Beginning All Over Again - Quarter 3

AP Language

Today was our day for registration meetings with counselors. While that was going on, we had an asynchronous day focused on reflecting on our research so far and building toward our outlines. Remember that the final day for researching and finding sources will be on Thursday. Outlines will be due quickly after that - on Monday, February 1. I'll be reviewing requirements and reminders for the outline next class. Use the rubric and the reflection document to help you construct your assignment.

You can return copies of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to school at any time. We'll begin our unit on Invisible Man very soon, so I'll be able to issue novels one last time. If you need a copy of the novel, please email me, and I'll reserve one for you.

English 10

Today in class we were able to meet and have a productive day. Before we launch into our new unit on museums, art, and research, we paused to look back at where we've come from in our work so far. I hope that seeing the SOL Rubric I use for your assignments helps you to understand your score and where it comes from. We'll keep focused on writing and developing as writers as we keep moving through the second half of the year. I hope that today's reflection time helped you to set some goals for yourself.

From there, we previewed and discussed museums a bit and began thinking about the type of museums we're interested in. Keep in mind that the goal of this assignment is to find a museum and piece of art which interests us for our research. The world is nothing but possibility as there are so many options for you around the world to investigate. I'm really looking forward to the work ahead - it's not a real field trip, but it's the best we can do for now.

Homework for Spring Break - A Day Students - 29 March 2018

And now we have all made it! My break won't start until I get through all of my grading, but that will be soon enough. Here are your reminders for what you should be doing to keep yourself busy over break.

English IV

I hope you all enjoyed the ending to Frankenstein today. Consider if what we watched can help you to better complete your essays. I'll start assessing your introduction and body paragraphs over the weekend, so check in with PowerSchool to see your scores and your document for comments.

Over break, you should all get started with your novels. If you read a bit and decide that you don't like it, you still will have time to switch when we begin. When we return we will finish our essays and then move on to our novel projects - remember that you'll have a weekly assignment with your book!

Advanced Russian

Over break you should all finish revising your rough drafts and probably get everything you have into a Google Document. That will make it easier for us to pull together our work and finish the project.

I would also like for all of you to prepare for the next part of the unit. It'll be a place for Russian III and II to be together for a bit - look at pages 271-282 which go over the plural declensions. Then, check in on exercises 6, 7, and 9 to review the usage and declensions for yourself. We'll go over this when we return!

Russian I

When we return, we'll finish working on Ночные Ласточки - Night Swallows - and complete the guides. I liked that many of you were very enthralled in the first episode. Over break, focus on studying for your quiz. I realize that I didn't hand back your work, so we'll push the quiz to Thursday instead of having it on the day that we return.

Remember that the quiz focuses on adverb formation and usages as well as sentence combining. Focus on your vocabulary and your exercises that we reviewed today in class.

Also, break provides you Russian students (I, II, III) a great chance to interact with some Russian. Maybe some reading? Maybe some TV watching? Maybe some movies? Maybe some new Russian music. As always, if you want suggestions, on Russian options, let me know. If you haven't signed up for Olympiada, take a look at the materials with your DPS login and think about joining our team!

AP Students - If you were planning on turning in a paper today after-school you noticed that I left immediately after school. One paper was given to me in the parking lot as I was getting in my car - no joke! - so now papers will be collected after Spring Break. Please have your paper for me on Monday morning when we return with its supporting documents. Your paper will be subject to a late penalty.

B Day Homework for Break

AP English III

Over break there are a few things that you're going to want to settle.  They revolve around either Invisible Man or your research papers - so let's deal with those things below.

Invisible Man work:  Over break you will be expected to read and annotate Chapters 23-25.  Your blogging group should complete an analysis post of these chapters.  Your group should also complete a synthesis post which reviews your motifs from Chapter 16 to the end of Chapter 25.  Lastly, you will want to complete a thesis post which will state the thesis that your mural will be exploring around your motifs.  The posts should all be done separately.  You should have all of the postings complete by Tuesday, April 5th.

Your research papers are due on Monday, April 4th.  In your research paper portfolio you will want to submit:

• your research topic sheet
• your outline with my feedback
• your rough draft from conference
• your final draft with completed cover sheet and rubric

With that, I hope you all have a wonderful break and if you're traveling with us to Europe I can't want to see you in London!

English II

There is not any real work for you all to do over break with the exception of your extra credit project.  Take this time to get started on your reading and to complete the journaling work for the project.  Some of you may finish your projects over break in which case you may want to try to get a second novel read for an even larger chance at extra credit.