Planner

Use this page to access class assignments, due dates, and homework. If you are absent, please use this page to ensure that you are caught up prior to returning to class. Any change that I make to my syllabus or the schedule will be noted here. Also, this page will be helpful when planning for long-term assignments, especially if you are already a busy person. Assessments (tests, quizzes, etc.) are in **bold**, classwork and lectures are in regular font, and homework assignments are in //italics.//

April/ May 2014 2. Gatsby Background Research. //HW: Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Gatsby by Thursday.// || 1. Grading Synthesis Prompts 2. Timed Synthesis Prompt //HW: Read Gatsby chapters 1 and 2.// || 1. Gatsby Presentations 2. "How to Restore the American Dream" //HW: Read Gatsby chapters 3 and 4.// || 1. Gatsby Quiz (1-4?) 2. American Dream Synthesis Posters //Spring Break Work: Finish reading Gatsby. Take note of colors and meaning, specifically when associated with the characters.// || 2. Mulitple Choice Monday! 3.Rhetorical Analysis Review //HW: Finish Gatsby.// || 1. Voice Lessons 2.Argumentative Essay Review 3. Satire 4. "Modest Proposal" || 1. Voice Lessons 2. "Modest Proposal" Multiple Choice Practice 3. Lit Term Review (look over them before class!) 4. AP Testing Strategies || 1. Voice Lessons 2. Gatsby Review/ Seminar 3. Synthesis Essay Review HW: Synthesis rewrite (optional) || 4th Block Conferences: Julee, Levi || 1. AP Bootcamp! 2nd Block Conference: Ian 4th Block Conferences: Abel, Kathryn || 4th Block Conferences: Brooke, Kelly || 1. AP Bootcamp! 2nd Block Conference: Matthew 4th Block Conferences: Alexandra, Jessica || 1. AP Bootcamp! 4th Block Conference: Olivia || 1.Bootcamp 30 mins 2.. AP Exam Final Reminders/ Review 3. Lit Terms Game
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **April 7-11** || 1. Multiple Choice Monday! || 1. Finish yesterday's MC.
 * **April 14-18** || Spring Break! :) || Spring Break! :) || Spring Break! :) || Spring Break! :) || Spring Break! :) ||
 * **April 21-25** || 1.Voice Lessons
 * Synthesis Essays returned today. || **1.** ** Gatsby Test **
 * **April 28-May 2** || 1. Full-length AP Exam: MC and 1 essay
 * Synthesis Rewrite due. || 1. Finish Full-length exam: 2 Essays || 1. AP Bootcamp! || 1. AP Bootcamp!
 * **May 5-9** || 1. AP Bootcamp!
 * AP Chemistry Exam
 * AP Calc Exam
 * Bootcamp MC packets due. || AP Lang Exam...Good Luck! You will all be awesome! :) ||

