Do the Right Thing
Juniors - Tomorrow I will check the work due today: intro and body paragraph for the Stevenson critical lens. Tomorrow we will discuss "White Lies" through the Orwell lens.
AP Language - revise your synthesis essay based on today's discussion. Tomorrow you will have a full length multiple choice practice.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Wednesday, April 29
Do the Right Thing
Juniors
1. An introduction and body paragraph based on the following lens:
"The truth is often unpopular..." Adlai Stevenson
2. Read to page 75 in your book club book.
AP Language: On-demand synthesis based on the sources included in the prompt below. Graded discussion tomorrow. If you were not in class on Tuesday, you are still responsible for reading all of the material and writing the on-demand. PLEASE PRINT THE PROMPT AND SOURCES IF POSSIBLE. All of the necessary sources can be accessed through the links below:
Prompt and sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RUzBGWG5MM1RBaEk/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/ag9WBW/synthesis-2
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/pk7gOb/synthesis-source-evaluation
Essay Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RSndrSEhXb2NwaGs/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/KVgb9Z/synthesis-essay-template
Juniors
1. An introduction and body paragraph based on the following lens:
"The truth is often unpopular..." Adlai Stevenson
2. Read to page 75 in your book club book.
AP Language: On-demand synthesis based on the sources included in the prompt below. Graded discussion tomorrow. If you were not in class on Tuesday, you are still responsible for reading all of the material and writing the on-demand. PLEASE PRINT THE PROMPT AND SOURCES IF POSSIBLE. All of the necessary sources can be accessed through the links below:
Prompt and sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RUzBGWG5MM1RBaEk/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/ag9WBW/synthesis-2
The following sources can be used as reminders of how to complete a synthesis essays. You do not need to complete the worksheets.
Source Evaluation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RNzFodkRHTUFybXc/view?usp=sharinghttps://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/pk7gOb/synthesis-source-evaluation
Essay Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RSndrSEhXb2NwaGs/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/KVgb9Z/synthesis-essay-template
Monday, April 27, 2015
Monday, April 27
Do the Right Thing
Juniors - Complete a thesis statement, intro and body paragraph based on the critical lens: "only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." —Martin Luther King Jr. Be sure to discuss how a specific novel or play supports or refutes the lens, and use the checklist you developed in class today as a support.
Seniors - If you did not have your data in class today, be sure to have it tomorrow.
AP Language - Read the sources for the synthesis essay on the USPS and write a killer thesis statement for an essay. Tomorrow, you will need to write one body paragraph "on demand" that supports your thesis statement. Know the sources!
Classwork:
Prompt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RUzBGWG5MM1RBaEk/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/ag9WBW/synthesis-2
Source Evaluation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RNzFodkRHTUFybXc/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/pk7gOb/synthesis-source-evaluation
Essay Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RSndrSEhXb2NwaGs/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/KVgb9Z/synthesis-essay-template
Juniors - Complete a thesis statement, intro and body paragraph based on the critical lens: "only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." —Martin Luther King Jr. Be sure to discuss how a specific novel or play supports or refutes the lens, and use the checklist you developed in class today as a support.
Seniors - If you did not have your data in class today, be sure to have it tomorrow.
AP Language - Read the sources for the synthesis essay on the USPS and write a killer thesis statement for an essay. Tomorrow, you will need to write one body paragraph "on demand" that supports your thesis statement. Know the sources!
Classwork:
Prompt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RUzBGWG5MM1RBaEk/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/ag9WBW/synthesis-2
Source Evaluation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RNzFodkRHTUFybXc/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/pk7gOb/synthesis-source-evaluation
Essay Template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzsgMidzJI9RSndrSEhXb2NwaGs/view?usp=sharing
https://dochub.com/jessicacandlin/KVgb9Z/synthesis-essay-template
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Weekend Homework
Do the Right Thing
Seniors - Be sure to have your completed surveys collected and in class tomorrow.
Juniors - Packet for critical lens and two poems
AP Language -
30 minutes timed essay of passage we discussed with Marjorie on Friday.
Seniors - Be sure to have your completed surveys collected and in class tomorrow.
Juniors - Packet for critical lens and two poems
AP Language -
30 minutes timed essay of passage we discussed with Marjorie on Friday.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Homework, Thursday, April 23
Do the Right Thing -
Juniors - Write a second place poem, using the technique we worked on in class today. Please make sure your poem is neatly written in your notebook or saved on a google doc.
Seniors - Distribute and collect questionnaires by Monday.
AP Language - Use your understanding of the high level argument essays to revise the thesis and weakest paragraph of your essay on photography: click here
Juniors - Write a second place poem, using the technique we worked on in class today. Please make sure your poem is neatly written in your notebook or saved on a google doc.
Seniors - Distribute and collect questionnaires by Monday.
AP Language - Use your understanding of the high level argument essays to revise the thesis and weakest paragraph of your essay on photography: click here
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Homework (sorry to post late!)
Do the Right Thing
Juniors - Read to the agreed upon page with your book club.
