Advanced Placement Language and Composition (2016-2017) - block 8
Notebook Check #5: June 17 April 14 - ORB reflection #3 April 26 - New Yorker Cover notes Gatsby prompts: date and complete all reflections in your spiral notebook – you do not need to copy down the prompts prompt #1: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. This is the last line of The Great Gatsby and, perhaps, one of the most famous lines in American literature. What do you think it means? What do you think it tells us about the book you are about to read? How does this idea play out in your own life? prompt #2: Write about a time when you felt like an outsider in an uncomfortable way. prompt #3: Early on in the book, Nick states that “reserving judgments it a matter of infinite hope” (2). What does he mean? Do you agree or disagree? Why? prompt #4 Nick declares that he is “one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (59). Do you believe him? How does your answer to that question affect your reading of the book? What do you think that Fitzgerald wants us to think? May 31 - Reflections and imitation exercise on Adichie essay, "We Should All Be Feminists" 6/6 - 3 paragraphs on Williams college essays 6/12 & 6/13 - personal essay, freewrites Assignments Due 6/21 - supplemental essay question assignment on google drive Due 6/14 - nine completed personal essay freewrites in your spiral notebook (see above notebook list for details) Monday, June 5: link for in class assignment: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/your-money/standout-college-application-essays.html?_r=0 Read the article and the college essays in the article linked above. In your spiral notebook, do a SOAPS (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject) analysis of two of the essays. Pay special attention to speaker and purpose. How is the author presenting themself? What is the author hoping to convey or accomplish? Due Monday, 6/5 at the start of class - essay analysis assignment Due Tuesday, 5/30 at 10PM on turnitin.com - Gatsby essay Due Tuesday, 5/2 - definitions and parts of speech for the week five list Due Monday, 5/1 on turnitin.com by 10PM - cartoon assignment Due Wednesday, 4/26 - definitions and parts of speech for aesthetic through churlish on your week five list. 4/26 - quiz on the above words. no word bank. RP ORB prompts - should be completed in your spiral notebook #1 (April 3) Take out your ORB and your week three vocabulary list (rhetorical analysis terms). Pick four words from the list that you can use to describe specific passages from your book. For each word, write a one to two sentence description of the rhetorical element from you book. Make it clear that you understand what the term means and include the example from the book. For example: The evil stepmother is more of a caricature than a fully developed character, telling her daughters to “kill her (Cinderella)” on multiple occasions. Her actions are exclusively cruel and selfish, serving an important function in the story, but she is not portrayed as a believable human being. #2 (April 6) paragraph #1 – What has happened in your book since you wrote about it earlier this week? Describe and summarize. paragraph #2 – What do you believe will be the central conflict in your book? How has it been developed so far? How do you predict that it will be resolved? Research Project and ORB schedule Lit Circle Final Project: Analysis due 3/10 at 10PM on turnitin.com and text due in class on 10/13 The Things They Carried writing assignment completed draft in your shared folder due at the start of class on Friday, Feb 2 finished essay on turnitin by 10PM on Tuesday, Feb 7 (if you do the creative writing option, put the story and the analysis into one document) For Wednesday, Jan 24 - classical oration assignment For Tuesday, Jan 17 - read the remaining five stories listed on your rhetorical analysis sheet and complete you notes For Monday, Jan 9 - read "The Things They Carried," "On a Rainy River," and "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" and complete notes on your rhetorical analysis sheet "How to Tell a True War Story" - essay - Due January 11 by 10PM on turnitin.com "How to Tell a True War Story" - film notes Revised Goon Squad Assignments Due Monday, 11/28 - corrections from your Columnist project. Correct everything that is marked with a code in your essays. Turn in on Monday with the original project. Due Wednesday, 11/23 on turnitin.com by the start of class - transcendentalism project Due Thursday, 11/17 - read Barbara Kingsolver's essay, "High Tide in