Homework for B Day - 30 October

AP Seminar

Great work today with your presentations everyone. I was really pleased by what I saw and by the work that you all put together. Be sure that you take some time to reflect on your performance (I'll have a proper reflection form for you later) as well as take some time to think about your future TMPOD work. For tonight, we have a few things to read and annotate to lead into Thursday. First, we have our article which was given out in class as well as the video available here. Be sure to view these through the lens of protest, which will help to set a purpose for your annotations.

After this, or before, be sure that you complete your question organizer around protest. You should complete five of the eight lenses. You'll have a chance to speak together and collaborate around your questions next class.

Advanced Russian

Today we took time to review the concept of the abstract for a research paper and the specific components that are needed for it. Be sure that you are spending time to work tonight so that you can collaborate a bit next class in order to complete the work. It's due on Monday, via Google Drive and it'll be a shared group score.

Further, please take a look at Exercise 5.2 (Russian II) and consider the aspect of the verbs in the text. Russian III students should look at the reading assignments at the beginning of Chapter Eight to see how the new pronouns are used in context.

On Thursday you'll be reading and working with a short story before you do some work to create a skit in Russian to practice your speaking and performance skills.

Russian I

Today we took our quiz on the first part of Chapter One. If you were absent, then you'll have to see me next week to make up the quiz. From there, we worked on knowing our verb conjugation patterns. Please see the slides on Google Classroom if you missed class since everything is there.

For tonight you should do a few things to review and practice what we did today in class. First, review pages 47 and 48 in your textbook for a review of how to conjugate the two types of verbs - first and second conjugation. Then, look at exercise FOUR on page FIFTY ONE. Look at the question, and present a positive or negative answer based on what you would like. Skip number 9 and 11 since we haven't yet looked at reflexive verb conjugations yet.

Also, if today's quiz was difficult for you, continue to study and review, remember that you'll get the chance to do a reassessment.

Homework for A-Day Students: 29 October 2018

AP English III

Remember that your main task on Wednesday will be your quiz on Act III and IV. The quiz will follow the same structure as before with multiple choice, quotation analysis, and a free response question. Be sure that you have your book for the multiple choice.

The rest of the week you'll be focused on finishing Mean Girls as your final text for the unit. Remember that for your unit assessment on the 6th of November you'll be expected to explore a theme shared between all of the texts - your viewing guides can be used for this assessment as your evidence.

You will also have your annotations checked on The Crucible as well as vocabulary cards 11-15 collected on this date.

English IV

On Wednesday you're going to have your quiz on Act I of A Doll's House. Today in class we went over your main vocabulary words, the key events in Act I, and we finished our study of the play by looking at the film to review. You now have everything that you need to be successful on the quiz. You'll also have a bit of grammar and writing to do on this quiz. The quiz will be open book and open note - use your resources to do your best work!

Weekend Update - End of Quarter 1

Students!

Especially AP Students! I'm grading your resubmissions and seeing improvement, but PowerSchool is down for the weekend. I'll have your scores updated on Monday morning and you can come in after that for ruble exchange.

Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 26 October

AP Seminar

From all the work we've done this week I'm excited to see what you all are going to present on Tuesday. Remember to submit your slides by Monday evening to Google Classroom - they'll be marked late after 6:00 PM. Be sure that you are continuing to collaborate and offer assistance this weekend as you make finishing touches to your presentations.

Advanced Russian

Today in class we spent our time looking at our aspectual pairs as well as some of our new vocabulary and grammar through conversation. I was very happy about the work that you all did and the level of engagement in the room. I also noted that many of you found yourselves to be much more comfortable doing this type of work.

As we move forward to Tuesday, continue to work on your research outline as well as your quiz preparation. The quiz will focus on vocabulary as well as grammar for all of you. Be ready by studying your topics. Remember that you can have a notecard for this quiz, but it has to be made by hand. Topics for your quiz are in the slides on Google Classroom.

Russian I

Hopefully given today's class you feel confident with using possessive pronouns in Russian to claim ownership or state ownership of items as well as agreement with gender. Be sure that over the weekend you are studying your Chapter 1 nouns, and reviewing the information in your textbook around pages 38 and 39. All of the information is also in the slides on Google Classroom. If you've missed days or are behind, I would recommend coming in on Monday to prepare and review with me.

