* You may also get these from Focus
Absurdist Drama
Act
Adage
Alarum
Alexandrine
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Amplification
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
Anagnorisis
AP Vocabulary
AP English Literature & Composition Vocabulary List
Directions:
- You will learn a list set every week or two in the order they appear (as assigned)
- Copy down the word into your composition book
- Find and copy the part(s) of speech and definition(s)
- Produce an example sentence following the instruction (for example, for list 1, the first ten words, you will compose sentences that feature compound constructions and are set in cathedrals)
- If you work ahead, just know that I may change a few words in an upcoming list based on words I see in the week's readings (especially true with poetry in quarter 3).
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List 1: Sentence Pattern: Compound Sentences in Cathedrals
allocation
ascetic
beguile
crass
defray
dint
enjoin
envoy
interloper
10.vicarious
They Break Their Tools; Wednesday, 8/31: Writing, Terms;
They Break Their Tools (discussion)
1. Introduction of our Terms List and Vocabulary List.
2. College Essay Examples: See Focus
3. Work on your CWP (due near the end of the quarter)
HW: Work on your CWP
1. Introduction of our Terms List and Vocabulary List.
2. College Essay Examples: See Focus
3. Work on your CWP (due near the end of the quarter)
HW: Work on your CWP
Tuesday, 8/30: Grammar, THS
(For Advisory: Go to mvcs.org/eslr)
1. TAL and THS review.
Myself in the Gaze of Another (only for the philosophers)
Questions and clarifications from Elements III-IV.
2. THS Memorization Card.
No work is complete without, yes, memorization. We make cards for each major work. You study them, and I quiz you on them. Memorize your card for your next block day.
1. TAL and THS review.
Myself in the Gaze of Another (only for the philosophers)
Questions and clarifications from Elements III-IV.
2. THS Memorization Card.
No work is complete without, yes, memorization. We make cards for each major work. You study them, and I quiz you on them. Memorize your card for your next block day.
Monday, 8/29: "Mistakes Were Made"
[Per. 1 AP M.C. Score Overview]
1. Smile!
2. Make a button.
3. Collect rewrites.
4. Aristotle (et al): Art imitates life. Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art.
5. Finish Segment from This American Life
"Mistakes Were Made"
6. Discuss: Where did Bob Nelson go wrong? Are such impulses alive today? If it did "work," would it be ethically right to do it? Where does this mirror THS?
HW: Review THS and Elements III-IV
1. Smile!
2. Make a button.
3. Collect rewrites.
4. Aristotle (et al): Art imitates life. Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art.
5. Finish Segment from This American Life
"Mistakes Were Made"
6. Discuss: Where did Bob Nelson go wrong? Are such impulses alive today? If it did "work," would it be ethically right to do it? Where does this mirror THS?
HW: Review THS and Elements III-IV
Per. 6 ICE
Characters' views of themselves and others is a central subject in C.S. Lewis' _That Hideous Strength_. Choose a character and examine how that characer's view of self and others reinforces a major theme in the novel.
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Mark Studdock
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Mark Studdock
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
ICE: _That Hideous Strength_
1. Review Essay Structure and Style
2. "Mistakes Were Made": This American Life and the Awkward Evil of Cryonics.
3. 40 min. ICE
4. Turn in your essay and your college application RD to the table in the middle.
HW: Read _The Elements of Style_ III-IV
2. "Mistakes Were Made": This American Life and the Awkward Evil of Cryonics.
3. 40 min. ICE
4. Turn in your essay and your college application RD to the table in the middle.
HW: Read _The Elements of Style_ III-IV
Per. 1, 3 ICE
How does Jane's remark over furniture and wardrobes support a major theme in _That Hideous Strength_ that relates directly to Jane's own transformation?
End time: 11:33
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Mark and Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
End time: 11:33
Time: 40 min.
Please single space
Closed book; closed notes
Write in pen
Please staple and place on the middle table when done.
Please place your college RD on the middle table also.
