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Advanced Placement Language & Composition

Assignment Updates 2008-09

 

11/3 (Mon)- Editorial one-minute pitch/ presidential precis.   Editorial annotation and CPA mark-up due.

 

11/4- Teacher in-service   No school for students

 

11/5- Syntax packet due   

Review results of chs. 10-12 Hayakawa test.   perception test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9it9kyPq4w

Hwk: Read and take notes on ch. 13 of Hayakawa

 

11/6- Discuss ch. 13.  "Free Response" practice sheet. Bring this with you tomorrow.

 

11/7- Discuss free response practice and in-class practice/discussion of Blake quotation.   For Monday, read "Beauty" in your Norton reader (pg. 34 and following) and answer questions 1, 2, 3 at the end of the reading.  

 

11/10 (Mon)- Collect free response judging guidelines. Objective Response prep., partner and individual work. Obj. response quiz is submitted at end of class.   Hwk: Read ch. 14 of Hayakawa and notes

 

11/11- Discuss "Beauty" and ch. 14. 

Mid-20th century Pepsodent ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V71nnjl9jQ

 Select your Dystopia Project novels. Hwk: ch. 15 of Hayakawa and notes 

 

11/12- Submit "Beauty" questions if you have not done so already. Pick up your Dystopia Project novels.  Read your work by Dec. 2nd.  Discuss ch. 15.    Yogurt ad analysis:  http://current.com/items/88941392/target_women_yogurt_edition.htm  Hwk: ch. 16

 

11/13-Discuss Lear free response national results and Hayakawa ch. 16..  In-class prep. for Hayakawa test

 

11/14- Chs. 13-16 Hayakawa test

 

11/17(Mon)- 23-question diagnostic objective response check.

 

11/18- Discuss results of obj. response check.  6th hour meets in auditorium

 

11/19- Bring your dystopian novel to read in class.

 

12/2- You should have read your dystopian novel by this point.

 

syntax packet, obj. resp. questions