Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Poetry Pack 3

Objective:  The students will know important vocabulary for this unit.

1.  Discuss the 6 hardest questions on the AP Test.

2.  Score your test analysis.  50 points to computer.

3.  Poetry Packet III:  Lit Terms.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Excellent Job Yesterday. Now finish up.

Objective:  The students will complete reviewing the AP Final

1.  Get back into your groups and finish all questions for 50 points.

2.  Don't forget to buy Catcher in the Rye.  Jake got it for 5 bucks on Amazon.


Monday, January 29, 2018

Seniors! This is your last semester!!! Finish strong.

Objective:  The students will review the final with a group leader who got a passing grade and go over all questions to "justify" the correct answer.

I want to THANK all of you for making my first semester ever of teaching an AP class one of the best experiences ever professionally.  I really enjoy each one of you.  Now finish your senior year strong.  Don't make me stress over passing you at the end of the year.

1.  Get your AP Final Test and Answer sheet.  Get into a group with an assigned leader (the A and B and C students) and go over each question.  Make sure you know the correct answer and write a short justification (reason) why the answer is correct.  This is worth 50 points as our first assignment.

2.  Buy or rent Catcher in the Rye by next Monday.  It is our next novel.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Finals Day 2

Objective:  Get a C or higher on the Final Exam.

Handmaid's Tale AP Q3 Essays are graded.  At this point in the class, some of you just don't seem to be listening to what you are expected to do...
     1)  A book title is UNDERLINED!!!
     2)  Integrate the quotes.
     3)  You must have a UT in the intro.  Don't wait until the end of the darn essay!
     4)  Starting with a quote!  SLAP!!!!
     5)  Write on one side only.  Follow simple directions.  PEN ONLY!!!
     6)  Following the simple writing rules in back.
     7)  "YOU"   (When people abuse YOU sexually...)
     8)  Why are you starting an AP essay with asking a darn question??
     9)  When reading your essays, it is OBVIOUS to me who has read the book and who has read 1/4 of the book.  Making inaccurate comments just makes you look bad!
     10) The & sign.  NO!
     11) Long long Intros.  2-3 sentences.

But some of you are doing well.  To you....  Thanks!

1.  Get final.  PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.  Bubble in Student ID.  Take the test.  Staple the test to the answer sheet when done.  Scan it.  Write your percentage.  Give it to me.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Essays and tests in back basket

Objective:  Get a C or higher on the Final Exam.

Handmaid's Tale AP Q3 Essays are graded.  At this point in the class, some of you just don't seem to be listening to what you are expected to do...
     1)  A book title is UNDERLINED!!!
     2)  Integrate the quotes.
     3)  You must have a UT in the intro.  Don't wait until the end of the darn essay!
     4)  Starting with a quote!  SLAP!!!!
     5)  Write on one side only.  Follow simple directions.  PEN ONLY!!!
     6)  Following the simple writing rules in back.
     7)  "YOU"   (When people abuse YOU sexually...)
     8)  Why are you starting an AP essay with asking a darn question??
     9)  When reading your essays, it is OBVIOUS to me who has read the book and who has read 1/4 of the book.  Making inaccurate comments just makes you look bad!

But some of you are doing well.  To you....  Thanks!

1.  Get final.  PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.  Bubble in Student ID.  Take the test.  Staple the test to the answer sheet when done.  Scan it.  Write your percentage.  Give it to me.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Finals Week

Objective:  The students will know what to expect on tomorrow's final.

1.  Poetry Packet.  Be sure to number all of the items so that I can grade them quickly.  There should be: 5 Chapter Outlines; 5 TTSTCANDIs, 3 Terms in packet. (13 items)

2.  For tomorrow's final.  55 Questions.  How it will affect grade:
     A= up 3%
     B= up 1%
     C= stays the same
     D= drops 1%
     F=  drops 3%

