Homework for A Day Classes - 9 January

AP English III

Good work today getting through Chapter 18 with me. I hope that the guided read aloud helped you in understanding the various ways that Morrison is building meaning in her text. As always, be sure that you're going back and reflecting on previous moments to see if you have missed some of these important bits from before.

For tonight, make sure that you're preparing for your assessment. You'll have an argumentative timed writing on the idea of freedom - remember that you'll be using Beloved as your primary evidence, but you can use other sources too. After the timed writing, you'll have thirty identifications which center on characters - be sure to know them very well!

Your outlines will be reviewed on Tuesday by your peers. Be sure that you have really considered your project medium (podcast, video, interviews, art, photographs, collage) and how you'll be communicating your argument through your chosen format. This is where you want to think about how you'll be organizing the pieces of evidence and how you'll comment on these pieces of evidence.

Lastly, remember that you have vocabulary cards due next class - words 25-30. If you would like to submit your cards via Google Drive, that's fine. Be sure that you have all of the required parts.

English IV

Today we finished our reading and discussion of Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks" and worked through understanding how the theme of the poem is created and supported. This is a really important skill, because it's what I'll be asking you to do as you study your poems in depth. After that, we moved on to vocabulary work and project work.

For tonight, you should all be focused on reading your poems closely. Try to determine the theme of the poem. What are the parts of the poem that really support and develop the theme? Is there imagery? Powerful words? This will be the goal of our second project, so it's a good idea to start with that now.