At this point all work has been collected for Quarter 1. I'll be grading this weekend. If you have rubles or Falcon Feathers to turn in, come see me on Monday for that!

Homework for the Weekend - A Day Students - 25 October

AP English III

Good work today finishing up our discussion on The Crucible and how some of the big changes in the play are indicative of Miller's overall arguments. I also think that many of you had some great breakthroughs today as you were working with your groups to develop your rhetorical analyses. Let's keep all of this moving forward as we consider the weekend's tasks.

First, continue your reading of Denisovich and be ready for some work on the text on Monday. You should be to the point when the men return to the prison from work. You will want to read the scene that involves the searching of the prisoners as they return. This is an important scene to consider the dehuminization and the injustice that Solzhenitsyn wants his reader to understand.

Second, keep working on your websites! Next week should really be the end of the work so that you are revising and editing in advance of the final due date. We'll present these websites on Thursday, November 8.

Lastly, remember that you have your final quiz on The Crucible on Wednesday. Vocabulary cards (11-15) will be collected no later than Tuesday, November 6.

English IV

We did a lot of good work today in class focused around the secrets that Nora is keeping from her husband. I was also really happy to see a lot of good vocabulary work going on at the end of class as you all investigated new words.

For this weekend, be sure that you go through and answer as many of the Act I questions that you can. We'll go over them on Monday as we prepare for our Act I Quiz. Also, remember we started to talk today about our adaptation for your final project. An adaptation is an update of a play or story for a new audience. As you consider this think about the soundtrack, the setting, the costumes, the movie poster, and how the people would talk. We'll start working on this more next week as we prepare for our final project and move on to the other acts.

Homework for 24 October - B Day Students

Hey everyone! Many of you were absent today due to testing, be sure that you go to Google Classroom to check the slides from today's class. If you have questions, please see me outside of class.

AP Seminar

We're all about the TMPOD for Friday. Continue the great work from today's class. It's also a great idea to go back to the high scored TMPOD that I shared with you as an exemplar of what you need to produce. Friday should be about practicing and finalizing since you should have the whole team together to work.

Advanced Russian

Today in class we reviewed our homework in order to get a better understanding of verbal aspect (Russian II) and of our new pronouns and reflexive language (Russian III). We should continue this work for homework.

Russian II Students - Write five sentences about yourself based on the work we did today. Write in Russian. Be sure that you have a sentence for each of our tenses and aspects - Imperfective Past, Present, and Future as well as Perfective Past and Future.

Russian III Students - Complete your exercises. Translate to the best of your ability. If you don't know, ask in advance.

Additionally we began to outline our research papers. Continue to work on these as we'll be quickly moving through the process of doing this work in Russian. Remember that the final paper is only about three pages, double spaced, so you can't actually write too much. Also remember that you're writing in Russian, so your language is going to be a lot simpler.

Russian I

Today in class we fully reviewed the concept of asking WHOSE and answering IT'S MY/HIS/HER/THEIR/OUR. This was the goal of our speaking and of our exercises number eleven and twelve. For tonight, you have two major tasks to finalize this work.

1. Find ten items in your house and claim ownership of them in Russian. Say who owns it. Use your vocabulary and grammar notes. 
2. Next week you'll have a spelling test on your new vocabulary words from Chapter 1. Be sure that you are studying these words to prepare.

Russian Students - Remember that test corrections are due on Friday so that I can score them this weekend.

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Homework for A-Day Classes: 23 October 2018

AP English III

I'm going to go over your tasks for next class and the week ahead in order of priority. Be sure to complete all of these tasks as we prepare for the end of the quarter.

1. Resubmit your essay if you need to. All that I need is the new draft and the old draft. I'll rescore and change your scores in PowerSchool this weekend.
2. Read and annotate Act IV of The Crucible as you finish reading, consider what Miller's overall themes and arguments are. Look back over your topics and motifs and consider how some of these ideas interact with each other in order to create meaning.
3. Are you seeing any parallels to Skeleton Crew? I think it's important to draw connections here as we move forward in to our later texts and unit.
4. Have you done your close reading of your selected text and seen the social commentary? Be sure that you have uploaded your annotations and analysis to your websites. If you're having issues with uploading content, I'll be able to help you on Thursday during our workshop.

Be aware that the website projects will be presented on or around November 8th. It's important that you begin to finish your work here so that you can edit and perfect your final product.

