Happy New Year!

Happy 2016!  I'm excited to come back to such an interesting and excellent group of students.   I've done a lot of reading over the break - for myself, but also many, many essays!  I should have the term paper grades posted in about a week.  So far, they have been of very high quality and a pleasure to read.

This week, we will "re calibrate" by looking at a rough schedule for the remainder of the year and going over the structure of the AP exam coming up in May.  We'll then continue with the Argument unit and check in with Huckleberry Finn.

MONDAY: Journal warm-up.  Receive vocabulary words for the quiz on Friday.  Re-calibrate - rough overview of units left in the year and AP exam structure.  Learnerator feedback from students.  Argument unit notes: claims of fact, claims of value, claims of policy.  Read sample argument, annotate and discuss.  Go over Huckleberry Finn through Chapter 11.

Due:
1. Learnerator, please complete the following:
Under the sections "Rhetoric" and "Author's Meaning and Purpose" complete  "Was the World Made for Man" by Mark Twain.

2. Please read Huckleberry Finn through Chapter 11 and be ready to discuss the book's style and content. 


Homework:  Identify the different types of claims in the Quindlen argument handout.

Finish Huckleberry Finn raft project for Wednesday, January 6.


WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Go over Quindlen argument handout and review.  Read over previous AP argument essay prompts and analyze structure and evidence used.

Due: Huckleberry Finn raft project.

Homework:   Read Huckleberry Finn, chapters12-14.  Why do you think Twain included the conversation between Jim and Huck about people speaking French vs. cats and cows communicating differently?  How can we tell what Huck thinks of Jim, and how Jim thinks of Huck?


FRIDAY:  Vocabulary quiz.  Go over evidence/examples as a whole class.  Argument - fallacy notes.  Fallacy exercises.  Check in/discuss Huckleberry Finn.

Due: Huckleberry Finn, chapters 12-14.  Be ready to discuss the following: Why do you think Twain included the conversation between Jim and Huck about people speaking French vs. cats and cows communicating differently?  How can we tell what Huck thinks of Jim, and how Jim thinks of Huck?

Homework:  Using notes from class this week, create a detailed outline for your response to Boorstin's quote in the "dissent vs. disagreement" argument prompt including examples and evidence.  Be prepared to share on Tuesday.

Read Huckleberry Finn Chapters 15-17.