AP Language, Exhibition Week Homework and Study Session

Blog posts due Monday, Wednesday, Sunday, Tuesday. Please see AP blog for prompts, or click here for the calendar:  Click Here 

As I mentioned in class on Wednesday, you will be missing out on important practice if you do not read and write over exhibition week. If everyone completes the series of assignments, you will not have homework over February break. Please note that each of the following blog posts will be graded. Blog posts that are submitted late will receive a maximum of 70%. Your first assignment is due on Monday, Feb. 1 at 9:00 pm. You can find the assignments on the class blog and on this google doc: Click Here 

Your first blog post is on chapter 10 of Frederick Douglass and is due on Monday, Feb. 1 by 9:00 pm. Look at the prompts before you read and remember to draft your post on a google or word document beforehand.

Feel free to email me or come by with any questions.

P.S. Frederick Douglass is on the google homescreen today 2/1: google.com

Finally, there is an AP study session on Saturday, March 5, hosted by the grant that funds our AP program. Attendance has been shown to improve students scores. You can sign up to attend here: March 5, 2015 – Manhattan Site – N.Y.C. Museum School - https://apex-sss2-manhattan-english.eventbrite.com<https://apex-sss2-manhattan-english.eventbrite.com/> – Registration deadline 02/12/2016@ 5:00p.m.



Extra Credit, due February 22:
Supplemental Readings on Rhetoric in the Presidential Campaigns

Read one of the articles below or find one on your own (I will add to the list. Send recommendations!) Read carefully and write a precis paragraph on it. Next, write a paragraph on why we should or should not read the article as a class. If you have a different idea of how to demonstrate your understanding, propose a different type of assignment to show what you learned.

The 2016 Rhetoric is Getting Out of Control: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-2016-election-political-hits/

Bernie Sanders and the New Populism: What really sets him apart isn’t his policy platform. It’s his fiery rhetoric http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanders-and-the-new-populism?intcid=mod-latest

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/plot-america-donald-trumps-rhetoric

Wednesday, January 27

-Seniors -

Come in tomorrow prepared with:
1.) The signed application for the creative writing contest: Click Here
2.) A mentor text that you can reference as you revise. Look in your bag. Find it.
3.) The checklist of criteria that you will be graded on:

Handouts
Dialogue: Click Here
Raising the Stakes: Click Here
For sensory imagery, characterization, and setting, you need to use your mentor texts. If you cannot find yours, there are short stories and poems under the "texts and links" page of this blog.

AP Language
Midterm tomorrow! Read sample Rhetorical Analysis Essays (in linked outline), make the best cheat sheet ever, and get a good night's sleep. Click here for Midterm Outline

Tuesday, January 26

-Seniors - 
1. Get contest form signed by your parents for submission: Click Here
2. Review grading criteria for final piece and make a plan for how you will finish it by Thursday. Note that you are required to work on it during the midterm time on Thursday morning. It will count as 10% f your final grade: Midterm Checklist



- AP Language -
1. Read Chapter 10 of Douglass in a distraction free zone and your ethos/pathos/logos chart in hand. Find various examples of the TYPES of appeals, noting them in the margins of the book. Give chapter 10 a hashtag.

2. Review the midterm overview and start pulling resources for your cheat sheet: Midterm Outline

Homework, Friday, January 22

-Seniors -
Work on your creative writing piece over the weekend.

Announcement! I will be available on Monday during lunch and Tuesday after school for students to make up missing work.

-AP Language -

1. Finish the close reading work we started in class today on chapter 4. In other words, reread the last third of the chapter, noting the most powerful lines. When you are done, look over your notes from class today and consider how Douglass develops the argument that black lives do not matter within the perverse system of slavery as depicted in the chapter.

For extra credit: post a response on chapter 4 on the class blog. You may develop the ideas we discussed in class today or bring something new into the conversation.

2. Read chapters 5-6 from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.  Make a hashtag for each chapter and be ready to explain it. There may also be a quiz on these chapters, so read carefully.

Announcement! I will be available on Monday during lunch and Tuesday after school for students to make up missing work.

Announcement! If you misplace your book, the narrative is available in its entirety online: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm

Homework, Thursday, January 21

Seniors - Choose either a poem or your story to revise for the contest.

