1. REMEMBER: Wed. 05/13 in front of the Library at 7:40 a.m. with pens/pencils/layers
Week 8 - AP Exam Wed. 05/13 - meet at the library @7:40
Week 9 - IR Due Day 3 on Thu. 05/21 Week 10 - Portfolio Due Day 1 - Graduation Ceremony - no school on Mon. Week 11 - Academic Assembly - no school Thu. 06/03 - Wed. 07/29
2. Pick up posters lying on counter - oh, and your AP/Hon summer work 3. A-Z techniques, authors/titles, topics HW = come with some predictions - topics for DCQ/Synth - write your top 3 on your own paper and bring it next class Wed. 05/13 in front of the Library at 7:40 a.m. with pens/pencils/layers
DAY 2 - Tue. 05/12
1. HW discussion 2. Meditating to Mental Management
HW =Wed. 05/13 in front of the Library at 7:40 a.m. with pens/pencils/layers
Week 7 - Well, here we are - 5 classes together until...
Week 8 - AP Exam Wed. 05/13 - meet at the library @7:40
Week 9 - IR Due Day 3 on Thu. 05/21 Week 10 - Portfolio Due Day 1 - Graduation Ceremony - no school on Mon. Week 11 - Academic Assembly - no school Thu. 06/03 - Wed. 07/29
2. Lessons from the SBAC 3. For Glory!
DAY 2 - Tue. 05/05
1. For Glory!
DAY 3 - Thu. 05/07
Remind me to show you the Honors/AP Summer Work and remind you about the Europe trip for next spring break! 1. Pre-bubble 2. Pass Back and Portfolio - Due Tue. 05/26 3. V34 + some of 32... Acrimonious, blithe, calumny, compunction, debacle, devotee, duplicity, equanimity, equivocal, extol, ameliorate, avarice, burgeon, circumlocution, credence, idée fixe, idiosyncracy, imbroglio, ipso facto, jejune, Fractious, impasse, intractable, martinet, paucity, polemical, prevaricate, parsimonious, philanthropy, recant, foment, gainsay, galvanize, gauche, germane
Essential Question: What's up with the moths? Agenda: 1. Missing Moth 2. Mothy Arguments - Wolf - is/not the moth - Dillard - broadax or moth - Hamlet is/not the moth HW = Write something Mothy - be creative, have something to say and say it - GDrive shared by midnight on Sat. 4/25
Day 2 - Tuesday 04/21/15
Essential Question: Who deserves and who is to say? Agenda: 1. Heart Transplant Arguments
Day 3 - Thursday 04/23/15
Essential Question: Who deserves and who is to say? Agenda: 1. V 29 - chimerical, coterie, desiccate V 30 - gibe, educe, eschew V31 - Abject, assiduous, callow, droll, erudite, impious, laconic, malady, misnomer, fait accompli, farcical, fecund, flotsam, flout V 33 - Prosaic, relegate, respite, salubrious, sedentary, stringent, swagger, tumultuous, abstruse, antediluvian, surreptitious, tirade, trenchant, upshot, whimsical, gerrymander, grist, harangue, harbinger, hirsute Excerpts from V 32 will be added to week 7 when we will be doing all of V34 - we will not test during week 6 because of SBAC 2. Heart Transplant Arguments - cont.
Essential Question: Are we ready? ("The readiness is all") CCSS - all - so don't look here after today Agenda: 1. Quick reading quiz 2. Quick-ish com/con which may lead to HW 3. Long Readiness Rant (w/ a plea for grammar) (motivation via visualization)
Day 2 - Tuesday 04/14/15
Essential Question: Are we really ready? ("The readiness is all") Agenda: 1. Quick HW clarification 2. Show Ponies Prance the SBAC
Day 3 - Thursday 04/16/15
Essential Question: How can I show Longo the ready? ("The readiness is all") Agenda: 1. If there was HW assigned on Mon. 4/13, it is Due... 2. Prima Donnas dance the SBAC HW 1 = read and thoroughly annotate the two Anne Dillard essays for Monday 04/20/15 HW 2 = expect an updated vocabulary list this day and be ready (it seems to be "all") for a vocabulary test on Thu. 04/23
HW = read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" in Lemon Yellow on p. 472 and Maria-Cristina Mena's "The Vine-Leaf" also in Lemon on p. 477. Some contextual research on your part would be helpful. Be prepared to compare and contrast the short stories - perhaps even with Hamlet - on Monday. HW = prepare yourself mentally for SBAC