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2011-2012 School Year
Tips for writing a precis.doc
Sample Precis - Food Fight.docx
Sample Research Paper
http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-daly-mla.pdf
Sample Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography on Cloning[1].doc
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January
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January 3 - Great Gatsby overview. Bell-Ringers resume.
January 4 - Read GG 1, body paragraph information, works cited information
January 5 - Library - research work. Source #2 due, Vocab 13 due
January 6 - Early Release, Library - Source #3 due, Vocab 12 due, Read GG 2
January 9 - Library - Source #4 due, SQUID #1 due
January 10 - Read GG 3, Library work day. Source #5 due.
January 11- Gatsby quiz (chapters 1-3). Annotated bibliography information. In-class - Read Chapter 25 of How to
Read Literature Like a Professor - Don't Read with Your Eyes, (due Wednesday)
January 12 - Outline information, parenthetical citation information, Read GG 4, Vocabulary 14 due
January 13 - Early Release, Three-events chart, Read GG 5,
January 16 - No school, MLK day
January 17 - Library - type introduction paragraph, Read GG 6, SQUID #2 due
January 18 - Library - GG 7 (HTRL chapter 25 due)
January 19 - GG three events chart, writing conclusions, Vocab 15 due. Gatsby quiz ﴾chapters 4-6)
January 20 - Early Release, Library, outline due, GG 8
January 23 - SQUID #3 due, Library day
January 24 - Great Gatsby final test ﴾written﴿
January 25 - Research work day
January 26 - Alice Walker (50 Essays), Vocab 16 due
January 27 - Early Release, Library - Research work day
Janaury 30 - Brent Staples ﴾50 Essays﴿
January 31 - Annotated bibliography due to Turnitin.com, Library day
February
February 1 - Gatsby fiction organizer
February 2 - Peer editing day, Vocab 17 due
February 3 - Early Release, Library day, Peer editing day 2, self-evaluation
February 6 - Library day, Papers due at the end of the period (printed paper and to Turnitin.com)
February 7 - Walden introduction
February 8 - RA essay ﴾Audubon and Dillard﴿
February 9 - Scoring practice, Vocab 18 due
February 10 - Early Release, Analyzing charts, Walden work time
February 13 - Analyzing charts (part 2), Walden work time
February 14 - Walden J1-2 due, Synthesis essay overview
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February 15 - Synthesis overview (continued)
February 16 - Walden work time, Reading for synthesis essay, Vocab 19 due
February 17 - Early Release, Writing synthesis essay
February 20 and 21 - No School
February 22 - Finish synthesis scoring practice, Footnotes review, Walden 3-4 due
February 23 - No vocab this week! MC practice
February 24 - Early Release,
February 27
February 28 - MC practice with footnotes, Vocab 9-16 review paragraph. Walden 5-6 due
February 29 - March
March 1 - Satire Overview, Vocab 20 due
March 2 - Early Release, Swift - from 50 Essays
March 5 - Swift (continued), Vocab 9-16 review paragraph due
March 6 - Walden journal #7-8 due, Dave Barry (from 50 Essays)
March 7 - Vocab 17, Library - College Board web site tour, Check out literature-circle book
March 8 - MC practice, Literature circle directions, Vocab 20 due
March 9 - Early Release, College essay assigned (rough draft due 3/25, final draft due 3/28)
March 13 - Onion essay (AP prompt), Vocab 17 due
March 14 - Scoring practice
March 15 - Argument overview, sample prompts, March 16 - Reading time, Logical Fallacies chart, Vocacb 21 due
March 16 - Early Release, Veal Ad Analysis
March 19 - Adams letters (LOC)
March 20 - Review AM practice session (essay prompt), scoring practice
March 21 - Vocab 19, MC practice (review AM practice MC questions)
March 22 - Work time for college essay, MC review, Vocab 22 due
March 23 - Early Release, College essay writing time
March 26 - Synthesis prompt
March 27 - College essay peer editing, sample synthesis essay
March 28 - Argument prompt, College essay due
March 29 - Practice scoring, reading time, Vocab 23 due
March 30 - Early Release, Check out My Antonia, 50 Essays work
April
April 2 to 6 - Spring Break
April 9 - My Antonia forward and introduction activity
April 10 - Rhetorical Terminology, MLK - Letter from Birmingham Jail, Vocab 19
April 11 - Science HSPE - MLK continued
April 12 - MLK continued, Vocab 24 due
April 13 - Early Release, Rachel Carson
April 16 - Rachel Carson - part II
April 17 April 18 - RA prompt (Virginia Woolf)
April 19 - RA scoring activity
April 20 - Early Release, My Antonia quiz
April 22 - MC preview, Vocab 19 due
April 24 - MC practice, What AP Readers Long to See
April 25 - Argument Prompt (outline and scoring), Preview test prep assignment, Voc 20 due Thursday
April 26 - Library - test prep book
April 27 - Early Release, Library - test prep
April 30 - Library - test prep
May
May 1 May 2 - Clarity, cohesion, and transitions. Multiple-choice practice, Vocab 21
May 3 - Synthesis prompt
May 4 - Early Release, Synthesis prompt scoring (ACT day)
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May 7 - Review Argument prompt (Alfred Green)
May 8 - Review RA prompt (Fridman 2008), AP US History test - Good luck! (weekend homework - Horace)
May 9 - Lewes prompt - analyzing a "9", no vocab this week!
