Sept 30 - Argumentation Practice

Quiz over "I Have a Dream"
Declaration of Independence pg 557
Letter from Birmingham Jail pg 570
intro letter to school board, principal, counsellor, or teacher arguing ways to improve graduation rates

HW:
read Audacity of Hope excerpt - explicate argument
brainstorm five ideas to raise grad rates

Sept 29 - intro argumentation

announce cumulative vocab test Thursday
bellringer - prisoner's dilemma
logical arguments go in tool box
what is argumentation? 529-544

HW: find "I Have a Dream" speech online and read - expect quiz
study vocab

Sept 25 - Tipping Point

vocab quiz
bellringer quiz
new bellringer - tetracolon and tricolon

discuss Tipping Point in Patterns
hand out Tipping Point chapter 1 packet
explicate argument in packet

HW: find an article, annotate, and explicate three main points and conclusion of argument in article.

Sept 23 - Franklin Autobiography

vocab check
bellringer - what is the good life?
hand out junior lit books
Rd The Autobiography by Franklin pg 141 Lit
Self Reinvention assignment
Personal Goals

HW: vocab
rd Tipping Point excerpt pg 351 Patterns

Sept 22 - Syntax

vocab list
bellringer - prep phrases
Syntax essay - Group Scattergories

HW: define vocab
write one sentence thesis to Syntax essay

Sept 18 - Syntax

vocab quiz
bellringer - coordination and subordination
Syntax and Meaning w/ Poe

HW: underline subject once and verb twice in all main clauses of paragraph 3 in packet

Sept 16 - Comparison and Contrast

vocab
bellringer - parallelism
"Grant and Lee" - focus on transitions
"Walt and Ray" - focus on adjectives

HW: pg 425 vocab #2
Scholarship essay due Thursday!

Typed, DS, size 12, Ariel, no name on papers

((sorry for the late update - volleyball match, got home at 10:30 and that's past my bed time!))

Sept 15 - Scholarship Essay

vocab
bellringer - quote movie
scholarship essay

HW: typed DS size 12 Arial 300-500 word response to scholarship essay

no name anywhere but the title page

Sept 11 - Peer Edit and Verbal Rhetoric

vocab quiz
peer edit descriptive essays x2
bellringer - comercials
visual rhetoric - pg 151 discussion

HW: revise descriptive essay

Sept 9 - Descriptive Essays

vocab check
bellringer - imagery and figurative language
rd 135-140
Group work diction activity

HW: 2 pg ds MLA Descriptive Essay for Thursday peer editing

you may write in any form, but some good prompts are on pg 189, #3,4,8,9

Sept 8 - Timed Writing

turn in diction activity
vocab list
Timed Writing over Thomas Jefferson

HW: look up vocab

Sept 4 - Grammar and Careful Reading

Bellringer- grammar - semicolon, comma

Careful reading - The Crisis by Thomas Paine
multi choice questions about text

HW: diction activity over "My Mother Never Worked" pg 96

Sept 4 - Grammar and Careful Reading

Bellringer- grammar - semicolon, comma

Careful reading - The Crisis by Thomas Paine
multi choice questions about text

HW: diction activity over "My Mother Never Worked" pg 96

Sept 2 - AP Practice test

Toolbox lesson - Ethos, Pathos, Logos

AP Practice test

HW: none! Brain fried enough from the practice test right?