearsal Thursday 19 April: School canceled for Jimmy Davern funeral Friday 20 April: All-Day Gala Rehearsal Monday 23 April: No school Tuesday 24 April: Poetry discussion day #2 (AILD project update due) Wednesday 25 April: Discussion day #3 Thursday 26 April: Intro to Invisible Man Friday 27 April: Prologue to Invisible Man due Monday 30 April: AILD project due Tuesday 1 May: Battle Royal chapter due Wednesday 2 May: Battle Royal day 2; beginning of Liberty Paints chapter Thursday 3 May: Liberty Paints due Friday 4 May: No class, festival day Monday 7 May: Harlem Renaissance review Tuesday 8 May: Test, Harlem Renaissance Thursday 1 March: Vocab quiz, AILD through p. 28
Friday 2 March: No class, First Friday Mass (actually: Wind Day) Monday 5 March: Reading 3 due (pp. 29-52) Tuesday 6 March: Reading 4 due (pp. 53-74) Wednesday 7 March: AP Lang Rhetorical Terms #1 during break Thursday 8 March: Reading 5 due (pp. 75-95) Friday 9 March: Reading 6 due (pp. 96-119) Monday 12 March: Reading 7 due (pp. 120-140) Tuesday 13 March: Reading 8 due (pp. 141-164) (APUSH field trip) Wednesday 14 March: Abbreviated class because of concert; Hot seat opens for Short Story project; March AP Lang OOCM for AP Lang; go over Rhetorical Terms #2 and #3 and accomplish test prep Thursday 15 March: Reading 9 due (pp. 165-183); in-class activity: Faulkner's Nobel Speech (Poetry field trip) Friday 16 March: Reading 10 due (pp. 184-205) Monday 19 March: Workday and hot seats for short story project Tuesday 20 March: Reading 11 due (pp. 206-225) Wednesday 21 March: Reading 12 due (pp. 226-248) Thursday 22 March: Reading 13 due (pp. 249-end) Friday 23 March: AILD review Monday 26 March: AP Reading of Cubism essay due; AILD activity; hot seat for short story project closes Tuesday 27 March: Short story project due; workday for Q3 reflective memo (bring materials to class to write reflective memo) Wednesday 28 March: Q3 reflective memo due; AILD project assigned; AP Lang Rhetorical terms #1-3 during break Easter Break! (AP students should show evidence of having completed a second full-length test and submit one essay from test 1 or test 2 for evaluation.) |