AP Language Homework
2010-2011
January 31, 2010
February 1, 2011
- Print out, read, and annotate
"The Eyes Have It"
- Annotate for: thesis and reasons given, rhetorical strategies used,
vocabulary, and personal comments and questions
- Cite the article in bibliographic form (MLA style; you may use
www.easybib.com if you wish)
- Complete the worksheet on Active and Passive voice
- Don't forget about the lunch meeting in Mrs. Ciotti's room tomorrow if
you're interested in the speech contest
February 2, 2011
- Bring Huck on Friday to turn in
- Read chapter 6 of Everything's an Argument by Monday; take
extensive notes
- Choose your columnist, and bring in two article by him/her tomorrow
- Memorize the "A" words on the list of Rhetorical Terms
February 3, 2011
- Bring Huck tomorrow to turn in (take post-its out; you may keep them,
but I won't be collecting them)
- Read Chapter 6 of Everything's an Argument by Monday; take
extensive notes
- Memorize the "A" words on the list of Rhetorical Terms
- Quiz tomorrow on "A" words and Passive and Active voice
February 4, 2011
- Bring Huck Monday to turn in (take post-its out; you may keep them,
but I won't be collecting them)
- Read Chapter 6 of Everything's an Argument; take
extensive notes, including any questions you may have
- Memorize the "A" words on the list of Rhetorical Terms
- Quiz Monday on "A" words and Passive and Active voice
February 7, 2011
- Bring in notes on Chapter 6 of Everything's an Argument, along
with the book
- Print out, read, and annotate the Toulmin
Survival Game
February 8, 2011
- Start studying the next round of
Rhetorical Terms (from canon to extended metaphor)
- Find five Letters to the Editor from a newspaper. Print them out,
and identify the claim, at least one reason, and the warrant that
accompanies that argument.
February 9, 2011
- Continue to study for the next round of
Rhetorical Terms (from canon to extended metaphor)
- Continue the analysis of one Letter to the Editor from a newspaper.
Draw a diagram showing:
February 10, 2011
- First Columnist Project due tomorrow
- Continue to study for the next round of Rhetorical Terms (from
canon to extended metaphor)
- Toulmin/enthymeme quiz tomorrow; study notes on Ch. 6 and class lectures
February 11, 2011
- Study for the next round of Rhetorical Terms (from
canon to extended metaphor); quiz on Tuesday
- Turn your Columnist Project #1 into
www.turnitin.com.
- SMAP with Ms. Clark at 9:00 this Sunday!
February 15, 2011
February 16, 2011
February 17, 2011
February 18, 2011
February 22, 2011
- Study for the quiz on the O through R words of your
Rhetorical Terms
- Print out and do Voice Lessons #5 (two separate links this time)
February 23, 2011
- Review how to organize
a compare/contrast essay
- Read the "Introduction to the Analysis Essay" handout given to you in
class
- Read the student samples (especially the good ones) for the Okefenokee
Swamp prompt
- Meet in the computer lab tomorrow (J186); bring your rhetorical terms
list and notes on the above
- Study for the quiz on the O through R words of your
Rhetorical Terms
- Second Columnist Project due Monday
February 25, 2011
- Read the Princeton Review chapter on the Analysis essay (handout given to you in
class)
- you don't have to write the entire essay when they ask you to, but I do
want you to have a basic outline of what you would write
- Meet in the computer lab Monday (J186 or 187--whatever the "good" lab
is);
- I'm not letting you use your notes or rhetorical terms list for this one
- Study for the quiz on the O through R words of your
Rhetorical Terms
- Second Columnist Project due Monday
- AP Sales, March 2-18 in Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
February 28, 2011
- Study for the quiz on the O through R words of your
Rhetorical Terms
- Print out, read, annotate, and score the
Sample Student essays for the
2008B Rhetorical Analysis. The actual scores are on the last page, so
save that look for last. Bring annotations in
- AP Sales, March 2-18 in Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
- Don't forget to turn in your Columnist Project to
www.turnitin.com by tonight.