May 10 - RA prompt (Barry), Roz's 10 Commandments
May 11 - Early Release,
May 14 - Film - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
May 15 - Film - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
May 16 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof discussion, Vocab 22
May 17 - Test debrief
May 18 - Early Release, Film May 21 - Film May 22 - Spring read preview
May 23 - Vocab 23, Field trip forms due
May 24 - Late start (9:00) - Math EOC Assessments,
May 25 - Early Release, Late start (9:00) - Math EOC Assessments
May 28
May 29
May 30
June
June 1 - Early Release, Early release, Essay assigned
June 4 - Math EOC day, J2 due, In-class essay work time
June 5 - Reading or essay work time
June 6 - Peer editing day, Photo essay assigned
June 7 - Cross-grade discussion day (2nd period), reading or project work time (3rd period)
June 8 - Early Release, Lab - essay work time or type field trip reflections, project cover, etc.
June 11 - Cross-grade discussion day (3rd period), reading or project work time (2nd period), Essay due
June 12 - Reading or project work time, Week 3 sheet assigned,
June 13 June 14 June 15 - Last day of school!
September
7 - I am a product assigned, homework due, Syllabus/policies, preview AP exam
8- Correct homework, Visual text analysis
9- Review tone - Orwell
12 - Vocab 1 - due Thursday, first 90/90 terms, Patterns of Development (LOC), Finish Orwell
13 - Picture day! Share I am a product poems, Close Reading and FX reviewed
14 - Chopin biography (Cornell Notes), start The Awakening, lit-response journal
15 - Vocab due, What is Rhetorical Analysis? handout (Cornell notes)
16 -Early Release, Review EB White
19 - Bell Ringers - Week 1, 90/90 Quiz 1, Finish EB White (from Friday), Annotation example (LOC), new 90/90
terms
20- David Sedaris essay, Awakening journals 1-2 due
21 - All-district write
22 - Vocab 2 due, The Onion essay (Girl Moved to Tears)
23 - Early Release, 90/90 quiz, Practice FX tone sentences
26 - Vocab 3 (due Thursday), MC test tips, practice exam (Scarlet Letter)
27 - Start on Galveston essay, Awakening journals 3-4 due. New 90/90 terms.
28 - PSAT information, Continue Galveston ﴾SOAPSS, thesis and tone﴿.
29 - Vocab 3 due, The Awakening discussion day, Preview AP Lit prompt (setting)
30 - Early Release, 90/90 quiz. Reading time. ﴾Awakening journals 5-6 due Tuesday).
October
3 - AP essay pre-writing (Capote)
4 - AJ 5-6 due. 2nd period - Guest Speaker, New 90/90 terms, 3rd and 4th period - Franklin aphorisms - Holt 6776
5 - Analyzing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay (2010 Q2)
6 - Vocab 4 due. Lincoln Inaugural Address - SOAPSS, Thesis, outline
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7 - ADW Reflection, , 90/90 Quiz #4, Lincoln follow-up activity
10 - HTRL - Symbols chapter
11 - Library - pre-research activities, Awakening journals 7-8 due, Awakening quiz
12 - Library (period 2-3) - pre-research activities continued - ABC Clio assignment, (period 4 lab), HTRL chapter
due
13 - Library (period 2-3) - Awakening symbols research, (period 4 lab), Vocab 5 due.
14 - Early Release, Awakening fiction organizer. Homework - Advertising response (due Tuesday)
17 - Finish The Awakening (symbols, fiction organizer).
18 - Homework - HTRL - Seasons chapter (20) due Thursday. Symbols, archetypes, visual text (Cole). Advertising
response due. 19 - Rhetorical Analys - tips. AP prompt-pre-writing. (LC)
20 - In-class AP essay. Vocab 6 due. Seasons chapter due.
