MONDAY 9.15.14AP/GT ENG LANG

• SUMMER READING EXAM

• WORK ON BOOK SECTION OF COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK—DUE FRIDAY

TUESDAY 9.16.14AP/GT ENG LANG

• WORK ON “BOOKS” SECTION FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES

• THE “N” WORD IN HUCK , A SATIRE

• INTRO COLONIAL LITERATURE—ORANGE LIT BOOK

• “EARLY AMERICAN WRITING” PG. 22-25

• READ “MEET THE AUTHOR” PG. 102

• READ “OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION” PG. 104-110

• FINISH READING FOR HMWRK

• WE WILL COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS IN CLASS TOMORROW

• HW: COMPLETE “BOOKS” SECTION FOR HUCK OF COMP NOTEBOOK—BY FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY 9.17.14

• JOURNAL #7--PARTICIPIAL PHRASES

• RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF “PLYMOUTH PLANTATION”

• HW: “BOOKS” SECTION OF COMP NOTEBOOK FOR HUCK—SHOULD BE BY DONE FRIDAY

JOURNAL PARTICIPIAL PHRASES• PARTICIPLES WORK AS ADJECTIVES, MODIFYING NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.

PRESENT PARTICIPLES END IN ING, PAST USUALLY END IN ED.

• EXAMPLES: SHE WAS BEHIND THE BOOKCASES CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS OF THE

LAW LIBRARY.

• MINUTE FUNGI SPREAD OVER THE EXTERIOR, HANGING IN A FINE TANGLED WEB

FROM THE EAVES.

PRACTICE:

1. _________________________, HE LET THE ESCALATOR WAFT HIM INTO THE STILL

NIGHT.

2. THE SUN ROSE CLEAR AND BRIGHT, ___________________________.

3. NOW WRITE A CREATIVE SENTENCE THAT CONTAINS A PARTICIPIAL PHRASE.

4. WRITE A CREATIVE SENTENCE THAT CONTAINS A PARTICIPIAL PHRASE.

THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY• 2ND PROMPT ON THE AP EXAM

• YOU WILL BE ASKED HOW THE AUTHOR ACHIEVES HIS PURPOSE THROUGH

RHETORICAL DEVICES AND STRATEGIES

• NONFICTION PASSAGE (HENCE “RHETORICAL DEVICES AND STRATEGIES)

OFTEN PRE 20TH CENTURY

• RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY PROMPT:

HOW DOES WILLIAM BRADFORD’S USE OF RHETORICAL DEVICES CONVEY

THE PILGRIMS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD GOD AND NATURE?

• NOW I AM GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH HOW TO GET THERE, FOLLOWING

THE STEPS IN THE PACKET.

• WE WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW IN CLASS.

THURSDAY 9.18.14• NO JOURNAL TODAY

• WORK SLOWLY THROUGH “OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION” ANALYSIS—DUE

TOMORROW

• BRING ONE OF YOUR FOLDERS FOR TOMORROW

• HW:

• COMPLETE “BOOKS” SECTION SHOULD BE COMPLETE (EVEN IF I DON’T CHECK IT

TOMORROW)

• THIS IS 1/3 OF YOUR COMP NOTEBOOK GRADE—MAKE IT QUALITY!

• PSAT IS OCT. 15TH

FRIDAY 9.19.14• DUE: “OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION”—TURN IN TO THE TRAY

• JOURNAL #8—FREE WRITE FRIDAY!!

• WRITE FOR 10 SUSTAINED MINUTES ABOUT ANYTHING OF YOUR CHOICE

(VENT, BRAG, COMPLAIN, GLOAT, WRITE A SONG OR A POEM, TELL A

STORY OR A JOKE, WRITE A TO DO LIST, ETC.)

• ASSIGNMENT: VOCAB FOLDER

• CURRENT EVENTS READING DAY

• READ UP ON 4 CURRENT EVENTS

• DISCUSS (LAST TEN MINUTES OF CLASS)