Agenda, September 7

Due Dates:

• Late: Curiosity Journal
• Due Now: Be prepared to discuss your "good book"
• Due Monday: Vocab Won
• Due Monday: "How to Read ..."
• Due Tuesday: "Me Talk Pretty One Day," by David Sedaris. Practice your note taking skills.

Today's Agenda:

1. "This is a Hate-Free Zone"
2. Good Quotes
3. Good Books Disco
4. Good Books Slide Show

Agenda, September 6

Due Dates:

• Late: Justice Essay
• Due Now: Memorize a fun list of rhetorical devices
• Due Now: Curiosity Journal
• Due Now: Be prepared to discuss your "good book"
• Due Monday: Vocab Won
• Due Monday: "How to Read ..."

Today's Agenda:

1. Search and Destroy Kline's Letter
2. Rhetorical Device Quiz #2
3. Good Quotes
4. Three Curiosities: Most common, most unique, most plausible/interesting to research
5. "This is a Hate-Free Zone"
6. Good Books Disco

Agenda, September 5

Due Dates:

• Due Now: Justice Essay
• Due Now: Memorize a fun list of rhetorical devices
• Due Tomorrow: Curiosity Journal
• Due Tomorrow: Be prepared to discuss your "good book"
• Due Monday: Vocab Won
• Due Monday: "How to Read ..."

Today's Agenda:

1. What is Justice?
2. Class Expectations
3. Rhetorical Device Quiz #1
4. Search and Destroy Kline's Letter

Vocab Won

Due Monday, September 10

For each of the words below, copy the dictionary definition, paraphrase the definition into student friendly language, and write one original sentence about a victory. Feel free to find model sentences, but be sure to write your own original sentence.

Typed. Single spaced.

1. Ill-considered

2. Impetuous

3. Frivolous

4. Verbosity

5. Insinuate

6. Forthrightness

7. Deference

8. Circumspection

9. Anthology

An Opportunity for Artists and Poets

Howdy!

I don't who my artists and poets are yet, but I know you're out there. Here are links to two contests that you might find interesting.

The 2019 National Poetry Month Poster Contest

The 2019 "On Teaching" Poem Prize

Agenda, June 5

• Due Now: "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato. Take good newts.
• Due Thursday: Return all books from my library to me. Put them in my hand, not on the shelf. 
• Due Wednesday by 3:30: $9 to accounting.  Bring your receipt to Kline. 

Today's Agenda:

1. T-shirt sizes, per 4
2. Whole class disco

T-Shirt Details

If you want an AP Lang t-shirt, bring $9 to accounting by the end of the day on Wednesday. Bring your receipt to Kline.

XL is $1 extra and XXL is $2 extra.
 

Agenda, June 4

• Due Now: Pick one: "The Age of the Essay" OR "The Insufficiency of Honesty" OR "The Ways We Lie." Take good newts.
• Due Tuesday: "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato. Take good newts.
• Due Thursday, June 7: Return all books from my library to me. Put them in my hand, not on the shelf. 
• Due Wednesday (?): $8.95 (?) to accounting.   

Today's Agenda:

1. How do you talk about essays?
2. Small Group Disco
3. Different Small Group Disco

If you'd like a letter of recommendation ...

1. Be sure to ask! If the Common App tells me I'm writing a letter for you before you do, I'm probably not writing a letter for you.
2. Give me a deadline. Remember, I'm a wee bit busy during the school year, so I need a good deal of lead time.
3. Give me an audience. Different universities deserve different letters.
4. Remind me what you wrote about. If you can't remember, look in your google docs folder.
5. Give me a piece of paper that says "So and so needs a letter by such and such a date." This piece of paper doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to be in my way when I clean my desk so I don't forget about you.
6. Once I've written one letter for you, it's easy to revise it for different audiences (scholarships, for example). Feel free to ask for those letters later in the year.

Agenda, June 1

• Due Monday: Pick one: "The Age of the Essay" OR "The Insufficiency of Honesty" OR "The Ways We Lie." Take good newts.
• Due Tuesday: "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato. Take good newts.
• Due Now: Justice Essay
• Due Thursday, June 7: Return all books from my library to me. Put them in my hand, not on the shelf.  

Today's Agenda:

1. What is Justice?
2. Argument o' the Week