H. Expository Composition period 2

Good Morning,
Please follow the agenda for Period 2.
1. Engage in Friday Freewrite.  Two volunteers can pass out journals or all can write on their own regular notebook paper if cabinets are locked.
2. Be sure to submit hard copy or Schoology final draft descriptive essay. NO emailed copies.
3. Finish worksheet from yesterday on Objective and Subjective Description.
4.  Think of your favorite celebrity, or athlete; or entertainer or someone the class would know.  Write a description of that person using objective and subjective description.  On Tuesday, we will take turns seeing if we can identify the personage based on your description of him or her.

H. Expository Composition

1. Select your favorite item of clothing; favorite pair of shoes, favorite place in your house. Identify them and begin jotting down adjectives and sensory details for each.
2. Reflection: What advice did you receive that you feel was correct or precise, or most helpful? Why was it helpful to provide feedback and receive it as well? Write a two paragraph minimum reflection on the process of giving and receiving feedback--being a mentor and mentee.
3. SOAPS----yes!
4. Final Drafts of Descriptive Essays are due this Friday.  NO papers accepted past Monday. Late papers incur penalty of 20% since Friday is Friday.

AP Engl Lit/Expos Com p2

Ap Lit: Revise your 1972 essay. 1. Read the first 2 paragraphs out loud and voice-record them. Please read your entire essay out loud, but only the first 2 paragraphs need to be recorded.  2. Eliminate the past and use literary present tense and/or simple past if you need it. Remove most helping verbs (i.e. she had done becomes she did) 3. Remove second person, "you will read, you will see, we see". Replace with it comes clear, it will be revealed, shown, etc.  Bring Oedipus packet to class on Thursday. You may read up to page 12 if you would like.

H. Expos Comp period 2:  Type your Descriptive Essay Draft if you have not. Read it and elaborate based on class instruction. Then, have two copies of your draft printed BEFORE period 2. No one will be allowed to print during class!

H. Expository Composition Period 2

1. Rewrite one full paragraph subtracting as many details as possible, while still keeping the passage understandable.  The first paragraph may be rewritten to look like this:
Sometime in the morning, Denise found herself awake and listening to a sound that was coming from the water.  Squirt pushed himself up and peered into the night and when a growl began to issue from the puppy's throat, Denise grabbed him and stuffed him under her bag.  She thought she could make out the silhouette and did not want Squirt to antagonize the animal. When the sounds seemed to move Denise awoke the others and told them what she had heard.......
2. Continue or begin working on a FULL Draft of an Essay about a food that is special to you, your family, or your culture; and (perhaps) the person associated with that food. Write an essay in which you describe the food/dish, the person who makes it, and your feelings associated with.  Your draft should use sensory details like the two essays we have read: "Rice" by Jhumpa Lahiri and "The Night of The Grizzles"

Oedipus

Here is the link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4BLVnt1qsfkU3ZfVDdoeTFMUG8/view?usp=sharing

AP Literature Homework period 1

Begin drafting your own original, imaginative story with a setting; characters and plot.  Your story maybe in any genre: science fiction; dystopia; historical fiction or realistic fiction.   You may not copy or cut and paste.  Try your hand at using dialogue, details and imagery.  Ideally your story is almost any length over three pages--you need that among of time to develop your setting and your characters.  Perhaps you may want to brainstorm a conflict that you want your characters to grapple with BEFORE writing the actual story.  This may be helpful.

Additionally: 1. Be sure you copied the 70 question stems from the Open Question Handout.
2. Be sure you went to two or your category Padlets, and looked up and copy/pasted the definitions of those literary terms in your category blocks.  You also need to handwrite the definitions for those terms in two of your Padlet "blocks" . Here is the link to the definitions: Virtual Salt: A handbook of Literary Devices

Here is the rough draft to my response to 1972 AP English Literature Prompt
What did you need for your essay? You will have the change to RE-Read Chapter 1 or the opening scene to reconstruct your essay in class. You may want to bring the novel or play tomorrow or download a copy for your needs.

Descriptive Essay #1

Using "Rice" by Jhumpa Lahiri as . model, we will write a full length descriptive essay about a dish that has meaning for you and your family, and perhaps even your culture.  Your essay may choose to focus on the person who makes that dish in your family as well as the dish itself and recollect an event when the dish was made.  OR You may focus strictly on the dish and the variations of it in your family. You must include 4 of the 5 types of imagery. You must describe the dish using specific language and details.  You must also give some description and biographical information about the maker of the dish. Draft #1 due Friday, September 14th

Analyzing A Descriptive Essay: Rice by Jhumpa Lahiri

1. What food or dish or baked good do you associate with a specific member of your family? What is it and with whom do you associate it?
2. What foods do you eat on a specific holiday? 
Re-read the essay entitled, "Rice" on pg 172 Patterns For College Writing and respond:
3. Write down all of the verbs Lahiri uses in the first two paragraphs. You should have between 22-24 verbs written down.
4. Now, write down all of the ingredients and their descriptions of Lahiri's father's pulao. You should have 15 ingredients.
5. Lastly add 7-10 ACTIVE verbs that Lahiri's father does to make the pulao dish.

AP English Literature Period 1

1. Carefully read and mark the two essays given to you on Question 3; Mysterious Origins.  On a sheet of paper, give each student essay a score, and then justify the score that you gave using the AP English Literature Rubric for the Essay.  Upload your response to Schoology.
2. Be sure you have copied the 70 Question Stems. 

Expository Composition Periods 2 and 6

How can we improve presentations? Read/listen/engage with each of the following three sources aimed at improving presentations. While reading and listening, you may want to make connections as some of the information will be repeated in a different way. Then after reading, write a no fewer than one page reflection critiquing your presentation (both oral and as delivered) as well identify three concrete steps that you will include in your next presentation.  Did you follow the guidelines from the assignment? Did you include information from our online text or did you find a presentation somewhere else? What risks did your presentation take?
Link #1 8 Ways to Make Your Presentation More Interactive. 
Link #2 17 Killer Presentation Tips for Students Who Want to Stand Out. 
Link #3 How to Give A Good Presentation in Class: 3 Big Questions Answered
Additionally, rate another group's presentation. Which group had the most engaging presentation thus far? Share your rationale as to why!

Identifying Metaphors

Identify the metaphors in the following sentences. What things are being compared?
1. The lobbyists carefully cultivate the congressmen with favors and reap their rewards when the votes are taken.
2. Trapped in a white dominated world, minorities have learned to live with trouble.
3. The job has too many strings attached to it.
4. He is a hard-boiled character.
5. One of the main planks of their platform is to close tax loopholes.

AP English Lit. Period 1

1. Carefully read and annotate the article, "Questioning the Text: Literary Analysis and Multiple Choice Testing by Eric Wimmers.
2. The metaphor practice questions will be assigned in class.  Didnt get the article? Come to my class during homeroom or ask a study buddy to take pics and share!