This week: 1/30
Monday: Discuss 1-5 from Thursday's assignment, and meeting of the minds:
discussing possible motif/symbol significance. Write a thesis statment
claiming it's significance to the novel. Ex: In F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel,
The Great Gatsby, the _____________ symbolizes __________________.
Assignment: Read Max Perkins Take p199-201 (in back of novel), SOAPStone it
and answer the questions provided in class (in your notebooks). Be ready to
discuss it.
Tuesday: Max Perkins "Take". Your "take": symbol discussion and prep for
tomorrow's Socratic Seminar.
Wednesday: Seminar
Thursday: In-class write on the symbols within the GG.
Friday: Body Map!
1/23....Finish Gatsby by Friday!
MOnday: Finish MC from Friday (2nd half) and score.
Tuesday: Reflect on MC scores and passages. Discuss. Work with The Great
Gapsby (p. 234 and p. 235). Assignment: Analyze "We Can Do It) p. 232 and p.
233 (answer 1-5 in writing notebooks).
Wednesday: Short,simple sentences and fragments: grammar as rhetoric (notes),
and practice ex. 1 and 2 p. 254-255.
Assignment: Read and prepare questions on Goodman's piece "In praise of a
Snail's Pace" p. 223 1-8 (writing notebooks)
Thursday: Discuss Snail's Pace and compare to Old Leisure. Read essay in
textbook p. 250-251 and answer questions 1-5 for Monday's discussion (as
tomorrow we are quizzing on Gatsby! :)).
Friday: Gatsby "final" quiz. Be sure to have your study questions ready.
1/16
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Read around with Lapham essays (score 3 to 4 essays)
Wed: Gatsby quiz #2, vocabulary work. Assignment: Lapham essay due Thursday
Thursday: Essays due. Read around. Listen to Atlanta Exposition Address.
Assignment: Finish and complete discussion quesitions
Friday: MC practice
1/9
Monday: Watch clip from Nickel and Dimed (you tube) and read start
of "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Eherenreich (partner precis on these few
pages). Finish the reading at home and answer 1-5 on page 186 in notebooks.
Tuesday:Rhetoric and style: Ehrenreich (1-12) with rhetorical chairs. Choose
one question from 1-12 (rhetoric and style) and respond fully to it in your
notebooks.
Wednesday:Gatsby quiz. Work on 1-3 vocabulary assignment (handout)
Thursday:Go over Gatsby vocabulary and discuss argument. Read through Lapham
argument prompt--discuss and outline
Friday:In class write: Lapham prompt
1/3/2012
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Hand in Above and Beyond assignment. Trivia fun with 1920's trivia
and read NY times article by Michael Blow (SoAP and Graff it in your writing
notebooks).
Wednesday: Gatsby distributed. Be sure to read the through xii of the preface
and complete Cornell Notes on the reading.
Thursday: Discuss the Gatsby Notebook assignment (symbol/motif), and read
first 15-16 pages of Gatsby. Study questions distributed for first three
chapters.
Friday:Discuss the opening of Chapter 5 (Work). Read the essay (handout in
class) by David Callahan and answer the 10 MC questions. Discuss.
Assignment: Read chapters 1-3 of Gatsby for next Wednesday (be sure to
working on your study questions and symbol/motif assignment)
week:
Monday: MC passage 5 (last)and peer "score" Mississippi analysis
Tuesday: Essays are due. Read around and share. Discuss MC scoring and essay
scoring...writing notebook reflection for last timed-write. pre-flight
checklist (if time) to take a look at terms you still don't know well....
Wednesday: Last timed-write
Thursday: CB and peer score....discuss the "Above and Beyond" assignment
Friday: Choose your best of three and reflect on why you've chosen it. Please
leave your writing notebooks with me! Happy Vacation.
12/5
Monday: Multiple-choice practice (passage 4)
Tuesday: Rewrites are due today! Minimum day peer scoring Geek/Nerd essay by
Fridman. Assigned last essay of this semester #2 or #8 or #9 (suggestions for
writing) due next Tuesday
Wednesday: Discuss your last timed-write and reflect. Agree or disagree
with the scoring. Pre-flight checklist....we'll be testing at the start of
second semester. Paramedic sentences.
