Wednesday, June 8

-Seniors -

12CD/12B: Consider the following questions for the letter you will write to yourself on Friday: 

-What are the values you want to hold on to as you move on from high school?

Based on the reading and discussion we've done in the last few weeks and your own experience, what advice will you give yourself in terms of:

- Drugs/alcohol?

-Relationships and sexuality?

-Gender?

-Bias and Privilege?

AP Language and Composition

1. Tonight, complete the Critical Lens speed dating activity. Here is a link: Click Here 

2. On Friday, you will have a quiz in which you will need to recall the following information from memory:
Question 26 Checklist
Question 27 Checklist
Literary Elements Definitions
Critical Lens Checklist
A list of three works of literature - correctly spelled and formatted title, author's names, and three key events from the narrative that you can use as evidence (see example below).

Example: 
Feed by MT Anderson
-Titus meets Violet who rejects the feed and other aspects of conformity.
-The main characters' brains are hacked and they are hospitalized
-Violet dies, a martyr and innocent
-Titus becomes slightly more aware, but remains apathetic

*Announcement: For anyone missing assignments, I would rather you do one of the options below than make up an assignment that was due weeks or months ago.

3. If you want to improve one of your writing assignment grades, you can complete one of the following options by Monday at 9:00 am. Each paragraph that meets all requirements will improve your grade up to a 85% for one assignment. Here are the options:

a.) Write paragraphs answering questions 26 or 27 on Regent's exams.
b.) Complete a Critical Lens essays for an increased grade on two assignments.

In order to receive credit, your response must fulfill all of the requirements on the checklist.
Links to old exams with prompts can be found here:

http://www.nysedregents.org/comprehensiveenglish/114/engl12014-exam.pdf (p. 9-14)
http://www.nysedregents.org/comprehensiveenglish/113/engl12013-exam.pdf (p. 9-14)