Q2 - Week 10

Day 1

Monday 12/08/14

Essential Question:  How does any/all of this relate and what sort of sense can I make of it?  AND why should I?

1.  Do Now:  Weekly 

2.  V18:  ALERT ALERT ALERT - TEST ON TUESDAY - REPEAT - TEST ON TUESDAY - prudent, redundant, reproach, sedate, stigmatize, sycophant, tangible, transient, unprecedented,
vociferous, disparage, disquiet, effrontery, egregious, flaunt, auspicious, austere, autonomous, avant-garde, avarice
3.  Tropes/Schemes:   ALERT ALERT ALERT - TEST ON TUESDAY - REPEAT - TEST ON TUESDAY - anaphora, epistrophe, epanalepsis, anadiplosis, diacope (epizeuxis), symploce
4.  Turn in Eyes HW, then quiz on chaps. 1 and 2 and have you found the DCQ yet?
5.  Groups to analyze AP exam passage #2 "A man in the European. . ." then present

HW for Tuesday = V18 + Tropes/Schemes, Eyes chap. 3

Day 2

Tuesday 12/09/14

Essential Question:  What's with all this "citing evidence"
CCSS RI.9-10.1:  Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

1.  V18 and Tropes/Schemes
2.  MC 3rd passage, "Franklin has a . . ." and then move on to the MC 4th passage, "It is a fact . . ." 

Day 3

Thursday 12/11/14

Essential Question:  What's with all this "citing evidence"
CCSS RI.9-10.1:  Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

1. TBA + audible on HW

HW over the break = 
     1.  Finish Their Eyes Were Watching God - 1 quote per long form element w/ explanation in typed T Chart
     2.  Finish whatever we did NOT get done in class re the AP Exam MC passage analysis with typed T Chart of each PAPA element
     3.  Reflection of all Q2 elements/texts/? and HOW they all relate - Times New Roman 12

Q2 - Week 9

Day 1

Monday 12/08/14

Essential Question:  How does any/all of this relate and what sort of sense can I make of it?

1.  Do Now:  Weekly 

2.  V17:  flamboyant, gullible, impede, inclement, indigenous, intrepid, lethargic, mandate, panacea, poignant, bellicose, carping, chagrin, debunk, decorous, askew, assiduous, astute, audacity, augment
3.  Tropes/Schemes:  tmesis, meaplasmus, prosthesis, epenthesis, alliteration - oh remind me to throw down the running trope/scheme challenge
4.  Chart/Appendix Presentations - reflection
5.  Groups to finish AP exam passage #2 analysis - then present
6.  Reflection - in writing - if not done in class then it becomes HW Due Day 2
HW = Bring GG to book exchange for your next novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Day 2

Tuesday 12/09/14

Essential Question:  How does any/all of this relate and what sort of sense can I make of it? AND why should I?

1.  Chart/Appendix Presentations 
2.  New groups for AP MC passage analysis preparation prior to presentation - Multiple Choice (MC) booklet's 1st passage, "With imagination. . ." and then move on to the MC 2nd passage, "A man in the European. . ." and then move on to the MC 3rd passage, "Franklin has a . . ." and then move on to the MC 4th passage, "It is a fact . . ." 
3.  Library run
4.  New reflection - with specific detail/examples - in writing - if not done in class then it becomes HW Due Day 3
HW = Their Eyes Were Watching God -read the Forward to uncover the DCQ

Day 3

Thursday 12/11/14

Essential Question:  What's with all this "citing evidence"
CCSS RI.9-10.1:  Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

1.  V17 + Tropes/Schemes + the answer to the EQ

2.  Surprise #1 - graded Socratic Seminar on the AP passages - with an evil twist
3.  Surprise #2 - ???
HW = Their Eyes Were Watching God -read chapters 1 & 2 and type The-Sentence/The-passage/The-Literary Device - evidence and explanation - layout as T chart for each component

Q2 - Week 8

Day 1

Monday 12/01/14

Essential Question:  How do I convince Longo to buy my argument?

1.  Do Now:  Weekly 

2.  V16:  Adulterate, apprehension, benevolent, brink, coherent, credulity, derogatory, dissident, enervate, exonerate, threadbare, vexatious, acrid, adulation, assuage, anthropomorphic, antipathy, arcane, artifice, ascetic
3.  Tropes/Schemes:  asyndeton, polysyndeton, climax (auxesis), anticlimax (bathos), enallage, anapodoton
4.  Peer Editing - one the draft (LG NoNo's are for real) and on the handout
5.  Finish your evidence and prepare (who's doing what - take notes so that you aren't fumbling and annoying - let's try to make this professional, people) to share your chart and appendix
HW = 
*Final Draft of ARP Due at the beginning of class on Thursday 12/04/14 
**Late paper/components = Lower Grade (oh, and a doctor's note is pretty much the only thing that will matter if you are tardy/absent and try to turn this in late)
***All components: outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, W.C./Bib and all rubrics/checklists

Day 2

Tuesday 12/02/14

Essential Question:  How do I convince Longo to buy my argument?