Thursday: Timed-write
Friday: CB example and peer score
11/28
Monday:MC practice: Passage 3 of MC exam.
Tuesday:Dept. Standard Assessement: Connnotation/Denotation , discuss last
essays (returned) Welty analysis. Reflect on both MC from Monday and
returned essay. WHAT will you work on for NEXT time?
Wednesday:Read CB examplars of Welty Essay and score. Read article: Edward
Said controversy and GRAFF it in writing notebooks.
Thursday:IN class timed write: analysisk
Friday: Board Meeting (those absent last week must turn in an essay on the
answering the following prompt: Many people feel that Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an outdated and racist novel, and a work
that should no longer be read and examined in the classroom. Write a
thoughtful essay challenging or defending the reading of this novel in
American classrooms today. Be sure to bring in specific evidence from the
novel and at least one outside source.
11/14
Monday: Revie appostives and (see page 167), and
Tuesday;Appositives ex. 3 page 171 (in notebook), and discuss the tables on
page 147. Complete questions following on page 148.
Wednesday:Discuss National Endowment for the Arts table pages 147-148(1-5),
appositives and rhetorical effect, and complete exercises 4-5 pages 172-173
Thursday: one pagers due and quiz on section 4. Assignment: prepare for
tomorrow's seminar by answering the selected questions
FridaY: Socratic Seminar (if you are absent you must complete a write-up of
ONE of the discussion question in a one-pager format)
Thanksgiving Week:
Monday and Tuesday: Work on Board Meeting simulation presentations (if
ABSENT, see next FRIDAY for make up assignment).....
11/7
Monday: Discussed Exploring the Text questions/answers in small discussion
groups and took notes on how to embed quotations (see powerpoint presentation
in AP handouts). Write 2 sentences with appropriate transitions and
embedding quotations WITH changes.
Tuesday: Huck finn one-pager due for section 3. Quiz today. Assignment: Read
and finish Huck by next Thursday.
Wednesday/Thursday: Watch Spellbound (documentary on "meritocracy")
10/31
Monday: One-pagers due along with Quiz on Huck section 2
Tuesday: Discuss Huck Finn Section 2, and watch Sherman Alexie on Colbert
Report (there is a link to a youtube interview available for those absent: AP
useful links). Read and begin 1-8 questions on Superman and Me (in textbook)
Wednesday: Welty essay due, complete disucssion on Superman and Me, precis on
Alexie. Assignment: Huck Finn Section 3 due next Tuesday (along with one-
pager #3)
Thursday: Essay "excerpts" (Mori, Baldwin, et al.) Choose one to complete and
be ready "Eleven" by Sandara Cisneros. Be sure to have finished your chosen
Ed. essay to be ready to discuss on Monday.
PLEASE LEAVE YOUR WRITING NOTEBOOKS WITH ME TODAY! :)
week: 10/24
Mon: Discuss Huck Finn and themes. Read passage and complete MC quetions
(hand in). Section 2 due NEXT Monday. Read and discuss Eudora Welty prompt
Tuesday: Group work with evidence from Welty prompt. Fill in graphic
organizer together.
Wednesday: Discuss prompt and complete thesis/planning page. Start your essay
(due next Tueday). Share background of Emerson (get notes if you're absent),
and begin "from Education" (chapter 4)....read first 2-3 paragraphs.
Thursday: Continue with "from Education" and finish essay (complete 1-5 in
writing notebook ....p. 108) for tomorrow.
Friday: Discuss Emerson and create MC questions using MC stem sheet.
week: 10/17
Monday: Debrief Socratic Seminar.
Tuesday: Spirit of Educaiton: Visual Rhetoric Analysis (in textbook chapter
4) and begin Francine Prose's essay "Why the Caged Bird Can't Read"
annotation #1
Wednesday:
Continue annotation of essay and discuss. Prepare 99-100 1-5 for tomorrow.
Thursday: Finishing discussing Francine Prose and discuss the 1-5 questions.
Activity w/1-10 questions (rhetoric and style)
Friday: One pager's due. Quiz on Huck section I.
week: 10/10
Monday: Discuss Mark Twain, distribute books, and watch Born to trouble.
Assignment: REad and SOAPstone notice and explanatory.
