2015 4th Quarter Agenda
Monday, March 23rd (1st & 5th):
1) Reading check
2) Grammar Warm-up (based on mistakes in rhetorical analysis essay)
3) Discuss/assign annotated bibliography (due 4/24)
Homework: Read Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby and work on characterization + theme
assignment; study for Vocab. 19 Quiz 3/25
Monday, March 23rd (2A & 4A):
***2A: Write rhetorical analysis essay (skip warm-up)
1) Reading check
2) Grammar Warm-up (based on mistakes in rhetorical analysis essay)
3) Discuss/assign annotated bibliography (due 4/24)
4) SAT Vocab. meaningful sentences
Homework: Read Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby and work on characterization + theme
assignment; study for Vocab. 19 Quiz next class; bring highlighters next class (4 colors)!
Tuesday, March 24th (1st & 5th):
1) Insightful Commentary Instruction
2) SAT Vocab. meaningful sentences
Homework: study vocab. 18 and read chapter 8; bring highlighters next class (4 colors)!
Wednesday, March 25th (1st & 5th):
1) Vocab. 19 Quiz
2) Highlights of good writing
3) Inner outer discussion
Homework: Finish The Great Gatsby by Friday
Wednesday, March 25th (2A & 4A):
1) Vocab. 19 Quiz
2) Insightful Commentary Instruction
3) Highlights of good writing
4) Inner outer discussion
Homework: Finish The Great Gatsby
Thursday, March 26th (1st & 5th):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (1-9)
2) Jotted outline practice (synthesis)
Friday, March 27th (1st & 5th):
1) Inner-outer discussion
2) Review for The Great Gatsby Test
Homework: Finish the characterization + theme assignment by 3/31; study for Gatsby test
Friday, March 27th (2A & 4A):
1) Inner-outer discussion
2) Review for The Great Gatsby Test
3) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (1-9)
Homework: Finish the characterization + theme assignment by next class; study for Gatsby
test
Monday, March 30th (1st & 5th):
1) Warm-up writing: what is your ideal American dream?
2) Continue reviewing for The Great Gatsby test; finish characterization + theme
assignment
Homework: Finish the characterization + theme assignment by next class; study for Gatsby
test
Tuesday, March 31st (1st & 5th):
1) The Great Gatsby Test
Tuesday, March 31st (2A & 4A):
1) The Great Gatsby Test
2) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (10-17)
3) SAT Vocab. Meaningful Sentences
Homework: Study for Vocab. 20 Quiz next class; read synthesis essay sources (develop ideas
for class essay next class)
Wednesday, April 1st (1st & 5th):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (10-17)
2) Postmodernism notes
3) SAT Vocab. Meaningful Sentences
Homework: Study for Vocab. 20 Quiz next class
Thursday, April 2nd (1st & 5th):
1) Vocab. 20 Quiz
2) Read Fences (Intro, context, and Act 1 Scene 1)
Thursday, April 2nd (2A & 4A):
1) Vocab. 20 Quiz
2) Postmodernism notes
3) Read Fences (Intro, context, and Act 1 Scene 1)
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography
Friday, April 3rd (1st & 5th):
1) Work day
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography
Monday, April 6th (1st & 5th):
***Sub Day
1) Finish Act I of Fences independently
Monday, April 6th (2A & 4A):
***Sub Day
1) AP Multiple Choice Practice (18-26)
2) Finish Act I of Fences independently
Tuesday, April 7th (1st & 5th):
***Sub Day
1) Answer Act I Fences questions
Wednesday, April 8th (1st & 5th):
***Sub Day
1) AP Multiple Choice Practice (18-26)
2) Work on writing folder and metalog
Wednesday, April 8th (2A & 4A):
***Sub Day
1) Answer Act I Fences questions
2) Work on writing folder and metalog
Homework: Study for Vocab. 21 Quiz next class
Thursday, April 9th (1st & 5th):
***Sub Day
1) Synthesis essay (2014) (55 minutes)
Homework: Study for Vocab. 21 Quiz next class
Friday, April 10th (1st & 5th):
***Sub Day
1) Vocab. 21 Quiz
