Q3 - week 3/9

Day 1
Monday 01/26/15
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.  HW  quiz
2.  Weekly
3.  Eyes 
4.  V21 on - paradox, posthumous, proximity, refute, repudiate, stoic, tantalize, turmoil, vanquish, affable, quixotic, sinuous, spurious, tantamount, traverse, bombast, bourgeois, bovine, braggadocio, bravado

HW = Carefully reread the 2nd passage of the MC AP Exam booklet, which starts with; "A man in the European sixteenth century..."  Using approriate evidence from the text, write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies the author uses to support their purpose. Due Day 3


Day 2
Tuesday 01/27/15
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.  In-class essay - topic tba
HW = audible will be called

Day 3
Thursday 01/29/15
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.  Turn in HW
2.  Practice AP Exam

HW = audible will be called
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Q3 - week 2/9

Day 1
Tuesday 01/20/15
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.  Turn in HW 
2.  Weekly
3.  Share: Reflection - AP Exam thoughts - Eyes 
4.  No, students who read the blog early, I will not tell you the when/where/what of the Eyes 2nd part
5.  V20 on THURSDAY - Expedite, flippant, hamper, imperative, uncontrovertible, inherent, insinuate, jaunty, mandatory, nemesis, mercenary, pejorative, penchant, perturb, petulant, banal, bastion, beguile, beleaguer, bevy

 HW = Carefully reread the 3rd passage of the MC AP Exam booklet, which starts with; "Franklin has a particular resonance in twenty-first-century America."  Using approriate evidence from the text, write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies the author uses to support their purpose. Due Day 3


Day 2
Thursday 01/22/15
NOTE:  IMPROVED CITATION EFFORTS!
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.  V20
2.  Eyes graded discussion 

Day 3
Friday 01/23/15 - 43 minutes
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.  Turn in HW
2.  In-class essay - topic tba

 HW = Due Monday 02/26 - read Zora Neal Hurston's short story, "Sweat" on page 398 of Lemon Yellow - be ready for either quiz/soc.sem./essay - obviously, you will analyze it as it's own piece of literature and then com/con with Eyes
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Q3 - week 1/9

WELCOME TO THE THUNDERDOME!

 Day 1
Monday 01/12/15
Essential Question #1:  How did any/all of previous quarter relate and what does it imply for the 3rd Q and beyond?
Essential Question #2:  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.  Weekly front/back
2.  School wide updates + we were SBAC forgotten + clarification on EC offer
3.  Big Picture - short/long/APexams/Eyesexams/vocab./indieread/in-outweeklyessays
4.  EQ 1 - Reflection ~ share/share/turn in
5.  EQ 2 - AP Exam thoughts ~ share/share/turn in work --- hold booklet for HW
6.  Eyes ~ share/share/turn in
7.  Petite Conferences during 4-5-6
8.  V19 on Thu. - Aesthetic, archaic, benign, brusque, cogent, compliance, creed, detrimental, diverge, enigma, ignoble, impregnable, inimitable, jocular, magnanimous, avow, avuncular, Bacchanal, badinage, baleful
HW = Carefully reread the last passage of the MC AP Exam booklet, which starts with; "It is a fact that, to that other, nothing ever happens."  Using approriate evidence from the text, write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies the author uses to support their purpose. Due Day 3
Day 2
Tuesday 01/13/15
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.  Eyes exam prep via graded discussion
Day 3
Thursday 01/15/15
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. Turn in HW
2.  V19
3.  Eyes exam part 1 w/ part 2 as HW Due on Tue. 01/20/15
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