Seniors - Questionnaires complete by next Monday
AP Langauge -
MC Packet for all
If you were on the college trip, be sure to have your argument essay about photography finished by class tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will be scoring the argument essays, studying samples and revising: In Class Assignment
Juniors - Read to the agreed upon page with your book club.
Seniors - Questionnaires complete by next Monday
AP Langauge -
MC Packet for all
If you were on the college trip, be sure to have your argument essay about photography finished by class tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will be scoring the argument essays, studying samples and revising: In Class Assignment
Monday, April 20, 2015
Homework, Monday, April 20
Do the Right Thing -
Juniors - Use the six room method we used in class today to analyze another photograph and write a poem about it. You may use a picture of yourself, of someone else, or a fictional/artistic image.
AP Language and Composition - Complete the "Speed Dating" packet distributed in class today. You will have an on-demand argument essay in class tomorrow.
Juniors - Use the six room method we used in class today to analyze another photograph and write a poem about it. You may use a picture of yourself, of someone else, or a fictional/artistic image.
AP Language and Composition - Complete the "Speed Dating" packet distributed in class today. You will have an on-demand argument essay in class tomorrow.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Weekend Homework
Do the Right Thing
Juniors - 1. Read the poem, "History Lesson" by Natasha Tretheway: Click Here. Annotate the poem, paying close attention to the speaker. Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he or she? How do you know? What is his/her attitude and where does it shift?
2. Bring a photograph of yourself as a younger child, preferably with another person in it.
Seniors - You will need to finalize your questionnaire in class tomorrow. If it is far from finished now, you should get a start tonight.
AP Language: Open note rhetorical analysis. Set the timer for 40 minutes. Take 8 minutes to read with your resources and plan. Then, write for 30 minutes. Use the last two minutes to proofread. I will check it for completion and then you will choose whether to submit this essay of the one you completed last week for a score. I do not have an online copy of the prompt, so if you did not get it on Friday, please ask a classmate to take a photo or scan it and send it to you.
Juniors - 1. Read the poem, "History Lesson" by Natasha Tretheway: Click Here. Annotate the poem, paying close attention to the speaker. Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he or she? How do you know? What is his/her attitude and where does it shift?
2. Bring a photograph of yourself as a younger child, preferably with another person in it.
Seniors - You will need to finalize your questionnaire in class tomorrow. If it is far from finished now, you should get a start tonight.
AP Language: Open note rhetorical analysis. Set the timer for 40 minutes. Take 8 minutes to read with your resources and plan. Then, write for 30 minutes. Use the last two minutes to proofread. I will check it for completion and then you will choose whether to submit this essay of the one you completed last week for a score. I do not have an online copy of the prompt, so if you did not get it on Friday, please ask a classmate to take a photo or scan it and send it to you.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Homework, Thursday, April 16
AP Language and Composition -
1. Multiple Choice Packet.
2. Review the tone word bank and tone map: Click here Then, choose two articles to read from the Opinion section of The New York Times: click here . Write a precis paragraphs one of the articles, being sure to name the purpose of the article and its tone in at least two sections. Here is a reminder of what should be included in a precis paragraph: Example
Do the Right Thing
Juniors - Complete Poetry Stations on a Google Doc
*ANNOUNCEMENT!! WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK ON YOUR WRITING (MEMOIR, FICTION, WITH A PUBLISHED AUTHOR??? If the answer is yes, check out this summer program: Bronx Loaf
1. Multiple Choice Packet.
2. Review the tone word bank and tone map: Click here Then, choose two articles to read from the Opinion section of The New York Times: click here . Write a precis paragraphs one of the articles, being sure to name the purpose of the article and its tone in at least two sections. Here is a reminder of what should be included in a precis paragraph: Example
Do the Right Thing
Juniors - Complete Poetry Stations on a Google Doc
*ANNOUNCEMENT!! WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK ON YOUR WRITING (MEMOIR, FICTION, WITH A PUBLISHED AUTHOR??? If the answer is yes, check out this summer program: Bronx Loaf
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Homework, Wednesday April 15
Do the Right Thing -
Seniors - For extra credit, listen to the complete interview with the author of A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults: (click on the title) A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults and write a list of advice to seniors based on the information. Your list should include at least five tips.
Juniors -- Please complete the remaining stations from class today. Since we do not have class tomorrow, please complete all of the stations: Poetry Stations: Ekphrasis Stations
AP Language: Complete the multiple choice rationale log. You will have an on-demand rhetorical analysis in class tomorrow. In case you missed it, here are the answers to the multiple choice packet:
1. D
2. B
3. E
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. B
Seniors - For extra credit, listen to the complete interview with the author of A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults: (click on the title) A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults and write a list of advice to seniors based on the information. Your list should include at least five tips.
Juniors -- Please complete the remaining stations from class today. Since we do not have class tomorrow, please complete all of the stations: Poetry Stations: Ekphrasis Stations
AP Language: Complete the multiple choice rationale log. You will have an on-demand rhetorical analysis in class tomorrow. In case you missed it, here are the answers to the multiple choice packet:
1. D
2. B
3. E
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. B
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Tuesday, April 14
Do the Right Thing
Juniors and Seniors - Please BRING ANY BOOKS YOU HAVE BACK TO SCHOOL.
