AP Language and Composition
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The binders are due today. These are extra credit. Please, make sure that they are in perfect order according to the table of contents. In addition, you must add the definitions to the vocabulary section. We will keep these all year.
We took a full, four-passage, 60-minute AP multiple choice test today. Next week, we will revisit this so that we can figure out what we need to work on to improve the score. Keep reading The Scarlet Letter. The due dates for each section is posted in the margins to the right. After grading some of the precis statements for the first set of SL reading, I've noticed a problem. Students are referring to a generic audience. I've read statements such as, "The audience is people who like to read", and "The audience is people who want to know what happens to Hester". This is not helpful to understanding the rhetorical situation. It's not enough to say that his audience is just people who read books. Which specific people does he hope to reach? And why? When considering the audience, you must contemplate the context, the time period, the social situation. What is Hawthorne's message? Who would care about this message?
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Today, we took one more practice AP multiple choice test. We need to figure out some strategies that work for us so that we will get stronger on this test.
Today was a very busy day. We had to visit the counseling center to discuss credits and graduation. Then, we put our notebooks together. If you need to see the table of contents, it has a separate tab in the AP English III section. Then, I gave you the most recent Scarlet Letter reading assignment. And finally, you have a reading response due next week. You will read "Blessed is a Full Plate" (Feeding the Hungry) by Anna Quindlen. The reading response requirements are very must like the column responses. The only exception is that for the RRs you must annotate, PIGSACT, and concrete/abstract the passage and turn this in as well the one-two page, typed response.
Dear Beautiful People,
Wow... this week has flown by, and I've not been keeping up my daily posts. We are winding down this argumentative essay that we've been composing for the last several weeks. Today, you all came to class with your rough drafts. We spend an hour peer editing. You must finish the editing if it wasn't completed, and you must write your final draft. The final draft, edit sheet, and edited draft are due 9/22 (A) and 9/23 (B). If you organize and maintain a binder, you can receive extra credit each grading period. We will organize the binder on Thursday (A) and Friday (B) next week. Please, bring a 2-3 inch binder with five dividers to class. If you need help getting a binder, come and see me.
Today, we reviewed the practice AP MC over "natural history". We labeled each question as a certain type and tried to find strategies that will help us answer these questions. Then, we took another test.
We, also, read a brief passage by Joan Didion. In this personal essay, Didion discusses the point on one's life when she realizes that she valued herself for the wrong reasons. We, then, completed a close reading activity that walks us through her personal essay step-by-step. In addition, Didion's essay includes an allusion to Crime and Punishment and several examples of figurative language. Your job was to write the introduction, two body paragraphs, and to add figurative language or allusions to your own essay.
Here is a video guide that will help you open these Word documents in your Google drive so that you can edit, save, and print them.
Below is an online version of The Scarlet Letter. You will click on the chapter you want to read. This site, also, has audio, so you can listen as you read.
Dear Students,
So many students are sharing their homework assignments with me. I offered this only as an emergency, for a special circumstance that prevented you from printing the assignment. From this point forward, you may share the assignment with me only if it is an emergency. But by the end of the day, you must bring me a printed copy. It is free to print in the library. I will only grade a printed copy. You must print the assignment, write "shared with you" so I will know that it's not late, and turn-in to me by the end of the day. This requirement serves two purposes:
Today, we shared our thesis statement and two examples of outside evidence with a peer who was to write comments, corrections, and suggestions on our papers. For homework, you will perfect the thesis statement and write one body paragraph. You must be sure to add at least THREE examples of sentence variety from the phrase toolbox. Make sure that your body paragraph has structure: Topic sentence: a reason that supports your claim Evidence: who, what, where, when, how, why -- details, details, details -- include revised sentence starter sentences and sentence variety sentences from the past homework assignments Means: What does the evidence mean? Matters: Why does the evidence matter to the big issue? Closing sentence -- Wrap-up the argument -- argue -- connect to big issue -- connect to claim Below is a sample body paragraph that has been highlighted to indicate the structure/parts of the body paragraph. It is helpful. Please, take a look at it. Then, we discussed The Scarlet Letter reading assignment. Please, see the due dates for this in the right hand margin.
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IMPORTANT DUE DATES:
Weebly Posts: Feb. 28 Mar. 21 April 4 All posts must be published by midnight on these due dates. It is your responsibility to make sure that they are published and not in your drafts. No late posts will be accepted. GOW Reading: Mar. 21 (A) and 22 (B): Time in Oklahoma, ch. 1-11 April 6 (A) And 7 (B): On the road, ch. 12-18 April 19 (A) And 20 (B): In California, ch. 19-30 MY WALDEN: Mar. 29 (A) and 30 (B): first five entries April 12 (A) and 13 (B): second five entries April 27 (A) and 28 (B): third set of five entries May 11 (A) and 12 (B): entire journal with all 20 entries Grading Information
Because Skyward assigns categories, I want to clarify what each category is in relation to the syllabus. Tests (30%): AP timed essays and multiple choice tests Homework (30%): Reading responses which include Weebly posts, reading tests, close reading passages Daily (20%): Classwork and homework 6 Weeks Test (20%): These may be reading exams from novel or a writing assignment that we've invested class time working on Remind:
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