AP Language Homework

2009-2010

February 1, 2010

• Read and take notes on Chapter 6 of Everything's an Argument
• Bring EAA to class tomorrow

February 2, 2010

• Do #2 on page 172 of EAA.  Bring the articles and your analysis to class tomorrow.
• This is a printout of upcoming SMAPs.  Print it out, and come with any questions about it tomorrow.

February 3, 2010

• Do #1 on page 172 of EAA.  Typed please; single-spaced is fine.
• Bring the Letters to the Editor (and your analysis) from yesterday to class.

February 4, 2010

• Print out, read and annotate the Who Should Survive handout
• SMAP Count for this Saturday will be tomorrow.  Come to class knowing if you're attending or not.

February 5, 2010

• Print out three copies of your TV/Presidential Elections essay.  Don't change anything, including no name (you can erase the first two numbers of your ID if you want.
• Read, annotate and score each of the sample essays given to you in class.

February 8, 2010

• Study for the Toulmin/enthymeme quiz tomorrow
• If you were unable to print out your TV/Presidential Elections essay, please come to my classroom during lunch tomorrow

February 9, 2010

• Find three claims/reasons (can be one claim with three separate reasons or different claims with different reasons) you have in your TV/Presidential Election essays.  On a separate sheet of paper (typed is nice, but I won't require this time), write:
  • The claim
  • The reason
  • The warrant
  • Identify grounds given (if any)
  • Identify backing given (if any)
  • Does this enthymeme need grounds? Why/why not?
  • Does this enthymeme need backing?  Why/why not? (*remember, not all arguments need backing; it will just depend on if enough of your readers would agree with your warrant)

February 10, 2010

• Complete the scoring and annotating of student papers
  • Here is the Scoring Rubric
• Bring in your Rhetorical Terms list tomorrow

February 11, 2010

• Study the terms that we discussed in class today
• Read and take notes on pages 491 - mid-505 in Everything's an Argument

February 12, 2010

• Print out and read "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• These Discussion Questions and Vocabulary Words should help

February 16, 2010

• Go to http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.html, click on the graph, and participate in the interactive graphic.  What were the results?  Were you surprised?  Do you agree?  What does this say about your place in American society?  Go deep.  The easiest way to get the results you need is to use your household information for it (i.e. use your parents' information).
• Go to http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_04.html and analyze the graph.  1) What does it say?  2) What are the implications discussed in the graph?  3) Discuss the possible reasons why the New York Times decided to give this information through a graph rather than in words.

February 17, 2010

• Read chapter 1 of Gatsby.  Yes, you should be taking notes in some form.  No, that form should not be solely in your head.

February 18, 2010

• Do the close reading (with explanations on a separate sheet of paper!!!) on Chapter 1

February 19, 2010

• Read chapter 2 of Gatsby. 

February 23, 2010

• Read chapter 3 of Gatsby
• Do the Close Reading of chapter 3 with explanations on a separate sheet of paper
• Begin to study the vocabulary from chapters 1-2 (given in class last week) and Chapter 3 Vocabulary

February 24, 2010

• Continue to study vocabulary
• Print out and answer the Gatsby Discussion Questions, Ch. 1-3
  • I'll be collecting these, so be sure to answer them on paper

February 25, 2010

• Read Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby
• Do the close reading on chapter 4, with explanations on a separate sheet of paper
• If you haven't paid for your AP test, be sure to do so SOON!  The deadline is March 12, but don't wait until the last minute!!!  You'll freak me out, and I'm pregnant.  (Warrant: It's not nice to freak pregnant people out.  :)

February 26, 2010

• Read chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby
• Quiz on 1-5 on Monday, including vocabulary
• SMAP this Sunday in bungalow 23 from 9:00 - 11:00 am

March 3, 2010

• Read chapter 6 of Gatsby
• Bring the Marx piece to class tomorrow!!!  If you were absent today, it will be to your benefit to get the Marx reading BEFORE you come to class.  It's a difficult piece, and you're going to have to write about it.

March 5, 2010

• Read chapter 7 of Gatsby
• Review all vocabulary words

March 8, 2010

• Read Chapter 8 of Gatsby

March 9, 2010

• Write a paragraph naming your green light.  Discuss how your green light is analogous to Gatsby's.

March 10, 2010

• Test on Gatsby will be Monday

Last of the vocab:

1. redolent: having a pleasant odor; also, suggestive or reminiscent (of something)
2. corroborate: to strengthen or support with other evidence
3. pneumatic: relating to air or other gases
4. amorphous: lacking definite form
5. addenda: something added, especially a supplement to a book
6. unpunctual: late
7. provincial: limited in perspective
8. incoherent: unable to think in a clear or orderly manner
9. pandered: to act as a go-between (often connected with sexual intrigues)  Ooh la la!
10. commensurate: corresponding in size or degree

March 11, 2010

• Study for the Gatsby test on Monday
• AP exam sales have been extended to Wednesday.  I will be getting a list of those who have (and those slackers who haven't!) signed up yet soon.  Trust me; you do NOT want to feel the wrath of a pregnant woman with only 6 weeks more to go.
  • If you need a waiver, please see Mr. Bertram ASAP

March 12, 2010

• Gatsby test on Monday.  You'll need to be familiar with the basic plot of each chapter (I'll ask about Daisy's character in chapter 7; and symbolism in chapter 5, for example).
• AP exam sales by Wednesday
• Read and take notes in yellow anthology, pages 916-918
• SMAP is in my room this Sunday, 9-11

March 15, 2010

• For Wednesday,
  • Period 5, report to Mrs. Mkrtchian (room 2236)
  • Period 6, report to Ms. Kittleson (room 2231)

March 16-17, 2010

• Look at the Harlem Renaissance Diorama Project. Do some preliminary research on each one that sounds interesting to you.
• By Thursday you need to have a partner and your top three choices for your project
• LAST DAY TO PURCHASE AP EXAMS IS TODAY (WEDNESDAY)!!!  You can pay for one on Thursday and Friday, but you'll be charged a $25 late fee.
• For those of you who wanted the questions for the Langston Hughes piece, here they are.

