Homework for the week of OH MY GOD IT'S THE LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

Monday:

• Literature review packet due tomorrow
• Survey due Thursday

Tuesday-Thursday:

• Survey due Thursday (please)-- see previous post to download the survey
• Review materials for your Regents exam!

English Regents: Tuesday, June 11th @ 7:30 a.m.

**NOTE: There is a new rule this year (required by New York State) regarding cell phones. You may NOT have a cell phone with you in the testing room at all! Do NOT bring your phone into the room, or your test will be invalidated. Bottom line: Leave the phone at home! 

Homework for the week of 5/27

Tuesday:

• Literature review due next Tuesday

Wednesday:

• Finish paragraphs/multiple choice if not done so in class today
• Meet in lab 205 tomorrow and Friday

Thursday and Friday:

• Complete critical lens brainstorming practice for Monday (just the topics in the packet, not the quotes themselves)
• Literature review due Tuesday
• Survey due next Thursday--please click here to access the document. Copy and paste it into Word, fill it out (anonymously) and print it out. 

Homework for the week of 5/20

Monday:

• Read and annotate "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Tuesday-Thursday:

• Due Thursday:  Read and annotate "Learn'd Astronomer"
• Due Friday: Read and annotate "Mending Wall"
• Due Friday: Choose any TWO poems in your poetry packet. For each poem, choose ONE poetic device that contributes to the work as a whole. In a well-developed paragraph, identify the poetic device and explain how it contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Use quotes from each poem and cite specific line numbers as evidence. (Write these as two separate paragraphs--one for each poem-- but you may do so on the same sheet of paper. You do NOT have to pick the same poetic device for each poem).

Friday:

• Start working on lit. review packet--due Tuesday, 6/4

Homework for the week of 5/13

Monday:

• Finish reading "A Rose for Emily"

Tuesday-Thursday:

• None :) A well-deserved break!

Friday:

• Define list of poetic devices for Monday

Homework for the week of 5/6

Monday:

• Test corrections due tomorrow

Tuesday-Wednesday:

• Review areas of weakness in your 5 Steps to a 5 book
• Review tone words and names of rhetorical devices 
• Do practice multiple choice questions (see me for a practice test if you'd like)
• Review your writing folder with old exams and essays; learn from your mistakes and be proud of your growth!

Thursday:

• Breathe. Don't cram. And go to bed early. :)

Friday:

• AP EXAM TODAY! Be at the gym no later than 7:15 a.m.

(and then go see Gatsby this weekend.)

Homework for the week of 4/29

Last two weeks before the AP exam! (And the release of Gatsby, obviously...)

Monday:

• Critical lens essay due Wednesday
• In 5 Steps, for Wednesday: Read/highlight pgs. 162-174; complete exercise on pg. 165-166.
• LAST full, timed multiple choice exam tomorrow! 

Tuesday:

• Critical lens essay due tomorrow
• In 5 Steps, for tomorrow: Read/highlight pgs. 162-174; complete exercise on pg. 165-166.

Wednesday-Friday:

• MC test corrections due Monday; follow guidelines on handout you received in class.

Homework for the week of 4/22

Monday:

• Finish Catcher for tomorrow--journal will be collected
• Discussion board due Sunday night

Tuesday:

• Due Thursday, in 5 Steps: Read/highlight pages 96-98, 153-157, 160-161; complete exercises on pg. 153-157; bring book to class tomorrow
• Discussion board due Sunday night

Wednesday:

• In 5 Steps: Read/highlight pages 96-98, 153-157, 160-161; complete exercises on pg. 153-157; bring book to class tomorrow
• Discussion board due Sunday night
• Critical lens essay due next Wednesday

Thursday:

• Argument timed writing tomorrow
• Discussion board due Sunday night
• Critical lens essay due Wednesday

Friday:

• Practice timed MC test Monday
• Discussion board due Sunday night
• Critical lens essay due Wednesday

Homework for the week of 4/15

Monday:

• In 5 Steps: Read/highlight pages 125-127; review pages 127-134; read/highlight pages 135-140, 144  
• Bring 5 Steps to class tomorrow
• Finish Catcher for next Monday

Tuesday-Friday:

• Finish Catcher for Monday; journals will be checked
• Discussion board due by Sunday night

Extra credit...

...due by Sunday night, 11:59 p.m., on turnitin.com:

• Read "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" on page 766 in your textbook (the old textbook)
• Then, answer question #2 on page 787. Choose any contemporary television series, analyze it using the criteria from the article, and then, using your analysis, write a counter against an anti-television argument.

AP scores online this year... more info to follow in class

Homework for the week of 4/8

Monday:

• Read and highlight/annotate pg. 41-49 of 5 Steps; bring in 5 Steps tomorrow
• Ch. 8-17 of Catcher due next Monday--continue adding quotes to journal as you read

Tuesday:

• Complete multiple choice passage on pg. 55-56 of 5 Steps; bring in book tomorrow
• Ch. 8-17 of Catcher due next Monday--continue adding quotes to journal as you read

Wednesday-Friday:

• Ch. 8-17 of Catcher due next Monday--continue adding quotes to journal as you read

Homework for the week of 4/1

*We will be reviewing your practice AP exam in class this week, so the following is homework for Monday through Friday:

• Ch. 1-7 of Catcher in the Rye due next Monday
• Work on assigned thread in journal as you read
• Discussion board due by Sunday night: If you really want to have fun, click HERE for some 1950s slang!
• Purchase 5 Steps to a 5 if not already done so

Homework for the week of 3/18

Monday and Tuesday:

• Draft #1 of synthesis essay due Wednesday; bring in one copy only

Wednesday:

• Revise and bring in clean copy of draft #2 tomorrow

Thursday:

• Upload final draft of synthesis essay to turnitin.com by tonight; no hard copy will be collected tomorrow

Friday:

• Complete practice AP exam for Monday, April 1st--multiple choice will NOT be counted toward your grade, so be honest and take it seriously! 
• Purchase 5 Steps to a 5 (AP exam review book)

Homework for the week of 3/11

Monday:

• Finish reading and summarizing sources if not done so in class.
• Bring (new) textbook to class tomorrow.

