Homework for the Longest Weekend - End of Quarter 2 and Semester 1

AP Research

Solid workshop today everyone. It was a day to work through our edits, apply what we've done, and make sure that our PREP folders are in a good place as I look at them this weekend.

The main focus right now is the collection of data to answer your questions. If you have been finding barriers to collection, then what can you do to solve them? Do you have the tools that you need to organize the data for answering your question? How can you work with your classmates or others in the community to accomplish the work?

Now that you've created content (your introduction) it's a good chance to remind yourself of the tools on DigitalPortfolio. TurnItIn Originality Reports can help you to find possible plagiarism in your papers. Make sure that things are cited. Use your access to the PurdueOWL if you need it. There's also an infographic posted on plagiarism and the various types.


Over the weekend (it's really long) keep working. Keep writing. Keep collecting. We'll be doing a second round of elevator pitches on January 28 with slides. Be ready for this - it's a good jumpstart on your POD. The instructions for Elevator Pitch 2.0 are on the final slide posted.

Russian I

Today in class we took a quiz on all six cases. Part of today's quiz was also a reassessment for your first case quiz; hopefully, you felt better prepared for your case identification today and more comfortable with the task. From there - we moved to a project workshop. The goal of today's class was to finish as many of our About Myself sentences as possible, have them uploaded, and have them checked for accuracy. Hopefully working with your partner and with me helped you to do this.

We finished class reviewing the new culture project on Russian poets - remember that if you are planning to participate in the Olympiada you MUST do one of the poets listed and one of the poems in Google Classroom. If you're not planning to participate, then you can choose whom you like.

Over the long weekend you should complete the translation exercise at the end of Chapter 1. Use your vocabulary and your skills with grammar to do this. Don't use an online translator. Try to first find the words you need, put them in order, and then make the changes to the words that are needed to form the sentence (conjugate verbs, put nouns in cases). We'll review this work on Friday so that we are ready for the Unit Exam. That will happen on January 30.

Advanced Russian

Today we took a second attempt at our Unit Examinations. I hope that you were able to feel more confident in the sections that you reassessed today. From there, we went back to the mines to learn another verb of motion - to go by vehicle/transit. There's an irregular verb here - but it's really not so bad. I hope that our writing today in class (Vladimir Putin's errands around Moscow) was helpful for you to understand how the verbs work and the way that the choice of verb really does depend on the point of view of the speaker above anything else. Remember that language is a living thing; people can use it how they want. The exercises this weekend are helpful with this. Choose the correct verb for the situation and then conjugate for the needed form. You may need to translate in order to do this work.

Also be aware of how often verbs of motion are used in everyday sayings. They're are so productive in Russian!

We also have our poetry project in this class, the poet choices and poems are more weighty than those for Russian 1. Remember that you should choose a poet and poem from the Olympiada materials even if you're not planning to participate.