AP Language & Comp

• Course Description/ Introduction to the course.
• Homework:  Parents sign course descriptions.  due tomorrow. Revise intro paragraph from 10th grade English essay.  due tomorrow.

English III

• Course Description / Introduction to course
• Homework: Signed course descriptions due tomorrow.

AP Language & Comp

• Signed Course Descriptions and completed paragraphs due.
• "The Great Questions":  Students work in pairs to review the great questions and be prepared to discuss in  class on Tuesday.
• Homework:  High School Confidential - read and answer questions that follow (see link above).  Due Tues.

English III

• Signed course descriptions due.
• Review together Teresa Paloma Acosta's poem My Mother Pieced Quilts.
• Quilt assignment (see link above).  Begin in class.  Due Tues.

Labor Day.  No School.

AP Language & Comp

• Discussion:  "The Great Questions"
• High School Confidential Questions due

English III

• Check out textbooks
• Quilt pieces due.  Present pieces.

AP Language & Comp

• Discussion:  "The Great Questions" (Cont'd)
• Tomorrow, we will discuss HS Confidential-- print the essay (see above) and bring to class.  Also, we will begin our discussion of The Religion of the Greeks.  Bring in annotated essay and be prepared for discussion.
• Homework:  Prepare for Vocab Quiz 1 on Friday

English III

• Finish Quilt piece presentations
• Discuss "America:  Love it  or Fix it" collage.  Students write on the following ideas (due tomorrow): 1)  Is it important to question why?  Is it disrespectful?  Why?  2) Why do people say that questioning and respectfully criticizing is part of what it is to be American?  Do you agree?  3)  What are you going to do to make your mark in the world?  What's your statement to the world?

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Annotated essay The Religion of the Greeks due
• Practice AP Free Response Question (on HS Confidential) in class.
• Homework:  Vocab Quiz 1 tomorrow.  The Great Gatsby due read by 9/28

English III

• Attendance
• "America:  Love it or Fix it" journals due.
• Introduction to Native American Lit (PowerPoint) and excerpts from Silko's Storytelling and Ortiz's A Story of How a Wall Stands.
• Homework:  Storytelling journal:  What do we discover about the Native American people described in the poem?  What has been their experience?

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Vocab Quiz 1
• Papers returned
• IB Orals Works selection
  • Assignment guidelines (see link above)
• Homework:  The Great Gatsby due read by 9/28

English III

• Attendance
• Assignment on Storytelling:  Answer the following questions:
  • Who was Aunt Susie?  What was her influence on the author?
  • What do the italics represent?  How does this apply to the storytelling approach?
  • What legend is conveyed?  What is the moral or lesson?
  • Which aspects of culture stand out? 

Today's Music:  Radiohead:  In rainbows

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Make-up quiz policy
• Papers returned
• Evaluate HS Confidential: Review the prompt for the practice AP essay.  Decide for yourself what you think comprises a strong essay, evaluate your own essay (See "High School Confidential Essay Rubric Assignment" link) abov
• Homework:  Read Gatsby by 9/28, Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday, and print The Classical Definition of Tragedy and The Idea of Tragedy articles from the links above and bring to class tomorrow.

English III

• Attendance
• First Vocab Quiz on Friday (see link above)
• Simon J. Ortiz's "How a Wall Stands"-  Read and discuss

Today's Music:  Joao Gilberto and Sergio Mendes:  Bossa Nova (Latin Jazz)

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Evaluated essays due
• Read and annotate two articles on tragedy
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28, Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday

English III

• Attendance
• Ortiz Poem Assignment (see above)
• Tomorrow:  Introduction to Historical Narratives (Columbus piece from textbook
• BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS TOMORROW

Today's Music:  Youth Group:  Forever Young

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Discuss "H.S. Confidential" rubrics
• Review tragedy articles
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28.  Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday.  Also, read The Comic View (see link above and be ready to discuss the topic that follows.

English III

• Attendance
• Discuss metaphor assignment that accompanied Ortiz poem (see link above)
• Introduction to Historical Narratives (PowerPoint presentation)
• Read Columbus historical narrative
• Homework:  Answer THINK AND DISCUSS questions numbers 1,2,3,7,8,9 and be ready to discuss

Today's Music:  John Coltraine

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Discuss "The Comic View"
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28.  Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday.  Also, read the summary of Poetics.  Print and bring to class tomorrow.

English III

• Attendance
• Collect questions from Columbus narrative
• Read deVaca narrative together
• Homework:  Answer THINK AND DISCUSS questions

Today's Music:  Billie Holiday

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Revised "H.S. Confidential" essays due
• Vocab Quiz 2
• Poetics group presentations work day
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28. 

