Apologies for Posting Late! Homework for 9/22 and 9/24

Again, apologies everyone!  Here are your reminders for what you need to accomplish before our next class on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Freshman Focus

There is a very important thing you should all be aware of - progress reports are going out next week.  Some of you are missing some assignments, including your Future Autobiography project.  Make sure that you get these assignments done and turned in as soon as possible.  Over the weekend you may want to spend some time working on your skits project.  Consider props and costumes for your character to use during your presentation.  You will have time to work on this more on Tuesday/Wednesday, but you should really attempt to be to the point where you are practicing with your group in class on Tuesday/Wednesday.

AP English III

For our next class I would like for you to begin putting our work from bootcamp into your composition.  I would like for you to take a very close look at one of Dr. King's paragraphs from his "Letter" - take a special look at tone.  Determine what King's tone is and then show me what King uses to develop and make his tone clear to the reader.  Make sure to stay focused just on one paragraph and stay focused on tone.  You should open your piece with an argument about what King's tone is and then prove that argument to be true using evidence from the paragraph under consideration.  The idea here is to focus focus!

English IV

We are going to get into the final bit of Book One of 1984.  Some very exciting things happen to Winston, especially as we get ready to get into Book Two.  We're going to start focusing on a lot of the literary elements of the text and focus in on writing as we move forward.  Continue finding ways to get interested in this text.  Many of you are doing very well in understanding what Orwell is creating in this book.  Read chapter six and seven of 1984 and we will discuss them on Tuesday/Wednesday. 

Enjoy your weekend everyone!