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Presentation for this week

Here is this week's presentation with RLO #5 and final details regarding your approach to the AP test on May 20th at 1:30.

Presentation for this week

Please use this presentation to guide your learning this week.

Zoom meeting presentation

THIS PRESENTATION summarizes key points from the Zoom meeting today.

RLO #3 focused on incredible speeches!

HERE is the presentation with learning opportunities for this week.

Updates for this week

Here is the PRESENTATION for this week's learning.

Update for AP Lang

Please read through THIS PRESENTATION for updates and important information about remote learning going forward. Also, please check your email for communications from administration about the remote learning plan for the high schools for the next few months.


Questions about grades, Remote Learning Opportunities (RLOs), and Zoom meetings are all answered in this pres. While RLOs are optional, you should note that these will be activities geared towards helping you to review and prepare for the AP test in May, as well as help you to read new and interesting pieces of literature while applying your skills.

Feel free to contact me with any additional questions or clarifications you might need... I am here to help in whatever ways I can.

Updates for AP Lang this week

Hope you are all safe and healthy at home!
Please read through THIS PRESENTATION for updates and learning opportunities for this week.

If you have not completed the survey from last week, please do so to let me know how you are doing.  Also, please check your grade. If you would like to raise your grade, you may do so by turning in any missing assignments (please submit them via google classroom), or making revisions to assignments you lost points on (this applies to most, but not all, assignments from this semester).
Next week, I would like to set up a Zoom meeting with our class... more details to come later this week.  I really miss having class together!

Hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy!

Updates for AP Lang this week

Hello AP students!
Hope you are all safe and healthy at home!
Please read through this presentation which contains a survey, updates, and learning opportunities for this week.
Miss you all!

Hello AP Lang students!

Hello AP students!  HERE is a letter from me to you.
I posted this message on google classroom and will continue to communicate with you using both these platforms.

Our final unit on the argument essay (Q3) will be one we will work on virtually, so we can feel prepared regardless of which essay type is chosen. Please use THIS DOC to learn more about this essay in terms of the approach and skills development

All "assignments" described here are optional; it is a good idea to practice this essay type and have a game plan for how you will approach this writing, but no grades will be given for the preparatory work you do here. You are not required to submit any work to me, but I will certainly read it and give you helpful feedback if you do.

The College Board has announced that, due to these unexpected circumstances, the AP test will be shortened down to one 45-minute essay that you will write at home. They will be announcing the essay type on April 3rd, and also the test dates that will be available to you.  Here are two articles from the College Board that might help clarify these details:
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/coronavirus-update

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Once the College Board announces which essay type you will be writing, we will switch to reviewing writing approaches and practices for only that type of essay.
For now, the argument essay will be our focus.

Thinking of you all often and hoping your break from school is going well.

Interesting times...

Use THIS PRESENTATION as a guide for the next few weeks, and enjoy your break!

Guiding pre-20th century author Research Presentation due Wednesday, 3/18

Use these questions to guide your research of your pre-20th century author.
Create your own keynote surrounding these ideas to introduce your author to other classmates.
The final slide should include your MLA works cited with at least three sources used to gather info.
DUE TO COVID-19 CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS IS NOW AN OPTIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT.

Welcome to class!

In my absence today, please read in your inquiry-based project reading book for the class period.
You may listen to music with earbuds, if you'd like, while reading.

If you'd like to reference them, the weekly focus reading goals are linked here.
(read over goals for weeks 7 & 8, especially if you are not on to book two yet)

We will be working on final responses to book one in class on Thursday, and the final responses will be due on Monday, 3/16. 

Synthesis Essay prep. work

Please go to this link to read question 1 prompt and the sources.
Then, PLAN your own synthesis argument essay, according to the directions.

(15 minutes TOTAL will be given for reading the prompt and sources and planning the essay)

Approach this as you'd like... you could use the PHONE approach to write this essay, but it is not required that you do so.

Change/Reform in Education

Use this presentation to guide the creation of your proposal for change.

Writing justifications for TWO sources:

The written justifications for sources of inspiration should address how the ideas and assertions put forth by the given author or speaker inspired and are connected to that point in your presentation. Be as specific as possible, citing information/ideas as directly as possible, and explain fully how this source contributed to the point in your presentation. End your justification with an MLA citation of the source.

Type up these justifications in a google doc to submit through google classroom by Thursday, 3/5.

Here is an example justification from a past student:
Takaharu Tezuku designed a kindergarten in Japan that used this idea in a similar way. With a completely open and unrestricted building, children explore and adventure. In his TED- Talk "The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen", Tezuku explains the benefits of this fluid system. He says that because of the noisy environment, "these children show amazing concentration in class". Tezuku also says that children benefit from their exploring and lack-of-control through adventure and resiliency. Although these aspects might only partially apply to high school students, one proponent of this system did. Tezuku said that this lack of control "makes them learn how to live in this world". This idea is directly applicable to any fluid class system. Through it, the students would be better equipped to take on the challenges the world presents to them, especially college!