English IV

We'll be finishing up with Act I of A Doll's House very soon. Likely next class. I'm very proud of the work that all of you did today with your essays. I'll have them scored over the weekend for you all. Tonight, you should begin to work on your study guide for Act I. Can you answer these questions? Try to answer all that you can based on what we've seen and read so far. This is a good look at the type of questions that I will have you answer on your Act I quiz.

Homework for B-Day Classes: 22 October 2018

AP Seminar

This week we will be moving toward our TMPOD, so all work outside of class should be devoted toward that goal. Hopefully by this point your group knows your question or problem and the answer or solution that you are trying to sell. Now it's time to sell it.

Be sure that you are relating back to the research that you have already done. As I said today in class, many of you have looked at what's been done already - perhaps the best way to move forward is to discuss that as you begin to propose your own idea.

Next class and Friday we'll be working on these through class. Be sure that you've shared your Annotated Bibliography and highlighted where your teammates should focus on Wednesday and Friday. Also remember that you have all of your Oral Defense questions - it would be a good idea to begin to prepare those now.

Presentations will be done and scored on Tuesday. Then, Tuesday afternoon, I'll submit your final grades for this process. Remember that the TMPOD is the other half of the grade with the AB.

Advanced Russian

Today's class was a good one, though some of you should invest in more sleep or more coffee (or both) before coming to class. We are now working on a split unit - Russian II is focused on Unit 5 and Russian III is focused on Unit 8. Be aware of this as we move on.

Tonight, Russian II's are focused on showing they know the difference between perfective and imperfective aspect. Write about your day in English - use about 10 sentences. Then, go through and identify the verbs. Would the verb be done in perfective or imperfective if translating to Russian? Why? Consider the discussion today and the notes we took.

Russian III students are focused on learning declensions for new vocabulary. Your exercises are 8.6 and 8.19. Be sure to fill in the blank, check for agreement, and to translate what you have.

As well, you should all be developing your team outline - IN ENGLISH. We'll hopefully have some time devoted to this later in the week.

Russian I

Today in class we went full force into Unit 1 by learning the different words to talk about ownership. There are two ways that we can do this in Russian that you know right now. One is through the preposition У and the other is by using a possessive pronoun. Remember that the possessive pronoun agrees with the item owned, and not the owner.

Use the slides in Google Classroom if your notes are lacking. Remember that you also have all week to resubmit your alphabet examination if you need to. Tonight, there are a few things for you to do. First, keep studying your vocabulary words for Unit 1 in advance of our spelling quiz next week. Second, complete the exercises on page 56 - number 11 and 12. Read the sentence and fill in the blank using the words that we have learned today.

Homework for the Weekend - 19 October 2018

English IV

Be sure that over the weekend you take a look at your scores on PowerSchool on the most recent assignment - if you have an A on the assignment then you are ready to move on to your final drafts. If you have anything less, then you are missing big pieces of your "This I Believe" Paper and need to finish those ideas.

We'll try to finalize these papers next week so that we have our big final grades in before the end of the quarter.

AP English III

Today was a crazy day since we didn't have a lot of time. Hopefully the slides on Google Classroom will help make sense of what we've done. Here are your reminders about what to consider over the weekend:

1. Act III will be discussed on Tuesday. Remember that this is a great section for you to consider around social commentary - look at power and the justice system in Act III. There's a lot of commentary to consider.
2. Essay revisions are important! A lot of you made a lot of great strides today and I think that you understand what you have to do a lot better now than you did before. Keep pushing, keep collaborating, and keep asking for feedback. Remember that final revisions are due on Thursday. You must turn in your first essay with your new one.
3. You should also be working on a draft of your rhetorical analysis for your projects. With the work we did last class you know how to organize and set up your approach to the essay. Look over your text and focus on how the author is making the point to you. Explain that as you explain elements of the text.

Homework for B-Day Students - Substitute Day - 18 October

Hey Everyone! No negative reports from the substitute today and the room was left in pretty good shape. Thanks for that. Here are your reminders going into the weekend.

AP Seminar

Monday and Wednesday are going to be focused around preparation for the TMPOD. Moving from your individual research and collaborating in order to develop and present your solution and explanation of that solution. These presentations will be on Friday.

If you did not submit your AB today in class, then please be sure to do that tonight. I extended the deadline to 11:59 PM tonight. I want to review these over the weekend, so it's very important that it is submitted ASAP. Remember that this is half of your final assessment score - the other half is the TMPOD.

