Homework for A-Day Students: 12/10/2013

AP English III

Tonight for homework you have two key things to accomplish.  First, make sure that your group site is up and shared with all members of your group; also, be sure to think through what you need me to cover with you at our tech help session next class in the Dell Lab.  This will give you all an opportunity to get some of your pages created as well as start plugging in media.  In addition to this, be sure to read Gloria Anzaldua's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" - it is available in 50 Essays as well as at this link.  As you read Anzaldua you will be struck by her use of Spanish in the piece - consider her rhetorical purpose behind this.  In addition, consider the connection between language and identity that Anzaldua presents as well as the link between language and revolution.  This is a highly political and provocative piece; I'm looking forward to our seminar on it.

What follows is your reading schedule for the next few classes as well as winter break.

• Chapters 23 - 28:  Monday, December 16th
• Chapters 29 - 33:  Wednesday, December 18th
• End of the Book:  Tuesday, January 7th

Don't forget that you will have a timed writing - RHETORICAL ANALYSIS - on Friday, December 20th before we leave for break.  If you are going to be absent on that day, please get your Timed Writing done before you go!

Russian I

For tonight's homework you will need to get started on your writing project.  Follow the outline that I gave you on the assignment sheet in order to complete this assignment.  The outline is below in case you forget your handout:

• Sentence One – Introduce person by name.  State relationship to you.  Possessive Pronoun.  Agreement.
• Sentence Two – State where person lives.  Verb – жить.  Prepositional case.
• Sentence Three – Describe the person using an adjective.  Adjective.  Agreement.
• Sentence Four – State something the person likes.  Verb – любить.
• Sentence Five – State something the person does.  Verb – choice.
• Sentence Six – State something the person wants for the holidays.  Verb – хотеть.

Remember that next class we will be having a writing workshop on these paragraphs.  Please be sure to bring what you have and make sure to try!  We won't be able to do much of a workshop without any work.  Use your vocabulary lists for this and dictionaries.  Do not translate whole sentences.