1.  Chart/Appendix Presentations - reflection
2.  Back to the AP exam passage analysis preparation prior to presentation - finish passage 2, and then move on to the Multiple Choice (MC) booklet's 1st passage, "With imagination. . ." and then move on to the MC 2nd passage, "A man in the European. . ." and then move on to the MC 3rd passage, "Franklin has a . . ." and then move on to the MC 4th passage, "It is a fact . . ." (Polysyndeton?  Find out before the test or suffer the consequences.)

Day 3

Thursday 12/04/14

Essential Question:  How does any/all of this relate and what sort of sense can I make of it?

1.  Do Now:  Turn in the ARP - New rubric on bottom, then outline, then 1st, then 2nd, then 3rd, then 4th, then Bibliography, then Works Cited, then Final on top - filled out rubrics/checklists with corresponding draft (Asyndeton?  Hope you know before we go, yo)

2.  V16 + Tropes/Schemes 
3.  Back to the AP exam passage analysis preparation and presentation - reflection

Q2 - Week 7

Monday 11/24/14

1.  Do Now: Weekly 

2. V15 pronunciation: Placate, prodigious, pugnacious, rectify, repress, scintillating, steadfast, terse, unobtrusive, vivacious, scurrilous, soporific, subservient, supplant, tenuous, ambivalent, ameliorate, anomaly, antaean, antebellum

3. Tropes/Schemes: anastrophe, atimetabole, chiasmus, alliosis, ellipsis
4. Turn in your group's chart by posting on the back whiteboard - names clearly labeled - ask me for the blue tape
5. New groups to PAPA+ 1st passage (or more if assigned) in AP Test Booklet - individuals to review/change their answers as necessary- return booklet as you received it
PAPA Directions:
a. Get out and review your PAPA handout - lost it? Look in our crate for an extra copy
b. Create a T-chart (textual evidence/explanation) for each component of PAPA your group is assigned + any rhetorical devices/tropes/schemes
c. Friendly wager?
6. Conferences continue

HW = 
a. continue working on your ARP even if we have not yet conferenced - the due date stands for everyone! 
b. 4th Draft Due Monday 12/01/14 - have all components: outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, W.C./Bib and all rubrics/checklists

Tuesday 11/25/14

1.  V15 + Tropes/Schemes
2. New groups to PAPA+ 2nd and 3rd passages (or more) in AP Test Booklet - individuals to review/change their answers as necessary - return booklet as you received it
3. Reflection Due at end of class - observations re: test/passages/yourself
4. Conferences continue

HW = 
a. continue working on your ARP even if we have not yet conferenced - the due date stands for everyone! 
b. 4th Draft Due Monday 12/01/14 - have all components: outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, W.C./Bib and all rubrics/checklists

Q2 - Week 6

Monday 11/17/14
1.  Do Now:  Weekly

2. V14 pronunciation: Flagrant, guile, immutable, inception, incredulous, indolent, levity, malleable, mundane, paltry, neophyte, progeny, quandary, reprove, scrupulous, affectation, aficionado, agrarian, alacrity, altruism

3. Remember to add in the 2nd set of 5 tropes for this week's test: aporia, aposiopesis, oxymoron, parallelism (isocolon & tricolon), antithesis
4.  GG + "Hills," "Furr," "Rose," Cubism, American Dream, and Harlem Renaissance added to . . .
5. ARP 2nd draft peer edit - I will check that you have them while. . .

HW For Tuesday 11/18/14:  

1. 3rd Draft - and it needs to be polished
2. Questions, research, preparations so that you may contribute to your group's efforts

Tuesday 11/18/14

1.  GG + "Hills," "Furr," "Rose," Cubism, American Dream, and Harlem Renaissance added to. . .

2. Student/Teacher Conferences - bring outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Works Cite, and Bibliography or don't bother to pass this quarter

Thursday 11/20/14

1.  V14 + tropes

2. GG + "Hills," "Furr," "Rose," Cubism, American Dream, and Harlem Renaissance added to. . .
3. Student/Teacher Conferences - bring outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Works Cite, and Bibliography or don't bother to pass this quarter

HW For Tuesday 11/25/14: 4th Draft with outline, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Works Cite, and Bibliography