= March/ April 2014 =

2. London and Into the Wild 2. Argumentative Essay Rubrics || 1. Grade Argumentative Essays (Peer) 2. Wild Essay || Ice Day. || 2. "Self-Reliance" || 1.Transcendentalism Test //HW: Read p. 145-152. Complete the activities on p. 146 and on 147. Taking notes is optional (but it would certainly behoove you!).// || 1. Voice Lessons 2. Mark Twain 4. Huck Finn //HW: Complete the activity on p. 152. Bring the information and sources with you on tomorrow (you need to **print** the columns). Begin reading Huck Finn.// || 1.Voice Lesson 2. HW Discussion/ Activity //HW: Read p. 153-162. Complete the activity on p. 162.// || 1. HW Review 2. Regionalism, Realism, Naturalism 3. Timed Argumentative Essay //HW: Read p.162 166. Complete the activity on p. 163.// || //HW: Read Huck// || Ice Day. //HW: Read Huck// || 1. Argumentative Essay (timed) 2. Frederick Douglass-Chapter 2 with Journal //HW: Read Huck. Print a current event article (on something that matters!). Bring 12 copies with you on Friday. Be prepared with 2-3 discussion questions based on the article.// || 1.Voice Lessons: Tone 2.Multiple Choice Practice 3. Frederick Douglass-Chapter 3 with Journal //HW: Read Huck and don't forget about your current event article.// || 1. Lit Term Quiz 2. Current Event Discussions //HW: Read Huck// || 2. Frederick Douglass //HW: Read Huck.// || 1.Voice Lessons 2. Multiple Choice Practice 3. Frederick Douglass //HW: Read Huck.// || 1. Voice Lessons 2. Intro to Synthesis Essay 3. Source Grid //HW: Read Huck// || 1. Finish Source Grid 2. Synthesis Graphic Organizer and Body Paragraph 3. Frederick Douglass //HW: Read Huck// || 1. Finish graphic organizer from yesterday 2. Write one body paragraph for your organizer (have someone type and email this to me) 3. Frederick Douglass //HW: Read Huck.// || 2. Sample Synthesis Prompts 3. Frederick Douglass //HW: Read Huck// || 1. Voice Lessons 2. DBQ Source Grids 3. Frederick Douglass 2. Frederick Douglass (if you finish the essay early) || 1.Huck Review 2. VIP for a VIP || **1. Huck Test** 2. Frederick Douglass (last day in class)
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **March 3-7** || 1. Finish Argumentative Essay
 * Rewrite of Banneker prompt due today. || SNOW DAY! :) || 1. Wild Seminar
 * **March 10-14** || 1. TED Talk
 * **March 17-21** || Early Release.
 * **March 24-28** || 1.Finish Current Events
 * **March 31-April 4** || 1.Incorporating Evidence/ Body Paragraphs
 * You will get your timed argumentative essay back today. The (optional) rewrite will be due Friday. || 1.Synthesis Essay (not timed and with notes)
 * Argumentative Rewrite Due. ||

January/ February 2014 1. Review College Board Syllabus 2. Letter from a Birmingham Jail : Rhetorical Review 3. Transcript from The Other America (finish reading and annotating by Friday--you can also listen to it online) // HW: Read and take notes on p. 81-90 in the Language book; complete both activities. Finish The Other America by Friday. // || 1. Rhetorical Analysis Review (you will get your 2 back today to review with) 2. Syntax Review 3. Sentence Patterns and Rhetorical Sentences 4. Syntax Activity //HW: Read and take notes on p. 91-94). Finish The Other America.// || 1. Timed Rhetorical Analysis (you may not use your notes, but you may use your paint swatches) 2. Syntax Activity // HW: Finish the syntax activity. // || 2.Review syntax activity  3.Intro to The Crucible // HW: Other America/ Letters Syntax Comparison. Begin reading The Crucible. // || Snow day! || Snow day! || Snow day! || Snow day! || 3. Multiple Choice Monday 4. Vocab Intro 5. Crucible //HW: Watch the Super Bowl Coke commercial and chart arguments for and against it.// || 1. Voice Lessons 2.Arguments: Claims, Reasons, and Evidence 3. Coke Commercial //HW: Complete the activity on p. 96-97 (not the essay in progress). Research the Great Awakening. Continue reading The Crucible.// || 1. Vocab Review 2. Argument structures/ Inductive vs. Deductive 3. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" //HW: Complete the activity on p. 123.// || 1. Voice Lessons 2.Finish "Sinners" work //HW: Read and take notes on p. 125-130. Complete the activity on p. 128.// || **1. Vocab Quiz** 2. Speech in the Virginia Convention--MC activity 3. Outside Reading Time: The Crucible || 2.Vocab Intro 3. Multiple Choice Monday //HW: Read and take notes on p. 97-109. Complete the activity on p. 109.// || Snow day! || Snow day! || Show day! || Snow day! || //HW: Read and take notes on p. 131-135. Complete the activity at the top of p. 137 (not the culminating one).// || 1. Modes of Discourse 2. Walden //HW:Answer Walden Qs (optional).// //Read Into the Wild.// || 1. Finish Walden 2. Transcendentalism 3. Transcendental Walk 4. Narrative //HW: Finish narrative. Read Into the Wild.// || 1. Civil Disobedience Research Glogster //HW: Finish Glogster. Read Into the Wild.// || 1.Glogster Presentations 2.Lit Term Jeopardy 3. "Civil Disobedience" //HW: Read "Civil Disobediene" on p. 1016 Continue reading Into the Wild.// || 2. Civil Disobedience Discussion/ Activity //HW: Read Nature by Emerson in your Lang book.// || 1. Nature 2. Argumentative Prompts //HW: Rewrite Banneker prompt. Due Monday.// || 1.Argumentative Prompt and Conferences -Into the Wild Seminar will be on Monday instead of today. ||
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **Week of**
 * Jan. 20-24** || *MLK Holiday! || *Teacher Workday! || Welcome back!!!
 * **Week** ** of **
 * Jan. 27-31 ** || 1. Vocab Intro (not on the wiki...we're trying something new!)
 * **Week of**
 * February 3-7** || **1. Lit Terms** **51-65 (these will be timed now)**
 * 2.Vocab Quiz**
 * **Week of**
 * Feb. 10-14** || **1. Lit Terms 65-74**
 * **Week of**
 * Feb. 17-21** || **1. Crucible Test**
 * SG due.
 * Fallacy worksheets due.
 * HW on p. 97-109 due.
 * **Week of**
 * Feb. 24-28** || **1. Lit Terms Test: Cumulative**
 * Blackwelder out. || 1.Education
 * Blackwelder out. || 1. Rhetorical Analysis (timed)

