Agenda, April 30

Due May 6-10: Review Presentations Due May 9 (or sooner): Optional revision of war essay / works cited.
 
Today's Agenda:

1. War Essay Questions?
2. Who wants to fill in bubbles?
3. Scoring Groups

Review Presentation Schedule

Period 3: ­­­

May 6

1. Grant – Birmingham Jail

2. Josiah – Learning to Read and Write (Douglass)

3. Justin - Education

4. Annabella – The Color Purple

5. Christian – Changing Education Paradigms

6. Jonah – Independence Day

7. Morgan - Laziness

May 7

1. Jane – Me Talk Pretty

2. Brittney – Notes of a Native Speaker

3. Delaney – How it Feels

4. Tatyana – I Have a Dream

5. Spencer – World and America

6. Kristen – Wanna Be Average

7. Emily – Just Walk on By

May 9

1. Jakob – Always, Always, Always

2. Trevor – The Plot Against People

3. Karla – Learning to Read (Malcolm X)

4. Brennie – A Woman’s Place

5. Olivia – I Want a Wife

6. Annie - JGHG

7. Averi – Lost in the Kitchen

May 10

1. Stacey – Obama Nobel

2. McKeon – Polly Baker

3. Flo – Female Body

4. Kailee - Allegory

5. Garrett

6. Anna

Period 5:

May 6

1. Noelle – The Female Body

2. Alie – Playing House

3. Chris – How it Feels

4. Kaitlyn – Obama Nobel

5. Grant - Education

May 7

1. Max – Independence Day

2. Alex – Just Walk on By

3. Carmon – Lost in the Kitchen

4. Kaden – Changing Education Paradigms

5. Sydney – I Have a Dream

May 9

1. Hannah – I Want a Wife

2. Zoë – Letter from Birmingham Jail

3. Ryan – Wanna be Average

4. Kaed - Laziness

5. Nutella – World and America

May 10

1. Allie B - Monson

2. Dani – Me Talk Pretty

3. Kelby - Allegory

4. Collin – Learning to Read (Malcolm X)

5. Maddie

Review Presentation Guidelines

For your presentation, you need to provide the following information for your classmates:

• A brief summary of the text. What is it about?
• The purpose of the text.
• The three dominant rhetorical strategies in the text, with two examples of each and an explanation of their relationship to the purpose.
• Some suggestions about how you might use this essay on the AP Lang exam. For this step, consider the big ideas in the text and how they might appear as questions on the exam.

You may deliver this presentation from memory, note cards or through presentation software. You may not use a full sheet of paper or the text itself.

Agenda, April 29

Due May 6-10: Review Presentations
Due May 9 (or sooner): Optional revision of war essay / works cited.
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Review Presentation Sign-ups
2. T-shirt talk
3. Writing / Discussing
4. Return of the War Essays

Agenda, April 26

Due Now: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography. You might also want to know your AP testing schedule.
Today's Agenda:

1. What do you want to do Monday and Wednesday: Synth, RA, Arg, Discuss
2. Review Presentation Sign-ups
3. Score Calculation
4. T-shirt talk
5. Scattegories

Agenda, April 25

Due Friday: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography. You might also want to know your AP testing schedule.

Today's Agenda:

1. Argument Anchors
2. Argument Scoring Triads

Agenda, April 23

• Due Friday: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography
  

Today's Agenda:

1. Synthesis Anchors
2. Synthesis Scoring Circles

Agenda, April 22

• Due Now: Practice test for those who missed Friday.
• Due Friday: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography
  

Today's Agenda:

1. What did we learn on Friday? How will the next practice test be better?
2. Multiple Choice Groups

Agenda, April 19

• Due Now: Motivational Speeches
• After school today, 3-6:30, in the presentation room: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday. Bring a couple of pens and lots of binder paper to the presentation room.
• Coming Tomorrow: A scoring fiesta.
• Don't forget to vote for your t-shirt color.
• Did I mention the practice test is in the presentation room?