English III

• Attendance
• Collect questions from deVaca narrative
• Read LaSalle narrative together
• Homework:  Narrative journal

AP Language & Comp

• Writing Assignment:  How does Comedy make it possible for humans to live more successfully, more positively?  Specifically, how does comedy help men and women to deal with folly, emotional excess, fear, and humility?  Due tomorrow
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28.  Vocab Quiz 3 on Friday.  Finish writing assignment by tomorrow.

English III

• Attendance
• Essay assignment:  Students begin in class.  Finished drafts due Friday:  PROMPT:  Address the following prompt in a complete, well-developed essay.  Remember what you have learned about writing and include an introduction,  a thesis statement, and support for your thesis in the body of your essay:  In what ways did the European explorers misinterpret the culture of the Native Americans they encountered?  Why do you think the European explorers were so mistaken in their understanding of the native Americans they encountered?
• Homework:  Essays (due Friday).  Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday.

Today's Music:  John Coltrane

AP Language & Comp

• Attendance
• Writing Assignment due
• IB Oral topics on Gatsby finalized
• Informal presentations of Friday's discussion topics on comedy.
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28. Vocab Quiz 3 on Friday. 

English III

• Attendance
• LaSalle narrative questions due
• Discuss essay assignment
• Poster assignment:  a comparison of Columbus, DeVaca and LaSalle:  Students cut a poster paper.  They fold it into threes so that they create three columns, then they label each column "Columbus," "DeVaca," and "LaSalle."  In each of the columns. the describe:  In purple ink, the attitude that each explorer had toward the natives.  In blue ink, what each approach was with the natives (how did he conduct himself?), and in brown, what affect each explorer had on the natives (how was each perceived by the natives?)
• Homework:  Essay.  Study for Quiz 2 on Friday.

Today's Music:  Mark Kozelek

AP Language & Comp

• Finish Comic View Presentations
• Introduction to Modernism
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28. Vocab Quiz 3 on Friday. 

English III

• Finish Historical Narrative posters
• Introduction to the colonial period
• Homework:  Work on essays and study for Vocab Quiz 2 on Friday

Today's Music:  John Coltrane

AP Language & Comp

• Intro to Modernism (cont'd)
• Fitzgerald biography (video)
• Homework:  Gatsby by 9/28. Vocab Quiz 3 on Friday.  Review Gatsby portfolio on website for next week's discussion

English III

• Introduction to the Colonial Period (cont'd)
• Read John Smith narrative
• Homework:  Work on essays

Today's Music:  Rogue Wave

AP Language & Comp

• Vocab Quiz 3
• Register for turnitin.com
• Annotate essay (Modernism in the Great Gatsby)
• Homework:  Gatsby by Monday!

English III

• Historical narrative essays due
• Vocab Quiz 2
• Read William Bradford piece from the textbook (pg. 38) and answer questions 1-5.  Due Monday

AP Language & Comp

• Gatsby quiz
• IB Orals- day one
• Homework:  Be prepared for discussion of the Modernism in Gatsby essay on Thursday.  Vocab Quiz 4 on Friday.  Also, think about acquiring Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

English III

• Grade posting
• Bradford questions due
• Colonial/ Puritan literature discussion (cont'd)
• Bring textbooks tomorrow!

AP Language & Comp

• Guest speaker:  Ms. Cheney regarding the IB diploma/ certificate program
• ANNOUNCEMENTS:  IB Oral presentation schedule is pushed back one day, and will resume tomorrow.  Also, please remember the makeup vocab quiz 3 will be given ONLY before 0 period or directly after school on Thursday.

English III

• Discuss the William Bradford piece from the text.
• Read together the narrative "Traveling in the New Land," by Sarah Kemble Knight (pgs. 44-48)
• Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," by Jonathan Edwards, on pgs. 62-65.  Paraphrase each paragraph of the piece (restate in your own language).  Finish as homework due tomorrow.
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Makeup vocab quiz 2 will be given ONLY on Thursday either before 0 period or immediately after school on Thursday.

AP Language & Comp

• IB Orals-  Day two
• ANNOUNCEMENTS:  Make-up Vocab Quiz 3 tomorrow either before 0 period or immediately after school.  This is the only make-up quiz that will be given
• Turnitin.com class ID's:  p. 1:  2907575, per. 4:  2909750, Per. 5: 2909797.  Password:  bookteacher
• Homework:  On the Gatsby link above, read the "Introduction to The Great Gatsby,"  "The Life and Work of F. Scott Fitzgerald," "The Historical Context," and "The Green Hope of Gatsby." Also, think about obtaining Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

English III

• Bradford assignments due from absent students.
• Discuss "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," by Jonathan Edwards (text pgs. 62-65).
• Discuss Anne Bradstreet's poems
• Read Freneau's "The Wild Honeysuckle" together (text pg. 74).  Answer questions 1-6 and THINKING SKILLS questions 1 and 2.
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Make-up Vocab Quiz 2 tomorrow either before 0 period or immediately after school.
• HOMEWORK:  Finish Freneau questions for tomorrow's class.