Q2 - Week 5

Monday 11/10/14

1.  Do Now:  Prepare for my ARP wrath . . .

2. Weekly 

3. V13 pronunciation: Abscond, adjacent, altruism, banter, clemency, confound, corroborate, deride, disdain, exhume, insuperable, jettison, liquidate, meander, mesmerize, adagio, addle, adjudicate, aesthetic, affable

4. Remember to add in the 2nd set of 5 tropes for this week's test: hyperbole, meiosis, anthimeria, catachresis, synaesthesia
5.  "Hills" and "Furr" added to . . .
6. GG exam

HW:  

1. For this Thursday 11/13/14: Read "A Rose for Miss Emily" p. ___ Lemon Yellow, look further into Cubism, American Dream, Harlem Renaissance
2. For this Thursday 11/13/14: EOS readiness
3. For Monday 11/17/14: 2nd Draft - and it needs to be complete
4. For Tuesday 11/18/14: 3rd Draft - and it needs to be polished

Thursday 11/13/14

1.  Do Now: V13 + 3rd set of tropes

2.  Cont. GG + 3 short stories + Cubism, American Dream, Harlem Renaissance
3. EOS redux

Week 4

Monday 11/03/14

1.  Do Now:  turn in revisited annotations w/ paragraph

2. Weekly 

3. V12 pronunciation: Ostracize, plausible, pristine, recoil, reprehensible, squander, tenacity, unkempt, unsavory, virtuosity, evince, exacerbate, fervor, indigent, ingratiate, acquiesce, acrid, acrimonious, acumen, ad hoc

4. Remember to add in the 2nd set of 5 tropes for this week's test: zeugma, prosopopoeia, apostrophe, erotema, onomatopoeia
5.  ?
6. GG exam preparation

Thursday 11/06/14

1.  Do Now: V12 + 2nd set of tropes

2. GG exam due at the end of class

HW: Read "Hills Like White Elephants" p. 364, "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" p. 368 Lemon Yellow

Q2 - week 3

Monday 10/27/14

1.  Do Now: read this weekly sheet 

2.  Weekly - read it again - slowly - you will need this today and tomorrow especially, as I will be out on anything but holiday

3. V11 pronunciation

4. Remember to add in the 1st 5 tropes for this week's test
5.  In-class essay due at the end of class - grade will count 50% participation 50% quality - no cheese here

• read the Rubric 1st!
• read the directions and complete the in-class essay
• score yourself with the rubric on the question
• staple it to your essay and turn it in

HW - continue working on your ARP 1st draft even if you didn't turn in an outline, even if your outline was/wasn't graded - the due date stands for everyone!

Tuesday 10/28/14

1.  Do Now:   Silently read the sample essays

2. Score the sample essays in 20 minutes:

• work in a trio to use the rubric to score each sample essay in the packet
• on 1 piece of paper for the trio, explain your scoring justifications for the 3 sample essays - turn this in today
• sample essay #1 on pp. 50-53 of the packet
• sample essay #2 on pp. 43-45 of the packet
• sample essay #3 on pp. 47-49 of the packet
• INCENTIVE - the trio to score it exactly like the AP Readers = Get out of Vocab. pass to be used whenever you please - except for Beasts

3. In-class essay due at the end of class - grade will count 50% participation 50% quality - no cheese here

HW - ARP 1st Draft due at the beginning of next class - no excuses

Thursday 10/30/14

1.  Do Now:  turn in ARP 1st Draft - it will be late if you turn it in at recess/lunch
2. V11 - Excise, imminent, inane, incarcerate, induce, introverted, inundate, legacy, malign, mortify, brazen, contrite, defame, discursive, evanescent, abridge, abscond, abstruse, abysmal, acerbic

3. Tropes - metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, puns (paronomasia)

4. TBD - mostly mop up re: my absence + some GG discussion?

HW - finish GG and test prep

ARP

Click here for basic ARP paragraph structure.

Big Picture

Week 9

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

1.  What does Longo have up her sleeve for the 2nd Q?

Monday 09/29/14 - Thursday Sched.

