AP: Mon' Aug' 18 Fayday Tues'

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AP Mon. Aug. 18 (Fay-day Tues.)

• HW (pt. value)
• Next Meeting
• SAT Vocab. 1 (25) Definitions with a key for
  15 sentences on a separate sheet, not
  alphabetical and w/blanks for the words.
• Mon./Tues. 8-25/8-26 Projects due

• Objective You will understand the requirements
  and expectations of this course.
• Agenda
• Welcome
• Who is Mrs. Georgiou?
• Syllabus Goal
• Blooms taxonomy
• Website PP Lit. terms Unit outline
• Assessment to come
• Reading speed check

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AP Wed. Aug. 20 (A-day)

• HW due date (pts)

• Objective You will
• assess your reading proficiency.
• utilize new words.
• Agenda
• Submit SAT assign.
• Finish reading speed info.
• Obj. section from AP exam

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AP Thurs. Aug. 21 (B-day)

• HW (pt. value)
• Next Meeting
• SAT Vocab. 1 (25) 2 Pages One w/definitions
  and a key for second page of 15 sentences, not
  alphabetical and w/blanks for the words.
• Mon./Tues. 8-25/8-26 Projects due

• Objective You will understand the requirements
  and expectations of this course.
• Agenda
• Welcome
• Who is Mrs. Georgiou?
• Syllabus Goal
• Writing club
• Website PP Lit. terms Unit outline
• Assessment Obj. section

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AP Fri./Mon. Aug. 22/25

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues. Aug. 26 A-day projects due
• Next session (T/W) SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz (50)
• Aug. 28/29 RFW Guidelines for Critical
  Reading pp. 3-14 Define the vocab. on p.14
  ans. questions 1-8 (25)

• Objective You will
• complete a writing assessment
• practice using new vocab.
• Agenda
• B-day Projects due
• Questbridge
• Film consent form
• Essay 1 Assessment
• Issue RFW book
• Vocab. review

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Textbook Card

• Your last name, first name Date
• Mrs. Georgiou Bldg. 13-110
• Title of the book Edition
• Cost
• Book number

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AP Tues/Wed. Aug. 26/27

• HW due date (pts)
• Aug. 28/29 RFW Guidelines for Critical
  Reading pp. 3-14 Define the vocab. on p.14
  ans. questions 1-8 (25)

• Objective You will
• complete a writing assessment.
• demonstrate your understanding of new words.
• Agenda
• A-day submits projects
• Novel consent form
• Essay 2 Assessment
• SAT Vocab. 1 Quiz

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AP Thurs./Fri. Aug. 28/29

• HW due date (pts)
• Next meeting SAT vocab. 2 (26-50) Definitions
  key 15 sentences w/blanks (25)
• Next meeting Read Letter from a Nazi
  Concentration Camp. (Old RFW p. 347) Be
  prepared to demonstrate your understanding of the
  passage. (25)

• Objective You will
• complete a writing assessment.
• Agenda
• Submit HW
• Essay 3
• Vocab. for Letter from a Nazi Concentration
  Camp
• Power verbs
• Dickens letter

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AP Tues./Wed. Sept. 2/3

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session SAT Vocab. Quiz 2 bonus words

• Objective You will
• experiment with new words.
• Agenda
• Submit vocab. review
• Tabulate assessment discuss

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AP Thurs./Fri. Sept. 4/5

• HW due date (pts)
• Next meeting Shaws mothers cremationcomplete
  worksheet (25)
• Refresh your reading of the holocaust letter

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your understanding of new words.
• make inferences.
• Agenda
• More words to avoid happy, sad, okay, suck
• Literary letters definition
• Vocab. quiz
• Finish assessment info.

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AP Mon./Tues. Sept. 8/9

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session SAT Vocab. 51-75 (Same assignment
  as before. Make sure sentences are contextual.)

