*AP 12 (B)* Assignments

Thursday, April 11, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turn in your literary terms slides (with your rubric attached to the front) and your reading responses!

-Today we will cover the Prose and the Open-ended question sections of the AP exam.

-Two groups:

            -Go to the Moodle Site

            -Look at the Prose and Open-ended question PowerPoints

-You will have 30 minutes to read the PowerPoints and discuss the key information with your group.

-You will write the important information on poster paper.

-Make sure you know the material because you will be responsible for teaching the other group your information.

-When one group presents their information, the other group will be taking notes. Then vice-versa.

-Every person must work on and present some part of the information!

*You will be graded on the amount of work you do in the group and how your group presents the information. (Will be worth 30 points)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turn in your literary terms slides (with your rubric attached to the front) and your reading responses!

-Review the Range Finder Essays!

-Today we will cover the Prose and the Open-ended question sections of the AP exam.

-Two groups:

            -Go to the Moodle Site

            -Look at the Prose and Open-ended question PowerPoints

-You will have 30 minutes to read the PowerPoints and discuss the key information with your group.

-You will write the important information on poster paper.

-Make sure you know the material because you will be responsible for teaching the other group your information.

-When one group presents their information, the other group will be taking notes. Then vice-versa.

-Every person must work on and present some part of the information!

*You will be graded on the amount of work you do in the group and how your group presents the information. (Will be worth 30 points)

Homework:

-Re-do your Range Finder Essays if you want a better grade.

Friday, April 5, 2013:

Class Activities:
-Turn in your 'Range Finder' essays.
-Literary Terms T-W quiz.

-Mock AP exam- Multiple Choice (60 min)

-Use remaining time to work on your reading responses!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Reminder: Literary Terms Quiz (T-W) will be Friday, April 5, 2013.

-Hand in reading responses if you have finished any of them.

-Go over the Poetry section of the AP exam.

            -ARTWARS

-I will pass around poetry responses that received a 1 and responses that received a 9. We will discuss what the responses lack and what they did well.

Take out your poetry responses please!

            -Mr. Lapalme will discuss what AP looks for in responses.

-I will pass out previous responses and it will be your job to put the responses in order from a 2 to an 8. You are the judge of these essays.

-If there is time left, then you must use this time to work on your literary terms master list assignment or your reading responses. *Remember, you have 11 responses due!*

Homework:

-Arrange the 'Range Finder' essays in order from a score of 2 to a score of 8. Make your judgement according to the rubric and the prompt you received in class. 

-Study for your Literary Terms quiz on Friday!

Monday, April 1, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Hand out overview of the next two weeks.

-Go over requirements for Lit Terms Master List and Reading Responses

-Hand out rubrics for both activities.

-Go over T-W literary terms.

-AP (B) Your test will be Friday, April 5, 2013

 AP (A) Your test will be Monday, April 8, 2013

-Quickly review time management tips. (handout)

-Review the first part of the AP exam: Multiple Choice (PowerPoint)

-Take notes on this PowerPoint. I will stamp these notes each class. At the end of the week, these notes will be taken up for a grade. I will hand them back so you may use them to study for the AP exam. So keep up with your notes. If you think you will lose the notes before the next class, I will keep them in a folder for you.

-If there is time left after reviewing Multiple Choice, then you must use this time to begin either you literary terms master list assignment or your reading responses. *Remember, you have 11 responses due!*

Literary Terms (T-W)

1.     Tercet

2.     Terza rima

3.     Tetrameter

4.     Theme

5.     Stated theme

6.     Implied theme

7.     Thesis

8.     Third-person point of view

9.     Tone

10. Tragedy

11. Tragic hero

12. Tragic flaw

13. Trimeter

14. Trochee

15. Understatement

16. Vernacular

17. Verse paragraph

18. Villanelle

19. Voice

20. Wit

Literary Terms Master List:

Literary Terms Master List (39 total terms)

1.     Allegory

2.     Alliteration

3.     Allusion

4.     Ambiguity

5.     Analogy

6.     Apostrophe

7.     Colloquial/ colloquialism

8.     Diction

9.     Euphemism

10. Figurative language

11. Figure of speech

12. Hyperbole

13. Imagery

14. Irony/ ironic

a.     Verbal

b.     Situational

c.      Dramatic

15. Metaphor

16. Mood

17. Onomatopoeia

18. Oxymoron

19. Paradox

20. Parallelism

a.     Anaphora

21. Parody

22. Personification

23. Point of view

a.     First person

b.     Third person

c.      Third person omniscient

d.     Third person limited omniscient

24. Repetition

25. Sarcasm

26. Satire

27. Symbol/ symbolism

28. Syntax

29. Theme

30. Tone

31. understatement

Thursday, March 7, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turned in Abstract, first 1,000 words of the EE, and the poetry responses

-Went to the library to work on EE and poetry responses.

