14 December - Lookout for Snow and Ice!

AP Language

Great work focused on Act III. This is the turning point of The Crucible - we're baked in and the conclusion is coming. Notice how ideas come to conclusions and arguments are finalized at the end of this play. The ideas we saw around John Proctor and his connection to another person whose name starts with J is important. We also started to note the idea of tragedy. Consider why this society is tragic and why Proctor is a hero who fails.

For tonight, submit any tasks for Unit 3 and be sure to finish the play. Act IV reads quickly. Focus on who wins, who loses, and how ideas come to a conclusion. I'm excited to finish this and take us into the break.

AP Research

Easy working day in AP Research today. We're writing, we're planning, we're creating! It's important to use this time now before you're inundated with data and responses and the analysis. Remember that if you need anything, please ask. I'll do my best to get you what you need or want. Next class is our holiday celebration. Feel free to bring snacks for the good of the group. You have an assignment due when we return, but it should be pretty much complete now. Submit as soon as you can.

8 December - End of the Week

AP Language

Excellent day in AP Language today as we understood the rhetorical situation for The Crucible and some of the key motivations pushing Miller in the construction of his allegory. Be on the lookout for vocabulary as we are reading. The articles in this unit can get you all ten of your words. Continue to review previous readings if you need to. I hope that watching the film today brought some new understandings to the play.

For tonight, focus on any assignments you need to submit for Unit 3 including reading reflections and vocabulary. In Current Lessons there's a link to a cartoon. Watch the cartoon as you start reading the article I gave you in class "The Allegory of the Cave". You don't have to finish reading the article on your own, but you can if you want.

AP Research

Great day in AP Research. I love days when we get to talk and conference. The IRB had feedback for you all to push you in a good direction moving forward. Consider the edits and feedback you received today this weekend and into next week. I'll need to see your edits for you to clear the IRB. Remember that if you make changes to your research question, then those changes should be seen in other areas, like your survey questions.

Over the weekend, complete your newest PREP question. Check your email for your feedback written out. This is also a great time to be writing and pulling ideas together on your paper. I think that we're all going to be in a great place to get started with participants after Winter Break.

As always, I'm here to support you.

6 December

AP Language

Today's class focused on Acts I and II of The Crucible. This is a quick play with a very tight plot and message, so we'll move through it before break. We focused on the main plot, who's involved, and why that matters in terms of establishing conflicts and topics in the play. Remember that as Miller comments on Puritan society, he's also commenting on 1950's society. The work we'll do next class will help you make those connections.

For tonight, read Miller's article called "Why I Wrote The Crucible" - Understand his exigence, context, and the message he's trying to convey. We'll look at the article in more detail next class. Annotate to mark your thinking. Also, start collecting vocabulary now.

If you have tasks to complete to end Unit 3, turn in your work ASAP. I would like to have your scores finalized before Winter Break begins. As always, come to Lion Time or after-school if you need anything.

AP Research

Easy day today in AP Research as we await the feedback from the IRB. I'm looking forward to presenting your work and helping you gain approval. We'll conference next class to review your feedback and guide any revisions.

What can you be doing right now? Writing your paper. Designing your slides. Preparing for your final assessments. It's important to always use the time that you have to move forward. This is a great time to build your paper in process, save the time you'll need in January and February when you'll be chasing down data.

2 December 2022 - Friday

AP Language

It was a feedback day today in AP Language as we reviewed our most recent demonstration of writing skills. The feedback really revolved around two themes - being explicit and supporting all your claims. We looked at the rubric, the high scoring samples, and prepared to write again after Winter Break. That's when our next timed writing will fall.

From there we spent the rest of class working through our summative tasks for Unit 3. Next week I'll be scoring your vocabulary cards and your visuals/reflections on color in The Great Gatsby. Everything should be submitted for me to review ASAP. Reading is Acts I and II of The Crucible. We'll have a Weekly Exigence recording for you to help you out, but focus on characters, conflicts and irony. Who knows what? Who doesn't? Why does this matter? Make connections to the world of the 1950's, and let's be active in our reading and thinking!

Enjoy the weekend and the reading. It's fantastic!

AP Research

It's the final day for IRB! Submissions are due! We're conferencing, we're writing, we're thinking, and we're doing wonderful things. I'm looking forward to supporting you next week as I present your work to the FHS IRB. 

Next week we'll review feedback and edits and take a look at another POD presentation. We'll also take a bit of a detour to writing the papers and outlining too. Remember that we want to have a good chunk of our paper done by the time we get going on break.

