APwithLongo: September 2014

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. 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