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Welcome to Caroline Howard Elston's website for Yearbook, AP Language and Composition, and Honors English 11. I am excited about all of the instruction and projects this year, and about learning alongside my classes. I expect all of my students to wholeheartedly embrace reading, writing, and thinking. So often, I hear, "Well, I like to read about things I'm interested in." That's fine, but building memory, honing critical thinking skills, challenging difficult texts, formulating opinions, and communicating our thoughts takes hard work. The brain is a muscle; use it or lose it! In fact, research shows us that if we are not tackling texts that are "harder" than we like, we will lose ground. This self-sifting happens most often in the leap to junior year. Juniors, especially, must build mental muscle so that you won't slip through the sieve. We are in this together, so let's have fun while we moan and groan!
2023-24 Schedule of Classes
Advanced Placement and Composition - 1st and 7th periods
English 11 Honors - 2nd, 3rd, 4th periods
Yearbook - 5th period 
Plan Period - 7th period
 

Posts

Honors 3/25

I have heard from one group that is in touch with each other. Please, even if you have not been the one to email or turnitin for your group, try to connect with your group and text me to let me know you have done so. How's the poster coming? For light reading, click the daily link to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on this page.

AP

Please continue to revise your essay, and try out the AP Classroom site. We can't lose skills during this time.

Honors 3/24

Good Morning!
I anticipate that you and your groups have tried to stay in touch so the collaborative poster can be finished. I ask whoever has been emailing or turning in group work on turnitin.com on behalf of your group to let me now if y'all are still in communication. [email protected] or you can text me (Be sure to include group's members' names).
 
This link was shared by our BHS Library - it is a Tennessee Shakespeare live stream on facebook tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. For your edification!

AP Test Information

 
Meanwhile, please do a revision of your MODES ESSAYS. You should still have your comment sheets and also a peer edit. (I have no idea whether the test will be Argument or RA.)
 
Also please go to APClassroom. See if you can access the "assignments" I have unlocked for you. That should give you an idea of how easy (or not?) it will be to access the materials AP is developing.
 
If you have the Marco Polo app, send me a video!

Honors

Hey guys! Pretty boring without you! Please make sure you can still communicate with your workgroup first your graphic poster assignment. More later!

AP Language

Hope everyone is doing okay! I miss y’all! Please check your AP accounts and see if you. An access the practice tests I opened for you! 

Malcolm X Ballot or Bullet

Select one of the numbered paragraphs. Analyze the rhetorical devices Malcolm X uses to persuade his audience. Be sure to use evidence from the text, link two (or more) rhetorical devices represented, and discuss the probably effect on the audience (that is, were the devices effective and why). Indicate which paragraph you are analyzing, and be sure to use 3-4 times as much commentary as quoted material. Highlight in blue the quoted words, and highlight in yellow your commentary. Submit to turnitin by midnight tonight.

Moby DIck Questions for Chapter One

Detail Questions:

Why does Ishmael go to sea? What causes him to go to sea?

Contrast a passenger with Ishmael’s reasons for going to sea.

 

Who is Cato? Why did he fall on his sword? (Look up.)

 

RA questions: (A reminder – use quotes from the text. In Q2, if you do not LINK the rhetorical device to an intended effect on the reader, you will get no higher than a 4, and that is only if the writing is superior.)

 

1-What tone does the character Ishmael take in Chapter 1?

 

2-Locate three images. Describe the effect of these images on the reader by analyzing the diction (words) used.

 

3-At the end of Chapter 1, how should the reader be feeling? (That is, Melville has a rhetorical purpose when he writes this preface; what is it? How does he want readers to feel?)