Daily Agendas and Assignments

Monday, August 18

No School

Tuesday, August 19

No School

Wednesday, August 20

What you need today: Pen, Paper for notes, Highlighter

Prayer: Prayer: May the road rise up to meet you./ May the wind be always at your back./ May the sun shine warm upon your face;/ the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,/ may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

1. Syllabus & Class Policies and Procedures

2. Submission of Summer Assignment Check: Assignments that are incomplete/ not done will result in student being sent to guidance for a schedule change to either Junior or Senior English.

Work Due: Summer assignment

Assignment:  Share syllabus with parents and get form completed for Monday. Send Ms. Greene an email explaining why you opted to take AP Lang this year (before class time tomorrow)

Thursday, August 21

What you need today: Chromebook, pen, highlighters

Prayer: Prayer: May the road rise up to meet you./ May the wind be always at your back./ May the sun shine warm upon your face;/ the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,/ may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

1. Bell Ringer: Open Chromebook and navigate to https://myap.collegeboard.org/. Join AP Classroom for AP Lang with the following code: LWZR2E

2. Discussion: The Great Gatsby Task Cards

Work Due:  Share syllabus with parents and get form completed for Monday. Send Ms. Greene an email explaining why you opted to take AP Lang this year

Homework: 

Friday, August 22

What you need today: Chromebook, pen

Bell Ringer: None

Prayer: Prayer: May the road rise up to meet you./ May the wind be always at your back./ May the sun shine warm upon your face;/ the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,/ may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

2. 1. Finish Gatsby Discussion using Task Cards

Work Due: Syllabus Form 

Assignment:  No assignment

Monday, August 25

What you need today: Chromebook, a pen, loose-leaf paper

1. Bell Ringer: You read two books over the summer: Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby, in a written response of at least 4 sentences, develop a claim about which of the two novels is either:

• a better novel over all

• a better novel to teach morality

     Be prepared to share your response.

2. Essential Questions for Summer Assignment:

   • How does literature make an argument about the human condition? (human condition = what it means to be human)

   • In what ways are The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men both critical commentaries on their time periods?

3. Important Ideas from OMAM

   • Curly's Wife

   • The End

4. Review Essential Questions for Unit 1:

• What purpose does rhetoric have in language and composition? 

• How/ in what ways is everything an argument? 

• What is the rhetorical situation and how does it affect an author’s choices?

  • Who or what is the writer, audience, message, purpose, and context that comprise the rhetorical situation?

  • What claim does the author attempt to defend, and how does that claim convey the writer’s position on the subject?

  • Where in the text does the writer establish a claim?

• In what ways can I establish a claim and what kinds of evidence can I use to defend my claim?

5. In Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby, the authors were trying to make a statement about something. In literature we call the author's message about a topic a theme. In language analysis it is called a CLAIM. Discuss the themes/ claims of The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men.

Assignment: 

1. Read this document about annotation. Using the document read the article provided to you in class, and use each strategy 2 time. Be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday. Use the following CODES to be sure you know which strategy is which on your document: 

   • CL = Clarify

   • S = Summary

   • Q = Question

   • CON = Connect

   • V = Visualize

   • R = Respond

Example Document for Annotation 

Video Lesson on  Annotation

Tuesday, August 26

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Share your annotations with a partner

2. Finish any discussion on OMAM, as needed

3. Annotation--What questions do you have about the annotation strategies you worked on last night?

4. Introduction to Rhetoric 

   1. Video Link

   2. Activity Link from PearDeck

Work Due: Nothing Due

Assignment:  Complete AP Classroom August Practice Exam 1 MCQs due Monday by Noon 

Wednesday, August 28

What you need today: Chromebook, loose-leaf paper, pen

1. Bell Ringer: In your notebook, jot down what you would think the rhetorical situation of the image at this link. Just look at the image, don't read the answer just yet.