21 - Early Release, Check out Grapes of Wrath. GW reading time.
24 - Reviewing sample essays
25 - Multiple-choice practice
26 - Precis practice
27 - Vocab 7 due, Custer/Average Uncle
28 -Early Release, Reading time.
31 - Dorothea Dix
November
1 - GW 1-2 due. GW discussion.
2 - London/Twain (with thesis statement)
3 - 50 Essays - Virginia Woolf
4 - Virginia Woolf - part 2
7 - No vocab this week. Pre-writing for AP essay (Kelly)
8 - GW 3-4 due. AP in-class essay (full introduction, bulleted body paragraph(s), conclusion)
9 - Library - Research evaluation
10 - AP essay scoring
11 - Veteran's day - No school!
14 - GW reading and discussion day. Vocab review weeks 1-8.
15 - GW 5-6 due. Analyzing political cartoons (notes and first practice)
16 - A Ripple of Hope
17 - A Ripple of Hope, Vocab 9 due
18 - Early Release, MC practice
21 - Of Plymouth Plantation.
22 - GW 7-8 due. Grapes of Wrath Quiz
23 - Start GW film. Early release.
24 - Happy Thanksgiving!
25 - No school
28 - GW video - Homework - Mairs essay from 50 Essays (due Wednesday)
29 - GW video
30 - GW video (and written response). Finish film organizer. Mairs due.
December
December 1 - Vocab 10 due, AP prompt (discussion - George Eliot prompt)
December 2 - Early Release, GW essay prompts. Political cartoon as bell-ringer (if time).
December 5 - Research preview, AP prompt (pre-writing) Political cartoons presented as bell ringers.
December 6 - AP prompt (Owls)
December 7 - Library Orientation
December 8 - Owls analyzing an "8". Vocab 11 due. Homework - Emerson - Self-Reliance
December 9 -Early Release, Machiavelli 1 (due Tuesday), Peer edit 1st draft of thesis statement.
December 12 - Library - source 1 due. Homework: Machiavelli #1-10. Emerson Self-Reliance due. Political
cartoons presented as bell ringers.
13 - Machiavelli #1-10 due. Machiavelli 2. Vocab 12 due Thursday
14 - Thoreau "Resistance to the Civil Government"
15 - Ghandi and King (comparison/contrast chart). Precis due. Vocab 12 due.
16 - Early Release, Lit Terms Jeopardy!
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December 17-January 2 - Winter vacation
Summer Homework Assignment
Summer Reading Assignment 2011.doc
Course Syllabus
Syllabus 10-11 short.pub
Synthesis Essay
Sample Essay
Wolves.doc
Essay Template
Template.doc
Sample resarch paper
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/lmcontent/ch07/PDF/Hacker-Orlov-MLA.pdf
Helpful links:
Sample free-response questions for the AP exam:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lang/samp.html?englang
Literary terms web sites:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
QuestBridge scholarship information
www.questbridge.org
Titles used on the AP exam since 1973
http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html
Literature Circle Options:
Into Thin Air
The Perfect Storm
Swimming to Antarctica
Little Princes (personal copy required)
Walden Journal Directions and Sample
Walden Journals.doc
Walden Journal Sample.doc
Walden with annotations:
http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
Literature Discussion Group.doc
College Essay Questions.doc
Multiple-choice question types
Writing Multiple-Choice Questions.doc
Grammar Review
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
Quizlet (to review terms)
http://quizlet.com/302172/rhetorical-terms-flash-cards/
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Love is a Fallacy (read the story to review logical fallacies)
http://www1.asknlearn.com/ri_Ilearning/English/631/elang-ilearning/page3a.htm
Important handouts:
Literary Terms - thanks Marcel!.docx
Close Reading Handout.doc
Revising for simplicity, clarity and cohesion:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop-old/editing.html
The Awakening Links:
For symbols in the novel: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/symbols.htm
Web sites for October 13-14
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/gallery01.html
http://www.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=2016
Thomas Cole.doc
Better Off Files
Weekly sheet1A.doc
Weekly sheet blank.doc
Weekly sheet2.doc
Weekly sheet3.doc
Vocabulary list
List 1-8.doc
List 9-16.doc
List 17-24.doc
Vocab chart
Blank chart.doc
Grapes of Wrath Bonus Activity
Bonus Activity for Grapes of Wrath.docx
Sample rhetorical analysis paragraph and FX sentences
Ellison analysis.docx
Syllabus 11-12 short.pub
Purdue University's On-Line Writing Lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
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