30 November - End of the Month

AP Language

Full day in AP Language today as we discussed our choice articles for the end of Unit 3 and began our discussion and work on The Crucible. The notes at the end of the recording on allegory and The Crucible are important to review as you get started with reading. By the time I see you on Tuesday, you'll want to read and annotate Acts I and II. Pay attention to characters and symbolism. Consider the connections to the world of the 1950's in America we were discussing today.

Next class is our end of unit working day for The Great Gatsby. You'll have vocabulary due, your reflections and any other tasks for Unit 3. We'll also be reviewing the most recent timed writing, so you won't have a complete class period to work.

Enjoy the reading. The Crucible is an absolutely fantastic book!

AP Research

We're on our final days to prepare for the IRB which meets on Tuesday the 6th. You'll need to have your proposal folder complete with your: AP Research Proposal Form, any survey/interview questions, any consent forms, and other tools as needed. Be sure that you are checking yourself for alignment and for final touches. It's natural to make changes, be able to explain why you are making the changes you are making. 

Next class is the final working day. We'll conference as well. Be ready! Be justified! Be aligned!

Welcome Back! 28 November

AP Language

Today was a workshop day to construct our visuals displaying color at work in The Great Gatsby. The goal in this summative assessment is to display your skill as a reader and understand the way that Fitzgerald uses a specific color to create a meaning in his novel. The organization and construction of the meaning in this novel is painstakingly built by Fitzgerald, this is a means to display your understanding of that.

Be sure that you have submitted your reflection questions which display your thinking in words. Sometimes art can be difficult to understand, so the reflection questions will help you display your skill. If necessary, your motif tracker MAY be assessed if skill demonstration is lacking in the other areas. 

Next class will be our end of the unit seminar related to non-fiction connections to The Great Gatsby. Select one of the posted articles and read/annotate. Consider connections to the unit and novel. Be thoughtful and critical. We'll be starting our next unit on The Crucible this week as well. Be aware of your due dates for vocabulary to round out Unit 3.

AP Research

Today was a day for our first POD viewing. We watched, we analyzed, and we discovered the route to a high scoring presentation. The rest of this week is devoted to completing your proposal form and any supporting documentation for that proposal (consent forms, surveys, etc.). The IRB is going to meet next week, so everything needs to be completed this week/weekend. 

The next two classes this week are going to be workshop days. We will meet together to discuss your work to this point as a graded conference. I'll see half of you on Wednesday and half on Friday for conversations. Be ready to show me your IRB/Proposal at this point. 

Off to Thanksgiving Break - Blue Day

AP Language

Today was our day to finish our work and conversation on The Great Gatsby. We focused on conclusions and arguments - it's important to notice how Fitzgerald is completing the novel by making his various points clear to us as an audience. There are so many messages in this novel - consider the ones that you understand the most thoroughly. You don't have to understand everything, but you need to understand something and thoroughly.

We finished class by focusing on our motif trackers. These should be mostly complete when we return to school so that you can complete your visual and the questions at the back of the tracker. We also have vocabulary due the week that we return. The week we return is for summatives and wrapping up the unit. We'll soon move on to Unit 4 and The Crucible.

Note that if you were not in class for the writing day, then you'll need to come on 11/30 to complete your double timed write. If you are not satisfied with your writing scores there will be a reassessment option. Enjoy Thanksgiving. There's no work assigned, but if you are behind then you should get caught up.

AP Research

Easy day today in AP Research land. We took a quick assessment to check our ethical practices and alignment to our guiding principals of beneficence and non-maleficence. The rest of our class time was given over to preparing for our IRB meetings.

Remember that all of your documents to support your research proposal should be completed by the week of December 5th. The IRB will meet, review proposals, and then give approvals and/or edits. Remember the principal of alignment between the steps of your proposal. Check your surveys for bias and leading questions. Working with your peers is great during this time as they will often see your blindspots.

Enjoy Thanksgiving! I hope that it's a restful and relaxing time! Eat lots of pie!!

17 November

AP Language

Today was our assessment day - double timed writing - Question 2 and Question 3. I am very much looking forward to scoring these essays and getting you feedback to push you further into your development as readers, writers, thinkers, and communicators. I hope that you found that the prompts approachable and that you see improvements in some of your writing skills. 

