*AP 12 (A)* Assignments

Friday, April 12, 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)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turn in Range Finder essays

-Review Mult. Choice exam

-Use the rest of class to work on your literary terms master list OR your reading responses.

*Remember: Your reading responses and your literary terms master list slides will be due: FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013!

*Bring in a printed copy of your master list slides in the ‘handout’ format. This just means that you will have 6 slides on a page. Have your literary terms master list slide rubric attached to the front of your slides.

Monday, April 8, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Have your notes from the week on your desk for me to come by and check.

-Also, have your Range Finder essays ready for me to pick up. (Stapled/ Paper clipped/ with your name at the top)

-Look over T-W terms. (5 min)

- Literary Terms Quiz (T-W) (10-15 min)

-Trade Papers and grade.

-I will pass out the Mock AP Mult. Choice Exam. (For those of you who took the mock exam already, you may work on your literary terms master list OR your reading responses.) (60 min)

*Remember: Your 9 AP reading responses and your literary terms master list slides are due: FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 at the beginning of class.

*Bring in a printed copy of your master list slides in the ‘handout’ format. This just means that you will have 6 slides on a page. Have your literary terms master list slide rubric attached to the front of your slides.

Thursday, April 4, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Reminder: Literary Terms Quiz (T-W) will be Monday, April 8, 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 Monday!

Tuesday, April 2, 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

Friday, March 8, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Worked on David Copperfield EE.

-Most of the class was on a field trip.

Homework:

-Work on EE! 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Went to the library to work on DC papers and poetry responses.

Monday, March 4, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turned in paper

-Went over David Copperfield paper due dates and guidelines.

-Read and began working on an AP response. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

Homework:

-Working on AP response

Thursday, February 28, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turned in sources and works cited page

-Went over Lit Terms for quiz next week. 

-Wrote a paragraph using the lit terms.

-Study the following words: (R-S: 21 words in all)

    *Realism / satire / simile / soliloquy / sonnet / stream of consciousness / scansion / slant rhyme / speaker / refrain / repetition / Renaissance / rhyme / rhyme scheme / rhythm / sarcasm / rhetoric / setting / symbol / tercet / 

terza rima   

-Wrote down ten facts about Milton and Dante. 

-Listened to a section of Paradise Lost  and took notes.

Homework:

-Study Lit Terms

-For Monday, March 4, 2013: Using the writing strategies from the basics of writing presentation, write a six (6) paragraph expository paper. The paragraphs should contain the following information: 

 *Introduction-thesis statement and general info

 *2nd-Dante Poet

 *3rd-Dante's Poetry

 *4th-Milton Poet

 *5th-Milton Poetry

 *6th-Conclusion

-This should be in MLA format. INCLUDE A WORKS CITED PAGE!

-Use rich transitions when beginning and ending your paragraphs. 

DUE: MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013

Link for the AVL: 

AVL Resources

Tuesday, February 26, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Watched "To This Day" activity. 

-Basics of Writing SMARTBoard presentation.

-Mini-assignment: Went to the Writer's Block link and typed five different strategies to help you get through writer's block. Copied and pasted these strategies on the blog for credit.

-Turned in one source from the AVL website on a notecard. This was an in-class grade for ten points.


Homework:

-*For Thursday, 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 Thursday 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 PurdueOWL's 'Writer's Block':

Writer's Block

Friday, February 22, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Link for The Inferno: Dante's Inferno
-Discussed cantos 1-17 and wrote two sentences for each canto. 

-Discussed David Copperfield. (just general discussion)


Homework:
-Finish cantos 18-33. Click on the link above and write two sentences for each canto. Due: Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Took Lit Terms Quiz

-Finished Dante PowerPoint

Homework:

-Bring David Copperfield to class on Friday!

-We will be reviewing the novel.

Monday, February 18, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Jeopardy Review for Lit Terms

Homework:

-Study terms for Lit Terms quiz on Wednesday, February 20, 2013.

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

Thursday, February 14, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Chalkboard Competition (last day)

Homework:

-Review the remaining literary terms: O-Q. You will have a quiz on these terms next week! Study over the weekend!

Friday, February 8, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Worked on Chalkboard Competition all block.

Homework:

-Bring whatever materials you need to finish your half of the board next week. Next Friday the chalkboards will be judged! 

Wednesday, February 6, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Worked on Chalkboard Competition all block.

-Friday is the last day of the competition!!

Homework:

-Bring whatever materials you need to finish your half of the board on Friday!!!

Pictures of Dante's Inferno:

Monday, February 4, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Poet Presentations: Scotty, Cody, Griffin

-PowerPoint on Dante's Inferno.

-Worked on Inferno Chalkboard Competition.

Homework:

-Choose one of the following three assignments: 

Due: Wednesday, February 6, 2013

        1. A 40 minute AP handwritten response on the poet presentations from class  

         today. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William

         Blake)  DO NOT USE THE INTERNET. THIS SHOULD BE YOUR OWN           

         WORK.

OR

        2. Write your own sonnet!!!

         A stylistic imitation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet "How Do I Love     

        Thee". Use the first line of her sonnet then make up the remaining thirteen

         lines yourself! It must have a set rhyme scheme. It must be written in iambic

         pentameter. The sonnet must have a distinct turn. 

OR

       3. A 40 minute AP handwritten response on William Blake's two "Chimney

        Sweeper" poems. Respond by comparing and contrasting the speaker's

        condition in the poem. Figure out what the speaker's condition is. No

        internet.

-If you presented today, your paper will be due: Friday, February 8, 2013.

-Your paper should be about 1,000 words or 3 pages long.
-Be thinking about ideas for the Inferno Chalkboard Competition!!!

Poetry Response/ Paper Format:

Thursday, January 31, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Turned in the "She Walks in Beauty" 40 min. handwritten response AND the Dante WebQuest.
-Poet Presentations: Grayson, Josh, Ariel, Weesie


Homework:
-If you presented today, your paper will be due: Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
-Your paper should be about 1,000 words or 3 pages long.
-Be thinking about Chalkboard ideas for Dante's Inferno.
-Moodle Site: Dante PowerPoint, Packet for Dante, WebQuest

Tuesday, January 29, 2013:

Class Activities:

-Poetry Presentations: Jake and Lindsey 

-Video on Dante

Homework:

-Dante WebQuest

-Byron "She Walks in Beauty" poetry 40 min. AP response 

-If you presented today, your paper is due TWO classes after you presented. So if today was your presentation, your paper will be due: Monday, February 4, 2012. 
-Your paper should be about 1,000 words or 3 pages long. 

-Be thinking about Chalkboard ideas for Dante's Inferno.

Friday, January 25, 2013: 

Class Activities:

-Took the Lit Terms Quiz J-N 

-Turned in Macbeth response

-Listed to a Robert Burns poem

-Researched and turned in 20 facts about The Inferno. 

Homework:

-Work on your poet presentations