Seventh hour finished presentations today, which means we leave the world of Chopin and move into the AP Lit world of free response essays! Today's class began with a return to vocab experts - we missed adding to our vernacular for the last week! Then, you had a surprise lit toolbox quiz, which means if you missed it, you will need to make that up either before or after school. After the presentations were over, we shared our book cards (yes, The Awakening was a favored selection, but we also had Oedipus Rex, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Things Fall Apart, The Great Gatsby, geez I may have forgotten another one so apologies). Last on the docket was looking at a free response prompt and talking about its differences from normal passages. The main difference is you do not have direct evidence - which means no citations! For homework, read through the rangefinders and score 1-9. While a lot of these rangefinders are quite giving with scores, the 9 for this prompt is well-deserved, and you will most likely notice its differences from the initial reading.
On Thursday, second hour almost finished presentations today, so we are almost completed with The Awakening, the Chopin short stories, and all the overlapping motifs therein. Today, you copied down the next unit of vocab, which will begin tomorrow. In addition, you had your first literary toolbox quiz, which means if you missed it, you have something to make up before or after school. Lastly, we talked about the free response essay prompts, and you have a rangefinder to score for those essays for the next class. See you tomorrow with those book cards!
More on Thursday, fourth hour started up with vocab unit 3, had a literary toolbox quiz (which should be made up if absent and wanting those points), shared our show & tell of our book cards with facts, motifs, and interesting tidbits regarding novels and plays, looked at a free response prompt, scored the rangefinders for the prompt, and began analysis of those essays. Wow, that 9! For homework, read pgs. 4-17 in the textbook and jot down notes regarding the culture, beliefs, and significant goings-on of Anglo-Saxon milieu. We will be sharing those tomorrow after everything else on our docket!
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