AP Language Incoming Students - Summer Reading

The summer reading assignment for AP Language classes at Salina Central is:

Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

AND

The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg

You will have a quiz on these books the first day you are back for the 09-10 school year. Your test will be in the first week. Do not go through summer without reading these books. Do not try coming into the test without having read the text and instead using a critique source (like sparknotes.com); it won't be a pleasant experience (most students who do drop the class choose to do so after realizing what a mistake it is to not do the summer reading). Especially if you read early in the summer, it will be a good idea to take notes over the texts.

May 11th - Presentations

Presentations
written reports due
collect bellringer journals

study for your AP test!

(May 7th we wrote a double essay to finish our full length AP practice)

May 05

AP MC full length test

Save the Brain Time

HW: none

May 04 - AP full test session 1

bring books in
turn in typed essay
presentation sign up
AP timed writing

HW none - novel analysis due May 11th, study for AP test May 13th

Apr 30 - Socratic

go over cliffnotes MC

Socratic Circle x2 over timed writings

HW:

After the Socratic Circle over the timed writings hopefully you have more experience with the topics. Pick which of the two timed writings you believe you did better on or have more developed ideas on. You will take this essay home and revise it in a typed copy, turning it in to be graded as a take home essay (which has a harder grading system than a timed writing.) You may add outside sources, but remember to cite any sources used. You do not have to use the sources from the packet. It would be wise to use both a utilitarian and cultural relativity argument, but that is not required. Due Monday.

Direct prompts:

Take a position that defends, challenges or qualifies the claim that popular music provokes irresponsible behavior.

or

Take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that the Internet since its inception has had a negative effect on society.

Apr 28 – Music and Culture

book check in – bring your books in this week

Timed writing

must contain an argument based on the premises of cultural relativity (mark in paper)

Cliffnotes AP practice (for a grade)

HW: None – study for upcoming AP test or final and get that novel analysis ready!

Summer is almost here – but like a fireworks show we are going to finish with our best work of the year. Don't check out yet – we have plenty to accomplish. Reward feels best when you know you have worked hard and earned it.

Apr 27 – Math Tests in English class

Please bring in your books for check in ASAP. I need ASP, Patterns, and the Orange Lit book.

Math Tests quiz

discussion

Cliffnotes AP practice (read packet for homework)

 

Novel Analysis is due May 11^th for written and presentations will be on May 11, 12, 14. Signups will be next week. Be reading!

 

Timed writing tomorrow incorporating cultural relativity and music

Apr 23 – Vocab test and Cultural Relativity

vocab test

Discuss packet

Cultural relativity scenarios (Socratic discussion)

 

HW: Rd Outliers packet – "Rice Paddies and Math Tests"

Vocabulary List

Here are the last five lists in alphabetical order. These are the short hand definitions for my personal use, but I will make them available to you for reference to study. If you have different wording that is fine - exact wording of definitions is not required. The format of the test will look like the last cumulative vocabulary test with matching, sentences, pictures, write in definitions, and a series of short answers.

• adamant – determined, stubborn, set in opinion
  
• anarchy – absence of rules, lack of gov't
  
• anastrophe – alteration of the normal order of words or phrases in a grammatical construction, usually for rhetorical effect
  
• anomaly – peculiarity, irregularity
  
• cacophony – opposite of euphony, signifies discordant, jarring, unharmonious language; often used deliberately to emphasize a discordant idea or unpleasant image
  
• carpe diem – seize the day
  
• catharsis – Aristotle's term for the purgation or purification of the emotions of pity and fear, results from experiencing a drama in person
  
