Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Reminder: Please fill out AP Packs
Students need to complete the AP student pack in person outside the Associate Principals' offices anytime between now and end-of-day Thursday, April 28th.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
April 25 - 29: Full Practice Exam
This week, we'll complete a full practice AP exam. I'll grade one of the essays (but I'm not going to tell you which one) :-) and you'll peer-grade and self-grade the other two when we review next week.
I'm not giving out a lot of homework this week so that you can focus your energy in class during our two sessions.
TUESDAY: Timed, multiple choice practice exam for one hour. After a short break, you'll then read and annotate a rhetorical analysis prompt and write that out next.
Due: Read and review AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
Review your own rhetorical analysis terms/rhetorical analysis essay notes before Tuesday's class.
Learnerator:
1. Section One - Rhetoric, please complete "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, 1-10.
2. Section Two - Author's Meaning and Purpose, please complete "On the Origin of Species" (excerpt) by Charles Darwin, 1-10.
Homework: rest and go over your own notes for argument and synthesis essays, as well as the AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
THURSDAY: Timed argument essay prompt in-class, followed by the synthesis prompt. You'll have the entire period to read, annotate, and write these out (113 minutes, minus about 5 minutes to set up and get everybody going.)
During the actual exam, you'll have 15 minutes to read and annotate the synthesis prompt plus 40 minutes to write out each essay (95 minutes). Here, I'll call time after 95 minutes so you know about how long you'll have on the exam, but you'll have the remainder of the class period to finish (about 10 - 15 extra minutes). Receive vocab sheet for next week.
Due: n/a
Homework: Reflect upon your performance on the practice exam, be ready to discuss next week.
Learnerator: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Section 1: Rhetoric
Section 2: Author's Meaning and Purpose
I'm not giving out a lot of homework this week so that you can focus your energy in class during our two sessions.
TUESDAY: Timed, multiple choice practice exam for one hour. After a short break, you'll then read and annotate a rhetorical analysis prompt and write that out next.
Due: Read and review AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
Review your own rhetorical analysis terms/rhetorical analysis essay notes before Tuesday's class.
Learnerator:
1. Section One - Rhetoric, please complete "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, 1-10.
2. Section Two - Author's Meaning and Purpose, please complete "On the Origin of Species" (excerpt) by Charles Darwin, 1-10.
Homework: rest and go over your own notes for argument and synthesis essays, as well as the AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
THURSDAY: Timed argument essay prompt in-class, followed by the synthesis prompt. You'll have the entire period to read, annotate, and write these out (113 minutes, minus about 5 minutes to set up and get everybody going.)
During the actual exam, you'll have 15 minutes to read and annotate the synthesis prompt plus 40 minutes to write out each essay (95 minutes). Here, I'll call time after 95 minutes so you know about how long you'll have on the exam, but you'll have the remainder of the class period to finish (about 10 - 15 extra minutes). Receive vocab sheet for next week.
Due: n/a
Homework: Reflect upon your performance on the practice exam, be ready to discuss next week.
Learnerator: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Section 1: Rhetoric
Section 2: Author's Meaning and Purpose
Sunday, April 17, 2016
April 18 - 22
I had a couple of students stop by after writing out the essay on Thursday and ask about the schedule for the rest of the semester. FYI, we have 3.5 weeks where we will be reading, annotating, discussing, and writing to get ready for the AP exam on Wednesday, May 11.
This week, we will meet three days and will continue with our environmentally-themed unit and begin to review all three types of essay prompts and the mindset and skills you'll need to successfully navigate each. Next week, the class will complete a full practice exam on Tuesday and Thursday: a full one-hour multiple choice followed by rhetorical analysis essay on Tuesday, and one argument and one synthesis prompt on Thursday to get a feel for timing and to build up stamina. Those will be the last in-class essays you'll write this year.
Hang in there. We have almost "scaled the mountain." You guys are doing a great job! :-)
MONDAY: Journal warm-up: packaged oranges at Whole Foods tweet. View Peter Menzel's photo essay from the book Hungry Planet that goes along with the other articles you read over the weekend about sustainable eating. Analyze the photo essay as a class and then review a student essay about the photos. Including this extra source, discuss the weekend reading and annotations and work in small groups to address the prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Due: Read and annotate a variety of articles about sustainable eating. Be prepared for class on Monday with your annotated packet and some opinions and ideas about how to answer the following prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Homework: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author uses from memory of our rhetorical analysis lessons in the fall.
Keep up with current events e-mails in advance of the quiz this week.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Review rhetorical analysis prompt from homework and go over rhetorical analysis terms. Look at Crumb's "A Short History of America" and analyze. Periodic sentences: definition and group activity.
Due: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author uses.
Homework: Study for current events quiz on Friday.
FRIDAY: Current events quiz. Go over last in-class synthesis essay results. Periodic sentences - share, go over effects of syntax choice. Multiple choice tips. Activity: deconstruct prompts and note exactly what is being asked. Rhetorical analysis of a satirical piece (review) - how to approach.
Due: n/a.
Homework: Read and review AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
Review your own rhetorical analysis terms/rhetorical analysis essay notes before Tuesday's class.
Learnerator:
1. Section One - Rhetoric, please complete "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, 1-10.
2. Section Two - Author's Meaning and Purpose, please complete "On the Origin of Species" (excerpt) by Charles Darwin, 1-10.