AP Language:
1. Finish rhetorical analysis essay. Complete intro with thesis, two full body paragraphs that discuss the effect of Hammond's rhetorical choices.
2. Review midterm outline. We will discuss it for the last ten minutes of class tomorrow: Midterm Outline

Homework, Wednesday, Jan. 20

Seniors -
1. Finish the poem you started in class today, write a new one, or work on your story. You should write for at least 15 minutes.


AP Language - Tomorrow we will have an on-demand essay

Homework Tonight: Read chapter 4 of Frederick Douglass and answer the following questions in your notebook. For those of you who received less than an 85% on the quiz, you should be briefly summarizing each page of the book to make sure you are understanding the details. Please note tht tonight's reading includes some violence and upsetting material.
After you read and answer the questions, read over the midterm outline. We will discuss it on Friday: Midterm Outline

1. Describe and name the rhetor’s introductory strategy. Does it start with a question? An anecdote? A problem to be solved?

2. Rhetor’s major claim in the chapter: what is the explicit or implicit argument?

3. Intended audience: what evidence do you have that you are correct about who the audience is?

4. Rhetor’s Style and Tone: What terms would you use to describe the overall style? Give a couple of examples. If the rhetor uses metaphors, vivid language, analogies, etc., point out one or two and explain why the rhetor is probably using them and what their effect is meant to be on the intended audience. What is the overall tone of the text?

5. Describe and name the rhetor’s concluding strategy

6. Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statement that addresses the purpose of the chapter and how the rhetor attempts to achieve that purpose

7. Connections between this text and other texts we’ve read: Does this text support, attacks, agree with, disagree with, give us a new way to think about some earlier text we have encountered in this class or your history class?

Homework, Tuesday, January 19

Seniors - 
Revise your stories based on the feedback you got today in class. Write at least three revisions.

AP Language - 
Read chapters 2-3 of Frederick Douglass, annotating as you go. You should be paying close attention to the appeals, his tone etc. ANNOTATE. There will be a reading quiz tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Remember that you can make up missing blog posts and writing assignments for up to 70%. I will accept late assignments until Tuesday, Jan. 27.

Weekend Homework, 1/15

Seniors -
Full draft of short stories/memoirs due on Tuesdays. YOU MUST HAVE 4 COPIES PRINTED BEFORE CLASS TO RECEIVE FULL CREDIT. Make sure your work is proofread, includes paragraph breaks and is ready to be read by others. Although it is a draft, it should be in the best shape you can make it at this point in time. It should include sensory imagery, a clear conflict with stakes, and establish at least one character and setting.


AP Language and Composition
1. Complete two multiple choice corrections, explaining why each of the incorrect answers are wrong and why the correct answer is right. You must do the corrections to receive credit for the multiple choice exercise.

2. Reading and Blog Post

Read: This weekend, you will begin to investigate the difference between reading ABOUT a book and actually reading a book. To begin, you need to read about The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. You should spend AT LEAST 30 minutes reading about Douglass's narrative. Pretend you are preparing for a test to demonstrate that you read the book by Tuesday. In fact, I just might give you a quiz. 

Start with these links:
Shmoop
Sparknotes

Write: Once you have read about the book enough to feel as if you actually read the darn thing, head to our class blog and post by 5:00 pm on Monday!! 

On the class blog, respond to the following questions in 250-300 words: 

1.) What are the most important aspects of the text, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass? What will you need to know if you want to seem as if you actually read this book? 

2.) What are your expectations of actually reading this book? How do you imagine reading it will differ from reading about it? (The questions below may help guide you, but feel free to take this post in your own direction.) 

             -Do you expect to be engaged or disengaged? Why? 
             -Do you think it will be easy/difficult? Why? 
             -What other reading experiences from your life will it resemble? 
             -How will actually reading the book be different from pretending that you read it? 

Seniors - No official homework, but 1000 words printed and due on Tuesday.

Juniors - Multiple choice distributed in class today.

Homework, Wednesday January 13

Seniors
Tonight, do some thinking about one of the characters in your story. What does he/she look like? Be specific. What is he/she wearing, saying, thinking, doing in various scenes?