Advanced Russian

We are beginning new units and continuing to focus on our skills related to research. Over the weekend you should stay focused on the new vocabulary in your chapters. Chapter 5 will focus more on verbs, you may find it helpful and useful to stay focused on the verbs and look at how they are paired together. Notice the use of prefixes to put the pair together. You should also share your outline with me via Google Drive. We'll keep working on these through the next few weeks.

Russian I

Today we focused on vocabulary and a film focused on modern Russia - geography and culture. We'll continue this film next class. For the weekend, focus on your new vocabulary in Chapter One and keep learning your words! Remember that next week we'll have retakes of the alphabet exam.

Homework for A-Day Students: 17 October

Remember tomorrow is our field trip day to UNC Chapel Hill to see Skeleton Crew. Be sure that you are behind the school no later than 9:15 to board the buses that will take us over to UNC. All that you will need is yourself and some money for lunch while we are on the trip. You'll be back at school for the last part of fourth period.

AP English III

We all received our essays today as well as feedback on how to improve them as we begin the writing process. I think that the main takeaway from today's lesson is that this is a different type of English class than what you've had before, so it's important that you work differently for this class. Please be sure that you are using me, Ms. Coco, and your peers as resources as you are revising your essays. Final revisions will need to be submitted no later than October 25th in order to be graded.

Additionally, we have our first Denisovich day on Friday. Be sure that you've read to the work site. The guys have had lunch and they're working out in the cold. We're going to focus on the characters, the plot, and the elements of social commentary running through the text - I think that this will be very helpful as we approach our projects. I expect that you all have a lot of questions about Russia and what you're seeing in the text, so generate those for me.

We also have Zinn for Friday. Be sure that you've read and annotated that excerpt - pay attention to the appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos in the text.

English IV

Today we started to delve deeper into the complications of the Helmer family, and we met Mrs. Linde - Nora's friend. Next class we'll get to the film version of A Doll's House and probably spend more time looking at some vocabulary as well. Be ready for tomorrow and for the end of the week!

Homework for B-Day Students: 16 October

Remember everyone that I will not be with you on Thursday since I am taking my A-Day classes to UNC Chapel Hill to see a play. Follow the instructions of the substitute and have a productive day.

AP Seminar

Today I think that all of the groups had a great breakthrough because you all started to formalize your question. This is going to be super important moving forward as it's going to help you to ground your work for your TMPOD. Tonight, continue developing your Annotated Bibliography. These are due to Google Classroom by the end of class on Thursday.

You've got the full class period on Thursday in the media center - be productive!

Advanced Russian

Tonight for homework you should do your Chapter Preview for Chapter 5 (Russian II) or Chapter 8 (Russian III). I found more textbooks with Chapter Eight in it, but there is also the scan of Chapter 8 which is uploaded to our Google Classroom page. I've also got a link to that information here. You'll have to tweak the settings since it copied upside down.

Russian I

You all will continue to work with Chapter 1 next class as you review your vocabulary and the content in the chapter more thoroughly. If you didn't feel prepared for the alphabet exam, spend your time studying over the weekend so that we are able to reassess before the end of the quarter.

Homework for A-Day Classes

Phew - It sure is good to be getting back to normal. Here are the announcements for today. Be aware of what's going on and prepare for what we have ahead!

AP English III

Ms. Coco and I ended up changing the homework ever so slightly for you since it makes more sense for us to change things. The reading of Oluadah Equiano's "Narrative" will not be done until later in this unit, we'll be using it more as a bridge piece to Beloved instead.

For Wednesday, prepare for your quiz on Acts I and II of The Crucible. Remember that the multiple choice section will be open book, but the quotation identifications and the short answer will be closed book. You'll also be getting back your essays and timed writings on Wednesday as we discuss revisions and the process moving forward.

Thursday is our field trip - dress for the theatre. No athletic attire will be accepted as attire appropriate for the theatre. Jeans are acceptable. Shorts are acceptable. But please, no athletic shorts.

Friday we'll be discussing the first half of Denisovich. Focus on your characters and the front cover annotations. Remember that these characters are not actual people but more the amalgamation of many people that Solzhenitsyn was in a prison camp for many years and that these people are based on whom he met while he was there. We'll also be discussing Zinn on Friday.

Lastly, keep working on your group project. By the end of this week you should have thoroughly analyzed your chosen text for its social commentary and the way that it makes that commentary clear to you.