Here is what you need to know:  romantic, animistic, quasi, hyperbole, irony, pathos, analogy, rhetorical function, Egotism, moral purpose, cultivated taste, intellectual rigor, ridicule, paradoxical inversions, witty repartee, central opposition, speaker, metaphorically, direct object, indirect object, appositive, conventional vs idiosyncratic, tone, diction, meter, Idolatrous, mendacious, Understated, the Golden Age, the Iron Age, the Renaissance, mixed metaphors, syllogism, circular reasoning, dramatic irony, Pastoral Imagery, Animal imagery, anecdote, allegory, antithesis, oxymoron, personification, fusion, auditory and tactile, transformation, duality, and one piece of the test we have already practiced which is 12 questions (and you already know the answers if you kept it.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Sin Ec DOE Kee

Objective:  The students will discuss "The Weight of Sweetness"

1.  Tone and Diction Handout.  I want you to look these over and pick two or three from each section that you can start to use naturally in your analysis.  Practice using them in your TTSTCANDIs and your everyday writing.  Your discussions with friends.  Your Snapchat posts.  This will help you on the AP test.

2.  Chapter Outline Power Points:  Figurative Language

3.  Discuss "The Weight of Sweetness."

4.  Complete TTSTCANDI for Perfectly Poised.

Sub tomorrow:  You will work through "The Garden of Love"

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Poetry Practice and Packet

Objective:  The students will work with two more poems.

If you plan on taking the AP test this year for this class.  Please sign paper on the board.

1.  MC Poetry Practice (this one is HARD!)

2.   Poetry PP

3.  Complete Poem:  "Perfectly Poised" for packet

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Good Morning!

Objective:  The students will discuss elements of poetry for analysis.

1.  Multiple Choice Practice

2.  Poetry Discussion Presentations/Notes

3.  Complete TTSTCANDDI for The Weight of Sweetness

Friday, January 12, 2018

Three Day Weekend

Objective:  The students will complete all the Chapter Outlines for Poetry Unit 2.

1.  Complete all four chapter outlines from Perrine's Poetry Unit 2 for Monday discussion.

Have a nice weekend.  Can you believe that next week you will be half way done with your last year in high school?

Thursday, January 11, 2018

AP Writing Test

Objective:  The students will use a recent novel to complete the AP Q3 Open Source Question.

PUT AWAY PHONES.  NO PHONES ALL PERIOD!  AUTOMATIC FAIL IF I SEE ONE.

Get a PEN and THREE SHEETS OF PAPER.  Write ONE SIDE ONLY (I will not read otherwise).  Be neat!  Be specific.  

1.  I went through the last 10 years Q3 Prompts and Handmaid's Tale works perfectly for 9 of 10 of them.  But I picked the easiest one today.  If you read it will be easy to respond to.

2.  Tomorrow we pick back up with Poetry Unit 2.  Be sure that you have completed outlines for all four chapters.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Change of plans since so many people will be out Friday....

Objective:  The students will complete the harder part of the novel test.

1.  Complete the Handmaid's Test (or other one) for 75 points.

2.  Novel AP Essay tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

This is the kind of weather best for staying home and binge watching Handmaid's Tale Season1

Objective:  The students will complete Q3 Study Form and submit to Turnitin.com for analysis and grade.  This will help for tomorrow's Test Part 2

The CTA Scholarships are out.  Due Feb. 2.  If your parent is a CA Teacher, then apply.  This is the one that Jason won last year for $5,000.

https://www.cta.org/~/media/Documents/About/CTA%20Foundation%20Scholarships%20Grants/2017-2018%20CTA%20Scholarship%20Final%2010-17.ashx


1.  Complete Q3 Study Form and submit to Turnitin.com.   There is a new assignment created there for you to do that.

2.  Wait to be called to desk for Close Reading Check.  This is worth 100 points.  Expect an oral question if you got less than a B on yesterday's test (because it was so EASY!).

3.  Print out Q3 for grade tomorrow.

Monday, January 08, 2018

Welcome Back! Hope you all had a great break!


Objective:  The students will show that they have completed reading of Handmaid's Tale (or other approved novel).

1.  Handmaid's Tale Test Part 1 (100 points)

2.  Tomorrow I will check close reading of novel.  If you borrowed the book, then I will check chapter notes on paper.  (100 points)

3.  Complete the Q3 Study Form for Handmaid's Tale (or other approved novel).  The link is below.  It must be typed. 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDGKjWwIdRqEvwnn6bh9sZ0iq5shQrVF/view?usp=sharing