1.  Do Now: get ready with: your vocabulary schedule, the green book, lined paper, and a writing utensil

2.  Weekly 

3. V8 pronunciation and beastly favorites - Embellish, euphemism, fidelity, gregarious, hypothetical, inadvertently, insipid, interrogate, laudable, morose, obdurate, ostentatious, perspicacity, prattle, rancor, staid, stipulate, truncated, vagrant, zealous

4. T29 Q/A + test
HW - prep for the beast

Thursday 10/02/14 - Thursday Sched. Again

1.  Do Now:  get ready with paper and writing utensil
2. V8 + Beast
3. Library Run - to exchange TLS for EOS

3. Independent Reading Share Out

HW - 
1. 3 hours and 15 minutes to take a practice AP Exam
2. Arrive with 5 possible argumentative topics for your upcoming research paper
3. Read, thoroughly digest, and be test ready for The Elements of Style

Week 8

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

1.  How will I demonstrate my TSL genius?

Monday 09/22/14

1.  Do Now: resign yourself to another mind-bending moment

2.  Weekly 

3. V7 pronunciation

4. Longo's turn: chaps., syntax, etc.
HW - have all of your evidence ready and available on paper/cards due next class

Tuesday 09/23/14

1.  Do Now:   TBD

2. T29 q/a and tests - postponed until week 9

3. TSL Roundtables
HW - TSL Vocab./Trans. Logs, Exam Prep

Thursday 09/25/14

1.  Do Now:  turn in TSL Vocab./Trans. Logs (no, you may not use them)
2. V7 - Adversity, allusion, antithesis, breach, brevity, circumspect, curtail, defunct, derivative, diminutive, intransigent, jaded, irreproachable, misanthrope, narcissistic, ravenous, regress, rescind, sagacious, sporadic

3. TSL ~ 2 in-class essays

HW - T29 prep - yup, the entire thing; Independent Reading; I predict an audible

Week 7

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

1.  Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?
2.  What does ancestral guilt have to do with anything?
3.  How do I discern the overall purpose of ____/____/____?
4.  How do literary elements affect the overall purpose?

Monday 09/15/14

1.  Do Now: without cheating, turn the paper over and list the Essential Questions - with a tiny, super-brief answer

2.  Weekly 

3. V6 pronunciation

4. Explore: allegory, pre-feminist character, juxtaposition of; civilization/wild, light/dark, etc.
5. Let's hear from the groups 
HW - ?

Tuesday 09/16/14

1.  Do Now:  Syntax exploration - pick a random sentence from any chapter

2. T29 q/a - again

3. TSL groups continue
HW - Syntax Survey - 5 more random sentences for next class

Thursday 09/18/14

1.  Do Now:  V6 - Opaque, pervasive, premonition, rebuff, repertoire, rudimentary, spendthrift, superfluous, taciturn, travesty, fastidious, furtive, heresy, inchoate, inscrutable, odious, pithy, penury, propitious, quell

3. T29 quiz - pp. 663-688

4.  TSL ~ wherever we left off last time

HW - T29 pp.689-710, TSL exam prep., TSL Trans. Long and Vocab. Log, v7, + whatever audible I call

Week 6

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

1.  Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?
2.  What does ancestral guilt have to do with anything?
3.  How do I discern the overall purpose of ____/____/____?
4.  How do literary elements affect the overall purpose?

Monday 09/08/14

1.  Do Now: Describe your new understanding of transcending, transcendentalism, and the literary movement

2.  Weekly 

3. V5 pronunciation

4. What's with all the EQ's

5.  Your annotations
6. Let's hear from the groups

Tuesday 09/09/14

1.  Do Now:  pop quiz

2. T29 q/a

3. TSL groups

4. Hester . . . a pre-feminist?
HW = 5w1h of feminism - not related to the book. . . yet

Thursday 09/11/14

1.  Do Now:  TBD

2.  V5 - Eminent, eulogy, fallacious, gratuitous, hyperbole, impulsive, inopportune, intermittent, lackluster, ludicrous, contentious, debilitate, dupe, eclectic, ethereal, hackneyed, indomitable, languish, lurid, obsequious
3. T29 quiz

4.  TSL ~ wherever we left off last time

HW - T29 section 2, TSL finished, v6, + whatever audible I call

Week 5

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

1.  Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?
2.  What does ancestral guilt have to do with anything?
3.  How do I discern the overall purpose of ____/____/____?
4.  How do literary elements affect the overall purpose?

Tuesday 09/02/14 - Thursday Sched.

1.  Do Now:  on your own paper, create a Venn Diagram or any other graphic organizer form to compare/contrast the concepts or specific diction from The Scarlet Letter and the following excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking”   . . .

"Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man. . .”

"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.”

“So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in Autumn."

2.  Turn in your Do Now and then read the Weekly aloud together

3. V4 pronunciation

4. TSL 
- quick reading quiz on chps. 9-13 
- group presentations 4-8
- back to chps. 9-13
- people from chapter 3 to divide into other groups so there are now 5 total groups (chps. 4-8 remain the same plus 1 person from chapter 3 joining you now)
- chp. 4 takes 9, chp. 5 takes 10, chp. 6 takes 11, chp. 7 takes 12, chp. 8 takes 13
- same task - prepare to share next class - read even more closely

HW - 1. skim Tangerine chp. 28 before we begin chp. 29 next class - if you don't understand 28 then 29 will be problematic for you and you alone

Thursday 09/04/14 - Thursday Sched.