Seniors! Send Melissa Costa a baby picture for the year book!!! mcosta514@gmail.com
AP Language and Composition
1.) Complete the multiple choice packet I passed out in class today. Use the MC strategies to get the best score possible. These will be graded on the AP scale. You will be able to make up wrong answers by completing a rationale that will be available tomorrow.
2.) Read over your synthesis essay (if you received it from me today.) Then, read over the anchor sets here: Click here. What do you need to do to improve your synthesis essay? Write a brief paragraph on how you can improve using They Say, I Say and the exemplars.
Juniors and Seniors - Please BRING ANY BOOKS YOU HAVE BACK TO SCHOOL.
Seniors! Send Melissa Costa a baby picture for the year book!!! mcosta514@gmail.com
AP Language and Composition
1.) Complete the multiple choice packet I passed out in class today. Use the MC strategies to get the best score possible. These will be graded on the AP scale. You will be able to make up wrong answers by completing a rationale that will be available tomorrow.
2.) Read over your synthesis essay (if you received it from me today.) Then, read over the anchor sets here: Click here. What do you need to do to improve your synthesis essay? Write a brief paragraph on how you can improve using They Say, I Say and the exemplars.
Classwork
AP LAng: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPtREgc16Ot1Ja7UJTnBhQnZAbTh2D8ZkkQ7E_ZjchE/edit?usp=sharingQuestionnaire
Monday, April 13, 2015
Monday, April 14
Do the Right Thing - No Homework
AP Language - Choose one of the passages from the close reading analyses questions at the end of the spring break homework packet. Write a claim and one body paragraph on how Fitzgerald uses rhetorical strategies or techniques to persuade, entertain, or argue a point:
Here is an example:Example for Homework
Please bring your copy of The Great Gatsby to class tomorrow.
AP Language - Choose one of the passages from the close reading analyses questions at the end of the spring break homework packet. Write a claim and one body paragraph on how Fitzgerald uses rhetorical strategies or techniques to persuade, entertain, or argue a point:
Here is an example:Example for Homework
Please bring your copy of The Great Gatsby to class tomorrow.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
AP Language: Read The Great Gatsby. For each chapter, answer the questions focused on the AP Lang skills you will need for the test (Click here to access the packet). There are short answer and multiple choice questions for each chapter (You do NOT need to complete the longer close reading questions at the end of the packet. If you did, you will have a homework free night this week.) Please keep your answers on a goole google doc titled, Last Name First Name Gatsby Homework. Share it with me at jcandlin@sof.edu.
Do the Right Thing Seniors - No homework
Juniors - choose an option from the extra credit menu
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Seniors
Fiction Story Due Tomorrow!!!! Fiction Story Assignment and Checklist: click here
Lessons and Resources
Characterization: Examples and Questions to Fill Out Your Characters
Speeding it Up and Slowing It Down with Examples
Some Ideas on How to Conclude
Final Revisions/Edits
Before and Afters
11CD: On-demand due tomorrow, shared with me at jcandlin@sof.edu before class.
AP LANGUAGE
ESSAY DUE TOMORROW!!! OMG!! REALLY!!!!!
AP Language and Comp - Thoreau Essay Due Tomorrow, Printed BEFORE CLASS. Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt font, one inch margins with pages numbered.
Remember to:
Resources:
Transitions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qW462McrHdeCAvDvFp2iRjbl7K1TPhvYVwyHYitRJtw/edit?usp=sharing
Improving Clarity: Preposition Lesson
Improving Clarity: Final Revisions/Edits
Before and Afters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14DfiPKMVZ1zftyIm6h2EnugcEMmgCsVnX6FY4jkhNIw/edit
Fiction Story Due Tomorrow!!!! Fiction Story Assignment and Checklist: click here
Lessons and Resources
Characterization: Examples and Questions to Fill Out Your Characters
Speeding it Up and Slowing It Down with Examples
Some Ideas on How to Conclude
Final Revisions/Edits
Before and Afters
11CD: On-demand due tomorrow, shared with me at jcandlin@sof.edu before class.
AP LANGUAGE
ESSAY DUE TOMORROW!!! OMG!! REALLY!!!!!
AP Language and Comp - Thoreau Essay Due Tomorrow, Printed BEFORE CLASS. Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt font, one inch margins with pages numbered.
Remember to:
- Define luxury and/or comfort
- Include at least one paragraph that discusses the literature read in class
- Another paragraph of literature or current events
- First-hand evidence: personal or anecdotal
- So what? Who cares?
All evidence needs fully address how and why it supports your argument; transitions should be smooth and clear: remember that most sentences should refer back to the one that came before it in some way. Finally, your paper should address the questions:
Resources:
Transitions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qW462McrHdeCAvDvFp2iRjbl7K1TPhvYVwyHYitRJtw/edit?usp=sharing
Improving Clarity: Preposition Lesson
Improving Clarity: Final Revisions/Edits
Before and Afters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14DfiPKMVZ1zftyIm6h2EnugcEMmgCsVnX6FY4jkhNIw/edit
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