Class #86: Tuesday, 5/28    

1. Library: Check-out The Hate U Give
2. Distribute AP Lit summer assignment (& show SPHS summer assignment main page)
3. Wrap-up discussion of “Meditations in an Emergency”
4. Start reading and annotating Belin’s “Night Travel”
5. Work on cooperative discussion questions
6. Work on poetry presentations in groups

Homework:

• Work on poetry presentation
• Final exam schedule: Th., 5/31—Periods 1 & 3; Fri., 6/1—Periods 2 & 4; Mon., 6/4—Periods 5 & 6

1. Go over song graphic organizer
2. Collect journals (& complete evaluation)
3. Collect annotations
4. Start reading and annotating O’Hara’s “Meditations in an Emergency”
   • Define: profligate, interminable, myth of hyacinth, lotus (significance), St. Serapion (picture), and inexorable
   • What do you know about the speaker?
   • What’s the emergency?
5. Work on poetry presentation

Homework:

• Work on poetry presentation

1. Listen and annotate “Minority” by Green Day—pay attention to rhetorical strategies and Transcendental values
2. Introduce song graphic organizer—in 4s
3. Library: Counselor presentation 

Homework:

• Finish song graphic organizer for Thurs.
• Bring journals to class on Thurs.
• Annotation checks coming…
• Start researching poems for poetry presentation
• Final exam schedule: Fri., 5/31—Periods 1 & 3; Mon., 6/3—Periods 2 & 4; Tues., 6/4—Periods 5 & 6

Class #84: Friday, 5/17 (Hartsough Assembly)

1. Debrief AP exam
   • How was it?
   • What was helpful this year?
   • What do you recommend for next year?
2. Return research papers (w/sample)
   • What did the writer do well?
   • How could the writer improve?
   • Compare to yours?
3. Finish Transcendental unit by presenting Transcendentalism PPT
4. Start Transcendentalism in song activity
   • Annotate songs--rhetorical strategies & Transcendental values

Homework:

• Start researching poems for poetry presentation
• Final exam schedule: Fri., 5/31—Periods 1 & 3; Mon., 6/3—Periods 2 & 4; Tues., 6/4—Periods 5 & 6

Class #83: Wednesday, 5/15 (AP exam) 

1. Watch Louder Than a Bomb as AP students return (57 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0nfTYpu20&t=3404s
2. Introduce poetry final exam: prompt and rubric
3. Students meet in groups and start researching for presentation

Homework:

• Final exam schedule: Fri., 5/31—Periods 1 & 3; Mon., 6/3—Periods 2 & 4; Tues., 6/4—Periods 5 & 6

1. 60 seconds
2. Correct AP M-C quiz #4
3. Go over synthesis essay (w/packet)
   • Sample 3 essays, along w/CB’s justification
   • Self-score
   • Clock partner scores
4. Unpack the prompt: Read and outline rhetorical analysis prompt
5. Closing whip-around

Homework:

• Get some R & R
• Don’t forget about the AP breakfast from 7 to 7:30 AM!

1. 60 seconds
2. Administer AP synthesis essay
3. Collect $2 for AP breakfast
4. Present AP PPT—last-minute tips
5. Wednesday whip-around (How will you prepare for the AP? Or, What will you do on the AP?)

Homework:

• $2 for AP breakfast due Fri., 5/10
• Review core lit handout

Class #80: Tuesday, 5/7—Late Start

1. Announcements:
   • I’ll be flexible w/make-ups during the AP exams—up to 2 weeks. JUST DON’T FORGET!
2. 60 seconds
3. Give AP m-c quiz
4. PPT warm-up: “Self-Reliance”
5. Collect $2 for AP breakfast, if desired
6. Share “Self-Reliance” annotations w/clock partners, then doc camera
   • Message?
   • Rhetorical strategy and effects? (4)
   • Based upon this essay, what’s Transcendentalism?

Homework:

• $2 for AP breakfast due Fri., 5/10
• Continue reviewing core lit handout
• Practice synthesis timed write on Thurs., 5/9

1. Announcement:
   • AP Lang breakfast on Wednesday, 5/15—bring $2 by Fri., 5/10
2. Correct AP m-c quiz
3. Debrief synthesis paragraph (w/clock partner) and project on doc camera
   • TS that answers the prompt?
   • Three clear examples?
   • Clear, insightful analysis
4. Discussion:
   • What does self-reliance mean?
   • Do you consider yourself self-reliant?
   • Do you think youth today are more self-reliant than youth from 15 or 20 years ago?
5. Start reading and annotating “Self-Reliance” (pp. 5--8)

Homework:

• Finish reading and annotating “Self-Reliance” for Tues., 5/7 
• AP m-c quiz on Tues., 5/7
• $2 for AP breakfast due Fri., 5/10
• Continue reviewing core lit handout

Class #78: Wednesday, 5/1 

1. Return remaining portfolios
2. Administer AP m-c quiz
3. Go over paraphrase (w/sample)
4. Finish Emerson PPT questions (w/sticks)
5. Education tree map—goal of education (w/clock partner)
6. Timed journal entry: Based upon your reading of “Education,” “Superman and Me,” “This is Water,” and “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” what should be the goal of an education? Write 1 synthesis paragraph in 10 minutes.

Homework:

• Start reviewing course lit for argument essay—see handout