Homework for A-Day Students: 27 February

AP English III

Today was our final day to look at a new text as part of our unit on Transcendentalism. I hope that you enjoyed reading Hurston. I only wish that we had more time to complete our Socratic Seminar since I think that it gives everyone a greater chance to participate in class and share observations.

Tonight, you should be focused on your research work as well as pulling together ideas and texts to prepare for our unit assessment next week. Next week you'll have a timed writing (synthesis) paired with short answer questions on the various texts that we have read. Be ready! Study and review your annotations. In class on Friday, we'll take a look at some sample synthesis responses before you have time to complete your sourcepack work.

The next phase of your research paper is to formalize your argument (DADS) and to complete your outline for the paper. We'll discuss this next week in terms of what my expectations are; however, you should be attempting to synthesize various bits of information to support your own argument. Don't approach your outline by working through just one source in one paragraph.

If you have any issues with your progress report, missing assignments, or would like to exchange rubles for extra credit, be sure to see me about that this week.

English IV

Today in class we really changed things around since we're now working on studying novels on our own and with smaller groups of our peers. Remember that you can change your book one time if you don't like it. I would suggest that you stay with the same book the whole time - they're all pretty great stories.

If you are interested in earning extra credit this quarter, you have the chance to read a second book on your own. You can take a look at any of the other books that are in this unit. There will be an extra credit assignment given toward the end of the third quarter.

Next class we'll continue to read our books in class, and you'll have your first group meeting. Think about the different roles that we have in class and consider which one you would like to do for the first group meeting time.