Week 7:
10/18/10
10/19/10
· Definition Essay Packet
· Make your own sparknotes
10/20/10
· Emerson – On Education
10/21/10
· Synthesis Essay – go through pieces in the AP packet for the “Conformity in Education” essay
· Rough Draft of essay
10/22/10
· Writers groups with essay draft
· Finish Synthesis Essay at home
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Week 8:
10/25/10
· Synthesis essay due. (COMMON ASSESMENT)
· ACT Test practice – do 1-30 on pages 152-156 in Red ACT book. Go over answers in groups; figure out what “kind” of question each is asking. Then, read the “Social Science” passage on page 182 (individually) in 4 minutes. Do questions 11-20 together in small groups. (Assign groups).
10/26/10
· AP test practice – copy the test questions given out at the AP conference. Read the piece “I am a Woman” and analyze together in class. Then, in assigned small groups, go over the answers.
10/27/10
· Assigned writers groups
· Assign the rhetorical devices (tropes and schemes) I want in the required writing.
· Diction – start adding in vocabulary words, eliminate redundancy and “weak” words
· Watch pronoun reference – generally don’t start sentences with “this” or “it”
· Parallelism Worksheet (chomp chomp) – teach “not only, but also) parallelism lesson on pages 443, 444 in grammar book for reference
10/28/10
· Writers groups – start analyzing the rhetorical strategies
10/29/10
· Vocab test 4 (COMMON ASSESMENT)
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Week 9:
11/1/10
· Portfolios due (COMMON ASSESMENT)
11/3/10
· 11/2/10 Grammar test 6,7 (COMMON ASSESMENT)
11/4/10
· Standardized test taking (COMMON ASSESMENT)
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