• caustic – intended to mock, offend, or belittle – abrasive
  
• chariness – wary, concerned
  
• cliché – overused expression or idea
  
• congenial – agreeable, friendly
  
• cordial - hospitably warm, sincere
  
• criteria – standard for making judgments
  
• deductive reasoning – proceeds from a general premise to a specific conclusion
  
• delineate – describe or draw
  
• eccentric – unconventional
  
• enfeebled – weakened, depleted
  
• epiphany – sudden realization
  
• equivocation – meaning of key terms is not consistent throughout the argument
  
• erratic - inconsistent, changing direction
  
• euphemism – use of less offensive words
  
• facetious – supposed to be funny, but often inappropriate
  
• flippant – not taking seriously enough
  
• forlorn – lonely, miserable, desolate
  
• incessant – continuing for a long time w/o stopping
  
• inductive reasoning – proceeds from a specific premise to a general conclusion
  
• indulgent – permissive, generally allowing people to have what they want
  
• innuendo – hint or interpretation of something improper
  
• insidious – harmful in a subtle way
  
• lackey – obedient follower
  
• litotes – rhetorical tool of understatement, often expressed negatively
  
• maniacal – affected by mania
  
• non sequitur – fallacy where a statement does not logically follow from the previous statement
  
• pedagogy – science or profession of teaching
  
• philanthropy – desire to benefit humanity, esp. through charitable activities
  
• pristine – immaculate, unspoiled, perfect
  
• prodigious – marvelous, impressive
  
• proliferate – reproduce rapidly
  
• rendezvous – meeting point/ meeting
  
• sardonic – disdainfully mocking
  
• sedate - calm; serene
  
• straw man fallacy – making an opponent's argument weaker than it appears or offering a false rebuttal
  
• sweeping generalization – jumping to a conclusion with the basis of little evidence
  
• syllogism – consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
  
• symbiosis – mutually beneficial relationship
  
• synecdoche – figure of speech which represents the whole through a part
  
• synesthesia – use of two different senses in a description, such as "yellow sound"
  
• tacit – unspoken
  
• valid argument –the conclusion logically follows the given premises
  
• warrant – inference that connects the claim to the evidence
  

Apr 21 – Applying Utilitarian arguments in an essay

No new vocabulary – comprehensive test Thursday

Turn in paragraphs over # 6 from Orwell packet

Discuss Debate over Utilitarianism packet

Timed Writing – synthesis essay over internet – must include at least 1 paragraph using a utilitarian argument (may be an argument used as a counterpoint)

HW: Rd Cultural Relativity Packet

April 20 - Utilitarian

No new vocab - cumulative test on Thursday
review HW
discuss argument w/ handout
writing assignment from packet, #6 - Toni Morrison comp/cont paragraph (due Tue)
basic utilitarianism powerpoint

HW: rd utilitarian packet

Link to Death Penalty Arguments

http://www.deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/arguments/arguments.PDF

Apr 13, 14, 16

Apr 13

Dead Poets
HW: Patterns 529-543

Apr 14
Finish Dead Poets
discuss Patters 529-543

Apr 16
Vocab quiz
discuss HW
Rhetorical Fallacies
Salina Journal Op-Ed
Orwell Packet
Look over ASP test

HW: read Orwell Packet - delineate argument in pgs 536-537 marked read 2x

Apr 13

I told you to physically write down the assignment in class. Hope you did it.

Since I have the new softball job, I will be leaving for practice right after school. This will cause the web blog to be a little less reliable. However you control your own destiny. Write down your assignments. I won't be blogging the assignments this week so make sure you are controlling your ability to do your own homework and writing down the assignment.

Apr 10 - Dead Poets

Watch Dead Poets Society

Take notes

HW: none - work on semester novel

Apr 7 - ASP Test

ASP Test

HW: none - work on semester novel analysis

if you need the paper work it is all be listed in:

N:\Mrs. Leech\AP Lang\Semester Novel Worksheets - feel free to do these electronically and email me

on the Central network - and yes as the folder says you can do the work sheets electronically and email me instead of printing it out and writing by hand. The oral presentation does not have that option though.

Apr 6 - ASP

vocab
ASP closing
turn in bumper stickers
check character sheets

HW: study for test

Apr 2 - ASP

Discuss ASP 9-10
MC AP practice w/ ASP

HW: finish ASP (12-13)
Bumper sticker expressing a theme in the novel



Side Note: semester book report forms have been posted to Template O:drive on Central's network - book reports due the week before finals

Spirit tickets to anyone who bring their planner to class this week and shows me their homework assignment written down in the planner.

