Essay Review Due Dates

Your presentation should cover the author, title, and purpose of the essay. If the occasion is pertinent, be sure to cover that as well. You must also address the dominant rhetorical strategies (three is a nice number). Finally, be sure to explain how you might use this essay on the exam.

Your presentations should be well prepared, but the delivery may be informal. You will not be scored on the state speaking standards.
 

May 11:

Sydney: A Woman’s Place – Wolf

Anna R – The Budget Mix Up – The Onion

Ally – Obama Nobel

Jesse W – JGHG

Drew – Learning to Read, Malcolm X

Austin

Hannah – Why Don’t We Complain?

Miranda W – Me Talk Pretty One Day

Danielle – None of This is Fair

Rachel K – Communist Manifesto

Brady – The Joy of Reading – Alexie

Megan P - GOW

Nataliya – I Just Wanna be Average

May 14:

Julie – Learing to Read and Write – Douglass

Grace – On Dumpster Diving

Tiani – On Education

Anna M – Allegory of the Cave

Ryan K – How it Feels to be Colored Me

Erika – Playing House

Rachel C – Two Ways to Belong

Caleb – GOW

Madison – The Myth of the Latin Woman

Koreena – Serving in Florida

Stephanie – On Compassion

Miranda G – JGHG

May 15:

Geena – Lost in the Kitchen
Katie Miles – Happy Endings

Julia – JGHG

Toni - Show and Tell

Brogan – Countdown, Franzen

Blake – Retreat into the iWorld

Jaime – An Apology, Tiffany

April - Always, Always, Always

Lindsay – GOW

Emily – The Gettysburg Address

Katie K – Just Walk on By

Katie V- The Ways We Lie

Alan – A Modest Proposal

Jesse S – Independence Day, Barry

Words For People With Time To Kill

Cool It Now

Words for the Calm, Cool, and Collected

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Decorous

2.     Equanimity

3.     Modest

4.     Propriety

5.     Prudent

6.     Serene

7.     Staid

8.     Stoic

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice

Words About Being Mean

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Condemn

2.     Discredit

3.     Disparage

4.     Pejorative

5.     Plagiarism

6.     Vilify

Nasty Boys

(and Girls, Too!)

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Brusque

2.     Caustic

3.     Fractious

4.     Incorrigible

5.     Ingrate

6.     Insolent

7.     Notorious

8.     Pugnacious

9.     Reprehensible

Old School

Words to Describe Your Teachers

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Archaic

2.     Hackneyed

3.     Medieval

4.     Obsolete

Bo-o-o-ring

More Words to Describe Your Teachers

1.     Austere

2.     Mediocrity

3.     Mundane

4.     Ponderous

5.     Prosaic

6.     Sedentary

Who Can it Be Now?

Words for Men at Work

(extra credit for the first person who can explain this joke)

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Apprehension

2.     Harbinger

3.     Ominous

4.     Premonition

5.     Timorous

6.     Trepidation

New Sensation

Words to Get Things Going

1.     Innovative

2.     Naïve

3.     Nascent

4.     Novel

5.     Novice

Straight Up

Words for the Honest and True

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Candor

2.     Frank

Earth, Wind, and Fire

Elemental Vocabulary

1.     Arid

2.     Conflagration

3.     Nocturnal

4.     Sonorous

Full On

Words With the Volume Up to Ten

1.     Ample

2.     Comprehensive

3.     Copious

4.     Permeated

5.     Pervasive

6.     Prodigious

7.     Replete

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Find Out What It Means To Me

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Exemplary

2.     Idealize

3.     Laudatory

4.     Paramount

5.     Venerated

6.     Catalog

7.     Facile

8.     Fastidious

9.     Hierarchy

10.  Meticulous

11.  Pragmatic

12.  Solvent (not the scientific definition)

Agenda, April 30

Due Thursday, 5/3: Common Place #5

Due Now: Completed Exam. Write your essays on separate sheets of paper.

1. Essay Review Guidelines
2. The Practice Test: What did you learn?
3. Multiple Choice answers and discussion
4. The Ridiculist

AP Test Timing

If you are taking the practice test at home, it would be best to follow these timing procedures. If you can't meet these time constraints, do the best you can. You need to turn in all three essays and the multiple choice section Monday morning. Good luck!

Multiple Choice: 60 minutes
Break: 10 minutes
Reading time (for all three prompts): 15 minutes
Writing Time: 120 minutes

Agenda, April 27

Due Now: Common Place #4

Due Thursday, 5/3: Common Place #5
Our Practice AP is Today. Party in the Library at 3 pm. Two pencils. Two Pens. Binder Paper. No food, drink, or electronics. Do I know how to party or what?

