May 2-6

Take a deep breath...a lot of you are really feeling the pressure and intensity of junior year AP exam season.  I can't speak for all of your classes, but most of you are well equipped for the AP English Language & Composition exam.

Many of you will be out on Monday for other AP exams, so we'll cover the full practice exam we took on Wednesday and Friday.

MONDAY: Journal warm-up.  View previous multiple choice passage by William Faulkner and answer the questions together as a class.  Current event - view videos, read and analyze article by a Maryland lawmaker arguing for legal injection site to combat heroin overdose deaths in the Northeast.  Discuss pros and cons of this idea, class vote. If time, vocab story round activity in groups.

Due: Learnerator:  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Section 1: Rhetoric
Section 2: Author's Meaning and Purpose

Homework:  n/a - too many people out today. 

WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Go over Flamingo rhetorical analysis essay in detail, viewing College Board samples and anonymous excerpts from previous classes as well.  Go over the multiple choice from the homework and on the practice exam.

Due: Multiple choice - 1 passage, read and answer questions.

Homework: Read government/green living synthesis prompt and draft an outline about how you would respond.


FRIDAY:  Journal warm-up.  Vocab quiz (last weekly quiz of the year!) Go over synthesis homework in groups, then share responses with the whole class. Begin self-scoring Monuments prompt.

Due: Read government/green living synthesis prompt and draft an outline about how you would respond.

Homework: Read Scoring Guidelines (rubric) and College Board samples of the Monument prompt and finish self-scoring.  Bring your Monuments prompt to class with you on Tuesday with a score.

Complete one multiple choice passage and its questions.

Generate an outline and some examples for this argument prompt (ownership).

Read the rhetorical analysis prompt and SOAPS it.  Pick 1-2 words that describe its tone, and come up with 2-3 rhetorical devices you could write about.