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.