March 1, 2011
- Print out and do Voice Lessons #5 (two separate links this time)
- AP Sales, March 2-18 in Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
- Study for the quiz on the remaining words of your
Rhetorical Terms
March 2, 2011
March 3, 2011
- Finish your Lorax project (4.25 inches by 11 inches, landscape; have the
text big enough so that it fills the page; include the five multiple choice
answers; make it look pretty)
- AP Sales, March 2-18 in Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
- Study for the quiz on the remaining words of your
Rhetorical Terms
March 4, 2011
- AP Sales, March 2-18 in Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
- Study for the quiz on the remaining words of your
Rhetorical Terms
March 11, 2011
- Columnist Project #3 due Monday
- Write a paragraph making an argument about something current that is
going on in our world. Make it completely fallacious. Highlight
four fallacies and identify them in the margins.
- Quiz on fallacies on Tuesday
- Have you paid for your AP exam yet people?
March 14, 2011
- Quiz on fallacies from EAA tomorrow
- Here is the
Love is a Fallacy story (all fallacies on the quiz, though, will come
from EAA, Ch. 17)
- AP Sales are ending THIS WEEK! Pay for them in the Student Store. $87, unless you qualify for
a waiver (see Mr. Sterling)
March 15, 2011
March 16, 2011
- If you haven't already, turn in your 3rd Columnist Project to
www.turnitin.com tonight.
- Study for fallacies quiz on Friday.
- Answer this question: Is hypocrisy a type of fallacy?
March 18, 2011
- Finish the AP prep multiple choice questions with explanations (on a
separate sheet of paper)
March 21, 2011
- For the "This single stick..." AP prep:
- take note of which answers you answered incorrectly
- on a separate sheet of paper, rewrite explanations for your
incorrect answers, proving to me that you now understand what the
correct answer is and why
- Staple the correct answers on top of your original answers
March 22, 2011
- Revise your incorrect answers to today's AP Practice sessions.
Give explanations as to whythe correct answers are, indeed, correct.
- "The time is coming..."
- "The struggle between Liberty and Authority..."
March 23, 2011
- Print out, read and annotate the
past AP Language essays
- :( = glad I didn't take the exam that year
- :) = I would have done well on this question
- ? = confusing; I must ask Ms. Clark about this!
- Type of essay they are asking for (persuasive/argument,
compare/contrast, style analysis, expository [definition, informative,
etc.], evaluating satire)
- Revise your incorrect answers to today's AP Practice sessions.
Give explanations as to why the correct answers are, indeed, correct.
- The End of Education
- "This archipelago..."
March 24,2011
- Your next and final Columnist Project will be due on Wednesday.
March 25, 2011
- Finish the AP Prep: "He who lets the world..." that Mr. Bartosiak gave
to you today
March 28, 2011
- Finish the Tone Voice Lessons (#9: Miss Manners)
- Revise and explain your incorrect answers to AP Prep: "He who lets
the world..."
- Revise and explain your incorrect answers to AP Prep: What an
Essay Can Do
March 29, 2011
- Finish the Syntax Voice Lessons (#15: Darwin)
- Revise and explain your incorrect answers to AP Prep: "There is
one point..."
March 30, 2011
- Revise your Columnist Project #3 using the skills we went through in
class today.
- Bring a fourth column to class tomorrow
March 31, 2011
- Columnist Project #4 is due tomorrow
- Be sure to turn in Columnist Project #3 and #4 to
www.turnitin.com (#3 by tonight, #4 by
Friday night)
April 12, 2011
- Welcome back! Mwaa, ha, haaa!
- Read the
rubric, sample student responses, and score explanations to the question
you wrote on today. You do not have to print these out, but do read
them carefully.
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on today's timed
write. What did you do well? What would you change if you could
go back? Use the above samples and score explanations as support for
your thoughts.
