Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Week of November 14

~Dulce at the Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

~Red Badge of Courage Journal
-Universality of story

~Detractors from Academic Voice

~Occupy Wall Street
-develop an AP prompt form the discussion of key issues.
http://www.economist.com/node/21534759/print

~Charged Language Examples

~AP Test: Terms R - Z

~Storyboards / Multimedia

~Literary Circles

~Read 50 more pages in Outside Reading Book

~Read Chapters 4-6 in Red Badge of Courage

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Wednesday, November 16

Nylander 1-4



Nylander 2



Nylander 3



Nylander 4



Nylander 5

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Week of Oct. 31

-"Fall of the House of Usher"
By Edgar Allan Poe

-Example of Multimedia Speech Analysis Projects

-"Story of a Hour"
By Kate Chopin
~Read and answer questions on pg. 638-639

-Journal: Dual Nature of Roderick & Madeline

-Editorial & Analysis
Topic-Social Networking

-Turn in 4 Journals on Thursday

-Due Monday-Group Speech Analysis Essay

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Week of October 24

• Mark Twain’s English Spelling Improvement

• Figures of Speech – Huck Finn

• Socratic Circle - Cloning

• Charged Language

• Passage Analysis

• Huck Finn Essay Due - Oct. 27th

• Book Selection/ Literary Circles

• Multimedia Group Project + Essay Due – Nov. 7th

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Huck Finn Essay Prompts

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay Prompts

Monday, October 17, 2011

Week of October 17

AP Question 3 Persuasive Essay

• AP Question 3 Persuasive Essay

• 2008 Question 3
- Write and Introduction
- Peer Edit

• Student Anchor Papers
- Score
- Share Scores and Rationale

• Multimedia Speech Analysis
- Sign Up For Speeches

• Huck Finn Journals
- Write an essay discussing the roles of female characters in Huck Finn. Do the y have any meaningful impact on the novel? Could they be omitted from the narrative all together?

- In Chapter 42 of Huck Finn, we learn that Jim has been a free man all along! What’s up with that? Write an essay that considers how this revelation impacts the novel as a whole. Have all the events leading up to the revelation of Jim’s freedom been some kind of game? Is there some kind of moral lesson to be learned?

• Passage Analysis: Huck Finn

• Essay on Huck Finn Prompt
- Due OCT 26

• Compact Reader
- Read Of Headless Mice… and Men (pgs. 359-363)
- Answer Questions (Pgs. 362-363)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

HUCK FINN Questions 25-29

FINN Q 25-29

MULTIMEDIA SPEECH ANALYSIS

Multimedia Speech Analysis