2. Introduction to the Rhetorical Situation

Work Due: Dinner Party

Assignment:  Read the first half of Chapter 1 of LOC

Thursday, August 29

What you need today: Chromebook, a pen, loose-leaf paper

1. Bell Ringer: 

2. Continue intro to Rhetoric

Work Due: Read first half of Ch 1 LOC

Assignment:  Finish reading Chapter 1 LOC for Tuesday. View AP Daily 1.1A.1 for Tuesday at noon. Finish the Pretest MCQs in AP Classroom for Tuesday. (I think it closes on Monday at noon)

Friday, August 30

What you need today: Notes and Pen

1. Bell Ringer: Exploring Exigence, recreate this chart in your notes. Then complete.

2. Continue Rhetoric

3. Gehrig, "Farewell to Baseball" with a focus on Occasion, Context, Purpose, and Diction

Work Due: Have read LOC Chapter 1

Assignment: AP Daily 1.1A.1 for Tuesday class time, find guided notes here

Monday, September 1

No School

Tuesday, September 2

What you need today: Pen

1. Bell Ringer: None today

2. Finish discussing SOAPSTone Greta T. from Friday

Work Due: AP Daily 1.1A.1

Assignment: Respond to any questions in packet not completed in class today.

Wednesday, September 3

What you need today: pen, highlighter

1. Bell Ringer: Quizlet Jeopardy, get with your assigned teammate and be sure you have one paddle, marker, and eraser per team.

2. The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: AP Daily 1.1A.2 & Finish reading through The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone for Thursday

Thursday, September 4

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Open the link, recreate the document in your notes. Complete. Exploring Exigence Chart

2. Exigence and Audience (take some notes)

3. Continue The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone 

4. Discuss Tone Advert/Meme Assignment, if time permits

Work Due:  AP Daily 1.1A.2 & Finish reading through The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone 

Assignment:  AP Daily 1.1A.3 for tomorrow, AP Classroom Topic Questions Unit 1.1 for Monday, Tone Advert/Meme Assignment due Monday

Friday, September 5

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Read the letter.

2. Finish, as needed, The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone 

3. Discuss Tone Advert/Meme Assignment, as needed

Work Due: AP Daily 1.1A.3

Assignment: AP Classroom Topic Questions Unit 1.1 and Tone Meme Assignment

Monday, September 8

What you need today: LOC, Pen

Bell Ringer: Quizlet Vocabulary List 1 (Quiz Sept. 25)

1.  Finish The Basics of Rhetoric: Tone (Topic Sentences Now You Try)

2.  Notes on Purpose, Context, and Message

3. Einstein's Letter to Phyllis & SOAPSTone

Work Due: AP Classroom Topic Questions Unit 1.1 and Tone Meme/Advert Assignment

Assignment:  AP Daily 1.3A.1 & LOC activities pages 6-7: George W. Bush 9/11 

Tuesday, September 9

What you need today: Pen

Bell Ringer: View Authorial Voice 

1. Introduction to Voice Lessons Bell Ringers

2. Finish Einstein's Letter to Phyllis & SOAPSTone

3. Start Bush's 9/11 and 9/12 Speeches 

Work Due: AP Daily 1.3A.1 & LOC activities pages 6-7: George W. Bush 9/11 

Assignment:  AP Daily 1.3A.2 

Wednesday, September 10

Bell Ringer: Voice Lessons Diction Spots

1. Continue Bush's 9/11 and 9/12 Speeches 

Work Due:  AP Daily 1.3A.2

Assignment:  AP Daily 1.3A.3 & read Sontag and Byles to prepare for activity tomorrow

Thursday, September 11

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Voice Lessons Diction Tattered

2. Finish Bush's 9/11 and 9/12 Speeches 

Work Due:  AP Daily 1.3A.3 

Assignment:  Do Topic Questions 1.2 (AP Daily Quiz) for Friday & Read Gladwell from Chapter 3 of LOC

Friday, September 12

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Voice Lessons Diction Antidote

2. MEAL Paragraphs

3. Start Group Activity with Gladwell including Complexity and the 10,000 Hour Rule

Work Due:  Topic Questions 1.2 (AP Daily Quiz) for Friday & Read Gladwell from Chapter 3 of LOC

Assignment: Finish thesis statement for Gladwell from LOC and AP Daily 1.4A.1 for Monday

Monday, September 16

What you need today: Pen 

1. Bell Ringer: Diction Antidote

2. Open LOC to p. 116. Read "from Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell and the paragraph that follows it.

