Be Advised: I have updated the results of three assignments on Jupiter (Patrick Henry, Murrow Speech, and the Annotations for the Murrow speech). Dear Parents: I have repeatedly reminded your child that the assignments missing can ONLY be made-up during the designated 37 1/2 minute tutoring sessions. Furthermore, I have even indicated that I would even stay late on Friday to accommodate your child's schedule. Kindly urge your child to take advantage of the opportunity to change their "0" to a passing grade.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT-THE CUT-OFF DATE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY IS WEDNESDAY, 6 JUNE 2012!

Schedule for Week of 28 May:


For Tuesday, 29 May: ALL BANDS: Read Roads to Destiny (see link for story below) FOCUS: Existentialism I suggest you download and print a copy of this story if possible-annotate and write notes in the margins. This will facilitate discussion. Be advised that I directed you to this story approximately ten days ago. By Now everyone should have turned-in the Dialectical Journals for Chapters 7/8 and 9/10. If you have not done so, you must hand me this assignment as you enter the classroom on Tuesday-DO NOT EMAIL ME THIS ASSIGNMENT AND DO NOT PLACE THIS ASSIGNMENT IN MY MAILBOX.

You must bring your textbook to class on Tuesday for collection and you must bring TEWWG novel to class on Tuesday for collection also!

 

WOW! You have completed the AP English Language and Composition Examination and have earned a 4 or a 5! Too bad your morning had to begin the way it did. As I typed this statement, I realized that your experience this morning is related to our next topic/lesson/writing assignment. Included below is a link to the short story you will be assigned after the watching of a film related to our next unit of study.

Roads of Destiny  O' Henry

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Thursday! Please keep in mind that the semester is not over...

Test

ATTENTION: You must report at 0730 hours at the MAC for your AP Test on Wednesday, 16 May

Schedule for Week of 23 April:

Students in ALL Bands will turn in the responses to the questions for Orwell's Politics and the English Language. If your band does not meet on Monday, you will hand deliver the assignment to me in Room 404-you will NOT place it in my mailbox in the General Office. If you are absent on Monday, you will email me the assignment-send as a MS Word attachment. Upon your return to school, you will hand me a "hard" copy of the assignment.

On Monday (G Band) and on Tuesday (A and B Band), Ms. B. from the College Office will visit so that your response sheet for the AP Exam can be filled-in. Bring a #2 pencil-Pay close attention to the instructions given.

Bring your TEWWG novel to class everyday this week.

Schedule for Week of 16 April:
RD Test #2: Thursday, 19 April-see post below for specific devices.

Analyzing Rhetoric: Orwell's Politics and the English Language
(Focus: How does Orwell "sustain" his argument?) A separate "Classwork/Homework" handout will be distributed in class.

Supporting Your Argument: Emerson's The American Scholar
Writing Assignment: Handout-Part I (in-class) and Part II (homework)

Analyzing a Writer's Argument: Bellow's Man Underground and Locke's The New Negro assignment sheet with links to the essays

Analyzing text with a "connection" to a specific "prompt": Huey Long's Every Man A King
Every Man A King assignment sheet

Analysis Essay-Rhetorical Purpose: Murrow's Speech (Television...w/ a connection to film good night, and good luck)/Mark's If I Were A Black Kid and Peitzman's If I Were A Middle Aged White Man
Click on link for the speech, essays, and writing prompts.

DUE DATES: TBA (Note: You will no longer have several days to complete an assignment...an assignment will more than likely be due on a day that your class does not meet...you will still be required to "hand-deliver" the assignment to me in Room 404...no excuses-no exceptions!

Rhetorical Devices (Examples) Test #2- Thursday, 19 April:
I suggest you familiarize yourself with the definitions of the following devices as well as the related examples- You must identify the examples for each device not its definition:
aphorism euphemism invective juxtaposition anaphora
appositive Balanced Sentence Loose Sentence Periodic Sentence
Apophasis Zeugma Chiasmus Non Sequitur Ad Hominem antimetabole
inversion polysyndeton hypophora epistrophe epizeuxis

NOTE: Do you know that the "giving and/or receiving of test information" is PLAGIARISM! You do this in college and the administration will send you home-imagine your parents' reaction...All I can do is refuse your request for a college letter of recommendation-surely, you do not want me to include a statement that you are a "PLAGIARIZER"!

IF you were absent for the Timed Write (Question #3 on the AP Exam-you must take it on Monday/Tuesday (4/17) during 371/2 minutes. It seems odd that the same individuals are usually absent on these days. Be advised that I have changed the question...Do you really think that I would give you the same test?