Important Information for AP testing

The AP LANGUAGE TEST is Wednesday, May 13 in the Vintage Little Theater

NO BACKPACKS!  You can leave yours in my classroom if you need somewhere to keep it while you test.

Students must bring ID to the test.

Students must arrive at 7:30 AM for the morning test sessions.

Students arriving late may/will not be allowed into the testing location, after test has started.

Bring water for the test session.

Bring your own No. 2 pencil and blue/black pen, if they need it.

Bring calculators, if they are allowed.

Monday, April 27

Target: to take the CAASP test for English

1. Listen to Instructions/Register/Begin Smarter Balance Summative Adaptive Test

2. Leftover time? Review your claims about Addie in As I Lay Dying

Schedule for the rest of the Week

Tuesday: 2nd part of the SBSAT   leftover time?  Discuss Whitfield

Wednesday: Classroom Activity for Performance Task (30 min)  leftover time? review Rhetorical Analysis Practice Test  Here is my LAST stylesheet: PLEASE READ! RA Stylesheet

RTI:  come to REVISE your RA Sanders Analysis

Thursday: Performance Task (part 1)  leftover time?  Discuss R/A prompts from last week using sample essays.

RTI: Multiple choice practice

Friday: Performance Task (part 2)  leftover time? Finish R/A prompts or new SOAPSTONE?

next Monday 5/4: vocab 13 test/review multiple choice practice AP test questions/return arguments

Lesson 13 Vocabulary cards

https://quizlet.com/71528786/vocabulary-power-plus-for-the-new-sat-book-three-lesson-thirteen-flash-cards/

Friday, April 24

Target: to create an evidence-based claim about the character Addie Bundren, after reading her chapter in the novel.

1. Who was Addie Bundren?  As you carefully reread her chapter, pull out three related details and put them into this Evidence-Based Claim chart.  (You will have to make a copy first.) 

2. Tell me what each of them means and why they are important signifiers of who she was.

3. Make those relationships explicit by discussing the connections between the details.

4. NOW--this is INDUCTION, remember?  MAKE A CLAIM/CONCLUSION/INFERENCE about Addie based on these details.  Remember a claim is NOT a statement of obvious fact, it should INSIGHTFUL, and the product of your critical thinking.  GO DEEP!

5. When you have finished, share your doc with ONE PERSON in your group (partner up), and ask them to make comments on your claim or your commentary.  Share with ME when you are done: jenlamonte@gmail.com

READ TO 197 (or around 210) in the new books for MONDAY.

Thursday, April 23

Target: to submit a thesis statement to me on a google doc for TWO rhetorical analysis prompts.

1. Read both essays (Lord Chesterfield and Lady Montagu)at the front of the packet I gave them yesterday. Please follow the same process you went through yesterday:  SOAPSTONE and then a more detailed listing of devices, etc. This should take about 30-35minutes.
2. Here is link for you to post your thesis statement for a rhetorical analysis essay...for both pieces if possible:

FIRST PERIOD: MONTAGU AND CHESTERFIELD

SECOND PERIOD: MONTAGU and CHESTERFIELD

REVIEW the thesis statements.  Where do you see strengths?  Weaknesses?  We will discuss these on Monday. 

NOTE: These are really tough pieces!  Don't worry if you are struggling here.

READ AS I LAY DYING for class tomorrow, focusing especially on the CORA/ADDIE/WHITFIELD trifecta.

Wednesday, April 22

Target: to practice setting yourself up to write a Rhetorical Analysis

1. Read the Ellen Goodman essay on the last page of the packet from today.

2. Complete SOAPSTONE somewhere on it or on scratch paper. Share with your group AFTER you have tried this on your own!

3. THEN, fill out the new RA graphic organizer---you may collaborate if you need to on this.

4. Try this again with the Hazlitt prompt as well, if there is time.

Tuesday, April 21

Target:  to look for archetypes in the novel so far

1. Review character credibility form results.

2. Discuss archetypes in literature you are familiar with.  Research ones you aren't.

3.  Discuss the journey archetype in this story so far.

4. Read one chapter together.  Ask questions.  Answer collectively.

READ to page ___179___for Friday's class.

Monday, April 20

Target: to self-evaluate and consider your AP score

1. Vocabulary Test Lesson 12--and Prom pictures?

2.  Read a high/medium/low paper on apcentral:  from 2007

Discuss what you get from reading these papers:

What does it mean to synthesize a source, instead of just "dropping [sources] into sentences"?

3. Reread your paper.  Is your score accurate?  Write me a note about why you think it is or is not accurate.  Also, tell me what you will differently next time.

4. Pass back multiple choice practice. Look at AP score calculator on paper or HERE.  What do you need to get on your Rhetorical Analysis and your Argument to pass?

As I Lay Dying: READ to 135 (new: 149) for tomorrow's class.

Rank credibility of AILD narrators

Google Credibility Form

Class Responses: http://goo.gl/sgz2HG

Friday, April 17

Target:  to find a credible narrator in As I Lay Daying

Reminder about study tools: ap central and memrise...learnerator, too!