Tuscon" (in transcendentalism packet) Due Wednesday, 11/16 - read Annie Dillard's essay, "Living Like a Weasel" (in transcendentalism packet) Due Tuesday, 11/15 - columnist project log entry: This log entry should: - briefly summarize who and what you wrote about and describe your final impressions of this writer. What specific rhetorical strategies does the author regularly employ? How and when are they most and least effective? (2-3 sentences - do not rewrite your whole essay here!) - identify and describe the help that you received along the way - identify at least one skill or strategy for doing rhetorical analyses that you developed or worked on through this project that you can apply to future rhetorical analysis tasks - identify approximately how many hours you spent working on this project over the past three weeks Due Monday, 11/14 - columnist project Due Thursday, 11/3 - read "Nature" excerpt in Transcendentalism packet Due Monday, 10/31 - look at memoir comments on turnitin.com* and write an entry in your log for the memoir. Log entry should contain: - general and brief summary of what you wrote about - the big idea - identify and describe the help that you received along the way - what you want to remember from this experience the next time you write a personal narrative *you will not receive credit for this HW assignment if you do not look at the feedback on turnitin.com Monday, 10/24 - finished memoir on turnitin.com at 2:30PM Wednesday, 10/19 - completed draft of your memoir in your shared folder at 2:30 PM Friday, 10/14 - vocab quiz on 16 roots and corresponding words Due Tuesday, 10/11 in class - completed vocabulary notes Due Thursday, 10/6 at 10 PM on turnitin.com - rhetorical analysis Due Wednesday, 10/5 - 10 summer reading essay corrections in your notebook Due Monday, 10/3 - finish "Tense Present" Due Thursday, 9/29 - longreads response #1 Due Tuesday, 9/27 - marked up first draft of your essay from peer editing Due Monday, 9/26 - summer reading essay on - 10:07 PM on turnitin.com Due Thursday, 9/22 - summer reading essay drafts - 10PM on turnitin.com Due Monday, 9/19 - summer reading essay proposals - 11:30AM on turnitin.com Due Thursday, 9/15 - Nabokov article response on turnitin.com Choose one of the follow response options: Option ONE: Answer the following questions in complete sentences and using specific evidence (quotations) from the text. 1. Where does the introduction end? Identify the method(s) of the introduction. 2. What is the thesis? Where is it? Is it explicit or implicit? 3. What is the author’s tone? Where and how does it change? 4. Which passages capture your attention and why? 5. What, according to Nabokov, is a good reader? A good writer? 6. How does Nabokov organize his lecture and connect the different parts? 7. What characterizes the conclusion? 8. Where and how does Nabokov use humor? 9. What authority does Nabokov have as a writer? 10. What is your reaction to the essay? Is it emotional or logical? Option TWO: Respond directly to Nabokov in an imagined conversation. Address specific points in his argument as you discuss your own experiences as a reader and writer along with your reactions to his ideas. You may even anticipate his response to your comments (ex: “To this point, you might say…”). Make sure that your response demonstrates a solid understanding of the nuances of his argument. Incorporate specific language from his essay into your response in a conversational manner, and indicate when you are doing so with quotation marks. Due Monday, September 12 - two pages max on turnitin.com Read and briefly summarize the argument and supporting evidence in the “Crap Detecting” chapter in Neil Postman’s 1971 book, Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Limit your summary to one paragraph but make sure that you cover the whole chapter. Next, react to this argument. Are Postman’s concerns and ideas more or less relevant today than they were in 1971? Be sure to include your reaction to Postman’s discussion of “future shock” or Korzbski’s map/territory metaphor. Finally, Postman begins and ends the chapter by introducing – if not necessary answering – the question, “What is the necessary business of the school?” (15). Attempt to answer this question, using your own experiences but never straying too far from Postman’s text. Due Friday, September 9 - argument essay Due Thursday, September 8 - rhetorical analysis Due Wednesday, September 7 - signed slip from syllabus and synthesis essay Due Tuesday, September 6 - summer reading |
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