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AP Week of April 20-24
Please see your personal emails for work this week.
Read again Madeleine Albright's speech.
Look at the AP Q2 Rubric attached to the email.
You will get a daily email.
WSJ Thursday April 16
WSJ Wednesday April 15
WSJ Tuesday April 14
WSJ Monday April 13
AP: Week of April 13 - 17
1 - ZOOM meetings Thursday, April 16 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. I will email you the link for security purposes.
If you have not viewed all of the resources last week from AP Classroom, please do so before ZOOM meetings on Thursday. Since your exam will be a Rhetorical Analysis, it is imperative that you familiarize yourselves with the terms we already know and continue to apply them:
WRITER - AUDIENCE - EXIGENCE - CONTEXT - PURPOSE - MESSAGE Look again at all 3 pages of resource 1:
2 - Please make sure you have the Powerpoint on AP MARCH 31 handy for discussion in your folder. This is a detailed graphic of The Rhetorical Situation
3 - Read the Q2 from the 2018 AP Language Exam (scroll past the Q1) and select 7 quotations to analyze according to WRITER - AUDIENCE - EXIGENCE - CONTEXT - PURPOSE - MESSAGE. Please be sure you have listened to the videos.
HONORS ENGLISH 11: Week of April 13-17
This week:
ZOOM conferences (pick one or visit all) Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. Link emailed to you for privacy.
1 - Read this short story about how the "little guy" suffers in the marketplace when the "big guys" try to manipulate the price of a food staple. It is a rigorous text, so be patient and know that you are building mental muscle.
A Deal in Wheat by Frank Norris
The Story
The Building and Organization (Look at all the pictures.)
A Prezi on the story and its context
2 - Check-in Journal #3: Based upon your studying, experience, and observations, write a 300-400-word entry (about 2 typed pages in MLA format) – Draw some comparisons between the precious commodity of “wheat” in the story and items today that are much needed by people in the world but which “the people” have little control over. Who are the “cogs in the wheel” of the economic situation today in this pandemic situation? Can you find metaphors now for the Bear and the Bull? In what ways do we perhaps feel helpless and caught? How can we relate to Lewiston, who when he hit rock bottom still had the fortitude and determination to climb out of the situation?
3 - ACT
English - Complete #'s 33-45 for the Passage "Have You No Shame?"
Check these answers with explanations
I hope you will take advantage of these ungraded opportunities for learning. I promise to read everything.
WSJ Friday April 10
Zoom Conferences Today (Friday) for Honors
Look for a personal email with the invite which we cannot post in a public place such as this website. Enter a meeting at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. or the night-owl at 9 p.m. Discussion of Posters, Journals, and ACT.