Tuesday: Return Princess Di prompts and discuss scoring. Revisions permitted
for any and all (see AP handouts for revision checklist for instructions).
Watch "Born to Trouble" and take notes on Twain and the controversy
surrounding the reading of the novel.
Wednesday: Distribute Huck Finn reading schedule (section one: 1-11 due
Friday Oct. 21) and one pager instructions. Finish Born to Trouble.
Thursday: Discuss documentary with cornell note questions. Read Russell
Baker's "take" and complete a Graff Template of the argument. Prepare
discussion questions for socratic seminar on Friday. Keep reading!
Friday: Socratic Seminar #1 ...If ABSENT, write a one-pager on any of the
bulleted questions (see AP handouts....Born To trouble questions).
Last Week:
Monday: In class timed-write: 1996 Gary Soto prompt
Assignment: Choose peer post to analyze (for Wednesday)
Tuesday:How did Monday's writing go? Reflect on the timed-writing experience.
Begin reading student exemplars of same essay...getting to know the 1-9.
Wednesday:Share peer post analysis and Scoring with the 1-9 rubric
Thursday: Peer Reading and Scoring on 1-9 rubric (Assignment: Due
Monday...a "one pager" (see AP 11 handouts) for template using CHAPTER 4
introduction).
Friday: Rhetorical "chairs" with Mark Twain's quotes on education. See
handouts.
Last WEek:
Monday: Assignment: Discuss the JFK diction/syntax questions. Write an
introduction to a JFK analysis essay (in notebooks). Read Lapidos article
about anti-metabole and SOAP it.
Tuesday: Discuss Lapidos article and take MC Practice Test A (14-23) in
writing notebook (go back to your 1-14 MC bubble sheet and keep going).
Assignment: Wheels are due Wednesday
Wednesday: Wheels are due today. Read teacher example: Hunger. In groups,
write a paragraph about LOVE using 3 schemes and 3 tropes. Have fun with it.
Then, POST your own description of your own individual abstract concept. Use
my model, HUNGER, as a model. Posting is due on Sunday night!
Thursday: Apply your analysis skills to 1996 AP Question 2. Fill out graphic
organizer. Be ready to write about it on Monday!
Friday: Lit Term test. See Quizlet link for study assistance!
last week:
Monday: All about ZEUGMA. Assignment: Write a precis on WWII. Tonight, read
pp. 49-51 with cornell notes (paying close attention to the advertisement
directly analyzed).
Tuesday: Adding "antimetoble" to our words and stuff list. Write an example
in your notebooks. Share yesterday's precis writings and analyze the "Whose
Birthday is it Anyway" advertisement. Write up your analysis in your
notebooks.
Wednesday: Adding "double entendre" to our words and stuff list. Share your
analysis of the advertisment. Listen and mark up JFK speech. REad the
chapter analysis and answer questions.
Discuss the "rhetorical" wheel.
Thursday: Diction/syntax questions and JFK text.
Friday: Assessment test
Friday: English Assessment test
Last week:
Monday: It's all about scheme and trope this week: Take notes and apply to
9/11 Berne passage
Tuesday: Discuss the Berne passage, and Read Ernie Pyle's ON WWII (first
impressions in writing notebooks)
Wednesday: On WWII (continued) and terms of trope and scheme (get notes).
Find 5 examples of trope and 5 examples of scheme.
Thursday: Discuss last week's intro to rhetoric quiz. Reviewing Tropes and
Schemes with group worksheet. Assignment: Love and an example of trope/scheme
(if you were absent, don't worry...I'll fill you in on Friday).
Friday: Essay deadline: Princess Di. Reflection. The Scheme and Trope Game:
It's all about Love. Discuss the figurative device wheel assignment.
Monday: No school
Tuesday: Discuss MC passage, discuss summer reading essays, make list poison
words.
Wednesday: Back to School night
Passage analysis: intro to rhetoric quiz
Assigmment: Read A,B, anc C essays and write a paragraph analyzing strengths
and weaknesses
THURSDAY: Discuss A,B,C essays (along with thesis statments,and orgnization
of body paragraphs: Topic, Evidence, and Analysis/Commentary. Read and Soap
the the Princess Di texts (end of chapter one).