Homework:

-Work on poetry responses and EE.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Went to the library to work on David Copperfield abstract, paper, and poem.

Homework:

-Poetry response Due: THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

-1,000 words of the David Copperfield paper Due: THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

-300 word abstract Due: THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013:

Class Activities:

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Watched "To This Day" video (YouTube)

-Basics of Writing SMARTBoard presentation

-Found one AVL source and wrote it on a whiteboard for 10 points.

Homework:

*For Friday, you must find two secondary sources for your paper. (The text itself cannot be one of these two sources.)

*One source must be from an AVL database like the one we looked at today. The other source must be a book from the library. 

*RELEVANT SOURCES / EVIDENCE 

*Your two sources must be physically brought to class on Friday along with a typed, MLA format Works Cited page. I will take your works cited paper at the beginning of class, so have them ready to hand to me. I will not allow you to print them off before class. Come prepared. 

Link to AVL website: 

AVL Databases

Link to PurdueOWL's 'Writer's Block':

Writer's Block

Thursday, February 21, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Lit Terms quiz O-Q.
-Talked about the David Copperfield paper.
-Closing commentary on Dante's Inferno. Took notes on this lecture. (Handwritten notes). Turned in the notes at the end of class for a grade. (1 complete sentence for each canto.)



Homework:
-Link for The Inferno: Dante's Inferno
-Finish reviewing Cantos 21-33 (These can be found on the internet if you do not have a book.)
-Due Monday: Handwrite a couple of complete sentences about each of the remaining cantos.
-Bring your copy of David Copperfield to class on Monday.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Played Jeopardy review game for Lit. Terms Quiz. This quiz will be:

Thursday, February 21, 2013.

-Dante PowerPoint

Homework:

-Study terms for the Lit Terms quiz: 

*octave/ ode/ onomatopoeia/ oxymoron/ parable/ parallelism/ parody/ pastoral/ pentameter/ personification/ plot/ poetry/ point of view/ post modernism/ prologue/ propaganda/ protagonist/ quatrain.

Friday, February 15, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Paragraph on what you have learned about Dante and The Inferno.

-20 literary terms to study for test:

*octave/ ode/ onomatopoeia/ oxymoron/ parable/ parallelism/ parody/ pastoral/ pentameter/ personification/ plot/ poetry/ point of view/ post modernism/ prologue/ propaganda/ protagonist/ quatrain.

-Reviewed Dante PowerPoint.

Homework:

-Review 20 literary terms O-Q for the quiz next week. 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Last day of Chalkboard Competition

Homework:

-Review literary terms O-Q for quiz next week. Make sure you write them down with the definitions! 

Thursday, February 7, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Poet Presentations: Adam and Zack

-Worked on Chalkboard Competition all block.

Homework:

-People who presented today will have a paper due TWO classes after this class. So if you presented today, your paper will be due: Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
-The paper should be around 1,000 words or three (3) pages.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Worked on the Chalkboard competition for the entire block.

Homework:

-Work on Chalkboard ideas for Dante

Pictures of Dante's Inferno:

Friday, February 1, 2013: Have a Great Weekend!

Class Activities:

-Turned in "To Autumn" AP poetry response.
-Poet Presentations: Jourdan, Taylor, Autumn
-Students who presented on Monday turned in their papers today.
-Took a ten question quiz on the poetry presentations and graded them in class.
-Dante PowerPoint
-Planned out Chalkboard


Homework:
-People who presented today will have a paper due TWO classes after this class. So if you presented today, your paper will be due: Thursday, February 7, 2013.
-The paper should be around 1,000 words or three (3) pages.
-Look over the Dante PowerPoint that is on the Moodle Site! This will help you understand the different levels of Hell. 

Poetry Response/Paper Format:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Introduced the Blog
-Set up ACT accounts (www.usatestprep.com)
-Make sure you download FIREFOX browser before you log in. 
-Login Information: School ID=daphneal Student User Name=newton52
-Poet Presentations: Amanda, Hunter, Igor
-Worked on the Chalkboard competition

Homework:
-People who presented today will have a paper due TWO classes after this class. So if you presented today, your paper will be due: Tuesday, February 5, 2013.
-The paper should be around 1,000 words or three (3) pages.

(Guys, Poetry is hard, but I know you all are more than capable of doing this to the best of your ability! Don't sell yourself short.)
-Respond to the poem, "To Autumn". DUE FRIDAY
-40 minute handwritten response
-Respond to the notion of beauty:
    - How does the speaker promote the notion of beauty through imagery?
-Imagery is anything that has to do with the senses.
-DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE POEM! 

Monday, January 28, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Poet Presentations: Felicia and Julia

-Got the Dante WebQuest

Homework:

-Dante WebQuest

-People who presented today will have a paper due TWO classes after this class. So if you presented today, your paper will be due: Friday, February 1, 2013.

-The paper should be around 1,000 words or three (3) pages.