//HW:// // Practice your speeches. // //Read and annotate 1984 (due by Jan. 2).// || 1. Boards Practice //HW: Keep rehearsing your speech. Read 1984.// || 1. Boards Practice //HW: Keep rehearsing your speech. Read 1984.// || 1. Boards Practice //HW: Practice your speech!// || 2. Thank you cards || 1. Pay It Forward || 1. Finish Pay It Forward 2. Vocab Hot Seat 2. Multiple Choice Monday! 3. Grading Rubrics and JFK Essay //HW: Grade your peer's paper with the rubric. Give a thorough explanation.Continue with 1984.// || 1. Review Peer Essays 2. Rhetorical Analysis (you may use your notes and paint swatches...nothing else) //HW: Read p. 65-67 and take notes in the Language book. Complete the activity on p. 68. Continue with 1984.// || 1. Societal Claims through Images 2. Research // HW: Continue with 1984. // || 1. Present Findings 2. Claims in "A Christmas Carol" //HW: Continue with 1984.// || 1. Finish Claims in "A Christmas Carol" 2. Propaganda 2. 1984 seminar 3. Writing assignment //HW: Find propaganda that is government based (avoid WWII).// || 2. Project Work || 1. Project Work || 1. Project Work || ** 1. Project Presentations ** || ***1984 test closes today at 8am.** ||
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **Week of Dec. 2-6** || 1. Multiple Choice Monday!
 * Portfolios Due. || 1. Boards Practice
 * **Week of Dec. 9-13** || 1. Boards Practice || 1. Classroom Boards Practice!
 * Senior Boards tonight! :) || 1. Comments
 * 3.Set 8 Quiz** ||
 * **Week of Dec. 16-20** || **1. Lit Terms 41-60**
 * Christmas Break begins at 1:25! Yayyy! :) ||
 * **Week of Dec. 23-27** || Break! || Break! || Break! || Break! || Break! ||
 * **Week of Dec 30-Jan 3** || Break! || Break! || Break! || 1.Tot. Gov't in lit
 * 1984 and annotations due. || 1. "Harrison" seminar
 * **Week of Jan 6-10** || 1. Propaganda/ Image Project Intro

