Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Please do this for Thursday...

Two assignments to be completed by Thursday, 1/31:

1.  VOCABULARY WORD APPLICATIONS-- Spend some time reviewing your vocabulary words and, for each word, determine how it relates to or impacts one of the reading pieces assigned in the last week.  You may use any of the pieces posted on the blog last week, any of the nonfiction pieces you annotated, or any nonfiction pieces read this year.  Challenge yourself to relate the words to a few of the pieces, not just using the same piece for all words.

2.  BEGIN PLANNING (& DRAFTING, IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED) YOUR STYLE ANALYSIS ESSAY.  ON THURSDAY, COME WITH ANNOTATED PIECES AND SOME IDEAS OF WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON ABOUT YOUR PRE-20th CENTURY AUTHOR'S STYLE.  USE THIS LINK FOR HELP...
Style Analysis Paper Guidelines for 3rd mp project

Monday, January 28, 2013

Today's assignment

Welcome to class AP students!

Complete a handwritten response to this prompt on lined paper:
Read or watch Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech again.  Write about how you feel a chosen "person of the year" or "runner up" that you read about in TIME magazine was inspired or is living his/her own version of the "dream" discussed in the speech.



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

"Speaker" essay for TKM project

As you work on composing your "speaker" response, you may want to refer to this article, written by Harper Lee before she published her novel.
"Christmas to Me" by Harper Lee

Happy "speaker" writing! :)

Monday, January 7, 2013

To Kill a Mockingbird end assessment

This assessment has several portions to complete, due over the course of this week.
See due dates for these segments on the description sheet below, as well as on the list on the right (visible in web version only).

Please read the description sheet below so you are aware of what your responses will entail; a rubric is also attached below, so you can see how these will be graded.
To Kill a Mockingbird end assessment DESCRIPTION SHEET

End assessment grading rubric