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