Thursday, May 28

Target: to consider the effect of your presentation on your audience

1. Netflix reminder

2. Share a sample slide for a critique

3.  TOMORROW is the final vocabulary test!!!!

Wednesday, May 27

Target: to begin discussing the structure of your presentation

1. Turn in textbooks to Metal Shop.  Any more Thank you for Arguing???  Please?????

2.  Create your Google Slides and share.  How will you structure your slides so they cover all the elements to analyze?  See assignment AGAIN.

Which scene will you present to us with a thorough analysis of Film Techniques and Rhetorical Devices that contribute effectively to the purpose of the film?

3. Vocabulary Volleyball....I hope.

Tuesday, May 26

Target:  to complete SOAPSTone for your documentary film, and set the agenda for the rest of the week. 

1. SOAPSTone--write it on your shared notetaking doc.

2. Compare notes on the details: which scenes did you find memorable or important?

3. Make a game plan.    If there is time, make a copy of the Slides and share with your group.

VOCABULARY VOLLEYBALL--last 10 minutes  Lesson 8

Friday, May 22

Target: to begin the collaborative process of working together on your Documentary Film Project

1. Take Vocabulary Test #14

2. With your group, decide who will be the 

• "Discussion Director,"--this person is in charge of the agenda for each day's work.
• the "Time Manager,"---this person is responsible for keeping people on task during class, and  timing the final presentation.
• the "Final Editor,"---this person is in charge of closely reading the slides when you are finished, looking for grammar or formatting errors.
• the "Connector"---this person is in charge of communication for your group.  This person will text or email or call everyone when your group has set up times to work together outside of class.

REVIEW the Documentary Film assignment so you are clear on EXACTLY what you are being asked to do. 

See the Collaboration Rubric I will use next week to assess your work in class: 

Collaboration
	0	1	2	3	4
Comes to the group prepared by reading the material and completing the work.
Listens to group members and responds thoughtfully.
Provides feedback on partner work that is constructive and helpful.
Continues to contribute to the group work throughout the entire process
Comments:

3. RESEARCH "SPEAKER":  Next, work on using Google searches to find more about your director and their associated production company.  Who is behind this film?  Who funded it?  Can you find any other films by them?  What can you find out about SPEAKER and their ETHOS?  Do they seem credible?  Any concerns?

4. RESEARCH "OCCASION":  Do some reading about your subject and any recent or historical events that may have inspired the filmmaker to make the film or may help you understand the context of the film.  For example, if you were watching Southern Rites you might read news stories that were published about the segregated proms before the film was made AND/OR read about segregation in the South during the Civil Rights era. 

Add to the group copy of the note-taking sheet I gave you.  

REMEMBER TO WATCH this weekend!

Thursday, May 21

Target: to practice analyzing film techniques 

1. 10 minutes to SUBVOCALIZE and edit As I Lay Dying essays!!! TURN IN YOUR BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY.

2. Continue discussing film vocabulary.  See samples notes on "An Inconvenient Truth" 

3. Watch "Rear Window" clip and beginning of "Miss Representation"---practice identifying film techniques and effect. Use NOTES: TAKE NOTES WHILE YOU WATCH!

Use these as you watch at home over the next few days!  You may write them online or use the paper copies!

REMEMBER permission slips are due TOMORROW!

Wednesday, May 19

Target: to review the documentary film assignment

RUBRIC

Sign ups: https://goo.gl/xsWu64

Review assignment and Film vocabulary

Tuesday, May 19

Target:  to write an on demand essay demonstrating your close reading of the novel As I Lay Dying

1. Reminder for make up testing tomorrow.

2. Review essay prompt and poem. Define PARADOX.

3. VOCABULARY CLARIFICATION:  Test 14 is THIS Friday, full test is NEXT FRIDAY the 29th. 

Monday, May 18

                                                        Lyubov Popova, 1912-13, Air Man Space

Target: to discuss Cash's "neo-cubist" chapter and find details that are connected to one of the big ideas at the heart of the novel

1. Cash as a "Neo-Cubist."  Work on questions in partners.  Post your assigned question and answer here: https://goo.gl/AxNnct  SECOND PERIOD LINK IS HERE: https://goo.gl/EzycOL

2. Review theme statements: https://goo.gl/Gvw46B

Reminders: 

• In class essay tomorrow on AILD
• Senior Boards are Wed and Thurs
• LAST vocabulary test befor the final is next  FRIDAY. 

VOCABULARY

Lesson 14: https://quizlet.com/12313648/power-plus-book-three-lesson-14-flash-cards/

Friday, May 15

Target: to see how Faulkner is influenced by Modernist art--how form (in this case, 15 first person narrators) can support purpose/theme

1. Heads up!  Review documentary film lists for next week: Documentary Film Project

2. Darl as a Scapegoat: Reread the scene where Darl is taken away.  Then, with a partner, attempt to form your own answers to the questions on the handout. Share out in 15?

3. Review a few pieces of Modernist Art after you have read the description of Modernism on the handout:

Marcel Duchamp/ "Nude Descending a Staircase": http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/marcel-duchamp/nude-descending-a-staircase-no-2-1912.jpg

Pablo Picasso/ "Three Musicians": http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/three-musicians.jpg

Georges Braque/"Violin and Candlestick": http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/georges-braque/violin-and-candlestick-1910.jpg

Joseph Stella/ "Brooklyn Bridge": http://www.tfaoi.com/am/1am/1am272.jpg

Calvin explains Cubism: http://eriklundegaard.com/item/calvin-and-hobbes-explains-fox-news-10-years-before-fox-news

3. Answer questions 1-4 after discussing them with a partner. 

MONDAY:  Cash as a Neo-Cubist? 

