Week of 6/6-6/10

Welcome to the last full week of your high school career!

Presentation Week:

Monday:  Period 3 and 6:  Freakonomics

Tuesday:  Period 3:  Fat Land.  Period 6: Generation Rx

Wednesday:  Period 3: Botany of Desire.  Period 6:  Fast Food Nation

Thursday:  Period 3 and 6:  Packing for Mars

Friday:  Period 3: Spook.  Period 6: Where Men Win Glory



Week of May 31-June 3

Monday:  Finish all the work you've been putting off!

Tuesday:  Written portion of final project due at end of the period.

Wednesday:  Senior Seminar Day; no classes.

Thursday:  Final preparations for presentations. 

Friday:  Fun in the Sun Day!  No classes.

Bring in books--both mine and those you wish to donate to Miranda's cause.

Week of 5/23-5/27

Monday-Friday:  Work on Projects!  Written portion due next Tuesday, May 31.

Check the NING to see who still owes me BOOKS!  Return the book or pay for it.  No book=no diploma!

If you have books for Miranda's book drive for schools in Alabama, New Orleans, and Mississippi, start bringing them in on Wednesday.

Week of 5/16-5/20

Monday through Friday:  READ and WORK ON PROJECT!

Sign up for Senior Seminar Day by Wednesday.  Check your email for info.

Have a good week!

Good Luck!

And a last minute dose of satire just for fun:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/budget-mixup-provides-nations-schools-with-enough,20350/

Week of 5/9-5/13

Monday:  Review of exam strategies.  Ten Commandments of AP Language.  Modest Proposal paper due.

Tuesday:  Review of terms and approaches to questions.

Wednesday:  Show 'em what you've got!  Good luck on the exam!

Thursday:  Select group and non-fiction work for final project.

Friday:  Read!  Start to breakdown project responsibilities.

Week of 5/2-5/6

In-class review all week.  Good luck on the rest of your AP exams.

Your own "Modest Proposal" due by the end of the week.

Monday:  Speed Dating!  Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Prompts

Tuesday:  Group Prep:  Synthesis Prompts

Wednesday:  MC practice:  footnotes. Terms review: flashcards.

Thursday:  Taking a stand:  Issues to explore…videos.

Friday:  Computer lab 316:  http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate
  

Week of 4/25-4/29

Welcome back! 

Monday:  Discuss Candide.  Explore irony and satire while practicing multiple choice.

Tuesday:  Read and annotate "A Modest Proposal."

Wednesday:  Discuss "A Modest Proposal."  Assign "Write Your Own Modest Proposal."  Due by the end of next week (5/6).  Read "Make College Admissions a Crapshoot."

Thursday:  Read and discuss "Body Rituals Among the Nacirema."

Friday:  Watch and analyze segments of "The Daily Show."

HW:  Work on your own "Modest Proposal."

Week of 4/18-4/22

Yes, it's finally here!  Have a great SPRING BREAK! 

Write your synthesis essay and read Candide.  Other than that, have a relaxing week...and find those spring spheres hidden all over the place!

PS:  If you're thinking about summer and preparing for college, here's some info from Seton Hall:

For High School Students
Collegiate Studies Program
July 5 - August 8
Students take college courses at a 50% discount. Courses include psychology, sociology, web design, drawing, public speaking and statistics. (college credit)

Creative Writing Institute
July 11 - 15
Students study the fundamentals of creative writing, produce original work and contribute to an online writing journal. (non-credit)

Criminal Justice Institute
August 8 - 12
Students study roles and functions of careers in law enforcement, courts and correction fields, and meet a forensic scientist and observe practical applications. (non-credit)

Reading/Writing for College Institute
July 18 - 22
Students critique and analyze their writing and the writing of other students in the class, and present a final research project in an area of their interest. (non-credit)

Please visit www.shu.edu/go/collegiatestudies for further information.

Week of 4/11-4/15

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Brigadoon.  Awesome show!

Congratulations to the TSA gang and their great success in their competition! 

On to this week...

Monday:  Synthesis practice:  Prepare response and evaluate sample essays.

Tuesday:  More Synthesis practice...

