AP Lang & Comp Week of September 26, 2011

• AOW#4
• PH
• Persuade
• complete ex. 2 with groups
• Entertain
• annotate
• complete exercise 2 with groups
• Rhetorical Devices Vocab
• review
• quizlet
• Sample AP prompt
• preparation for ICE

English 11 Week of September 26, 2011

• Quizlet Vocab #2
• quiz Tuesday/Thursday
• Read chapters 8-9
• finish ch 8 at home
• Complete Star Chart: August
• Read chapter 10
• Quiz chs. 6-10
• Activities:
• Black Madonna Research
• Advertising
• News Article 

Expos Week of September 26, 2011

• Quizlet: Rhetorical Strategy Devices
• quiz Tuesday/Thursday
• Rhetorical Devices Study
• pp. 26-36
• complete all exercises
• share/discuss
• pp. 37-40 (distinctio)
• exercises 1 & 2
• pp. 41-62 (simile/metaphor)
• all exercises
• Writing Activity: Poem

English 9 Week of September 26, 2011

• DEAR
• Work on Essay #1
• prewrite
• rough draft
• edit
• revise
• final copy
• Rough Draft due Wenesday by end of class
• Complete Peer Edit/Self Edit & Revisions
• Share

AP Lang & Comp Week of September 19, 2011

• AOW #3
• Notes: Close Reading
• Discuss PH Reading & Annotations
• Rhetorical Analysis
• Partner Activity
• Prep for 1st RA writing
• Practice MC

English 11 Week of September 19, 2011

• Review Ch. 5
• journal entry from Lily's perspective
• rules of etiquette
• Grade Vocab #2
• Read chs. 6-8
• group activity: Chapter/Scene Chart
• Found Poem
• Quiz chs. 4-6
• Vocab review: Quizlet
• Assessment on Friday

Expos Week of September 19, 2011

• Journal #4
• Complete Visual Vocab
• Use quizlet to study vocabulary words
• Rhetorical Strategy Vocab
• Write a short essay over topic of your choice using understatement and hyperbole.
• Quizlet Assessment of Stategy Vocab.
• Rhetorical Devices: Litotes & Antithesis; Hypophora
• complete book exercises
• Journal #5
• Ch. 1 MI pp. 37-46
• Vocab Assessment on Friday
• MI ch. 2

English 9 Week of September 19, 2011

• DEAR every day at the beginning of class.
• Literary Analysis Assignment
• Read "Fish Cheeks," "Arm Wrestling with My Father," "Black Men and Public," and "TV Addiction"
• Annotate each piece
• Complete Literary Guide
• This should be completed by Friday. We will use class time to work on this and have discussion over each reading.

English 11 Week of 9/12/11

• Read chapters 2-3
• continue to fill in fig. lang. chart
• Discuss
• Quiz
• Lost Poster
• STAR Character Chart
• Read chapter 4
• Vocab Lesson #2
• quizlet
• Read chapter 5

English 9 Week of 9/12/11

• Dear
• Group Paragraph
• Present
• Work with Sample Paragraphs
• Need to have highlighters by Friday!
• Bat
• UC
• Composition Basics Project
• CBQ #4
• Please study and review for this quiz

AP Lang & Comp Week of 9/12/11

• Summer Choice Reading Book Report Presentations
• AoW#2
• Respond
• Rhetorical Devices Vocabulary
• Visual Vocab
• Quizlet
• Rhetorical Devices Handbook
• Reading Assignment
• Hyperbole & Understatement

Expository Writing Week of 9/12/11

Expository Writing

• Finish Sandlot Narratives
• Rhetoric Notes
• Read pp. 3-10 Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers
• Complete vocab for style devices
• create visual vocab
• Journal #3
• Read pp. 13-14 
• complete ex. 1
• Read p 15
• complete ex. 1
• Read pp. 17-18
• Read & Annotate Passage
• What is SATIRE?
• Answer the prompt in a 3 paragraph essay
• Discuss HYPERBOLE
• create own sign to hang
• Brainstorm ideas for an understatement essay
• begin drafting
• 3 paragraphs
• due Friday/Monday

English 9: 9/5-9/9

Monday: NO SCHOOL

Tuesday

1. DEAR
2. Grade CBQ#2
3. Identifying parts of a comp

Wednesday

1. DEAR
2. Sample comp #1
1. Identification & Label
3. Quizlet Review

Thursday

1. DEAR
2. Quizlet Review
3. Intro Paragraphs

Friday

1. Quick Review
2. CBQ#3
3. DEAR

AP Lang & Comp

• Burying Addie's Voice: Exploring As I Lay Dying through Addie Bundren's voice
• literary analysis
• annotating
• discussion
• Individual book report presentations--Thursday & Friday (Are you ready?)

Expository Writing 9/5-9/9

Monday: NO SCHOOL


Tuesday & Wednesday

• Begin working on Narrative #2
• Childhood Memory

Thursday & Friday

• Publishing & Sharing N2

English 11: 9/5-9/9

Monday: NO SCHOOL

Tuesday

1. Finish work from Friday (research-p.1 or paragraph-p.5)
2. Review Literary Elements
3. Begin reading The Secret Life of Bees
1. ch. 1 together
2. annotate

• Assign Figurative Language worksheet

Wednesday

1. Go over chapter 1 and discuss figurative language
2. Discuss characters
3. Read chs. 2-3?

Thursday

1. Discuss chs. 2-3
2. Reading quiz chs. 1-3?
3. Literary Elements Quizlet Review

Friday

1. Literary Elements Quiz
2. Bees Journal
3. Read Ch 4--together

• Discuss
• Characters