Wednesday

Work on Rhetoric Projects

Close Reader Thursday

• Close Reader Amy Tan Section
• "Where do we get discriminated against for how we talk as teenagers?"
• Questions in Amy Tan

Pasta Salad!

SPS:

• IOD -- Idiom of the Day:  Yellow-bellied
• 10 new vocab words -- define for tonight  HW
• Review Ralph Ellison "Bird..." on p 45 -- be ready for questions tomorrow 

Nine Days until Break!

• Compare notes with 12:00 partners.
• 3 new words in personal dictionary.
• Read the next ten pages: Annotated and 3 new words.

PLEASE!

• Speeches -- wrap up
• hw:  read ch 2 up to pg 58 only!!  
• #dry

And, again

Presentations
Ch 2 read and annotate

Presentating... SPS style!

5 speeches
Chapter 2 of text given -- read and annotate by Monday

Listening listening listening

Presentations:  5

Thanksgiving is so close

• B200 Lab for Papers!

Guess what day it is!

• Speech requirements found underneath your schedule!

Tuesday

• B200 for research

It's Friday!

• B200 for research

Storm of the Century!

• Research and work on Annotated Bibliography in B200 computer lab

Happy Armistice Day!

• Work day on research
• Focus on Annotated Bib
• Directed Research -- read articles
• Get after it.

Omg it's almost 11/11

• LMC East for research/work on Research Paper

New Monday New Week

• Work on Annotated Bibliography Notes
• Start research B200 lab.

Hey btw we tested you today

• Surprise Frankentest! 

Outside? Yessssssssssssssssssssss!

• Review 17-end packets Frankie
• discuss ending
• finish reading 3 in SPS Exam 1, MC consensus

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

• SPS -- take test 3 in practice packet, break into groups to converse about first 3 answers and to look at annotations

• Review -- chapters 20-22
• Finish Frankie for Tomo.  Finish packets,

Mondays

• Reading Day

FullMoonFriday

• Discuss chapter 17 -- take quiz
• Summarize 18-19, reading highlites
• Thru 22 for Tuesday. Reading day Monday

It's raining. again. Thanks Thursday.

• Start Vocab. Fill out 15 words. Check for points
• Chapter 15/16 review. 12:00 partners. 

Rasmussen's birthday!

• Circle discussion on Chapters 11-14. 

Sure, Tuesday is a thing too

• Discussed rhetorical strategies of the fracking guy talking about fracking. 
• There was a pink sheet we did. We also did this blue sheet thing too. Oh, and we got back the writing. It was graded!

Case of the Mondays!

• A fracking presentation outside of school.
• Reading until we leave

Rasmussen's Friday (sorry guys)

• 55 minute timed writing
• Catch up on reading, through Chapter 10 in Frankenstein

SPS

• recreate calendar -- follow.
• Reading day
• 6 people not here Friday -- plan to write tomorrow

Got the class going up (again) on a Tuesday

• Hey, we didn't forget to fill out the blog the past week; we simply chose not to.
• Discussing Fallen Hero.
• Handout for Chapter 6 and 7 summary

Chilly Tuesday

• Reading Day
• We totally didn't do Homecoming stuff today (we did)

Back to Monday

• Write down Academic Reading Tips on p. 18 of Frankenbooklets
• Discuss Themes for Letters 1-4; Obsession or Ambition as Letter Four begins
• Jumping around the map of Europe!

Homework: Ch. 1-3 in Frankenstein due Wednesday, October 14th

IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY YAY

• Frankenbooklets
• Letters 1-4

Thursday (almost as good as Friday!)

• SPS
• Correct 1 & 2 from new packet
• collect to save for later
• Frankenbooklet creation
• HW: read Mary Shelley's intro

Sunny Wednesday!

• Review essays
• Practice Test A -Section (Passage) One in class: The first 14 questions

Gloomy Tuesday

• Reviewed scores from essay
• Discussed notes on EPL and SOAPS
• Sample Analytical Essay

Mon-yuck-day

• Self-Assessments on essays
• Notes on Ch. 1 Textbook for SOAPS and EPL
• Complete Exercise on p. 30 in 12:00 partners
• Make SOAPS chart for each text

No homework

Friday SPS

• TED talk
• Read chapter 1 in textbook (copied)

Thursday: Wednesday's Tomorrow

• Essays from the AP Book

Guess what day it is!

• Go over prompts and thesis statements. How do we make an effective thesis statement. Editing, adding different strategies, rewriting, classwide. 

Homework: Think of a cool way to give Mr. Rasmussen a high five.

Tuesdays are better.

• Split into book groups
• Prompt chosen
• Passage in hand
• Thesis written (2 pts!)
• Chapter 8/specifics

Monday. Still.