Tezuka, Takaharu. "The Best Kindergarten You've Ever Seen." TED. April 2015. Lecture. https://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen/up-next.

Mentor text

Read this piece and consider the ways that this applies to your own views on education.
Write in response to these connections, and also describe how these ideas connect to one of the ideas presented by one of your authors in the articles you read.

Emerson Application Activity due Wednesday, 2/18

Please complete THIS APPLICATION ACTIVITY with Emerson's "Education" piece for next Wednesday.

Agenda for today (in my absence)

Welcome to class today!
Please submit your synthesis essays either on google classroom (if typed-- submit plan on paper to the inbox) or to the inbox if handwritten, with the plan stapled to the back.

You have this full class period to read in your reading book.  
You may also spend some time researching the credibility of the author(s) of book one, and learn more about his/her motives in writing this book and if this book is part of a larger continuing body of research or part of a larger story; consider how what you learn about his/her credibility affects your reading interpretations

Tomorrow, we will take the quiz on sentence placement; this site has some good review exercises.

Synthesis Essay on the Role of Education in a Democracy

Please use this class period to begin planning your synthesis essay using THIS PROMPT.
You could use the PHONE approach to write this essay, but it is not required that you do so.
After planning, you can go on to drafting the essay.
This essay will be due on Monday, February 10th, and should be TYPED and submitted on google classroom.

Mentor Text Study

Read this poem by John Donne:

“No Man Is An Island”—by John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. 

Then, respond in one of the following ways:
Personal—Respond to the ideas and main message set forth in this text.  Examine how it applies to your life and your own understanding and beliefs.

Creative—Choose a line or phrase from the text to develop into your own writing.  You could make this an opening or closing line in your own writing, or begin your own story based off the line or the ideas within this text.

Extension—Look up the phrase “for whom the bell tolls” and you will find a book by Ernest Hemingway of the same title, as well as a song by Metallica.  Read more about the book or listen to the song, and explore in your writing how it connects to this text by John Donne and if you might want to explore the writings of Hemingway or the songs of Metallica further from this short introduction.

"What Kind of Citizens Do We Need?" by Joel Westheimer

Read and take notes on the ideas given about links between education and citizenship in THIS ARTICLE.
Feel free to also use this printer-friendly format for this reading.



IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES

Fill out this doc responding to various quotations of importance you pulled from the article.

Here is a link to the quotations of importance I found while reading... feel free to use these or compare them to your own chosen quotes.

Education article readings and TED talk watch & respond

Please read your assigned TWO articles. 
Take notes on the claims presented by each author, and
then, at the end of the reading, summarize the article in a paragraph or two,
using a mix of paraphrasing and a few well-selected direct quotes/quote segments
to explain fully. 
Once you have read both articles, compare the ideas presented in
each about education
in a well-developed paragraph or two.
DUE THURSDAY, 1/30

1. "The Role of Education in a Democratic Society" by John T. Caldwell 

2. "What is Democratic Education?" (an introduction) by Dana Bennis 

3.  "Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education" by Eleanor Roosevelt, published in the Pictorial Review 1930
4. "What's the Purpose of Education in the 21st Century?" by Valerie Strauss, published in The Washington Post 2015
5.  "The Big Picture: Three Big Goals of Public Education" by Bill Honig, published in Building Better Schools, 2016 

6.  "American Public Education: An Origin Story" published in Education News, 2013

Finally, watch and evaluate the argument set forth in ONE of these TED talk videos

about education. 
Before viewing, read about the speaker and take note of his/her credibility
to speak on this topic. 
While watching, take note of the way he/she uses appeals and visuals
within this presentation itself. 
Take notes on the argument presented and your questions/responses
to this argument.
Finally, summarize the ideas set forth so you can describe
this TED talk to others.  

DUE FRIDAY, 1/31

Inquiry-based Project for Second Semester study

I am very excited to introduce to you the semester-long inquiry-based project!

This project is dependent on you developing an essential question to study.
An essential question is one that lies at the heart of a subject and prompts further inquiry.
There is not an obvious answer to this question, and many viewpoints may be considered to arrive at a conclusion in response to this question.  This is the type of question that stimulates one to ask more important questions, and provides ongoing, critical thinking opportunities the more that you immerse yourself in study of the topic.

Here are some websites that might be helpful in the endeavor of crafting your own essential question to ponder for this semester:

• https://thesecondprinciple.com/teaching-essentials/essential-questions/
• https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/examples-of-essential-questions/

The project proposal linked HERE should be completed up to the section about book one and submitted on google classroom by Monday, January 27th.  

Please fill out this SURVEY about your intended directions for this project.  I will use this to provide final approval on essential questions and topics of study.

WEEKLY FOCUSES will help keep you on track and progress through this project.

Searching for books?  Use some of these sites and the suggested connected readings:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/books/browse

Exam day writing practice

You can practice your planning approach to both the synthesis essay and the rhetorical analysis essay using Question 1 & Question 2 prompts from the 2016 released exam.