3. What rhetorically is Gladwell doing in his argument? How do we write about the choices a writer/ speaker makes?

4. Analytical Paragraphs: MEAL Paragraphs

Work Due: Have read: from the New Yorker Complexity and the 10,000 Hour Rule

Assignment: Read the colored paragraph (MEAL) example for tomorrow

Tuesday, September 17

What you need today: Pen

1. Bell Ringer: Diction Lipsticked

2.  MEAL paragraph example 

3. Now You Try: Gladwell creates a powerful argument about the use of language and math ability. 

Write a MEAL paragraph that uses 3 pieces of evidence supporting the above thesis statement that Gladwell creates an effective argument about math and language. If you do not finish this today, you wil have 20 minutes to work tomorrow. 

Work Due: Have read MEAL example

Assignment: AP Daily 1.4A.1,  AP Daily 1.4A.2, Unit 1 Claims and Evidence Reading "Quiz" in AP Classroom, for Wednesday

Wednesday, September 18

What you need today: Pen

1. Bell Ringer: Diction Bald light

2. Finish MEAL paragraph for 20 minutes in pairs.

3. Open LOC to 218. Read Me Talk Pretty One Day.

4. Discuss questions from Exploring the Text: 1, 2, 5, and 7 which will help you with the writing assignment. 

5. Writing Assignment: Read and annotate “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris (found in LOC). Write a paragraph that identifies the intended audience of the piece and analyzes 3 specific pieces of evidence the writer uses in the piece and how these pieces of evidence reveal the writer’s awareness of the audience’s beliefs, values, or needs.

Work Due: AP Daily 1.4A.2 and Topic Questions 1.3

Assignment:  Write down the answers to Exploring the Text: 1, 2, 5, and 7. Be prepared to discuss Thursday in class.

Thursday, September 19

What you need today: Pen

1. Bell Ringer: Diction Army

2. Homework check and Discussion on Sedaris Questions 

3. Work time on Sedaris MEAL paragraph

Work Due: Have written responses to prepare for discussion on Sedaris Exploring the Text 1,2,5,7

Assignment: Sedaris Writing Assignment due Monday by class time

Friday, September 20

No Class--Homecoming activities

Monday, September 22

What you need today: Pen, AMSCO book, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer: Diction "Most men wear"

2. Editing and Revising 

3. Claims, Evidence, and the Feedback Loop Notes

Work Due:  Sedaris Writing rough draft

Assignment:  Peer editing Sedaris paragraphs

Tuesday, September 23

What you need today: Chromebook

1. Xello Presentation by Guidance

Work Due: Have peer edited Sedaris paragraph

Assignment: Final Draft of Sedaris paragraph for Thursday, end of school day

Wednesday, September 24

What you need today: Pen, notes, AP Lang Packet, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer: Click on this link and register for WEF @ StriveFair.com. Then open Google Classroom for your quiz.