March 31 - ASP

Timed writing - synthesis on war photography

vocab bellringer
discuss ASP

HW: rd 9-11 ASP

March 30 - ASP

new vocab
discuss ASP ch 4-6

briefing about synthesis essay Tuesday

HW: rd ch 7-8

March 26 - ASP

vocab quiz
ASP discussion
open book ASP quizzes
return war journals

HW: read ASP 4-6

March 25

vocab review - rhetorical strategies bell ringer
AP essay prep work
ASP reading work

HW: Read ASP ch. 1-3

March 24th - the day without power!

new vocab list

timed writing

book checkout



- The timed writing was not due, but will be used next class period. I shortened your time and said you had less time than you did to simulate writing pressure.



I meant to assign homework in A Separate Peace, but the power outage apparently also meant a loss of brain power; I forgot. Next class period we will read ch. 1-3. I had it written on the board to read 1-2, and if you did that you are just a bit ahead. If you did not do that, read ch. 1-3 before Thursday.

War Journal

Remember to complete your war journals over break if you choose to turn it in Monday. Someone left one in a desk. It is in a black three ring binder and has no name on it. The cover sheet says: War Journal (1943-2001).

March 12

vocab quiz
state writing assessment final
AP exam discussion

AP Test

The fee is $86.00. The students on free or reduced lunches are eligible for a fee reduction.

Students must sign up with Mrs. Berner. Students need to tell Mrs. Berner if they are eligible for a fee reduction when they sign up. Checks need to be made to Central High School.


DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR AP TEST
MARCH 25

Test date is Wed. May 13th @ 8:00 AM

Everyone has put in a year of hard work and this is the cheaptest legitimate college credit you can get! I encourage you to sign up for this test.

AP Test

The fee is $86.00. The students on free or reduced lunches are eligible for a fee reduction.

Students must sign up with Mrs. Berner. Tests need to be ordered then. Students need to tell Mrs. Berner if they are eligible for a fee reduction when they sign up. Checks need to be made to Central High School.


DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR AP TEST
MARCH 25

Test date is Wed. May 13th 8:00 AM

This is an economical deal - the cheapest college credit you can get - and everyone has put in a years worth of hard work. I encourage you to sign up.

War Journal

(probably too late to help, but I noticed I forgot to offically mention this to W6)
War Journal suggested due date is Thursday - but the full due date is the Monday after spring break. I reccommend turning it in before break just so you have nothing over your head during break.

March 10 - Writing Assessment

review vocab
state writing assessment - peer edit
continue war journal assignment
discuss Hiroshima
Intro A Separate Peace
Start "Dead Poets Society"

March 9 - rough draft writing assessment

vocab
state writing assessment - draft

HW: continue working on war journal assignment

Mar 5 - 1st day writing assessment

culm. vocab. test
planning day for writing assessment
War Journal Assigment explained - due Mar. 12

March 3 - quarter essay

Quarter Essay

HW: Rd Hiroshima in big orange books pg 1198-x
study for culm. vocab on Thurs.

Feb 26 - Essay Prep

Subjunctive mood bellringer
paradox bellringer
- culm. vocab on next Thursday (last 5 vocab quizzes)
discuss photo essay
prep for 9 weeks essay
education argument text (W6)

HW: none - prepare for your 9 weeks essay

My favor to you, the vocab lists with definitions:

1.
coalition – political alliance, merging into one
diatribe – verbal or written bitter criticism
bureaucracy – administrative system, neg. – frustrating rules that are overly complex or drawn out
unscrupulous – immoral
alienate – to turn away in affection
apex – highest point
eloquent – speaking beautifully and forcefully
antithesis – exact opposite
archetype – image, motif, or thematic pattern that has recurred so regularly in history, literature, religion, for folklore as to have acquired transcendent symbolic force
caricature – an exaggerated representation of a person or action

2.
axiom – generally accepted truth or premise
motif - a repeated, reoccurring theme
mantra - often repeated idea, often w/o thought; maxim
autonomous – self governing
dissident – someone who disagrees
oratory – art of public speaking
clarion (adj) – loud and clear
sabbatical – period of leave associated w/ rest
embed – place, lodge, or fix in place
invocation – calling upon higher power for help; prayer