1.  Do Now:  Annotate main ideas and com/con concepts/spec.dict. on the handout which has excerpts from Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.  V4 - Abridge, alleviate, antipathy, belie, bolster, chide, contend, deflect, diffident, elusive, transcend, undulate, acquiesce, archaic, ardent, deprecate, doleful, entourage, expunge, fortitude
3. Tangerine chp. 29 on pp. 661- 718 - the breakdown of sections

4.  TSL ~ wherever we left off last time

HW - T29 section 1, TSL 14-18, v5, + whatever audible I call

Week 4

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

Using evidence from the book, defend/challenge/qualify whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a "tail of human frailty and sorrow"?

Monday 08/25/14

1.  Do Now:  Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking”  for main/key idea(s) . . .

"Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man. . .”

2.  Weekly

3. V3 pronunciation

4. TSL - quick reading quiz then back to "Prison-Door"

HW - 1. reread with CCSS and Long Form ever present 2. research the concept of Literary Transcendetalism (5w1h)

Tuesday 08/26/14

1.  Do Now:  Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking”  for main/key idea(s) . . .

"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.”

2. Turn in your Narrative - staple rubric to the back

3.  TSL ~ Transcendentalism Quiz and Log

4.  TSL ~ Your turn - groups to prepare for presentation next class

HW - prep for pres

Thursday 08/28/14

1.  Do Now:  Annotate the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Walking”  for main/key idea(s) . . .

“So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in Autumn."

2. V3 - Omnipotent, peruse, precursor, provincial, renegade, revere, seclude, supersede, transgression, viable, remonstrate, sanguine, strident, sublime, temporal, anachronism, anathema, aversion, blandishment, culpable

3. TSL Presentations

HW Free - I have to catch up . . .

MD Essay Turn In

• Staple the orange rubric you received last week to the back of the essay and turn it in
• If you lost your orange rubric then you are out of luck and the penalty will be a lack of feedback
• If your essay is not here yet, for whatever reason, print your name and an explanation on a piece of paper and turn it in 
• When turning in late work, hand it directly to me or it will be lost

PICTURE WEEK!

SCHOOL PICTURES THIS THU. 08/21

HW REMINDER

Remind me to remind you!

Week 3

Essential Question:  

How do I read/analyze with all of the following standards in mind - every time, all the time?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2 - Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3 - Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5 - Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 - Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

Monday 08/18/14

Do Now:  rewrite the 1st two standards in your own words - on card provided

Activities:

• quick discussion re: discussion; holds, intentions/future re supplement

• In-class essay on the front of your paper only - pen only

Tuesday 08/19/14

Do Now:  rewrite the 2nd two standards in your own words - on card provided

Activities:

• In-class essay on the front of your paper only - pen only
• Independent Reading Assigned
• ACK stories - scrimshaw below by Lee Ann Papel

Thursday 08/21/14

Do Now:  rewrite the last two standards in your own words - on card provided

Activities:

• V2
• Pictures
• TSL chps 1-3
• TSL Vocabulary Log Assigned

MD Take-home Essay Prompt

Using examples from the text to support your claim, write an essay arguing which literary element is Herman Melville's, Moby Dick, is critical to the development of the novel's overall purpose.  Please be sure to identify and refute a counter-claim.

Assessment will be via the 6-Trait writing rubric, which will be provided in class.

Week 2

Essential Questions:

1.  How do I survive my graded Fishbowl Discussion?

2.  How do I prepare for my MD/HoS essays?

3.  How do I move beyond basic comprehension to the big pic?

4.  How do I keep up with Old Lady LongO?

Monday 08/11/14

• Do Now:  8 minute continuous writing - cover how you have and how you will prepare for assessment of your knowledge re: summer readings?
• Books - if we can. . . 
• House of Pain
• HoS - the, the, the
• MD - which 3 did I say were the foci? - let's cover those

Thursday 08/14/14

• Do Now:  8mcw - tbr
• V1 - abhor, alacrity, animosity, augment, censure, concur, congenial, cursory, digress, elated, hedonist, inexorable, invidious, latent, oblivious, paragon, pariah, predilection, pernicious
• MD/HoS HoP

HW =  read Tangerine chps 23-24

Grading Categories:

Formative 50% - Discussions, Do Now, Vocabulary, Quizzes

Summative 50% - Essays