2. Vocabulary Quiz in Google Classroom

3. Diction makes a difference... Merriam Webster on Insta

4. Finish notes started Monday on Claims, Evidence, and the Feedback Loop

5.  Start the Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: Have read through The Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals for class time tomorrow

Thursday, September 25

What you need today: Pen, Basics of Rhetoric packet, Chromebook, AP Lang Packet

1. Bell Ringer: Diction "Doc awakened"

2. Work time on The Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals

Work Due: Sedaris Final Draft to Google Classroom and Turnitin.com

Assignment:  Finish The Basics of Rhetoric Assignment

Friday, September 26

No School

Monday, September 29

What you need today: Pen, Chromebook, paper for notes

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, Pots rattled

2. Finish notes from last week

3. Correlation/ Causation 

Work Due: The Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals from Thursday

Assignments:  AP Daily Videos 2.2.B.1-3 for Friday

Tuesday, September 30

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, Once I am sure

2. Finish notes from last week including correlation/ causation discussion

3. Discuss The Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals

4. Jourdan Anderson Letter

Work Due: 

Assignment: AP Daily 2.3A.1 for Friday

Wednesday, October 1

What you need today: Pen, Four Colors of Highlighters, MEAL paragraph printed

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, dulcify

2. Finish The Basics of Rhetoric: Emotional and Logical Appeals

3. Jourdan Anderson Letter

Work Due: AP Daily 2.3A.1

Assignment:  AP Daily 2.3A.2-3 for Friday & read through Jourdan Anderson letter completing SOAPSTone for class time

Thursday, October 3

What you need today: Pen, Chromebook

1. Bell Ringer: Interactive Superhero/ Villain Activity click on link and complete the discussion

2. Work on Jourdan Anderson Letter

Work Due: AP Daily 2.3A.2-3, SOAPSTone for Jourdan Anderson letter

Assignment:  Finish any AP Daily Videos that you may be behind on

Friday, October 4

No School

Monday, October 6

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, Wind rocks AND furrowed

2. The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona

Work Due:  AP Daily Videos

Assignment: The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona for Wednesday submit to Google Classroom and Turnitin.com

Tuesday, October 7

What you need today: LOC, Chromebook, notes

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, like bone

2. Discuss The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona

Work Due: Be prepared to talk about the questions for The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona

Assignment: The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona for Wednesday submit to Google Classroom and Turnitin.com, Check AP Classroom for AP Daily Videos

Wednesday, October 8

What you need today: LOC, Chromebook, notes

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, pond/womb

2. Declaration of Independence Annotation introduction to assignment.

3. Thesis statements

4. Notes on Narrative 

5. Read "Fish Cheeks" then decide, is the thesis statement explicit or implied. If explicit, identify it. If implied, write it in your own words. 

Work Due: The Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos and Persona submit to Google Classroom and Turnitin.com

Assignment:  Assigned AP Daily videos check due date on AP Classroom; Complete Declaration of Independence Annotation as assigned in class, submit to Google Classroom by start of class Thursday

Thursday, October 9

What you need today: 

3. Bell Ringer: Diction, grinding/ discontinuous

4. Submit Declaration of Independence

5. Questions for Declaration of Independence

6. Continue Thesis statements

7. Notes on Narrative 

Work Due: Declaration of Independence Annotation to Google Classroom by class time

Assignment: Work on AP Daily Videos, read "Shooting an Elephant" for class Monday

Friday, October 10

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, lighted green

2. Sedaris Assignment Curve--See comments and original rubric scores in Turnitin.com

3. Finish Notes on Narrative, as needed

4. Read "Fish Cheeks" then decide, is the thesis statement explicit or implied. If explicit, identify it. If implied, write it in your own words and Discussion of "Fish Cheeks."

5. Precis

Work Due: Have read "Shooting an Elephant;" Assigned AP Daily videos check due date on AP Classroom

Assignment: Assigned AP Daily videos check due date on AP Classroom, Read "Shooting an Elephant" from LOC for Monday

Monday, October 13

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, This is earthquake weather

2. Continue Precis, as needed

3. Discussion of precis for "Shooting an Elephant,"

4. Introduction to Flipbook Project (Semester 1 Exam)

5.  Says/ Does Analysis Journal (Semester 1 Project)

Work Due: Assigned AP Daily videos check due date on AP Classroom, Have read "Shooting an Elephant"

Assignment: Assigned AP Daily videos check due date on AP Classroom and Read Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson 

Tuesday, October 14

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Diction, Twenty dead bodies

2. Description Notes

3. Start Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson

Work Due: Have read through Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson 

Assignment: No assignment

Wednesday, October 15

What you need today: 

1. Continue Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson

Work Due: Nothing due

Assignment: Respond to the seven Practice Higher Order Thinking Questions and be prepared to discuss them tomorrow.