Tuesday: In class essay on As I Lay Dying.  I want to see you apply a given theme to your understanding of the novel.

Last vocabulary list!  Lesson 14: https://quizlet.com/12313648/power-plus-book-three-lesson-14-flash-cards/

Thursday, May 13

Target: to return to As I Lay Dying and revise your understanding of Addie Bundren

1. Silently review Cora, Addie and Whitfield's chapter.

2.  Review your "quiz" and EBC charts from two weeks ago.

3. Look at the theme statements.  How can we apply them to Addie's situation?  

4. The Barn Burning....share text specific questions here: 

TOMORROW: Review Modernism and Cash

IN CLASS ESSAY on AILD Monday or Tuesday.

Tuesday, May 12

Target:  to study rhetorical terms from the practice test, using a dictionary and online tools.

1. Take the WASC survey first, please. WASC survey

2. Here are links to online tools that can help you study for tomorrow's test:

Multiple choice practice: learnerator.com

Rhetorical terms: Find the AP language course there! memrise.com

Quizlet flashcards: https://quizlet.com/17709631/ap-language-rhetorical-terms-flash-cards/

I will be here early on Wednesday if you need a place for your backpacks.

 Review these reminders again before the test:

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.

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Monday, May 11

Target:  to finalize your outline for the Huxley/Orwell argument and review multiple choice questions for the last time.

1. Tomorrow:  take this survey!

Senior Board sign ups: May 20 or 21

Other sites to visit tomorrow:  Quizlet, Memrise, Learnerator  & DON"T FORGET YOUR AP TEST TO REVIEW.

2. 10 minutes:  Make it clear...show me your outline!

3. Review 2007 multiple choice questions.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, May 8

Target:  to practice setting up an argument 

1. Review the Argument stylesheet from Thursday.

2. Read the high end paper from 2007 samples.

3.  With a partner, assign one of you the "pro" side and the other the "con" side. Then fill out a rough graphic organizer (pro/con/response). (5 min)

4. Now, independently, form your argument for or against the Postman's claim.  What will your claims be?  What evidence will you use to support them?  Do you have any evidence to discredit the other side's claims in a rebuttal?

5. 4 square debate!  Here is what we talked about.  YOU provide the examples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LKNZr3x_0mP_d0cHisZdwPDfbW8mtovGhJgIjtXtr8I/edit

Thursday, May 7

1. Bellringer: http://www.cagle.com/news/baltimore-riots/

2. Argument style sheet: https://goo.gl/KlaAM1 and try a debate with a sample prompt.

3. Read the student samples from the Lord Chesterfield, Lady Montagu, and William Hazlitt prompts. What are your takeaways?  Open your AP EXAM stylesheet and take notes!

Here is mine where I took notes for the whole class: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bGIGa3yC8rvHphnnxiR3Ar9FGEO3Whf61DGbdNgQWtg/edit

Wednesday, May 6

Target: to continue determing purpose and tone, by "decoding" diction, detail and syntax. 

A "bellringer" for today: Discuss the argument in this political cartoon: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_frq_eng_lang.pdf

Volunteer to judge the Senior Boards! When: May 20 and 21 from 5:30-8:00 pm

 Senior Boards sign up

1. 1st period:  Finish David Brooks' SOAPSTONE and analysis--write your thesis!
2nd period:  Read and write for Julia Blount's post.

2. 2nd period:  Fill out your score sheet for the AP practice test.

 DON'T FORGET:  complete the multiple choice practice questions BEFORE Thursday's RTI session so we can review them together.  

 TOMORROW:  Argument style sheet and 4 square debate, using an "easy" graphic organizer that you must use!  

Tuesday, May 5

Target: to practice finding the PURPOSE and TONE, while identifying the devices that work together to communicate that:  diction, detail, and syntax

1. Vocabulary Lesson 13

2. Pass back argument papers (Question 3).  Add #2 and #3 to your score sheet and calculate your final score.

3. Finish the lesson from yesterday.  

Tomorrow we will practice argument, after I share some thoughts after the practice test.  The student sample papers are here for the argument prompt : http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap07_englang_op_q3.pdf

Monday, May 4

Target:  RHETORICAL ANALYSIS  

FIND THE PURPOSE and work from there!

A great review site: http://eng101online.com/Lessons/rhetoricalanalysis/rhetoricalanalysislesson_print.html

• Review Sanders piece from 2007 practice exam
• Look for the relationship between the organization and purpose and mode
• Look for important diction
• Look for important detail
• Look for sentence length and type, and then tone
• SOAPSTONE Julia Blount:  http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/dear_white_facebook_friends_i_need_you_to_respect_what_black_america_is_feeling_right_now/
• SOAPSTONE David Brooks: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/opinion/david-brooks-love-and-merit.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks#story-continues-4

Write an intro paragraph for one of the new pieces that ends with a thesis that MOST OF ALL communicates your understanding of their purpose. 

Why reading fiction is good for you...

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/01/403474870/does-reading-harry-potter-have-an-effect-on-your-behavior