• Objective You will
• make inferences.
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• Agenda
• Submit homework discuss
• Dickens letter
• Quick-write about Hillesum passage Why would
  she write this letter? Cite something specific
  that illuminates her experience.
• Discuss Letter from a Nazi Concentration Camp

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AP Wed./Thurs. Sept. 10/11

• HW due date (pts)
• Next meeting
• SAT Vocab. Quiz 3
• RFW What Is a Writers Voice? (25) pp. 55-59
  Ex. 1, 3, 6, 7

• Objective You will
• make inferences interpret symbols.
• Agenda
• B-day Finish Hillesum letter
• Submit vocab. review
• Dickens letter
• RFW Read take notes vocab How to Say
  Nothing in Five Hundred Words p. 61

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AP Fri./Mon. Sept. 12/15

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session
• SAT Vocab. 76-100 (same assignment)
• Your story in 6 words. (10)

• Objective You will
• read critically.
• make inferences evaluate the effectiveness of
  writings.
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• Agenda
• B-day Dickens letter
• Submit homework
• Vocab. quiz
• Advice to poet MC
• Coca Cola letters WS

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AP Tues./Wed. Sept. 16/17

• HW due date (pts)
• Next meeting SAT Vocab. 4 Quiz (50)
• Oct. 1/2 (75) Read the first 12 chaps. of The
  Scarlet Letter. For each chap. write (type) a
  journal entry which includes
• a brief plot summary.
• a personal reaction to events or situations.
• a piece of figurative language or symbol and its
  meaning.

• Objective You will
• practice using new words.
• read take notes.
• Agenda
• The Scarlet Letter info.
• Submit vocab. review
• Share 6-word stories
• WWAP Chap. 1

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AP Thurs./Fri. Sept. 18/19

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session All SAT words Test (100)
• Oct. 1/2 (75) Read the first 12 chaps. of The
  Scarlet Letter. For each chap. write (typed) a
  journal entry which includes
• a brief plot summary.
• a personal reaction to events or situations.
• a piece of figurative language or symbol and its
  meaning.

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• read critically.
• listen and take notes.
• Agenda
• SAT Vocab. Quiz 4
• Lambs letter to Wordsworth
• WWAP Chap. 2
• SL background notes

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AP Mon./Tues. Sept. 22/23

• HW due date (pts)
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Read the first 12 chaps. of The
  Scarlet Letter. For each chap. write (typed) a
  journal entry which includes
• a brief plot summary.
• a personal reaction to events or situations.
• a piece of figurative language or symbol and its
  meaning.

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• listen and take notes.
• Agenda
• SAT Vocab. Test
• Finish Lambs letter
• WWAP Chap. 2

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AP Wed./Thurs. Sept. 24/25

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session Letter to me Does fiction or
  nonfiction better present the truth about the
  human condition? Give logical reasons and
  examples from your reading. (TNR 12 pt.) (50)
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for the first 12
  chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR 12 pt.)

• Objective You will
• listen and take notes.
• understand grammatical correctness
• Agenda
• WWAP Chaps. 3 4
• Passive voice, subjunctive mood, verbs to lie
• Romanticism SL background notes

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Introductory Letter

• The student creates a thesis statement and a
  graphic organizer of the reasons why he prefers
  to read fiction or nonfiction with supporting
  examples from his reading. The student will
  submit this planning step before drafting the
  letter to me. The student then critiques his own
  paper, and the teacher does likewise using the
  same teacher-created peer reviewing guide before
  the student submits a final draft.

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AP Fri./Mon. Sept. 26/29

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session Revised letter chart.
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for the first 12
  chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR 12 pt.)

• Objective You will
• listen and take notes.
• read for purpose, tone, and rhetorical devices
• Agenda
• A Closer Look at My Writing
• Finish romanticism SL notes

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AP Tues./Wed. Sept. 30/Oct. 1

• HW due date (pts)
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for the first 12
  chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR 12 pt.)

• Objective You will
• listen and take notes.
• Agenda
• Submit letter
• SL notes

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AP Thurs./Fri. Oct. 2/3

• HW due date (pts)
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for the first 12
  chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR 12 pt.)

• Objective You will
• listen and take notes.
• understand rules for punctuation.
• read for tone, diction, syntax.
• Agenda
• Finish SL notes
• from Eats, Shoots Leaves
• Read 3 unfamiliar worlds

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AP Mon./Tues. Oct. 6/7

• HW due date (pts)
• Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for the first 12
  chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR 12 pt.)

