Homework for A-Day Students: 24 January

Today is the final A-Day of Quarter 2 and Semester 1. Be sure that you have finalized your grade and done what you need to do in order to put your best face forward at the end. No grade changes will be done past Friday.

AP English III

Today in class we completed our mid-term examination. This will be put in the gradebook as a combined score. Next week, on Monday, we'll review the multiple choice and some of the commonly missed answers as well as some other approaches to rhetorical analysis.

Over the weekend, your main work should be your Beloved final project. As I stated today in class, all final products will be submitted electronically. This can be via a photograph, a series of photographs (especially if there is detail involved), a video or audio recording, or a shared document. Remember that no hard copies of your work will be accepted with the exception of a Works Cited page.

The rubric for the presentation and the project has been posted in Google Classroom. Remember that presentations will run on Monday and Wednesday. Everyone should be prepared on Monday to present their work.

Outside of that, remember that we will be finishing our work on Beloved. You have the next chapter of reading due on Wednesday. We will finish the book together in class for the final two chapters.

English IV

Today we spent time working on our ability to interpret poetry and answer questions on a multiple choice test. These questions and this assessment are very similar to the types of questions you will see on your NCFE. For this reason, this is a great practice for us.

After our quiz, we had guests from Student Services come and discuss planning for after high school graduation. As we go into the second semester, we will continue to do more of this work as your graduation is quickly approaching.

Over the weekend, consider where you will focus on making clear improvements as we go forward in the year. We'll be working through the rest of our poetry unit before returning to a longer type of text which will challenge us in some new ways.