Homework and Reminders for 2/12 and 2/13

Today's been a bit of a whirlwind of a day - here are your reminders to get you on track for tonight and on into tomorrow.

AP English IV

Students, tonight you are going to want to begin studying for your first unit exam on short stories and poetry.  The test will be structured with two timed writings (one poetry explication, one prose explication) as well as several brief identifications from the stories and poems we've read.  To prepare for this, I would begin by reviewing your notes (or the stories if you don't take good notes) as well as your writing strategies for completing an explication.  Next class we will look at some sample prompts and responses in order to determine strategies which lead to a higher scoring paper.  Bring any questions which you may have.

Also, we will soon start our study of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.  If you would like your own copy, go ahead and get one.

AP English III

Tonight for homework you have a few tasks, I'm also going to speak about some long-term things we have going on to alleviate some confusion in the air.  You have two main goals for tonight:  FIRST - you need to complete the questions using the sample texts.  These questions can be completed as notes for right now as long as you realize that with the final writing assignment you will submit complete sentences.  SECOND - you need to be drafting your term paper.  Your draft workshop will be on the 19th and 20th of February.  I expect that you will all have a draft to work with on that date.  I know that many of you want to see me this week to conference, so I've given you a bit more time for drafting.

Beyond this, you should also begin to construct your editorial based on the documents we looked at today in class.  You may want to wait until after next class to complete this writing assignment as we will begin talking about what a synthesis assignment does next class.  No matter when you start - your editorials will be due on the 21st and 22nd of February along with your completed answers. 

Finally, if you haven't already finished The Crucible - make sure that you do so.  We'll wrap up our work with this text soon and move forward!

English IV

Based on your work today in class you should have finished your proposal for your research project - continue to research tonight and build up your knowledge on your topic.  We'll look at this project more next class.