Today's Agenda:

1. The practice test is in the presentation room. Bring lots of binder paper.
2. Speeches
3. Test taking strategies
4. Evidence Competition/ Rhetorical Devices Competition

Agenda, April 18

• Due Now: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming Tomorrow: Speeches and Games
• Don't forget to vote for your t-shirt color.

Today's Agenda:

1. Speeches
2. Timed Write Advice
3. Evidence Competition/ Rhetorical Devices Competition

Agenda, April 17

• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming Tomorrow: Speeches and Games

Today's Agenda:

1. Timed Write Advice
2. Speeches
3. Evidence Competition

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Agenda, April 16

• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming Tomorrow: Speeches and Games

Today's Agenda:

1. Did anybody receive a cool e-mail yesterday?
2. Speech Sign-ups
3. MC Small Groups
4. Timed Write Advice
5. A Complicated Math Problem

Agenda, April 15

• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming Tomorrow: MC Discussion

Today's Agenda:

1. MC Practice
2. T-shirt talk.

Agenda, April 12

• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming Monday: MC Practice

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. T-shirt talk.
3. Scoring Circles

Agenda, April 11

• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming tomorrow: Synth scoring
• Does anybody have some Color Purple notes I can scan?

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Let's get syntheical!
3. T-shirt talk. Tomorrow. Top of the Agenda. Seriously.

Agenda, April 10

• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write Scoring.
• Who needs a copy of Thursday's timed write? 

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Motivational Speech Info
3. Scoring Circles
4. T-shirt talk. Finally!

Agenda, April 9

• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write Scoring.
• Who needs a copy of Thursday's timed write? 

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Motivational Speech Info
3. Timed Write
4. T-shirt talk. Finally!

Motivational Speech 2019

Your task is to deliver a motivational speech in which you encourage your classmates to do (or stop doing) something. This is a formal speech, so you will need to stand on your own two feet and deliver your speech from note cards. The purpose of the note cards is to remind you of your organization. You should not write your entire speech on your note cards.
Your target length should be between two and four minutes, though the length of your speech will be determined by the content. You need to include each of the following rhetorical strategies in your presentation:

_____ A series of analogies

_____ One or more allusions

_____ An appeal to “national” pride

_____ An appeal to personal pride

_____ Alliteration

_____ Anaphora

_____ Epistrophe

_____ Antithesis

Furthermore, your speech must be:

_____ Well prepared

_____ Well delivered

_____ An effective argument

Agenda, April 8

• Due Now: Outline for your "Just War" essay.
• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Due Wednesday, April 17: Motivational Speeches
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday.
• Coming tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write 

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Motivational Speech Info
3. Scoring Circles
4. T-shirt talk, if time allows

Agenda, April 5

• Due Friday: Revised Bibliography.
• Due Monday, April 8 (or sooner): Outline for your "Just War" essay. You do not need to write an introduction or a conclusion. Instead of an intro, simply write your claim. For each body paragraph, write a complete topic sentence, followed by two bullet pointed details. For the details, you can list an idea, a quote, a source, or a link. Don't write more than one complete sentence for each bullet point. Typed, but not MLA.
• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay.
• Friday, April 19, from 3-6:30 PM: AP Lang practice exam. If you are unable to take the exam with us, you will need to complete it over the weekend and bring it to class on Monday. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Time Write #1
3. Motivational Brainstorm

Agenda, April 4

• Due Friday: Revised Bibliography.  If a friend asks you for help, be sure to review this post so you don't get yourself in trouble.
• Due Monday, April 8 (or sooner): Outline for your "Just War" essay. You do not need to write an introduction or a conclusion. Instead of an intro, simply write your claim. For each body paragraph, write a complete topic sentence, followed by two bullet pointed details. For the details, you can list an idea, a quote, a source, or a link. Don't write more than one complete sentence for each bullet point. Typed, but not MLA.
• Due Monday, April 15: Just War Essay. 

Today's Agenda:

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. One more mini-argument
3. Argument Strategies
4. Research Time
5. T-shirt talk, if time allows