• Prompt Festivus
• Greenie vs. AP essay structures

Homework: Prompt Analysis through 2008

Friday with Capote

SPS -- chapter 3 deconstructing prompts

• Capote's In Cold Blood passage and analysis from workbook
• HW:  read through pg 75 in 5 to a 5 workbook

We are ^ on this side of the hump now

• SPS
• Exercise in AP Books. Will continue tomorrow. Don't sweat it.

Got the class goin' up..on a Tuesday

• Commercials for books

Less Mondays, please.

• SPS
• review chap 8 notes, focus on syntax
• get analysis Tips and Theme Sheet
• work on themes from summer fiction novel, in groups; share
• hw:  NONE

SPS

Work on notes chapter 8  (or homecoming stuffs...)

hw:  read through ch 8 with notes

It's Thursday, my dudes.

• Go over #11-20
• Begin Analysis Essay Study

Homework: Finish Notes/Problems Ch. 8

Hump Day!

• Corrected 1-10
• AP #11-20; focused on vocabulary

Thomas de Quincey is a weird dude.

• Reviewed Chapter Four
• Read through Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (sorry about that)

We got a case of the Mondays

AP test review then with diff partners
create word journal together -- what did we learn from taking diagnostic multiple choice section
HW:  Read ch 4 and take notes

TGIF

Puzzle piece rule compliance
AP tests -- work with 12:00 partner unless you don't finish -- take home book and get through MC portion of diagnostic

At the Trident

12:00 partners with the Dialogic Test
Homework: None! (Working on puzzle pieces tomorrow)

Two is Better Than One!

*Collected syllabus
*Handed out AP Work books
*Handed out AP notebooks
*Assigned Clock Partners

Day 1!
Syllabus review
Collected summer homework
Nicknames -- choose, create tents
intro songs

HW: Get syllabus signed

Caesar time!

Act II -- finish reading OYO Vocab 7 test

Vocab and Caesar

Vocab A and B Tone/genre activity Act I, sc. 2 review quotes and comic for Act I

Julius Caesar -- Begin!

finish impromptus Begin Caesar -- make booklets: chronolog, Act 1 quotes, Act II quotes Watch history of JC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeLN_zuhvWE take notes on documentary on pg 1 of booklet homework: study vocab words -- test Friday

speeches continue

adjust schedule -- lab time tomo speeches

research the research

keep reading! follow the schedule in "The Struggle"

Research the research

Begin researching!!! Annotated bib due Wed. March 25

17-20 review

review 17-19, quotes in booklet review 20 with theme and quotes

reading time

Read 17, summ 18-19, read 20

ACT-a-thon

Final Prep for ACT! We will discuss through 16 on Wednesday

Thursday and Friday

Thurs: Reading day Friday: Writing -- ACT choice -- full or brain gym (2)

Monkey time

Review ACT writing #2 Monkey through another set -- evaluate/judge Plan for the upcoming week Through Ch 13 for Wed.

Reading time!

Reading time! Read thru 13 for Wednesday next

Comical

Make comic of ch 10 in Frankie Read 11-13 for Wed. 13-16 for Friday

Monday - Tuesday

Monday: quotes -- 3 from 6-8, based on themes guest speaker on college writing Tuesday: Review yesterday, ch 6-8 highlites read 9-10 for Wednesday 5 additional personal vocab words for Thursday

Timed Writing 2

Timed writing 2 Reading time -- 6-8 for Monday

Be the monkey you can be....

judge ACT writes with a partner

Tuesday and Wednesday

Tues: discuss chapters 3-4 Chapter 5 -- I'ts alive! Watch 2 clips and make comparisons Wed. ACT Writing review -- notes, return first writing

Friday!

Share favorite word from vocab Quiz 1-2 Discuss 1-2 Turn in vocab sheets if finished. Read 3-4 for weekend.

Review letters

stamp booklets on Letters 1-4; discuss letters and themes read 1-2 for tonight

Reading day

Read letters 1-4, fill out Frankenbooklet

Frankenbegin!

check author intro bullets Read Letters 1-4 fill in booklet questions by Thursday

get started!

Finish booklets read intro to M Shelley Author intro -- read this weekend and take 6-8 notes in booklet

AP Whaaaaaaaat?

Diagnostic test pp 19-25; correct; review Personal vocab sheets -- 10 words by Friday

Semester 2 Days 1-3

Tuesday: Objective Complements, PN PA Short story "A Jury of Her Peers" oops -- everyone didn't read; ergo, we can't move on till they do Wed. Review all of ch 18 Thursday: Test on 18 grammar and ACT English practice Begin short story character analysis