Welcome! It's the week of back-to-school night! Be sure to invite parents and guardians to come to PVHS on Thursday night, September 20 to walk through your school schedule.
Also, Cammie McGovern, author of A Step Toward Falling, will be live via Skype in the library at 7:50 this Wednesday morning. I'm offering 2 extra credit points for those who attend with one
prepared, high quality question for the author.
Here's the agenda for the week:
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Collect Setting the Stage assignment. . Receive the official AP nine-point rubric for essays. Go through a rhetorical analysis prompt as a whole class, reading, annotating, and outlining. Read through actual sample responses, and the College Board's evaluation and scoring.
Due: Setting the Stage assignment.
Homework: Study for current events quiz, which will cover the "10 Things" e-mails from Sunday, September 16 through Wednesday, September 19. (See sidebar under "Class Handouts" for all of the e-mails on a Word Doc.)
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering current events e-mails, receive next week's special Tone -themed vocabulary list. Finish reading samples of 2018 Rhetorical Analysis responses to the Albright prompt. Approximate breakdown of timing during rhetorical analysis essay. Receive Rhetorical Analysis Outline Format (one possible way of creating a good outline for this type of essay). Complete the "5 Things" activity from last week.
Due: Study for Current Events Quiz.
Homework: Please read, annotate, and write a full outline response for the 1962 JFK speech prompt. Include a very rough thesis statement. (Note: the outline can be rough; please put specific body paragraph topics and examples, but short phrases are fine. Don't spend more than 20 minutes writing the outline.)
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