April 13, 2011
- Read and annotate the handout on parallel structure I gave to you today.
Come to class with any questions.
- Meet in the computer lab tomorrow
April 14, 2011
- Complete the worksheet on parallel structure. Come to class ready
for a quiz on it (you'll be able to ask questions before the quiz)
April 15, 2011
- Read the
sample student responses and
score explanations to the question you wrote on today. You do not
have to print these out, but do read them carefully. Questions 1-3 are
all on here; you only need to look at Question 3.
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on Thursday's timed
write. What did you do well? What would you change if you could
go back? Use the above samples and score explanations as support
for your thoughts.
- Do explanations for the multiple choice questions you got wrong today
April 18, 2011
- Let's try this again: read the correct
sample student responses and
score explanations to the question you wrote on today. You do not
have to print these out, but do read them carefully. Questions 1-3 are
all on here; you only need to look at Question 3.
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on Thursday's timed
write. What did you do well? What would you change if you could
go back? Use the above samples and score explanations as support
for your thoughts.
- Meet at the computer lab tomorrow (J187)
- Here is Exercise 1 if you didn't finish:
- in outer space
- through asteroid fields
- to discover the unknown
- sampling rocks and soil
- excited and surprised
- a remote-controlled vehicle
- fueled by scientists' imaginations
- on the planet's horizon
- shattered by asteroids
- to probe the surface of Mars
April 19, 2011
- Complete the worksheet on Appositive Phrases and Subordinate Clauses
April 20, 2011
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on Tuesday's
rhetorical analysis. What did you do well? What would you change
if you could go back? Use what we discussed in class in your
reflection.
- Meet in the computer lab tomorrow
- Don't forget about the AP bubbling session thingy
April 21, 2011
- Complete the worksheet on Sentence and Clause fragments
April 22, 2011
- Read the
sample student responses and score explanations to the question you
responded to yesterday (Thursday's Pink Flamingo one). You do not have
to print these out, but do read them carefully.
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on Thursday's timed
write. What did you do well? What would you change if you could
go back? Use the above samples and score explanations as support
for your thoughts.
April 25, 2011
- Read the
sample student responses and score explanations to the question you
responded to today (the electronic devices one). You do not have to
print these out, but do read them carefully.
- Type a 1/2 page reflection discussing how you did on today's timed
write. What did you do well? What would you change if you could
go back? Use the above samples and score explanations as support
for your thoughts.
- Review what independent (or main) and dependant (or subordinate) clauses
are. Go
here for help.
April 26, 2011
- Study sentence types.
- Take this
practice quiz.
- Do the AP multiple choice worksheet I gave to you in class. No
explanations, but have your answers when you come to class on Thursday
April 27, 2011
- Meet in the computer lab tomorrow
- Review synthesis essay
May 3, 2011
- I'm giving you a full-hour multiple choice test tomorrow. Be sure
to come to class on time.
- To study: review rhetorical terms (briefly),
Cliff's
Types of Questions on the AP Exam from earlier this semester, and other
multiple choice practice questions from the past.
May 4, 2011
- Take a look at the questions you missed on the practice exam today.
We'll go through an analysis tomorrow.
- Meet in the computer lab tomorrow
May 5, 2011
May 6, 2011
- Get your permission slip signed for our field trip
- Study for the exam on Wednesday
May 9, 2011
- Get your permission slip signed for the field trip
- Finish the multiple choice questions from today's handout
- Study your rhetorical terms
May 10, 2011
- Get plenty of rest. Meet at Mrs. Ciotti's (2131) tomorrow between
7:00 and 7:15.
- If you haven't given me your field trip slip, please give it to me by
tomorrow morning.
May 11, 2011
- Great job today, everyone!