3.
descriptive grammar – represents the unconscious linguistic knowledge or capacity of speakers of a given language
arbitrary – based on whim, random
linguistic – relating to language
prescriptive grammar – attempts to legislate what grammar should be
prestige dialect – the language spoken by the dominant social-economic class
semantics – study of meaning in language
lexicon – known/available vocabulary
gerund – a noun formed from a verb using -ing, describing an action, state, or process
grotesque – blending reality and fantasy, often in a strange or disturbing way
burlesque – imitation of the lofty in a low style, mockery

4.
· morpheme – most elemental unit of grammatical form
· hierarchy – arranged in ranks, or graded according to importance
· lexical gap – words that are not in the dictionary but can be formed by the sounds available to the language
· palatable – acceptable to the senses, esp. taste
· anecdote - a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
· cognate - related by descent from the same ancestral language
· cryptic - secret, occult
· indubitable - too evident to be doubted : unquestionable
· obtuse - difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression
· foible - a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior : weakness

5.
· Direct object – noun or pronoun that receives the action of a transitive action verb
· Transitive verb – an action verb that has a receiver for its action
· Predicate nominative – a noun that follows and completes a linking verb by renaming the subject
· Linking verb – verb that shows existence or condition
· Objective complement – follows and renames a direct object; needs a verb-elect
· Appositive – an expression that explains or identifies a noun or pronoun within a sentence, usually comes right after the word it explains
· Clause – a group of words containing a subject and a predicate
· Independent clause – expresses a complete idea and can stand alone in a sentence
· Dependent clause – a group of words used as a part of speech; must be combined with an independent clause to make sense
· Noun clause – a dependent clause that does the work of a noun

Link to Photo Essay

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161720

Your assignment: choose 10 photos
Write two sentences about each covering:

What is the message?
How is the message conveyed?

Feb 24 - Last day of testing!

Yesterday no one was absent and there was no homework, so I didn't blog the assignment.

We tested and we went over our vocab and grammar.

Today when you have read this you completed your last test! Yeah!

Once you've done that, follow this link:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/courses/sites/lunsford/pages/defs.htm

This site has complied quotes on rhetoric.

Here are some collected definitions for rhetoric:


1.Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric)
2.As a course of study, rhetoric trains students to speak and/or write effectively. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric)
3.1: the art of speaking or writing effectively: as a: the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times b: the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion 2 a: skill in the effective use of speech b: a type or mode of language or speech ; also : insincere or grandiloquent language3: verbal communication : discourse
(m-w.com)
4.Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing. And the art of persuasion. And many other things. (http://rhetoric.byu.edu/encompassing%20terms/rhetoric.htm)

Knowing what rhetoric is and how it functions in different mediums (i.e. National Public Radio, facebook, a photo essay in Newsweek that we will work with today, your textbooks, the NCLB tests, conversation, a formal essay, etc.) will be important for your Essay test coming up for the nine weeks.

When we get back to class we will have a vocab quiz, a grammar worksheet, and then examine the photo essay on Newsweek - don't go looking for it because we will view it together.

HW: 2 sentence response to each photo covering:
1. What is the message intended in the 'framing' of the photo?
2. How is the message conveyed?

Book List - Must have book present in class Monday

link to today's assignment is below book list

*note - formatting did not stay from .doc - author is listed above title; on the sheet handed to you in class author was to the left of the title. (Also, no italics remained.)