English IV

Over the long weekend I had a chance to look at your rough drafts online. Some of you have really complete drafts and you've settled up your "This I Believe" essay. In this case you received either twenty or nineteen points. Others of you need to keep writing, probably because you weren't here for all of the days at the beginning of the unit. If this is the case then you have fifteen or sixteen points.

If you need to spend time revising or finishing, please do so. We'll be submitting final drafts soon to finish Quarter 1 - be aware of this deadline!

Homework for the Weekend - B Day - 10 October

DPS will be closed tomorrow - Thursday - for staff and students with the approach of the hurricane from the south. This means that our next B day will be on Monday.

Russian I

You all now have an extra few days to study for your alphabet examination. As a review of your study guide, be sure that you can:

• pair letters with their sounds in Russian
• recognize printed and handwritten letters
• understand basic rules for formality in greetings, farewells, and names
• put a Russian name in the proper order (first, middle, last)
• identify key elements of Russian geography

This is a unit examination, so everything that we have done all quarter could be on this test. Study and prepare yourselves. Remember that all of our important slides and handouts are located in Google Classroom.

Advanced Russian

The storm coming in also is a bit of a relief for some of you as it gives you extra time to complete any of your reassessments or redos of old work. For the test on Monday you'll be asked to show that you can conjugate a variety of verbs in both past and non-past. You'll be asked to identify stems and show an understanding of what these stems do to verbs.

There will also be information related to prepositional, accusative, and nominative case on this exam since these are the cases that we have been using the most often so far.

Remember that you have your replacement assignment for Quiz 1 and you can redo Quiz 2 and earn back partial credit. Please be sure to reach out if you need additional help as you are preparing for your exam on Unit 4.

AP Seminar

I would direct all of you to the slides and to your TMPOD groups if you were not in class today. We spent the majority of our time working on our Annotated Bibliographies and consulting in teams about how the IRR work is helping us to better clarify and define our topics. With us not having school tomorrow we will see each other again on Monday. Be sure that you watch the high level TMPOD (video in Google Classroom) and that you have worked through approximately SIX sources for your annotated bibliography.

Homework for A Day Students - 9 October 2018

English IV

Today we all submitted rough drafts of our "This I Believe" Essays. Some of you were even able to work together in some small groups to edit and receive feedback on your essays before I collected them. Next week you'll get your drafts back and we'll move forward to presenting our essays and getting our final drafts together.

In the second part of class we began reading A Doll's House to connect to our research from last class and to kick off our new unit. As we are reading the play, make connections to the world around us and to your own lives - Do you think that things are fair between women and men? Why or why not?

For tonight's homework, engage in some interviewing. Talk to at least three different people and ask them what they think are the rules for men or women in relationships. Record their ideas. Next class we'll have a bit of a debate around these ideas before reading more of the play.

AP English III

Today you all did your first timed writing! Hooray! You'll get these back on Monday next week with your essays so that we can compare and contrast skills between the full length process essay and the quicker timed writing argument. Looking at both gives us a good idea of where our writing skills are.

Tonight you should put in some time moving forward on your work for The Crucible, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and your group projects.

• Be sure that you've thoroughly read and annotated Act II. We'll be discussing it on Thursday. We've looked at a lot of texts related to women and their roles in Puritan society. You will find it helpful to consider these texts as you look at Elizabeth Proctor.
• You should have determined your personal focus text for your group project by now. You should be annotating and analyzing with an eye toward social commentary. What is the comment that text is making about society? Which part of society? How is the commentary communicated?
• In terms of One Day, you should be at the worksite. We'll be discussing up to page 49/50 in the purple books on Wednesday's class next week. Again, keep an eye toward social commentary and don't forget all the work we did last week with Soviet Society.

The last day to turn in permission slips is Thursday. I must turn them in for audit, so Thursday really is the last day!

Homework for Wednesday - 8 October - B Day

AP Seminar

Hopefully after today's conversation related to dinner parties, similarities and differences, and points of view or perspectives, you have a bit more of an idea of what to do. Be sure to check the slides in Google Classroom if you need to.

As we move through the week, your task is to construct your annotated bibliography for your IRR. Remember to use the planning document and arrange your work around the rows of the rubric for the IRR. Your draft of the AB is due to me at the end of class on Friday. I'll go over the rubric with you on Wednesday for this.