AP Language & Comp

• IB Orals- Day three
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Make-up quiz today
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab Quiz 4 tomorrow

English III

• Freneau questions due
• Captivity narrative packets:  Read Mary Rowlandson narrative and be ready for class discussion tomorrow
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Make-up vocab quiz 2 after school today

AP Language & Comp

• Vocab Quiz 4
• Poster Assignment:  Students pick a partner and review the handouts from IB orals and material posted on the Gatsby link above.  They identify an idea from one or more of those sources, and then create a poster in which they illustrate the idea, briefly describe it, and find a line or lines from the text that exemplify the idea (EX:  Allusions to Greek Mythology in the novel would be a great topic)

English III

• Vocab Quiz 3
• Notes on Mary Rowlandson and introduction to James Fenimore Cooper.  Students read the excerpt from "The Deerslayer" (p. 199 in the text)
• HOMEWORK:  Finish "The Deerslayer" excerpt.  Students should begin organizing lecture notes in anticipation of the unit exam next week

AP Language & Comp

• Finish poster assignment today
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab Quiz 5 on Friday.  Also, students should be prepared to present posters and discuss Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby in class tomorrow

English III

• Film:  The Last of the Mohicans  

AP Language & Comp

• Poster presentations
• HOMEWORK:  Determine what you consider to be the significance of Ch. 1 to the novel as a whole.  What do we learn in the chapter that is necessary to our understanding of the novel as a whole.  Annotate your novels.

English III

• Film:  The Last of the Mohicans  (continued)
• HOMEWORK:  Gather and organize notes in preparation for next week's open-note exam.

AP Language & Comp

• Finish poster assignment today
• Yearbook photos
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Make-up Vocab Quiz 4 either tomorrow before 0 period or immediately after school
• Discussion of Ch. 1
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab Quiz 5 on Friday.  Also, for tomorrow, be prepared to discuss the contrasting physical descriptions of Gatsby and Tom in Chs. 1 and 2 of The Great Gatsby (or, if you prefer, throughout the novel). How do these contrasting physical descriptions help to reveal theme?

English III

• Yearbook pictures
• Film:  The Last of the Mohicans  
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Make-up Vocab Quiz 3 tomorrow either before 0 period or immediately after school.  This is the last time to make up the quiz
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab Quiz 4 on Friday.  Also, continue to organize lecture notes in anticipation of the unit exam next week.

AP Language & Comp

• Discussion:  Ch. 1
  • The function of Ch. 1 '
  • contrasting physical descriptions of Gatsby and Tom
  • Nick's role
  • Daisy, Tom and Jordan
• Make-up Quiz 4 today
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab quiz tomorrow and be prepared to discuss the significance of place in Ch.2-  the valley of ashes and Myrtle's apartment.

English III

• Make-up quiz 3 today
• Finish Last of the Mohicans
• Written Response:  What was the purpose of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative?  What do you think was the purpose of Cooper's Last of the Mohicans?  Explain.
• HOMEWORK:  Study for Vocab Quiz 4 tomorrow

AP Language & Comp

•   Vocab Quiz 5
• Assignment:  The Gatsby exegesis (see Gatsby link above for assignment description).
• HOMEWORK:  Gatsby exegesis due next Tues.

English III

• Vocab Quiz 4
• Written responses from yesterday returned and discussed
• Introduction of Timeline Assignment:  1.  Students form partnerships and are assigned one of the authors from this unit.  2.  Students write out the following information on a separate sheet of paper:  Dates they lived, the genre of literature, what the piece of literature teaches us, and when it was written.
• Writing Assignment (Due Monday: Historically, what happened to the natives?  Is what Chingachgook said at the end of Last of the Mohicans true?  Is this fair?  Unfair?  What would have happened if the Europeans hadn’t settled or expanded?  What is justice in this situation?  What would have been just?  Note:  You cannot do justice to this assignment in less than 2 pages.