Wednesday:  Put it together:  prepare your chapter from Language of Composition.

Thursday:  Intro to Satire:  PowerPoint...take notes.  Intro to Candide.

Friday:  1/2 day:  Silent reading of Candide.  Prom-goers:  Have Fun and Be Safe!

SPRING BREAK!!!  Follow the calendar... Read Candide and write the Synthesis Essay.  See you on the 25th!

Week of 4/4-4/8

Continue responding to the students in Florida for your POW this week.

Monday:  DUE: Postman Essay.  Swamped with Synthesis Stuff!  Bring Language of Composition texts.  Meet with groups.

Tuesday:  Taking a position.

Wednesday:  Breaking down sources. 

Thursday:  In-text and parenthetical citations.  Conversing with sources.  Putting it all together.

Friday:  Analysis of synthesis essays.  Go to the PLAY!

Week of 3/28-4/1

This weekend:  Finish Stiff and chapter responses.  Read this article and think about Stiff (and basketball!).  Read annotated version of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."  Write one original post and one response to a second issue on the Florida blog (by the end of the week--this is your POW).  AP Prompt due Tuesday.

Monday:  DUE: Finish Stiff and chapter responses.  DUE:  Read annotated version of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."  Discuss...  HW:  Color-code "The Gettysburg Address" and Judge Sweat's "Whiskey Speech."  Also, if you haven't written it yet, complete the AP Prompt.

Tuesday:  DUE:  AP Prompt.  Discuss persuasive elements of  "The Gettysburg Address" and Judge Sweat's "Whiskey Speech." HW:  Read samples.  Score and analyze own essay.

Wednesday:  DUE:  Scored essay.  Discuss RFK speech.  HW:  Due Monday:  Response to Postman speech.

Thursday:  View and discuss St. Crispin's Day speech.  Compare to Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury speech.

Friday:  In-class Writing:  AP Prompt

Saturday:  Full-length PRACTICE TEST!  See you at 8 AM!

Snow day!

Check your email for a message with updates for the rest of the week and the weekend.

Enjoy your day!

Week of 3/21-3/25

Monday:  Meet in computer lab 318.  First, register on Mr. V's student blogs.  We will be joining the St. Augustine, Florida, group to debate current issues.  Go here and click on register.  Use your FIRST NAME, LAST INITIAL and then NJ as your user name.  Use your HP email address.  You will be sent a password via email. 

Work on "You Decide" assignment.  Complete worksheet showing the effectiveness of various points.  This is preparation for Wednesday's debates.

Tuesday:  Day 2 in room 318.  Continue to explore issues.  Go to Mr. V's site to post responses to his students.

Wednesday:  Extemporaneous debates

Thursday:  In-class AP prompt:  argument

Friday:  Review samples; score own essays.

Week of 3/14-3/18

Monday:  In-class AP Prompt.  Woo hoo!

Tuesday:  Review of samples; scoring own essay.

Wednesday:  Analysis of issue:  Danish cartoons

Thursday:  Two different situations:  Should he and should she have been expelled?

Friday:  Chapters 2-6 of Stiff due, including responses to the three questions for each chapter.

March 7-11

Monday:  DUE:  Response to videos; see Ning.  In-class writing.

Tuesday:  Analysis of sample responses to in-class writing.  HW:  Score own essay; write rationale.  HW:  POW!

Wednesday:  Stiff:  Read introduction together.  Discuss responsibilities during reading.

Thursday:  Read and analyze Ruskin prompt.  Discuss multiple ways to address passage.

Friday:  Stiff:  Chapter one response DUE.  Discuss.

Week of 2/28-3/4

Monday:  In-class Writing:  Persuasive Techniques

Tuesday:  Brave New World:  final discussion; 1984: issue article due with explanatory paragraph.
                (Per. 6: last advertising presentation)

Wednesday:  1984: final discussion; Brave New World: issue article due with explanatory paragraph.

Thursday:  Brave New World/1984: class discussion of comparisons.  Really good possibility of a pop quiz!

Friday:  View several videos related to issues of government control.