Advanced Russian

Given what I am seeing from some of these quizzes it looks like many of you have a better idea of what you are doing and some of you still are struggling. Again, this is the last week to reach out for help and to make real improvements in what you are doing and in what you are able to do. Be sure that you are ready for the examination on Friday.

As you prepare be sure that you have settled any missing assignments or assignments with low grades. Be sure that you have learned your stems, your conjugation rules, and your cases that we have focused on in this unit. If you are still having problems, you know where I am.

Russian I

Today's class really was our final day of new information related to the unit examination. On Friday you'll have an exam that will cover the alphabet, sounds of the Russian language, greetings/introductions/farewells, information related to gender, and vocabulary. There may also be some questions related to our Russian city presentations as well as the cultural knowledge related to names and formality. We've gone over everything - be sure that you are ready.

If you need to, check out Google Classroom and Duolingo as a way to study and prepare.

Homework for the Weekend - A Day - 5 October 2018

AP English III

Due to the fact that so many in 1A had to go to do PSAT pre-registration and coding it is very important that you all access our Google Classroom slides to see what was covered in your absence. You'll also want to go to see that your group website has been created and shared. Knowing that, the homework will begin to make sense. This weekend, make sure that you have:

1. Navigate to the team website in order to access your page. You'll also want to take a look at the instructions page and rubric (via Google Classroom). Now that we have discussed rhetorical analysis you have an idea of what you need to do. The individual aspect of the project should be done first - it contributes to the group task.
2. Select your text for the project - remember that you can pick an excerpt from our main unit texts, an image, another text, or a video. Begin the process of analysis and annotation.
3. Continue reading. We'll be discussing Act II on Thursday. Our first day to discuss Denisovich is Wednesday the 17th. You should have the first half read by then.
4. Prepare for your first timed writing! It'll be on Tuesday, and it'll be an argumentative prompt. Review your notes and skills around argumentative writing in order to prepare!

English IV

We'll be returning to the computer lab on Tuesday to finish and print our rough drafts. Some of you returned today after an extended absence - it's great to have you back. Be sure that you are trying hard to get caught up for lost time. It would be a good idea to make sure that your written rough draft is finished over the weekend so that you can type on Tuesday.

Homework for the Weekend - 4 October - B Day

AP Seminar

So, we're starting on the major task, huh. I'll have your template for your IRR outline posted in Google Classroom. Be sure to take a look at that. For the weekend, it's time to devote ourselves to our task. Remember a few very important things:

• as you work on your IRR you are also working on your TMPOD - these processes are related to each other
• work with each other and collaborate
• keep finding sources
• you may continue to revise your TMPOD as well

Begin to work in your lens and perspective to your group's issue/problem in education. What solutions are out there? What information exists? What are your thoughts?

Russian II/III

Next Friday is our unit examination, and that means that everything needs to be in by Friday to be scored. Today we worked through finding verbs in Bunin's story "Dark Avenues" - remember that if you are doing the replacement assignment for the quiz, you'll want to do what we did today in class.

I was very happy to see how well you found verbs and were able to work with them. This is a key skill, keep improving. Working with this skill will help prepare you for the miniquiz on Monday on verbs and conjugation.

Additionally you have your research to continue with. Now we know how to navigate databases and how to find Russian sources. Get information together - we'll start planning responses next week!

Lastly, there's some practice for cases - accusative and prepositional - work through the exercises at your leisure for practice. Submitting these is a great way to earn some extra points on your TPRS scores.

Russian I

We've also got a big exam coming next week on the alphabet, formality, and Russian geography. You'll need to know your vocabulary (greetings/introductions/farewells and cognates) as well as your alphabet sounds, and your rules around speaking formally in Russian.

You should make sure that any missing work is turned in by Friday. You should also be practicing and reviewing the work that I've returned to you so that you can increase your scores by reassessing or by submitting rubles for extra credit!

Homework for A-Day - 3 October 2018

AP English III

Today we did a lot! We got through Act I of The Crucible, we set up our annotations for the text on our covers, and we started to work through the final project in this unit. I've put the contract, link to the instructions, and the slides from today's class in the Google Classroom page. Take a look.

For tonight, you need to focus on your vocabulary and your reading. First, vocabulary. Complete your next set of FIVE vocabulary cards and turn them in! Be sure that you apply your feedback from the last round to these. Your words should come from Miller, Edwards, Solzhenitsyn, or any other documents we have given you.

