Per 2 AP Language & Composition Assignments

Today on 5/30:

1)  Turned in journals - either today or Mond. is okay

2)  Some notes chps. 14-16

 

Reminder about due dates:  Monday (journal) if not done already;  On Tuesday - Epigraph tracker due + Notes + Book + FInal exam

 

BE SURE YOU ARE DONE WITH THE BOOK!

Today on 5/29:

 

1)  Class Party - Thoreau Field Trip notes + writing collected.

 

HW = Finish ITW!!!!  Test will be on Tuesday

Today on 5/27:

1)  Notes:  ITW chps. 8-10

2)  Thoreau Field Trip - Writing assignment due Thursday....ignore the "first draft, etc. parts please).

 

HW = Finish ITW by Thursday at latest.  Work on Epigraph tracker (i will give you additional ones tomorrow).  Complete poem or mini essay based on #2 above.

Today on 5/23:

 

CTE Fair in cafetorium....

 

HW = Read ITW be done with chp 16 on Tuesday

Today on 5/22:

1)  Journal

2)  Quiz

3)  SSR

4)  ITW Discussion chps. 4-6

 

HW = Read ITW chps. 14-16 by Monday (ha ha)

Today on 5/20:  CST Testing = Per 1 and 2

 

Today on 5/19:

1)  SSR

2)  HW collected (poem ITW)

3)  Finished Walden

 

HW=Read ITW chps. 11-13 by THURSDAY  (I won't see you until then due to CST's)  :)

 

 

Today on 5/16:

 

1)  Journal - Name changing

2)  HW Stamped

3)  Discussed chp. 3 and bits of 1-3

4)  Began "Walden Pond" - Henry David Thoreau

 

HW = Write a poem based on chps. 4 or 5 (see handout);  must be typed and min. 15 lines.  Also, be done with chp. 10 of ITW.  Have a great weekend

Today on 5/12:

1) Quiz on Caged Bird

2) Book collected and new one handed out (Into the Wild) 

 

HW = Start reading....get to chp. 3 minimally by Thursday

 

QUIZ ON MONDAY 5/12 FOR END OF NOVEL...CHPS 31-36......

Today on 5/7:

 

Finish Angelou book!!

Today on 5/6:

 

1)  Thoreau outline turned in.

2)  Grammar packet collected too.

 

HW = Finish ANGELOU book!  New one being distributed....

Today on 5/2:

1)  HW Stamped - grammar

2)  Thoreau's excerpt introduced...."Civil Disobedience"  Groups work to determine the argument and defend, refute or qualify his argument in outline form.  

 

HW = last exercise in the grammar packet, that's it!!!   (Of course, FINISH the Angelou book!!!)

Today on 5/1:

 

1)  HW Check (grammar pkt) pgs 171, 172 and 175 - 1 stamp

2)  Fallacy Handout - To practice

3)  First arg. essays returned...edit wordiness out of them (7 min)

4)  New arg. essay to write - 40 minutes

 

HW = grammar packet pg. 176....rewrite, eliminating the wordiness!!

Today on 4/30:

1)  HW Stamped (grammar)

2)  Elements of Argumentation (pgs. 19 & 24) of "Argumentation Terms" plus the Cat Bill (handout) + 30 min. essay (assignment #10).

 

HW = grammar packet pgs 171, 172, and 175

Today on 4/29:

1)  HW Check (pgs. 95-106 of 5 Steps....Intro to Argument

2)  5 Steps:  Read and Highlighted pgs. 153 to end of chapter - again on argument.

 

HW = Mini packet - complete the first 10 exercises only.  

Today on 4/28:

1)  Mini lesson - footnotes - complete with handout and practice exercises

2)  Students took student generated MC (8 question) test and then wrote comments back to owners of paper.  Then we looked at pgs. 55-56 of  5 Steps to see what the original questions were and what kinds could have/should have been included in student questions.

3)  Completed (28 min) left - the Sample Exam 1

 

HW = Read and highlight/notes/ pgs. 96-105  ARGUMENT section of 5 Steps

Today on 4/25:

1) Question stems / mult choice by group finished

2)  Began MC test....will finish Monday

 

HW = REST

Today on 4/23:  

Class started late due to Smarter Bal. Field Test...

