AP Language and Composition Refuge
This Week's Schedule
May 11th -May 15th
Tuesday: Rhetorical Analysis: Review
--New Practice Prompt: Analysis/discussion Task 1: Upload your 13th Discussion Guide Task 2: Complete 45-minute timed response #5 Due Friday before class. a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis. Try to be time-conscious (30 minutes writing from notes) i. to the left you will find a basic blocking outline for your timed analysis; if you are still struggling, please consider using it. Friday: 13th--Film Guide Responses Task 3: The New Jim Crow: Introduction (complete rubric) |
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May 4th - May 8th
Tuesday: Rhetorical Analysis: Review
--Woolf Prompt: Analysis/discussion Task 1: Upload your written revision by Thursday. Task 2: Complete 45-minute timed response #4 Due Friday before class. a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis. i. to the left you will find a basic blocking outline for your timed analysis; if you are still struggling, please consider using it. Friday: Prompt #4 guided analysis/discussion Task 3: The Sixth Extinction: Chapters 13 identifications. Watch 13th (on Netflix)-if you don't have netflix, let me know. |
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April 26th - May 1
Tuesday: Rhetorical Analysis: Review cont'd
--Erhlich Prompt: Analysis/discussion Task 1: Upload your written revision by Thursday. Task 2: Complete 45-minute timed response #3 Due Friday before class. a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis. i. to the left you will find a basic blocking outline for your timed analysis; if you are still struggling, please consider using it. b. When finished, take a break, create a redux. (due by Tuesday) . Changed Friday: Analysis Notes On Prompt #3 a. This will help you make choices for your Redux BUT you are not obligated to use the notes. Task 3: The Sixth Extinction: Chapters 11 and 12 identifications. (due by next Tuesday) |
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April 20th - April 24th
Tuesday: Rhetorical Analysis: Review cont'd
--Eisley prompt: Devices/analysis Task 1: Upload your written revision by Wednesday. Task 2: Complete 45-minute timed response #2 Due Friday by Midnight a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis. b. When finished, take a break, create a redux. . Friday: The Sixth Extinction: The first half -First half discussion Task 3: The Sixth Extinction: Chapters 9 and 10 identifications. (due by next Tuesday) |
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April 13th - April 17th
Tuesday: Rhetorical Analysis: Review cont'd
-Patterns of Development Cont'd -Schemes/Tropes- HW review -Eisley prompt: Task 1: Complete your written revision (do this ASAP) Task 2: Complete 45-minute timed response #2 (will post soon) Due Friday by Midnight a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis. b. When finished, take a break, create a redux. . Friday: The Sixth Extinction: The first 1/2 of the book. a. Which argument, evidence seems most prescient today? b. Which argument seems most in need of further review, data? Task 1: The Sixth Extinction: Chapters 6 and 7 identifications. (due by next Tuesday) |
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April 6th - April 10th
T: AP Exam Questions
Grapes Closure
-Hooper Ranch: Jim’s Death (how many themes come together here?)
-The Box Car Flood
-The Barn
Grapes Closure
-Hooper Ranch: Jim’s Death (how many themes come together here?)
-The Box Car Flood
-The Barn
Work: 45-min Rhetorical Analysis Review and Redux
(due by Thursday, Midnight)
a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis.
b. When finished, take a break, create a redux.
-Your redux is simply a revised version of your timed analysis.
-Note: this is in addition to your first draft, not a replacement.
-You will upload to pages a word document that has BOTH your
timed draft, AND your revised version.
(due by Thursday, Midnight)
a. When you are ready, open the pdf and complete a typed analysis.
b. When finished, take a break, create a redux.
-Your redux is simply a revised version of your timed analysis.
-Note: this is in addition to your first draft, not a replacement.
-You will upload to pages a word document that has BOTH your
timed draft, AND your revised version.