March 18, 2010

• Type one paragraph on Langston Hughes's Poem Harlem.  Answer the following:
• Do you agree or disagree with the speaker's opinion of what happens to a dream deferred? Explain your answer by citing details from the poem and from your own observations of life.
• Begin your research on the Harlem Renaissance Diorama Project.

March 22, 2010

• Have one person from your group turn in your text and works cited list to www.turnitin.com.  For the title when you submit, put the group members' first initials and last names (including yours).
• Diorama presentations tomorrow

March 23, 2010

• Have one person from your group turn in your text and works cited list to www.turnitin.com.  For the title when you submit, put the group members' first initials and last names (including yours).

March 24, 2010

• Print out and read "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
• Study your rhetorical terms from today

March 26, 2010

• Study your rhetorical terms (Afro...moral...statement = ???)
• Read and take notes on chapter 14 of Everything's an Argument

March 29, 2010

• Finish the Diction "Apply" section of Voice Lessons
• Do the Details section of Voice Lessons
• Bring in a cool photograph (black and white is fine, but if it's in color, print it in color; I'll be in my room during lunch if you need to use my color printer).  The photo should not have any words or captions added to it.
• Bring in Gatsby; we'll turn it in tomorrow.

March 30, 2010

• Do the Imagery portion of the Voice Lessons packet

April 1, 2010

• Do the syntax portion of the Voice Lessons packet.  I'll be collecting the packet tomorrow.

April 2, 2010

• Study the remaining terms on your Rhetorical Terms list
• Have a great Spring Break!!!  See you on the 13th.

April 13, 2010

• Do the Diction portion of the new Voice Lessons
• Finish the introduction to the penny synthesis essay
• Bring Huck Finn to return tomorrow

April 14, 2010

• Voice Lessons: Selection of Detail

April 15, 2010

• Voice Lessons: Syntax
• Finish the outline of the synthesis essay on schools supporting individuality or conformity
• Period 6: Don't forget to be on time and on your best behavior tomorrow.  We'll have a guest.

April 16, 2010

• Voice Lessons: Tone
• Read, annotate, and reflect on the scores of these sample essays for schools supporting individuality and conformity.  

April 19, 2010

• If you didn't finish the "Apply" portion of today's Diction Lesson, here it is: Use an eating or drinking verb in a sentence which expresses anger about a parking ticket.  Do not use the verb to literally express eating or drinking.  Instead, express your anger through the verb.  Use Brown's sentence as a model. 

April 20, 2010

• Consider this quote: The truck lurched down the goat path, over the bridge and swung south toward El Puerto.  I watched carefully all that we left behind.  We passed Rosie's house and at the clothesline right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments.  She was soon lost in the furrow of dust the truck raised.
• Apply: Rewrite the passage eliminating specific detail.  How does the elimination of such detail affect the meaning of the passage?
• If you were given an ELC letter (for the UC system), please have your parents sign it and bring it to me by Friday.

April 22, 2010

• Consider: "He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive; but, reassured by the good-humored intelligence of the Controller's face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly." -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Discuss:
  • 1) What effect does the repetition of infinitives (to lie, to bluster, to remain) in the first clause have on the meaning of the sentence?  How do these infinitives prepare you for the infinitive phrase (to tell the truth) in the second clause?
  • 2) What is the function of the semicolon in Huxley's sentence?
• Apply: Write a sentence with two independent clauses connected by a semicolon.  In the first clause use a series of infinitives (as in Huxley's sentence). In the second clause, use an infinitive to contradict your first clause.  Your topic is a movie you have recently seen. 

April 23, 2010

• No homework.
• I'll miss you all!  Thank you for the gift and all of the best wishes.  I'll be in touch!

May 24, 2010

• Prepare for first literary discussions Tues May 25.  Books will be available later in the day
• Per 6: Dialogues are due Wed May 26.

May 25, 2010

• Write dialogue for Wednesday. 

   

  Being J. D. Salinger 

  Using, as a model, the dialogue we have read from J.D. Salinger’s short story “Teddy,” Write one page of dialogue for the following situation:  

  You are a precocious 10-year boy or girl at a sports award dinner with your parents.  You are with your mother, who is a university math professor, and your father, (who is a professional soccer, football, baseball or basketball player) and two of his teammates and their wives.  Imagine that you unintentionally offend at least one of them but then make them feel better about you. Objectives:

  1. Make it clear who is speaking. Start a new paragraph when changing speakers.
  2. Avoid using “he said, she said” consistently. 
  3. Describe some of the people at the table in ways that are not only physical.

  30 points.

   

  May 26, 2010

  • Read per plan Am. Literature choices.  Group meetings on Friday, May 28.

  May 27, 2010

  • Prepare for group mtgs on Friday. Leader assign tasks, each member will be assigned points for being prepared. 

  June 3, 2010

  • Read "Close reading/New Criticism" of poem "There is a girl inside"

  • Prepare for group meetings on Friday

  • Change Essay assignment page to read "The objective of the essay is to form an opinion about the dominant theme or themes of the works you read and to defend that opinion.  To that end you should refer to at least one novel, one other work by your chosen author and one literary criticism of your author."

  June 4, 2010

  • Prepare for Group Discussions Tues, June 8  (Monday is min day.)