Then, think about the physical locations of your story. What season is it? What colors are in the room or the scene?

Students who have notes of this work will get extra credit.

Ms. Candlin's Example: Click here

AP Language
Tomorrow you will have an on-demand based on the following prompt: Click Here 
Prepare by annotating and outlining your essay. Remember that rhetorical analysis almost always includes discussion of the purpose,  rhetorical strategies employed, and the tone of the passage.

To review the components and evaluation of rhetorical analysis: Click Here

I was so excited by the passage today that I forgot to collect the writing you did in class. Please bring it and your precis paragraphs to class tomorrow. I want to get as many assignments into the gradebook as possible before the end of the semester.  - Ms. Candlin

Homework, Tuesday, Jan. 12

Seniors 
Talk out your story, even if it's in your own head! Tomorrow you need to be ready to start drafting scene one in class.

AP Language and Composition 
1.) Read the remainder of the speeches I passed out in class, identifying the overall tone and the diction that contributes to it.
2.) I will collect the precis paragraphs about the Trump article tomorrow.

*Announcement! A few of you have asked me about making up missing work, including blog posts. Please see the class overview (page 5) for late work policies: click here. I encourage you to make up any missed blog posts or writing assignments. Reading quizzes cannot be made up.

Homework, Monday, Jan. 11

Seniors - 
Read through the packet of short stories distributed by the substitute teacher today. Which style do you prefer? Come to class tomorrow with an answer and an idea from your notebook that you want to turn into a short story or memoir this week.

AP Language - 

1. Make sure you have read the article, "95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, from Donald Trump's Tongue" before class tomorrow: Link Here

2. Write a precis paragraph on the article (you probably already finished this in class.) In case you need a review, here is an example of a precise paragraph: Click here

Homework, Friday, January 8

Seniors - By Monday, choose one of the writing exercises you did this week to expand into a short story or memoir in class next week. Good luck on your exhibitions. Make sure to set aside quiet uninterrupted time to work.

Juniors - Work on your exhibitions. Use this checklist for English and be sure to use the close reading and analytical writing resources on this blog, especially transition words, marker verbs, and examples of body paragraphs: Exhibition Checklist.

Narrative Beginnings Using Photographs

Public Domain Photographs

Homework, Thursday, January 7

Seniors -

Write at least a page on the scenario that your partner gave you from our character brainstorm in class today. If you like the story you started, you can continue with that one for extra credit as well.

Juniors -

1. Finish the tone/diction handout I gave you today.
2. Work on your exhibition.

Seniors
1. Write two five minute journals (did, saw, heard, drawing of the day). Do them at different times to ensure a variety of observations. 

2. Spend ten minutes writing, using one of the following strategies: moment from the map you made in class, X journal, freewrite OR spend ten minutes drawing a person, event, or setting from a scene you want to use in a graphic novel.

3. OPTIONAL: browse the spoken word and graphic novel examples at the links below:
Click Here: Spoken Word #1
Click Here: Example #2
Click Here Graphic Novel 

AP Language: 
1. Complete the multiple choice error log we started in class yesterday. Make sure your explanations of why the answers are right or wrong are thorough. 

2. Review tone and diction, which were included in the winter break assignment. You can find explanations and examples at the following links: 

http://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/tone.html

http://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/diction.html

Specific Language to Discuss Tone and Diction: Tone Bank

Homework, Monday, January 4

Seniors
1. Write a five minute journal or a freewrite. Make sure to FILL THE PAGE.

2. Watch the two videos below as examples of Spoken Word Poetry
Click Here: Spoken Word #1
Click Here: Example #2

3. OPTIONAL Browse the graphic novel winners (if you have time): Click Here Graphic Novel

4. I need help setting up the room for the new unit. Please come tomorrow during lunch or after school if you are available. Thanks! Work Habits credit available.

4. I need
AP Language: Write an analytical paragraph about McCandless's complex characterization in chapter one. Use evidence that illustrates both contradictory traits to support your topic sentence.

Please make sure to have the following materials in class tomorrow:

• The handout with your quiz and the paragraph prompt I gave you today 
• Rhetorical handbook 
• Into the Wild