DO NOT OPEN Until You Are Ready For Your Timed Exam.pdf | |
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F: Rhetorical Analysis: Review
-SOAPSTone
-Schemes, Tropes, Patterns of Development, Audience, Exigence
Work: Power Revision and Repair
a. Review my suggestions on your Rhetorical Analysis and revise.
(due Monday)
Kolbert Identifications
a. Complete through chapter 6 by Tuesday
-SOAPSTone
-Schemes, Tropes, Patterns of Development, Audience, Exigence
Work: Power Revision and Repair
a. Review my suggestions on your Rhetorical Analysis and revise.
(due Monday)
Kolbert Identifications
a. Complete through chapter 6 by Tuesday
kolbert_2_redux_.pdf | |
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Final Friday Task: Before the end of the day- Go outside and take a selfie (preferably with a background other than the sky). Email it to me along with your analysis of the following scheme and trope examples..
1. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. anti
2. Perch are inexpensive; cod are cheap; trout are abundant; but salmon are best para
3. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
4. , It was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown
down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right.
5. “Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”
6. "I lost my keys and my temper.
7. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
8. The storm brought us a little bit of rain today
9. Nobody goes to Murphy’s Bar anymore — it’s too crowded.
10. She’s going to die of embarrassment.
1. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. anti
2. Perch are inexpensive; cod are cheap; trout are abundant; but salmon are best para
3. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
4. , It was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown
down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right.
5. “Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”
6. "I lost my keys and my temper.
7. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
8. The storm brought us a little bit of rain today
9. Nobody goes to Murphy’s Bar anymore — it’s too crowded.
10. She’s going to die of embarrassment.
Friday (4/3)
Task 1: Work on your Sixth Extinction identifications.
Task 2: Review the changes for the AP exam. (click the file to the right) |
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Block 2 (4/1)
Notice: If you have not yet gone and posted to the discussion for the TGOW socratic. Go do this ASAP. It is located in "activites" -- "discussions"
Task 1: Read "Against Nature" by Oates (pg 841)
How do you think the speaker would respond to the current pandemic?
(connect to current issues/concerns, but be sure to cite at least three moments in the text to support your argument)
Task 2: Submit your typed, MLA-formatted paragraph to in powerschool/pages by Friday.
Task 1: Read "Against Nature" by Oates (pg 841)
How do you think the speaker would respond to the current pandemic?
(connect to current issues/concerns, but be sure to cite at least three moments in the text to support your argument)
Task 2: Submit your typed, MLA-formatted paragraph to in powerschool/pages by Friday.
Block 1 (3/31)
Task 1: Begin The Sixth Extinction.
Read the following by next Monday and complete the Part I Identifications: - "Prologue" - "The Sixth Extinction" - "The Mastadon Molars" - "The Original Penguin" Interesting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/pandemics-and-the-shape-of-human-history (note the author, published yesterday) Task 2: Try to get through Chapter 1 today. Task 3: Check back here tomorrow at our regular class time. |
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Monday, March 30th
Task 1: At 2pm, join our class Bluejeans session.
a. In powerschool, go to class pages and follow the link to my Bluejeans meeting.
b. Tell the class--which character from The Grapes of Wrath would you most want to be
quarantined with, if you had to be stuck with one of them, and why.
Task 2: Discussion: Three Societies- (3 Comments, 3 Questions of others' posts, 3 Responses to others' questions)
Task 3: Upload your questions to powerschool (this can be photos of written work), it might be
best to place the photos in a word document and publish as one file.
Task 4: Check back here tomorrow at our regular class time.
a. In powerschool, go to class pages and follow the link to my Bluejeans meeting.
b. Tell the class--which character from The Grapes of Wrath would you most want to be
quarantined with, if you had to be stuck with one of them, and why.
Task 2: Discussion: Three Societies- (3 Comments, 3 Questions of others' posts, 3 Responses to others' questions)
Task 3: Upload your questions to powerschool (this can be photos of written work), it might be
best to place the photos in a word document and publish as one file.
Task 4: Check back here tomorrow at our regular class time.
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