Over the weekend, spend your time with Gatsby. We're finishing the novel before Thanksgiving Break so that we can focus on our summative assessments upon our return. Read and annotate Chapters 8 and 9. They run together to complete the conclusion of the novel. Think about who wins and who loses and how this helps Fitzgerald to communicate an argument about an idea. Your vocabulary can be submitted. Don't submit the motif tracker, but keep developing it. Be ready for assessments when we return from Thanksgiving. We'll complete most of the work in class. 

Our next unit will be on The Crucible by Arthur Miller. If you'd like your own copy of this play, now's a good time to order one.

AP Research

Today's class was very similar to our last class - it was our IRB Working Week this week. The work that we are doing now is some of the most important work that we have to do. I appreciate seeing your effort and the support that you are giving to each other. I'm also glad that so many of you are finding a new purpose for the work that we have done earlier in the course like our Annotated Bibliography and our Research Posters.

Next class we'll be having our Ethical Practices Check. This is for a grade. I've opened up your newest PREP Reflection question as well for the weekend. Continue to work, plan, and create. The goal is the pass IRB with as few revisions as possible in order to begin your work with your data.

Have a great weekend!

15 and 16 November - Blue and Grey Updates

Happy Tuesday/Wednesday Everyone - I'm going ahead and posting this today for everyone since I'll be out tomorrow doing some follow-up from last week's appointments.

AP Language

Class is focused on Chapter 7. Everything comes to a head in Chapter 7 and we have several turning points in the text. Remember that we're reading this novel not just as a story about these characters, but also as an argument about ideas related to America. The thinking and questioning of the text in today's slides should help you to see how these ideas are moving to resolution and to see the statements that Fitzgerald is forming. Considering who "wins" and "loses" in this text and why is a great way to formalize arguments. 

Next class is your double timed writing. There are tips in the Weekly Exigence for how to prepare. The best thing to do is review your feedback from your most recent writing assessment and the feedback to the class. Focus on a few points (remember you can't fix everything at once) and consider how you'll do that differently on Thursday/Friday when you write. Bring a charged laptop - you'll be typing since the exam has gone digital. 

Outside of class, focus on finishing The Great Gatsby. Before Thanksgiving Break we'll work through Chapters 8 and 9. You should also be wrapping up your motif tracker and vocabulary. You'll have summatives coming due after Thanksgiving Break - so adequate preparation now will lead to great outcomes then. I'll be after school on Thursday if you need anything. As always, feel free to reach out.

AP Research

Today we kicked off our working week focused on our IRB Proposal and the tools related to completing our inquiry project for the year. The deadline for IRB submission is December 6. This is a firm deadline. By this date I need your completed proposal form as well as every tool related to your study including consent forms and surveys. The team will give you feedback to prompt revisions and then you will be free to move forward.

All of the work that we've done up to this point has been designed to create the structures you need to complete this work. Pull together your various threads. Formalize your ideas. Show your process. 

As a secondary task, be sure that you are also writing your introduction and literature review - slay many beasts at once in order to be successful. Next week we'll be taking a few checks to help us keep moving forward.

English 10

Today's class is a day with a substitute since I'm out dealing with some personal medical things. During class you're completing the assignment on Anton Chekhov's "A Problem". Open the assignment and the slides and work through them. The story is posted as a PDF and there's a recording of me reading the story with pause points. Be sure to submit your slides as your grade by the end of class - the work won't be accepted late since today is a substitute day. I hope that you enjoy the story about Sasha and the idea of what it means to be a "criminal".

Once you've finished the story, take time with Membean. Remember that you need to do TWO, fifteen minute sessions each week. Once you've met your goal, you're set. Enjoy the day, and I'll be back with you on Friday!

End of the Week - 8 January

What a week, right? I'm glad that we've made it to the end, and that we've had a successful week of writing, reading, and thinking. Remember that the quarter will be ending soon - there are just a handful of assignments left for us to complete this quarter, so it's a good time to check in on anything missing. Be sure to submit work on Google Classroom - I'll be updating scores and sending progress reports on Monday.

AP Research

Over the weekend be sure to complete your IRB revision and resubmit your documents on Google Classroom. We'll review your work and give any last bits of feedback on Wednesday when we meet as a whole team again. Additionally, I would use time to begin reaching out to potential advisors. Like I said in class, "You never know until you try," so you may want to reach out to some of those professors and researchers. Even if they can't help, they may be able to direct you to someone who can.

We're about to get going into our work to collect and analyze our data - this is when the rubber really meets the road - I'm excited to see what you find! Remember to continue working in your PREP to reflect and document your process.

6 January - Grey Day

Announcements and reminders for English classes are the same as posted below.