Thursday, October 16

What you need today: 

1. Bell Ringer: Details

2. Assignment Clarification for SOAPSTone: 

   • Speaker--who is it? What do you know about him?

   • Occasion--you may have to do a little research. What is the reason for the letter? What was the political environment at the time? What is historical context for this? Exigence, why this letter at this point of time? Why this message in the here and now?

   • Audience--in a letter it tells who is addressed to, but this letter was also published in the newspapers, so consider what you learned about in occasion to determine who is the full audience being addressed

   •  Purpose--again, consider the full audience and the occasion/ exigence. What does the speaker want to accomplish in the short term and the long term?

   • Subject--general overview of the topic(s) addressed

   • Tone

     1. First, identify the modes of rhetoric used to the best of your ability. I would mark them in the margin some how (narration, illustration, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, description, definition, etc.)

     2. Then, I would highlight and mark any literary devices you see used (anaphora, parallel structure, repetition, metaphor, simile, allusion, etc.)

3. Continue Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson

Work Due: Respond to the seven Practice Higher Order Thinking Questions and be prepared to discuss them

Assignment:" Letter from Birmingham Jail" and use the ideas above to complete a SOAPSTone for the letter. Be prepared to discuss in class on Monday.

Friday, October 17

4. Bell Ringer: Details

5. Assignment Clarification for SOAPSTone: 

   • Speaker--who is it? What do you know about him?

   • Occasion--you may have to do a little research. What is the reason for the letter? What was the political environment at the time? What is historical context for this? Exigence, why this letter at this point of time? Why this message in the here and now?

   • Audience--in a letter it tells who is addressed to, but this letter was also published in the newspapers, so consider what you learned about in occasion to determine who is the full audience being addressed

   •  Purpose--again, consider the full audience and the occasion/ exigence. What does the speaker want to accomplish in the short term and the long term?

   • Subject--general overview of the topic(s) addressed

   • Tone

     1. First, identify the modes of rhetoric used to the best of your ability. I would mark them in the margin some how (narration, illustration, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, description, definition, etc.)

     2. Then, I would highlight and mark any literary devices you see used (anaphora, parallel structure, repetition, metaphor, simile, allusion, etc.)

6. Continue Deliberate and Intentional Diction Lesson

Work Due: Respond to the seven Practice Higher Order Thinking Questions and be prepared to discuss them

Assignment:" Letter from Birmingham Jail" and use the ideas above to complete a SOAPSTone for the letter. Be prepared to discuss in class on Monday.

Monday, October 21

1. Bell Ringer: Review Details, jot down a few notes

2. Discuss SOAPSTone of "Letter from  Birmingham Jail"

3. Work time on Precis for LfBJ

Work Due:   SOAPSTone of "Letter from Birmingham Jail

Assignment: Precis for "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Tuesday, October 22

1. Peer revision on Precis

2. Flipbook project--Semester 1 Exam

3. Says, Does Journals

4. Outlining

Work Due: Precis for  "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Assignment: Outline of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" based on precis

Wednesday, October 23

1. Bell Ringer: Details, 

2. Outlining--> drafting

• MEAL paragraphs

3. Says, Does Journals

Work Due:  Outline

Assignment: Topic sentences for each body paragraph

Thursday, October 24 Last Day of Quarter 1

1. Give Ms. Greene your outline with the Thesis and topic sentences highlighted.

2. Line of reasoning defined and example

3. Line of Reasoning Activity

Work Due:  Topic sentences for "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Outline

Assignment: Reread "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and complete the graphic organizer with King's line of reasoning.

Friday, October 25 No School Today!