 

HW Checked and graded (5 steps to a 5)

 

1)  Groups of 3 created questions based on MLK passage and question stems to help prep for MC.

 

2)  Answers given for last night's homework

 

HW = Go over your own wrong answers and read the explanation.  I want to see that you have examined the explanations with underlines/highlights!!

 

 

 

 

Today on 4/24:

1)  Late start to class due to field testing again....

2)  Groups completed question stems with answers A-E and turned in.

 

HW = None

Today on 4/22:

 

Multiple choice, what else??? In class, groups worked on problem questions for the MC test taken the previous day.    Groups highlighted question stems in the mc packet and then transferred some of them onto paper to share with class.  This is to prep for creating your own questions tomorrow.

 

HW = Time yourself!!!  One hour ONLY!!!!   and take the test in 5 steps book pgs 177 (record your answers) to 189.

Today on 4/21:

1)  Finished 12 Angry Men

2)  Quiz:  Chp. 20-30 Angelou book

3)  Multiple choice packet Passage #3 (answered questions and logged wrong answers).

HW = None....

Today on 4/10:

HW stamped (m/c. packet)

1)  LAPD assembly....no classwork.

 

HW = read next passage and take test, reading explanations and track score.

P.S.  Don't forget that journals are due tomorrow.  

Today on 4/9:

1)  Journal (all to be turned in on Friday)_

2)  Multiple choice packet - pgs. 73-81

 

HW = Complete mc questions for questions 1-8 passage 1 ONLY and read explanations!  Track your scores!

Today on 4/8:

1)  AP Exam sign ups

2)  Rhetorical Precis collected for political cartoon.

3)  Visual Text:  gallery walk + mini oral "quiz" on immigration/political cartoon

 

HW = Multiple choice packet.  Read and highlight pgs. 73-81

Today on 4/7:

1)  Journal:  Angelou response

2)  HW collected - Simon's Saga packet...Yes the whole thing!

3)  Groups:  Visual Texts - Complete "Talking Points" on your visual text paper, then print out story that goes with your cartoon.  

 

HW = Complete rhetorical precis for the article that you printed in class.

Today on 4/4:

1)  Lit Cards collected

2)  "Still I Rise" poem

3)  Lit Circles

 

HW = Simon's Saga packet (ep 11) due Monday.  Also, read chps. 20-30 by next Friday....be prepared for a quiz.

Today on 4/3:

1)  HW collected (cornell notes - cartoon)

2)  Visual Texts....beginning discussion....groups given political cartoons.....work to decipher texts/news event

3)  Simon's Saga test

 

HW = Lit Circles tomorrow.  4 Lit cards.

Today on 4/1:

1)  Simon's Saga Practice - Test on Friday

2)  Finished lit circles....mini class discussion

3)  Handout:  Visual Texts - Read and highlight parts that will better help you understand this genre

 

HW = #3 above, plus reading + lit cards + study for test

Today on 4/1:

1)  Journal - Quote with terms

2)  Synthesis Essay - Peer Editing...student samples given out with scores

 

HW = Prep for visual text....complete the cornell notes for the garbage in cartoon.  Be sure you do it in column format.

Today on 3/28:

1)  Lit Cards collected

2)  SSR

3) Lit Circles

 

HW = Read chps. 10-20 of Angelou's book. Quiz coming on Tuesday.  Study for Simon's Saga Test on 4/10.

Today on 3/27:

 

EAP Exam today.  HW same as before....prep for lit circles tomorrow.  4 cards.

Today on 3/26:

1)  Journal - Use 10 words in a saga of your own.

2)  Synthesis Student Sample - Rate the paper, etc. handout

 

HW = Read Angelou book, come to school tomorrow for EAP and prep for lit circles on Friday.

Today on 3/25:

1)  Journal #1

2)  Synthesis Source Dissection

 

HW = Prep for Friday Lit Circle

Today on 3/24:

1)  Simon's Saga #10 - Find the relationship

2)  Synthesis Essay Dissection by Source (groups identify)

 

HW = Angelou book! (Plus lit cards)

Today on 3/21:

 

1)  Simon's Saga new episdoe #10 - DUE TUESDAY

2)  SSR

3)  Synthesis Essay....timed

 

HW = Read Angelou (to end of chp. 9 by Friday 3/7 + 4 Lit Cards).  Start learning words (S. Saga)