AP Research

Today was all about getting organized, checking in, and making sure that we are ready to move forward. Like I said today with the writing and revising guides, today is a good time for us to make sure that we're ready to go forward by ensuring all of our preliminary work is gathered and organized. Be sure to keep working with your PREP as we move forward so that everything you've done and need is readily accessible.

Homework includes finishing Expert Advisor research to prepare for our brief presentations on Friday. Additionally, finish any and all revisions in advance of the IRB's next meeting. There will be a place for you to submit your revised proposal and tools on Friday.

Wednesday - 16 December - Grey Day

AP Language and English 10 - Find your reminders and notes below. Keep in mind that we are currently working towards completing our major projects for this unit. Please reach out in any of the ways that we have in this virtual school world to do so, and I'll do my best to provide help and guidance. As always, use rubrics and exemplars of work to guide your work toward a result. Also, keep in mind that you can always resubmit or reassess in this classroom to show your growth and mastery of skills.

AP Research

Today was a great day! The discussions we had were fruitful and engaging as we reflected collectively, in teams, and with our guest star, the amazing Ms. Anne Nolan! Remember to continue to reach out to her and others (we'll bring up Expert Advisors on Friday, briefly) in ethical and honorable ways. The IRB will meet again in mid-January to review your edits/revisions to your proposals and tools. I would suggest making a copy of everything you have and then applying edits to the copies.

Log your conference today and be sure to do this regularly. I'll share a template for this when we meet quickly on Friday. Then we'll complete our Catch-up Day; I will be available through the entire meeting period on Meet.

We are almost there everyone...we are almost there! Happy first snow!

Closing Week 14 - Friday the 11th

AP Research

Happy Friday! Today we used our return period to complete our quick assessment on ethical practices. Class time today is our final working session before submitting our IRB paperwork. The main task that you have ahead of yourselves at the moment is compiling and gathering your materials to submit for IRB approval.

There is a space on Google Classroom for you to submit your work. Be sure that you submit your proposal and any/all tools that you will use to gather data and complete your method. The team will meet on Monday afternoon, review your work, and give any feedback. We'll go through this on Wednesday as we continue moving forward.

Next week we'll also take a look at some PODs and become more familiar with the POD rubric. I've also posted a new reflection question for you - it relates to the work we're doing now on method development.

AP English and English 10

Keep in mind that we have final projects due next week. My goal in collecting them next week is so that you will have a break that actually is that - a break. Be focused on your tasks, check in on any missing assignments, and submit your work. I'm available on Monday during Office Hours for any support or help you may need.

Wednesday - 9 December - Grey Day

AP Research

We'll meet as a group on Friday for a working day together. This will give me the chance to check-in and conference with each of you so that we can make sure that everything is going in a good direction for submitting proposals and tools. Don't forget that we'll also have a small assessment on Friday related to ethical practices. 

Keep developing your proposal and tools. A quick email or meeting can help save you a lot of time and energy. This is also a good time to check in with your reflection questions and Body of Knowledge - you've got a lot of answers and resources there as well. As always, let me know what you'll need, and I'll do my best to provide it.

AP Language

We got through the activity today! Thank you to the classes yesterday for struggling through it and giving me feedback to make changes for today. Remember that you have a quiz on Friday on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Prepare by reviewing your notes, our slides, and other resources. The quiz will focus on identifications, quotations, and short answer.

Don't lose your project work while this is going on. If you haven't drafted your rhetorical analysis - be sure that you do now. Remember that the goal is to show how the author makes their argument clear to you via the choices they make. Our next step is the group essay, which is very simple. You should be able to complete everything in advance of the due date.

English 10

Good working and thinking today as we began our work in Persepolis, Part 2. We'll keep seeing how Marji responds to her new life in Austria and the new potential she has. We'll finish this part of the book pretty quickly, as you'll see next class.

Looking at the Weekend - Ending Week 13

Good Day Students! Welcome to the end of another wonderful and productive week.

English Students - This weekend is made for you to get mileage out of your projects. In AP Language a clear goal is to construct your analysis. I'm available all next week, and especially on Monday, to help you with this work. Vocabulary cards, finishing Huckleberry Finn, and preparing for our novel assessment are also key tasks. For English 10 it's clear that we need to be creating our content for our graphic novels. Start to write, draw, and create. If you still need to complete the brainstorming, be sure to get that done too!

AP Research - Today was all about ethical choices in research and method design. Remember that much of this is so individual to your own inquiry projects because of the design of your own individual methods. Ethical choices related to what we do and why we've done it as well as how we do it. Your job as a researcher is to make sure that your assessor is always aware of the ethical choices that you have made.