• Objective You will
• read closely critically.
• understand the parts of a sentence.
• Agenda
• 3 Unfamiliar Worlds
• Parts of speech complements

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AP Wed./Thurs. Oct. 8/9

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon./Tues. Oct. 13/14 (75) Journal entries for
  the first 12 chaps. of The Scarlet Letter. (TNR
  12 pt.)
• Wed./Thurs. Oct. 15/16 Letters Test (200)
• Mon./Tues. Oct. 20/21 Unfamiliar World Letter
  (50)

• Objective You will
• understand appropriate use of figurative
  language.
• understand the levels of language.
• identify parts of a sentence.
• Agenda
• Funny metaphors
• RFW What Is Rhetoric?
• Complements practice

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Letter Unfamiliar World

• Typed TNR 12 pt., d-spaced, one page
• Address your letter to Sylvia Plath or Margaret
  Meade depending on the world you choose, tone
  writing style.
• Use a hook like Netties letter, a short first
  paragraph lacking identification of the world,
  but then identify it in the next paragraph. (5)
• Show, dont tell, your feelings. (5)
• Use one piece of figurative language label it.
  (5)
• Use one other sense than sight label it. (5)
• Avoid (2 pts. ea.)
• prepositional phrases that can be turned into
  adjectives
• passive voice that can be made active
• there is/are
• which/that/it without an antecedent
• run-on sentences
• weak to be verbs that can be exchanged for
  dynamic verbs

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Letters Test

• Literary terms inc. The Scarlet Letter
• Passive voice other rules for revision
• S V C
• WWAP Chaps. 1-4
• RFW vocab. information
• Guidelines for Critical Reading
• What Is Rhetoric?
• What Is a Writers Voice?

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AP Fri./Mon. Oct. 10/13

• HW due date (pts)
• Wed./Thurs. Oct. 15/16 Letters Test (200)
• Mon./Tues. Oct. 20/21 Unfamiliar World Letter
  (50)

• Objective You will
• understand the parts of a sentence.
• Agenda
• Submit journals
• Complements
• Verbals participle, gerund, infinitive

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AP Tues. Oct. 14

• HW due date (pts)
• Wed./Thurs. Oct. 15/16 Letters Test (200)
• Mon./Tues. Oct. 20/21 Unfamiliar World Letter
  (50)

• Objective You will
• analyze a nonfiction work.
• understand parts of a sentence.
• understand rules for comma use.
• Agenda
• Submit journals
• MC Writing a Dictionary log results
• Verbals

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AP Wed./Thurs. Oct. 15/16

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon./Tues. Oct. 20/21 Unfamiliar World Letter
  (50)

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your understanding of the writing
  process.
• understand proper punctuation.
• Agenda
• Literary Terms Test
• Comma rules

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AP Mon./Tues. Oct. 20/21

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session Bring SL book Finish labeling
  comma rules for the Verbals sheet
• Mon./Tues. Nov. 3/4
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• understand proper use of punctuation.
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Apply comma rules
• Discuss F451

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AP Wed./Thurs. Oct. 22/23

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues./Wed. Oct. 28/29 Revised copy of unfamiliar
  world letter
• Mon./Tues. Nov. 3/4
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• analyze a work of fiction.
• understand the revision process.
• Agenda
• Submit Verbals comma rules
• Peer review unfamiliar world letter
• F451 discussion

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AP Fri./Mon. Oct. 24/27

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues./Wed. Oct. 28/29 Revised copy of unfamiliar
  world letter
• Mon./Tues. Nov. 3/4
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• understand the rules for proper punctuation.
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Grade comma HW
• Finish F451
• SL discussion

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AP Tues./Wed. Oct. 28/29

• HW due date (pts)
• Thurs./Fri. Oct. 30/31 Timed Writing
• Thurs. Fri. Oct. 30/31 Commas rules for Column
  A 1-16 (25)
• Wed./Thurs. Nov. 5/6
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Submit letter
• Excerpts from Amusing Ourselves to Death
• SL discussion

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AP Thurs./Fri. Oct. 30/31

• HW due date (pts)
• Note date change Wed./Thurs. Nov. 5/6
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• understand the rules for proper punctuation.
• analyze tone rhetorical strategies of
  persuasion.
• analyze symbols make inferences for a work of
  fiction.
• Agenda
• Submit comma HW
• Timed writing 45 min.
• Excerpt from Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Scarlet Letter discussion

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AP Mon./Tues. Nov. 3/4

• HW due date (pts)
• Note date change Wed./Thurs. Nov. 5/6
• SL Dialogue/Quotation Test Chaps. 13-24 (75)

• Objective You will
• discuss a work of nonfiction.
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Postman on politics and TV
• SL discussion

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AP Wed./Thurs. Nov. 5/6

• HW due (pts)
• Next session Comma WS 17-20 B side (25)
  Commas only.