2) Work on writing folder and metalog
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography
Friday, April 10th (2A & 4A):
***Sub Day
1) Vocab. 21 Quiz
2) Synthesis essay (2014) (55 minutes)
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography
Monday, April 13th (1st & 5th):
1) Roots exercises
2) Read Fences Act 2 Scene 1
Tuesday, April 14th (1st & 5th):
1) Review Annotated Bibliography requirements
2) Jotted Outline (argument)
3) SAT Vocab. Meaningful Sentences
Homework: Study for 15-21 Vocab. Test 4/16
Tuesday, April 14th (2A & 4A):
1) Review annotated bibliography requirements
2) Jotted Outline (argument)
3) Roots exercises
4) SAT Vocab. Meaningful Sentences
Homework: Study for 15-21 Vocab. Test next class
Wednesday, April 15th (1st & 5th):
1) Read Fences Act 2 Scenes 2 & 3
Homework: Study for 15-21 Vocab. Test next class
Thursday, April 16th (1st & 5th):
1) Vocab. 15-21 Test
2) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (27-35)
Thursday, April 16th (2A & 4A):
1) Vocab. 15-21 Test
2) Read Fences Act 2 Scenes 2, 3, 4, & 5; focus on rhetorical strategies Wilson uses
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography; review Fences in preparation for Rhetorical
Analysis essay
Friday, April 17th (1st & 5th):
***5th: dodge ball game
1) Finish Fences
2) Discuss rhetorical devices/purpose with Fences
Homework: Work on Annotated Bibliography; review Fences in preparation for Rhetorical
Analysis essay
Monday, April 20th (1st & 5th)
1st: Explore visual rhetoric; answer questions with partner
5th: Finish Fences; Discuss rhetorical devices/purpose with Fences
Monday, April 20th (2A & 4A):
1) Finish Fences
2) Fences rhetorical analysis essay
Tuesday, April 21st (1st & 5th):
1) Fences rhetorical analysis essay
Wednesday, April 22nd (1st & 5th):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (36-45)
2) Work on writing folder
5th: Explore visual rhetoric; answer questions with partner
Wednesday, April 22nd (2A & 4A):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (27-45)
2) Explore visual rhetoric; answer questions with partner
Homework: Annotated bibliography and writing folder (and metalog) due next class
Thursday, April 23rd (1st & 5th):
1) Argument Essay (2007 Prompt)
Homework: Annotated bibliography and writing folder (and metalog) due next class
Friday, April 24th (1st & 5th):
***Annotated Bibliography Due
***Writing Metalog and folder due
1) Read and analyze Woody Allen’s “The Kugelmass Episode”
2) Finish visual rhetoric questions and folder
Friday, April 24th (2A & 4A):
***Annotated Bibliography Due
***Writing Metalog and folder due
1) Argument Essay (2007 Prompt)
2) Read and analyze Woody Allen’s “The Kugelmass Episode”
3) Finish visual rhetoric questions and folder
Monday, April 27th (1st & 5th):
1) Review effective AP essays on document camera; highlights of effective writing
2) 10-minute counselor talk (8:50 and 4:00)
Tuesday, April 28th (1st & 5th):
1) Read and analyze Ursula LeGuin’s “Nine Lives”
Tuesday, April 28th (2A & 4A):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (46-53)
2) Read and analyze Ursula LeGuin’s “Nine Lives”
3) 10-minute counselor talk (11:10 and 2:55)
Homework: work on semester exam review
Wednesday, April 29th (1st & 5th):
1) AP Multiple Choice Warm-up (46-53)
2) Review effective AP essays on document camera; highlights of effective writing
3) Receive semester exam review
Homework: work on semester exam review
Thursday, April 30th (1st & 5th):
1) Work on semester exam review
Thursday, April 30th (2A & 4A):
1) Review effective AP essays on document camera; highlights of effective writing
2) Jeopardy
Homework: Study for Semester Exam; take home essay (due 5/6)
Friday, May 1st (1st & 5th):
1) Jeopardy
Homework: Study for Semester Exam; take home essay (due 5/6)
Monday, May 4th (1st & 5th):