Due Monday: Completed Exam. Write your essays on separate sheets of paper.

1. A few more random notes
2. Signing up for essay reviews
3. Recalibrating on the synth
4. Common Place Groups
5. Exams for absentees (DO NOT let me forget this!)

Agenda, April 26

Due Friday: Common Place #4
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is Tomorrow, 3-7

1. Who's your guy?
2. From the dawn of time ...
3. Scoring some synth's
4. You deserve a break. Seriously. Let's watch some tv.

Agenda, April 25

Due Friday: Common Place #4
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is Friday, 3-7

1. What to expect
2. The narrative intro
3. Scoring your arg's

Agenda, April 24

Due Friday: Common Place #4
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is Friday, 3-7

1. Practice Test Roll Call
2. One more forecasting note
3. Establishing Sources
4. Synthesis Timed Write

Agenda, April 23

Due Next Friday: Common Place #4
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is Friday, 3-7

1. Common Place Conversations - what can you learn from these arguments?
2. Argumentative Timed Write

Agenda, April 20

Due Now: Common Place #3
Due Next Friday: Common Place #4
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is April 27, 3-7

1. Forecasting Questions with Guests
2. The first rule of the AP test is don't talk about the AP test; don't abbr.; keeping track of time
3. Scoring Time
4. Common Place Conversations

Agenda, April 19

Due Friday: Common Place #3
Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is April 27, 3-7

1. Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
2. Finish Scoring Synth

Agenda, April 18

Due Now: 3 Scored Synthesis Papers
Coming Tomorrow: Class Vote - Argumentative or Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write?
Due Friday: Common Place #3

1. Are Your Calendars Marked? Our Practice AP is April 27, 3-7
2. What do these works cited entries have in common?
3. Sophisticated evidence; Well-developed paragraphs; The delayed thesis
4. Calibration
5. Scoring Synth

Agenda, April 17

Due Friday: Common Place #3 
DueTomorrow: Read and score 3

1. AP Pamphlets
2. Three Good Introductions
3. Synthesis Timed Write: 15 minutes to read, 40 to write, you must use 3 of the provided sources.

Agenda, April 16th

Due Now: War Synthesis
Due Friday: Common Place #3
Coming Tomorrow: Synthesis Argument Timed Write

1. The ceremonial collection of the papers.
2. Some synthesis advice
3. Multiple Choice Answers
4. Multiple Choice Discussion

Agenda, Lucky Friday

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: AP Lang Practice Exam: Friday, 4/27, 3 - 7 pm. Woo hoo!
Due Now: Common Place #2
Due Monday: Analyzing Visual Rhetoric
Due Monday: War Synthesis Paper. Spend a little time on your Works Cited pages, please.

1. Collect Common Places
2. 60 minute multiple choice test: count the sections, divide 60 by the number of sections (you still remember how to do math with numbers, right?), and spend that amount of time on each section. There is NO penalty for guessing.

Agenda, April 12

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: AP Lang Practice Exam: Friday, 4/27, 3 - 7 pm. Woo hoo!
Due Tomorrow: Common Place #2
Due Tomorrow: Analyzing Visual Rhetoric
Due Now: Read and score three essays.

1. Holistic Scoring
2. Calibration
3. Scoring Your Friends and Neighbors

Agenda, April 11

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: AP Lang Practice Exam: Friday, 4/27, 3 - 7 pm. Woo hoo!
Due Friday: Common Place #2
Due Tomorrow: Read and score three essays.

1. Holistic Scoring
2. What counts as evidence?
3. Argumentative Timed Write

Agenda, April 10th

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: AP Lang Practice Exam: Friday, 4/27, 3 - 7 pm. Woo hoo!
Due Friday: Common Place #2
Due Now: Read and score three essays.
Coming Tomorrow: Argumentative Timed Write

1. Speech! Speech! Speech!
2. Common Place Notes
3. Scoring calibration
4. Scoring your friends and neighbors

Agenda, April 9th

Let the test prep commence!


MARK YOUR CALENDARS: AP Lang Practice Exam: Friday, 4/27, 3 - 7 pm. Woo hoo!
Due Now: Common Place #1. If you sent it via e-mail, I don't need a hard copy.
Due Friday: Common Place #2
Due Tomorrow: Read and score three essays.
Due Tomorrow: The final motivational speeches

1. Collect Common Place Assignments
2. Timed Write Advice
3. 40 minute Timed Write (I think it's a Rhetorical Analysis Prompt - I honestly can't remember)