Homework for 9/25 and 9/26

Students,

I'm out of the building tomorrow in observance of Yom Kippur.  B-day students, I hope that you enjoy your day with the substitute.  Below are your reminders of what you need to have accomplished before you enter class on Thursday/Friday.

Freshman Focus

For Thursday's class we will be seeing several presentations depicting your ideas of the second part of Family Man.  On Thursday you'll have ten minutes to prepare and then we will go through our scenes.  Remember that you need to have a copy of all three skits to turn into me.  You also will want to have props and costumes for your characters as well as any backgrounds or music.  Remember that everyone needs to have a role in the presentation in order to get credit.  You'll be graded as a group on your scripts and then individually on your acting.

AP English III

On Thursday/Friday I'll be collecting your journals for this first nine weeks as well as your tone analysis assignments.  Let me review for you a few of the important aspects of the tone assignment.

1. You're going to want to structure both an argument and a paragraph clarifying your argument.
2. Your argument should pass the DADS test.  Part of what I'm assessing is that you have embraced this idea.
3. I will want to see clear explanation of details from the paragraph you've chosen to help support your argument.  Remember to make connections and explain them.
4. I'm looking forward to seeing how you all have begun to improve as writers from bootcamp.

English IV

We will be finishing our discussion of Book One of 1984 on Thursday/Friday.  Make sure that you've finished reading to the end of chapter eight to be ready for this.  Also, you will want to make sure you've spent time studying your vocabulary lists.  There will be a vocabulary section on your Book One test.  Lastly, make sure your journals are in order and all the entries are finished as I'll be collecting those too.

Progress reports will go out on Thursday/Friday after I return.