Tuesday:

• Read pages 162-164 in new textbook; bring to class tomorrow

Wednesday:

• Complete synthesis planning sheet

Thursday:

• Finish paragraph if not done so in class

Friday:

• Rough draft of Huck synthesis essay due Wednesday 

Homework for the week of 3/4

Monday-Wednesday:

• Finish Huck Finn for Thursday
• Word roots quiz #4 this Friday (words #30-50)

Thursday:

• Choose the most important sentence in the novel-- the one that the novel cannot "live" without. Write down the sentence and the justification for your choice. *Note: You cannot choose "Alright then, I'll go to hell." That's too easy. :)
• Study for words roots quiz tomorrow

Friday:

• Synthesis essay reading--TBA

Homework for the week of 2/25

Monday:

• Ch. 17-30 with five journal entries due tomorrow
• Final draft of definition paper due Friday; hand in hard copy and upload to www.turnitin.com

Tuesday-Thursday:

• Final draft of definition paper due Friday
• Read ch. 31-35 for Monday

Friday:

• Read ch. 31-35 for Monday

For those who were absent today (2/21)...

• Read "From Labour" on page 209 in your textbook
• Answer questions #1, 4, 5, 10

Homework for the week of 2/19

Tuesday and Wednesday:

• Bring textbook to class tomorrow
• Draft #2 of definition essay due 2/25
• Ch. 17-30 of Huck Finn with five journal entries due 2/26

Thursday and Friday:

• Draft #2 of definition essay due 2/25
• Ch. 17-30 of Huck Finn with five journal entries due 2/26

Homework for the week of 2/11

I hope everyone stayed safe during the storm! 

Tuesday and Wednesday:

• Ch. 8-16 of Huck Finn due Thursday; expect a quiz
• Prewriting and draft #1 of definition essay now due next Tuesday, 2/19

Thursday:

• Begin reading ch. 17-30 of Huck Finn

Friday:

• Prewriting and draft #1 of definition essay due Tuesday, 2/19
• Ch. 17-30 of Huck Finn due Tuesday, 2/26 with five journal entries

Homework for the week of 2/4

Monday:

• Read chapters 1-3 of Huck Finn for Wednesday
• Optional test corrections for practice AP exam due next Monday (follow guidelines on sheet distributed in class)

Tuesday:

• Read chapters 1-3 of Huck Finn for tomorrow
• Prewriting and draft #1 of definition essay due next Friday, 2/15

Wednesday and Thursday:

• Read chapters 4-7 of Huck Finn for Friday; notes/annotations are required for an in-class discussion on Friday. Your notes should include the characterization of Pap, Twain's social commentary in these chapters, Pap's rant about the government, and Huck's escape. 

Friday:

• Optional test corrections due Monday
• Read chapters 8-16 of Huck Finn for Wednesday
• Prewriting and draft #1 of definition essay due next Friday

Homework for the week of 1/28

Monday:

• Bring a #2 pencil to class today
• "4th of July" annotated for rhetorical strategies AND rhetorical analysis outline due tomorrow (both will be collected)
• AP exam check due Friday!

Tuesday:

• Due Thursday: Read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" on page 914 in textbook. Answer q's #2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12 under "Rhetoric and Style." Bring textbook to class on Thursday.
• AP exam check due Friday

Wednesday:

• Swift reading due tomorrow
• AP exam check due Friday

Thursday:

• Read Mark Twain's "Damned Human Race" and annotate for satirical qualities
• AP exam check due TOMORROW!

Friday:

• Read Gloria Naylor's "The Meaning of a Word"; answer q's #1-3 under "Writing Strategy" and q. #1 under "Language" 
• If you are purchasing your own copy of Huck Finn, you will need it for Monday!

Homework for the week of 1/14

Monday:

• Finish The Crucible for tomorrow
• Final draft of essay due Thursday--hand in hardy copy & upload to turnitin.com
• Fallacies due Thursday
• AP checks due no later than 2/1!

Tuesday:

• Read Miller's "Why I Wrote The Crucible" and answer questions
• Discussion board due Sunday night

Wednesday:

• Argument essay due tomorrow
• Fallacies due tomorrow
• Discussion board due Sunday night

Thursday:

• Due Tuesday, 1/29: Frederick Douglass' "What To The Slave Is The 4th of July?" with rhetorical analysis
• Discussion board due Sunday night
• AP exam checks!
• Optional: Purchase The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Homework for the week of 1/7

Monday and Tuesday:

• Draft #1 of argument essay due Wednesday (finally!). Bring 3 copies to class. 
• Act III of The Crucible due Thursday; expect a brief quiz

Wednesday:

• Act III of The Crucible due tomorrow; expect a brief quiz
• Continue tracing your fallacy!
• Draft #2 of argument essay due Monday

Thursday:

• Read and annotate Orwell's "Politics in the English Language" for tomorrow
• Draft #2 of argument essay due Monday
• Finish The Crucible for Tuesday

Friday:

• Read pages 592-593 in textbook; complete #1-15 on pages 593-594 (for Monday)
• Draft #2 due Monday
• Finish The Crucible for Tuesday