***AP US HISTORY STAAR TEST
1) No 1st period
2) 5th: study
Monday, May 4th (2A & 4A):
***AP UP HISTORY STAAR TEST
1) No 2A
2) 4A: study
Tuesday, May 5th (1st & 5th):
1) Multiple Choice Section of Semester Exam
Wednesday, May 6th (1st & 5th):
***AP Physics Test
***Afternoon SUB
1) Essay Section of Semester Exam (must be finished by 5/6)
Wednesday, May 6th (2A & 4A):
***AP Physics Test
1) Multiple Choice and Essay Section of Semester Exam (Dual credit students must
schedule a tutorial time to complete multiple choice section on or before May 7th)
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Thursday, May 7th (1st & 5th):
***WILL NOT TAKE ANY ASSIGNMENT AFTER TODAY
1) Finish any part of semester exam (if absent)
2) Review for AP tests
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Friday, May 8th (1st & 5th):
***AP US HISTORY EXAM
***Possible SUB day
1) Review for AP test
***Dual Credit Grades due 5/11; AP Test 5/13
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Friday, May 8th (2A & 4A):
***AP US HISTORY EXAM
***SUB day
1) Review for AP test
***Dual Credit Grades due 5/11; AP Test 5/13
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Monday, May 11th (1st & 5th):
1) AP students—review for test (resources, graded essays, etc.)
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Tuesday, May 12th (1st & 5th):
1) AP students—review for test (resources, graded essay, etc.)
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Tuesday, May 12th (2A & 4A):
1) AP students—review for test (resources, graded essay, etc.)
Homework: AP students: review AP resources
Wednesday, May 13th (1st & 5th):
***AP ENGL LANG EXAM
1) Limited students in class; work on something for another class
Thursday, May 14th (1st & 5th):
***Sub (Morris administering AP World History Exam)
1) Watch The Great Gatsby
Thursday, May 14th (2A & 4A):
***Sub (Morris administering AP World History Exam)
1) Watch The Great Gatsby
Friday, May 15th (1st & 5th):
1) Watch The Great Gatsby
Monday, May 18th (1st & 5th):
1) Watch The Great Gatsby
Monday, May 18th (2A & 4A):
1) Watch The Great Gatsby
Tuesday, May 19th (1st & 5th):
1) Watch Easy A
Wednesday, May 20th (1st & 5th):
1) Finish Easy A
Wednesday, May 20th (2A & 4A):
1) Watch Easy A
Thursday, May 21st (1st & 5th):
1) For extended metaphor poetry analysis, read “The Chambered Nautilus” by Oliver
Wendell Holmes (IMPACTSSS)
Friday, May 22nd (1st & 5th):
1) For extended metaphor poetry analysis, read “Storm Warnings” by Adrienne Rich
(IMPACTSSS)
Friday, May 22nd (2A & 4A):
1) For extended metaphor poetry analysis, read “The Chambered Nautilus” by Oliver
Wendell Holmes and “Storm Warnings” by Adrienne Rich (IMPACTSSS)
Tuesday, May 26th (1st & 5th):
1) For tone poetry analysis, read “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens
(IMPACTSSS)
Wednesday, May 27th (1st & 5th):
1) For tone poetry analysis, read “Sow” by Sylvia Plath (IMPACTSSS)
Wednesday, May 27th (2A & 4A):
1) For tone poetry analysis, read “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens and
“Sow” by Sylvia Plath (IMPACTSSS)
Thursday, May 28th (1st & 5th):
1) For ambiguity poetry (double meaning analysis) as well as meter and structure, read “The
Last Night That She Lived” by Emily Dickinson (IMPACTSSS)
Friday, May 29th (1st & 5th):
1) For ambiguity poetry (double meaning analysis) as well as meter and structure, read
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost(IMPACTSSS)
Friday, May 29th (2A & 4A):
1) For ambiguity poetry (double meaning analysis) as well as meter and structure, read “The
Last Night That She Lived” by Emily Dickinson and “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
(IMPACTSSS)
Monday, June 1st: 5th End of the Year Party
Tuesday, June 2nd: 1st End of the Year Party
Thursday, June 4th: 2A & 4A End of the Year Party