AP Language List of Recommended Novels
*requirements – This should not be a book you’ve read before. This also should not be based on a movie or show, but on the text. Also note that the book you select here is recorded and given to the AP Literature teacher and cannot be selected as next year’s project.
You will commit to a book selection on January 29th. Fiction and non-fiction selections will have different worksheets and presentation guidelines.
Author
Title
Anaya, Rudolfo
Bless Me Ultima
Baldwin, James
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
Blake, William
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John
The Pilgrim’s Progress, Book 1
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House
Douglass, Fredrick
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Collected Essays
Enrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed
Franklin, Benjamin
The Autobiography
Gladwell, Malcolm
Blink
Gladwell, Malcolm
The Tipping Point
Hemingway, Ernest
The Sun Also Rises
Hughes, Langston
Not Without Laughter
Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick
Mill, John Stuart
On Liberty
Moliere
Tartuffe
Morrison, Toni
Sula
Plato
The Republic
Shakespeare, William
Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, William
As You Like It
Shakespeare, William
King Lear
Shakespeare, William
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William
The Tempest
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn
All the King’s Men
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass
Williams, Tennessee
Streetcar Named Desire
Wilson, August
Fences
N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain

Feb 19 - link for class

http://www.slate.com/id/2211068

read article - after you have read the article read your semester book. Assignment for the Slate article will be explained when all testing is finished.
discussion on rhetoric of facebook

HW: write the 25 things to turn in for Monday

Prompt as written on facebook note from the article:

Write 25 random things about yourself. These can be goals, dreams, habits, little known facts, or anything you want to express about yourself. Tag 25 people in the note. If you've been tagged in this note it is because I want you to know more about me and I want to know more about you. You have to tag the person who originally tagged you in this note.

Vocabulary:



· Direct object – noun or pronoun that receives the action of a transitive action verb
· Transitive verb – an action verb that has a receiver for its action
· Predicate nominative – a noun that follows and completes a linking verb by renaming the subject
· Linking verb – verb that shows existence or condition
· Objective complement – follows and renames a direct object; needs a verb-elect
· Appositive – an expression that explains or identifies a noun or pronoun within a sentence, usually comes right after the word it explains
· Clause – a group of words containing a subject and a predicate
· Independent clause – expresses a complete idea and can stand alone in a sentence
· Dependent clause – a group of words used as a part of speech; must be combined with an independent clause to make sense
· Noun clause – a dependent clause that does the work of a noun

Feb 17 - diagrams

turn in diagram hw
vocab quiz
grammar bellringer - noun clauses
review late work policy - see posting
work on diagram packet

HW: diagram gerunds and infinitives #3 and #6

Late Work Policy - Reminder

AP Late Work Policy
No late work is accepted.
Excused absences – work missed for an excused absence is to be turned in the next class period you are in school. Consecutive absences will elongate the due date, but only with prior communication.
· This means you must come see me for make-up work before the next class! DO NOT ASK ME FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE CLASS. I CANNOT GO THROUGH A WHOLE CLASS PERIOD IN FIVE MINUTES.
Ideally, for an absence due to a sporting event, debate, music, or other planned activity the student will have work turned in before leaving. Planned absences do not change due dates.
· If a large project is due, the project must be turned in that day if you are present in class or not.
Unexcused absences - case by case, but most likely no credit.

Feb 16 - diagram

Vocab Review
see grammar quizzes
diagram powerpoint
diagram practice

HW:

in packet - 1st pages all evens
2nd page #3,6
3rd page #3,6

Feb 10 - grammar

grammar quiz
vocab list

morpheme – most elemental unit of grammatical form
hierarchy – arranged in ranks, or graded according to importance
lexical gap – words that are not in the dictionary but can be formed by the sounds available to the language
palatable – acceptable to the senses, esp. taste
anecdote - a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
cognate - related by descent from the same ancestral language
cryptic - secret, occult
indubitable - too evident to be doubted : unquestionable
obtuse - difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression
foible - a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior : weakness

Morphology exercises (packet is HW for Mon)
Sentenece styles, exercise

HW: NPR assignment, Morphology packet - both due Mon Feb 16.

Feb 9 - grammar

vocab quiz
finish noun packet

HW: NPR 89.5 - listen to 3x 10 min sections, write paragraph for each segment about rhetoric
Due Mon Feb 16.