This week, we will meet three days and will continue with our environmentally-themed unit and begin to review all three types of essay prompts and the mindset and skills you'll need to successfully navigate each. Next week, the class will complete a full practice exam on Tuesday and Thursday: a full one-hour multiple choice followed by rhetorical analysis essay on Tuesday, and one argument and one synthesis prompt on Thursday to get a feel for timing and to build up stamina. Those will be the last in-class essays you'll write this year.
Hang in there. We have almost "scaled the mountain." You guys are doing a great job! :-)
MONDAY: Journal warm-up: packaged oranges at Whole Foods tweet. View Peter Menzel's photo essay from the book Hungry Planet that goes along with the other articles you read over the weekend about sustainable eating. Analyze the photo essay as a class and then review a student essay about the photos. Including this extra source, discuss the weekend reading and annotations and work in small groups to address the prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Due: Read and annotate a variety of articles about sustainable eating. Be prepared for class on Monday with your annotated packet and some opinions and ideas about how to answer the following prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
Homework: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author uses from memory of our rhetorical analysis lessons in the fall.
Keep up with current events e-mails in advance of the quiz this week.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Review rhetorical analysis prompt from homework and go over rhetorical analysis terms. Look at Crumb's "A Short History of America" and analyze. Periodic sentences: definition and group activity.
Due: Read through "environmentalists vs." rhetorical analysis prompt and annotate it. Try to identify rhetorical strategies that the author uses.
Homework: Study for current events quiz on Friday.
FRIDAY: Current events quiz. Go over last in-class synthesis essay results. Periodic sentences - share, go over effects of syntax choice. Multiple choice tips. Activity: deconstruct prompts and note exactly what is being asked. Rhetorical analysis of a satirical piece (review) - how to approach.
Due: n/a.
Homework: Read and review AP exam essay tips and tricks sheet.
Review your own rhetorical analysis terms/rhetorical analysis essay notes before Tuesday's class.
Learnerator:
1. Section One - Rhetoric, please complete "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, 1-10.
2. Section Two - Author's Meaning and Purpose, please complete "On the Origin of Species" (excerpt) by Charles Darwin, 1-10.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
April 11-15
Welcome back! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and rejuvenating break. (I can definitely say I'm feeling much better than I was the week before break!)
As you know, the AP exam is on May 11 and it is now just one month away. We're in a really good place as far as our timeline for the year. There is a slightly more complex version of the synthesis essay that we'll cover this week, and then you'll have practiced all of the variations of essay prompts and multiple choice questions that you could receive on the exam itself.
NOTE: All of the take-home college synthesis essays are in Aeries and also there are many notes for each essay on Turnitin.com. (Comments within the essay and also detailed comments under the "Comments" tab on the right next to the essay.)
This week also is the official beginning of a brief unit with shorter readings and prompts with the theme of "Man's Relationship with Nature" including Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, and others.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up/review. Cover schedule for next month. Go over Walden reading, "discussion web" style activity about the reading. Go over results of first take-home synthesis essay, review steps. Discuss slightly more complex variation on the synthesis essay and how to approach it. (Instead of "take a position" the prompt asks "discuss the most important factors.") Analyzing visual texts: Robert Crumb's A Short History of America (cartoon) as a class.
Due: Read Walden excerpt posted here on the website and bring answers to the questions to class.
Homework: Read and annotate the environmentally-themed synthesis prompt and be ready to write the essay out synthesis-style on Thursday.
THURSDAY: 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Special preview: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Brief review of the process of tackling a synthesis prompt and things to remember. Take out prompt and notes from Tuesday's handout and spend the rest of the period writing out the essay.
Due: Synthesis prompt read and annotated.
Homework: Read and annotate this packet of articles about sustainable eating. (Don't answer the questions after each article, just be ready to discuss.) Be prepared for class on Monday with your annotated packet and some opinions and ideas about how to answer the following prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
As you know, the AP exam is on May 11 and it is now just one month away. We're in a really good place as far as our timeline for the year. There is a slightly more complex version of the synthesis essay that we'll cover this week, and then you'll have practiced all of the variations of essay prompts and multiple choice questions that you could receive on the exam itself.
NOTE: All of the take-home college synthesis essays are in Aeries and also there are many notes for each essay on Turnitin.com. (Comments within the essay and also detailed comments under the "Comments" tab on the right next to the essay.)
This week also is the official beginning of a brief unit with shorter readings and prompts with the theme of "Man's Relationship with Nature" including Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, and others.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up/review. Cover schedule for next month. Go over Walden reading, "discussion web" style activity about the reading. Go over results of first take-home synthesis essay, review steps. Discuss slightly more complex variation on the synthesis essay and how to approach it. (Instead of "take a position" the prompt asks "discuss the most important factors.") Analyzing visual texts: Robert Crumb's A Short History of America (cartoon) as a class.
Due: Read Walden excerpt posted here on the website and bring answers to the questions to class.
Homework: Read and annotate the environmentally-themed synthesis prompt and be ready to write the essay out synthesis-style on Thursday.
THURSDAY: 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Special preview: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Brief review of the process of tackling a synthesis prompt and things to remember. Take out prompt and notes from Tuesday's handout and spend the rest of the period writing out the essay.
Due: Synthesis prompt read and annotated.
Homework: Read and annotate this packet of articles about sustainable eating. (Don't answer the questions after each article, just be ready to discuss.) Be prepared for class on Monday with your annotated packet and some opinions and ideas about how to answer the following prompt:
Imagine that there is a grassroots campaign developing that wants Congress to legislate against in-vitro meat production. Write an editorial for your school newspaper that supports or challenges this proposed ban. Refer to three of the sources in the packet as you support your argument.
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