• Objective You will
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Postman on journalism
• SL Quiz
• SL discussion

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AP Fri. Nov. 7 B-day

• HW due (pts)
• Next session Comma WS 17-20 B side (25)
  Commas only.

• Objective You will
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Postman on religion
• SL discussion

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AP Mon./Tues. Nov. 10/11

• HW due date (pts)

• Objective You will
• Agenda
• Submit comma ex.
• Postman on TV religion/education solution
• B-day MC Writing a Dictionary
• Discuss marriage proposals TW
• SL discussion

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AP Wed./Thurs. Nov. 12/13

• HW due date (pts)

• Objective You will
• Agenda
• Grade comma ex.
• Discuss marriage proposals TW
• SL discussion
• Right/left hemispheric dominance

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AP Fri./Mon. Nov. 14/17

• HW due (pts.)
• Tues./Wed. Nov. 18/19 Lord Chesterfields letter
  (15)
• Opening sentence
• 3 different values of L.C. w/quoted support
• Define morose, imperious, garrulous, mortify,
  emulate

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• analyze a work of fiction.
• Agenda
• Grade comma exercise
• SL discussion
• Rt./Lt. hemispheric assessment

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AP Tues.(Sub.)/Wed. Nov. 18/19

• HW due (pts.)

• Objective You will
• analyze nonfiction for rhetorical devices
  inferences.
• Agenda
• Submit HW
• MC The Moth log sheet
• TW worksheet Lady Mary Montagu

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AP Thurs./Fri. Nov. 20/21

• HW due (pts.)
• Mon./Tues. Nov. 24/25 Vocab. Quiz Left Column of
  SL Vocab. (50)

• Objective You will
• analyze a work of fiction.
• interpret a work of nonfiction understand the
  use of rhetorical devices
• Agenda
• SL discussion
• TW worksheet Lady Mary Montagu discuss

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AP Mon./Tues. Nov. 24/25

• HW due (pts)
• Next session TW

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• Agenda
• SL Vocab. Quiz 1
• Discuss Lady Mary TW
• College talk

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AP Mon./Tues. Nov. 26/27

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues./Wed. 11-27/28 SL essay (300)
  (www.turnitin.com 2078159
• pw georgiou)
• Thurs./Fri. 11-29/30 JER Errors 32-60 Correct
  onlyno letter assignations.

• Objective You will
• detect grammatical mistakes and be able to
  correct them.
• Agenda
• Discuss errors in writing
• Partners correct JER 1-3

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AP Wed./Thurs. Nov. 28/29

• HW due date (pts)
• Thurs./Fri. 11-29/30 JER Errors 32-60 Correct
  onlyno letter assignations.
• Wed./Thurs. 12-5/6 Letter to Nettie, M. Mead, or
  S. Plath re. unfamiliar world (50)
• figurative language (mark)
• mystery hook
• fragment for emphasis (mark)
• comma use (mark the rule)
• rules from A Closer Look at My Writing

• Objective You will
• understand rhetorical devices.
• understand grammatical rules.
• Agenda
• Read 3 letters re. unfamiliar places discuss
  Walker, Mead, Plath
• Grade JER errors 32-60
• Partners correct JER 1-31
• (pink book)
• Funny metaphors

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AP Fri./Mon. Nov. 30/Dec. 3

• HW due date (pts)
• Wed./Thurs. 12-5/6 Letter to Nettie, M. Mead, or
  S. Plath re. unfamiliar world (50)
• figurative language (mark)
• mystery hook
• fragment for emphasis (mark)
• comma use (mark the rule)
• rules from A Closer Look at My Writing

• Objective You will
• understand rhetorical devices.
• understand grammatical rules.
• Agenda
• Obj. practice jazz men writing a dictionary
• Greek roots
• Begin Persuasion Unit
• Syllabus
• Student essays