1. Discuss the differences between Cash and Darl

2. Narrators and their qualities:  Which narrator do you trust the most so far?

3. Archetypes in the novel

Read to page 135 or 149 for TUESDAY--Synthesis follow-up on MONDAY.

Thursday, April 16

Target:  to practice scoring a Synthesis essay

1. By group assignment, re-read one of the sources from the Practice Synthesis essay prompt 2007.

2. Each group will discuss 

• the main argument/purpose of the text
• the author's credentials 
• key diction, details that you might have used (or would use) in your essay
• what other texts in the packet this one "talks to" (either as support or a refutation)

3. Report out and Fill out the graphic organizer together

Pro        Con           Response

4. Read sample essays, from High to Low on ap central

Discuss in your group:  why did each paper receive that score?

5. Now take a look at random student essay. Score it.

6. Get your paper back.  Do you agree with the score?  Write a defense or a challenge for that particular score.  Staple it to your paper and return to me. 

Wednesday, April 15

Target:  Explaining Death to Vardaman

Today we read three poems that deal with death and discussed how these poems might offer us to talking points to attempt to explain death to Vardaman from As I Lay Dying.

Read to page 135 (or 149 in the new book) by MONDAY.

Tomorrow is Synthesis practice/scoring and Friday we will discuss Cash vs. Darl, narrators we trust, and possibly even the Journey archetypes in the story.

Tuesday, April 14

Target: to read closely three passages from As I Lay Dying in order to clear up questions or confusion

Important information about accessing your test scores in July: https://apscore.collegeboard.org/scores?ep_ch=PR&ep_mid=11082930&ep_rid=621537111. 

Fill out this google doc while we review three chapters from the text today: http://goo.gl/CXUt6B

Dewey Dell's state of mind:


Vardaman's fallacies:



Darl's vision: 

Monday, April 13

Target:  To see how sources from the synthesis prompt "talk to each other."

1. Outline the key arguments for and against your position on the locovore prompt. Here is our PRO/CON chart from 2nd period: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noLnkcErhA-6KOri1_-ieimQHNtC_XqhEhadOIh7YDU/edit

2.  WRITE one paragraph using evidence from two texts that "talk to each other" to support a concession and rebuttal.

Remember to FRAME, EMBED, and CITE.

3. Share with your group and get feedback.  You are looking for this quality of an 8 paper: 

 "The evidence and explanations used are appropriate and convincing."

4. 4 square debate?

5. Look at students samples for this prompt: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap11_english_language_q1.pdf

Vocabulary Lesson 12 words--Test next Friday!

Lesson 12 words are here: http://quizlet.com/71527102/vocabulary-power-plus-for-the-new-sat-book-three-lesson-twelve-flash-cards/

Friday, April 10

Target:  To practice FRAMING, EMBEDDING and CITING sources from a synthesis prompt

SYNTHESIS RUBRIC: GENERIC SYN RUBRIC

1. Return Synthesis on HUCK FINN  Calculate your score: http://appass.com/calculators/englishlanguage

2. Synthesis Prompt from 2011: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap11_frq_english_language.pdf

3. 15 minutes:  Read and annotate sources.  Label them PRO or CON.  HIGHLIGHT or underline the most important details that you might use to make a defense or a challenge or a qualification.

As I Lay Dying reading deadline

Read pages 59-108 (or to 122 in the new book)  for TUESDAY, April 14

Thursday, April 9

TARGET:  to brush up on the important elements of a rhetorical analysis

1. Read sample 2013 RA prompt: Question 2: "Last Child in the Woods" 

Remember to use SOAPSTONE as a starting point!

2. Read sample essays: sample AP papers

3. Review Style Sheet: Q & A 2013 and add to your own AP STYLE SHEET.

DWA grade equivalents

I just entered your grades into Aeries.  Because you are an AP class, I used the 12th grade equivalents for your scores.  See here: Suggested Grade Equivalents DWA 2015

Tuesday and Wednesday--April 7 & 8, 2015

Target:  to look for answers to text-specific questions, using feedback from your partner. 

Overarching question to consider while reading: Why would an author make his readers work so hard to find meaning?

1. Number off into 7's.  Each trio is assigned one character.

2. Label their statements as Fact, Opinion, or Inference, reviewing their chapters from pages 1-24.

3. Discuss as a full class. 

4. Reread the passage about Jewel and his horse. Use questions provided to guide our discussion.

5. Use "What's going on?" to understand pages 26-52, taking on three questions at a time.

HOMEWORK:  read to page ____ by Tuesday.

April 6, 2015

Target: Multiple Choice Monday

Here is the link to sign up for the practice tests this week after school Thursday or Saturday morning:http://goo.gl/Jlv5f2

Today:  TWO sections from the 2001 AP test!

Bring As I Lay Dying to class tomorrow so we can discuss the first 58 pages in class.