Week of 9/5

It's Labor Day week!!!! Enjoy your long weekend and Monday off!!! :)

Monday, 9/5
OFF

Tuesday, 9/6
Open Essay Practice

Wednesday, 9/7
Group AP Grading

Thursday, 9/8
Therapeutic Thursday for both

Friday, 9/9
Group AP grading

Week of 8/29

Sorry this is so late! I didn't anticipate a sick daughter this week. :)

Monday, 8/29
All with Adams

Tuesday, 8/30
Allusions Work in class

Wednesday, 8/31
Poetry AP Practice

Thursday, 9/1
1- AP MC Prac
2-AP MC Prac

Friday, 9/2
Lit Terms Quiz
Assign college application essay
Open question, Prose question
All with me

Lit Terms 2

These are a little harder! Sorry I'm a few hours late getting them up!

Lyric poem
Inversion (in grammar and comp)
Oxymoron
Puritanism
Epanalepsis
Anthropomorphism
Syntactic Permutation
Epistrophe
Antimetabole
Transcendentalism

Week of August 22

I hope you are enjoying reading, annotating, and discussing the Canterbury Tales. I know that I am. :) Thanks for your attentiveness and sweet attitudes throughout my recovery and return to school.

Monday, 8/22
Discuss Wife of Bath's Tale
Pardoner's Tale for homework

Tuesday, 8/23
Pardoner's Tale discussion

Wednesday, 8/24
Open Question Character essay

Thursday, 8/25
1-AP Prac
2-TT

Friday, 8/26
Prologue Memorization due
JOURNALS DUE
Say, Mean, Satire during recitation

Make sure you are making progress on The Alchemist!

Week of August 15

Here we go! We are starting the longest unit today, and like I told you on the first day, you are going to BLINK and this year is going to be over. Enjoy the ride!

Monday, 8/15
Intro to Search for Identity

Tuesday, 8/16
Assign Part 1 of Prologue
C-T notes

Wednesday, 8/17
C-T Part 1 discussion
Read Part 2 for homework

Thursday, 8/18
1-TT
2-AP Prac

Friday, 8/19
Lit Terms 1 quiz
Part 1 discussion
Pardoner's Tale for homework

Lit Terms 1

CONFESSION: I am reversing the order of the lit terms from the past few years. Normally we start with the VERY EASY ones and then work up to the hard ones. The problem with that (and something that last year's group agreed with me was a problem) is that you don't have much time to practice and use the harder terms. Ideally, you would learn them upfront and then you will recognize them when they show up on the practice tests. Well guess what??? We have a clean slate and we can DO IDEAL! :) But. Some of these are hard, and there are even more challenging ones in the future. Sorry.

Naturalism (as a literary era/genre)
Modernism (as a literary era/genre)
Epigraph
Antihero
Juxtaposition
Periodic sentence
Apposition
Tricolon
Antithesis
Causal relationship

Final Project Assignment

AP English

Final Exam/Project

Develop a one sentence theme that you can trace through the entire curriculum.

Using that theme, write a 1-2 page paper that explains how that theme is proven in at least three of the works we have read. The paper needs to be an AP-caliber thesis.

Finally, do a visual representation of that theme, correlating it to the curriculum of this year. This does not have to be literal, but can be figurative and artistic. You will present it to the class (BRIEFLY) on Monday, May 9.