2..HOD and Katabasis 3. Freud and HOD // HW: Read Achebe's excerpt on p. 1111 in your Language book. Answer questions 1-6 on p. 1114 in complete sentences. // || 1 2. HOD Motifs, Symbols, and Theme 3. HOD: Racist? //HW: Read and annotate the article.// || 1.Journal 2.Finish Archetypes 3. Conrad and racism 2. Katabasis //HW: Read and annotate the article.// || 1. Journal 2. Conrad and rhetoric 3. HOD Seminar || 1. Catch-up/ Review 2.Homecoming Pep Rally!! //HW: Study for your HOD test.// || 2. Details and Big Bang // HW: SOAPStone "Defense of the Lower Class" on p. 812 of the green book. // || 1. Sentence Structure and types 2.Analysis paragraphs: Big Bang Theory 3.Introductoins HW: Finish your intro for "Defense of the Lower Class" and finalize all product paperwork. || 1. Set 7 Vocab Activity 2. Show-n-Tell //HW: In your Language book, read and take notes on p. 58-65. Complete the activity on the bottom of p. 63, BUT only write the introduction using SOAPStone for it(do NOT write an entire essay, please!). Use your intro notes to help you. Don't forget your paint swatches!// || 2. Finish Show-N-Tell 3. Sentence Structures 2. Tone Activity || 1.Presentation set-up //HW: Finish paint swatches. Work on portfolio documents and presentation.// || 1. Sentence Structure 2. Rhetorical Analysis: Body Paragraphs //HW: Read and complete exercise 3 in the Language book on p. 506-511.// || 1. Vocabulary Charades 2. .The Big Bad Wolf and Rhetorical Analysis Body Paragraphs 3. APEX: Sentence Structure // HW: Complete your portfolio and the APEX Sentence Structure unit. // || 2. Portfolio 3. Importance of Being Earnest Discussion 4. JFK Speech //HW: Read JFK's Inaugural Address on p. 69 of the Language book. You might want to annotate it with sticky notes.// 2. Essay: Bring your paint swatches and notes. //HW: Work on essay.// HW: Practice your presentations! . || Happy Thanksgiving! || :) ||
 * November **
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **Week of Nov 4-8** || 1. Midterm Review
 * **Week of Nov 11-15** || No school! :) || **1. HOD Test (matching character identification, multiple choice for plot and lit terms, archetypes in quotes, and essay)** || 1. FAT-P and DIDLS
 * Product Due
 * **Week of Nov 18-22** || **1. Lit Terms 30-50**
 * 15 Paint Swatches Due || 1. Sentence Structure Activity
 * **Week of Nov 25-29** || **1.Set 7 Vocab**
 * Portfolio and APEX Sentence Structure due. || 1.AP Rhetorical Analysis Rubric
 * Senior Boards slides and notes due today for review. || 1.AP Essay work
 * Half-day!
 * Importance of Being Earnest Test due by 11:59 tonight.

//HW: Finish reading Act III of Hamlet and complete your Journal.// || **1**. **Vocab Quiz Set 5** 2. CE: Emily 3. Hamlet Quiz and Mousetrap activity || **1.**** Lit Terms 15-30 ** 2. Mousetrap Activity //HW: Finish Act IV and its Journal.// || 1. CE: Ian 2. Mousetrap Presentations 4. Madness Chart // HW: Finish Act V and all remaining journals. // || 1 . CE: Jessica 2. Assembly
 * October **
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **Week of:**
 * Sept 30- Oct 31** || 1. Final research day in the lab
 * 3. Act III Hamlet Quiz**
 * 3.** **Act IV Quiz**