HW: Read III-IV in _The Elements of Style_
St. Anne's
Mark and Jane Studdock
The Director/ Dr. Ransom/ The Pendragon
Miss Ironwood
Mr. Bultitude
MacPhee
Merlin
The Dennistons
The N.I.C.E. in Belbury
Bracton College
Edgestow
Frost
Alcasan
Wither
Hingest
Filostrato
Straik
Elasticity, Writing
1. J5 THS: Elasticity. Explain Jane's dilemma. How is her dilemma like many we will meet?
2. Load Bulfinch into iBooks for practice.
3. CWP Writing
4. Essay writing (Strunk and White). Examples.
5. Upcoming: ICE: Closed note, closed book.
HW: Review THS 8-11; Arthur III-IV
2. Load Bulfinch into iBooks for practice.
3. CWP Writing
4. Essay writing (Strunk and White). Examples.
5. Upcoming: ICE: Closed note, closed book.
HW: Review THS 8-11; Arthur III-IV
CWP Assignment: My Tongue is the Pen of a Ready Writer
CWP: Creative Writing Portfolio Assignment
English 2 and AP Literature and Composition
You must complete a minimum of three full pages of typed creative writing per quarter. Each quarter will feature a general theme of your choice. Each quarter's creative writing will be introduced with a short paragraph explaining how your creative writing engages the quarter's theme. Some people may find it useful to begin this paragraph like this: Our theme, the beauty of the days gone by, may be seen in my creative writing through...
English 2 and AP Literature and Composition
You must complete a minimum of three full pages of typed creative writing per quarter. Each quarter will feature a general theme of your choice. Each quarter's creative writing will be introduced with a short paragraph explaining how your creative writing engages the quarter's theme. Some people may find it useful to begin this paragraph like this: Our theme, the beauty of the days gone by, may be seen in my creative writing through...
Writing with Better Syle; Bulfinch
1. J4: Can places, materials, things be sacred? Explain.
*BCP: The Solemnization of Marriage
2. Strunk and White I-II
3. Bulfinch. Apologies; I had the short link up on accident. Here is the full link, and it should take you right to Arthur.
4. 5. Note, tomorrow is the last day for opening lateness grace. After tomorrow, see the binder policy.
HW: Review Bulfinch's Mythology: Arthur parts I-II.
*BCP: The Solemnization of Marriage
2. Strunk and White I-II
3. Bulfinch. Apologies; I had the short link up on accident. Here is the full link, and it should take you right to Arthur.
4. 5. Note, tomorrow is the last day for opening lateness grace. After tomorrow, see the binder policy.
HW: Review Bulfinch's Mythology: Arthur parts I-II.
In the event of a crash, oxygen masks will fall to distract you
1. J3: Why do you think Lewis chose the setting he did for _THS_?
2. Binder
3. Emergency procedures
4. Substitute (planned and unplanned)
5. BCP
HW: Review THS 1-3; The Book of Common Prayer
2. Binder
3. Emergency procedures
4. Substitute (planned and unplanned)
5. BCP
HW: Review THS 1-3; The Book of Common Prayer
Binders Unbound
Make sure you have a clear system to organize your work.
It could be:
1. 100% binder
2. A combination of a binder and iPad
3. 100% iPad (you would scan in things I return)
It could be:
1. 100% binder
2. A combination of a binder and iPad
3. 100% iPad (you would scan in things I return)
M.C. Part I
Today we begin our first practice multiple choice exam. We'll use the test to gauge where we are.
1-10: Never seen anyone pass
11-20: Low; to earn a 3 will be very difficult
21-30: Average (26 is the average, generally)
31-40: High; you could probably pass today; work to get the 4
41+: Exceptional; you would pass today; a 4 is in reach; a 5 is always very hard
1-10: Never seen anyone pass
11-20: Low; to earn a 3 will be very difficult
21-30: Average (26 is the average, generally)
31-40: High; you could probably pass today; work to get the 4
41+: Exceptional; you would pass today; a 4 is in reach; a 5 is always very hard
Bedford 55
"For my mouth shall speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips" (Proverbs 8:7).
Today we review some grammar goodies.
1. Review J1.
2. J2: In your own words, using Bedford 55 and 52c, how does one avoid plagiarism?
HW: Read Strunk and White I and II: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ find and have available your favorite piece of your own writing.
Today we review some grammar goodies.
1. Review J1.
2. J2: In your own words, using Bedford 55 and 52c, how does one avoid plagiarism?
HW: Read Strunk and White I and II: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ find and have available your favorite piece of your own writing.
AP Literature, Summer Reading
AP English Literature and Composition (Senior Course, English IV AP)
Summer Reading
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