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AP Tues./Wed. Dec. 4/5

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon./Tues. 12/11 Greek Roots Quiz (50)

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• locate a thesis statement.
• evaluation the strength of an argument.
• Agenda
• Submit letter
• Greek roots
• Begin Persuasion Unit
• Syllabus
• Student essays
• Logical fallacies

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AP Thurs. Dec. 6

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues./Wed. Dec. 11/12 Greek Roots Quiz (50)

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• locate logical fallacies.
• Agenda
• Finish Greek roots def.
• Finish logical fallacies
• Spitting essay

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AP Fri./Mon. Dec. 7/10

• HW due date (pts)
• Tues./Wed. Dec. 11/12 Greek Roots Quiz (50)

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• locate logical fallacies.
• understand grammar rules.
• Agenda
• Notes on persuasion
• Bias worksheet

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AP Tues./Wed. Dec. 11/12

• HW due date (pts)
• Thurs./Fri. Dec. 13/14 Greek Roots Quiz (50)

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• interpret analyze a nonfiction passage.
• understand grammar rules.
• Agenda
• My Wood passage WS
• Partners JER errors (pink) 31-60

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AP Thurs./Fri. Dec. 13/14

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon./Tues. Dec. 17/18 Greek Roots Quiz (50)

• Objective You will
• listen take notes.
• locate logical fallacies.
• understand grammar rules.
• Agenda
• Timed Writing 45 min.
• Greek roots review
• Partners JER errors (pink) 31-60

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AP Mon./Tues. Dec. 17/18

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your mastery of new words.
• understand grammar rules.
• Agenda
• Greek Roots Quiz
• Discuss TW
• Partners JER errors (pink) 31-60

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AP Wed. Dec. 19 (again Jan. 7)

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• locate logical fallacies.
• be able to revise for length.
• Agenda
• Marc Antonys speech
• from Saint Joan
• Calpurnia Decius

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AP Thurs./Fri. Dec. 20/21

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• understand grammar rules.
• practice reading for comprehension, inferences
  rhetorical strategies.
• Agenda
• Partners JER errors (pink) 31-60
• Obj. practice
• Montague passage WS

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AP Mon. Jan. 7 (B Day)

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• understand grammar rules.
• analyze a nonfiction work.
• Agenda
• Grade JER errors (pink) 31-60
• Discuss Montague passage

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AP Tues. Jan. 8 (B Day)

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• analyze nonfiction works for theme, inferences,
  and rhetorical devices.
• Agenda
• Timed 1996 Exam Obj. Section (50 pts.) discuss
  ans.

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AP Wed. Jan. 9 (A Day)

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• understand grammar rules.
• analyze a nonfiction work.
• Agenda
• Grade JER errors (pink) 31-60
• Discuss Montague passage

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AP Thurs. Jan. 10 (A Day)

• HW due date (pts)
• Mon. Jan. 14 Quiz on The Great Gatsby (75)

• Objective You will
• analyze nonfiction works for theme, inferences,
  and rhetorical devices.
• Agenda
• Timed 1996 Exam Obj. Section (50 pts.) discuss
  ans.

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AP Mon./Tues. Jan. 14/15

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session Notes for Chap. 5 WWAP (25)
• 7 methods of development
• definitions
• ways to achieve or different kinds
• parameters or
• conditions

• Objective You will
• demonstrate your understanding of the plot,
  characters details of a novel.
• Agenda
• GG Quiz
• WWAP distribution
• Diction My Papas Waltz
• Group work editing exercise

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AP Wed./Thurs. Jan. 16/17

• HW due date (pts)

• Objective You will
• understand how diction affects tone.
• edit a writing.
• Agenda
• Reviews My Papas Waltz
• Grade Chap. 5 notes
• Group work editing exercise grade

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AP Fri./Tues. Jan. 18/22

• HW due date (pts)
• Next session Thesis statements for Orwell and
  Queen Eliz. I TWs
• restricted
• unified
• precise

• Objective You will
• understand how diction affects tone.
• edit a writing.
• Agenda
• Finish grading editing ex.
• How to Write Clearly
• Notes on realism naturalism
• Discuss GG