Feb 05 - Grammar

bellringer
discuss packet - vocabulary
comics
noun packet

HW: rd packet on morphology

vocab quiz Monday

(listed since we did not directly review, but covered in packet)

descriptive grammar – represents the unconscious linguistic knowledge or capacity of speakers of a given language
arbitrary – based on whim, random
linguistic – relating to language
prescriptive grammar – attempts to legislate what grammar should be
prestige dialect – the language spoken by the dominant social-economic class
semantics – study of meaning in language
lexicon – known/available vocabulary
gerund – a noun formed from a verb with -ing, describing an action, state, or process
grotesque – blending reality and fantasy, often in a strange or disturbing way
burlesque – imitation of the lofty in a low style, mockery

Feb 3

bellringer - parts of speech
vocab
ACT practice
comics *not to W6, early bell
HW: "What is Language" packet - read for Thur.

Feb 2

Turn in Essays
vocab quiz
bellringer
Salina Journal article
rhetoric of commercials - in bellringer journal

HW: none - so read your novels

Jan 29

bellringer - allusion
vocab
review linking verbs (packet)
peer edit - cutting to 250 word count (every five characters/key strokes w/ spaces)
Lit Terms Diagnostic

HW: final copy due Monday - Strict Limit: 250 words or less

Jan 27

Bellringer + vocab
LtE group work
words to avoid worksheet - finish for Thur.

HW: write 400-500 word letter to the editor
Topic: an action President Obama should take in first 100 days

Jan 26 - Letter to the Editor

vocab quiz
intro letter to editor

HW: bring in one letter to the editor from a source other than the Salina Journal

Jan 22

Web addresses for today's assignment:

Obama Inauguration:
http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/obamainaugural.htm
Analysis:
http://www.courant.com/news/elections/hc-trib-obamaspeech-0120,0,6312487,print.story

Bush Inauguration Analysis:

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16200

Adverb Rhetoric:

http://grammar.about.com/b/

Schedule:
log into comps
review vocab
formative assessments - class goal 93%
Bush/Obama Inaugural Address comp/cont
Lit Terms Diagnostic

Jan 20 - Inauguration

Turn in procedure essay
vocab words
2004 economy articles - compare
2004 Inaugural Address - Bush
Obama Inauguration
compare and contrast rhetoric of speeches - emphasis: speaker, audicence, ocassion
Work on Essay Thursday

Full texts available at:
Bush:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1324749/posts

Obama:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Inauguration/story?id=6689022&page=1


HW: make sure to have read both speeches

Jan 15

Roots Test
Peer Edits
O drive edit experiment

HW: final draft due Tuesday.

Jan 13 - Process Essay Draft

Discuss Novel List - book selections by 29th.
quiz over HW
"My First Conk" 260
Creating a Female Sleuth" 265

HW: Process Essay
2pg 12TNP DS
imperative or indicative, but be consistent in all style choices.

Draft Due Thursday for Peer Edits

also- make sure to get that grammar exercise done if you were gone last Thursday. We will be using it in class Thur.

Jan 12 - Begining of Process Essay

Last Thursday we did peer edits and a grammar exercise with an essay I wrote. Make sure to pick up the grammar exercise. I'll hand it out Tuesday - but remind me! I forgot to do it today...

Roots Quiz
Roots Practice Test
Process intro 245-249
Grammar - matching tenses etc. 250-251

HW: read
"The Lottery" 292
"How to Escape from a Bad Date" 272

Game plan for the week: Tuesday go more in depth on process essays, write draft
Thursday Peer edit, grammar exercise
Next Tuesday (no school Monday) - final copy due

Jan 6 - Defining the Definition Essay

Roots, prefixes, and suffixes x4 (yes, written out all the way instead of simplified)
Rd 491-496
Reading quiz over "I Want a Wife"
Rd "Wife Beater" - discuss
group work over essays

HW: 2 pg typed size 12 TNR DS Definition Essay on the subject of your choosing. You may use prompts from pg 527-528 to help guide your creativity.

Peer editing sheets were handed out. The sheets are to be brought back to class Thursday for the editing process. For the draft use The Crucible character name that was handed out to you in class, not your own name.

If gone Thursday make sure editing gets completed.

Final essay is due Monday w/ peer edited sheets and rough draft.

Jan 5 - Goals and Definition Intro

Roots
look over final
Goals for second semester

HW: Patterns read 205-x (end of story) and 225-x