Uncategorized AP Lang Day 31-Welcome to the RESEARCH PAPER!! 20 Nov 2015 This is the Big One, the one that students stress over, and one of the most VITAL college bound skills that they can learn this year: The AP Research Paper! Fear Not!…
Uncategorized AICE Day 31-Welcome to ATTC & more Debate Details! 19 Nov 2015 Today was a wonderful introduction to Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities (many more details on the novel link above). I will be having weekly book discussions over this…
Uncategorized AP Lang Day 30-The Argumentation Unit Begins! 19 Nov 2015 Today we discussed the beginning of our Argumentation Unit (Essay 3 on the Exam), the foundation of ALL AP Essays is in the argument, whether they are using the Essay…
Uncategorized AICE Day 30-Wrapping up Of Mice & Men 17 Nov 2015 We wrapped up our discussion of John Steinbeck's classic American novel Of Mice & Men today with a fabulous Socratic Seminar discussing what we knew all along (Mrs. Reed gave spoilers…
Uncategorized AP Lang Day 29-Annotations & The Pink Flamingo 16 Nov 2015 Today we reviewed the expectations of Annotating a text, active reading is a vital, college bound skill. Students must be reading "with a pencil in hand," if you can't write…
Uncategorized AICE Day 29-Welcome to the Debate! 16 Nov 2015 Today we had a series of Instructional Rotations where the students had a chance to catch up on Current Events in their reading of UpFront Magazine (Student Login: MHS01), this…
Uncategorized AICE & AP Day 28-Novel Journaling 12 Nov 201512 Nov 2015 Both classes today had their Historical Fiction Novel Journals due, some suggestions out of what I saw missing in them: Characters should be in a LIST, then note how they…
Uncategorized AP Lang Day 27-Anchor Papers Analysis & Am. History Names to Know Test 9 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 Today we built on the student's analysis of their peer's paragraphs for the Alfred M. Green Essay by annotating the AP Writing Rubric, discerning the difference between a score of 9, 7,…
Uncategorized AICE Day 27-FOIL Characters & Essay Revisions 6 Nov 2015 Moving into the new round of Lit Cards, we discussed Literary Foils today for them to apply this as they are reading Of Mice & Men. George & Lennie are…
Uncategorized AP Lang Day 26-The Am. History List! 5 Nov 2015 2nd 9-weeks Daily Agenda 2015-16 Today we discussed the American History List "Names to know," the additional "Who's Who" in our National History that will benifit the students on not…