AP Language & Comp

•   Students work in class on the following log assignment:   Study for Vocab quiz tomorrow and be prepared to discuss the significance of place in Ch.2-  the valley of ashes ant Myrtle's apartment.
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Dude date for the exegesis changed to Wed.  Don't  forget to submit it to turnitin.com before class on Wed.
• HOMEWORK:  Gatsby exegesis due Wed.

English III

• Timeline Assignment:  Students write the information they came up with on Friday on posters

AP Language & Comp

•   Students annotate and study the three quotes from Ch. 2 (see posting above under Gatsby)
• REMINDER:  Exegesis due tomorrow

English III

• Students fill out preparation sheet for tomorrow's exam (see link above)
• REMINDER:  Unit 1 Exam tomorrow

AP Language & Comp

•  Exegesis due
• Log assignment due (see Monday)
• Discuss quotes from Ch. 2
• HOMEWORK:  4 quotes from Ch. 3 due tomorrow

English III

• Unit Exam 1
• REMINDER:  Textbooks needed tomorrow

AP Language & Comp

•  Discussion:  Chapter 3 of  The Great Gatsby (see above link for quotes)
• Homework:  Read The Sun Also Rises and study for Vocabulary quiz tomorrow

English III

• Introduction to themes in American literature (lecture notes)

AP Language & Comp

•  
• Vocab Quiz 6
• Chapter 3 quote analysis:  Work with a partner to annotate your perspective on the quotes from Ch. 3
• HOMEWORK:  Prepare analysis of Ch. 4 quotes

English III

• American Literature theme posters:  Students get together with a partner and create a poster in which they explain the aspects of--and illustrate--one of the themes of American literature as presented in the textbook.

STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY-  NO STUDENTS

AP Language & Comp

• Discussion on Chs. 3-4 of The Great Gatsby.  Come prepared and ready to participate
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Tomorrow you will need a clean copy of your exegesis for peer review 
• HOMEWORK:  Address the two discussion topics for the novel (see the link above) and be prepared to share tomorrow

English III

• Discussion:
  • Review themes of American Literature and take notes on the different periods
  • Review:  Freneau's The Wild Honeysuckle:  What were the poet's concerns?  His objectives?
• ANNOUNCEMENT:  Vocab Quiz 5 on Friday, Grammar unit begins after the first of the month, and you will need your books tomorrow.

AP Language & Comp

• Exegesis peer reviews
• Review discussion topics (The role of jazz music in the novel and possible allusions to the seven deadly sins)
• Discuss Ch. 4 of The Great Gatsby
• HOMEWORK:  Read The Sun Also Rises and prepare your perspectives on Ch. 5 of Gatsby

English III

• Discussion:  Benjamin Franklin's Moral Perfection:  With a partner, go through the passage and answer questions 1-4 on pg. 79.  You may work with a partner.  finish by the end of the period if you can, though you may finish as homework
• HOMEWORK:  Finish Benjamin Franklin questions

AP Language & Comp

• Novel discussion (continued)

English III

• Discuss and interpret Franklin's Moral Perfection and review questions 1-9
• Read The Declaration of Independence on pg. 92 and answer questions 1-9
• HOMEWORK:  Finish questions on The Declaration of Independence

AP Language & Comp

•  Novel Discussion (cont'd)

English III

• Review The Declaration of Independence together and go over answers to the questions

AP Language & Comp

•  Gatsby discussion (cont'd)

English III

• Introduction to Thomas Paine (lecture notes)

AP Language & Comp

•  Gatsby discussion (cont'd)

English III

• Read Thomas passage together.

AP Language & Comp

• Free work period (substitute teacher)

English III

• Poster Assignment:  Students work with partners creating posters in which they outline Paine's points of persuasion in encouragement of the war

AP Language & Comp

•  Gatsby final discussion

English III

• Discussion:  concluding our unit on revolutionary era writers
• Film:  The Patriot.  Students are instructed to watch for and identify similarities between the film and Paine's reasons for entering the war

AP Language & Comp

• Novel review

English III

• Film:  The Patriot:  Students are instructed to watch for and identify similarities between the film and Paine's reasons for entering the war

AP Language & Comp

• Gatsby essay initial draft:  Day 1

English III

• The Patriot (cont'd)

AP Language & Comp

•  Gatsby essay initial draft-  Day 2

English III

• Finish The Patriot.  Discuss the thematic connections between the film the the three works we have studied in this unit:  Franklin, Paine, Jefferson
• Notes on the Romantic Period in American literature

AP Language & Comp

•  Gatsby essay initial draft-  Day 3

English III

• Notes on the Romantic Period in American literature (cont'd)
• HOMEWORK:  Read The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving, on. pg. 110 of the text.  There will be a short reading quiz tomorrow

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