Focus this weekend on the TEDTalk about ethics in research and data. There are some great insights related to this conversation that I think will give you further information to ponder. Next week your goal is to complete your Inquiry Proposal form for the IRB meeting on December 14. You have to submit the proposal form as well as any/all forms, surveys, questionnaires, tools for your method. You should put everything in your PREP and share that folder with me to present on your behalf.

As I said today in class, this is a good time to use Mondays and our working days to get meetings with me. Next week you'll have Wednesday to work and Friday we'll be together for a quick check on ethics.

Grey Day - 2 December 2020

AP Language - Thanks for getting things done during our Return Period today. I'll have scores updated for AP Classroom later this week. Remember that you should be coming to class on Friday with a good working draft/outline of your rhetorical analysis to work in some peer editing teams.

English 10 - Remember to review and prepare for your assessment. I hope you liked the Kahoot today as  a way to review the first part of Persepolis.

AP Research

Today was a day where we launched into method and Unit 3 - the design of our method and the implementation of it. Lots of new information today, so lots of me talking and presenting. Later in the unit you'll have long stretches of independent work, so I like to think that I get in all of my time at the beginning in this one.

Our focus today was on types of method and their connection to the research question approach and design. Keep in mind that your credibility comes through your supporting sources - using them to help you in the design and choice of your method is a great strategy to ensure you're making the best choices.

Next class we'll look at ethics and ethical choices in method design and implementation. This will help you to work through and complete most if not all of your research proposal. These are due on the 14th in the morning for the IRB meeting in the afternoon. 

For now, begin on the proposal. You've likely got the preliminary phases finished - so working through those areas now will save you time next week as you finalize your method and develop your tools.

Homework for B Day - 12/09 - Monday

AP Literature

We've finished with the Underground Man. We worked through the conversations between Liza and the Underground Man in order to understand the effect that he had on her and then the effect that she had on him. Understanding the changes between Parts 6 and 7 and then 9 and 10 is key to really understanding the novel.

Tonight you should prepare for your timed writing on Notes from Underground. Wednesday is a PLC day, so it gives us a good opportunity to complete a timed writing. Remember that the essay will be another Q3, so review your feedback on your first attempt and the feedback to the class before we begin.


Complete a plot card for Notes and the other major works you've read this year. It helps!

AP Research

I'm such a proud papa bear today! The major goal for the week is to apply your revisions and then keep moving forward. Some of you are ready to start collecting your participants. Some of you are really ready to get started. Some just need to do some more tweaking to move fully forward. If you were given revisions today, you can clear them with me - you do not have to resubmit to the full IRB.

Don't forget that we also have a new reflection question posted in our log. I'll be checking PREP folders over Winter Break - Do make sure that they are complete.

Lastly - here are the IRB review notes for the whole group:

1. Change definite number for surveys, etc. to “a convenient sample”
2. All parental consent forms should list the teacher (Daniel Miller) as the primary contact.
3. Student emails and contact information should not be shared. “AP Research Student”
4. How will you get your sample of students to test? How will you standardize the interview, etc. when there are multiple times?
5. Use clear operational definitions related to the study – operational words “Phone use”, “Christianity”,
6. Standardization of any study – can’t go off script when doing an interview
7. Someone should be able to come behind you and replicate your study; everything should be documented
8. Limitations – Consider these along the way to articulate at the end
9. Gender question: Male/Female/Nonbinary / Prefer not to respond
10. How are students coding research responses?
11. What is unique to your study? What data will you find that is not already published? How does your work contribute to the body of knowledge?
12. Incentives for the survey, focus groups, etc… - just to consider


Please reach out as you complete your revisions and move forward to beginning your research!

Weekend Homework - A Day - 6 December

AP Research

I'm such a proud papa bear today! The major goal for the weekend is to apply your revisions and then keep moving forward. Some of you are ready to start collecting your participants. Some of you are really ready to get started. Some just need to do some more tweaking to move fully forward. If you were given revisions today, you can clear them with me - you do not have to resubmit to the full IRB.

Don't forget that we also have a  new reflection question posted in our log. I'll be checking PREP folders over Winter Break - Do make sure that they are complete.

