Monday, October 26th, 2015

AP English Language and Composition

• Poetry Slam: Thurs. 10/29 in SHS Library @ 4 PM (1st Q. Enrichment!!)• Beyond HS Night: Tues. 11/3 in Commons @ 6:30 PM (2nd Q. Enrichment!!)• Last day to turn in any work for 1st Quarter is Friday, Oct. 30th • This Weds. 10/28 is a “Study” PRIDE Day. Ask teachers for a pass!! • Check the board by the clock for useful stuff and things• This week & next week: Wrap up Unit 2; mini test-prep unit; begin Unit 3

• Pass back absent papers!

• Make sure you’ve turned in all assignments! Specifically:• Education essay (SERIOUSLY?!)• Unit 2 Rubric (annotations and OPTIC)• Précis: Roosevelt or Jefferson AND Cleese (also: Cleese annotations)

Nuts & Bolts

• Read over your précis. • In the space under your typed final, address the following points:• In your own words, define “rhetorical précis.” Why/how is this structure

useful?• Which sentence is your BEST (construction, ideas, etc.)• Which sentence needs the most improvement? Why? How do you

specifically plan to strengthen this?• Think back to your Jefferson/Roosevelt précis. What is the most significant

difference between that précis and this one?

Cleese Précis

• In your journal, write your thesis statement from your “Education” essay. • What is it “to be educated”? Recount a time in which you

received an education.

Warm-Up

Editing and Revising Education Essay* Pronouns* Organization and Connections

“For example, during a class discussion, you can gain a better understanding by listening to how other people interpret a text or solve a math problem.”

What’s wrong with this sentence?

“I certainly cannot say that I remember the time I learned how to walk, but I do recall watching my nieces first experience their first steps. Of course we tried explaining to them, ‘one step after the other,’ but they don’t really understand what we are saying. They observe us walking, attempt mimicking what we do, but evidently fail.”

What’s wrong with this sentence?

• In your education essay, highlight every instance of the following pronouns:• You / your• We / our / us

• Consider the context of that piece of writing. When you write [insert pronoun here], WHO do you really mean!? WRITE A NOTE next to the highlighted text! • EDIT AND REVISE pronouns for clarity and accuracy! • Revision due date?

Pronouns Matter!!!

Organization and Connections!

WRITING WORKSHOP: DAY 2

• Poetry Slam: Thurs. 10/29 in SHS Library @ 4 PM (1st Q. Enrichment!!)• Beyond HS Night: Tues. 11/3 in Commons @ 6:30 PM (2nd Q. Enrichment!!)• Last day to turn in any work for 1st Quarter is Friday, Oct. 30th • This Weds. 10/28 is a “Study” PRIDE Day. Ask teachers for a pass!! • Check the board by the clock for useful stuff and things• This week & next week: Wrap up Unit 2; mini test-prep unit; begin Unit 3

• Pass back absent papers!

• Make sure you’ve turned in all assignments! Specifically:• Education essay (SERIOUSLY?!)• Unit 2 Rubric (annotations and OPTIC)• Précis: Roosevelt or Jefferson AND Cleese (also: Cleese annotations)

Nuts & Bolts

5 minute free write

Journal

• In your education essay, highlight every instance of the following pronouns:• You / your• We / our / us

• Consider the context of that piece of writing. When you write [insert pronoun here], WHO do you really mean!? WRITE A NOTE next to the highlighted text! • EDIT AND REVISE pronouns for clarity and accuracy! • Revision due date?

Pronouns Matter!!!

• In small groups, pick a puzzle and put it together! • Who can finish first?!

Puzzles!!!!

• Discuss and take notes in your journal:• In which ways is this activity like writing an essay?• What do each of the puzzle pieces symbolize?• Corner• Edge • Inside piece (general)• Inside piece (specific)

• What did you learn from this activity? How will you apply it in writing essays?

Puzzles!!!!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaObaj-gKRI • 1:29-4:10• 6:55-8:05

Don’t Let Go, Jack…

• You MUST connect your ideas:• To each other (syntax and diction; transitions)• To your thesis (topic and concluding sentences; transitions)• To the prompt (insightful and thorough analysis)

Connect the Dots