- Print out F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Winter Dreams (you'll read it in class tomorrow with your sub)
May 13, 2011
May 15, 2011
- Quiz on Winter Dreams (including vocab) tomorrow
- Please bring your student ID to expedite the process of getting Gatsby
May 18, 2011
- Read chapter 2 of Gatsby
- Study your vocabulary words
- Do Gatsby Journal #1: Write a paragraph or two (no more than 300 words)
discussing what you think the American Dream is.
- About the journal: For several days throughout our journey through
The Great Gatsby, you will be assigned a journal topic. Some will be
thematic; some will be literary. The journals may be handwritten or
typed (double spaced). Each journal needs to be titled (Gatsby Journal
#___), and each journal must be on its own sheet of paper. Each page
should have some sort of visual to go with it (it can be drawn or pasted
onto the document; it should look nice, though). You may do this in a
composition book if you prefer, or you can use regular sheet paper, stapled
when you turn it in. You will turn it in at the end of the unit, but
you must bring your journals to class (I will be stamping them from time to
time for credit).
May 20, 2011
- Read through the end of chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby
- Review your vocabulary for chapters 1-3
- Quiz on Monday
May 23, 2011
- Journal #2: On page 6, Nick says, "Reserving judgements is a matter of
infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget
that, as my father snobbishly suggested and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of
the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth." Write
one paragraph translating / explaining the meaning of this. Write
another paragraph discussing if you agree or disagree with this statement
(and why).
May 24, 2011
- Read chapter 4 of Gatsby and complete the worksheet given to you in
class today
May 25, 2011
- Read chapter 5 of Gatsby
- Study your vocabulary (5-7)
- Journal #3: In Gatsby, we learn that Tom is cheats on Daisy, more than
once. She knows about it, yet she stays with him. In our culture
today, we see this behavior from women (men too...but we'll focus on women
for now)--Hillary stayed with Bill after the Lewinsky thing, and there are
many more like her who have not been in the limelight. What do you
think of these women? Are they weak, brave, both, something else? Are
they to be scorned, pitied, both, something else? Read
this article if you'd like to explore further before you write.
May 26, 2011
- Journal #4: Have you ever wanted something to happen so badly, and when
it finally did, it fell short: the dream was better than the reality?
Discuss.
- Study vocab
May 27, 2011
- Journal #5: Have you ever wanted to repeat the past? Explain.
- Those of you who missed 6th today, get read chapter 6 and get the
questions from me on Tuesday.
May 31, 2011
- Finish reading chapter 7; quiz tomorrow
June 1, 2011
- Finish the
word map for one of the new vocabulary words (chapters 7-9)
- Finish reading chapter 7
- Make a crossword for all of the words from chapters 7-9. Do not
use the definitions I gave to you; rather, show me you understand the
meaning of the words (by using synonyms, fill-in-the-blank sentences, etc.).
Many free crossword makers are online. Just Google free crossword
puzzle maker (or something to that effect) and pick one.
- Print out one blank sheet and one answer key
June 2, 2011
- Read chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby
- Write 5 higher-level discussion questions for chapter 8
June 3, 2011
- Journal #6: Choose a higher-level question from chapter 8. Write
the question down and answer it fully (with illustration, as usual).
June 6, 2011
- List 5 virtues that you would want to practice daily in order to achieve
moral perfection. Put them in a chart like
this.
June 7, 2011
- Journal #7: In The Great Gatsby, Nick is both attracted to and repelled
by Gatsby. Have you ever felt that way about someone? Address your
contradictory feelings toward that person in your journal. What about
the person's character caused you to react as you did? What judgments can
you make (about yourself, about them, about humans in general) based on
this.
- If you have never had contradictory feelings about someone, then
write a short story showing what this would look like.
- Bring Everything's an Argument to class tomorrow
- Quiz on Ch. 8-9 (including vocab) tomorrow
- Fill out your chart for today
- Brainstorm some cool projects that you have done (or seen done) for a
culminating activity to a novel; bring your idea tomorrow
June 8, 2011
- Bring all Gatsby vocabulary to class tomorrow