Lastly - here are the IRB review notes for the whole group:

1. Change definite number for surveys, etc. to “a convenient sample”
2. All parental consent forms should list the teacher (Daniel Miller) as the primary contact.
3. Student emails and contact information should not be shared.   “AP Research Student”
4. How will you get your sample of students to test?  How will you standardize the interview, etc. when there are multiple times?
5. Use clear operational definitions related to the study  – operational words “Phone use”, “Christianity”,
6. Standardization of any study – can’t go off script when doing an interview
7. Someone should be able to come behind you and replicate your study; everything should be documented
8. Limitations –  Consider these along the way to articulate at the end
9. Gender question: Male/Female/Nonbinary / Prefer not to respond
10. How are students coding research responses?
11. What is unique to your study?  What data will you find that is not already published? How does your work contribute to the body of knowledge?
12. Incentives for the survey, focus groups, etc…  - just to consider


Please reach out as you complete your revisions and move forward to beginning your research!

Russian I

Today we took an examination, so we don't have much work to do tonight. Keep working on studying your vocabulary, especially if that was a troublesome part for your work today in class. You'll have a chance to retake the test before we leave for break.

Tonight and over the weekend interact with Russian. Watch a Russian TV show with subtitles online. YouTube has some, but the Russian TV Channels also have a lot of stuff online. Check out 1tv.ru or ntv.ru. There's also plenty of Russian music on Spotify - listen and pay attention to lyrics! Catch the words that you can.

Advanced Russian

Today we spent most of our class speaking and listening to Russian. It's my hope that the more we speak and interact with the language that we'll get more comfortable with using Russian and get more proficient in our grammar and vocabulary skills.


This weekend you should be preparing for your grammar quizzes on Tuesday. The quiz will cover recent grammar topics like counting, making aspect choices (Russian II), using time expressions of various types (Russian III), and participle usages (Russian IV). We've reviewed plenty of vocabulary and grammar these past classes as well as the exercises related to these skills. Use what you have to prepare and ask for anything else that you may need.

Homework for A Day - 4 December 2019

AP Research

Tomorrow is our next major milestone! IRB Day! I'll be meeting with the committee to review your work and get you the approval to begin your data collection and interaction with subjects. I'm excited and a bit scared for tomorrow, but I think that it'll go well. I hope to be able to give you a word on your approval or revisions at the end of the day on Thursday.

Tonight you should be writing. That's really the goal while you're waiting to hear what comes next. Next class we'll be having an AP Research lesson to help us prepare for the steps ahead. Use this time to get a handle on what you already have. Don't forget to finish your method outlines if you did not show them to me today.

Russian I

Great work today with your translations, vocabulary and grammar! I'm very impressed with what you were all able to do and produce today. Remember that we have a test on Friday on grammar and vocabulary. You'll be really successful if you study your vocabulary from Chapter 1 and the grammar skills we used in the translations.


Don't forget that you have the chance to earn a lot of extra credit with your exercise review. You have to turn it in at the beginning of class on Friday to get credit for it. I've also put our song down below so that you can keep listening. We'll practice more on Friday after the test.

Advanced Russian

Today we continued working with our vocabulary in order to be able to write a brief story. Remember that as we do this work related to vocabulary development, you have to realize that this is how you study for Russian. You have to use and do in order to really learn.


From there we had time for our projects related to culture or grammar before wrapping up our review of the various exercises we've been working on to solidify our grammar knowledge. Remember that you have a grammar quiz next week on Tuesday. To finish our preparation you'll be working on Holiday Shopping, Russian style.

Homework for B-Day - 3 December 2019

AP Literature

Lots of good thinking in class today related to thinking. I loved the takeaways that we came to related to the relationship between consciousness and awareness and the way in which the Underground Man is forming his own ideas related to these concepts. All of this is important as we move forward into Part II since this is the beginning of the novel (ironic, I know).

Tonight you're reading Part II, Chapters 1-4. Chapter 1 gives us the UM's set-up of the story. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 we start to meet the new characters and see how UM interacts with them. Be sure to annotate. Track the ideas from your topics and motifs list. Follow the characters and develop your character list.


There's a chance of a reading quiz on Thursday. Also be sure that everything that you need to submit is in by Wednesday so that your progress report is an accurate reflection of where you are in class.

AP Research

Great work today with our scientific sample paper. This is a writing week as we move toward approval. Be sure that your Proposal and Supporting Documentation is prepared and shared! From there, beginning to write would be a good use of your time. Take a look at your Method and Introduction Outlines. Start writing. Use your sample papers and rubrics as you write.


On Thursday, I'd like to see your method outline for a score. If you're working with an expert adviser, I need their contact information so that I can contact them. Thursday will be a workday since I'll be conducting your IRB review. Hopefully it's nothing but good news after that.