Next, reading. We'll be looking at Act II on Thursday the 11th. And you should be at the point in Denisovich where he is going out to work from the camp.

The main reading for next class is Mary Rowlandson's "Narrative of the Captivity". As you read, remember that you are looking at a primary source. Consider how Rowlandson views herself as a woman, her views of the Native Americans she is with, and how this text reinforces what we already know about Puritan society. Always remember the RHETORICAL TRIANGLE as you read - she has a very specific audience in mind.

English IV

We are really working intensely on our "This I Believe" essays and you're getting consistent feedback. Be sure that you are reflecting on your feedback and applying our lessons in grammar and writing in order to make your draft stronger. By the end of next class, most everyone should have a complete draft!

DON'T FORGET YOUR PERMISSION SLIPS!

Homework for B-Day - 2 October 2018

Russian I

Today we had some time to play with our new vocabulary and to review some of our basics around reading and writing. All of this is getting us ready for what is to come. Next week on Friday you'll have your overall alphabet examination. It's important to start preparing now. Focus on learning all of your vocabulary. Today in class we made flash cards, if that works for you, then make cards for your other words too.

I've also given you your progress reports and your graded work. You can either redo work in order to correct your points, or you can use rubles to improve your scores. Whatever you do, be sure that your score is reflective of your abilities in Russian.

If you need any additional help, please seek it out. Be sure to check Google Classroom for assignments you may have missed. Next class we'll have more presentations, be ready if you didn't go today!

Advanced Russian

Thanks for being with me for that surprise today! We have been spending a lot of time in class going over our tenses in Russian as well as the use of nominative, accusative, and prepositional case. For tonight, you should focus on finishing your reassessment. Remember that you can either make corrections to your quiz, or you can complete the replacement activity.

For the replacement activity you need to find a text (poem, song, article) in Russian and then do an analysis of that text. Find all of the verbs (at least fifteen) and determine the stem, tense, and infinitive of that verb. Turn in your analysis and your original text.

Lastly, you have determined your research topics as a team now. It's time to start the research. Take a look at what you've created, and start to consolidate your source material. I would suggest sharing a Google Doc amongst your team and dumping helpful articles.

AP Seminar

You all have a lot of videos to watch. As you watch, you may want to consider the idea of a powerful presentation as we are really focused on presentation skills in this part of the unit. Start off by watching the required video and write a brief reflection on the ideas he presents. You can choose to agree or disagree, or you can perhaps further clarify what he means with further information.

Then, move on to the choice videos. You have Option 1, Option 2, and Option 3. As you are viewing this text, perform a RAVEN analysis of the text and determine its credibility. Next class we'll really be delving deep into the TMPOD, so a lot of thinking about presenting is key.

Homework for Monday - 1 October

We're on to October which means that the quarter will end at the end of the month! Keep staying focused and prepared as we move forward!

AP English III

Thank you to those of you who submitted your papers today on time. If you are submitting it late, please have it in to us ASAP as we should have them back to you all next week. You also received progress reports today. If you would like to use your rubles for extra credit, please do so. Come outside of class (A lunch, before or after school) with your rubles and progress report.

Extra point on classwork will cost 25 rubles. Extra point on major work will cost 50 rubles. There is a maximum of five points that you can put on any one assignment.

For tonight, you have a few things to settle -

1. Be sure that you have read and annotated Act I of The Crucible for next class. As you are reading, add to your cover annotations. Be sure that you are connecting the text to the larger background and context that we have been discussing in class.
2. Your next set of vocabulary cards will be due on Friday. This will be cards 6-10.
3. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich you should have read the scene at breakfast and in the infirmary.
4. We'll be starting a group project soon around social commentary - consider what you think are some appropriate ways of commenting on society's flaws.

Be ready with your reading everyone! You never know when the coin toss won't be in your favor!

English IV

Today we began class by looking at gender roles and gender expectations from an excerpt of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The next unit is focused on gender roles and expectations, so it's a bit of a jumping off point for us. Then we went to the lab to begin typing our rough drafts of our "This I Believe" Essays. We will continue to work on these through the week. Be sure that you are keeping your belief at the core of the essay. How did you learn this? Why is it important? Where and when did you learn it?

Remember that with personal writing you really want to tell a story - so tell us a story, and describe it all!