Week of 2/22-2/25

Over the long weekend:
     *Read "At Ethics Bowl, LI Teenagers Debate Slippery Issues." 
     *Prepare your advertising project.
     *Read "My Flamboyant Grandson," which is posted on the Ning.  Comment on it.
     *Gather info for your local scholarship application.
     *Read THIS just because it's important. 

Tuesday:  Go to room 316:  Complete the Local Scholarship Application.  Read "Pillow Angel" article.  Type a one-two page response arguing your position on this issue.  Due Friday.

Wednesday:  Final day to prepare ad project and presentation. 

Thursday:  Ad presentations

Friday:  Ad presentations

HW:  Finish reading your novel!!

Week of 2/14-18

Monday:  Novel comparisons of issues.  Be prepared to discuss the following:

What role does the family play in each novel?

What role does leisure time play in each novel?

What role does sex play in each novel?

What role does religion/spirituality play in each novel?

What role does work play in each novel?

What role does setting play in each novel?

What role do class distinctions have in each novel?

What role do alcohol and drugs have in each novel?

Tuesday:  Discussion of The Persuaders, persuasive techniques, types of evidence.

Wednesday:  Advertising Group Work day


Thursday:  Brave New World discussion; 1984 article due.  Bring in copy of article and one paragraph connection to novel.

Friday:  1984 discussion;  Brave New World article due.  Bring in copy of article and one paragraph connection to novel.


Something to think about: Cameras in the Classroom

Week of 2/7-2/11

Monday:  Discuss issues presented on 1984/BNW anticipation guides.

Tuesday:  Group work to prepare ad campaigns.  HW:  Watch The Persuaders:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/.  POWs due.  Read "Appealing to your Audience" handout.

Wednesday:  Review persuasive techniques discussed in The Persuaders.  Fallacy "quiz."  Discussion of assumptions.  Discussion of argument essays.

Thursday:  BNW discussion.  1984 group project.

Friday:  1984 discussion.  BNW group project.

Week of Snow

Monday:  Exams

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday:  Reintroduce ourselves to one another.  Discuss second semester POWs.  Presentation of group advertising project.  Selection of 1984 or Brave New World.  Review schedule and responsibilities.

Friday:   Review of fallacies and advertisement charts.

HW:  For Wednesday, Feb. 9, watch The Persuaders:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/.  It's 90 minutes long.  Take notes to share on Wednesday.

Week of 1/24-1/28

Enjoy ANOTHER Snow Day!  Watch the Vote Summer video on the Ning!  (What rhetorical appeals are being used??)

For Monday, 1/24:  Read "Love is a Fallacy" (take notes!) and "Message in what we Buy, but Nobody's Listening."

Monday:  Discuss articles.

Tuesday:  Study for exam.  Work on defining fallacies.

Wednesday: Exams periods 3 and 8.

Thursday:  Exams periods 2 and 9.

Friday:  Exams periods 5 and 6.

Fallacy definitions and examples due Feb. 2.
Ad Chart due Feb. 3.

Week of 1/19-1/21

Happy Snow Day!

Happy to see my smiling face on your day off??

Wednesday:  Bumper Stickers and analysis due.  Share and explain.  Share and discuss self-selected images.

Thursday:  Role of advertising.  Changing face of cigarette ads.  HW:  Read "Message in what we buy, but Nobody's Listening"  (handout) and "Love is a Fallacy"  (linked on the Ning).

Friday:  Discuss fallacies, ads, and upcoming project.  Ad chart due on Monday, 1/24.

Week of 1/10-1/14

Monday:  Holden parody due.  Political cartoon analysis:  Lab 438A.  Go to this site (rather than the one printed on your handout) and then follow the directions both on the site and on your handout.

Tuesday:  Visual Text:  War and Peace, Social commentary.  Political cartoon analysis due.

Wednesday:  Student selected images:  group analysis

Thursday:  Bumper sticker analysis.

Friday:  Underwater Sculpture, graffiti, and other unusual media/methods/modes of creating visual text

Prepare for your midterm!  Review chapters 1-3 in Language of Composition (which you will get on Tuesday); review all handouts, prompts, POWs.