*First draft due. Give a copy to me and a copy to your adviser. || 2. Madness Chart 3. Hamlet Review Madness Chart due today.All Journals due today. || 1. Madness Chart // HW: Read and take notes on p. 39-44 in your Language book (stop after Churchill's speech). Complete both activities. // || 1. CE: Kathryn and Brooke 2. Media Field Trip 3. Leopold //HW: Read and take notes on p. 45-47 of the Language book. Complete the activity on p. 47.// || 1. CE: Olivia 2. Map Activity 3. Close Reading and King Leopold || 1. Guest Speaker 3. HOD work Blackwelder grading papers. Sub: Mrs. Doane!!! :) || 1.Journal entry 2. Close Reading Practice //HW: Read and take notes from the Language book, beginning at the bottom of p. 51 to p. 56. Complete the activity on p. 56, but use charting as the strategy (like they did on p. 52-54). // || 1. CE: Alexandra 2. HOD Review Part 1  3. Peer Edit 2. Pep Rally || Sub: Mrs. Doane!!! :) || King's College: The American Language || 1. APEX 2. Watch //Hamlet// Blackwelder at AP Workshop. Sub: Mrs. Keady!! :) || 1. Quarter Assessment 2. //Hamlet// with Mel Gibson! || 1. CE: Abel 2. HOD SG Review 3.Finish watching //Hamlet//
 * **Week of:**
 * October 7-11** || **1. Hamlet Act V Quiz**
 * 2. Hamlet Test**
 * 2nd GP draft due to me today. You //must// have a hard copy. ||
 * **Week of:**
 * October 14-18** || **1. Lit Terms 20-40**
 * 2. Vocab Quiz Set 6**
 * Part 1 of HOD and study guide due. || FIELD TRIP!!!!! :) || 1. CE: Kelly
 * **Week of:**
 * October 21-25** || 1. HOD
 * HOD Part 2 Due
 * Blackwelder in Disney! Sub: Mrs. Doane! :) || 1. Resumes with Mrs. Wolfe!
 * Blackwelder in Disney! Sub: Mrs. Doane! :) || 1. APEX
 * Blackwelder in Disney! Sub: Mrs. Doane! :) ||
 * **Week of:**
 * October 28-31** || 1.Finish watching //Hamlet//
 * HOD Part 3, APEX unit, and typed Product Plan are due. || Workday || Workday ||

