Because Fridays

• check homework
• Idiom of the day
• correct 101-110; pull hair out
• try #Nat'sPlan on 111-120; correct; relearn terms; add terms to dictionary
• HW: finish chapter 3 packet:  next 3 chunks through question 150

yesterday and today

Yesterday

• Review ch 6 in 5 for a 5 workbook
• Read section of ch 3 regarding types of thesis statements
• Choose 2 of the last 5 argument prompts from the AP old tests chart.  Write thesis statements for those 2

Today:

• share thesis statements with 4:00 partners; choose best one of each
• write a NEW one based on a prompt you didn't use yet; share with class
• classify your 3 thesis statements based on ch 6 workbook
• read Chapter 9 in workbook for hw
•  Get MC questions packet 3 (in the 500 before the test); hw:  one section:  101-110. 

Begin the Argument!

• New Seats, new Clocks, new Stix, New YOU!
• Welcome Nate!
• review MC 81-100
• review workbook progress thus far 
• Read ch 6 in workbook for HW

SPS again, but with pictures

Ch 2 from Text -- analyzing pictures/ ads/ cartoons;
hw:  grab random ad, write thesis and find 3-4 pieces of evidence for thesis proof.

wrap up the speech, already!

finishing yesterday's assignment with the articles about the speech

obamarama

• Finish reading the speech, analyzing rhetoric
• read analysis of speech
• rhetoric
• positive
• negative

the day after the glorious snow day

turn in snow day hw
Rhetorical strategies in SOTU -- watch/read first chunk
analyze strats
no hw

Shoulda' been a snowday

• Review Tone in reading and writing p. 61 of text -- Groucho Marx letter
• purpose and devices to prove
• read example essay
• criticize essay
• Read next essay to develop thesis statement -- hw

Friday!

• Reviewed SAT writing
• Went over test we took yesterday
• Looking at analysis essays

So close to Friday

• Reviewed answers on the practice test taken yesterday
• Talked about AP Test Dates

Not as much Ugh today

• What effect or purpose is Virginia Wolfe trying to get across in "The Death of the Moth."
• Moths have feelings too.

Ugh x3

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