Effective immediately, Unless you are absent when an assignment is due, I will not accept an emailed assignment. NO MORE EXCUSES. You will turn-in an assignment when it is due.
In other words, if you are not in the school when an assignment is due-you must email it to me.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Three-Ring Binder Requirement
Unfortunately, several students from each band have not yet entered the class with the required binder. Beginning on Tuesday, for those who enter without one, they will receive a "0."
I am considering this a homework assignment. Imagine what that will do to your average...
How will you explain this to your parents?
I am considering this a homework assignment. Imagine what that will do to your average...
How will you explain this to your parents?
Attention: Parents and Students
It has come to my attention-in a rather accusatory manner-that certain individuals who did not complete the Summer Reading Assignments-received an "A" for the First-Marking Period.
This could very well have been true for those who were NOT on the AP English Language and Composition register in June and only discovered that they were in the class upon their return in September.
I will under no circumstances continue to tolerate students "getting in my face" making this accusation. Ironically, this accusation has been made by mediocre performing students. If it continues, your parents and the AP of the Humanities Department will be invited to meet with me to discuss this situation.
Furthermore, I find it disturbing that some of these very same students are not abiding by the "twenty-four" hour rule. Amazingly, immediately upon receiving their graded timed-write, I am approached in a belligerent manner. Why is this so "amazing"? They have done so without carefully re-reading the passage, without carefully re-reading their written response, without reading a classmate's paper that received a higher-grade than they did, and without reviewing the handouts and/or the links provided on nicenet! (Can you name that rhetorical device?)
You are NOT in a "literature" class! You are in a "rhetoric" class. Clearly by now, you have discerned the difference.
This could very well have been true for those who were NOT on the AP English Language and Composition register in June and only discovered that they were in the class upon their return in September.
I will under no circumstances continue to tolerate students "getting in my face" making this accusation. Ironically, this accusation has been made by mediocre performing students. If it continues, your parents and the AP of the Humanities Department will be invited to meet with me to discuss this situation.
Furthermore, I find it disturbing that some of these very same students are not abiding by the "twenty-four" hour rule. Amazingly, immediately upon receiving their graded timed-write, I am approached in a belligerent manner. Why is this so "amazing"? They have done so without carefully re-reading the passage, without carefully re-reading their written response, without reading a classmate's paper that received a higher-grade than they did, and without reviewing the handouts and/or the links provided on nicenet! (Can you name that rhetorical device?)
You are NOT in a "literature" class! You are in a "rhetoric" class. Clearly by now, you have discerned the difference.
The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Journal Assignment
Rhetorical Journals for Chapters 5 and 6 due: Wednesday, 28 October.
(Only 3 entries per chapter)
(Only 3 entries per chapter)
The Great Gatsby Novel
A and B Bands: Bring both your textbook and the novel to class on Tuesday, 27, October.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Language of Composition Textbook Assignment
For the weekend, you will read the excerpt from Emerson's essay "Education" on pages 102 to 109. You will also answer the twelve questions under "Questions on Rhetoric and Style." You will word-process (type) this assignment. You will leave space after each response. You will answer in complete sentences. You will turn-in this assignment on-time.
D-Band: Monday, 26 October
A and B Bands: Tuesday, 27 October
I will not accept this assignment late.
D-Band: Monday, 26 October
A and B Bands: Tuesday, 27 October
I will not accept this assignment late.
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