August- September 1. Intros 2. Syllabus/ Expectations 3. Wiki and Website 4. GP Handbook 5. Grammar Pre-test //HW: Find a mentor immediately.// //Complete the wiki post. Work on your letter of intent as needed this week. Ask your advisor to proofread it.// || 1.Vocabulary Intro 2. Transitive vs. intransitive verbs (parts of speech and new vocab) 3. The Middle Ages 4. Intro to Dante's //Inferno// and allegory //HW: Read and annotate both articles.// || 1.GP Topic Selection and EQ 2. Summer Reading: Into Thin Air 3. Intro to Rhetoric 4. Intro to Chaucer and Canterbury Tales 5. Dante's //Inferno// //HW: Read p. 1 and complete the activity at the top of p. 2 (Language book). Link your example to the wiki page: Civil vs. Deceptive Rhetoric. Read the Canterbury Tales Prologue and complete the chart. Finish SOAPS for the Krakauer article.// || 1.Inferno Presentations 2. Rhetoric Quiz 3. Civil vs. Deceptive Rhetoric //HW: Read the Pardoner's Tale. Track the allegory (it doesn't matter how you do this). Finish EQ for your research.// || **1. Vocabulary Quiz: Set 1** 2.Rhetoric Review 3.Rhetoric and Disney Princesses 4.General Prologue/ The Pardoner and his criticisms (SOAPS Practice) 5.Rhetoric Quiz 2 // HW: Read the Wife of Bath's Tale. Consider feminism as you read. // || 2.Pardoner and his criticisms 3. Wife of Bath and Feminism Essay // HW:Read and annotate St. Augustine's Confessions // *Letter of Intent Due || 1.Analyzing Rhetoric in Lyrics 2. Intro to Gawain and the Green Knight 3. SOAPS: //Confessions// 4. //Confessions// and Chaucer Connections 5. Ballads //HW: Read Gawain and the Green Knight.// 2.Gawain and the Green Knight 3. Intro to Le Morte d' Arthur //HW: Finish Le Morte d'Arthur// || 1.**Vocabulary Quiz: Set 2** //HW: Complete the SAS Activity for MLA by Monday.// //You will need a composition notebook to use solely for Journals by next week.Prepare to use at least 2-4 sources for AB work on Monday; bring your flash drive.// || 2.Intro to AB and MLA Citation 3. Annotated Bibliographies *Final Letter of Intent Due *Mentor Consent Form due || 1. Annotated Bibliographies //HW: Watch the Denmark video and the Hair video on the Hamlet and Antigone page.// || 1. Annotated Bibliographies 2. Intro to Antigone: Background Research // HW: //// Read and take notes in your Language book on p. 7-14 (stop before "Images and Pathos"). // || 1. Ethos, Pathos, Logos: September 11 Speeches (Bring your book) 2. Intro to Hamlet 3. Hamlet //HW: Work on GP research and Antigone as needed.// || **1. Vocabulary Quiz: Set 3** 2. Review Antigone research and assignment 3. Current Events Assignment (with rhetorical appeal and devices) 4. Hamlet //HW: Work on GP research and Antigone as needed// || 2. AP MC Intro 3. Hamlet 4. Journal //HW: GP and Antigone as needed.// //Language Book:Read and Take notes on p.15-22. Complete the activity at the bottom of p. 20.// || 1. Current Event Practice 3. Hamlet Madness Chart //HW: GP and Antigone as needed.// || 1. Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Images 2. Language Activity 3. Hamlet //HW: GP and Antigone as needed.//
 * || **Monday** || **Tuesday** || **Wednesday** || **Thursday** || **Friday** ||
 * **Week of :**
 * August 26-30** || Welcome to AP Language!
 * **September 2-6** || Labor Day! :) || **1. Literary Terms Quiz: 1-10**
 * GP Contract due today. || 1.Rhetoric in Lyrics
 * 2. Medieval Literature and Rhetoric Test**
 * **September 9-13** || ** 1. Literary Terms Quiz: 1-15 **
 * **September 16-20** || **1. Lit Terms Quiz: 1-20**
 * 2.** **Hamlet Act I Quiz**

2. Hamlet Act II 3. Madness Chart //HW: GP and Antigone as needed.// || **1. Vocab Quiz: Set 4** //HW: GP and Antigone as needed.// || 2. Madness Chart 4.MC Monday 5. Hamlet Movie Scene 6. Hamlet Act III //HW: Read and take notes from your Language book on p. 23-28. Complete the activity on the bottom of p. 27.//
 * 20 notes due today. || 1. Rhetorical Appeals in Images
 * 2. Hamlet Act II Quiz**
 * 3. Pre-Pep Rally Dance Party**
 * **September 23-27** || **1. Lit Terms Quiz: 10-25**
 * 3. Act II Hamlet Quiz**

2. Rhetoric Culminating Group Activity 3. Hamlet Act III //HW: Antigone and GP.// || 1. CE: Julee 2. Writing a Research Paper //HW: Grade the research paper with the GP rubric. Complete Antigone.// || 1. CE: Levi 2. Building Paragraphs 3. Topic Sentences //HW: Finish reading and answering Antigone questions.// . || **1. Vocab Quiz: Set 5** 2.GP Rubric 3. Hamlet Mousetrap
 * Annotated Bibliographies due (2 print, 2 web) || 1. CE: Matthew
 * Bring in a copy of your AB to work with today.
 * Antigone essay questions due. Online Antigone test must be completed by 11:59pm (you will be locked out after this). ||