Friday: Listen to Earl Spencer's eulogy and discuss the rhetorical
similarities and differences between the four texts. Assign outline of essay
for Monday. Princess Di analysis essay due next Friday.
Monday 8/29: Group Precis (on Einstein's letter). Discuss the
analysis. Read
and take notes (using Cornell Note sheet/format) pp. 12-17. Be ready to
discuss.
Tuesday 8/30:
"Pop Quiz" to see how your notetaking went. Next time...it COUNTS :). Be sure
to read practicing performative literacy strategies. Discuss visual rhetoric,
soaping aloud Rosa Parks cartoon (see textbook). Assignment: Examine a
political cartoon of your choice (provided in class) and SOAPStone it in your
writing notebooks.
Wednesday 8/31: All about Patterns of Development today. Discuss the
patterns and apply each pattern to something read either over the summer or
thus far. Fill out chart.
Thursday 9/1: Finish up notes on patterns of development (for you absent
folks, take notes on each of the patterns of development (pp. 17-26) to make
up points. Assignment: p. 26 Assignment (on top of page in textbook) (going
back to Heyman's essay on page. 6).
Friday: Multiple-Choice practice #1: Read passage from practice test A and
answer the questions with a partner. Discuss questions and passage
difficulty. Study terms of rhetoric for next Wednesday's analysis test.
Friday 9/2: Multiple-Choice practice : Practice Test A
Monday 8/22: Discuss your rhetoric surveys (hand in). #4 SOAPstone your
memoir and discuss. Assignment: Intro to rhetoric...read pages 1-6 in your
textbooks and add to your rhetoric notes from today. Craft 5 questions that
have answers in your notes. Be ready to discuss the reading and rhetoric
tomorrow.
Tuesday: Discuss Rhetoric and your questions (turn in notes from discussion
and pp 1-6). Discuss Lou Gehrig's speech and SOAP it in your notebooks
(#5). Assignment: Precis Writing on Lou Gehrig's speech
Follow model and also see Precis Writing link (useful links) for specifc
outline and instructions:
Frank McCourt, Pullitzer Prize winner and author of the memoir Teacher Man
suggests that the road to teaching success requires dedication, but most
importantly the willingness to be both student and teacher simultaneously.
Through personal anecdotes, humor, and the occasional tear, McCourt shares
his challenges from his early years of teaching and how it drove him to his
ultimate success as a writer. The author, through his honest depiction of
failures in the classroom as well as the less frequent but accidental
success, reveals the adversities faced by those behind the desk to seek
better understanding of this often negated career. Teachers, as well as
students, can benefit from the truth of his journey through his reflective
and forthright delivery of his life and career.
Wednesday 8/24/11: Share your precis for Lou Gehrig speech, pre-flight
checklist, and discuss logos/ethos/pathos in Jodi Hyman's essay (see and read
pp. 6-9 for essay and analysis). Please SOAPstone and complete precis writing
for this essay in your writing notebooks.
Thursday: Watch interviews: Teacher Man and Glass Castle (see useful
links....I linked them for you absent people). Jot down notes in writing
notebooks (#9)...anything that resonates with you regarding memoir
writing/purpose and the speaker. :)
Friday: Watch Lucy Grealy interview and continue discussing memoir
writing/writers. Assignment: Read and SOAP Einstein's letter (see assignment
in textbook on page 9). Do this in your writing notebooks. Be ready to
discuss and write a group precis on Monday.
Monday: Welcome Back to School
Turn in summer assignments and discuss
Getting to know you activity: SAME DIFFERENCE in groups
Assgignment: Take intro to AP survey (see survey links) by Wednesday
Tuesday: Getting "set up" for class. Discuss course outlines (get signed by
Thursday), set up comp books, and writing notebook assignment #1: Read the
quotes, choose 10, and respond/reflect on them in your notebooks (due
tomorrow).
Wednesday: Go over quotes and apply to class. Discuss Performative
Literacy: group activity
Thursday: Finish work on performative literacy and discuss. Assignment: #2 in
notebooks: How does Performative literacy apply to you? Rhetoric survey due
Monday!
Friday: Quiz on summer reading and SOAPStone work (#3: SOAPStone and Teacher
Man)...don't forget about rhetoric survey due Monday!